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American imprisoned in North Korea rooted in Christian faith
PYONGYANG, North Korea (BP) -- The American citizen held in North Korea whose profile was raised by a televised outburst from Dennis Rodman is a devout Christian, according to a family-run website advocating for his release.
Kenneth Bae, 44, of Lynnwood, Wash., has been sentenced to 15 years in a North Korean labor camp for a "crime against the state." He has been imprisoned for more than 14 months, longer than any American has been detained in North Korea.
"Several years ago, Kenneth saw an opportunity that combined his entrepreneurial spirit with his personal convictions as a Christian," the website, freekennow.com, states. "He believed in showing compassion to the North Korean people by contributing to their economy in the form of tourism."
Bae was arrested in November 2012 as he was leading a tour group in one of North Korea's special economic zones for foreign investors.
As the website advocating for his freedom explains, Bae started a tour company based in China in 2006 and regularly led groups to North Korea, "a remote country filled with stunning vistas and a people proud of their history and tradition."
"His livelihood," the website states, "was to introduce the natural beauty of the country and its people to the outside world as a tour operator. His heart was to be a personal touch-point of compassionate humanity to the North Korean people."
In comments to Baptist Press Jan. 14, Bae's sister Terri Chung said a friend who had gone on one of Bae's tours described him as "an ambassador of peace and light in the world."
"That captures what Kenneth was trying to do in North Korea," Chung told BP. "He had the biggest heart for the people and the nation of North Korea, and he wanted to show tourists from Europe, Canada and the United States a different side to the country than what we typically see in the western media in the hopes of bridging the cultural divide."
When he was arrested, Bae was on at least his 15th such trip. CNN reported Jan. 13 that North Korea accused him of planning to bring down the government through religious activities.
Earlier, CNN said the state-run Korean Central News Agency claimed Bae was setting up bases in China to topple the North Korean government, was encouraging North Korean citizens to bring down the government and was conducting a "malignant smear campaign."
Some have speculated, CNN said, that the evidence North Korea cites against Bae may be something he was carrying with him when he was arrested, such as a Bible or other religious literature.
Bae is married with three children. His son Jonathan has written a petition to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, President Obama and Congress, asking them to secure special amnesty for his father. More than 150,000 people have signed the petition, which is accessible at change.org/FreeKenNow.
"My father -- like any other American father -- was working hard to provide for his family," the letter from Jonathan Bae states.
Last summer, the son explains, the family received a video of Bae and was shocked to see that he had lost a significant amount of weight.
"His time in prison has clearly taken a toll on his health -- and this was only two months into his 15-year sentence. The video showed my father working eight hours of physical labor in the fields, plowing and farming six days a week. He has chronic health conditions, including diabetes, heart problems and back pain, which require close monitoring and medical treatment," Bae's son wrote. "We don't know how quickly his health will deteriorate and how much longer his body can withstand the impact of the labor camp."
In the video, Bae reportedly asked the U.S. government to help him regain freedom.
A CNN anchor drew attention to Bae's case during an interview with Rodman, an eccentric former NBA star who led a group of players to North Korea in January to play basketball for dictator Kim Jong Un.
"Do you understand what he did in this country?" Rodman asked the anchor angrily. "No, no, no. You tell me. You tell me. Why is he held captive here in this country? Why?"
Rodman's implication that Bae was somehow guilty and deserved imprisonment drew a statement of disapproval from Bae's family. Chung said Jan. 8 Rodman was "playing games" with her brother's life.
"Dennis Rodman could do a lot of good by advocating for Kenneth to Kim Jong Un, but instead he has decided to hurl outrageous accusations at my brother, insinuating that Kenneth has done something sinister," Chung wrote. "He is clearly uninformed about Kenneth's case, and he is certainly not in any position to pass judgment on Kenneth Bae, who has never had any hostile intentions against [the North Korean government]."
Rodman later apologized for his comments about Bae, saying he had been drinking and was under stress at the time. Chung released another statement saying the family accepted his apology and reiterated the importance of the U.S. government intervening on her brother's behalf, especially in light of his serious chronic illnesses and the fact that he had been working legally in North Korea.
Once Rodman left North Korea, he was interviewed by CNN in the Beijing airport, saying he did nothing wrong by organizing a basketball game there and expressing remorse for what has happened inside the communist nation.
"I'm sorry for what's going on in North Korea, the certain situations," Rodman said, not explaining what he meant by "situations."
North Korea was ranked as the world's top prosecutor of Christians for the 12th consecutive year in a report released Jan. 8 by Open Doors, which seeks to strengthen the persecuted church.
The officially atheist state practices a cult-like worship of the Kim family and continues to imprison from 50,000 to 70,000 followers of Christ in concentration camps, prisons or prison-like conditions, according to Open Doors. Possessing a Bible could result in execution or a life sentence in prison.
CNN estimated 200,000 people are kept in a network of prison camps in North Korea, and the U.S. State Department has placed North Korea on its list of "countries of particular concern" for its violations of religious freedom.
Though Bae's family accepted Rodman's apology, Chung said her brother's health and freedom remain her greatest concerns.
"We hope and pray that Rodman's comments and ongoing antics have not further endangered my brother," Chung wrote. "Kenneth's health and freedom are precarious.
"The fact is Kenneth's life is on the line. Though we understand Rodman enjoyed some laughs and smokes during a couple of basketball games in North Korea, to our family this situation is no joke. This is not a game," Chung wrote.
Bae's sister urged people to advocate for his immediate release by calling their congressmen, the State Department and the White House and by visiting freekennow.com.
CNN reported that U.S. officials repeatedly have called on North Korea to release Bae. Last summer Ambassador Robert King, Obama's special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, was prepared to fly to Pyongyang before North Korea rescinded the invitation.
"In previous instances, North Korea has released Americans in its custody after a visit by some U.S. dignitary -- in recent cases, former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton," CNN said. "But efforts by Bill Richardson, the former ambassador to the United Nations, were unsuccessful in winning Bae's release during a visit to North Korea last year."
In addition to signing the petition for special amnesty, Bae's supporters are asking people to send letters of hope to firstname.lastname@example.com. The letters are compiled and sent to the State Department, and then they are passed to Bae through the Swedish ambassador to North Korea.
Erin Roach is assistant editor of Baptist Press. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).


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There is a limited capacity of 70 to this tour, so please register early. A maximum of 3 tickets can be ordered per person. Additional tour dates are available for those unable to attend this one.
Please arrive early to find parking. Parking is available on adjacent streets.
All visitors must check in with a picture ID.
Granada Hills Charter High School is located at 10535 Zelzah Avenue between Devonshire Street and Chatsworth Street. The Main Entrance is west of the Administration Building on Kingsbury Street.
For questions or concerns, please contact Adriana Coria at either 818.360.2361 Ext. 306 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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How to dual-boot Vista with Linux (Vista installed first) — the step-by-step guide with screenshots
Updated 1 March 2009 for Ubuntu 9.04.
Scenario: You want the simplest way to dual-boot Vista and Linux. You've already installed Windows Vista and now want to dual-boot it with Ubuntu 9.04
Summary of tutorial: This is an updated tutorial – we previously used Ubuntu 8.04. In this tutorial we'll use Ubuntu 9.04 use the Vista management tools to resize the main partition and install Ubuntu into the freed space then use the latest version of EasyBCD to reinstate the Vista bootloader
This tutorial has been tested on a VMWare Workstation 6.5 virtual machine.
[#PAGE-BREAK#Get started – prepare the Vista partition#]
Boot into Windows Vista and go into Disk Management – right-click My Computer Manage Disk Management.
Right-click on the main Vista partition and select Shrink Volume – the Shrink tool will assess how much space can be freed up. /p>
As a rule of thumb Shrink will reduce the main system partition by about 50%. As long as the partition is big enough to begin with (at least 10GB) it should accommodate both operating systems.
Select Shrink and the tool will reduce the volume of the primary partition leaving the rest of the disk free as unpartitioned space.
Once that's done shut down the Vista machine.
[#PAGE-BREAK#Install Ubuntu#]
You'll need the latest desktop ISO of Ubuntu (9.04). You can choose a list of download mirrors from the Ubuntu website or use this link from Planetmirror. Download the ISO and burn it to CD to create bootable Ubuntu CD.
Boot the Vista machine from the CD and select "Install Ubuntu".
Once the Live CD has loaded on the Welcome screen choose your language and select Forward.
On the "Where are you" (timezone) page select your location and then Forward.
On the next screen choose the appropriate keyboard layout and then Forward.
Ubuntu will then load the disk partitioner to determine where it's going to be installed. Choose "Manual – use the largest continuous free space". This will automatically select the unpartitioned space we created earlier using the Shrink tool. Click Forward.
On the "Who are you?" screen enter your username and password details then click Forward.
On the Migrate Documents and Settings screen if Ubuntu finds any user accounts to migrate feel free to import it from Vista to Ubuntu. If it doesn't find any obviously this isn't an option. Click Forward.
On the "Ready to install" screen you'll see that Ubuntu now has enough information to commence the installation. In the summary under Migrate Assistant it should say "Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)". This means that regardless of whether Ubuntu found any user account to migrate it certainly knows that Windows Vista is installed on the other partition and is aware of it. Click Install.
See the install through and then let it boot into Ubuntu.
When the install is complete the system will reboot. When the GRUB boot menu is displayed have a look at the last entry in the list.
After the Ubuntu boot options there will be an entry "Other operating systems" and beneath that "Windows Vista/Longhorn loader". By default Ubuntu will load itself after 10 seconds but you can select the Vista option and Vista will boot normally.
[#PAGE-BREAK#Choose a bootloader#]
If you want to use the GRUB bootloader then you don't need to do anything further. Ubuntu installs GRUB into the MBR by default and will happily dualboot itself and Vista.
If however you prefer to keep Vista in charge of things then you'll need to do a little bit of tweaking.
Firstly boot into Ubuntu and go to Applications –> Accessories –> Terminal. Then type in sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst.
This text file contains all the information GRUB uses to configure various boot options. Scroll down and the entries between "## ## End Default Options ##" and "### END DEBIAN AUTOMATIC KERNELS LIST" are the Linux boot options. Slightly further down is the option for the Vista/Longhorn bootloader.
We'll need these entries for use later on so dump them out to a location accessible by the Vista partition.
Alternatively Ubuntu can access the Vista partition directly – go to Places –> Computer and double-click into the option marked "xx GB Media". This is the NTFS Vista partition. Ubuntu will prompt for authentication (your Ubuntu password) and then you can either copy the entire menu.lst file into it or create a new text file on the fly open it with gedit and copy in the boot entries.
Then restart the machine and boot into Vista
Now we need the latest version of EasyBCD by Neosmart Technologies – download it here. Install the application and launch it.
First go to "Manage Bootloader" and select "Reinstall the Vista Bootloader" then "Write MBR". This puts the Vista bootloader back into the MBR but the machine will only boot into Vista.
To enable access to the Linux partition the best option is to install NeoGrub. Go to "Add/Remove Entries" go the NeoGrub tab and select "Install NeoGrub". This adds the "NeoGrub Bootloader" option to the Vista bootloader.
Once that's done choose Configure – this launches the NeoGrub menu.lst file location at C:NSTmenu.lst. Use Notepad or Wordpad to open the file and then paste in the boot entries. Save and exit then reboot the machine.
The system will come up with two boot options. Select "NeoGrub Bootloader" and then the Linux boot options will load. Choose the relevant option and the system boot into Ubuntu.


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Monday, July 4, 2011
John Berthold McKee, 1886-1978 Illinois, Missouri
b. 1 Jan 1886 Sparta, Randolph County, Illinois
d. ? Nov 1978 Missouri (probably Saint Louis)
There's a question about the year of John's birth. His WWI records say 1885. His SSDI record says 1887. Other records and his grave stone say 1886. So I've picked 1886.
While in school, John appeared in the The Plaindealer on 23 Feb 1900: Additions to museum--Johnnie McKee presented a very perfect and beautiful huming birds nest found by himself on the creek southeast of Eden.
John married Caroline W. Unknown (b. 1892 Missouri and d. 2 Nov 1992 Saint Louis, City, Missouri).
John and Carrie had the following children: John Berthold (Jr), Roger, and Gregory G.
You can find John and Carrie on Find A Grave (45544288, 45544356). Carrie's obituary appears in the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, Saint Louis, Missouri, 4 Nov 1992. Carrie's FAG memorial includes details from her obit. In addition, son Roger is with them (45544382).
I need the following information:
John's complete date and place of death so that I can find his obituary.
Carrie's last name and her full date and place of birth.
In looking at John's social security record, it's noted as being issued by the Railroad Board. So I guess I'm going to have to find out what I can do with that piece of information...And I just went and read about it...$27.00 search fee...I don't think so! I'm going to limp along with whatever free info I can find.
Perhaps I'll luck up and a family member will contact me. It's happened before.
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I read about this in a link on FaceBook Missouri Genealogy Research Community.ReplyDelete
I found this on the 1900 Census is it your family? does this help?
John Mc Kee
[John Mckee]
Home in 1900: Sherrill, Texas, Missouri
[Texas, Missouri]
Age: 12
Birth Date: Jul 1887
Birthplace: Illinois
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relationship to head-of-house: Son
Father's name: Robert A Mc Kee
Father's Birthplace: Illinois
Mother's name: Mary Mc Kee
Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
Marital Status: Single
Household Members:
Name Age
Robert A Mc Kee 51
Mary Mc Kee 43
Harry Mc Kee 16
John Mc Kee 12
Susan Mc Kee 10
Zella Mc Kee 8
Hi Hummer--Thank you for the suggestion. I finally stopped long enough to check out the entry. It's not my family but I do appreciate you trying.ReplyDelete


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CONTROL WIZARD CO2 INJECTION SYSTEM .1-1 Cubic Feet per Hour. Includes regulator, flow meter, solenoid, pressure gauge, plastic dispensing tube, instructions and timer.Designed for use with carbon dioxide gas only. The flow meter in the picture may vary from the description. It is the most compact and reliable bottled carbon dioxide system on the market. CGA320 valve acceptable.
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Kemper Suicide's Sexiest Uploads
This morning, we featured Kemper as our SuicideGirl of the day. Then, 9Gag discovered her gorgeous Star Wars geekiness, causing millions of fanboy faces to match the color of her hair.
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To celebrate her entry into the online hall of fame, we've curated her hottest pics from Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram. These ARE the pictures you're looking for. They'll have you beeping and chirping like you just stuck your thingamajig in a whatchamacallit.
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The Rambo Turnout in Chocolate with Beige, White & Rio Red provides a waterproof and breathable turnout with a detachable liner that lets you decide the level of protection needed.
Two blankets in one - Simply detach the liner to choose the level of warmth for your horse.
- Waterproof and Breathable
- 1000 Denier Ballistic Nylon Outer Shell
- 100G Thermobonded Fiberfill (in the outer shell)
- Horseware Liner System
- Anti-Bacterial Lining
- Removable Neck Cover
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- Patented 'V' Front Closure System
- Patented Leg Arches & 3rd Surcingle
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- Large Tail Flap
- PVC Coated Tail Cord
- Stainless Steel Hardware
- Reflective Strips for Visibility
- 300G Liner Included
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Three key members of the Senate introduced legislation Thursday that would change the way the country's secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court functions and how its members are selected, the latest sign that the uproar over leaks by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden is likely to have a lasting impact on the country's intelligence practices.
The unveiling of the bills came the same day that President Barack Obama hosted nine members of Congress at the White House "to hear from some of the programs' most prominent critics and defenders," the White House said in a statement. The statement called the meeting constructive and said the president "and his team" were committed to working with Congress on the issues.
One of the bills, the FISA Court Reform Act of 2013, unveiled by Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Tom Udall, D-N.M., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., would require the court to hear evidence from a public interest legal advocate "whose client would be the Constitution" whenever the court is considering requests for surveillance programs. Currently, only attorneys for the government appear before the court, which has rejected just 11 government requests in the more than three decades it's been operating.
A second bill, the FISA Judge Selection Reform Act, would change the way judges are selected for the court. Currently, the chief justice of the Supreme Court chooses the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's membership, but critics of the court have said recently that Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. has steered appointments to judges who were named to their posts by Republicans and had worked previously as lawyers and prosecutors for the federal government.
Wyden, a longtime critic of the NSA's sweeping data-collection programs, said the bills would improve oversight of the intelligence system and correct an imbalance that had resulted in secret rulings that had expanded the government's surveillance powers under the Patriot Act in a way lawmakers had never intended.
"This is the court that, in effect, allowed this new definition of relevance under the Patriot Act to lay bare the personal lives of hundreds of millions of law-abiding Americans," he said. "I think it's worth noting there was nobody there to offer the other side."
How the bills will fare in the Senate is uncertain. Key Democratic leaders in the body have defended the collection of so-called metadata on people's email and telephones, echoing Obama administration insistence that such collection is legal and subject to court-imposed privacy protections. U.S. officials say that government officials review little of the collected data.
But the legislation comes amid what appears to be growing anger in Congress over the extent of the programs, which include a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court order to cellphone companies to provide the NSA with their customers' call records on a daily basis, including details of what numbers the customers called, where they were when they made those calls, where the called phones were and how long the conversations lasted.
Last week, the House of Representatives narrowly voted down a measure that would have defunded that collection program by a surprisingly close 217-205, and lawmakers from both parties have been critical of the programs in recent hearings.
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., a member of the House Judiciary Committee and author of the Patriot Act, told NSA officials during a hearing last month that if the agency doesn't change tactics, it will lose the Patriot Act provisions that have allowed the programs to exist.
"Section 215 expires at the end of 2015, and unless you realize you've got a problem, that is not going to be renewed," he said.
Sensenbrenner's colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee were equally critical this week, challenging officials' claims that the programs have helped thwart dozens of terrorist plots aimed at the United States. Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said he hadn't seen justification for the sweeping collection of telephone records, despite being provided with a list of terrorist attacks the program supposedly had helped prevent.
"So far, I'm not convinced by what I've seen," he told officials Wednesday.
Leahy has introduced a bill that would rein in some of the agency's data collection capabilities and would require that it report the details of its activities to congressional committees. Another senator, Al Franken, D-Minn., said Wednesday that he planned to introduce legislation that would require the NSA to reveal how many Americans it collects information on.
"The government has to give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy," Franken said. "When everything about these programs is secret and when the companies involved are under strict gag orders, the American public has no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. I think that's bad for privacy and bad for democracy."
Among the critics of the programs at the White House meeting were Wyden and Sensenbrenner as well as Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., and Rep. Robert Goodlatte, R-Va. Defenders of the programs included the chairs of both intelligence committees, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and the committees' ranking members, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., and Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., the assistant majority leader, was also present, the White House said.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama had invited the lawmakers to the White House because although he "believes a balance has been found," he "also thinks that there ought to be a debate about these issues."
"The fact is our intelligence services need to have tools available to them to help protect our national security interests, to protect us from attack," Carney said. "I don't think that we can sensibly say that programs designed to protect us from terrorist attack, you know, are not necessary in this day and age."
He said administration officials were working to meet Congress' questioning of the programs.
"We are undertaking an effort to evaluate these programs and . . . provide more information where that can be done in a way that doesn't compromise further our security," Carney said. But he added, "some of what we do to make sure that the United States is protected and that our interests are protected has to, by necessity, be secret."
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story wrongly said that Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., was among those whom President Barack Obama met with Thursday.


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Nano Rally HD
- Publisher: Sauce Digital Limited
- Genre: Racing
- Released: 1 Apr, 2011
- Size: 52.8 MB
- Price: $0.99
- App Store Info
DescriptionNano Rally HD is a fun and addictive top down driving game, where players drive miniaturized cars around various tracks, all based on different household environments.
Play in "Championship" mode. At the end of each environment (4 races), if you are in the top 10 overall the next environment will be unlocked.
As with any rally, races are time trials, with points allotted for the top times. Make your way through the different rallies/environments and stages. One minute you could find yourself power-sliding around the end of a spring onion, then falling off a precariously balanced ruler the next. If you get enough points you will end victorious.
*Exclusive to iPad
*Beautiful, pre-rendered design.
*6 Environments: Kitchen, Bedroom, Office, Garden, Garage and SECRET
*25 different stages/tracks, each with their own difficulties.
*100+ different obstacles, including everything from iPhones to candy bars to fish ponds.
*Customisable car setup, such as acceleration and handling, to suit the track.
*Control by touch or by tilt
*Auto gas option
*Racing lines, to make navigation easier.
*Mulitple Camera modes: Rotate, Fixed Center, Pan
*Hard, Medium and Easy settings.
*AI cars on track.
*Landscape and Portrait mode.
*Saved best time for each track.
*Online high scores for each stage, and overall best time.
*Rendered using OpenGL for superfast play.
*Single race or championship mode.
*Resume game option.
*iPod music remains playing
* Unlocking more levels:
The game begins with only the Kitchen Rally unlocked. To unlock more, play in CHAMPIONSHIP MODE - if you are in the top 10 at the end of the Kitchen Rally you will unlock the Bedroom Rally. A top ten after the Bedroom Rally unlocks the Office Rally. And so on.
* Controls:
For more responsive controls, raise the handling in the car setup.
* Select "prefs" on the main menu, to edit things such as difficulty.
For screenshots and track previews visit the site:
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A multi-agency operation has led to the largest seizure of methamphetamine on record in Australia, with an estimated street value of up to $438 million.
The operation involving federal and NSW police netted 585 kilograms of the illegal drug ice.
The Joint Organised Crime Group was keeping a lid on details on Wednesday, but it did confirm the methamphetamine seizure was the largest on record and had a street value of about $438 million.
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Tony Negus will join NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione and officials from the NSW Crime Commission, the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service and the Australian Crime Commission to show off the haul to media in Sydney on Thursday morning.


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Location: West Lothian, Scotland, UK
Posted: Fri 23 Jul 2010, 11:31
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maybe you don't have HDD?
(a) I have two 10GB PATA internal HDD's fitted.
The first has Windows 2000Pro installed to it.
The second has only one ext3 partition on it with six folders in the root folder, each for eventually holding the pupsave+SFS filepair [copied from the Flash Drive] for six different Puppies.
I also have a couple of 80GB PATA HDD's [one in an external enclosure, the other in my 2nd PC], and a 1TB SATA HDD in yet another external HDD.
Plus a number of spare 10GB HDD's in the loft.
(b) I have in the past installed a Puppy to a Flash Drive partition, and used a Wakepup2 bootable floppy [also have a special bootable CD] to load the Puppy.
But these days I choose to use pupsave files for multiple Puppies [6 right now], each in their own partition on an 8GB Flash Drive, and loaded by "live" Puppy CD-RW's.
Also have a 4 GB Flash Drive holding multiple pupsaves used for the 2nd PC.
And a couple of 1GB Flash Drives.
2. So far, on this newer PC, I've chosen not to make a Puppy full install.
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Posted: Tue 11 Jan 2011, 17:25
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This thread is now almost 6 months old and I wonder if there have been any new discoveries ? What are the experiences of people who've been running Puppy from usb sticks in pupmode 12 , using the script made by rcrsn51?
I'm asking because I'm about to assemble a nice little nettop for my girlfriend and as it will be passively cooled, running from a memory stick seems like the best way to keep temperatures within limits (no heat from internal drives and inside of case really uncluttered)
I found
this report
from 2008, which sounds very reassuring about the longevity of flash drives.
I would really like to avoid running pupmode 13, to get rid of that save icon and the slow shutdown process.
If proven that running a usb stick in pupmode 12 is safe, what would it take to add this to the installation options?
says "that would probably be easy to fix"
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Location: Stratford, Ontario
Posted: Tue 11 Jan 2011, 17:36
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The last time I checked with DaveS, his PUPMODE=12 flash drive was still running fine. Perhaps you could PM him and get a report.
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Posted: Tue 11 Jan 2011, 17:46
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Hi all
I have been running pupmode=12 for about 2 months now on a usb stick without any problem (but using ext4 file system)
I also have been running a 3 partition usb stick for about a month now, a frugal install running pup mode=12, the second partition for storage and the third partition as a swap file for non linux/no swap file, systems and have not killed the usb stick yet, the one thing I have noticed is that you cannot mount an iso stored on a usb, it has to be copied to either the desktop or a hd so it will mount, yet you can mount sfs files ok.
hope this helps
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Stripe wrote:
hope this helps
It certainly does! Thank you very much.
You even answered my two next questions: ext4 and partitioning
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Stripe wrote:
the one thing I have noticed is that you cannot mount an iso stored on a usb,
I have a FAT32 flash drive with a bunch of ISOs. I can mount them successfully just by clicking on the file's icon.
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I ran pupmode 12 on the USB up till the release of Wary 5 at Christmas with no problems. That is about six months I think, but it is a good quality drive, Sandisk Contour.
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I have had problems mounting iso's stored on a few different usbs, I will have another look and see if I can work it out.
I am using kingston usbs
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Thanks everyone and especially rcrsn51. This method worked perfectly! Only needed to do it once, which is exceptional given my personal failure track record
The only thing remaining was removing the "save" icon manually. That didn't take too long, I used the medium grit 120 sandpaper I always keep handy
I guess someone should ask Barry to consider adding this "usb/pupmode=12" install option by default? Or is it still too experimental?
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Slightly off topic, but may be a good option:
I run LUPU511 from USB memory stick with lupusave on the USB.
I turned off the periodic save; save on shutdown is good enough. But, ...
I'd like to have an option to have file changes stored on the hard disk, not in RAM.
And then, upon shutdown (and using the SAVE button),
save the changes to the USB in a manner similar to multi-session DVD.
Furthermore, a utility to combine all the session saves into a single file.
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Jady we get off topic maybe.
But look here:
and ask in that thread or make a new thread with your question.
Here is a pet that allow for choices on shut down.
PupsaveConfig the GUI
so the Dev of that one knows much about such.
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though
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OK, its Jan 16, 2011. Just set up a USB in Pupmode 12 with spup. It went well. I will run this as my default and see if I can break it. Sandisk hardware.
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hi all
11 months light usage and the flash drive is still alive, have just set another one up to run slacko 499.1
will keep you all informed
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Stopped using mine a couple of months back, but had had no problems. Will set it up again (same device) when current rate of Puppy devel slows again.
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Very good news. HDD that runs through spinning the disk not only whines and click them get hot too. And worse. many actually do give up after some two years of service so sometimes one wonder if it is not better to have external such spinning hdd and the internal shall be a USB flash memory and then the only fan needed would be in the CPU and the Graphic card? So if one are a low resources person one could do without any fan at all only passive cooling and a silent computing. One would only hear ones own heart and the noise of the blood flowing in the ears and the humming from earth itself
I love this thread. Promise to never take it away. I should set up such a computer one day when I get tired of the clicking on my Acer D250.
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There are hundreds of Special Olympian athletes in Craven County and one of their major fundraisers kicked off Friday morning at Belk in New Bern Mall.
There are hundreds of Special Olympian athletes in Craven County and one of their major fundraisers kicked off Friday morning at Belk in New Bern Mall.
Tickets went on sale for �Craven�s Got Talent 2013,� an all-star show of local talent on Sept. 28 at the Grover C. Fields Performing Arts Center.
Edward Harrison, who has been involved with Special Olympics for many years, led the ticket sellers, which included Maria Knight, Paul Scharf and Charles Knight.
The tickets are just $6 for the 7 p.m. show. The doors open an hour earlier.
Tickets are available at the Sun Journal, UPS Store, Craven Recreation, Harris Teeter, Bank of the Arts, Fuller�s Music and the Havelock News.
The show is hosted by the New Bern and Tryon Civitan clubs, along with Craven County Recreation & Parks.
Matt Brown, the local Special Olympics coordinator, said the group is coming off a record-breaking participation in the 2013 Spring Games in New Bern. Next year�s event is in May 2014.
During October, Special Olympians will be bowling on three Saturdays at the Strike Zone, for elementary, middle and high school and adults.
The lineup for this year�s show includes Craig Cooper, Tom & Dahlin�, Bill Ward, Wayne Green, Philip Evancho, Liz Beth Holt and Rivertowne Dance.
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Show sponsors include the Sun Journal, V103.3, New Bern Civitan Club, Tryon Civitan Club, Coca Cola, Ward & Smith, The ARC of Craven County and the Fuel Market.
For information about the show or Special Olympics, contact Matt Brown at 636-6606.
Another Special Olympics fundraiser comes up Oct. 10, with the 18th annual Spaghetti Dinner.
It is hosted by Special Olympics Craven County, along with Monsignor James R. Jones, Knights of Columbus Council 3303, Pizza Hut, Coke, Pepsi, Smithfield�s Chicken and BBQ, Target, Armstrong Grocery and Walmart
It will be at the Knights of Columbus Hall on Pinetree Drive in New Bern from 4:30 to 7 p.m.
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Ted Brown finally got inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame on Tuesday and if N.C. State fans were wondering what took so long, they would most definitely be justified.
Ted Brown finally got inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame on Tuesday and if N.C. State fans were wondering what took so long, they would most definitely be justified.
It took 35 years for Brown, one of the greatest players in Atlantic Coast Conference history, to get inducted, to be recognized as one of the best to ever play on the college gridiron.
Not your typical running back, Brown was more the size of a defensive back at 5-10, 175. That didn't stop the High Point native from becoming the only four-time All-ACC player in history or to set the conference career rushing mark that, remarkably, still stands. Brown rushed for 4,602 yards. Add in three bowl games and the total is 5,001 yards. During that era, the NCAA did not recognize bowl accomplishments as part of career statistics.
That's not all.
Brown also holds the ACC career records for rushing touchdowns (49), career 100-yard games (27) and average rushing yards per game (107). He rushed for a school record 1,350 yards as a senior and had a school-record 251 yards rushing against Penn State in 1977. Brown was a consensus All-American his senior year.
Considering all the outstanding running backs that have come through the ACC such as Kelvin Bryant, Frank Gore, Terrence Flagler and Willis McGahee to name a few, that's lofty stuff.
Brown got better each year playing for the Wolfpack. As a freshman he rushed for 913 yards, followed by 1,088 as a sophomore, 1,251 as a junior and 1,350 as a senior. He also caught 82 passes for 760 yards and two touchdowns in four years. Brown even threw 11 passes a senior, completing six for 140 yards and a touchdown. He was sixth in the Heisman voting in 1978. Brown averaged 5.4 yards a carry for his career.
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For his career with the Vikings, Brown rushed for 4,546 yards and 40 touchdowns while catching 337 passes for 2,850 yards and 13 touchdowns. His 53 total touchdowns leaves him tied for 193rd all time in the NFL. He is fifth all-time among Vikings rushers.
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Last spring I knocked off a brick sized foothold. can't remember if it came out from under my right or left foot but i do know the climb has one less major rock foothold.
If I had been more skillful, I maybe could have found some kind of a restful stance higher up to place a third screw instead of trying to power through to the rest that I could see. Maybe I could have found a crampon placement on the rock further behind me on the right, for example, that would have let me stem a bit and get a rest. Then, I would have been in a better state both mentally (because of the screw) and physically (because of the stem rest) to continue. Or I guess if I had been stronger, I could have powered all the way through it instead of pumping out, but there's not much to admire in that. [...] so what I'm talking about would make more sense.
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The smell of freshly cut grass, backyard barbecues and swimming pool chlorine are a sure sign summer is in the air.
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Shot between 1983 and 1985, this engaging documentary follows the trials and tribulations of a young Dutch psychiatrist, Dr. Joop van Wijk, as he tries to set up a hospital and garner patients in a West African country.
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And sometimes when they manage to explain that they have wind in the head, even an interpreter is insufficient. Dr. Joop travels around on his motorscooter when he can afford gas, and his contacts with the healers in the area increase. A look at a healer's approach to medicine and the hospital is an informative segment on its own.


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I went to see a new RE today who looked concerned when my eggs were left overnight in the dish with DHs sperm instead of about 15 minutes on my last cycle. He has also ordered a DNA fragmentation test (I have asked other drs for this and they are so lackadaisical! He said they would do ICSI if it didn't look like there was good motility on the day rather than leave them overnight as the debris in the semen could be potentially damaging on the embryo subsequently formed. Can anyone add their experience to this? Thanks


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A day after ordering an independent review of the military`s nuclear force amid allegations of cheating on proficiency exams by Air Force officers overseeing the nation`s ballistic nuclear missiles, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel today vowed to restore confidence in the Air Force`s nuclear mission.
Whatever the factors -- historical, institutional, cultural -- the Department of Defense and the Air Force will do whatever it takes to continue to ensure the safety, security, reliability and effectiveness of our nuclear enterprise, " Hagel said at a ceremonial swearing-in ceremony for Deborah Lee James, the 23rd secretary of the Air Force.
The service has suspended 34 launch officers overseeing intercontinental ballistic missiles after an investigation implicated them for cheating or failing to report cheating on exams. A Pentagon spokesman told reporters yesterday the allegations raise legitimate concerns about the department`s stewardship of one of our most sensitive and important missions, " prompting Hagel to call for an independent, broader examination of the strategic deterrence enterprise as it relates to personnel.
At today`s ceremony, Hagel said he, James and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark. A. Welsh III are deeply concerned about the overall health and professionalism and discipline of our strategic forces, " and called the problems facing the new Air Force secretary daunting. But he credited James with a swift, decisive and thoughtful response, " to the matter after she visited missile bases around the country in recent days. Even so, he said, restoring confidence in the nuclear mission will be a top priority. "
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The rise of emerging powers, dangerous rogue states, affiliated terrorist organizations, and the proliferation of technology will mean more contested and complicated domains, from space to cyber to sea lanes, " he said.
James, who was officially sworn in as secretary last month, pledged to leave this Air Force some years from now on a path toward greater capability and better affordability for our taxpayers while always remembering and protecting the important people who underpin everything we do. " But she cautioned the service will continue to face difficult challenges and trade-offs brought on by shrinking budgets.
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Named for the late Sam Myar, who died in 1959 at the age of 39, the award is given each year to an attorney younger than 40 years old who has "rendered outstanding personal service to the Memphis and Shelby County legal profession and community," according to the Memphis Bar Association.
Magee described the award, which was presented Thursday, Dec. 6, at the MBA's annual meeting, as "humbling" and "an unbelievable honor."
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Magee is the past-president of the Young Lawyers Division of the Memphis Bar Association for which she was also on the board of directors. In college at the University of Tennessee, where she received her undergraduate degree in political science, she volunteered with the Tennessee School for the Deaf, the Humane Society and other organizations through her involvement with the student government association.
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It's challenging but this is why she went into the legal profession in the first place, she said.
"Some people go into this looking to change the world, but that's not really my outlook on it," Magee said. "My focus is on each particular doctor that I represent; if I can make a difference in their lives, then I've accomplished my goal."
One of the more lasting lessons she learned as an attorney right out of law school, and one which she hopes to pass along to those looking to pass the bar, is that of civility among peers and the importance of working closely, not just with colleagues, but with those on the opposite side of the table.
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Medical malpractice cases can take years to be resolved, whether in trial or out, and the time spent in preparation presents a tough balance for the mother of a 4 year old daughter, who says she owes a lot to her husband, Jarrett, a real estate appraiser, for taking over at home when a trial gets near.
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As wheat matures and approaches flowering in the southern part of Ohio, growers need to be on the look out for Fusarium head blight, or scab.
The fungus that causes head scab, Fusarium graminearium, infects wheat during flowering, beginning at growth stage Feekes 10.5.1, says Kiersten Wise, Purdue Extension plant pathologist. Symptoms include bleached spikelets on the head and small or shriveled grain kernels commonly referred to as "tombstones."
The fungus also produces mycotoxins, such as deoxynivalenol, or DON, which can accumulate in infected grain. If consumed, mycotoxins can cause health problems in livestock and humans.
Rainy, warm and humid weather conditions tend to favor disease development.
"The recent rains may have triggered spore production, and if the wet, humid weather continues as the majority of wheat in southern Indiana begins to flower, it is possible that a fungicide application will be necessary to suppress Fusarium head blight," Wise says.
Farmers who know the approximate flowering date of their wheat varieties can use Penn State University's risk assessment tool at http://www.wheatscab.psu.edu/ to determine the if a fungicide application is warranted for Fusarium head blight management.
One way growers can preventatively reduce the risk of Fusarium head blight in their wheat crops is to select partially resistant varieties, but Wise said timely and proper fungicide applications often are needed to suppress the disease in-season.
"Applications of fungicide prior to head emergence, such as those applied at jointing for flag leaf emergence, will not reduce head scab infection," she said. "Farmers need to be sure to follow label restrictions on how many days must pass between fungicide application and harvest."
A list of fungicides available for Fusarium head blight control are listed in the foliar fungicide efficacy table on the Purdue Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory website at


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|2012-06-30, 14:28
|Link #3281
Join Date: Nov 2003
and yet despite having this united force this time, they are still losing ground to the Reapers
how many Reaper icons do you see on the Galaxy map before you launch the attack on Earth? Who is being pushed here? not the Reapers
once again, I point you to operation Hammer
after all that preparation and support from allies, they only managed to get what.. 2 people inside the catalyst?
if that's not an indication on how weak the current forces are, I don't know what is
|2012-06-30, 14:53
|Link #3282
Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
I don't even care if we'd lose through strength of arms if we don't obediently follow the star child. I just want to be shown that failure in all it's tragic glory. That's really all I asked for.
If I can't fight the winning battle, at least show me the tragedy of the losing one.
|2012-06-30, 15:23
|Link #3284
Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
I know what it's about, but only because it's told to me. I didn't get to see it.
I wanted at least one ending where my war assets mattered. At least one ending where I could see the united fleets crash in space, with the ships I salvaged and the races I gathered rather than just one generic cutscene. Even if they lost, I would have loved to see the Destiny Ascension fire it's main gun (you know, the one talked about in the first game but we never got to see) blow reaper ships in half before falling to concentrated reaper fire. I wanted to see mercenaries ramming reapers in suicide runs, turian frigates pounding the reapers before collapsing. Geth and quarian ships working in concert, shielding eachother before falling to the fire (though just geth in my case).
On the ground I wanted to see humans and turians fighting side by side, covered by asari biotics as salarians stealthily snuck behind the lines in a vain attempt at sabotaging key nodes. I wanted to see krogans collapse by the sheer weight of the husks charging them. Quarians desperately trying to repair broken geth as those very geth cover them, being mowed down by the unstoppable hordes.
I wanted to see it. Not just imagine it. But what did we get? One alliance ship exploding, Shepard looking up sadly, and on to the timeskip.
|2012-06-30, 15:31
|Link #3285
User of the "Fast Draw"
Instead it all just remains a fantastic dream. Simply because Bioware didn't want people to choose that. Couldn't possibly make an ending more flashy than their preferred choices.
|2012-06-30, 19:14
|Link #3286
Itadaki-nyaaa !!
Join Date: Apr 2008
What would be a good ending, despite the shown impact of war assets? Would you have to rewrite ME3 completely? Even parts of ME2? The new endings are merely OK but what could be changed to make a good ending that would tend to most of the (justified) criticism?
I'm not a fan of the indoctrination ending theory since it results in a simple and boring "we beat the baddies and their jedi mind tricks - ze end !" scenario that would get rid of any deeper meaning. Personally I'm fond of the general concept of endings that depict massive impact/change in mankind/sentient life, ME3 just didn't execute them well.
Didn't really follow the discussion that much lately so if someone already came up with a good idea point me to it, I'll gladly replace the existing endings in my head with it . I myself haven't come up with one yet, though.
|2012-06-30, 20:42
|Link #3287
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Moe Land
Age: 38
I think this is a appropriate thread to post this.
Finally kotobukiya made a Shepard figure!
|2012-06-30, 21:09
|Link #3288
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 38
One minor thing is, ME3 essentially murdered any prospects of Mass Effect having long term future prospects in Japan. By deciding to pick Robot Racism as the official political stance of Bioware, they have cut off the Japanese audience. It's a choice they made themselves, and no one else.
There is nothing wrong with having in-story racist characters; but when the creators themselves support the stance, a line is crossed.
|2012-06-30, 21:19
|Link #3289
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Moe Land
Age: 38
Extended Ending Reviews
I was still thinking that EA might have probably planned this ending already which they will bring in as a payable DLC imho.
|2012-06-30, 21:46
|Link #3290
The Dark Knight
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: From the deepest abyss in the world, where you think?
Age: 32
Granted I hate it as much as you do but I don't think the Japanese could care about it....
On that matter to MP.
I was playing as the Cerberus Adept and he's quite powerful. With maxed Smash and Lash I can do a ton of damage surprsingly. Heavy units like Geth Primes, pyros, ravagers, brutes, and even Banshees fall quickly.
The only problem I have is with Reapers.
When the Banshee comes, we all focus fire on the Banshee and kill her ASAP. It works but at the same time we also have Ravagers sniping us and Brutes coming in. I just don't know what to do with it here.
I think Banshees IMO needs to be tweaked or something. Their Instant kill is ridiculous as well as the teleportation.
|2012-06-30, 21:58
|Link #3291
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 38
This is one of those wide cultural gaps that are difficult to bridge. The American's fear and hatred of machines had always been irrational, and Mass Effect 3 is basically a love letter to the murder of all machines.
|2012-06-30, 22:22
|Link #3292
The Dark Knight
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: From the deepest abyss in the world, where you think?
Age: 32
Yeah but Mass Effect 3 is a Canadian game.
Though on that matter.
I guess we can see why but I doubt the Japanese market is really that big of a deal nor would they be that critical.
|2012-07-01, 02:28
|Link #3295
User of the "Fast Draw"
|2012-07-01, 03:08
|Link #3296
Knight Errant
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 30
The other problem with these weird "transhuman" endings is that it's not really a plot point earlier in the series. Saren has weird transhuman fantasies, but he's a villain (and mad, you know?). In the context of the game, all of these beliefs only existed organisations that were cults, or indoctrinated. The beliefs of the protagonists have always been quite conventional: Kill the Reapers. Likewise, no one ever spends much time ruminating on the nature of existence. So inserting this kind of weirdness just doesn't fit.
The game only needs one ending: one where Shephard and his/her allies kick the ass of the reapers back to kingdom come, albeit at great loss. That, or they lose gloriously, but somehow manage to save humanity. Also, for a game that generally eschewed Space Magic in most of it's codices (doing a very good job of at least seeming to be scientific) the ending is basically all space magic. How does the Crucible exactly destroy/control the Reapers? How does the wave that spreads out from the crucible get propogated by all the Relays? Hell if I know, it's all space magic.
While the game's SF is by no means particularly hard, as SF it still needs some kind of elaboration.
It's really a shame, because everything but the last 10 minutes was really quite satisfying, and a fitting end for decent trilogy of space operas. But people tend to remember the ending the most, so it all leaves a rather sour taste.
|2012-07-01, 04:18
|Link #3297
blinded by blood
Pretty much. ME needed a Return of the Jedi ending. It needed an epic, climactic space battle while Shepard did her thing on the ground (and the thing on the ground should have been more epic, too, though it was certainly difficult enough gameplay-wise) and then an epic, Reaper-destroying conclusion.
The Crucible is a classic MacGuffin and its existence at all is simply lazy writing.
|2012-07-01, 04:25
|Link #3298
Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
Seriously, ME1 was already lenient on the 'robots are always evil' and it was slowly erased even further with EDI and Joker in ME2. From the very moment you find Legion any remaining notion of 'robots are always evil' goes out the window, and Rannoch in ME3 only tossed some flowers on the grave.
|2012-07-01, 04:35
|Link #3299
Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 38
Further, it's not just the Destroy ending; the Synthesis ending also portrayed robots as evil, and killed them by making them no longer robots.
|2012-07-01, 04:38
|Link #3300
blinded by blood
The synthesis ending is particularly egregious in that you're essentially forcing a massive fundamental change on every living thing in the galaxy--synthetic and organic. And not just the known races, but all the unknown ones and all the non-sentient ones as well.
Which is basically ripping off the crappy transhumanist ending from DXIW.
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Junior would come home from school and plop himself at the dinner table. After a few words of prayer, it would not take long for gobbling sounds to resound from his side of the table. In the meantime, getting his sister to eat was like getting an elephant to jump. Eventually, since it was dinner, we had to talk about something.
"How was school today?" The response was predictable. "OK."
"What did you learn today?" One day parents may discover that it may be the stupidest question to ever ask. "Nothing" was repeated, day after day. It was useless to go into the spiel about report cards, graduation, and where he was going in life in regard to learning "nothing" day after day. Since the kids attended private school if I went off their communication of "nothing" I should ask the schools for a refund.
In the meantime, his sister was screaming over the demand that she eat her vegetables. She wanted to eat cheese and butter.
Mom and dad try to have some sort of intelligent conversation. In between giving directions on manners and moving the butter constantly out of reach of the girl who is trying to crawl on the table to get it, any form of communication is digressing to oblivion. We call this "family time."
It does not take long for life to disintegrate into this constant communication nightmare. Communication dysfunction seldom appears out of nowhere. It is a slow growing blob that infects each and every relationship. Eventually, normal life boils down to putting out forest fires or avoiding them at all costs.
The classic Christian answer is to make sure you have "family devotions." I will admit to one and all. At 52 years old, raising two children four years apart and now providing family counseling, I have not figured out "family devotions." I can't find them in the Bible. I don't know if 5 minutes is good or 45 minutes is better. I don't know how long the prayer is supposed to be. Is something better than nothing? What do our kids learn from something that might actually be worse than nothing? Is a Twinkie better than nothing? I think they are both nothing. At least a Twinkie will survive a nuclear blast.
Did I bother to mention that planned "family devotions" often evolves into a family law instead of the desire of the heart?
So, let's just quit and hope we all come out in the wash. Last time I checked, my socks seem to get sucked into the washer or dryer and never come out. Let's not rest in a little bit of whimsical hope.
There is a simple direction that is so hard to do. At some point, instead of asking how things went in dealing with the fallen world, maybe, just maybe we are asking the wrong questions.
Consider the following. Have you experienced God today? If the answer is "no" the follow up is "what happened today that we did not experience the most powerful force in human life." If the answer is "yes" the follow up is "tell me about it, I'm hungry."
So, to all readers, have you experienced God lately?


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New London police retirement deals remain murky
New London - The City Council refused Monday to fund enhanced benefits for two retired police captains and the deputy police chief, but what that means for the men affected by the decision is not clear.
Former Capt. William Dittman, a 35-year veteran of the department, has hired a lawyer and declined to comment. Former Capt. Michael Lacey, who had been with the department for 28 years, could not be reached to comment.
Former Deputy Chief Marshall Segar said he's going to wait and see what the city's position is on the matter. "But I can tell you, it's frustrating for all of us and our families," said Segar, who worked in the department for 21 years.
In a split vote Monday, the council refused to approve the three settlement agreements, which would have cost the city about $230,000 in additional benefits for the three officers.
Motions to approve each captain's contract failed by 5-1 votes, with only Councilor Wade Hyslop voting in favor. Councilor Anthony Nolan, who is a police officer, recused himself for all three votes and left the council chamber during discussions.
A motion to approve Segar's contract failed by a vote of 4-2, with Hyslop and Maynard voting in favor.
"I didn't approve it based on the numbers,'' Council President Michael Passero said Tuesday. "If they (the administration) want to spend money, they have to come to us and tell how much they want to spend and what the money is for.''
Passero said Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio and his staff negotiated the contracts without the council's knowledge and came looking for the money after the fact. He added that he has yet to see an "appropriation ordinance" that would lay out how much money is needed for each contract.
The mayor's executive assistant, Zak Leavy, said the mayor stands by his earlier statements.
In a previous statement, Leavy said that " ... the (police) union was notified during the negotiation process of these retirement packages. The Law Director's office and Personnel Coordinator negotiated these retirement agreements and informed the Mayor that they were valid. The Mayor believes they are fully lawful and will be honored by the City of New London."
Even without the enhancements, Dittman and Lacey are entitled to generous retirement packages, based on the police union contract, according to Bernadette Welch, the city's personnel director. She said both captains were stepping down with disability retirement packages, which include health benefits.
Segar, whose one-year contract was not renewed, will receive a year's pay and a year of paid insurance premiums, according to the terms of his contract.
The extra, according to Welch, was to be $21,000 for Segar and $29,000 for Dittman. Lacey would receive a $20,000 payment this year and another $160,000 over the course of four years, which equals $40,000 a year to cover the difference between his retirement benefits and his salary.
"We have to look at this from a truly financial perspective,'' Welch said, adding that it's cheaper for the city to pay the retirements than to retian the two captains, who she said were missing work because of health issues.
"There really is a value here,'' she said. "It's just difficult to see the big numbers."
Under his agreement, Segar was set to receive a year's pay of $105,000; a year's worth of insurance coverage; a $21,000 contribution to this retirement fund; and $1,000 for each year of employment, or $21,000.
Lacey and Dittman were to continue to receive their salaries - about $1,700 a week - through July 1. Both men will receive compensation for all unused sick time, vacation and comp time, equal to about $100,000 each.
Passero said Tuesday that an explanation of the contracts and an overview of the financial impact of the retirements have never been provided.
"The numbers that she's giving you, she's never given them to the council,'' he said of Welch.
The three settlement agreements represent just a few of the retirements since Finizio took office Dec. 5. City Clerk Michael Tranchida and Assistant City Clerk Dawn Quinn both took early retirements and Tax Assessor Barbara Perry retired. Keith Chapman, special assistant to the city manager, who was in charge of planning and development and public works, also retired.
Passero said the council has yet to see an accounting of how much the retirement packages have cost the city.
The police union has filed a municipal prohibited-practices complaint against the city for negotiating directly with the captains and not including the union.
Councilor John Maynard cited the union complaint as one of his reasons for voting against the captains' deals.
New London Police Union Local 724 President Todd Lynch could not be reached to comment Tuesday.
In October 2006, the state Board of Labor Relations, which oversees union complaints, found the city had dealt directly with Officer Michael Meehan in allowing him to opt out, without union notice, of his city health insurance plan. That finding ordered the city to stop dealing directly "with employees concerning mandatory subjects of bargaining," required the city to pay six months of health insurance cost sharing for union members and ordered the city to pay fees and costs, including attorney fees, related to the complaint.
Retired New London police captains will keep salaries until July


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Feds meet with school officials
School district and federal officials met last week to talk about federal impacts on local schools.
Grand Coulee Dam School District Superintendent Dennis Carlson met with Bureau of Reclamation Project Manager Mark Jenson and others last Thursday so the two parties could exchange views on the school position that work being done on the Third Powerhouse generators and on the John W. Keys III Pump-Generator Station impacts the school district.
While doing the Environmental Assessment for its Third Powerhouse upgrade, the Bureau of Reclamation neglected to consider the impact it might have on schools here and accordingly has now opened up a 45-day window for the district to gather and present information for the EA. That is due Feb. 12, and Carlson told school board members Monday evening that the district will submit information.
He also plans to submit information for the EA on the pump station project. The government is still collecting information for its Draft Environmental Assessment for that project.
Subsequently, in a letter to Keith McGowan, an environmental protection specialist for the USBR, Carlson writes: "It is clear that we agree the project (Pump Station) will result in an increased numbers of workers with a resulting increase in the number of students attending our schools."
The Bureau has calculated that there might be as many as 19 new students as the result of contracted workers who come to the area for the pumping station work.
It has also been recorded that there could be as much as a 30-student increase identified with the Third Powerhouse upgrade project. The Bureau, in its assessment, had stated that the Third Powerhouse work would have no significant impact on schools.
"That's a potential increase of nearly 50 students," Carlson said. "We maintain that the impact could be greater than just the addition of 50 students. In some of our classes, like the third and fifth grades, a couple more students might force us to add a teacher (at a cost of $65,000, plus benefits)." Carlson also added that there isn't space available in either Center Elementary or Grand Coulee Dam Middle School for additional classes.
"Then there's the type of student," Carlson added. "If there are special need students, that impacts the district differently."
It isn't clear, and hardly predictable, just how many students have already and will enter local schools during the decade-long work.
The Bureau opened up its assessment of impact after officials made their point that schools hadn't been duly considered when the EA for the Third Powerhouse was developed. The school board last November asked Carlson to explore taking legal action against the Bureau. That apparently got the federal agency's attention, and that's when a special impact period was opened for school input.
Carlson told board members that a lawsuit is still an option, but he said he was "encouraged" by the willingness to discuss the issues with government officials.


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Karnal bunt has robbed four north Texas counties of more than $43 million in just two years, 2001-2002, and threatens to take an even bigger chunk out of the rural economies if trade regulations and movement restrictions are not relaxed.
Wheat contributes a significant amount to the economies of Baylor, Throckmorton, Young and Archer counties, but that role has diminished significantly since Karnal bunt was discovered last year. The area now is under quarantine with strict restrictions governing movement of grain from affected fields.
"The zero tolerance on Karnal bunt is killing us," says Stan Bevers, Texas Extension economist at Vernon. "It hurts the reputation of the whole state."
While politicians and agricultural officials work to bring some sanity to the problem, which, according to Extension agronomist Travis Miller, "is not one of the most significant disease problems," wheat acreage falls and dollars slip away from farmers, agricultural support industries and businesses that serve these rural communities.
"In 2001, farmers suffered more than $10.5 million in direct losses," Bevers told a group of wheat producers and industry representatives recently at a conference in Abilene. "Indirect losses totaled more than $8.4 million. Total loss was almost $19 million."
And 2002 was worse. Bevers said farmers planted some acreage to less economical crops. They grazed fewer cattle on winter wheat, and they incurred added costs for grazed cattle that had to be removed from wheat acreage and "cleaned out" for five days before they could be marketed.
Bevers figures farmers in the four-county area planted 75,000 acres to alternate crops in 2002. "They had few alternatives."
Of the 310,000 acres planted in wheat, Bevers figures about 200,000 would usually go to harvest. Considering drought, that figure would have dropped to about 140,000.
"But we'll likely end up with no more than 58,000 acres harvested in those four counties. That's a dramatic change. Part of the drop is attributable to drought, about 40 percent. With cuts from Karnal bunt, wheat harvested acreage was down by 80 percent."
The four counties usually produce about 5.7 million bushels of wheat annually. In a drought year, that might drop to 3.3 million. "This year, they'll make 1.17 million bushels," Bevers said.
That big a reduction cuts into revenues for elevators and other agricultural infrastructure enterprises.
Grazeout acreage increased. Bevers says the area usually has 125,000 acres for cattle grazing or to be baled. In 2002, they had 235,304 acres for baling or grazing (75 percent for grazeout and 25 percent for baling). The downside is that fed cattle prices dropped significantly last March, leaving farmers with little grain to harvest and poor returns on their livestock.
"Baled wheat does not overcome the value of harvested grain and substantial cattle gains," Bevers said. "And they have to test hay before they can move it out of the area."
Miller said fewer positive Karnal Bunt readings showed up from the 2002 crop. "The disease requires very precise circumstances to spread, cool, moist conditions from the boot to bloom stage."
Infection levels in Texas wheat have not been high enough to cause the odor problems in flour that make Karnal Bunt wheat unmarketable. A 3 percent infestation is a threshold. Miller says in 2001, the worst year for Karnal bunt in Texas, the highest infection level hit only 0.35 percent. "It has not been high enough to affect flour quality."
He said Karnal Bunt is more a regulatory and a trade issue than a serious wheat disease problem.


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Lovely..all of these portrait are beautiful.
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Pretty & magical!
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