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Former Waynesboro resident Katrina Yaukey is a volunteer with a program that uses the arts to help change the lives of children at home and abroad.
Yaukey, a New York City based actor, singer, musician and dancer, is completing a seven-week stint with Project Creo in Quito, Ecuador.
QUITO, Ecuador — Former Waynesboro resident Katrina Yaukey is a volunteer with a program that uses the arts to help change the lives of children at home and abroad. Yaukey, a New York City based actor, singer, musician and dancer, is completing a seven-week stint with Project Creo in Quito, Ecuador. "In 2007, when I was in a production of 'Company' on Broadway, I met the musical director Mary-Mitchell Campbell, who founded a program called ASTEP (Artists Striving to End Poverty)," Yaukey said. "For the last six years I have wanted to be a part of her wonderful programs on some level. Finally, I was able to participate in one abroad." ASTEP also has programs for kids in Brooklyn, South Florida, India and Africa. Campbell believes that through music, dance, theater and visual arts, children are encouraged to talk about and express what's going in their lives and the world. "It also hopes to promote h ealthy social interaction and act as a means to guide them to make positive choices in their own personal journeys," according to Yaukey. Kids and creativity "We use the arts to inspire children all over the world to actively love themselves and others with a practical understanding of their personal worth and creative potential" is Project Creo's mission statement. "I wish I could stay longer. My Spanish, which isn't very good, is getting better every day. Immersion is the key," Yaukey said. "This is my first time volunteering in a capacity of this nature. At present, I'm the only volunteer here for Project Creo. I'm staying in a hostel in the historic district of Quito. I walk through the city for about five minutes every morning to get to the center where Project Creo is located. From there, depending on the day, I walk with a group of trained teachers to various schools. While in the classroom (which can have up to 50 kids), the work is very much about the kids being in charge of every step of the process of creating something artistic." Social change Yaukey said her first few days were "interesting. I've definitely learned quite a bit about the words poverty and abundance. I can't imagine how I will feel after seven weeks. Having grown up in an affluent society I know I have taken much for granted. One small example is hot water or even water that's drinkable. "As a person who's overly connected to social media and the instant gratification of mobile devices, I'm experienced major detoxification in Quito. Now, I feel lucky to have wi-fi occasionally ... and that's only if I get up early and walk to another hostel. I'm beginning to think that this sort of distance from the world of technology is incredibly healthy. People actually have their heads up when they're walking down the street. One is also more accountable for being on time. There's no sending someone a quick text to say you're running late." In addition to "Company," Yaukey also has appeared in the Broadway shows, "Cabaret," "Billy Elliot" and "Warhorse," four tours "Victor/Victoria," "Cabaret," "Sweeney Todd" and "Billy Elliot" and is an accomplished musician. She is currently a student at Berklee College of Music in Boston studying music production and technology. Anyone interested in helping to support Yaukey's efforts should visit her website at: www.katrinayaukey.com/ecuador "No donation is too small!" she noted. To view videos of Yaukey's work, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovh-XEfoGr0 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZdWRSXGKPw


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EXPERT SECRETS | A fake tanning tip... or ten
RECENTLY I penned a piece on how to self-tan. Yes, yes, there's so much about it in the papers ALL THE TIME because tanning has become a four-season sport in the last 10 years. Just another bit of pulp to add to the pile, right? Sure, and not just a day or two after writing a piece about ignoring all this beach-ready nonsense. I'm sticking to my guns on that, by the way. If you already respect your body and have realistic expectations, it'll be in fine shape for a bikini.
It goes without saying that even though I emplore peeps to not go crazy and all unrealistic on the beach-body stuff, they will self-tan. And that's cool. There's nothing wrong with not wanting plucked-chicken palor while wearing teeny summer frocks.
So, because there is so much SHITE advice on how to apply self-tanner, here is my list of essential beauty tips to applying the stuff properly. Leave any of these out and you will probably have a sub-par fake glow. And nobody wants tell-tale signs that any aspect of their *cough, cough* 'natural' beauty isn't as advertised, now do they?
Do it or put down the tanner:
- E. X. F. O. L. I. A. T. E. Like it's going out of fashion tomorrow and you have a stockpile of the stuff to get through before then. Once you're done, go back and do your feet, ankles, knees and elbows again.
- Don't shave or wax the day of unless you want a pretty polka-dot pattern to show up on your skin when that fake tanner settles into those freshly vacated follicles.
- Whatever you do, don't use sprays, liquids or anything other than a cream, foam or gel tanner at home, preferably with instant color to help show you where you already covered. Spray (yes, even those 'just spray a thin coat and your done!' airbrush ones) and liquid are IMPOSSIBLE (impossible!) to get right at home.
- Use gloves. Seriously.
- Start at your feet. Some hair-brained idiots who somehow, some way have earned the title of beauty expert will tell you to start at your thighs. Right... so when I bend over and my non-super model stomach rubs against them the entire time I'm applying the stuff to my feet, ankles and calves, what do I then? Wear my smeared stomach and thighs as a badge of non-anorexic honour? Cockamimi. Start at the bottom and work up the torso, then do the back (yes, the back is hard to do alone so work up from the hips and then down from the shoulder), followed by the chest and arms then the face and neck (although do the back of the neck when you do your back). Work your body in segments too (think colour by numbers). Don't just randomly slap it on. Hands are the last thing you do before washing your palms. Use it sparingly here.
- Put vaseline on your toenails, cuticles and eyebrows. Any build up in cragy areas will be instantly tell-tale.
- Mix the self-tanner with regular lotion (1:1) before applying it to ankles, knees, elbows, hands, inside arm and any other area it's easy to cock up. It's easier to build a tan gradually than have to walk around looking like a diseased satsuma.
- Massage the stuff in like you're being paid by the hour to do it. The more thorough the application, the more even it will be.
- Take the time the side of the box says it'll take for your tanner to dry and treble it. At least. Stay naked for as long as possible after you've applied it and avoid heavy sweating, water (salt, fresh, chlorinated, whatever) and acidic products right after.
- Finally, time is precious while you're working so do it efficiently. The quicker you get the application done (while still doing a crack job at it), the better. It's literally a case of hurrying up to wait (naked).
And now for a few of our favourite fake tan offenders. How do we choose when there are just so, so many. Thousands... millions of them? It was a tough call but we think these three have earned the title through dogged dedication to the cause, come rain or shine, winter or summer. The seasons may change but their orange hue does not
Linday Lohan, you're like an orange beacon in the night. Your fake tan seems to fluctuate as frequently as your lips... patches of it here and there. Some days it's orange... other days it's... oranger. You labour on, impervious to us naysayers down below on earth. Your airbrush bronze must double as armour that keeps you safe from our prying eyes and disbelieving gasps while you toil day and night to bring us our very own range of dyslexic self-tanner so we too can fly the flag of the fake tan!
Chelsey Davy, you are an inspiration to wannabe Royals everywhere. Wear the tangerine badge of an aristocratic parvenu with honour!
And then there's the king of the mahogany mug himself, Valentino. The man who puts the 'tan' in fantastic. I was once stuck behind this naugahyde wood nypmh while in a rush on Sloane Square and almost ran smack into him as he disappeared into the scenery like a chesire cat. Very effective urban camo... In cuban heels, he measured in at 5-feet nothing and weighed in at a whisper more than a sack of grain. Which was fittingly the same colour as his suit, hair AND skin... he was a monochrome picture of caramel and camel that disappeared into the brickwork of the surrounding buildings effortlessly. I have yet to afix my eyes to such a vision again... the closest I've come to it is an orange stereogram and I had to look away because it gave me a headache. He might have the same effect if I stared too long.


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Paul believes in threat of North American superhighway
The GOP presidential candidate says U.S. sovereignty is at risk. Highway and trade officials and transportation consultants say there are no plans for such a project.
November 30, 2007
By Stephen Braun,
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WASHINGTON -- The man from Arlington, Texas, could barely contain his smirk as he looked into a computer video camera to pose a question of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
Paul's followers talk about such conspiracy theories as "merging the United States with Canada and Mexico . . .," the questioner said in a YouTube video shown during the Wednesday debate. "Do you really believe in all this?"
Paul did not miss a beat. The Texas congressman coolly raised the specter of a dire new national threat -- an as-yet unbuilt superhighway.
A border-spanning "NAFTA highway" now on the drawing board, Paul said, would link the U.S., Mexico and Canada, worsening illegal immigration and threatening American independence. "Our national sovereignty is under threat," Paul warned.
Federal and state highway and trade officials and transportation consultants reacted Thursday with befuddlement and amusement. The fearsome secret international highway project Paul described does not exist, they said.
"There is no such superhighway like the one he's talking about," said Ian Grossman, a spokesman with the Federal Highway Administration. "It doesn't exist, in plans or anywhere else."
"It's complete fiction," said Tiffany Melvin, executive director of NASCO, a consortium of transportation agencies and business interests caught in the cross hairs of anti-highway activists. "This is the work of fringe groups that have wrapped a couple of separate projects together into one big paranoid fantasy."
A loose confederation of conservative Internet bloggers and some right-wing groups, among them the John Birch Society, has seized on a burst of activity in federal highway projects in recent years as evidence that the Bush administration is pushing toward a European Union-style government for North America.
The problem, public officials said Thursday, is that the new emphasis on highway construction reflects a growing concern about renewing the crumbling U.S. road system, not a secret extension of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
"These whispers have been around in some form or another ever since NAFTA was signed," said Grossman, who pointed out that numerous U.S. highways already are connected to Mexican and Canadian thoroughfares.
Paul took up the issue in recent years, sounding alarms in the Congressional Record after activists rallied against a $1- billion Texas project that aimed to build a privately financed highway corridor from the border with Mexico to the Oklahoma state line.
"The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway," Paul wrote to his constituents in October 2006, "but an integrated North American Union -- complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy, and virtually borderless travel within the Union."
During the Wednesday debate, Paul also linked the purported NAFTA highway to his concerns about the Trilateral Commission -- an enduring bugaboo of conspiracy theorists -- and the World Trade Organization's "control [of ] our drug industry, our nutritional products." Paul added: "I don't like big government in Washington, so I don't like this trend toward international government."
Jesse Benton, Paul's campaign spokesman, said Thursday that Paul believed that the threat of a NAFTA highway was real. "Dr. Paul is not alone in thinking this is a substantial compromise of federal sovereignty," Benton said. "There's a strong belief by a lot of people that [the highway] would run clear up through Canada."
Benton noted that Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. (R-Va.) had introduced a resolution expressing opposition to a NAFTA superhighway. It is signed by 42 congressmen, including Paul and two of his Republican presidential rivals, Reps. Duncan Hunter of California and Tom Tancredo of Colorado.
In Texas, Benton added, legislators voted to withhold funding from the project linking Mexico to Oklahoma, known as the Trans-Texas Corridor, despite Gov. Rick Perry's support. But with much of the $1-billion project expected to be defrayed by private developers, the effort is moving forward, said Coby Chase of the Texas Department of Transportation.
The anti-highway movement has surged from a Texas-based group, CorridorWatch.org, to old-line groups like the Birch Society and to Jerome Corsi, a conservative author who aided the Swift boat targeting of Sen. John F. Kerry during the 2004 campaign.
As alarms about NAFTA's illusory highway have spread across the Web, the issue's whiff of paranoia has ignited sparks of humor. Comedy Central mock commentator Stephen Colbert took up the issue earlier this year, saying the highway plan was real "because I got it from the Internet." He added that "it's a plan to make Canada, the U.S. and Mexico one country and force us to eat moose tacos."
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The man who allegedly posted a photo of his dead wife on Facebook published "How I Saved Someone's Life and Marriage and Family Problems Thru Communication" in February.
On Thursday, Derek Medina posted a bloody photo of his wife's twisted body on a linoleum floor on Facebook with the note, "I'm going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife. Love you guys. Miss you guys. Take care. Facebook people you'll see me in the news," the Miami Herald reports.
Medina, 31, turned himself in to police later that day; he has been charged with murder.
In light of the crime he has been charged with, his slew of self-help books is all the more disturbing. Between February and July, he self-published six self-help books, all with hectoring titles.
"How I Saved Someone's Life and Marriage and Family Problems Thru Communication," 42 pages, was published Feb. 2. In it he tells a story of a man who divorces and remarries the same woman -- Medina and Jennifer Alfonso had also divorced and remarried, before she was killed.
"Humans Who Are Gifted and Can See the Supernatural Spirit Ghost World We Live in Called Ghost Haunted Adventures," a 94-page book about ghost-hunting, was published Feb. 28. In the book, he describes an event in which his wife is visited by a ghost.
"How a Judgmental and Selfish Attitude Is Destroying the World We Live in Because the World Is Vanishing Beneath Our Eyes," 90 pages, was published March 22. A story of depression, fighting rules of society, UFO visitations and animal photos.
"Attention World Save Yourself," 84 pages, was published April 23. "My goal is for the readers to realize what life they are living," he writes in the book's description. "Please understand why I write short novels. When it's an urgent message and a life threatening situation you expect the messages to be quick and fast. I hope these books touch your spirit."
"World Just Ask Yourself Why We Are Living a Life Full of Lies and How I an Emotional Writer Made All of My Professional Dreams Come True Blocking Society's Teachings," 78 pages, was published June 6. "My goal as an author is to offer self help so enjoy the five books I have created and stay tuned for future work by yours truly, emotional writer Derek Medina," he writes.
"If the World Ended Today How Would You React to Saving the World or Helping the World or Would It All Be Over for You" - published July 1. 102 pages. The book's description includes this: "The book also explains facts on how our world has failed and millions of innocent people have lost their lives due to the bad decisions we have made as a world."
All books were published through e-BookTime, a self-publishing company, and all are currently available as e-books and in paperback at Barnes & Noble.
Prolific, bestselling mystery writer Barbara Mertz, 85, has died
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A heckler is, of course, a person who attends a performance of some kind, not to appreciate it, but to get in the way of it happening, thereby spoiling it for the actual audience. And a veto is the power to call a halt to something. The main problem with a heckler's veto is that it transfers blame-- it says nothing about the harmfulness or potential harmfulness of the thing being objected to, and everything about the willingness of the objector(s) to cause harm. Anybody could scream, make a fuss, or physically attack people or property for any reason, but in a heckler's veto they try to attach this behavior to some object, practice, or speech which they don't like in order to get that punished or banned, when really the person who is being disruptive should be. This would seem obvious, but unfortunately it often isn't. Either out of sympathy for the heckler's bruised feelings ("This is an expression of their outrage-- you shouldn't be allowed to provoke them; this makes the harm they caused your fault") or a simple angry teacher response ("I don't care who caused the disruption/damage; I just want it to stop!"), sometimes the heckler's veto works.
That's why I'm concerned about a ridiculous but possibly effective ploy being pulled by opponents of the opening of a new clinic which would provide abortion services in Wichita, in the same facility previously owned by Dr. George Tiller (murdered in 2009). It will be called South Wind Women's Center and run by Trust Women founder Julie Burkhart, who used to work with Tiller. But pro-life group Kansans For Life has, completely unsurprisingly, been attempting to fight the new clinic in any way they can think of. Right now they are attempting to have the area re-zoned, because-- get this-- it's bad for the neighborhood to have the disruption that constant protesters cause. Protesters like who? Why, Kansans For Life!
Kansans for Life is gathering petitions to ask the city to rezone the building. David Gittrich, development director of the group, said that when Tiller operated his clinic, a lot of traffic, police calls and other problems plagued the neighborhood.
"It was not a quiet, peaceful neighborhood when that place was open," he said.
Alissa Kirby, an office specialist for Kansans for Life in Wichita, said Tuesday that the group had gathered 10,554 signatures on petitions so far and hoped to have 20,000 to deliver to the Wichita City Council by Feb. 5.And they have a stated intention to
Gittrich said his group won't stay away from South Wind.
"It's never going to happen. Abortion is never going to be accepted in this country. We're never going to be quiet and let it go on," he said.Well, you know what? Abortion is accepted in this country by two thirds of Americans. "We're never going to be quiet and let it go on" is a statement made by opponents of gay rights, of miscegenation, of racial integration, and probably every other civil rights cause there has ever been. Eventually those people do shut up and let it go on, because they realize they've lost. The opponents of gay rights are on their way to realizing it, and the opponents of abortion will realize it eventually. Sometimes the people in charge do favor the heckler, but history does not.


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[After graduating from DigiPen, a trio of developers chose to go indie and create a successor to their hit student project -- here is their story.]
Back in 2011, an 11-person team from the DigiPen Institute of Technology launched Nitronic Rush, a high-speed racing title that was lauded for its inventive arcade mechanics and striking visual style.
The game was nominated for numerous awards, and even earned an honorable mention at last year's prestigious Independent Games Festival. Since its release, however, many members of the renowned Team Nitronic have graduated school and have thus moved on from this unique racing title.
While many of the developers have gone on to secure jobs at existing game studios, three of them chose to remain on their own and keep Nitronic Rush's vision alive with a brand new spiritual successor known as Distance.
The game takes the core ideas behind Nitronic Rush, and adds new elements such as multiplayer, a level editor, updated aesthetics, and more. The team recently turned to Kickstarter to fund the upcoming game, and we recently spoke with Refract's Jordan Hemenway to learn more about the ambitious project.
In the following interview, Hemenway offers plenty of details on Distance, while also noting why his team went independent after graduation, what it's been like to transition away from school, and much more.
To start off, what have you all been up to since finishing Nitronic Rush?
After releasing it last Fall, we finished up our degrees at DigiPen Institute of Technology and continued to release major updates to the game every couple of months. Soon after graduating we set up our own company called Refract Studios and started development on a new game. Originally we were planning on doing a much simpler experimental project like some games we've done in the past (i.e. Solace, The Fourth Wall, Solstice). In the end though we decided that there was so much we didn't get to do with Nitronic Rush, and it's a great opportunity to continue innovating in arcade racing. We've been developing a prototype for a spiritual successor to Nitronic Rush called Distance, and we've already re-developed all of the original car's mechanics, several early multiplayer modes, and a brand new level editor.
Why go indie? Why not accept AAA job offers like other members of Team Nitronic?
In short, we're really passionate about creative control over our projects since we love to continually experiment and try crazy ideas. Starting our own studio gives us the ability to not only create something we're excited about everyday, but we can also bring others into a collaborative atmosphere designed with our core values in mind.
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WHITE RIVER JCT., Vt. and COLUMBIA, Md., Feb. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- This week three projects that groSolar constructed in Pennsylvania and New Jersey received awards, being recognized by industry leading associations for outstanding project results. The three projects, Longwood Gardens, Keystone Solar, and Camden Solar Center, were completed in 2012 and provide approximately 10 MW of solar capacity.
Longwood Gardens received both the Diamond Award Certificate in the Water and Storm Water category from the American Council of Engineering Companies' Pennsylvania Chapter and an Honorable Mention as an Outstanding Project by the Philadelphia Chapter of the PA Society of Professional Engineers. Longwood Gardens is a 1.5 MW project built at the international tourist destination in Pennsylvania. groSolar worked closely with Longwood Gardens and Pennoni Engineering to incorporate the solar modules into the natural beauty and landscape of the site. The main challenges of the project were the storm water management component of the solar modules and maintaining the national topography of the site. groSolar constructed a rain garden around the modules and meadow grasses were planted to manage the storm water runoff. The award was accepted by members of the involved partners of Pennoni Engineering, Ecogy Solar who is the owner of the system, and groSolar at a ceremony in Hershey, PA.
During the 2013 PV America East Conference, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) announced that the Keystone Solar Project won one of the three Photovoltaic Project of Distinction Awards. groSolar constructed the 6 MW Lancaster County, Pennsylvania solar farm on 30 acres without concrete to avoid soil disturbance and allow removal at the end of the project life. The project was developed by Community Energy in close collaboration with the local farming community and township officials, and will be maintained with selected cover vegetation to preserve and improve organic soil content.
The third project, Camden Solar Center, received an Honorable Mention, also announced by SEIA and SEPA at the PV America East Project of Distinctions Awards ceremony. The Camden Solar Center is a 1.8 MW solar array built entirely over top of open-water sewage treatment tanks. The structure spans six acres of open water tanks, and was designed to place solar modules over the tanks with a modified carport racking solution. As one of the most complex solar systems to date, a case study of the project was highlighted during a panel session presented by Frank Griffin, groSolar's Executive VP for Engineering and Construction, at the PV America conference. The Camden Solar Center is owned by Camden Solar Center LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Integrys Energy Services and was nominated by the project's developer HelioSage.
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Posted: Tue 21 May 2013, 14:08
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I'm mad about Non-PAE!!!
How can you not tell people this is non pae?
Puppy Distros are meant for old computers.
that is the point of them.
I'm fed up downloading megabytes of stuff only to find out it is useless on a Dell D505 Pentium M.
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Posted: Tue 21 May 2013, 14:39
Post subject: Read before you download
Just a suggestion. There are plenty of versions of Puppy. Read before you take your time to download. Some are PAE, some aren't. Thanks, Rob
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Posted: Tue 21 May 2013, 16:19
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Hmm, I was unaware that the whole point of Puppy was to keep old computers going. Thanks for setting me straight. What should I use in new computers?
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Posted: Tue 21 May 2013, 18:06
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Flash wrote:
What should I use in new computers?
Your credit card.
Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
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Posted: Tue 21 May 2013, 20:13
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Most Puppies ARE non-PAE, and that is why it works so well on most old computers.
Some of the newest Puppies have both PAE and non-PAE builds, and it is usually pretty clearly labelled as such.
What did you download?
What are you looking for? For an older machine like that, have a look at Wary or Classic Pup.
Hope that helps
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Posted: Tue 21 May 2013, 20:49
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rjbrewer wrote:
Flash wrote:
What should I use in new computers?
Your credit card.
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Posted: Tue 21 May 2013, 21:19
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R-S-H wrote:
rjbrewer wrote:
Flash wrote:
What should I use in new computers?
Your credit card.
I agree
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Posted: Wed 22 May 2013, 01:16
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The Puppy Development community works very hard to generate General Purpose 32bit distros for our use.
It appears you may have just joined the forum. So, you "may" be new here.
For about the last 3 years many/most Puppy developers have been sharing the "target" PC they expect for the distros they build for community consumption. Since there is no "standard format" of announcing this, sometimes, we have to dig a little to get that understanding.
Last year, this community made major efforts in transistioning distros to work in 2 major areas for General Purpose 32bit Puppy systems:
Most, now, build a 32bit version that seems to work very well on PCs from 512MB to 4GB. This is labeled sometimes as "4G" and other times as non-PAE.
And many distro builders also make a 32bit version which will work on any PC since 1995 which comes with the Intel PAE spec.
The older distros too, as couple members have already shared in this thread, do "work" on the older hardware...still.
In an effort to help you I see that your laptop has one of these CPU:
Intel® Pentium M® Processors up to 735 (1.70 Ghz, 2MB L2 cache);
Intel® Pentium M® Processors up to 1.60 Ghz (1MB L2 cache);
Intel® Celeron M® Processors up to 340 (1.50 Ghz, 512KB L2 cache)
There is no conspiracy active in this community nor is there attempts to purposely hide information for any greater purpose. In fact, this, I believe, is the reason the distro developers began sharing the targeted platforms that they expect their builds will run comfortably on. I think many test this to insure accuracy of their recommendations. Thus they try to help people, like us, to understand what the distro is intended for.
The PAE development is designed, specifically, to extend the system configurations that PUPs can run on....not to limit Puppy Linux. Over 99% of the CPUs built by AMD and Intel have PAE. Thats a lot of millions of PCs since 1995.
The community can help you, should you want its help. So I will take a step to ask a couple of key questions such that members here can share good information to help
Question that we need answers to better help you
Which of the above processors do you have on the D505?
How much RAM do you have on the D505?
What Operating System were you running BEFORE you signed into the forum on the D505?
If you are running ANY Linux,
open a terminal,
type the following, and
post the results, along with the above questions
to us here in the forum.
# uname -a
# grep flags /proc/cpuinfo
Should you want help, please share the answers to all the questions and also post the results of the above commands.
You can trust that members, here, will assist with a better understanding from you.
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Posted: Wed 22 May 2013, 09:43
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Been using Wary on my Pentium M machine for a long time.
Trying the just released Precise 5.6.
Just as good; if not better.
Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs
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Posted: Wed 22 May 2013, 10:07
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regarding the new precise, I have it installed on a lenovo t500 and it seems much faster then earlier versions
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Posted: Wed 22 May 2013, 11:12
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gcmartin wrote:
There is no conspiracy active in this community nor is there attempts to purposely hide information for any greater purpose.
Perhaps we should start one. Only folks who know to read this forum can be let in on our secret plan to take over the world by providing software designed to run very well and be easy to use on different machines and thus force those who try to sell competing software out of business.
I did think of an idea that is slightly above my skill level to make life easier for folks with hardware we did not expect to be run on.
When puppy comes up the first time, it tries to go straight into running with the hardware it thinks is there. It may be worth it to add a text mode dialog just before this that says something like this:
We have looked at this machine and think we know what hardware is installed. Based on what we see, we are about to start using your video card etc.
Some brands of computers have hardware that looks like one thing but in fact is something else. If the screen goes black and stays that way for several minutes, it is safe to just reset the computer and try again. Your hard drive is not touched.
Is this a case of you trying again?
If the answer yes is given each wizard can be run with perhaps an extra line of text suggesting they may try a different setting.
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Posted: Wed 22 May 2013, 12:49
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I agree with "Moose on the Loose".
We should all conspire to make the (computer) world more transparent.
Like in compiz-fusion or something.
(Now where in h... did flash put that tongue-in-cheek icon...)
Je suis né pour aimer et non pas pour haïr. (Sophocle) /
I was born to love and not to hate. (Sophocles)
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Posted: Wed 22 May 2013, 19:35
Post subject: THANKS
Thanks for those who posted the genuinely helpful answers.
Sorry ,it was 3 in the morning (Non compos mentis)!
Thanks again for the helpful pointers.
Shouldn't we ask the "Linux Community" to state pae or non pae on all releases?
I'm using Fakepae with one my of Ubuntu spinoffs and it seems to work ok.
Sadly it's not recognized at the bios level when first booting other distros i like to check out.
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donkeymilk wrote:
Shouldn't we ask the "Linux Community" to state pae or non pae on all releases?
I think that makes perfect sense.
personally i think pae is dumb. if you have 4gb or more you are probably running a 64bit cpu so you should use a 64bit os.
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Posted: Tue 04 Jun 2013, 18:35
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The laptop mentioned by @Donkeymilk is only 32bit.
PAE does NOT degrade Puppy LInux behavior should he choose to use it. Its not a question of PAE or non-PAE on the 99% of all 32bit capable PCs since 1995. There really are a very few PCs-laptops that are NOT PAE capable NO MATTER HOW MUCH RAM you have. PAE Is not and never was a 4GB or greater technology. Its a memory-addressing technology BUILT-IN the hardware (CPU) of the PC. Thus, the pre-1995 technology (non-PAE) works and the post-1995 hardware technology (known as PAE) works TOO with NO drawbacks to either of the 2,
So, if you have a PAE capable PC/laptop,
its your choice
when a developer offers you a choice.
The primary reason developers offer PAE capability is that they KNOW that a PAE distro will work NO MATTER HOW MUCH RAM you have. from 384MB (some distros) to as much as you can get the BIOS to use. And, Puppy is designed to incorporate all of that memory into its RAM file system for productive user use. For non-PAE distros, the same use exist,
, the amount of RAM is limited. Again, both of these work will work on a PAE capable PC, without issue or drawbacks.
This is the technology. Its not a feeling.
Either, will probably work on your laptop. @Donkeymilk, use your discretion. On some distros, if you do NOT have a PAE laptop/PC, you will get a message indicating this when you try to boot. Otherwise, it will "just boot to desktop".
This is offer to help in understanding. Its, simply, for informational purposes.
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Jones wasn't about to use the D word.
The D word would be dynasty and it is definitely off-limits around Alabama. But make no mistake, if the second-ranked Crimson Tide can beat No. 1 Notre Dame on Monday night in Miami it will become the first team to win consecutive BCS championships and join a select list of college football programs with three national titles in four years.
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Mount St. Joseph Academy parent Ted Hagedorn, who has coached the last three championship teams in the Philadelphia/Suburban Women's NCAA Summer Basketball League, is back among the final four in the playoffs again this year.
Hagedorn's Team Gold, with almost an entirely different roster from his Lime Green squad that took the 2012 title, posted a 57-46 victory in last Thursday's quarterfinal round of games, knocking out a sixth-seeded Purple squad that includes 2013 Germantown Academy graduate Kiernan McCloskey.
The only returning player from the group guided by Hagedorn in 2012 is his daughter, Elle, a Mount alum who graduated from Harvard University in May. This summer she's playing alongside a pair of 2012 Mount St. Joe grads, Bridget Higgins and Maddie Kohler. Both are currently playing college ball, Higgins at the University of Pittsburgh and Kohler at St. Mary's College in Indiana.
Seeded third for the eight-team summer league tournament, Team Gold got through the first stage but won't find it easy to make it back to the finals this week. Their semifinal opponent is the White team, which is seeded one spot higher and which defeated Gold head-to-head, 67-51, back on July 9.
The most significant feather in the Gold girls' cap is a 68-61 regular-season victory over top-seeded Hunter Green. Hunter is lined up in the other semifinal against Team Maroon, staffed mainly by players from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. UScienes is a Division II program that is a member of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference along with Chestnut Hill College and two other Philly schools, Philadelphia University and Holy Family University.
Prior to the start of the league tournament with last Thursday's quarterfinals, Team Gold stumbled in its final regular-season outing on Tuesday evening, falling by a count of 55-49 to Team Red, the fifth seed for the playoffs. For teams that ended up ranked in the last five places in the 13-team league, Tuesday was the end of the line.
That proved to be the case for Team Black, which is driven by a band of Philly U. players that includes 2011 GA grad Monica Schacker. Another former Patriot, Fran Sweeney (2013), played for a Royal Blue team that also missed the cut for the postseason in the NCAA League.
The first result from the last night of regular-season play was known well beforehand, since the Royal Blue team that includes GA's Sweeney (who is going on to Emory University) phoned in a forfeit to Hunter Green. Hunter, which features two former Girls Inter-Ac stars from the Academy of Notre Dame, entered the playoffs ranked first with an 11-1 record.
Team White was also 11-1, but they had lost to Hunter, 66-60, back on July 10. The league's first tiebreaker between teams with identical records is the result of their head-to-head meeting.
Going into their regular-season finale on Tuesday, neither Team Gold nor their Team Red rivals could move up or down in the standings, regardless of the outcome. Even if third-place Gold had won and number two White had lost to give both franchises records of 10-2, White would get the higher seed because of its aforementioned victory over Gold. Likewise, even with the loss that produced a 9-3 record on Tuesday, Gold was still ahead of number four Maroon, which had a bye that evening and was already locked in with a mark of 8-4.
Red's victory also made them 8-4, but they could not move up out of fifth because they had lost to Maroon earlier in the season. If both Red and sixth-place Purple had each ended up at 7-5, which was a possibility, Red still would've been fifth because it owned the tiebreaker over Purple.
Composed mostly of athletes from Division III University of Scranton, Red received some much-needed height in the league draft when it was dealt a pair of Lafayette College players, six-foot Kelly Loughney and 6'3" Emily Homan.
Both of them had played for Coach Hagedorn's league championship team back in 2011, as had Team Red point guard Lindsay Fluehr. Fluehr, now halfway through her tenure at Scranton, is an old Mount St. Joe adversary from Nazareth Academy.
Five early points from Homan staked Red to a 7-3 lead three minutes into the game, but Gold charged back with six straight points from 5'11" guard Natasha Cloud (Cardinal O'Hara/St. Joseph's U.), who hit a lay-up and a free throw, followed by a three-pointer. She would emerge as Gold's leading scorer, even though all of her 11 points came in the first half. The period ended with her squad ahead, 25-21.
With St. Joseph's post player Sarah Fairbanks starting to score inside and with a three-pointer and a shorter jumper from Swarthmore's Jessica "Rowdy" Jowdy, Gold spread the score to 34-26 four minutes into the second period. Led by Homan and Fluehr, Red began chipping away at its deficit until the margin was down to just a single point (39-38) and Gold called a time-out with 5:08 left in the game.
A traditional three-point play crafted by Homan moved Red ahead for the first time since the opening phase of the contest, and subsequently the teams were tied at 43 and 45-all. Team Red took the lead for good with a lay-up by Homan, and Fluehr backed that up with two made free throws with 29 ticks on the clock.
Gold got one point back on a foul shot by Fairbanks to make it 49-46, then two perfect one-and-one performances by Homan boosted the lead to seven points with 11 seconds left. Gold appeared to have one last gasp remaining when Elle Hagedorn hooped a three-point shot from the right flank with six seconds to go, but then a flawless one-and-one by Scranton sharpshooter Jaclyn Gantz sealed the victory for Red.
Gantz had made three treys earlier in the evening and finished with 11 points, while Homan led all scorers with 18 points and Fluehr put up 13.
Close behind Cloud in scoring for Gold, Fairbanks finished with 10 points and Hagedorn had nine. Jowdy came away with seven points and MSJ grad Kohler contributed five.
On the courts to either side of the Red-Gold encounter, Team Black and Team Kelly Green were playing different opponents while vying with each other for the last berth in the eight-team playoff bracket. Black had a tough task in facing Team White, but even with a loss, they could join the postseason party as long as Kelly Green also went down to defeat. Following that scenario, both teams would've had 4-8 records and Black would've gotten the nod thanks to its win over Kelly exactly a week earlier.
Black indeed ran into trouble in what proved to be its final game, as confident, second-ranked White quickly separated themselves by double digits and kept on rolling. In the 82-52 victory, the winners marked down 22 points for Jasmine Elum (Bodine H.S./Bethune-Cookman) and 20 for former Holy Family star Catherine Carr. GA grad Schacker ended her summer season with a team high 11 points, and 10 points were added by a former Catholic Academies athlete, Villa Joseph Marie's Mary Newell.
Meanwhile, three more products of the Academies League were helping Kelly Green (mostly Holy Family players) dash the playoff hopes of Team Black. In a 62-54 win over Orange (2-10), Kelly Green received 16 points from Erin Fenningham and nine from Mary Ellen McCollum, both from St. Basil's, and 14 points from Villa Joe alum Carolyne Heston.
In the quarterfinal round two nights later, number six Team Purple found it tough to stop the 6'2" Fairbanks from the Gold team. She led all scorers with 21 points while Cloud came away with 10. Former Mounties Hagedorn (five points) and Higgins (three points) each canned a three-point field goal in the winning cause.
GA alum McCloskey ended her summer season with an 11-point effort for the Purple pack. That allowed her to share team-high honors with guard Megan Gallagher, a former St. Basil's player who now has one more year with the team at DeSales University.
In other quarterfinals action, Hunter Green rolled past Kelly Green, 85-64, as Notre Dame grad Kathleen Fitzpatrick and former Archbishop Carroll standout Erin Shields each booked five three–point field goals and a total of 19 points. Shields has one more year left at St. Joseph's University, while Fitzpatrick will be a new arrival on Hawk Hill next month. St. Basil alums McCollum and Fenningham scored 19 and 16 points, respectively, in Kelly Green's swansong.
White whipped number seven Sky Blue (chiefly West Chester University athletes), 61-39, as Carr collected 16 points and a team-high 17 was credited to Abington High alum Emily Lear, who is halfway through her tenure at Villanova. White's defense contained one of the league's top scorers, Sky's Brittany Sicinski (Downingtown West), holding her to just eight points.
In the tussle involving the fourth and fifth seeds, Maroon recorded its second win of the summer over Team Red, this time prevailing by an even dozen, 60-48. The winners were led by Brianne Traub, a USciences guard who regularly beats up on Chestnut Hill College in collegiate competition. Forward Sarah Payonk, who is entering the University of Scranton after helping Spring Ford High School win the Class AAAA state championship, scored 16 points in the final appearance for Red.


text: Suddenly is the name of the small town invaded by professional assassin Frank Sinatra and his henchmen. Taking a local family hostage, Sinatra sets up a vigil at the second-story window of the family's home. From here, he intends to kill the President of the United States when the latter makes a whistle-stop visit. The film's tension level is enough to induce goose pimples from first scene to last. Sinatra is outstanding as the disgruntled war vet who hopes to become a somebody by killing the president. The parallels between his character and Lee Harvey Oswald's are too close for comfort, so much so that Suddenly was withdrawn from local TV packages for several years after the JFK assassination. Sinatra would claim in later years that he himself engineered the removal of Suddenly from general distribution, though in fact he'd lost whatever rights he'd held on the film when it lapsed into public domain. Be sure and miss the notorious colorized version of this black-and-white thriller, wherein Sinatra is transformed into Ol' Brown Eyes.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide


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The weather in Vancouver may be proving too, well, grey for the producers of this year's hottest movie franchise, "Fifty Shades Of Grey".
According to reports by EFE, a Spanish news agency, Vancouver-based shooting has been suspended for two weeks in favour of the sunnier climes of Miami.
"The downtown Miami skyline looks a lot like downtown Vancouver," production company representatives said, according to The West Australian.
But the blockbuster book's author, E.L. James remains in Vancouver, Global News reports, noting that the Miami Film Office has not issued nor been asked for shooting permits by the "Fifty Shades" team.
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