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Joined: 18 Aug 2013
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Posted: Mon 19 Aug 2013, 00:07
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Is There Any Way To Prune "Personal Memory"?
First, my hat's off to MacPup and Puppy's creators! Keep up the great work!
I'm exploring Puppy to reproduce my great CD-less flash-installed Mint XFCE experience but to lessen wear and tear on the flash drive as many claim there is, though I've heard no reports of anyone actually having a "worn-out" flash drive, at least on the SanDisk and Kingston forums. Since I'm a Mac refugee, I decided to check out MacPup first because of its splendid GUI, so right now I'm experimenting with a 2gig flash drive..
Maybe it's lucky or fluke, but when this non-techie installed MacPup by the book I've had zero of the issues I've read while gleaning dozens of Puppy sites to get educated! It runs beautifully and promises to resurrect my old-in-the-attic Dell tower and R31 Lenovo. I especially like running MacPup entirely off the flash drive without CDs and that's my preferred default. There is only one real hitch that I've been struggling to read about and search for solutions has to do with the "personal storage" memory size issue so I just wish to peg down some conclusions: As of now, to my understanding the "personal storage" file size cannot be pruned or whittled down, only resized larger. Is this absolute or eventually curable? Does the live-CD with flash option really get-round this "personal storage" bloating?
Since I installed MacPup it's signaled me that my "personal storage" size was getting tight and both times I expanded 128 megs. I did install OpenOffice and Seamonkey after finishing ny MacPup installation, but it's still thirsty. (I read that SeaMonkey is less preferred than Opera in Puppy because it doesn't swell the "personal storage" as much. Would that truly help?). My question is does OpenOffice and SeaMonkey regularly generate so much bloat that you have to keep expanding the "personal storage", even when you go into those programs and set cache to zero or dump it and not use SeaMonkey for mail (in testing purposes)?
I spent a bit of time configuring my MacPup desktop in wallpaper and ibar and Shelf set-ups (especially creating gadget icons for them) right and I'd like to know if there's a way I can clone this configuration into a fresh (smaller) "personal storage" file. Next time I'll also have my flash partitioned with one side Linux and the other FAT to keep my personal files on as some users claim that cuts out the bloat, but I'm here to hear it from the horse's mouth!
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Jim in NYC
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Joined: 04 May 2005
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Posted: Mon 19 Aug 2013, 01:24
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If your personal storage seems to be filling up without you adding anything to it, the reason is almost certainly the browser's cache. SeaMonkey makes it easy to fix that. Just go to
Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Cache
, click the
Choose from
button and navigate to
. After that, SeaMonkey will put its cache in /tmp, which is not saved in the personal file. Actually it is not saved at all; it's in RAM, so it simply evaporates into the aether when the computer is turned off.
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Posted: Mon 19 Aug 2013, 03:28
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Hello, jimwg.
Check also the following storage locations for openoffice :
You can safely empty temp and backup, but I would suggest only pruning the older files in the store folder.
Additionnally, you can regain 16 Mg or more if you
the entire
folder at /root/.config/.openoffice to /mnt/home/.openoffice.
Then create a
link back
from /mnt/home/.openoffice to /root/.config/.openoffice. That way, the folder remains accessible to the main openoffice executable.
The only problem with that procedure is that anything in the personal sfs is compacted to +/- 1/3 of the actual size. For ex., a 500 Mg personal sfs can actually contain 1.5 Gb of data. When you transfer something from the personal sfs to a regular disk, the size is times 3 (+/-), so make sure you have enough space on your disk.
Best regards.
Je suis né pour aimer et non pas pour haïr. (Sophocle) /
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Posted: Mon 19 Aug 2013, 04:09
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1. I have as many of my Puppies as possible set so
changes that happen during a session are only saved if I choose to do so
I can manually save....during a session, or else at shutdown/reboot.
I would do this only if I'd made some change I specifically wanted to make permanent.
Otherwise, I normally don't save anything.
Hence, the contents of the pupsave file normally remain unchanging.
a. I can tell you how to do this if you are interested.
b. "Lighthouse64-6.02" [or the larger Mariner version] has a special experimental feature:
You can enter a simple command at startup, that disables auto-saving during the following session.
I find that too much of a bother to use...
The next release will have the ability to easily make permanent the auto-disabling of auto-saves.
To make a new smaller pupsave
Having 1st solved any problems causing abnormal growth of the pupsave contents.
a. Use the "Menu->Setup->Remaster Puppy live CD" program to make a new ISO file that includes all of the pupsave content into a new main SFS file.
b. Use the file contents of that ISO ...
Or make a CD and use the files...
To make a new bootable Puppy Flash Drive.
c. If the old pupsave is held somewhere the new Puppy would see it...
Move the old pupsave to somewhere that the new Puppy won't see it.
[Boot without the Flash Drive connected that's holding the old Puppy & pupsave?]
d. Then boot the new Flash Drive for the 1st time, and at shutdown/reboot, make a new smaller pupsave file.
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Posted: Tue 20 Aug 2013, 16:55
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Thanks to you all for the assist! I am near my mid-seventies but you all make this kind of technical education a joy! Thank you!
I think once the creators of Puppy lick this inflating "personal storage" size issue (there MUST be a way!) and make it automatic for newbies, there'd be no excuse for anyone to carrying Mint on flash drives that are constantly flashing and wearing the things out! Doing it all in RAM is the way to go!
I'm still trying to grasp the concept of the "personal storage"size; is it's size set in stone and it doesn't matter how much you clear it from the inside, the "boundary size" is fixed as far as the program is concerned? Is this similiar to the fixed and flexible memory iso archive files the Mac used? If you can't shrink "personal storage" size, it seems to act like those old fixed memory-size iso archive files. What I would like to do is (even if just for a learning experience), instead of continuously rachetting up the size of my "personal storage" is to actually go inside that pupsave file itself and start weeding out the main causes! Some users say to go into the "initrd" folder where there are lots of "pup_ro5, pup_ro6," etc files and delete those that are empty or have miscellaenous files for a starter. If it's possible how much more do I need to go to effecivently recover some space?
You folks inspired me to experiment a little, so to save space I'm using OOo4kids 1.3. which is far smaller but virtually identical program (at least in Write) to OpenOffice. I was surprised! I had partitioned my flash drive into a 500meg FAT section (sdb2) and a 1400meg Ext3 one (sdb1) and created some folders in sdb2. In OOo4Kids I went into the Paths control and aligned my paths to go: Backup to /sdb2/OOo_Stuff and Documents to /sdb2/Docs. I didn't redirect the tmp path because I had had read in some forums that Puppy wips out tmp files when you reboot, but if believe this inaccurate then I'm game to go your way! I did this to Firefox as well, rdiecting its Backup to sbd2. I pruned SeaMonkey because I thought it'd be redundant with Firefox there and I don't want to deal with an ever swelling mail client, but upon more user forum reading I'm wondering whether cutting SeaMonkey was a mistake since many seem to think it controls its internal and outfile functions better than Firefox. Would I pay a space penelty putting SM back and cutting Firefox out? I don't know, that why I'm asking you mavens!
So far I am very enthused about MacPup/Puppy in general, and the only sticking points for me (a techie tyro and Mac refugee) was having a blank desktop with no drive or foider icons like Macs/PCs start off with, and I really had to get used to creating icons for OOo4Kids which had none to mount on the ibar. Yes, I know Puppy's a different and new animal, but I'm just talking as an ex market resesarcher who wants expand a great product to the masses by helping it be more user friendly.
. I clicked and tinkered with the "Shelf" twice and popped it into the Twilight Zone trying to to access the contents and settings, and so to not to overwrite the good previous savepup configuration by exiting I just switched off my machine and came back and started over, so a "are you sure" alert or warning for things that might pop out by accident would be a great help.
Thanks for the education!
Jim in NYC
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Karl Godt
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Posted: Tue 20 Aug 2013, 17:40
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Flash drive installs should be used only for short maintenance boots - ie to install grub or run filesystem check .
The USB joints often are not really tight, making it easy to disconnect and reconnect for milliseconds .
Other than this I use USB for helping out while testing for new regular releases .
Never use the ext2 file system format for the save file - use ext3 that is stable .
ext2 might not update its space information like journailed fs do . Run fsck on the savefile and that would probably free some space .
Flash is cheap - so don't think one could live forever by reducing the wearing level and still have only benefits without disadvantages .
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Posted: Tue 20 Aug 2013, 22:38
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Karl, I think your objection to putting Puppy in flash memory is really to putting it in
flash memory. Other manifestations of flash memory, such as SD and CF memory cards and SSD, are perfectly acceptable for Puppy. Probably you'd find the same problems if you put Puppy in a USB hard disk as you do putting it in a USB memory stick. In other words, the problem is in the USB connector, not the flash memory itself.
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Posted: Tue 20 Aug 2013, 23:01
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it's also possible to mount a hard-drive partition(s) at startup, and then use symlinks to those partitions in order to do the heavy lifting. For example, if you have a folder that you use for music and/or video on the hard drive, there's no reason to re-create that on your flash. You could mount that partition upon startup, and then use a symlink in your 'home' folder that points to it; from there the symlink is saved upon your puppy flash savefile. This will save you tons of space, and will allow you to share that particular folder/and/or/partition between linux distros. The same can be done with other folders, such as personal documents, etc. You could even remaster the puppy in order to incorporate this behavior by default. Using the hard drive in this manner would certainly lessen the load of your flash drive, and in theory extend its life cycle.
I've checked out Mac-Pup once a couple years ago, and I can't honestly say that it has an easy way to do this. I use Carolina, and with that pup, this is easy to do. I'd imagine that it wouldn't be too difficult to reproduce this behavior with the Mac-pup, too. Both puppy distros are, after all, Linux/GNU.
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Karl Godt
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Posted: Wed 21 Aug 2013, 05:25
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Flash wrote:
Karl, I think your objection to putting Puppy in flash memory is really to putting it in
flash memory. Other manifestations of flash memory, such as SD and CF memory cards and SSD, are perfectly acceptable for Puppy. Probably you'd find the same problems if you put Puppy in a USB hard disk as you do putting it in a USB memory stick. In other words, the problem is in the USB connector, not the flash memory itself.
Flash, you are perfectly right !
Though I have some doubts about the connectivity of micro/mini - SDcards inside a SD adapter card .
Everything that sits internal like SSD should be preferred .
Though I would love to be able test Puppy PUPMODE 3 on SSD ..
Still expensive for little space .
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Posted: Wed 21 Aug 2013, 08:54
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elroy wrote:
I use Carolina, and with that pup, this is easy to do. I'd imagine that it wouldn't be too difficult to reproduce this behavior with the Mac-pup, too. Both puppy distros are, after all, Linux/GNU.
Thanks for the info, Elroy! Very insightful tips! I'll check into Carolina too (and it's a state that brings fond memories too!).
My initital goal was going for a complely CD-less flash OS, which is why I've Mint XFCE on a stick. (yes, I'm just experimenting with Puppy on a 2gig flash and will move higher when I'm used to Puppy -- My Mint runs on a 16gig flash). Works excellenty but you have to wonder about the circuit wear and tear of that ever blinking flash light! Right now I'm trying to find ways to recreate the look and feel of my Mint install into MacPup because I'm too old to change!
But I just have to wonder, just for the heck of it, whether anyone's ever done surgery on their savepup file to trim the fat. I'd be happy to learn doing that! I know many say to install Puppy with a gig for savepup, but is that really overkill just to cover all the bases of future swelling memory? What's the true bare-bone minimum a functional savepup file can get after trimming the lard? I mean I just added OOo4Kids and deleted SeaMonkey to my initial install and it's already bloated to 400mg. By my bad math, just starting from a minimal MacPuppy install with 64megs as pupsave, adding on 72meg OOo4Kids, my first pupsave file shouldn't grow much over 130megs or so, would that be right? Now I did redirect the Backup, TMP and Documents paths in OO4Kids to a FAT partition and changed Firefox's Backup path to that as well, so if you do that from the get-go the pupsave file shouldn't swell much at all, would that be so?
I can't test it now, but does a totally clean CD install of Puppy on flash without adding any apps or anything grow much reboot after reboot? If it doesn't, then it suggests programs like Firefox and Openoffice are generating "invisible" bulk in RAM that we can't see or redirect or dump that's responsible for the pupsave swelling and thus requires our inevitable "personal storage" memory boosting thing, would that be correct? Is there anyway to shut off the swelling leaks in these apps prior or after installation? Of course I'm just guessing all this techie stuff and look forward to be lessoned by you teachers!
Sorry if I'm getting windy about all this, but learning computer things from grass-roots mavens as yourselves is one exciting education!
Jim in NYC
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Frigid weather for Saturday�s Shriners parade wasn�t the coldest ever for the popular January event. But, temperatures hovering in the mid-30s with a brisk breeze did not dampen the enthusiasm of a good-size crowd.
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"Durum wheat has taken the lead right now," says Steve Wright, Tulare County UC farm advisor at the recent California Weed Science Society annual meeting in Monterey.
"Triticale acreage has also picked up quite a bit as well. Right now growers are getting about $300 a ton for Durum wheat and $280 a ton for small grains. They're getting up to $42 a ton for small grain silage, so there is a lot of interest and opportunity to make money with small grains right now."
Taking full advantage of that profit potential, however, requires some attention to competition from yield and quality-robbing weeds.
"When wheat was running about $132 a ton, you had to make at least three tons to the acre to make money," Wright says. "Now that it's approaching $300 a ton, you can make money at almost any yield."
For an investment of only $15-$25 an acre for weed control, including aerial application costs, growers can gain a substantial return. That's particularly true in irrigated wheat where weed control costs represent only about 5 percent of the total production costs. In dryland wheat, weed control can account for as much as 10 percent to 20 percent of production costs, making it a little more difficult to justify if it does not rain to produce yield and a return on the weed control investment.
The primary weeds of concern in small grains include wild oats, Italian ryegrass and canarygrass. Wild oats is the predominant weed problem in the Southern San Joaquin Valley. Canarygrass, based on a survey of acreage, is the overall No. 1 small grains weed problem in California, particularly in the Imperial Valley. Other problematic weeds in small grains include annual bluegrass which is increasing. Ripgut brome and foxtail are also a concern, particularly in situations where growers are converting old pasturelands to wheat production.
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Competition studies conducted in 1977 by Jim Hill, UC Davis weed scientist, have shown that even one wild oats plant per foot can reduce yields enough to make a herbicide treatment cost effective in irrigated wheat.
Wheat density can affect the impact of weeds on production. "The most common wheat density we like to shoot for is 35-38 plants per foot," Wright says. "Lower density wheat stands will be more impacted by wild oats."
Additionally, the timing of wild oats emergence greatly influences the impact, according to Wright. Wild oats that emerge before or with the wheat will have a much greater impact than wild oats that come after the stand is established.
"Anything you can do to get a jump on weeds will help," Wright says. "If it's possible to plant into rain moisture or a pre-irrigated fields, that will help reduce the impact of weeds that compete with the wheat."
Monitoring fields early is important to stay ahead in controlling weeds. There are opportunities this season for growers to take advantage of a new herbicide, Prowl H2O, which should be registered shortly, according to Wright.
"Wild oats have a primary and secondary dormancy," he says. "If you go in there too early, you're going to miss that second flush."
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"Puma does a great job of controlling wild oats and canarygrass from the two-leaf all the way to the two-tiller stage," Wright says. "In general we get the best control by going on the late side. We're looking at adding Prowl H2O to that mix to pick up some of those late emerging weeds."
Although Shark offers good control of grasses, it cannot be tank mixed with most other grass herbicides. Achieve does a good job on canarygrass, according to Wright. Axial is another grass herbicide with a promising fit (not yet registered), while Treflan is an old standby as a preplant incorporated material for suppression of wild oats and canarygrass.
"Prowl H2O will help complement some of our programs," he says. "It's been very successful in Arizona, particularly where they can plant into moisture and then apply the product. Eventually it needs to be incorporated by rainfall or irrigation."
Other options offer a wider spectrum of control that may be desirable depending on the weeds present.
"Osprey is another broad-spectrum material that picks up annual ryegrass, canarygrass, wild oats, annual bluegrass, and ripgut and has some good broadleaf suppression," Wright says. "It does have a plant back issue that still needs to be worked out, and it does cause more yellowing than the other herbicides. Osprey also picks up cheeseweed and does a great job on chickweed, a growing problem in the San Joaquin Valley."


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"It was about how the male (gerbils) produced sperm, how the female produced eggs, how they reproduced. I studied everything. This is when I was 7 or 8."
Now in her 27th year in the fertility field, embryologist Coughlin has helped bring 25,000 babies into the world. Her lab, which she has owned since 2001, has made parents of such high-profile couples as New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi and his wife, Kim; entertainer Rosie O'Donnell and her partner, Michelle Rounds; and E News anchor Giuliana Rancic and her reality TV star husband, Bill. The lab, she says, has a staff of about 18 and provides IVF laboratory services to Fertility Centers of Illinois, a fertility treatment practice that has been offering advanced reproductive services in the Chicago area for more than 30 years.
The success rate at aParent (aparentivf.com) is impressive. Even with many of its couples turning to Coughlin as a last resort after failing to conceive at other clinics, more than 80 percent of clients take home a baby. She has been one of the pioneers in the field (though she refers to herself as "a dinosaur"). IVF didn't come to Chicago until around 1984, she says, and in 1986 she became director of the lab she eventually purchased. She also is a client, having three IVF children: boy and girl twins, now 15, and a 13-year-old son. "Three perfect, healthy children," she says.
After a recent morning of seeing clients, Coughlin discussed her kids, growing up at West 79th Street and South Talman Avenue in Chicago, and her work. This is an edited version of the conversation.
Q: So it all started with gerbils.
A: I had all kinds of cages set up. ... I'd breed them and put the babies in new aquariums. Finally, my mother said, no more. So I got a gig, going to the pet store at Ford City; they'd give me 50 cents per gerbil. Then mice, then rats, then rabbits. The other part of my business ... I'd take care of people's pets. Back then, it's not like now. Everybody let their dogs have puppies. These weren't purebreds or anything. This being the South Side, they were just mutts that got knocked up. I'd sit up with (the dogs), helping the puppies be born, get them to eat. Then I'd try to find them homes.
Q: The veterinary field seems to have come naturally to you.
A: I was going to specialize in breeding animals ... farm animals. I went to Circle (University of Illinois at Chicago) at first. ... Then I transferred to the U. of I. at Urbana in dairy science. As a student, I was teaching veterinarians how to inseminate cows.
Q: How'd you go from cattle to people?
A: I was doing research on embryo cultures and other things, and I read about in vitro fertilization, and how they were starting to do it with humans. I called the veterinary school and told my adviser I thought I wanted to do it with humans instead. ... You're from Chicago, you're from the South Side. Families are everything. So that's what I wanted to do. I always knew I wanted to work in reproduction, but I always figured it'd be animals, because that's all it was then.
Q: How do you relate to your patients?
A: What's really special is that I practice in Chicago, I really understand the couple who lives and works here, the little nuances, which are very important in fertility.
Q: How does Chicago make a difference?
A: It's a very friendly place, but it's hard-paced. It's very much a big city. Our women have to face a lot of the same job pressures as women in New York, they're driven by their careers, compared to certain rural areas, someplace where the pace is slower, where women coming in (to a clinic) might have more of a physical issue. But there's high stress here, a fast pace. That has an effect on fertility.
Q: You have a reputation of being very patient-friendly.
A: I'm an embryologist who runs a lab. I have a very close relationship with the patients. In most IVF programs, it's just the physician who (deals with patients). Here the patients get ... the doctor and the laboratory, working together for what is best for the patient. They have different needs, concerns. It's really individualized. My doctors benefit from it; I benefit in terms of how to guide my staff. And it's real exciting after 27 years.
Q: Did having IVF children of your own change your outlook in any way?
A: It did. I always loved what I did. But I was caught up in the science. And I loved the patient aspect, helping people. I didn't know if I wanted kids. But once I had them and delivered them, it took on a different meaning. Before, it was, I want to help people; it was reproduction. After, it was making babies.
Q: Aside from the uncounted number of gerbils, you've helped produce 25,000 babies. That's bigger than a typical weeknight crowd at a White Sox game.
A: I never thought of that. I'll have to tell my husband. But I do reflect on (the successes). People suffer from infertility, they come here for help, and I do often think of those numbers. I'm so blessed. People tell me I have the best job in the world, and I do. I love it. Love it, love it. It's what keeps me going. It's something I have to do.


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This is a re-post from another forum. This topic is on many peoples minds and there are those who wish to hide this information and attack anyone that speaks about this theory.
The last months SWIM and his fellow Trippers/Psychonauts-friends have a always returning subject of discussion: Is this blotter real LSD?
Most of SWIM's fellow Trippers have more experience then SWIM with LSD. SWIm experience with LSD is 5 Years, theirs maybe7-8.
The question didnt rised because of bitter tasting blotters, it comes from somewhere else...
This Summer, during Festival season in europe, there were a lot of dalai Lamas (buddhas) and Shivas around. Its supposed to be the same stuff, just the shiva is supposed to be half the dalailamas force. The Dalai Lama was strong, and indeed, good. but 4 hours later, so SWIM says, the effect weared off, and they started to wonder. how can it be, that 4 hours later the strong effect start to wear off?
Now the strange thing is, that the effect of these blotter are like lsd, SWIM would even say it is LSD, the only thing disturbing him is the duration. but compared to trips
This conspiracy theory was heard from a certain group at one of these festival, that had good really good drops of acid. they started this whole discussion, that the last 4-5 years there is a big, world wide lsd conspiracy going on. The people behind production arent the same anymore, it would be too expensive and complicated today to do real acid, so they prefere to combine/not combine, however put RC's on blotter, that allone or in combination with other RC'S, have a very lsd like effect. So people behind production today, wouldnt be interested in spreadin lsd in the world, but in the 10 euro for ur blotter...ur money. and the real LSD-25, like that one that hoffman once produced, was always underground, and also today will always stay underground.
What are the other SWIMMERS thinking about this? has anySWIMMER tried the dalai lama (buddha) and had simmilar diminishing effect after 4h? Do SWIY think there is a LSD-conpiracy going on, most blotters arent real acid? if it is true, what could it be? what rc would produce more or less the same acid effect, just less time?


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U.S. stock-index futures zipped higher on Tuesday in volatile action as traders digested a round of global business surveys and earnings from several big-name companies.
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Today's Markets
As of 8:13 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures jumped 72 points to 14571, S&P 500 futures gained 6.3 points to 1562 and Nasdaq 100 futures climbed 18.3 points to 2816.
There was no lack of information for traders to parse through on the day.
First-quarter earnings season was in full swing with three Dow components reporting ahead of the opening bell. United Technologies (NYSE:UTX), the industrial giant, revealed profits that missed expectations after factoring out one-time favorable items, with sales also missing expectations. DuPont's (NYSE:DD) earnings per share topped the Street's view, with the chemical maker's sales coming inline with forecasts. Travelers' (NYSE:TRV) results blew past expectations, sending the insurer's shares soaring in the pre-market.
Another big gainer was Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), which reported considerably stronger-than-expected quarterly results, coupled with a bullish assessment of its original series, "House of Cards." All eyes will be on Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) after the closing bell, when the world's biggest technology company reveals its quarterly results. The iPad-maker's behemoth market capitalization means moves in its stock price often have an outsize impact on the markets -- particularly the tech-heavy Nasdaq.
On the global front, HSBC's China PMI slid to 50.5 in April from 51.6 in March, coming in far short of expectations of 51.5. The reading suggests the manufacturing sector in the world's No. 2 economy expanded at the slowest pace in two months.
Hongbin Qu, HSBC's chief economist for China, said in the report that the recent bout of weak data could put pressure on Bejing to ease further. Still, markets in China sold off, with the Hang Seng sliding 1.1%.
A separate report from Markit showed business activity in the eurozone contracting at the same pace in April as it did the month before. The services sector shrunk at the slowest pace in two months, but the manufacturing sector contracted at the swiftest pace in four. Indeed, Germany, the bloc's economic engine, saw its business activity skidding into contraction mode for the first time in five months.
"The latest figures suggest any rebound in GDP over the first quarter could be rather short-lived, not least as the manufacturing and service sectors both recorded faster declines in new orders than one month earlier," Tom Moore, a senior economist at Markit wrote in the report.
At 10:00 a.m. ET, traders will get a reading on new home sales. Economists expect sales of newly-constructed homes to have jumped by 9,000 to an annual pace of 420,000 units in March from the month before. Data on sales of existing homes came in shy of estimates on Monday.
In commodities, U.S. oil prices slid 66 cents, or 0.75%, to $88.55 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline sold off by 1.2% to $2.737 a gallon. Gold was steady at $1,421 a troy ounce.
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The Euro Stoxx 50 rallied 1.9% to 2634, the English FTSE 100 jumped 1.1% to 6351 and the German DAX soared 1.3% to 7578.
In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei 225 ticked lower by 0.29% to 13530 and the Chinese Hang Seng dropped 1.1% to 21807.


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US President Barack Obama has announced he is deploying 100 "combat-equipped" troops to Uganda to help efforts against rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), who Washington accuse of grievous human rights abuses.
The US troops, subject to the approval of national authorities, could also deploy from Uganda into South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of the Congo, Obama said in a message to Congress.
LRA rebels are accused of murdering, raping and kidnapping thousands of people in the four nations.
Tens of thousands of people have died in their 20-year war with security forces in northern Uganda.
"These forces will act as advisors to partner forces that have the goal of removing from the battlefield Joseph Kony and other senior leadership of the LRA," Obama said, but warned they would not lead the fighting themselves.
"Although the US forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing information, advice, and assistance to partner nation forces.
"They will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defence. All appropriate precautions have been taken to ensure the safety of US military personnel during their deployment."
The president said a small group of troops deployed on Wednesday and that additional forces will deploy over the next month.
Kony is accused of war crimes and wanted by the International Criminal Court.
The civil war effectively ended in 2006 when a peace process was launched, but Kony and his top commanders continue to commit atrocities in remote areas of neighbouring countries.
General Carter Ham, the head of US Africa Command, said last week that his best estimate was that Kony was probably in the Central African Republic.


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Status: Retired 1977. First Launch: 1965-10-19. Last Launch: 1977-06-18. Number: 127 .
Serious consideration of designs for a Soviet light orbital launch vehicle began in the mid-fifties. At the end of 1956 Korolev studied a scientific launch vehicle based on an R-5 first stage and R-11 second stage. He concluded that it could only be used as a sounding rocket, that a new third stage would have to be developed for the combination to have orbital capability.
Yangel studied use of either the R-5M or the R-12 with various 'off the shelf' missile stages developed for surface-to-air missiles, but found that no such combination could reach orbit. Use of the R-12 in parallel stages was also possible, but the problem of in-flight ignition of the core stage was one not solved in the Soviet Union until 1955. Solid rockets available in the Soviet Union at that time had too low a specific impulse and too high a mass fraction to be useful in a satellite launcher. The only solution was a redesign of the R-12 to optimize it for the satellite launch role, and a small, new-design upper stage.
Korolev was anxious to move on to manned space exploration and was not interested in developing small launch vehicles. He was glad for Yangel to pursue this. However design work at Yangel's bureau was limited and desultory, since there was no outside support for the project until after the worldwide sensation following the launch of the first Sputnik in late 1957. But by then development of Yangel's R-16 ICBM had priority.
A key element in the development of a two-stage space launch vehicle was the solution of in-flight separation and ignition of the second stage following burn-out of the first stage. Yangel's R-16 ICBM was fitted with thrusters on the interstage between the first and second stages to provide thrust between shut-down of the first stage and ignition of the second. This kept the propellants in the tanks and the engine under G-force; there was no coasting period. The solution already adopted for some surface-to-air missiles - a 'hot start' where the second stage ignited while the first stage still was firing - was not adopted due to performance reasons.
Start-up of a rocket stage in zero-G was not solved until Korolev's Luna upper stage for the R-7. This was developed in response to a 20 March 1958 government resolution requiring the first launch of a Soviet probe to the moon within a year. In this period Glushko was developing the RD-109 engine for a high performance R-7 third stage. This burned liquid oxygen and UDMH propellants, achieving the astonishing specific impulse of 350 seconds. This would potentially double the payload compared to a liquid oxygen/kerosene stage. But the new technology engine was considered too much of a risk by Korolev. It also used the toxic hydrazine fuel he detested on principal. So on 10 October 1958 he gave Kosberg the task of developing a third stage engine for the R-7 derived from the R-7 first stage verniers and burning his preferred liquid oxygen/kerosene propellants. Meanwhile Glushko pursued further development of the RD-109, which used a 75 atmosphere chamber pressure and a closed engine cycle. By mid-1958 he had encountered various knotty problems in chamber cooling and the gas generator. It was decided to stop all work on the RD-109 in order to concentrate on development of the engines for the R-14 IRBM and R-16 ICBM. The estimated date for completion of development slipped to the end of 1959, too late for it to be used for the Vostok lunar launches. However it could be ready for the Vostok/Zenit manned and reconnaissance spacecraft orbital flights.
Development of the engine on tests stands was finally completed in January 1959, with runs in a 90 cubic meter vacuum chamber at a pressure of 1 mm Hg. The RD-109 that finally emerged had a chamber pressure of 76 to 70 atm and a specific impulse of 334 seconds. The conventional liquid oxygen/kerosene engine that Kosberg had developed as a replacement in the Luna probes (the RD-0105/RO-5) had a specific impulse of 316 seconds. Use of the RD-109 in the Luna stage would have increased payload to 424 kg as opposed to 373 kg with the RD-0105. But for use on the piloted Vostok booster, Korolev refused to consider using UDMH as a fuel due to its toxicity. Therefore he opted to further develop the Kosberg engine for the Vostok, leaving the RD-109 an engine without an application.
However Yangel saw that the engine would be a good match for a high-performance upper stage application. Therefore Glushko agreed to continue to refine the RD-109, now designated the RD-119. The new engine had many improvements in the chamber and nozzle profile and could run at higher chamber temperatures through the use of double-shell wall cooling. The result was a specific impulse of 352 seconds. The engine was run at up to 260 seconds firing durations as opposed to the 150 seconds rated ability.
A government resolution of 8 August 1960 authorized Yangel to develop the 63S1 light orbital launch vehicle for launch of payloads not requiring the R-7 family of boosters and to produce a series of ten for launch of small satellites. The booster had to use the existing R-12 IRBM as a first stage, the existing Mayak launch silo as a launcher, and an existing engine for the upper stage. Since the R-12 was built for silo launch (it could not be held on a surface pad exposed to the elements), the existing R-12 silo 'Mayak-2' at Kapustin Yar was adapted. A swing-back shelter above the top of silo covered the second stage and payload during launch preparations.
The 63S1 was used through May 1966 for a total of 40 launches, of which 12 were failures. The Mayak complex was built for missile launches and was not durable enough for repeated space launches. A space launch complex had to be a virtual 'launch chimney' and endure the flames of many launches and accommodate many different payloads. Therefore the Mayak complex was abandoned and the Voskhod and Raduga complexes were designed for later R-12 and R-14 derived space launchers. The same military cadres designed and built the R-7 Angara complex and missile sites.
More at: Kosmos 2.
Family: orbital launch vehicle. Country: Ukraine. Spacecraft: Project 581, DS-1, DS-2, 1MS, 2MS, DS-P1, DS-K-8, DS-A1, Omega, DS-MT, DS-MG, DS-P1-Yu, Strela-1, DS-U2-V, DS-U2-M, DS-K-40, DS-P1-I, DS-U1-G, DS-U2-I, DS-U2-MP, DS-U2-D, DS-MO, DS-U3-S, DS-U1-Ya, DS-U1-A, DS-U2-GK, DS-U2-GF, DS-U3-IK, DS-U1-IK, DS-U2-MG, DS-U1-R, DS-U2-IK. Agency: Yuzhnoye. Bibliography: 116, 2, 42, 474, 475, 476, 567, 6, 79, 89, 99.
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LAKE FOREST – Bears nickelback D.J. Moore never expected to go from playmaker to spectator.
It happened anyway.
Moore's coaches benched him last month in favor of Kelvin Hayden, an eight-year veteran who started 47 games with the Indianapolis Colts and Atlanta Falcons. Moore has not played in three of the past four games but could earn another opportunity to play Sunday at Minnesota.
That's because cornerback Tim Jennings has a shoulder injury and has not been able to practice this week. The Bears have not ruled out Jennings for Sunday, but if he is unable to play, it's likely Hayden will move to cornerback and Moore will return to nickelback.
Moore said he was eager to return to the field after his benching.
"The whole situation is kind of funny to me," Moore said. "But I never took it as another guy was better than me. That's never the case. I just want to go out there and do what I can do."
Bears coach Lovie Smith said Moore needed to make plays if he received another chance. Moore had four interceptions in each of the previous two seasons, returning two for touchdowns.
"If your play isn't exactly what we think it should be, then you open the door for someone else to get an opportunity," Smith said. "Most of the time, you get another chance. So, what you have to do is make plays. Simple as that. It's all based on performance on the football field.
"D.J. is a pro. When he did take a step back, he was doing everything he possibly could behind the scenes to help this team. He's a good player. Hopefully, he'll get another shot."
Moore acknowledged that this season has been a bit strange.
"Yeah, kind of," said Moore, who was the Bears' fourth-round draft pick in 2009. "But during the whole process, I've been myself. I just look forward to playing."
Sigh of relief: Bears linebacker Lance Briggs said he and his teammates were fortunate they did not have to prepare for Vikings wide receiver Percy Harvin, who was placed on injured reserve this week because of an ankle injury.
In the 2011 regular-season finale against the Bears, Harvin caught 10 passes for 115 yards and rushed for a 5-yard touchdown.
"The things they [do] with Percy – putting him in the backfield, motioning him out – he can play anywhere on the field," Briggs said. "He's as good a running back as there is in the game once he gets the ball. But him not being there is a little bit of a relief because he can create some matchup problems."
Bears bits: As expected, wide receiver Earl Bennett (concussion) was ruled out for Sunday's game. … Running back Michael Bush (ribs) and Jennings (shoulder) missed practice for a second consecutive day. … Defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli ruled out any possibility of rookie Shea McClellin playing linebacker this season. "We've got our guys," Marinelli said.


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Tennis opens A-Sun Championship Thursday
The Bisons head to DeLand, Fla., as the No. 6 seed in the 2011 Atlantic Sun Men's Tennis Championships, where they will face No. 3 seed Campbell University on Thursday, April 14 in the first round.
The trip will mark the first time in school history the Bisons (7-10 overall, 4-6 A-Sun) have earned a top-6 seed in the conference tournament. The Bisons are looking to post their first post season win.
The Bisons last saw their first round opponent on April 2, when they fell to the Camels 6-1. Head coach Andrew Harris said the Bisons will need to start out strong in doubles to get out of the first round.
"Anytime you are in a conference championship like this, the doubles point is extremely critical," Harris said. "Once the singles matches are completed, they stop all remaining matches."
Harris said the Bisons also need to vamp up their singles play as well as their mindset.
"Honestly, we have not played at the level in singles the last few matches that we have become accustomed to seeing in the spring," Harris said. "The guys understand that they don't have to play unbelievable to win, but they understand they need to compete at a higher level to have success on Thursday.
"These guys have been working hard all year long, and they will give themselves the best opportunity possible to be successful."
Campbell finished the regular season 16-4 overall and 7-3 in the A-Sun. The Camels also boast the A-Sun's player of the year, Senior Davy Sum, who unanimously won the title. Freshman Fernando Guillen also earned the honor of freshman of the year, while Dominik Kaniewski earned a spot on the All-Conference second team.
The winner of the Bisons' and Camels matchup will move on to the semifinals to face No. 2 ETSU on Friday.
The Bisons will take the court at 3:30 CST on Thursday.


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Matt Medium emailed in this great drawing of Fecal Face Los Angeles contributor and artist, Michael Hsiung yesterday. Love it.
Matt Medium Is a Boston based Illustrator, Designer, Photographer, and Human Being. Matt is well known for his love of drinking beer while watching TV, he also makes art, He is kind of awesome. http://mattmedium.tumblr.com/
Michael C Hsiung is characterized by: large mustache (one of the few remaining facially hairy Asians surviving today) with all of the species capable of reaching one ton or more in weight; herbivorous diet; and a thin yellow protective skin, 1.5-5 cm thick, formed from layers of collagen positioned in a lattice structure; and a relatively small brain for a mammal of his size (400-600g).
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Thanks a lot, that helps. I will try at weekend (although I would have prefered a linux solution). Michael On 28.10.2011 01:47, Michal wrote:
Hi Michael, I tried several ts muxers but only result of SmartLabs tsMuxeR was playable by vdr. http://smlabs.net/en/products/tsmuxer/ Michal On 10/27/2011 08:26 PM, M. Fiegert wrote:Hello, can anybody please point me to some examples how to transcode/reencode to vdr format (ts or pes if necessary)? I found a lot of convert scripts, mencoder commandlines, ... to transcode from vdr to eg mp4. Unfortunatly I could not find anything for the opposite direction :-( How can I go the other way round (to view external files in vdr with the same comfort as native recordings) or reencode recordings (to compress pes and ts mpeg recordings to h264 with lower resolution - you don't need full picture quality on an archive of political discussions for example). I could not find a mencoder option to output ts. I guess i need to encode with mencoder and then remux with some other tool? Thanks for any link Michael
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TAMPA, Florida (AP) — A rare sea turtle that a Florida fisherman wanted to cook and eat has been released back into the wild.
Officials at The Florida Aquarium say the fisherman snagged the Kemp's ridley sea turtle in May. Instead of releasing it, he put the 15-pound juvenile turtle in a tank in his backyard in Tampa.
Aquarium official Susan Coy tells The Tampa Tribune (http://bit.ly/RyCkRB) that the fisherman planned to cook and eat the endangered species, but a neighbor reported him to authorities.
It's not unheard of for turtle meat to be used in dishes such as soups.
Gary Morse, a spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, says the fisherman told investigators he didn't know the turtle was endangered.
The turtle named "Lucky" was rehabilitated at the aquarium until Wednesday, when it was released.
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This article, entitled It's Back To School Time…Hooray! comes from Courtney Rubin at partner site Embracing the Insanity.
I have been a little slacking in the blogging department this Summer, but I feel like my brain is all over the place between camps and "vacations" and having 3 kids home 24-7, etc. To say that I have been overwhelmed is an understatement. However, in just one short week, all 3 kids will be starting school. YES, BIG TROUBLE IS GOING TOO! They are so excited; I am more excited.
This will be the first time in 8 years that I will be home alone without at least one child with me. I am not exaggerating. I am never AT HOME without a kid. Yes, I get to break away with the occasional doctor's appointment or grocery store trip (sidenote: how sad is it that I look forward to the dentist and taking the car for an oil change because that is my "time off"?!), but if I am at home, there's always a kid with me, making it virtually impossible to thoroughly clean. Suffice it to say, our house always looks like a tornado hit it and I AM SICK OF IT.
So, as I try to survive the last week of Summer, I am reminding myself that I will actually have up to 9 hours of quiet a week. I have no recollection of what that feels like but it sounds like heaven. I plan on going on a cleaning spree a la an episode of "Clean House" and getting rid of a lot of stuff that the kids will never miss (shhh don't tell them and they will never know). Goodwill and other various charities will be the recipients of our goodies and I will smile victorious.
I am hoping these few hours a week will allow me to catch up on all of the things that I have let go over time because I have been too tired or exasperated (maybe even sneak in a coherent blog here or there). I have BIG plans. We'll see. These plans are contingent upon Big Trouble not getting kicked out of preschool for being big trouble and me actually being able to function without a child around (I sometimes have trouble speaking without the kids around because I am not used to NOT being interrupted so I am fearful that this might carry over to everyday actions).
But, assuming all goes to plan, I will finally have a (semi) clean house and I will also be able to volunteer at the kids' schools when the classes need parents and I won't have to ask my husband to take an earlier lunch or drag Big Trouble with me. These are the days I have been working for over the last 8 years. And, who knows? Maybe I will finally find the right part time job that will allow me to get back into the adult world, while still maintaining the balance at home? One can dream, right? (This dream goes right under the dream of Big Trouble actually using the toilet instead of just playing with it – Lord, bless his poor teachers.)
Well, I am rambling (which is why it has been hard to actual sit and write a blog these days) but that's where I am right now. My kids are starting to grow up. Part of me misses the baby days (they seriously seem so easy looking back now) but a bigger part of me is excited to see where they are heading and where I am heading.
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text: California Dairy Farmer to Receive Leopold Conservation Award November 14, 2012 10:17 AM Tweet Dino Giacomazzi (Photo: Paolo Vescia) TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By MILK Editors Email Recipient represents a new breed of producers who believe strongly not only in protecting the environment but in the power of the story of farming. Source: Sustainable Conservation news release California dairy farmer Dino Giacomazzi has been named the 2012 recipient of the Leopold Conservation Award in California. Announced today by the California Farm Bureau Federation, Sustainable Conservation and Sand County Foundation, the seventh annual Leopold Conservation Award for California will be presented Dec. 3 at the California Farm Bureau Federation's Annual Meeting in Pasadena, Calif. Read Dino Giacomazzi's latest "Tech Talk" column in the November issue of Dairy Today. The $10,000 Leopold Conservation Award is named in honor of world-renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold. The award is presented annually in eight states to private landowners who practice exemplary land stewardship and management. "Dino Giacomazzi has committed himself to the production of not only quality dairy products but also quality soil, water and air," said Dr. Brent Haglund, Sand County Foundation President. "He is also representative of a new breed of producers who believe strongly in the power of the story of farming, choosing to promote agriculture and conservation through traditional and modern communications methods." Giacomazzi is a fourth-generation dairy farmer whose Hanford, Calif., farm is comprised of 900 dairy cows on 900 acres. "Giacomazzi represents what it means to farm responsibly and sustainably, enhancing natural resources as part of his work," noted the news release announcing Giacomazzi's award. He participated in one of the first conservation tillage projects in California, which has proven to enhance soil, water and, especially, air quality in an area that typically experiences high air pollution levels. Not content to confine these successes to his own farm, Giacomazzi is a leader in communicating the benefits of conservation tillage to other dairy farmers. His communication methods are both new and traditional, utilizing social media channels and hosting demonstrations and field days at his farm to connect with those inside and outside of the agricultural community. "Ever since I started thinking about conservation as a practice, I have been seeking a reward," Giacomazzi said. "The reward of leaving this farm for my son in better condition than my father left it for me. It isn't as much of a desire as an obligation since my father, grandfather and great-grandfather had done that for me. Conservation farming is really the only way I know how to do it … adapt to change, preserve the land, try to make money and move the family farm forward." The Leopold Conservation Award in California is supported in part with generous contributions from the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation; the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation; The Nature Conservancy and Farm Credit. In 2012, Sand County Foundation is presenting Leopold Conservation Awards in California, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming. The awards are presented to recognize extraordinary achievement in voluntary conservation on the land of exemplary private landowners; inspire other landowners in their own communities through these examples; showcase conservation leaders in the agricultural community to people outside of agriculture and build bridges among several private and public sectors in support of private land conservation. Sand County Foundation is a private, non-profit conservation group dedicated to working with private landowners to improve habitat on their land. The Foundation's mission is to advance the use of ethical and scientifically sound land management practices and partnerships for the benefit of people and the ecological landscape. Sand County Foundation works with private landowners because the majority of the nation's fish, wildlife and natural resources are found on private lands. The organization backs local champions, invests in civil society and places incentives before regulation to create solutions that endure and grow. Sustainable Conservation believes protecting the environment can also be good for business. The organization's climate, air, water and wildlife initiatives promote practical solutions that produce tangible, lasting benefits for California. Founded in 1993, Sustainable Conservation's effectiveness lies in building strong partnerships with business, agriculture and government – and establishing models for environmental and economic sustainability that can be replicated across California and beyond. The California Farm Bureau Federation is California's largest farm organization. It works to protect family farms and ranches on behalf of 53 county Farm Bureaus throughout California, whose members include farm families and those who support the farming way of life. Back to news