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Jahira Smith (Brooklyn, NY) may be having the best all-around year for any Lady Knights basketball player in CCRI History. She is currently ranked No. 4 in NJCAA Division II basketball in assists with 4.3 per game. Smith is also ranked in two other categories nationally No. 24 in assists with 4.7 per game and No. 28 in scoring with 17.1 points per game. In her freshman campaign She shattered the CCRI single-season steals with 128 steals as far surpassing the record of 93 set by Lauren Harrington. Before semester break Jahira had already surpassed Denise Scott's mark of 162 with relative ease. From there she has simply put that mark out of reach and is the only Lady Knight to ever register over 200 steals for her career. Smith currently has 209 steals for her career. In her freshman year she also set the sing-season assist record with 183 assists surpassing Nicole Girard whom had 156. Smiths' next game she will break the CCRI career assists record of 274 also set by Girard. Smith has 273 so far in her career. But "Jah" will not stop there as she also has two more records clearly in her sights before the end of the season. With 156 career free-throws Smith needs to make 28 more to surpass Jerilynn Johnson who had 183 for her career. Also lastly but certainly not least smith has 827 career points and with just 23 more she will pass Jerilynn Johnson on the All-time scoring list with 850 points. The Lady Knights have eight regular season games left and if she scored 130 points or 16.25 points per game she will move into the No. 1 spot on the CCRI All-time scoring list surpassing Amanda Ward who scored 965 during the 2003-05 seasons. Another feat clearly within her grasp as Smith averages 17.1 points per game on the season.
Desmond Williams (Torrington, CT) has had an excellent sophomore campaign for the Knights He is currently ranked No. 6 in scoring by the NJCAA in Division II basketball averaging 22.3 points per game. In the process, he has moved into fifth place on the CCRI All-time scoring list with an excellent week last week. He came into the week with 1,029 career points and ranked 11th on the CCRI scoring list. In the Knights' game versus the Wyverns of Quinsigamond Community College from Worcester, MA Desmond scored 17 points to move past Bob Brooks (1,032), Greg Simoneau (1,036), current CCRI assistant coach, Pat Dame (1,040) and Doug Haynes (1,043). Going into the game versus Division I power Globe institute Williams had 1,046 points and was ranked No. 7 on the CCRI all-time dropped 31 to move past Rob Singleton (1,056) and Ken McDonald (1,058) to move into the top five on the CCRI All-time scoring list with 1,077 career points. Williams can move into the four spot with just 62 points to pass Willie Washington who has 1,138 career points. The Knights have nine regular season games left so he should have no trouble surpassing Washington. However, the Knights will need to make a run in the post season if Williams is to score 264 points to surpass Rick Santos in the No. 3 spot on the scoring list with 1,340 career points. That potential future is not out of the realm of possibility for the Knights who made it to the NJCAA Division II National Championship game last year.
Warwick, R.I. – January 21, 2012: The CCRI Knights traveled to the Bronx NY to take on Division I Knights of Globe Institute. The Knights of CCRI came away with a thrilling 96-94 victory. With the victory CCRI improves to 13-8 on the season.
The game was a tight match-up between two athletic, high-scoring teams. CCRI used their full court pressure defense and a couple of 3-point bombs by Sophomore Co-Captain Steve Bevilacqua (Exeter, RI) to pull away to a 44-38 half time lead. The second half was truly a great half of basketball to watch as the teams stayed within six points of each other the entire half. CCRI's trio of Bevilacqua and Sophomore Co-Captains Desmond Williams (Torrington, CT) and Bryan Yarce (Cranston, RI) traded baskets with Globe's outside scoring tandem of Tom Moore and Devon Walker on each possession. CCRI scored on a put back layup by Freshman Pat Marchand (Cranston, RI) to go ahead 96-92 with 10 seconds left in the game but fouled Globe's Tim Jackson on a 3-point attempt with 5.9 seconds on the clock. Jackson hit two of three free throws to bring the lead to two points at 96-94. CCRI was fouled on their final possession but missed both free throws. CCRI led by two points with 3.5 seconds on the game clock the Knights forced a missed Globe's desperation last second shot to secure the victory. CCRI's win was their first this season over a Division I opponent. The Knights have arguably the toughest NJCAA DII schedule in the country with seven Division I teams on it.
CCRI was led by its four Sophomore Co-Captains. Desmond Williams scored 31 points with seven rebounds and five steals and Steve Bevilacqua scored a career-high 23 points including a career-high six long range 3-point bombs. The 31 points for Williams moves him into fifth place on the CCRI All-time scoring list with 1,077 career points ahead of Ken McDonald who scored 1,058. The other two Sophomore Co-Captains, Bryan Yarce scored 19 points and dished out a game-high nine assists, and Isaac Medeiros (Johnston, RI) charted a double-double scoring 12 points and ripping down 10 boards.
The Knights host Roxbury Community College form Roxbury, MA Thursday night at 7:00pm at the Vincent A. Cullen Fieldhouse. The game can also be seen on Cox On Demand throughout the month.
Warwick, R.I. – January 21, 2012: The No.11 ranked CCRI Lady Knights basketball team hosted the Colts of Orange County Community College from Middletown, NY on Saturday. The Lady Knights defeated the Colts 88-32. With the victory the Lady Knights improve to 17-2 on the season.
The Lady Knights dominated the game from the beginning and took a 42-24 lead into halftime. CCRI kicked their defensive pressure up a notch in the second half and limited the Colts to just eight second half points as they cruised to the 88-32 victory.
Leading the way for the Lady Knights was Lexi Barros (New Bedford) with 18 points, six rebounds, eight assists and six steals and Co-Captain Jahira Smith (Brooklyn, NY) charted a double-double with 16 points and 14 rebounds while adding eight steals, and seven assists. With 273 career assists Smith needs just two assists to pass Nicole Girard (274) on the CCRI All-time assist list. Also helping the Lady Knights was Moe Plummer (Fairfield, CT) with 15 points five rebounds, three steals, and three assists and Nyjah Porcher (New Britain, CT) just missed a double;-double scoring 15 points with nine rebounds. Alexis Tripodo led Orange County with 15 points (all in first half).
The Lady Knights are back in action Saturday the 26th at1:00pm when they host the Lions of Nassau Community College at the Vincent A. Cullen Fieldhouse located on the CCRI Knight Campus in Warwick.
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Yay! Chocolate Chip Cookies…Gluten Free
I had a sweet tooth really badly the other day, and thought I would try some gluten free baking. Well the cookies didn't turn out very well, they were pretty much like hockey pucks. So last night I was determined to make them better, and they were. It was a success, to the point I did a happy dance in my kitchen.
Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 cup (stick) margarine or butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 large egg
1 1/4 cup almond flour
1 cup gluten free all purpose flour (Bob's Red Mill)
1/4 teaspoon Xanthan Gum
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup coarsely chopped nuts
2 cups chocolate chips
~ Heat oven to 375°
~ Mix sugars, butter, egg and vanilla in bowl. Stir in flours, Xanthan Gum, baking soda, and salt (dough will be stiff). Stir in nuts and chocolate chips.
~ Place rounded spoonfuls of dough about two inches apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
~ Bake cookies 8-10 minutes or until light brown (centers will be soft).
~ Cool and transfer from cookie sheet to wire rack.

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Nintendo of America, as part of the company's 25th anniversary celebrations for The Legend of Zelda, got the team at iam8bit to dress up a room in the fashion of the series.
They didn't disappoint.
Look at those murals! The grass! The rupee cushions!
Incidentally, did you know that Nintendo of America's headquarters is split into themes like this? There are entire areas of the building decorated in the style of famous franchises, yet they don't let anyone take pictures of it. Go figure.
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Ha Ha!! I love when Brooklyn's mouth gets almost "stuck" like that So cute.
Too cute! I've got one of Bailey where his mouth is doing that too. It makes him look like he just said, " I swear it wasn't me mom."
Chelsea gives me the lip look a lot. Always makes me laugh.
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So cute! Our ShihTzu's upper lip would get caught like that and we called it his 'Elvis snerl'. (Just google "Elvis snarl" and you'll see.....)
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ESPN SportsCenter purists who long for the days of Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann's dry witticism- infused sports highlights should now rejoice at their cubicles until your employer calls security and has you escorted out of the building.
According to NBC Sports, Patrick will reunite with Olbermann as part of NBC Sports "Football Night In America" broadcast starting this fall. Yes, it's true: Patrick and Olbermann will tag-team the highlights and, once again, unleash their highly-evolved brain power upon an unsuspecting sports nation. But it's not the 90's anymore. Can these two recapture the magic (and the mustache) they once shared without the show devolving into some egocentric meta-ranting designed only to amuse themselves? Will the suits at NBC worry that the non-reading football audience will feel too stupid to watch?
It's time to dust off your library cards, America.
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Major highways are U.S. 167 and 270. Located in timber country, just south of Little Rock, it is a vibrant and growing place, with an award-winning museum, wonderful schools, beautiful homes, a golf course and some of the best hunting and fishing Arkansas has to offer. We love being here and calling this our home.


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This recipe is adapted from Plentyby Yotam Ottolenghi, and I think my readers will know by now that this is one of the most treasured books on my shelf. It's all vegetarian too. I dare say that Ottolenghi, who is not himself a vegetarian, produces more vibrant, yet straightforward, vegetarian recipes than many of us vegetarians. I've had my eye on these pancakes every since I cracked open the covers and can't believe I didn't get to making them until now. Savory pancakes are a weakness of mine, especially when you want to make things a bit more decadent by slathering on some freshly made zesty lime butter. Elegance awaits you and Ottolenghi never disappoints — such a masterful and fresh approach to accessible and familiar staples.
You'll have plenty of lime butter leftover that will keep in the refrigerator and can be used to enhance the flavor of steamed or roasted vegetables, mashed potatoes, or any other foods that strike your fancy.
|Spinach Pancakes with Lime Butter
|Recipe by Lisa Turner
Adapted from Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes From London's Ottolenghi
Published on March 10, 2013
Colorful, fragrant and delicious lightly spiced spinach pancakes served with a zesty homemade lime butter
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More saovry pancakes you are sure to enjoy from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:
Vietnamese Pancakes with Vegetables, Herbs and a Fragrant Dipping Sauce (Bánh Xèo)
Spicy Potato Pancakes
Vanilla Oat Pancakes
Chickpea Flour Pancakes (Pudla) with Crushed Peas, Ginger, Chilies and Cilantro
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"If we don't understand what is natural, I don't think we can say much about what the humans are doing. So our interest is to understand – first the natural variability of climate – and then take it from there. So we were very excited when we realized a lot of changes in the past century from warmer to cooler and then back to warmer were all natural." –Dr. Anastasios Tsonis, climate researcher at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Trucking needs to step up its presence in the climate change debate, especially now that more evidence is coming to light that the current global warming and cooling patterns we're experiencing may not be so heavily driven by us humans as previously thought.
Let's start with the recent study from the researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UW-Milwaukee). Scientists at the university used a math application known as "synchronized chaos" and applied it to climate data taken over the past 100 years.
In essence, using that formula should that the weather changes we're experiencing are far more "natural" than many currently believe – meaning a lot of anti-global warming efforts, such as reducing power plant emissions via a "cap-and-trade" system, might not amount to a hill of beans in terms of their impact on the world's climate systems.
[For a good explanation of how a "cap-and-trade" system works, check out the video below. Jeremy Symons, the National Wildlife Federation's Senior Vice President of conservation and education, provides a good, simple overview of how it might function.]
"Imagine that you have four synchronized swimmers and they are not holding hands and they do their program and everything is fine; now, if they begin to hold hands and hold hands tightly, most likely a slight error will destroy the synchronization. Well, we applied the same analogy to climate," said UW-Milwaukee Researcher Dr. Anastasios Tsonis.
His team's analysis of the past century of climate data concludes that the air and ocean systems of the earth are now showing signs of synchronizing with each other. Eventually, the systems begin to couple and the synchronous state is destroyed, leading to a climate shift.
"In climate, when this happens, the climate state changes. You go from a cooling regime to a warming regime or a warming regime to a cooling regime," he noted in a recent interview. "This way we were able to explain all the fluctuations in the global temperature trend in the past century. The research team has found the warming trend of the past 30 years has stopped and in fact global temperatures have leveled off since 2001."
Tsonis believes the last climate shift point occurred in 2000 according to his data, said he thinks the current trend of steady or even cooling earth temps may last a couple of decades or until the next climate shift occurs.
This isn't the first time the "orthodoxy on global warming" has been seriously questioned, either. Columnist Lorne Gunter with the National Post of Canada noted this in a story last October that the number of climate change skeptics is growing rapidly because "a funny thing is happening to global temperatures – they're going down, not up."
He pointed to research by Brazilian Meteorologist Eugenio Hackbart that on Sept. 5 last year, areas of southern Brazil were recording one of their latest winter snowfalls ever and entering what turned out to be their coldest September in a century. Hackbart went on to explain that extreme cold or snowfall events in Brazil has always been tied to "a negative PDO" or Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Positive PDOs – the famed "El Nino" – produce above-average temperatures in South America while negative ones – La Ninas – produce below average ones.
Gunter added that Hackbart also noted periods of solar inactivity known as "solar minimums" magnify cold spells on his continent. So, given that August 2008 was the first month since 1913 in which no sunspot activity was recorded – none – and during which solar winds were at a 50-year low, he was not surprised that Brazilians were suffering (for them) a brutal cold snap. "This is no coincidence," he said as he scoffed at the notion that manmade carbon emissions had more impact than the sun and oceans on global climate.
Gunter also pointed to work by Don Easterbrook, a geologist at Western Washington University, that global cooling – not warming – is the trend our planet is facing. "It's practically a slam dunk that we are in for about 30 years of global cooling," as the sun enters a particularly inactive phase, Easterbrook said. His examination of warming and cooling trends over the past four centuries shows an "almost exact correlation" between climate fluctuations and solar energy received on Earth, while showing almost "no correlation at all with CO2 (carbon dioxide)," noted Gunter.
Michael J. Myers of Hilton Head, S. C. – an analytical chemist who works in spectroscopy and atmospheric sensing – is another global warming skeptic Gunter brought to light.
"Man-made global warming is junk science," explained Myers, pointing out that worldwide manmade CO2 emission each year "equals about 0.0168% of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration ... This results in a 0.00064% increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number."
Now, with all this in mind, do we just discard any and all efforts to reduce pollution of our air by factories, cars, trucks, boats, planes, etc.? No, not all.
What we need to do, however, is address how FAST we need to make changes – as in maybe the rapid nine-year emission reduction effort the U.S. trucking industry is in the midst of could have been slowed down a ways to reduce pre-buys and other economically damaging side effects. That may be the real lesson we learn if global cooling turns out to be the trend line we're facing.


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Find out how to distinguish amoung the varieties of laminating, the films on the market today and learn what criteria to consider when matching overlaminates with your applications.
What do laminating films have in common with an algebraic expression like 3x + 1 = 10? The process of selecting film is not as finite as the solution to this equation, but the process does involve an "x" factor of its own. When determining what laminating film will best satisfy your needs, you must consider all the variables. But what are the variables? How do you solve for "x"?
Before we get out the calculators and No. 2 pencils, it's important to ask the following question: Why laminate in the first place? The simple answer is to increase your graphic's longevity and maintain its appearance. But there are other reasons to consider adding a laminating film:
• protection against ultraviolet (UV) light, which cause graphics to fade
• protection against fingerprints, cleaners, oils, etc.
• added color depth and vibrancy
• added rigidity for easy handling
Because screen printers already utilize UV inks, which makes the finished product inherently resistant to the elements, choosing a laminating film may be a whole new equation. But even in screen printing there are those prints that require a little extra protection, such as applications in high-traffic areas that are susceptible to scratching. In addition, many screen printers are expanding their capabilities into large-format digital printing, which often requires the protection of a laminating film.
For any printer—screen, digital or otherwise—it is important to understand the variety of laminating films available and when each type should be used. In this article, we will focus on two types of laminating films: pressure sensitive and thermal. Both types are defined by how they are applied, and both have separate considerations that will give printers the look, feel, and durability the job requires.
Laying the groundwork
The first step in figuring out the "x" is a big one: determining what type of laminating equipment is available to you (Figure 1). Does the shop only have cold-roll laminating equipment, appropriate for pressure-sensitive films? Or does the laminator also have the ability to heat the rolls to 250°F, necessary for thermal-film application? Establishing this immediately narrows the laminating options to just pressure sensitive or to both pressure sensitive and thermal.
Here are a few questions a graphic supplier should ask to help in product selection:
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Barbara Walters to return to 'The View'
ABC's Barbara Walters hopes to be back to work in three weeks, she told "The View" on Wednesday.
Walters called into the show to share that although she's been feeling "weak and tired," she expects she'll be back on the air in a few weeks. And Walters — who fell and cut her head during inauguration weekend and then came down with the chicken pox — shared that on top of those ailments, she also got a concussion.
(Also on POLITICO: Dick Morris, 'The Worst Pundit of 2012')
"Hello my dolls, I miss you," Walters told her fellow co-hosts. "I am not only here – can you hear me? – but I watch you every day, I talk back to you, I complain to you, I join the hot topics, I do everything."
As for her return to the show, Walters said she is recovering and hopes to be back in about three weeks.
(PHOTOS: Best attacks on the media in 2012)
"I have been a little weak. I am not in any pain. I'm not scratching too much, I'm not itching away. But I do feel just sort of weak and tired, and I probably won't be back on the program for about three weeks," she said.


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Fascinating idea. I don't use a groundsheet though just a piece of foam and a poncho or tarp. I am very interested in this methods application for shelters.
Does anyone have any experience with a silicon adhesive and solvent mixture applied to raw or dwr treated nylon? Also would a thinner mixture be sufficient for an application in which the fabric does not come in contact with the ground and head pressure is not as much of an issue? How much does the coating change the pliability and fold of the fabric? so many questions maybe I should do multiple posts.


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CHAFFEE, Mo. (AP) — A highway overpass in southeast Missouri collapsed early Saturday when rail cars slammed into one of the bridge's pillars after a cargo train collision, authorities said. Seven people were injured, though none seriously.
The bridge collapsed after a Union Pacific train hit the side of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train at a rail intersection. Derailed rail cars then hit columns supporting the Highway M overpass, causing it to buckle and partially collapse.
The National Transportation Safety Board launched an investigation into the cause of the cargo train collision, which happened about 2:30 a.m. near Chaffee, a town of about 3,000 southwest of Cape Girardeau.
Only two vehicles were on the overpass at the time. Five people in the vehicles were taken to Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, as were a Union Pacific train conductor and an engineer. All seven had been released by Saturday afternoon, hospital spokeswoman Felecia Blanton said.
"You're driving down the road and the next thing you know the bridge is not there. ... It could have been really bad," Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter said.
The crash derailed dozens of rail cars hauling scrap metal, automobiles and auto parts, tossing them into the overpass' support columns. The highway was shut down for about 8 miles from Scott City to Chaffee.
The overpass was about 15 years old and in good condition but just couldn't withstand the impact from the rail cars, Walter said.
Two 40-foot sections of the overpass buckled while two cars were on the roadway, sending the cars into the edges of the collapsed sections. A diesel fire also broke out in one of the locomotives after the collision, but was quickly extinguished, Walter said.
When Blanton heard about the crash, she immediately went online and saw video footage of the scene and was bracing for the worst, Blanton said. She said it was "a real blessing" that the injuries were relatively minor, the most serious being a fracture.
"If you look at the pictures, they're very dramatic, and there are no serious injuries," she said. "So it's amazing."
Walter said Deputy Justin Wooten was among the first at the scene and pulled the two Union Pacific employees out of the wrecked engine, which became lodged next to the train's second engine. That engine began burning after the crash.
"We're very fortunate he was there," Walter said. He said all seven people injured were already out of the wreckage when he arrived about 15 minutes after the crash was reported.
"People were talking; they were coherent. They understood what was happening," Walter said.
The cars on the overpass "took a really bad hit" when they collided with the bridge sections, but "they stayed on all four tires and they just hit and landed and that was it," he said.
BNSF spokesman Andy Williams said the 75-car BNSF train, which was carrying scrap metal, was hit by the Union Pacific train about eight cars back from the locomotive. He said 12 cars on the BNSF train derailed.
"Our crew was not impacted," Williams said.
Union Pacific spokeswoman Calli Hite said the 60-car UP train was carrying primarily automobiles or auto parts from Illinois to Texas. She said about a dozen UP railcars derailed.
Hite said the NTSB will determine what caused the accident. He said there was no immediate estimate on the amount of damage to the roadway or the rail cars.
"We have no indication as to cause of the incident, but that will be handled by the NTSB," Hite said.
Williams said cleanup had not yet begun at mid-day Saturday because crews were waiting for the NTSB to arrive.
"We are fully cooperating with the NTSB, and we have to defer to their timeline," Hite said.
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CHAFFEE, Mo. (AP) — A highway overpass in southeast Missouri collapsed early Saturday when rail cars slammed into one of the bridge's pillars after a cargo train collision, authorities said. Seven people were injured, though none seriously.


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CRESTVIEW � It was Ragan Sowell's turn to shine for the Crestview High School softball team Friday afternoon. Sowell was 2-for-2 at the plate with a double, a single, three runs batted in and a run scored as the Bulldogs beat Marshall County Kent., 5-4.
CRESTVIEW � It was Ragan Sowell's turn to shine for the Crestview High School softball team Friday afternoon.
Sowell was 2-for-2 at the plate with a double, a single, three runs batted in and a run scored as the Bulldogs beat Marshall County (Ky.) 5-4.
Photo gallery >>> Crestview vs. Marshall County.
"It seems like some different is stepping up every game," Bulldog coach Kathy Combest said as Sowell took her turn in the spotlight. "Eventually they are all going to step up in the same game and put it all together."
Sowell got Crestview (16-8) on the scoreboard in the third inning with a 2-run double that scored Parys Alexander and Amber Bell.
Alexander reached base when she was hit by a pitch and went to second base on a wild pitch. Alexander advanced to third as Bell singled to left field.
Bell stole second base setting the table for Sowell's double that cleared the bases.
Sowell later scored as Taylor Rolison was safe on a Marshall County error.
Crestview added two more runs in the fourth inning.
Kayla Kelch led off the inning with a triple and Kristin Bufkin was hit by a pitch.
Bufkin then stole second drawing a throw that allowed Kelch to steal home completing the double steal.
A one-out single by Bell moved Bufkin to third. Sowell's second hit of the day scored Bufking to complete the Bulldog scoring.
As the Bulldogs were wrapping up their scoring the Marshals were just getting started.
Marshal County scored three runs in the fifth to close the Bulldog lead to two. Two of the runs came on a rare 2-run sacrifice fly as Bulldog right fielder Molly Woodward made an acrobatic diving catch, but was unable to right herself in time to throw out Breanne Ray, who was on second at the time the ball as hit.
Combest appealed the play saying Ray left second base early, but the umpires denied the appeal and Ray's run stood.
A solo home run by Ray with one out in the top of the seventh cut the Crestview lead to 5-4.
Marshall County continued to threaten as Abby Fiessinger and Payton Smothers singled. The game ended with Fiessinger and Smothers on base as Crestview pitcher Taylor Rolison struck out by Caitlyn York and Toni Fehrenbacher on called third strikes to end the game.
Rolison went the distance in the circle to pick up the win for Crestview. The freshman pitcher gave up eight hits, struck out eight and walked one Marshall County batter.
"I'm just so pleased with our defensive plays and our heads up plays," Combest said. "That girl (Ray) didn't touch second (on sac fly in the fifth), but they didn't lose their cool.
"What I'm seeing in these girls that I didn't see in the beginning is they are confident and they are confident in me. They like that I'm positive and that I'm on them and that's what is turning the around."
Randy Dickson is the Crestview News Bulletin�s sports editor. Email him at email@example.com, tweet him @BigRandle, or call 682-6524.


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Welcome to this ongoing prenatal yoga class @ Quaker Meeting House, Leytonstone.
You will be taught how to become relaxed, calm and centered in yourself throughout your pregnancy in preparation for the birth.
Women from 12-weeks pregnant are encouraged to come and learn basic techniques on breath control, postural and body awareness; gain strength of body and mind. Meet local women and gain lasting friendships.
Arlene Dunkley-Wood is a specialist birth worker with over 2 decades experience in helping and supporting women through all types of birth experiences. She is still very much passionate about the empowerment of women in the birth space. This is key to her way of teaching.
" Thank you Arlene, for giving me confidence in my body and ability to give birth and for teaching us how to manage labour pain. In the end the only pain relief I used was breathing and the birthing pool.
You'll be glad to hear that I'll be aiming for a home birth if I have another baby, as I think staying at home for so long helped me relax."


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Mayor: Minneapolis Can Handle Another Super Bowl
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The mayor of Minneapolis says a new Minnesota Vikings stadium puts the city in a position to host another Super Bowl.
Mayor R.T. Rybak says Minneapolis put on a great show for the Super Bowl in 1992, and with a new, first-class stadium, it would be even better the second time around.
Convention Center officials say the Super Bowl is now an event that can last two weeks and pumps hundreds of millions of dollars into a local economy. An announcement on which city will get the Super Bowl in 2018 won't be made until the spring of next year.
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Location: Toronto, Canada
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:52 pm
Post subject: Old Bay Seasoning Recipes
After reading Clotilde's post about the Old Bay seasoning that she received from Alicia, I decided to look for it when I was in Boston in May. I was out shopping today looking for the Bed of Roses rub that she mentioned as well when I came across the Old Bay. So I snatched it up. Only thing is, when I went back to read the comments, everyone was offering up their love of Old Bay and crabs. Well, I HATE crabs and all other crustaceans so I'm thinking just sprinkle it on some white fish and throw that on the grill.
Does anyone have any favourite recipes using Old Bay they'd like to share for a newbie?
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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 11:43 pm
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Try it next time you make fried chicken! No, really. Everyone has their favorite fried chicken batter recipe. The standard coating is usually flour, salt and pepper, preceded by a dip in either milk or buttermilk. Next time you make fried chicken--and I'm assuming you do, unless you're not fond of poultry either--try adding some Old Bay seasoning to taste in the flour mixture in place of the salt and pepper.
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:46 pm
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I love corn on the cob with a lime squeezed over it and sprinkled with Old Bay. It's also good with zatar. I always bring corn on the cob when I go camping, which is often in the summer.
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Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:17 pm
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my fav is to sprinkle liberally onto just peeled raw shrimp, saute on fairly hi heat in olive oil with garlic & rosemary, add lemon & voila.....eat alone, wrapped in a warm tortilla (beware of dripping juices) or even room temp
also can be quite tasty on strips of chix ...season & cook same as above...I go thru cans of old bay very fast (my husband even sprinkles on the "rat" cheese he puts on crackers)
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:07 pm
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I sprinkled it very liberally on some talapia I did in the oven on the weekend. Very nice. Makes a bit of a crispy coating. Love the corn idea! It's getting to that season so will definitely have to try that.
of Old Bay? Mine came in a plastic jar and had the McCormack's logo so I'm questioning it's authenticity. Will have to hit a grocery store when I'm in Boston and pick some up to do a proper compare.
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:56 pm
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Tammy.....the authentic Old Bay comes in a can ...there is even a huge size.....but anything that says "chesapeake bay style seasoning" probably has the same ingredients....haven't seen a mcCormick version around here, but everyone uses the one in the yellow can with red letters....it's a baltimore area thing
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:06 pm
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The ingredients list is actually really funny: salt, spices (including red pepper). That's it! So it's definitely a secret. I'm guessing there's chili powder because of the kick but that's all I could tell. I'm also thinking it's not authentic because the label is printed in French and English which is standard here in Canada.
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I haven't actually tasted the McCormick version of old bay seasoning but we make our own, using this recipe for
old bay seasoning (Spice Rub #3)
And it really is great on fried or
barbecued chicken
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Jodi Hitzhusen ('03): Music director, teacher, performer
November 25, 2013
Ever since her first piano lesson as a 3-year-old growing up in the Midwest, Jodi Hitzhusen has fostered a love for music. Today, that love is taking the 2003 Evangel University alumna around the country, and around the world.
Hitzhusen currently serves as music director at Village Church in Wellesley, Massachusetts, lead teacher of voice and piano at MJ's Music School, performer with the Voci Angelica Trio, freelance composer and singer-songwriter.
While growing up in Sioux City, Iowa, Hitzhusen began taking piano lessons before she could read and added voice lessons at 10. She also enjoyed reading and writing, which prompted her to begin seeking colleges where she could double major in Music and English.
Hitzhusen says she visited Evangel "on a whim" while checking out other private Christian colleges in the Midwest.
"Once I met some of the music and English faculty, I didn't want to go anywhere else," she says.
During her time at Evangel, she played and sang in several ensembles, led worship in Chapel, worked as a writing tutor in the Write Place and was secretary of Evangel's chapter of the Alpha Chi national honor society. Hitzhusen was also chosen to be in Springfield Regional Opera's Young Artist Program to sing the lead role of Pamina in Mozart's "The Magic Flute."
"Being a Young Artist with Springfield Opera was probably one of the most influential experiences," she says. "It gave me the confidence and motivation to audition for some of the top music master's programs across the U.S."
A student with diverse interests, Hitzhusen says she first decided to seriously pursue a professional career in music following a conversation with her Evangel piano professor, Dr. Linda Ligate.
"Dr. Ligate sat me down and told me that I was spreading myself too thin trying to do so many things and that I needed to pick one thing to focus on and give myself to wholeheartedly," she says. "Dr. Ligate said that if I did that and then realized it wasn't the right path, I could always change direction. That was some of the most valuable advice I ever received."
It was that advice that influenced Hitzhusen's decision to audition at the New England Conservatory with voice as her primary instrument. She was accepted, and following her graduation from Evangel in 2003, Hitzhusen made the move from the Ozarks to Massachusetts, where she still lives today.
"I was better prepared than a lot of my classmates at New England Conservatory because I had such good training at Evangel," she says. "I knew God had opened the door for me to be in Boston, and I had a lot of faith and prayer support from the Midwest."
Hitzhusen attended NEC and earned her Master of Arts in Vocal Performance with a concentration in Music Education. Right after completing her master's, she was hired as church music director at Village Church and as a private music instructor.
In 2007, Hitzhusen co-founded the Voci Angelica Trio, a world music group consisting of her and two of her friends from the conservatory. The trio creates arrangements of world folk music for two voices, cello and percussion. So far, the trio has released one five-song CD and has completed tours of the Midwest and Japan.
"The trio has a strong humanitarian focus," Hitzhusen says. "We see ourselves as musical ambassadors who bring cultural awareness to our audiences."
Hitzhusen says the trio also has a school outreach program that teaches children about the history, languages, culture, geography, music and instruments of six continents.
Hitzhusen also composes music on her own. In March of 2013, she visited Evangel University to perform songs she had arranged based on the Psalms.
When she's not doing music, Hitzhusen enjoys yoga and going indoor rock climbing and running with her husband, David, who is a competitive track runner. Hitzhusen says she also enjoys traveling and experiencing the local side of each place she goes.
"My bags are always packed," she says. "Traveling is the perfect opportunity to gather music and instruments from around the world."
Hitzhusen says her advice for students is for them to be like sponges while at college.
"Soak up everything your professors have to teach you, and don't waste the time you have," she says. "I realize that college is a chance to meet new friends and have fun, but primarily it is a chance to learn about the world and explore your faith in the same place. That doesn't happen everywhere."


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Awkward Spot for Citi's CEO
For Vikram Pandit, a trip to Tokyo for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank conference last month seemed routine. But Michael Corbat, the longtime Citigroup Inc. C 0.45% executive who joined Mr. Pandit there, knew better.
Unbeknown to Mr. Pandit, Citigroup Chairman Mike O'Neill had told Mr. Corbat that the board could seek Mr. Pandit's resignation as chief executive and hand the job to Mr. Corbat, according to people familiar with the situation. A day after Messrs. Pandit and Corbat returned to New York, that is exactly what happened.
A host of financial, competitive and regulatory issues confronts the 52-year-old Mr. Corbat atop the nation's third-biggest bank by assets. But no task is more critical than soothing workers unsettled by the way the board ousted Mr. Pandit and his longtime right-hand man, John Havens, who ran the investment bank and served as president and chief operating officer.
The effort is made even more delicate by Mr. Corbat's proximity to Mr. Pandit in the days before the coup.
Executives say they don't blame Mr. Corbat for Mr. Pandit's overthrow, though some wondered how Mr. Corbat was able to sit through the IMF meetings knowing what was to unfold. But employees were stunned by the board's handling of the departures, according to people at the bank. Their objections were outlined at a town-hall meeting days after the change by a top executive who is being considered to take Mr. Havens's job, according to people who were at the meeting.
The board has "every right" to choose a management team it is comfortable with, said James Forese, head of securities and banking, at the meeting. But he added that the abruptness of the move didn't give the appropriate credit to Messrs. Pandit and Havens for helping the company recover from the financial crisis.
Mr. Corbat's position is all the more awkward given his close personal relationship with Mr. Havens. The two men spent time together outside of work, occasionally vacationing with their wives at Mr. Havens' Scotland estate.
Mr. Havens served as an ally in Mr. Corbat's rise up the corporate ladder, people who know them said. When Mr. Corbat found himself sidelined after Citigroup decided to sell its Smith Barney brokerage, a business that he had been running, Mr. Havens suggested he be considered for a more prominent role as the head of Citi Holdings and, later, another promotion to run Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
It was as head of Citi Holdings that Mr. Corbat developed a relationship with Mr. O'Neill, who chaired a board committee that oversaw the unit.
Adding to Mr. Corbat's challenges is the perception among some insiders that he is overshadowed by Mr. O'Neill. Employees have privately joked that of the two Mikes, it is Mr. O'Neill who is truly in charge. People close to Mr. O'Neill dispute that notion and say he has spent little time at his Citigroup office in the past month.
Messrs. O'Neill and Corbat declined to comment.
Mr. Corbat has kept a low profile, spending the past few weeks holed up at Citigroup's Midtown headquarters working through the 2013 budget. Mr. Pandit preferred to focus on strategic issues, but Mr. Corbat is expected to spend more time ensuring the company produces on-time budgets and hits project deadlines, people close to the company said.
To keep senior executives from jumping ship, Messrs. Corbat and O'Neill have reached out to a handful of them to gauge their interest in filling some or all of Mr. Havens' prior duties. Among those that have been approached for the post of president and COO, say people familiar with the situation, are Mr. Forese and Manuel Medina-Mora, the global head of the consumer bank, these people said.
Mr. O'Neill and other directors aren't convinced that the position is necessary and it may be eliminated entirely, people familiar with the situation said. A possible outcome is for Mr. Forese to oversee the investment bank, these people said.
Another hotly coveted job is Mr. Corbat's old post heading Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Executives vying for that position include Jim Cowles, the unit's deputy; Francesco Vanni d'Archirafi, who runs transaction services; and Jane Fraser, who runs the private bank, the people familiar with the situation said. The executives declined to comment, as did a Citigroup spokeswoman.
Mr. Corbat is taking charge after the worst is conceivably behind Citigroup. How to run the company better—not whether it will survive—is the issue before him.
That is no simple task. He must rebuild trust with regulators and shed the New York company's reputation for failing to deliver on its promises, all while dispelling the notion that it is too big to manage in the face of continuing shareholder pressure for a breakup. Asked during a recent meeting of managing directors how he felt upon learning he would become CEO of such a complex enterprise, Mr. Corbat said that his emotions ran the gamut from "happiness to feeling humbled," according to a person who was there.
Corrections & Amplifications
An earlier version of this article incorrectly quoted Mr. Corbat as saying that upon learning he would become CEO, his emotions ran the gamut from "happiness to fear." He said his emotions ran the gamut from "happiness to feeling humbled."
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This month we wanted to test electronic fuel injection (EFI) again. But this time we wanted to use a throttle body injection (TBI) system like the ones that came stock on GM trucks for many years, instead of a multi-port injection (MPI) system like the F.A.S.T. unit we tested early this year (see "Danger Mouse, Part 11," August 2003). So we dusted off a Holley Commander TBI kit that had been lying around the office for quite a while and took it and DM back to Vrbancic Brother's Racing DTS dyno with high expectations.
Then our hopes were kinda shattered. Once before in Danger Mouse's history did we test the wrong combination and lose power because of it. This is now the second time. However, the mismatch did have its benefits, mainly at low rpm where the TBI added power over the HP750 carburetor we baselined the engine with. What we learned from this test is that even if you have a great running engine, you can't just slap any old EFI system on and go. There are several key components that must be addressed in order to make the EFI work best. You must also keep in mind that EFI will rarely make more peak power than a well-tuned carburetor. The benefits from EFI, as we've again proven this month, are better low-end power and drivability, easy starting, and all-climate running.
We didn't pay as much attention to what was underneath the TBI as we should have. As we've said in the past, EFI needs the proper cam to really shine. The engine will still run with the wrong cam, but power might suffer. And the healthy COMP Cams Xtreme Energy XR282HR hydraulic roller camshaft was not the best choice for this EFI set up due mostly to its longer duration and narrow 110-degree lobe separation. What we should have done was reinstall the COMP Cams prototype EFI hydraulic roller cam that we used with the F.A.S.T. EFI system. But, we thought you might want to see the results of just swapping the carb to EFI, since that's the easiest thing to do. With a cam that wants to keep breathing well above 5,000 rpm and a throttle body that basically runs out of air at 5,000, there was little chance this engine would make any more peak power. The power increases we did find came in below 3,000 rpm, where the precise metering of the TBI allowed the engine to build more torque, which is actually way more beneficial to almost any car than an extra 10 or 15 peak hp would be.
Another area we've learned an EFI engine can benefit greatly from, but still ignored in this test, is the method used to trigger the Engine Control Unit or ECU. In this case, we simply hooked a wire to the dyno's MSD 7 ingition's tach output, which in turn triggered the ECU to fire the injectors. This method is crude at best and not very conducive to accurately firing the injectors at the precise time. The best way to get the signal to the ECU is with a crank trigger, just like the ones that all OEM's now run. But, there's another choice in between that we've used with much success in the past. It's a simple electronic distributor. It's not your typical HEI however, instead the distributor's pickup triggers the ECU as well as firing the spark plugs. Another benefit of running an electronic distributor, which we will include the next time we test, is that the Holley ECU can control ignition advance with it. That means that instead of loosening the distributor hold down and turning it with a timing light pointed at the dampener, when we want to make timing changes we just tap a few keys on our laptop while the engine's running. Ignition advance changes can even be made under power in this fashion. There's really no better way to trigger things.
Naturally, we wanted to get Holley's expert opinion on our mixed results. Woddy in Holley's tech department told us that we were trying to control an outdated throttle body with a fairly new ECU. It turns out that since we got the Commander TBI kit more than a year ago, Holley has redesigned the four-barrel throttle bodies to work progressively, meaning the front two injectors run all the time, while the back two injectors are brought in progressively as demand requires. Our older throttle body fired all four injectors at once, all the time. That wouldn't have been too bad of a problem except that we were firing the injectors using a fuel map in the ECU that was programmed for the progressive throttle bodies. So we basically had to rewrite the entire fuel map on the dyno otherwise the engine ran so rich it wouldn't even idle. Once Woddy told us about a few changes we could make in the software's Engine Parameters section to help things out, we were able to fully rewrite the map and make the engine run. But it took several phone calls and about 4 hours and over 60 pulls on the dyno.
The best advice we can give from our test results is to research your application before buying any EFI system. There are a lot of really good systems out there, but each one has a specific area that was engineered to work best in. And if you're thinking about finding a great deal on a used EFI system at the swap meet, think twice before you buy. The technology in these things advances so fast that a 1-year-old system might take more time and money to make work than a brand new system would.
Like the ending of a good movie, the end results we got were not what we'd hoped for. So we're writing a sequel to this test. We're going to get a new smaller cam, the correct progressive throttle body, and even a new computer-controlled distributor and re-test DM again to see if there's any more power to be found. Of course, we'll still compare results to the HP750 carburetor only this time the cam will be smaller and better suited to work with EFI.
This month's dyno test did not involve any direct comparison to previous months tests. We tested DM as if it were an entirely new motor this month. We did, however, reuse several of our original key pieces, like the same Motown block and Lunati rotating assembly as in all the other tests. The results shown here are listed chronologically as tests 27 and 28, just in case we want to refer back to them at a later date. This month was also the second time we bolted DM onto the Vrbancic Brothers Racing DTS dyno in Ontario, California. Shop owners George and Bob Vrbancic both supervised the test sessions with George at the dyno controls. Faithful DM followers may note that peak power numbers for this test were down by a few points compared to last month's test (Part 13) with the same engine combination at Westech. That discrepancy is most likely just the difference between how a DTS dyno and a Superflow dyno collects and interprets data. It's kind of like stepping on the scale at your house vs. your friend's house, either scale may be correct, but you'd still weigh the same regardless of the difference in readings so don't look too deeply into the power differences between different these two dynos.
Danger Mouse specs for Part 14:
355 cid, 9.4:1 cr, 4.030-bore four-bolt Motown block, 3.48-stroke Lunati crank, 5.7-inch Lunati rods
Test 27: GMPP Aluminum Fast Burn heads (62cc chambers, 210cc runners, 2.00-inch hollow stem intake valves, 1.55-inch sodium filled exhaust valves), GMPP single-plane intake manifold, Holley HP750 carb with 73/84 jets, COMP Cams Xtreme Energy hydraulic roller camshaft XR-282-HR (230/236 at .050, 282/288 adv, .510/.520 lift, 110 LS). GMPP 1.5:1 aluminum roller rockers, 36 degrees total advance.
Test 28: Installed Holley Commander TBI900cfm four-barrel electronic throttle body fuel injection.
|HOLLEY COMMANDER TBI PN 950-21S (correct at press time)
|MR. GASKET (head gaskets PN 5727), GMPP (intake gasket PN 12497760)
For this month we used a regular MSD billet distributor with locked-out timing. The sequel for this story (coming soon) will include a new, computer-controlled distributor and ignition package from Holley.


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Posted: Wed 16 Jan 2008, 21:30
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Well I originally sent it to myself!*?!! which is why you didn't get it, but now the one i sent to you is sitting the OutBox so I'll just post it here.....
Hi Richard,
I have sent you this (dccprobe.txt and xorgwizard) before I start on your suggestions.
I too am confused! I do not know why it now boots correctly without pfix=ram,nox or any xorgwizard changes. I just booted 3.01 just now it it boots fine, albeit with a message that it didn't shut down normally and would I like to run xorgwizard again. I just typed xwin and all came up good.
By the way, do I need the USB drive plugged in after I boot?
How do you suggest, after having upgraded to395 (4alpha5) and going back to 3.01 with same pupsave file? Should I remove (hide) the pupsave and start again?
FYI, this lappy is my wife's (my old one that got too slow for the stuff I do-embedded PIC/PSoC development and PCB design). She uses it mainly for Email and web browsing. My goal is to set up a separate partition on Tosh for Puppy and run it from there (maybe today as 3.01 seems to work). To do so may give me (us? thanks for your perseverance) an opportunity to start again on getting the configuration correct.
I sucessfully ran scandisk (no disk errors) and defrag in preparation. I have 3G of the 6 G free and plan to set asside 2G for puppy until I'm satisfied all is well, then Puppy can have it all.
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Posted: Wed 16 Jan 2008, 23:34
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Thanks for the file. The name implies that you sent both ddcprobe.txt and xorgwizard, but only the wizard is there. That is good enough. I got nit-picky because the listing you included in your early post puts a space character at the end of each line; and I thought that might cause trouble. The wizard you sent has no trailing blank, so that's fine.
Is the file you sent the xorgwizard that you see in 3.01 /usr/sbin? But now you can't run 3.01 because the pup_save is 395. I think you need to start over with a fresh pup_save, and put it on the hard drive. You told me you already see one there, so that's what you have been using. You can confirm that by using pmount to see where /mnt/home is -- sda1 or sdb1, the HD or stick. If the stick (sdb1) is not mounted, you can remove it.
To start fresh, just boot 3.01 with pfix=ram. If it hangs after the two pink "probing..." lines, you definitely need the fix. Enter ctrl-c to get the prompt. You know how grab the fixed version from the stick, to /usr/sbin. Please be sure to use the fixed version that has your oem: line and not the edid: line. Once copied over, enter "xorgwizard" to test it. If that works, enter xwin" and you are in business. (To preserve the 395 pup_save, just rename it -- pup_save-395.sfs.) Then reboot and create a new pup_save file.
If you want to dual-boot the laptop without needing the CD, there is a slick package that does it safely -- Lin'n'WinNewB. -- here:
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Posted: Fri 07 Mar 2008, 20:45
Post subject: Protege Booting - again
Subject description: Toshiba Portege 3110CT, Puppy 3.96 Alpha6
How much of the changes you were discussing with Barrington earlier in the year got incorporated in to Alpha6?
I have gotten Puppy successfully running off of a usb stick on my desktop, and similarly on a Thinkpad T43, but all of that was preparatory to my real goal which is to resurrect an old Portege 3110CT, with Win98 (not SE!).
I've expanded the memory to its max -- 196 I think.
Booting with WakePup2, and my pup save frugal install on the usb stick, the boot sequence gets to "personal config script /etc/rc.d/rc.local", and then drops to the prompt #. At that point I've run xorgconfig. but none of configuration variants variants I have tried get me anywhere.
the output of ddcprobe is essentaily the same as what was posted in the earlier thread, although the resolution doesnt get to 1024. the screen is smaller. the card is the same Trident card you were struggling with earlier. I'm not sure what the corect refresh rates are.
I could try Alpha 7 -- would it help?
I'm not sure where to pick up in the sequence of suggestions you were making earlier.
I just looked at the xorg.conf that was generated during install -- it has the VendorName as Trident Mcrosystems, and the BoardName as Cyber 9525. I didn't give it that info. In fact, none of the data I entered while xorgconfig was running is in this file. the head of the file says it is a "Special base config file used in Puppy Linux"
But the Monitor section has no numbers for HorizSync and VertRefresh, The Modes section has no numbers, and there is no Screen section.
The Device section lists alot of options that are repeated in a file xorg.conf-new,which is in the root directory. there is also a file with a garbled name that clearly was supposed to say TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS INC. That file is the xorg.conf file that has my input into xorg.conf. Why didn't it wind up in /etc/X11? I tried copying it to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but I still got the two pink lines.
help will be appreciated.
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Posted: Sat 08 Mar 2008, 10:06
Post subject: The 4alphas and the laptop "probing-hang" fix
Subject description: The alphas have not kept up with the fix. Attempting update to alpha7.
Thanks for your post, keeping this thread alive.
To my dismay, I have not been diligent in submitting updates for the fix to puppy4. I am in the process of consolidating fixes into the new alpha7 version of the wizard. I believe it should also work with 3.01/2 and hope I can have it work with 2.14 so I can submit it for use in TEENpup2008.
So check the alpha7 bug-reporting thread later today for the latest version of the fix. You say that ddcprobe shows yours to be one of the Trident CYBER (I assume) adapters - 8820 or 8620; I have added yet another to the new fix: 9540. If yours is none of these, please post your "oem:" line so I can add it to the fix.
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Posted: Sat 08 Mar 2008, 11:38
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the output of my ddcprobe is exactly the same as that reported by Barrington on Jan. 14, except I don't get the last two lines, reporting modes of 1024x768.
the Toshiba Spec Sheet for the Portege 3110Ct says:
Trident Cyber9525
64-bit Graphics Accelerator
32-BIT PCI local bus support
BitBLT hardware
Integrated 2.5MB Video Memory
and for the display it says:
Poly-silicon TFT active-matrix color display
10.4" diagonal, up to 16M colors at 800 x 600
I'll attach images of the spec sheets for both his machine which was a Satellite 2580 CDT, and mine
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Posted: Wed 12 Mar 2008, 13:24
Post subject: TP-LINK TF-5239 card
Subject description: driver
Just for future reference, and anybody else googling this card, it uses the Realtek RTL8139 chipset, the 8139too module in puppy 3.01 and later should be manually loaded in the network configuration bit to get it working.
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Posted: Sat 29 Mar 2008, 14:06
Post subject: Having problem with my Toshiba Portege 7010CT
Put xorgwizard2 from: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=6544, linked on page 3 to /usr/sbin, ran xorgwizard2 from this location (./xorgwizard2), chose 'Xorg', found the following text in pink color on top of the screen:
"Probing video hardware, please wait "
Next, it disappeared with black screen and nothing happens after that -- kind of hung up. The ddcprobe output (attached) shows noedid at the end. Tried to follow through the postings in this topic without success. Would it be possible to get X working with this noedid as I saw that other people don't have this situation. Is there anything I can do to enable edid? Thanks for help. I have 96 M RAM on this machine.
Tried to attach the ddcprobe.txt file I generated, and don't see it attached in preview. I'm copying content of this below:
vbe: VESA 2.0 detected.
oem: MagicGraph 256 AV 44K PRELIMINARY
memory: 2496kb
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Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Sat 29 Mar 2008, 20:38
Post subject: Tested with noedid successfully on 128MB Tecra & puppy4a7
Subject description: Behaved as expected, so suspect the 96MB RAM.
Thanks for your posting. I replicated your situation (with a modified ddcprobe.txt file) on my problematic Tecra8000 using puppy 4 alpha 7 and saw no problem. It has 128MB and no swap file (or hard drive, for that matter).
I assume you are running 3.01, but maybe the alpha (which has the fix) or soon-to-be-released beta will handle low memory better, I have a friend who ran alpha7 (3.97) on a 48MB 133MHz Tecra, although quite slowly. But I think we ended up using Xvesa, because Xorg did hang up, perhaps the same as yours did. (But Xvesa is not an option for you, since it , too, hangs on your Portege.)
I suggest making a swap partition. If you don't need anything else on the drive, you can do that from the command line after CD-booting "puppy noram,nox". If you have to co-exist with Windows, that's more complicated. Here is a standalone version of gparted that might help:
if it can display.
Hope this helps.
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Posted: Mon 31 Mar 2008, 22:14
Post subject: Toshiba Portege 7010CT with puppy4a7: partial success
Subject description: Could not install in IDE harddisk /dev/hda1
Thank you rerwin for quick feedback, and I successfully booted to X using puppy-400alpha7-397-k184.108.40.206-seamonkey as you suggested. What I did not succeed was installing on /dev/hda1. I'll post this install question in a separate thread (
I don't have MS Windows (wiped it out). Used a FreeDOS bootfloppy to boot. I have an IDE hard disk (/dev/hda) and an USB DVD-ROM to put the puppy CDROM (that comes out as C drive when FreeDOS is booted). The RAM size is 96 M. I also have
on the floppy (A). I went to C drive, and issued the command:
a:\linld image=vmlinuz initrd=initrd.gz "cl=root=/var/ram pfix=noram,nox"
This booted to shell environment. Ran xorgwizard, chose 1024x768x24 bit. After coming back to shell environment, ran xwin that loaded the X successfully. The responsiveness in X was exceptionally good, and was very surprised knowing that I only have 96 M of RAM. I was thinking it would be like a molass, and turned out to be completely opposite.
I'd be happy if only I could do a full install on harddisk.
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Posted: Fri 04 Jul 2008, 18:49
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I hope it's okay I jump in here...I've run into video problems with my install and am hoping you might be able to help....
My Laptop:
-Toshiba Portege 3025CT
-300mhz, Intel Pentium
-6 gig HD (not expandable)
-96 meg RAM (not expandable)
-bootable floppy
-docking station
-pcmcia cd drive (non-bootable and have never been able to get dos drivers to work)
- usb 1.0 (have no idea if this is accessible at boot - I suspect not)
-currently have XP Pro installed
I have installed Puppy 4 using Lin'n'Win NewB with dual book and can boot into Linux. Frugal install to HDD and intend to wipe out XP (not until I get this working though
In the Xorgwizard:
- If I choose Xorg I hang on a black screen. Nothing works other than power cycle.
- If I choose Xvesa I end up with this no matter what resolution I choose...
I've added pfix=nox to menu.lst and can get to the command prompt. I've run ddcprobe and it appears to be the same as some of those shown above. The lines with **** I can not see b/c I don't know how to do a page break at the linux command and that's all that can appear on a single screen. I do know I have the NeoMagic MagicGraph....
****vbe: VESA 2.0 detected.
****oem: Copyright 1997 TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS INC.
****memory: 2560kb
****mode: 640x480x16m
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edid: 1 0
id: 5081
eisa: TOS5081
serial: 00000000
manufacture: 20 1995
input: analog signal.
screensize: 23 17
gamma: 1.000000
dpms: RGB, no active off, no suspend, no standby
timing: 720x400@70 Hz (VGA 640x400, IBM)
timing: 640x480@75 Hz (VESA)
I've gotten ddcprobe to print to screen but I have
no idea what to do from here. I've read through the whole post and quite confused now
Thanks so much for any help you can offer.
p.s. Oh yeah, I'm completely new to Linux...so step by step and 'stupid' instructions are appreciated.
Hence my confusion.
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Posted: Sat 05 Jul 2008, 10:29
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Greetings, Jacqui with a Q (those are usually the good folks from Oz and the UK, like Bridget with a D...).
Unfortunately, the lines you are missing include the one line which is crucial to solve this problem: the "oem:" line.
To be able to see those lines you can run "ddcprobe | more", or just use Shift+PageUp to scroll up in the console...
Once you post that line here rerwin will be able to tell you exactly what you can do with it (no rudeness intended!).
Something unrelated that you might want to look into, since you have little RAM:
You should check if a "shmfs" is mounted at boot. The output of "mount" should let you know, it being mounted on /dev/shm.
If it is, you'll want to disable that, as it just takes up ram and isn't really used (the only application I know that uses it in Puppy is xfdiff, which runs ok without it).
Find the place it is mounted (most likely in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit) and comment out that line (put a "#" at the beginning). Alternately, you could just add "umount /dev/shm" to /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
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Posted: Sat 05 Jul 2008, 10:52
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also you mightn't be aware that puppy has a nifty little commandline editor called
. So to edit the file Dougal mentioned, it's:
mp /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
When you're using mp, Control+A gives you the menu.
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Location: Maine, USA
Posted: Sat 05 Jul 2008, 17:14
Post subject: Xorg needs 128MB RAM+swap
I think your problem is that Xorg just doesn't run in less than 128MB, but that is easily remedied. You need a swap file or partition on your HD for Puppy to run decently. But how to do that within your constraints? BTW, your data shows that you have the Trident video, not NeoMagic; but no matter.
I am rusty on making the swap file in WinXP, but there are explanations in the forum or wiki. I think there is a command you use to create a zeroed file, in Win, top level; name it "pupswap.swp", for standardization. Then you can boot to Puppy (pfix=nox), run "cd /; mkswap pupswap.swp" to format it as a swap file. I'm not sure of the details beyond that, but it involves the "swapon" command. I have had trouble using that with a file, so I hope someone can clarify this process.
Eventually, you will want a swap partition, but do not use WinXP to try to reduce your main partition to make room, because it will destroy your installation. You can shrink it safely once you get Puppy running fully, with Gparted.
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Posted: Sat 05 Jul 2008, 21:29
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Dougal (Jacqui with a Q being French Canadian
ddcprobe returns:
vbe: VESA 2.0 detected.
oem: MagicGraph 128XD 42K SVGA BIOS
Memory: 1984kb
When I look at System Info and Devic Manager in WinXP it does list NeoMagic MagicGraph?
I typed at the command line 'mp /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit' but have absolutely no idea what to with what I'm seeing. I've scrolled through trying to make sense of anything having to do with shmsf, but not sure what to comment out and I don't see shmsf, or any reference to it, anywhere in the file.
Should I worry about a swap file later or do that now?
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Posted: Sat 05 Jul 2008, 21:53
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Forget about /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit for the moment, and try Rerwin's advice about creating a swapfile.
regarding creating a swapfile. Note the recommendation
to use the dd command on an XP ntfs file system, but rather to create the swapfile using windows fsutil command. You probably would want a swapfile of the order of 128Mbytes.
fsutil file createnew C:\pup.swp 128000000
Once you've used windows to create the c:\pup.swp file, if you then reboot into puppy, with the pfix=nox prefix, you would then need to do:
mkswap /mnt/home/pup.swp
swapon /mnt/home/pup.swp
Run the command
to see whether puppy is using it. you should see your original memory of 96M, plus swap memory of 128M.
To get puppy to use this on booting, you then need to edit the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and add the line:
mkswap /mnt/home/pup.swp
Definitely use the
commandline editor to add this line, but it's only one line, and the file rc.local is a lot simpler than rc.sysinit.
mp /etc/rc.d/rc.local
If adding a swapfile still doesn't get xorg working, maybe you should consider checking out
, as I'm pretty sure their framebuffer support would work, plus you can install DSL frugally & boot it with a floppy.
do you think that the
module could support JacquiG's graphics via framebuffer?
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I am currently a 1L at UPitt. I'm from the NJ area, but decided on Pitt because of the opportunity to do a JD/MBA with Carnegie-Mellon, which is ranked around 16 for business. If I don't get into this program, I would like to transfer back to a school closer to home, either in the NY or NJ area. I plan on putting transfer applications to the top schools in the area, but also want to put transfer applications to Seton Hall (70) and Rutgers-Newark (80). Is it a bad idea to transfer down in the rankings? I definitely want to work in either NY or NJ, and wouldn't mind working for a smaller firm in either state.


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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
An Introduction
The two I own depict Bugs and Daffy standing next to tree trunks. Bugs' tree, being squatty, seems to be a planter originally. All of the paint on it is original, but Bugs unfortunately had broken off of the base (which is why I snagged it for cheap). Daffy's tree, being taller, makes for a nice pencil holder. While the metal was in better shape, all of the paint was gone from it, save for the stump, so I repainted Daffy and the green base.
The figures tend to go for a lot of money on ebay, so I was lucky to find these two. I have a special fondness for Looney Tune merchandise made when the cartoons themselves were new.
As a final note, one of the advantages to the Bugs figure having separated from the base is that I can pose Bugs and Daffy together:
6 comments:
- Bubbashelby said...
Welcome! Those are sweet figures/displays! Looking forward to seeing more of your collection.
- December 3, 2008 at 4:23 PM
Welcome back, Jack!
- December 3, 2008 at 8:25 PM
- Harley Green said...
Welcome Jack, and thank you for your interesting partecipation to the blog! :)
These Daffy+ Bugs figures still keep the charm of the antiques WB merchandise!
- December 4, 2008 at 4:15 AM
- Matthew Hunter said...
What did you use to repaint Daffy, Jack? Acrylic paint? If you hadn't mentioned it, I'd have sworn that was the original paint!
- December 4, 2008 at 7:46 PM
- Thad said...
Whoa, killer handiwork. Nice to see you've put your skill to good use.
- December 4, 2008 at 9:14 PM
- Jack Tatay said...
Thanks for the compliments, and yeah, it was acrylic. There were small trace amounts of paint still on the figure, so I mixed different yellows and oranges together to try and match it.
I often hear that it's best to leave antiques alone, but it was in bad enough shape that it would never have been worth much anyway. I get way more personal enjoyment from it being painted rather than it being a dull grey metal color.
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Elba Esther Gordillo, one of Mexico's most powerful women, was arrested Tuesday on charges of embezzling millions of dollars from the country's teachers union to pay for an opulent lifestyle.
The leader of the 1.5 million-member National Union of Education Workers, who is 68 years old, was arrested as she landed at the Toluca airport near Mexico City on a private flight from San Diego.
In a press conference minutes after her detention, Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said Gordillo is accused of embezzling 2 billion pesos (about $160 million) from union funds.
There is no one more loved by their people than I. I care about the teachers. This is a deep and serious dispute about public education.
Prosecutors said they had detected nearly $3 million in purchases at Neiman Marcus using union funds, as well as $17,000 in U.S. plastic surgery bills and the purchase of a million-dollar home in San Diego.
"We are looking at a case in which the funds of education workers have been illegally misused, for the benefit of several people, among them Elba Esther Gordillo," Murillo said.
Gordillo displayed her opulence openly with designer clothes and bags from places like Neiman Marcus, bodyguards, private planes, expensive cars and properties including a penthouse apartment in Mexico City's exclusive Polanco neighborhood. She has been widely lampooned for her many plastic surgeries and depicted in political cartoons as ghoulish.
Meanwhile, Mexico's teachers are poorly paid and public education has long been considered subpar.
The fall of one of the country's most storied and divisive characters — unthinkable just months ago — comes with the return to power of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, which previously ruled for 71 years and once helped Gordillo consolidate her power. She was arrested one day after President Enrique Peña Nieto signed into law a comprehensive education reform designed to dismantle a system she controlled.
Union members had been marching in the streets against the reform in recent weeks, and the fiery Gordillo, who rose from school teacher, vowed to keep fighting.
"I want to die with the epitaph: Here lies a warrior. She died like a warrior," Gordillo said in a speech on her 68th birthday earlier this month.
She has not spoken or appeared publicly since her arrest.
The investigation started in December, just after Peña Nieto took office, after Santander Bank alerted authorities to bank transfers in billions of pesos, according to the attorney general.
At the news conference, Murillo displayed a series of charts that resembled battle plans, with dozens arrows detailing the alleged flow of illicit transfers from teachers' union accounts to the personal accounts of three union workers who were not authorized to deal with finances, as well as a real estate company.
Some funds eventually ended up in bank accounts in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Assistant Attorney General Alfredo Castillo said that in one case they transferred $1 million to a Swiss account for a company owned by Gordillo's mother. Those funds were then used to buy a million-dollar house in the island of Coronado in San Diego.
A television interview last week about education reform, the interviewer told Gordillo that she was the most hated woman in Mexico.
"There is no one more loved by their people than I," Gordillo answered. "I care about the teachers. This is a deep and serious dispute about public education."
The education reform signed into law this week creates a system of uniform standards for teacher hiring and promotion based on merit instead of union connections. It also allows for the first census of Mexico's education system, which Gordillo's union has largely controlled for decades, allegedly padding the payroll with thousands of phantom teachers.
So great is the union's control that no one knows exactly how many schools, teachers or students exist in Mexico.
For years, she has beaten back attacks from union dissidents, political foes and journalists who have seen her as a symbol of Mexico's corrupt, old-style politics. Rivals have accused her of corruption, misuse of union funds and even a murder, but prosecutors who investigated never brought a charge against her.
She was expelled from Peña Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party in 2006 for supporting other parties' candidates and the formation of her own New Alliance party. Her support was considered key in giving a razor-thin victory to former President Felipe Calderon.
Columnist and political analyst Raymundo Riva Palacio said Gordillo is an experienced political fighter who may have lost the keen sense of political calculation that kept her in power for so many years.
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Gordillo's arrest recalled the 1989 arrest of another once-feared union boss, Joaquin Hernández Galicia, known as "La Quina." The longtime head of Mexico's powerful oil workers union, Hernandez Galicia was arrested during the first months of the new administration of then-President Carlos Salinas.
In 1988, he criticized Salinas' presidential candidacy and threatened an oil workers' strike if Salinas privatized any part of the government oil monopoly, Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex. On Jan. 10, 1989, — about a month after Salinas took office — soldiers used a bazooka to blow down the door of Hernandez' home in the Gulf Coast city of Ciudad Madero.
Like Gordillo, Hernandez Galicia's power was believed to represent a challenge to the president, and his arrest was interpreted as an assertion of the president's authority. He was freed from prison after Salinas left office.
Murillo denied that Gordillo's arrest was politically motivated and said it could not be compared to Hernandez's case.
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That had been the last thing she had said to the boy she loved more than anything else in the world. Now she thought it might be the last thing she would ever get to say to him.
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