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A to Z Post - T by Matthew
I think next year we're going to do these posts a day late, so that we can consider featuring the best posts we read the day before.
Anyway, for now I'll just be mentioning some awesome things that start with T, followed by one blog post from a participant I know you guys will love.
Titans - they're really tall.
Tartan - slainte!
Theater - movies and plays.
Tetris - from Russia with fun!
Toll Booth - phantom ones, not real ones.
Trains - choo, choo!
The Triple Option - it's an offense in football, run by Georgia Tech.
And now, let me point you to a blogger whose posts for the A to Z Challenge I've been enjoying very much. Joe Lunievicz has been going with a Greek theme, and his post for today, T is for Tartaras, is a great one.
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Don't forget Two-hour delay - which is what I have this morning for my teaching Monday due to weather. Hoorah.ReplyDelete
Got to love the Titans!!ReplyDelete
time-out would be great too! hmm wonders... can one put one's self in time-out?ReplyDelete
Oh, well either way gotta love Titans and Tetris!
Thinking of next year already?????ReplyDelete
Good post.
Oh! I obviously haven't been exploring enough, I didn't know all you creators of A-Zness were doing this - in fact I only found your blogs here at the top yesterday! Clearly been spending too much time replying to comments, clicking on the list, writing my blog, illustrating my blog and writing poems for my blog...ReplyDelete
I really enjoyed the link blog.
Tartan yeah! good idea to feature the best for each letter a day later.ReplyDelete
Hopefully I'll still be around for next year!!
Nice, Matthew. Loved Joe's post, thanks for the tip!ReplyDelete
T is for Theater Festivals: America's Sweatshops at Main Street ArtsReplyDelete
that's an interesting idea--i think i would like to do this another year--but sorry for offering my unsolicited advice--but i wish it were in january of feb--when not much is going on in my life ;)ReplyDelete
Having grown up watching the Sooners and Cornhuskers battle every year, "triple option right" and "triple option left" will never leave my vocabulary.ReplyDelete
I like the idea of a recap from the previous day. I just know that I'm missing some great stuff...no matter how hard I try to visit as many as possible.ReplyDelete
In the late 80s I was addicted to Tetris. So it was all a communist plot?ReplyDelete
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Unfortunately, Tartan only ever reminds me of The Bay City Rollers!ReplyDelete
I am with Arlee: Tetris and Communism? Sigh...oh well, I will continue to play if I can. lolReplyDelete
Good to "meet" you.
~Naila Moon
PS>I am thinking trees today if you want to come by.
And T for you guys are almost THERE! (as in done... get it?) ;o) <3ReplyDelete
What ...ReplyDelete
No Tiramisu???
I managed to find Joe's site before your recommendation - Kismet
Tell Georgia Tech to keep practicing! (Just kidding.)ReplyDelete
Big fan of The Phantom Tollbooth! Did you hear them talk about that book on the TV show "New Girl"? The guy shortens words, and called it, "PhantomT".ReplyDelete
Titans, tartan, and Tetris! Triple play!ReplyDelete
@ Alex - Hah! They didn't do too well last year, did they?ReplyDelete
Thanks for the link to Joe's blog - enjoyed that!ReplyDelete
It would be cool to see those roundup posts on the A to Z Blog. Nice list for "T." I like riding TRAINS and recently went to see Wrath of the TITANS at a local movie THEATER!ReplyDelete
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Yay for Theater! I'm such an arts nerd. :)ReplyDelete
Sipping on my "Tea" enjoying you post as well as others... happy A-Zing!ReplyDelete
Tetris! Yah!ReplyDelete
Also, I read the triple option as an offense to football, until I read it again realized you were talking about a football move.
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That means it's time for a dram.
Out of all these, I like the choo choo train the best :-)ReplyDelete
One of the oldest mode of transport and the best.
Dear Stephen,ReplyDelete
Great "T's" indeed. I keep thinking about "thoughts" of love...
T is definitely for Tulips!!! or maybe Two Lips or 2's Company, or THree is a crowd...all T phrases...lol. Thanks for the post..may have to join in ....I think I did this a long time ago! SMiles, Maria from Seattle.ReplyDelete
I see we're still on "T". I did a brief "U", and went on to "V".ReplyDelete
"V" is for A Tap Dancing Vagina on Main Street Arts
Cool T words... I can't decide which I like best- Tartan or Theatre!!ReplyDelete
Aww...Tetris...how fun, you've now reminded me to play one :)ReplyDelete
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The 30 authors featured in the book, along with the publication's sponsors and illustrator Carol Delaney, will be honored. Contributing writers will have the opportunity to read their works during the open mic event, organizers said in a news release. Throughout the evening, songs and music will be provided by Mike Duncan and Steve Kurtz.
"The 'Desert Voice' is a literary landscape that matches our red rock home in wondrous vistas of visions, seeps of wisdom high up on a ledge, flakes of emotions littering a forgotten overhang – and all of it – words tumbling out – each into pools of stories, poems and pictures that you can hold in your hands – it's magic!" said MP&W president, Tom Eyler.
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Contributors of Desert Voice - Volume II will receive two free copies; more can be purchased for $10. A donation of $5 is requested to cover the cost of the appetizers, and dinner and beverages can be ordered off the menu, organizers said.
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The Scottish GENES blog has now ceased publication - for continuing Scottish news please refer to its sister blog, British GENES, at http://britishgenes.blogspot.com. The Scottish GENES posts will remain online as an archive of Scottish genealogical news from 2007-2011. Alba - agus Scottish GENES - gu bràth!
Saturday, 24 January 2009
MAJOR Irish genealogy news - BMD indexes online
Statutory marriages for Protestants on the Ireland commenced in 1845, whilst the registration of all births, marriages and deaths for the population commenced in 1864. At the moment the FamilySearch record Search Pilot site at http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=2;t=searchable;c=1408347 allows access to the indexes, but not to the digitised images of the index books, though this is clearly designed as something that will follow.
The release of these records online is the first time that this has happened, now making Irish research considerably more easy to do, and in line with its British counterparts. At present the site appears a bit sluggish, possibly because of demand.
(Many thanks to Deirdre on the Your Family Tree magazine forum for the update.)
UPDATE: Images from the original indexes can now be viewed, and also downloaded to your computer.
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- ciara said...
Im confused... It says there are no images for that collection
- 3 January 2010 at 01:03
- Chris Paton said...
That's correct - only transcribed index information is now available. When this post was first written, images were temporarily available of the index images, but were withdrawn sharpish after a couple of days, reason unknown (but likely for copyright reasons). The transcription, however, which is completely the copyright of FamilySearch, remains online.
The index records for the Republic go to 1958, but for Northern Ireland to 1922 only, as following Partition that year a new index was created in the north.
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Swift's role as Mitchell would be in the film 'Girls Like Us,' which chronicles the lives of Mitchell, Carly Simon and Carole King, based on the book of the same name. Variety reports that Swift hasn't received an official offer for the part just yet, but the whispers of her involvement have been growing steadily louder for months, especially since other starlets have started auditioning for King and Simon.
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The Lindenwood University Department of Theatre will open its 2007-2008 Mainstage Season with "Blithe Spirit," the smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, by Noel Coward.
In this ingenious plot, novelist Charles Condomine invites into his placid country home an eccentric, breezy lady medium in order to learn the language of the occult. Little do Charles or his lovely second wife Ruth dream that the séance staged by the medium will summon back Charles' first wife, now "passed over" for seven years. "Blithe Spirit" is funny, brilliant, and clever. Originally staged in 1941, it remains as fresh and as funny as ever.
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POPLAR BLUFF, Missouri — The damaged agricultural levee protecting the southern Missouri town of Poplar Bluff failed a federal inspection after a 2008 flood.
Tony Hill, chief of the emergency management office for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office in Little Rock, Ark., told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the levee protecting farmland and homes near Poplar Bluff from the rain-swollen Black River received an "unacceptable" rating in 2008.
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"'Note:"' With the European release of the PSP today, I have updated and re-published my original review of the PlayStation Portable from 28th January 2005.
I can still vividly remember when I bought my PlayStation 2 console. I had spent the best part of two hours wandering around the legendary Golden Arcade in Hong Kong and finally decided to give up on haggling over a few dollars and just put my credit card down. Of course I picked up pretty much every game that was available at launch while I was there, and couldn't wait until I got home to fire up my new baby.
The hours I spent waiting for my flight, and the long journey home did little to dampen my excitement. Due to a disastrous clashing of work diaries, my wife was catching a plane to New York while I was landing at Heathrow airport, so I really did have nothing else to do when I arrived home but unbox the PS2 and get comfy on the couch.
Unfortunately, despite all my excitement and anticipation, when I sat down and played my PS2 I found the experience very disappointing. The problem was that the launch games on the PS2 were nothing special, and the Dreamcast had better software available at the time. Whether Sony rushed out the PS2 to kill off the Dreamcast is open to debate, but there's no doubt that the PS2 didn't live up to the expectations of original PlayStation users.
It was therefore with some trepidation that I watched the development of the PlayStation Portable (PSP). Although I firmly believed that Sony had the ability to create something truly special, my enthusiasm was held in check by my memories of the early PS2 days. However, when I finally got my hands on a PSP at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last January, I realised that I shouldn't have worried.
Put simply, the PSP is the most important thing to happen in the video game industry since the launch of the original PlayStation. I know what you're thinking; that's a pretty bold statement, especially since this is Sony's first attempt at a hand-held gaming platform. But let's remember that being the new kid on the block didn't stop the original PlayStation from redefining video games.


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Child molester Pedraza sentenced
Andrew Greg Pedraza, a 43-year-old Beaumont man who pleaded guilty to continued molestation of a family member younger than 10 years old, was back in court Monday, March 4.
This time, the young girl's father appeared in Criminal District Court before Judge John Stevens to hear the sentencing and to make a statement to the court.
In exchange for a Feb. 1 plea of guilty, Pedraza received 10 years probation and a $1,500 fine for aggravated sexual assault of a child less than 14 years of age — a charge that could carry a life sentence if he had been convicted in a trial.
"The only reason this court is following this agreement is the family has pretty much had it with you," Stevens said to Pedraza.
Stevens also gave Pedraza the maximum jail sentence he could under the plea agreement, 180 days in the Jefferson County Jail.
"The fact that you're getting probation in this case, you ought to be going to church every day twice a day," Stevens said after Pedraza asked the court if it was acceptable to attend a local church without violating court orders that he remain away from children at all times.
"We will be keeping an eye on you," Stevens said.
The young girl's father — who declined to be identified after facing Pedraza — somberly addressed the court and his daughter's rapist Monday, saying his family has been fragmented by the ordeal.
"You'll never be in my world again," he said. "You'll never be allowed around my children or me."
The father said the only reason Pedraza would not spend his life in prison was the family was sparing their young daughter the fear and shame of taking the stand.
"I'll do whatever I can to spare my daughter," he told Pedraza. "I don't want her standing in front of an attorney who's doing his job."
The father said his daughter has been forever altered by Pedraza's molestation.
"She's scared. She won't sleep by herself anymore," he said. "Every light in the house has to be on at night."


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So I have to share with you guys a very funny and quite embarrassing story. Last night I took Sonny out into our backyard to potty and I usually wait on the back step and give him the command to go and he will run to the lawn and do his business. Well as he was going I noticed something next to him that I didn't recognize as a toy, it was long and dark and kind of curled up. I realized it was a snake and grabbed Sonny and ran into the house to get my husband. My husband went outside and verified it was a snake. We were pretty sure it wasn't a rattle snake because we didn't hear any rattling or see the rattle, so we were guessing it was a garter snake, but this still deeply disturbed us. I got on the phone and called multiple animal control and wildlife animal pick up services to see if someone would come help us or give us some advice. Of course all of the places were closed since it was 10 o clock at night and I could only leave messages. I finally got through to an emergency wildlife service, but they said that they would only come out if the animal was injured during after hours and that I should call back in the morning, but that the snake would probably leave my yard on it's own by then. My husband and I decided there was nothing we could do and would have to put Sonny on a leash that night to go on his final potty run and we would have to take him to the front yard. We searched and searched the house but could not find his leash anywhere. I was getting really concerned because Sonny can't go in the front yard without a leash and we couldn't take him in the backyard because of the snake. Finally after searching for 20 minutes my husband went to look outside because he had been doing training exercises earlier with him and thought he might have left it outside and that was when we realized that the "snake" was Sonny's leash...... In our defense our backyard is poorly lit, but still the whole experience was very amusing and embarrassing!


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By using a few simple techniques anyone can produce a whole grain pizza that is light and flavorful (like the ones above). The three basic techniques that I use are:1. High hydration dough. This really lightens up the dough, making it easy to mix and enables the crust to expand to it's fullest potential. I go with a 95% hydration rate, this will vary with the type of flour used so you'll have to experiment.2. Small amount of yeast coupled with a long, slow, room temperature fermentation. This will put the kabosh on the raw, bitter, grassy taste of the bran. It will also develop the glutenus to the maximus. You may also want to try white whole wheat flour. It's an albino strain of wheat that has all the nutritional properties of regular whole wheat without the strong flavor.3. High heat oven. Most home ovens only go up to around 500 degrees. I cook my whole grain pizzas at around 625 in the gas-fired LBE. I've never had good luck with an electric oven. As soon as you open the oven door to load the pizza, the temp drops 50 degrees and the heating element just doesn't have the muscle to get it back up to temp quickly enough. Any good cook will tell you caramelization equals flavor and you need the right temperature and oven for that. Remember, brown is good, black is burnt! Villa Roma


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Did Amazon Force Takedown Of Firefox Pirate Extension?
from the why-bother? dept
However, now there are reports that Amazon.com has sent its lawyers after the original. It's possible that they have a trademark claim, as the folks behind it used the name "Pirates of the Amazon," and the overly aggressive trademark lawyers will (incorrectly) claim that Amazon needs to send a cease and desist to protect its trademark. In reality, that's only true if the name is being used in a way that's likely to cause confusion, where people might actually think that Amazon supports this. That seems quite difficult to believe.
The end result, though, is that this silly little script is now getting extra attention, and is (of course) still widely available for download at a variety of other sites. If Amazon had just let it be, this would have probably been an amusing little bit of nothing. Sure, some hardcore file sharers would use it, but they're not going to pay for content anyway, so what difference does it make? Update: The folks behind it are now claiming it was an art project to see how people would react. Not sure I believe that, but okay...


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How to interpret and use "ratio units"--units that form ratios, such as "meters/second" or "kilograms/cubic meter" or "newtons/coulomb". Some other common examples of ratio units are watts (joules/second), volts (joules/coloumb), and molarity (moles/liter).The videos should help you to understand and work with concepts such as electric field, electric potential, density, power, concentration, and many other concepts in physics and chemistry that have ratio units. "Ratio units" are important in many other fields--such as economics and finance--as well.These videos are offered on a "pay what you like" basis. You can pay for the use of the videos at my website:http://www.freelance-teacher.com/video.mhtFor a playlist containing all the videos in this series, click here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S864mYkjNZQ&feature=PlayList&p=73D05F44E35F8A67&index=0&playnext=1(1) Introduction(2) Prices(3) Prices(4) Prices(5) Prices(6) Prices(7) Prices(8) Examples of how to interpret ratio units from physics and chemistry: speed and power (watts)(9) Density and pressure(10) Frequency (hertz) and wavelength(11) Electric field and potential (volts)(12) Current (amps), atomic weight, molarity, heat of vaporization, Faraday's constant(13) Spring constant(14) Examples of how to use ratio units: speed(15) Speedtags: education college student university exam test educational study campus school
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Sesame Street "Jack Grows His Own Beanstalk" Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk comes along Sesame Street and tells Leela and Telly he has a problem. He only has a cow, but he needs a beanstalk! He knows he's supposed to trade the cow for something but doesn't know what. Leela gives him a clue-he needs to find something that grows in the ground. D
5:00 am
Martha Speaks "Billy Collins Speaks/Milo's Reading Buddy" Billy Collins Speaks - Billy Collins writes great poems about dogs, and Martha thinks she knows why. Obviously, the former poet laureate must be a canine himself! When Martha meets Billy Collins she's in for a few surprises.as is he. D
5:30 am
Super Why! "Humpty Dumpty" Poor Pig is stuck at the tippy top of his brand new slide, and is afraid to come down! The Super Readers fly into the Humpty Dumpty book to find out how he'll get down from that wall. All the King's horses and all the King's men may not be able to help Humpty, but the Super Readers can! In the process, everyone learns a lesson about giving encouragement.G
6:00 am
Sid The Science Kid "Rock & Roll Easter!" It's springtime and that means it's time to hunt for Easter eggs in the backyard. Explorer Sid searches under every bush and behind every tree, and he finds all the eggs Mom and Dad have hidden. But wait, he also found. D
6:30 am
WordWorld "Bugs to the Rescue/Sheep's First Bike Ride" Bugs to the Rescue - Ant builds Bear a hot-air balloon for her birthday, but Dog accidentally floats away in it! Ant elicits the help of his insect WordFriends Bug, Bee and Fly to rescue Dog and save the day. Sheep's First Bike Ride - Bear and Sheep both learn to build the word "bike," and Sheep learns how to ride one for the first time in her life. In both cases, it just takes some perseverance. D
7:00 am
Sesame Street "Jack Grows His Own Beanstalk" Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk comes along Sesame Street and tells Leela and Telly he has a problem. He only has a cow, but he needs a beanstalk! He knows he's supposed to trade the cow for something but doesn't know what. Leela gives him a clue-he needs to find something that grows in the ground. D
8:00 am
Curious George "Curious George, Plumber's Helper/Curious George Takes a Hike" George brings some new toys in the tub and a few of them spiral down the drain, causing a clog.G
8:30 am
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Show Me The Honey/Migration Vacation" Show Me the Honey - Sally and Nick have run out of honey! Luckily the Cat knows just where to go to get more. They visit Queen Priscilla Buzzoo who invites them to join in the bee dance to learn how to make honey. Migration Vacation - The purple martin swallow that lives in Sally's backyard has gone missing! The Cat, with the help of a variety of forest creatures, help Nick and Sally track down the bird, and learn how and why birds migrate. D
9:00 am
Super Why! "The Emperor's New Clothes" Littlest Pig is very embarrassed. Jill wants him to wear a bucket on his head for their game, and he feels just plain silly! The Super Readers dive into the tale of The Emperor's New Clothes and meet an Emperor who doesn't want to look ridiculous either! Trouble is, his clothes seem to be invisible, and there's nothing sillier than a parade in your underwear! Educational Objectives: To learn about communicating feelings, follow the alphabet, practice spelling skills and use the power to read to change the story. D
9:30 am
Dinosaur Train "Junior Conductor Jamboree/Troodon Train Day" Junior Conductor Jamboree - Our kids ride the Dinosaur Train from one end of the line to the other, through all three Time Periods -- from the Cretaceous, through the Jurassic, to the Triassic. All along the way, they pick up friends who join them for a Junior Conductor Jamboree! Troodon Train Day - The Pteranodon family rides to Troodon Town to celebrate Troodon Train Day, where the main event is a concert by King Cryolophosaurus, giving his first performance in years! When King comes down with some last-minute jitters, Buddy and Tiny help him overcome his stage fright and he sings a medley of his hits, including the Dinosaur Train theme song!. D
10:00 am
The Electric Company "Jules Quest" Jessica discovers an ancient scroll that leads her on a scavenger hunt throughout the neighborhood. Will the scroll lead Jessica to hidden treasure. or an even bigger surprise?. D
10:30 am
Wild Kratts "Stuck On Sharks" Martin and Chris are on a mission to uncover the secret life of the mysterious Great White Shark. They use Aviva's incredible Remora Rocketsub to "stick with" a female shark and soon learn that the giant predator of the sea actually has lots of challenges to contend with and that she could help them discover something that no one has ever seen before - the birth of Great White shark pups. But when Gourmand sniffs around looking for ingredients for his Shark Fin Soup recipe, the Wild Kratts team must help rescue their new friend. D
11:00 am
WordWorld "Bugs to the Rescue/Sheep's First Bike Ride" Bugs to the Rescue - Ant builds Bear a hot-air balloon for her birthday, but Dog accidentally floats away in it! Ant elicits the help of his insect WordFriends Bug, Bee and Fly to rescue Dog and save the day. Sheep's First Bike Ride - Bear and Sheep both learn to build the word "bike," and Sheep learns how to ride one for the first time in her life. In both cases, it just takes some perseverance. D
11:30 am
WordGirl "Bampy Battles Bots/Truth, Revision, and the Lexicon Way" Bampy Battles Bots - The Botsfords couldn't be more excited to have Bampy, Becky and TJ's grandfather, visit! Becky is thrilled to see him until he tells her that he used to fight robots better than WordGirl. When Tobey invents the ultimate invincible robot, will Bampy be able to help WordGirl save the day? Truth, Revision, and the Lexicon Way - Mr. Big tries a new form of mind control by taking over the school's newspaper, the "Daily Rag". With his misleading articles and city-wide contests, Mr. Big threatens to reveal WordGirl's secret identity. D
12:00 pm
Outdoor Idaho "Working for Wildlife" Professionals and volunteers are in forests and fields - even cities - throughout Idaho working to increase knowledge about wildlife and its chances for survival. Cameras capture "deer tackling" in eastern Idaho; follow scientists and volunteers through deep snows to radio collar the seldom-seen elusive wolverine; and visit a woman raising orphan bears in her backyard in Garden City, adjacent to Boise.G
12:30 pm
Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless "From Lobster to Chocolate Clams: A Delicious Feast in Magdalena Bay" Rick and local guide Luis Garduno of REDTours venture out on a skiff to learn about sustainable fishing on Magdalena Bay. They catch up with local lobster fishermen and learn about sizing lobsters. Then they watch as clam divers haul up the local chocolate clams from the bottom of the bay. D
1:00 pm
Katie Brown Workshop "Kitchen Confidential: The Nuts and Bolts of a Kitchen Renovation" The second episode in the three-part home makeover features a walk-through of the kitchen in Katie's Connecticut home with experts. Before-and-after photos document the progress. D
1:30 pm
Paint This With Jerry Yarnell "Structuring Your Painting, Part 2" This is an intense session on how to use reference materials forming a composition and creating a painting. This lesson teaches you to compose on your own work and to create a focal area versus a painting with a definitive center of interest. The composition design moves the viewer into the painting and directs their attention to the focal area without stopping or distracting them. D
2:00 pm
Essential Pepin "Savory Staples" Risotto With Vegetables; Darphin Potatoes; Skillet Sweet Potato; Green Couscous; Corn Polenta With Mushroom Ragout. D
2:30 pm
Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions "The Future of Shopping" Burt discovers how shopping kept the original 13 colonies together during the Revolutionary War. He goes online to check out cyber-shopping at a virtual antique store and an Internet car business before interviewing Meg Whitman, president of eBay.G
3:00 pm
Oregon Field Guide "Bighorn Release, Photogeology, Willamette Valley Fen" This follow-up on 60 years of bighorn restoration in historic sheep country near the John Day Fossil Beds finds one group of rams who took a wrong turn. A tour of Jordon Craters and Leslie Gulch exposes the wonders of Oregon geology.G
3:30 pm
MotorWeek "Infiniti Jx" Road Test: 2013 Infiniti JX. Road Test: 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8/Charger SRT8. Goss' Garage: Underhood & Undercar Gadgets. D
4:00 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Vegetarian Pasta Night" Test cook Becky Hays shows host Christopher Kimball how to make Great Vegetable Lasagna. Then, science expert Guy Crosby teaches Chris about the science of cornstarch. Next, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of whole wheat lasagna noodles. D
4:30 pm
Passport to Adventure "Patagonia, Chile - Dolphins, Fjords, & Rainforests in Aysen" In this two-part episode, we explore a truly off-the-beaten-path region of Patagonia. In Aysen, where the main highway is mostly unpaved, travel is rugged, the scenery intoxicating - waterfalls tumble over lush mountainsides, wild flowers carpet riverbanks and dolphins frolic in pristine fjords - all of nature's wonders crammed into one destination. We've done our best pack it all into two episodes!. D
5:00 pm
Globe Trekker "Globe Trekker Food Hour: Israel & The Palestinian Territories" Trekker Angela May discovers the diverse and rich food traditions of Israel, with visits to Jaffa, Jerusalem, the coastal city of Acca and the hills of Judea. Then chef Bobby Chinn investigates whether or not there is an authentic Palestinian cuisine as he explores Jerusalem, Jericho, Bethlehem and Ramallah.G
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Song of the Mountains Grascals. D
7:00 pm
Austin City Limits "Miranda Lambert/Jeff Bridges" The multiple award-winning Lambert performs her greatest hits, followed by actor Bridges in his music television debut.G
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Lennon Sisters: Same Song, Separate Voices Join the Lennon Sisters, television's greatest sister act, for this joyful and exuberant song filled career retrospective based on their bestselling autobiography "Same Song Separate Voices." This all new musical documentary is a celebration of the Lennon Sisters 55th anniversary in show business and a dazzling journey through the great American songbook of the classic pop hits of the 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond.G
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Front Row Center "T-Bone Burnett Presents: The Secret Sisters w/ Elvis Costello and Jakob Dylan" The Secret Sisters, singing siblings Laura and Lydia Rogers, showcase their beautiful harmonies and classic country/folk sound in a supper club atmosphere performing originals from their recent self-titled album as well as some of their favorite covers. They are joined by legendary guests T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello and Jakob Dylan. D
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Song of the Mountains Grascals. D
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Austin City Limits "Miranda Lambert/Jeff Bridges" The multiple award-winning Lambert performs her greatest hits, followed by actor Bridges in his music television debut.G


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The Centre has finalised the rules for the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, which will be communicated to the states soon, allowing them to set up and appoint regulators for the sector.
Parliament had passed the bill in March, to regulate the real estate sector, bring transparency and help protect consumer interests.
Further, emphasising that the Act brings in transparency and accountability in the real estate sector, Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu, reportedly urged the private sector to join hands with the Centre to meet the shortage of houses in the country.
The Real Estate Act is touted as a major reform measure to regulate the vast real estate sector and bring order in it. It will help establish state-level Real Estate Regulatory Authorities to regulate transactions, in both residential and commercial projects, and ensure timely completion and handover. It will also be required to dispose off complaints within 60 days.
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In Robert Bolt's play, A Man for All Seasons, the aging Cardinal Wolsey admonishes Sir Thomas More: "You're a constant regret to me, Thomas. If you could just see the facts flat on, without that horrible moral squint; with just a little common sense, you could have been a statesman." Wolsey's heirs are quick to upbraid our latter-day Mores for their sentimental "moral squint" at public policy. Yet even statesmen of Wolsey's stripe seldom see the "facts" flat on. Invariably, our perceptions betray our moral squints and prejudices.
Beginning with Leo XIII's magisterial encyclical on the rights of workers to a living wage (Rerum novarum, 1891), the Roman Catholic Church looks at public policy through the moral squint of its social teaching. In the words of Benedict XVI's "Message for the 92nd World Day of Migrants and Refugees," "the Church sees" the suffering of our sisters and brothers "through the eyes of Jesus, who was moved with pity at the sight of the crowds wandering as sheep without a shepherd. (Cf. Mt 9:36)." How then, as citizens of faith, do we fulfill the Gospel's prophetic mandate, in our present day?
Inspired by the great biblical injunctions of justice or righteousness (sedaqah), right judgment (misphat), and love of neighbor (agape) marking the reign of God, modern Roman Catholic social teaching turns to the distinctively modern idiom of human dignity and the rights that follow from it. The bishops elaborated on these rights in their 1986 pastoral letter:
Catholic social teaching spells out the basic demands of justice...in the human rights of every person. These fundamental rights are prerequisites for a dignified life in community. The Bible vigorously affirms the sacredness of every person as a creature formed in the image and likeness of God. The biblical emphasis on covenant and community also shows that human dignity can only be realized and protected in solidarity with others.
The appeal to human dignity "in solidarity with others" serves as a proximate foundation of human rights, permitting us to speak prophetically to the world. Yet in specifying the "minimum conditions" for the realization of such dignity, the bishops not only ratify, but enrich our notion of rights. For in the church's social teaching, basic human rights encompass not merely the "negative" civil-political liberties enshrined in our American tradition—e.g., the freedoms from interference or coercion, such as our rights to freedom of worship, assembly and speech—but the "positive" socio-economic rights of security and subsistence, including employment, minimal health care and education: rights necessary for "a dignified life in community." The theme is echoed in Faithful Citizenship (2007):
The basic right to life implies and is linked to other human rights to the goods that every person needs to live and thrive–including food, shelter, health care, education, and meaningful work. The use of the death penalty, hunger, lack of health care or housing, human trafficking, the human and moral costs of war, and unjust immigration policies are some of the serious moral issues that challenge our consciences and require us to act.
Free to Serve
Christian freedom, then, is not merely the freedom from interference by others, but our freedom for service to the community in love: the "end" of freedom is thus not merely private satisfaction, but the "common good" of every person. Solidarity, writes John Paul II, is the characteristic virtue of the common good. In modern Catholic teaching, the common good is conceived distributively, not en masse, as "the sum total of those conditions of social living" that protect and promote the dignity and rights of every person. The common good thus comprises the institutional protection of basic human rights including, a fortiori, the rights of effective participation of those historically denied place and voice.
While recognizing legitimate plurality in a democracy like our own, the common good sets a threshold for dignified life in community. In Faithful Citizenship, our bishops write, "While the common good embraces all, those who are weak, vulnerable and most in need deserve preferential concern. A basic moral test for our society is how we treat the most vulnerable in our midst" (2007: no. 50).
In other words, our moral entitlement to equal respect or consideration, in concert with the ethical ideal of the common good, justifies preferential treatment for those whose basic rights are most imperiled—in Camus's phrase, our taking "the victim's side." Aquinas's observation that a servant who is ill merits greater attention than a son who is not, is pertinent here: the fulfillment of equal basic rights, in materially dissimilar conditions, justifies a discriminate response. Precisely our concern for equal dignity and equal rights requires that we ask, Whose dignity and rights are unequally threatened? The church's moral squint, her "option for the poor," bids us ask: "Who is missing from the table of policy, whose voice suppressed?"
Finally, as our bishops observe, our solidarity, ordered to the common good, bids us to "be careful stewards of "God's creation and to ensure a safe and hospitable environment for vulnerable human beings now and in the future." How, then, does our "moral squint" guide our thinking on public policy? What lessons for voting might we draw?
Lessons for voting
A. Worthy persuasion: The norms that govern personal choice, such as my opposition to abortion or racism, likewise govern social choice, but differently. For personal choice, I must ask what moral rules, attitudes and beliefs form my conscience. And these rules, attitudes and beliefs may be distinctively religious. If I believe certain actions are wrong, especially if they are always wrong (intrinsically evil), I can never perform them—or intentionally (formally) cooperate in their performance—whatever the consequences might be. I am categorically obliged by the dictates of my conscience.
But suppose, as in politics, the question is not merely my obligation to form my conscience, but my obligation, as a citizen of faith, to influence yours. I must, as Dignitatas Humanae (nos. 7, 4) reminds us, engage in "worthy persuasion." I must find the very best arguments that will persuade you. For those who share my Christian or Catholic beliefs, I will look to Scripture and Tradition, including magisterial pronouncements. In a religiously pluralist society, however, worthy persuasion will typically entail public reasons: reasons that we share, or should share, as citizens. And here we appeal to the modern lingua franca of dignity and human rights. On questions of immigration, abortion, or health care, for instance, we appeal to the basic human rights of the most vulnerable in our midst. As citizens of faith, then, we seek not to impose or legislate our particular morality, but rather to legislate morally, in accordance with the basic human rights that underlie the legitimacy of law and public policy.
B. Precepts are not policy. Like moral rules generally, such rights oblige us to behave in certain ways. But precepts, typically, do not immediately determine policy. For social policy, I must ask the further question of how we best fulfill such rights through the imperfect instrument of law. And here our reasoning is, in Amartya Sen's words, "consequentially sensitive." Indeed, as we saw, in the Catholic tradition is ordered to the common good—to the institutions and laws that best preserve, protect and promote basic human rights.
Voting, then, is not simply a referendum on values. Rather voting constitutes an exercise of prudential deliberation which enables us, in the words of the Catechism, "to discern our true good in every circumstance and to choose the right means of achieving it" (no. 1806; Faithful Citizenship, no. 19). In a democratic society, as we seek to discern our true good, we vote not so much for values or precepts as from them. Clearly we vote for candidates who, to a greater or lesser degree, embody values we cherish. But chief among these values that mark character is wisdom, and wisdom looks to consequences. Which program, policy, or candidate, we must ask, will best preserve, protect, and promote the common good?
As Aquinas reminds us, not all precepts of natural law are fittingly legislated as civil law, nor are violations of natural law necessarily proscribed by criminal sanction. Coercive law remains an imperfect instrument. We have generally agreed, for instance, that not all "intrinsically evil" actions (e.g., artificial contraception) are fit subjects for criminal prosecution. Neither is the wisdom of a particular law exhausted by what it says; wise leaders will look at what it does: once implemented, is the law likely to protect or harm the most vulnerable?
C. Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. Can a Catholic, then, vote for a candidate who in turn votes for a policy permitting abortion? Or to put the question more precisely, is it morally permissible for a legislator to vote for a policy permitting what is morally impermissible? And could I vote for such a candidate?
The question we face is how best to "limit the evil aspects" of prevailing policies, laws or practices. We must ask which feasible proposal will best promote and least violate the rights of all affected, especially the most vulnerable. In the words of our bishops:
Prudence shapes and informs our ability to deliberate over available alternatives, to determine what is most fitting to a specific context, and to act…As Catholics seek to advance the common good, we must carefully discern which public policies are morally sound. (Faithful Citizenship, no. 20).
Such prudential reasoning, legitimately and properly, pertains to abortion policy. In voting for a candidate, I must ask, not only what candidate X explicitly professes, but whether electing her or him will likely contribute to a decrease in abortions. David Hollenbach, S.J., writes, "Whether the number of abortions can be reduced more effectively by taking economic and other preventative measures that reduce pressures on women to consider abortion or by passing legislation that simply bans abortion outright is clearly a matter of practical wisdom. Reaching a judgment on such a matter calls for the exercise of the classic virtue of prudence" (Journal of Religion and Society).
With the virtue of practical wisdom, we recover our "moral squint." And it is a squint that looks to all morally relevant issues, precisely because "the basic right to life implies and is linked to other human rights and goods that every person needs to live and thrive—including food, shelter, health care, education and meaningful work" (Faithful Citizenship).
Political Temptations
Let me conclude, then, by touching upon the temptations that beset faithful citizens today:
A. Hiding our light under a bushel basket (Mt. 5:14). As we argued earlier, the wisdom of our Roman Catholic heritage is also "catholic" or universal in the lower case sense of the word. Catholic Social Teaching rests upon revelation and reason; there is no "double truth." Thus to those who share our biblical texts, we speak in the cadences of Scripture. But faithful citizens engage in "worthy persuasion." We must translate the great biblical injunctions and deposit of tradition into the persuasive rhetoric of human rights if the Gospel is to be heard in our present today.
Much hinges on this. For if we fail to engage in public reasoning, we play into the very rhetoric we so adamantly oppose. For many who accept abortion, after all, the issue is settled by choice; there is no public, common good to be adjudicated in public policy. And in the absence of such a common good, negative liberty—the rights of choice—typically prevail. Indeed, if we oppose abortion merely because we are Catholic, we effectively concede the primacy of choice in a religiously pluralist polity like our own.
But we are not imposing our morality, as if it were merely a form of Catholic etiquette. No, we appeal to a common good that should shape our common life as citizens—this is the wisdom of our Catholic heritage. We are not biblical or magisterial positivists. We have a rich heritage of worthy persuasion; let us not hide it under a bushel basket.
B.Doing the wrong deed for the right reason. T. S. Eliot memorably wrote in Murder in the Cathedral that "the last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason." But the converse is also true. Our good intentions do not absolve us from making wise, prudential decisions. Citizens of faith must look at all policies and the consequences of implementing them from the perspective of the most vulnerable. And here we may differ, not on whether, but on how what Pope Benedict calls "social charity" (Deus caritas est, no. 29) is best practiced "in the present today.
Our bishops remind us, "As Catholics we are not single-issue voters. A candidate's position on a single issue is not sufficient to guarantee a voter's support," even if a candidate's support for "an issue that involves an intrinsic evil, such as support for legal abortion or the promotion of racism, may legitimately lead a voter to disqualify a candidate from receiving support." Our bishops follow Benedict when they write that
There may be times when a Catholic who rejects a candidate's unacceptable position may decide to vote for that candidate for other morally grave reasons. Voting in this way would be permissible only for truly grave moral reasons, not to advance narrow interests or partisan preferences or to ignore a fundamental moral evil. (Faithful Citizenship, no. 35).
The virtue of prudence summons us to vote reflectively, never ignoring grave reasons that bear on the common good. What might such grave reasons be? A faithful citizen who opposes Roe vs. Wade may doubt whether electing a given candidate will be effective: since 1973, the majority of Supreme Court justices have been appointed by Republican presidents, and the decision remains. So too, citizens may doubt whether overturning Roe will resolve the question: reversing Roe would merely remand the issue to the states, the majority of which would likely preserve abortion. Concern for other issues such as poverty, where one's vote could make a greater difference, may then prevail.
And finally, as we observed above, a faithful citizen may believe that social and economic policies that support pre- and post-natal care would more likely reduce the incidence of abortion. Others, to be sure, may believe that the possibility of reversing Roe vs. Wade outweighs such considerations. What is in dispute for faithful citizens, then, is not so much the relative gravity of the issues but the wisdom of our reasons in adjudicating them. Indeed, precisely because I am so opposed to the intrinsic evils of abortion and racism, I must prudentially deliberate about which policy or candidate will best protect the rights of the most vulnerable, including the unborn. By the same token, neglecting such grave reasons—disregarding Roe vs. Wade or merely voting for a candidate because of his or her stated position on Roe without weighing the consequences—is imprudent: Doing the wrong thing for the right reasons is not noble; it is simply wrong. Just as a failure to engage in "worthy persuasion," belies our Catholic wisdom, so a failure to develop the virtue of prudence betrays both faith and citizenship.
C.Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves—and not the other way around (Mt. 10:16). We have a rich tradition of public reasoning. We must, like the scribe whom Jesus commends in Matthew's Gospel (13:52), be adept at drawing out what is old in Scripture and Tradition, when we speak to co-religionists, and drawing out what is new when we speak to citizens. Faithful citizenship requires no less.
So too, our public reasoning looks to the common good. The virtue of prudence, as the Catechism states, bids us "to discern our true good in every circumstance and to choose the right means of achieving it." Such good is specified by the principal themes of Catholic social teaching—the dignity and rights of all, the common good and a preferential concern for the most vulnerable. These "binding universal principles" in the bishops' words, comprise our moral squint. These are the values we must seek to preserve and promote in the public realm.
Prudence guides us in their fitting application. About these values we cannot as faithful citizens differ. Indeed, only with such prior consensus, can faithful citizens make sense of their differences on how best to apply them. For precept is not policy: Thus citizen A may express her opposition to abortion by favoring a candidate who seeks to overturn Roe vs. Wade; while citizen B may favor a candidate who seeks to reduce the incidence of abortion by promoting pre- and post-natal health care, income support for poor, expectant mothers, and adoption programs.
Which is right? There is no simple answer. Wisdom must finally prevail and wisdom is something we share in common. We, who believe in reason and natural law, above all should not fear public debate. And we show our wisdom, not by hiding it under a bushel basket, but by civil argument. For faithful citizens, the choice is not between lacking all conviction and passionate intensity! Our passion, after all, is principled. Intemperance, derision of those with whom we differ, even hatred: these poison the well of worthy persuasion. But let us drink deeply here: we have something to say as faithful citizens, in the present today. Let us say it well.


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Afghanistan signed a new key strategic partnership with India today in a move that puts pressure on Pakistan to rein in Afghan insurgents and negotiate a peace settlement.
President Hamid Karzai arrived in India to ink the deal after indicating he was losing faith in his olive branches to Pakistan.
The strategic partnership, the first such official deal between the two countries, allows arms transfers and formalizes the ability for Afghanistan to seek Indian military training. A small number of Afghan officers already come to train here; the agreement would allow Afghanistan to scale that up if wanted.
Pakistan has made it clear throughout the past decade that it fears "encirclement" by any strong alliance between India and Afghanistan. Today's agreement allows Karzai to brandish the threat of greater military cooperation with India if cooperation with Pakistan toward peace remains in question.
Despite warm and historically deep ties with Kabul, New Delhi has limited its engagement to development work and kept its boots off Afghan soil. That won't change: India's ambassador to Afghanistan, Gautum Mukhopadhyay, told reporters in New Delhi that with regards to the military training, "we are doing everything here."
What's in the agreement?
The strategic agreement leaves out specifics.
"India agrees to assist, as mutually determined, in the training, equipping and capacity building programs for Afghan National Security Forces," reads the agreement. It also carefully notes that the partnership "is not directed against any other State or group of States."
"It's ongoing, there's nothing new about it," said Ambassador Mukhopadhyay. But the agreement does open up an "incremental" and "additional" level of cooperation based on what the Afghans want and the Indians can deliver, he added.
An Afghan official said that the document allows Afghanistan to ask for more military aid from India. "We may not need until 2014 because NATO is already with us. But this document allows us, shows a green light," the official said.
The deal reflects the political realities closing in around Karzai: His external backers, the Americans, are heading for the exits by 2014, and many of his internal backers who are ethnic minorities have lost all patience with his outreach to Pakistan.
Enter India, a country that views Afghanistan as a historical friend and a gateway to markets and resources in Central Asia.
India and Karzai share an enemy in the Taliban. India also has expertise in training armies from developing nations.
"It is easier for us to train these guys than for Western guys to train them. We understand people who are less educated and come from a rough background," says Ramesh Chopra, a retired Indian general.
Currently the Indian training of Afghans here is extremely limited: Less than a dozen a year, according to analysts. General Chopra says India has the capacity to train more than 20,000 Afghan soldiers a year if called upon. Regimental centers across India could each take on a few thousand "easily."
"If you spread these guys around … we have the capability, the capacity, and we can do it at a very low price," says Chopra.
But any expansion of training would be gradual, say Chopra and other experts.
"It's not like they would be taking them in the thousands," says Mohan Guruswamy, chairman of the Center for Policy Alternatives in New Delhi. "The capacity building would be restricted mostly to officers because that would imply knowledge of English."
What now, Pakistan?
The deal marks a break from Karzai's efforts during the past year to enlist Pakistan's friendship and support for a peace settlement.
It comes on the heels of the recent assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani. Afghan officials have indicated Pakistan was behind the killing and not a nation interested in Afghan peace. Karzai's government submitted its evidence to Pakistan to back up the claim.
"Pakistan strongly rejects the baseless allegations," reads a response from Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "The so-called evidence given to the Pakistan Embassy in Kabul is actually a confessional statement of an Afghan national Hamidullah Akundzadeh accused of master-minding the assassination."
The statement goes on to say the information will be looked into before reiterating that Pakistan condemns the killing and is committed to Afghan peace.
Some Afghan analysts are doubtful that today's deal with India will do much to pressure Pakistan.
"Afghanistan is holding an empty gun here," says Daoud Sultanzoy, a former Member of Parliament in Afghanistan. "It seems like Afghanistan is using this – probably with acquiescence of Western countries and India – to put pressure on Pakistan. And Pakistan is used to these empty and hollow pressures."
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Subject description: Display settings hard to figure out
I tried to show my friend puppy today. Unfortunately it did not recognize his monitor, and we had to try several times to configure Xorg. I think we eventually went and used Vesa. I think I would be more inclined to give puppy out if it didn't have this problem. Sorry to be so negative, and I'm not much of a developer either, so I have no idea on how to fix this. But my suggestion is to fix this, as it would make it easier to show to people. Oh the resolution was 1920 x 1200 I think. Thanks for reading!
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Hi trickyheo,
I think with Puppy there can be teething problems, but once its working it won't need to be upgraded every five minutes. Different Puppy's are better at different hardware support - this partly due to the linux kernel. Newer kernels support new hardware but the oldest hardware is no longer support. Also, different hardware manufacturers have different support for linux. Out of interest, which Puppy version were you using and roughly what spec what your friend's computer. Did Vesa work okay?
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I was using slacko 5.3.3. Which ran on my, much worse computer, and monitor fine. His computer was preety much brand new, and a very nice monitor. And yes, Vesa worked fine.
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Posted: Mon 14 May 2012, 19:42
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Try different flavors of PUPPY. TWO other reasons. Some are self detecting, and issue may be type and model of video card. Some flavors have better/different built in drivers. Most have correct driver once you get the base running any way you can. Is the card Radon or NVidia? And what model card.
This is true with older or newer hardware. Many Many flavors to try.
Stick with it... PUPPY is worth it and FUN to play with.
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I think the point Trickyheo is trying to make is that he cannot give Puppy out because if they encounter something like this they do not have the ability/patience to sort the problem out.
They land up with the impression that Puppy is useless.
I tend to agree with him. Puppy is not for giving to the technically incompetent user and leaving them alone with it unless you know it works with their hardware. This is true of a lot of Linux distros of course, not just Puppy.
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I love Puppy but like ICPUG I agree
that trickyheo has a good point.
When one trust a distro and wants to
give it to somebody to share the joy
and the distro just act up one get disappointed.
Puppy works very good for me now but it is true
that Linux Mint 12 live and maybe other modern distros
does work out of the box without asking a thing of the user.
Okay one have to set things like time and foreign keyboard
but that is true of Puppy too.
But Puppy can do things that these distros totally fail to.
Like installing numerous different puppies frugally on same
internal NTFS HD in their own folder/directory and with own savefile
and all this manually in an easy way that even I manage to do in a few minutes.
I've tested maybe 75 linux distros and very few are that easy to use
as puppy are.
But some hardware it fails on. we are dependent on that those that it fail for
take the time and effort to join the forum and write down enough details
so that we find solutions for these instances
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though
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ICPUG wrote:
Puppy is not for giving to the technically incompetent user and leaving them alone with it unless you know it works with their hardware.
Why not? We do it thousands of time every day every time someone downloads a copy of macpup or puppy.
Back when I first started building pups I would give copies to my friends at work who knew nothing about linux. All I told them was how to boot it. I felt that if they could boot it up , get online and surf and then shut it down without blowin up their computer it was ok to pass it out online. I tested the first five macpup's that I built like that.
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my 1st encounter with Puppy_Linux way back in 2002
See post #1 of
my Puppy Linux thread
[now had 71,478 views] at the PC-Guide forums.
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I think 2002 was your first encounter with the PC-Guide forums, rather than Puppy.
Good read though.
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Oops, sorry about that, I read my PC-Guide "Join date" [2002] rather than the date of the post [2008].
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Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation save file bug patch inbound
Joystiq has word from Ubisoft that a patch for Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation is being finalised. The patch will address a save game corruption issue which cropped up earlier in the month. The publisher expects to have a better idea of when the patch will release soon, suggesting it's almost ready for certification. The Vita title released alongside Assassin's Creed 3 in late October.