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Military Member Sues After Pacifist Landlord Tells Him to Rent Elsewhere
A Boston landlord and self-proclaimed pacifist has found herself in hot water of the legal sort after she told a military member his service presented a "conflict of interest" and suggested he find an apartment someplace else.
Sgt. Joel Morgan, 29, asserts that after looking at the apartment Janice Roberts had up for rent, she left him a voicemail saying renting to him would be uncomfortable for all involved and that it would be better for him "to look for a place that is a little bit less politically active and controversial."
Morgan, a National Guardsman who served in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, said it was like "a spit in the face," adding, "For what we have gone through overseas, to come home to our country and have people … discriminate against us. … It made me extremely insecure about being a soldier."
He filed suit last week, accusing Roberts of violating a Massachusetts state law that prohibits landlords from refusing to rent to veterans. For her part, Roberts says that since Morgan didn't actually fill out a rental application, there was no formal rejection. He counters that after hearing her voicemail, he opted not to apply.
"It's [not just] illegal, but also just unconscionable," Morgan's attorney, Joseph L. Sulman, said. "It's something any American should be embarrassed about."


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There was a question on Facebook the other day asking whether mayonnaise and Miracle Whip were the same. My answer to that question was no, no, no and no! My friend gave me the idea to blog about it since I kind of have a thing for mayonnaise, a specific kind that we have shipped in from South Carolina.
I can probably count on one hand the times I have eaten Miracle Whip in my life. I may have eaten it in certain things and didn't know it but it is not something I eat on purpose. I grew up eating Duke's Mayonnaise which of course is made in the south, originating from Greenville, South Carolina, not far from where I grew up. Eugenia Duke was responsible for the mayonnaise recipe in 1917, which includes more egg yolks than other mayo recipes and no added sugar. They currently produce 240 jars of mayonnaise a minute and have expanded their market to northern Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. In recent years, the company has expanded into Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee, as well. I have my parents and friends mail us Duke's periodically throughout the year. I have been seriously thinking of writing a letter to Duke's headquarters to see if they can broaden their market to Missouri! It's really good mayonnaise.
To give you a little history on mayonnaise versus Miracle Whip, mayonnaise is an emulsion of oil, egg, vinegar, condiments and spices. Miracle Whip is very similar made with egg, soybean oil, vinegar, water and is different from mayonnaise because of the sweet spices and the amount of oil. Mayonnaise was invented in 1756 in France by Duke de Richelieu's chief. It was originally called Mahonnaise but according to the Oxford English dictionary the sauce got its present name by accident due to a printing error in an early 1841 cookbook. In 1905, the first ready-made mayonnaise was sold at Richard Hellman's New York deli, made by his wife and sold in wooden boats that were used for weighing butter. In 1912, Richard Hellman started a distributing business, bought a fleet of trucks and started producing "Hellman's Blue Ribbon Mayonnaise." Miracle Whip was developed in 1933 by Kraft as a cheaper alternative to mayonnaise and was introduced as a condiment at the Chicago World's Fair, where the company constructed a complete sterile kitchen enclosed in glass so that visitors to the fair could watch how it was made. The condiment was named from the machine that was made to mass produce it. Today mayonnaise and Miracle Whip are about the same in cost and Miracle Whip is labeled as a "salad dressing" instead of mayonnaise and is much sweeter than mayo.
If you are adventurous and wanted to make your own, Julia Childs is famous for her homemade mayonnaise recipe from her cookbook "Mastering the Art of French Cooking". After reading the recipe I am not sure I could master it! It's very complicated in my opinion with a lot of steps and I am sure that Julia's was as delicious as the Duke's I have eaten since I was able to eat food, but I am thankful that I don't have to make it to be able to enjoy it!
So, I hope I have educated you a little on the differences between mayo and Miracle Whip. It's a bit of useless trivia but you might be able to use it one day in a game of Trivial Pursuit or wow your friends on your newly learned condiment knowledge! Do you have a preference between the two? I guess it is what you grew up eating or which taste you prefer. I personally do not like Miracle Whip as I said earlier. I do cook with mayonnaise and I try to keep a supply of Duke's in my pantry thanks to my family and friends! One of my favorite things in the summer is a tomato sandwich with bread, tomato, Duke's mayo, salt and pepper. Potato salad with Duke's and deviled eggs are also some of my favorites.
If you are ever in the southern states and happen to be in the grocery store, look for Duke's and try a jar, you might find a new favorite! I included a picture above of their label so you can easily find it. I am down to our last jar so I will be making a phone call home soon for a new shipment!

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During the years that passed from when I was born until my sisters and I moved away from home, my mother didn't have a job. If she had been asked to fill out a questionnaire about her personal data, she would have left the question "Employment" empty. She believed that her job was to be our mother – full time. That was the way she had chosen it to be.
Here is an old photograph of my mother. In the photo I think she looks very beautiful. She was about 16 years old then. When I look at the photo, I see a woman who could have had an unlimited number of opportunities in life. Although she didn't always look it, Mom was a tough bird.
Like a lot of people her age, she had a rough childhood. She grew up in Scotland during the worst of the Second World War. Many a time she could be found hiding under her bed, because of the bombings near by. That is, when she wasn't busy getting into trouble. Mom had six sisters and brothers. Three were off serving their country and the oldest was always working, so that left the three youngest kids plenty of time to get into trouble! In 1946, at the age of 13, she immigrated to Canada with two of her sisters, the oldest being a War Bride. They arrived in Halifax and then rode the train to Balcarres, Saskatchewan to live on a farm, and with a new family she had never met. Coming from the modern city of Dundee to a farm, she always said she never knew what was worse, the war or not having indoor plumbing! Although mom quit school at 16 years old she never let that stop her. She was never one to sit around. She would always be out working – be it on the farm, at the local hospital or at a seafood canning plant in Toronto where they once spent the winter. I know that if she had put her mind to getting a career, the whole world would have been at her feet. Yet she always contemplated herself as housewife and mother.
Mom got married at 20 years old to Robert (Allan) Farrell, a boy from the next farm. Allan, my father, was a diabetic since the age of 13. Due to complications, he passed away at the age of 35 leaving my mother a widow with 3 kids at the tender age of 28 (by this time we had moved to the "Big City" of Moose Jaw). Two years later mom re-married a family friend who lived in St. Lambert, Quebec (his sister, Helen Kay, was married to my dad's brother! That's a whole other story!). As soon as we moved to St. Lambert, Mom got involved in the Women's Church Guild. She became a constant worker at the church bazaars and rummage sales and later, as we grew up, with the Girl Guides. She was an avid crocheter and made a lot of afghans. Everyone in the neighbourhood we grew up in admired her for the great effort she put into charity work, but if someone asked her what she did for a living or who she was, she answered that she was Douglas Kay's wife, and Judy, Heather and Alana's mother.
The thing I remember best from my childhood is how it felt to come home from school. She was always there and when we swarmed through the door, she was getting supper ready to put on the table. Today there are probably many women who will see what she did as a waste of her good abilities. Why would a determined woman be content with making soup and sandwiches? I don't know the answer myself. But it must have been good for something when I, many years later, still remember how it felt to rush through the kitchen door – and there was mum, waiting for us. I just wish I could have given that to my daughter.
I belong to a generation who by and large grew up in families with mothers who were home all day. And there is no way I could have had a better childhood. If my mother suffered privations from being a housewife not working away from home, she did not transfer any of them to us, her children. And whatever we may have of good qualities, we have because we had a mother who considered it her job to be our mother.
In the middle of all of life's confusion, it is actually very reassuring to know that you always have a simple rule of thumb: how would I act if my mother could see me right now? In a way I think that we in our generation have fooled ourselves into believing that we can reinvent the whole world and alter the fundamental rules of life overnight. But deep inside we all know that we are actually the same people we were at the time our mothers could look into our eyes and see what we had done without needing to exchange one word. And believe me, in my case that happened a lot! I remember that as a little girl I believed that there were monsters living in my closet. Before I could fall asleep, I had to have mum chase them out of my room. Only then could I sleep.
I'm shrinking a little as I write this. But only if I tell it exactly the way it was can I explain what I mean: most of the time in our lives we have to chase out the monsters from our closets ourselves. But during a few short years in the beginning of our lives, our mother takes care of them for us.
Today I think that many women would be afraid of a life like the one my mother had. So many things have changed that if an intelligent woman would have to do today as my mother did then – devote herself to a husband and children – she would not only feel that her options were limited, but she would also feel outright threatened. I hope that my mother felt that she did the right thing.
We all go through our adult life with the conception that we have never been anything but fully developed grownups. But we have; we have all been small children once, who hurried home from school completely assured that someone was waiting for us at home. It meant something then and it means something today. And I am eternally grateful that the woman in the photograph was waiting for me.


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Retina Implant AG Announces the Publication of Study Results on its Alpha IMS Implant in Proceedings of the Royal Society B
First Publication of Retina Implant's Second Human Trial Examining the Ability of its Wireless Microchip to Restore Functional Vision in Patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa
Feb 19, 2013, 07:01 ET
REUTLINGEN, Germany, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Retina Implant AG, the leading developer of subretinal implants for patients blinded by retinitis pigmentosa (RP), today announced results from part of its multicentre study were published today in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The research found that, during the course of a three to nine month observation period, functional vision was restored in the majority of nine German patients implanted with a subretinal microchip as part of the first module of the Company's second human clinical trial. In addition, visual acuity for two of the nine patients surpassed the visual resolution of patients from the Company's first human clinical trial.
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The study titled "Artificial Vision with Wirelessly Powered Subretinal Electronic Implant Alpha IMS" was led by researchers at the University Eye Hospital in Tuebingen, Germany including Professor Eberhart Zrenner and Katarina Stingl, M.D. Patients were implanted with Retina Implant AG's subretinal wireless 3x3 mm2, 1500 pixel Alpha IMS microchip and are able to adjust the level of stimulation received to view objects at varied distances. Of the nine patients observed in the study, three patients were able to read letters spontaneously. During observation in and outside the laboratory patients also reported the ability to recognize faces, distinguish objects such as telephones and read signs on doors.
"The results of our first human clinical trial exceeded our expectations, and we are further encouraged by the results from the second human trial," said Professor Eberhart Zrenner, M.D., lead clinical trial investigator, Institute for Ophthalmologic Research at University Eye Hospital Tuebingen, Germany. "As physicians, we are constantly seeking out the best treatment options for our most in-need patients, which most definitely includes those suffering from advanced-stage retinitis pigmentosa. This research provides additional evidence that our subretinal implant technology can help some patients with retinal degeneration regain functional vision and does so in a way that does not require externally visible equipment."
"The continuation of our trial and publication of this module is the next milestone in our quest to secure CE mark approval and provide RP patients living in darkness with a treatment option," said Walter-G. Wrobel, president and CEO, Retina Implant AG. "We are continually humbled by the 36 patients we've implanted thus far and their willingness to participate in this ground-breaking research."
The Company's first clinical trial began in Germany in 2005, where 11 patients suffering from retinitis pigmentosa were implanted with a subretinal microchip below the retina in the macular region. Results from the first trial were published in November 2010 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, concluding that the implantation of Retina Implant's microchip was successful in restoring useful vision in patients previously blind due to retinitis pigmentosa. The second clinical trial with a wireless device that allows patients to use the implant outdoors and at home began in May 2010 in Tuebingen, Germany, and has since expanded into the multicentre phase of the trial with implants taking place in Hong Kong and the UK.
"As a leading relevant patient organisation in the UK we have been watching Retina Implant AG's research with great interest," said David Head, CEO of RP Fighting Blindness. "The results published today show definite promise to one day restore functional vision to patients with advanced-stage retinitis pigmentosa."
About Retinitis Pigmentosa
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is one of the most common forms of inherited retinal degenerations affecting 1.5 million worldwide. A progressive condition that gets worse over time, RP typically causes severe vision problems in adulthood. Retinal implants represent promise for enabling RP patients to regain functional sight.
About Retina Implant AG
Retina Implant AG is the leading developer of subretinal implants for partially sighted and blind patients. After extensive research with German university hospitals and institutes which began with a large grant from the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education in 1996, Retina Implant AG was founded by Dr. Eberhart Zrenner and his colleagues in 2003 with private investors with the goal of developing a fully-functioning electronic retinal implant to restore useful vision to the blind. Retina Implant began implanting in human patients in 2005 and started a second clinical trial in 2010. To learn more, visit: http://www.retinaimplant.de/.
About Royal Society Publishing
The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world's most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering, and medicine. The Society's fundamental purpose, as it has been since its foundation in 1660, is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.
The Society's strategic priorities emphasise its commitment to the highest quality science, to curiosity-driven research, and to the development and use of science for the benefit of society. These priorities are:
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Gizmo, TechRadar list 100 best ever free PC system tools
I have long been a proponent of free software. Much of the free software available is often as good, if not superior to, its commercial competitors. Many of the free software products are written by altruistic individuals in order to solve a particular problem or to fill a specific niche, while many others are free versions of commercial software where the publisher hopes that the users will be so satisfied with the free version that they willfully upgrade to the paid version, which often offers additional features. While many of the free software utilities are indeed totally free and lack any commercial support activities, some of the free software products are fiscally supported through paid advertising displayed in the program, or by a revenue stream generated through the use of added toolbars or affiliate sales deals. When installing free software, it is incumbent on the user to view the installation screens and knowingly approve or reject any default or displayed selections where the program asks to install additional toolbars, change default search engines, add eBay affiliate links, promote shopping services, and other revenue generating techniques.
One of my favorite resources for information on free computer software is Gizmo's TechSupportAlert.com, which has been reviewed and referenced in several previous columns. Gizmo has earned its reputation as one of the top sources on information and evaluations of free software, with the evaluations and ratings performed by a community of thousands of volunteers. Gizmo publishes frequently updates lists of the top free software available and calls them its "Best Freeware Lists," where the reader can "Browse our super-lists. All our top selections in one place!"
Gizmo also posts information on other sources and lists of free software, and recently posted a recommendation on a competitive resource that has compiled a list of the "100 best ever free PC system tools." Gizmo commented on this by writing, "Do you like to keep your PC tuned up and humming along? Gizmo offers plenty of top-notch free tools for maintaining the system and keeping it safe but it doesn't hurt to check out some other lists. Here is another large collection of free PC system tools that I came across." The Web site that Gizmo was referring to was the UK-based TechRadar.com, which published the "100 best ever free PC system tools" list. While this list was originally created in 2010, the time stamp displayed at the top of the TechRadar.com Webpage as I am typing this says that it was last updated "four hours ago."
TechRadar.com says, "There's a tool for just about anything you can think of in Windows. And if you look hard enough, you'll find a freebie is more than capable of doing the job you want – in some cases, free tools outclass their shareware or commercial rivals." This listing of its top 100 free PC system tools contains several that I have written about here in the past, including CCleaner, MalwareBytes, Crystal Disk Monitor, Microsoft's Mr. Fixit, Recuva and several others. There were dozens of programs listed that I had not previously heard of, but I have now downloaded and tried them, and was favorably impressed.
This TechRadar.com listing is divided into four distinct pages, each listing the top free utilities of that particular type. The four types of utilities that are recommended and listed by category are system health tools, desktop customization tools (the Web site uses the British spelling of "customisation"), cleanup and stabilization tools (again UK spelling is used), and Windows security tools.
Under the category "System health tools" are free utilities that "Monitor the status of your hard drive, CPU, memory and software." While some of the already mentioned and reviewed utilities are listed in this category, I found several other free utilities that I was compelled to try. The first one was FixWin (www.thewindowsclub.com/repair-fix-windows-7-vista-problems-with-fixwin-utility), a free utility that claims that it can repair 50 of the most common system problems in Windows 7 and Vista, both 32 and 64 bit versions. FixWin can repair a variety of problems with Windows Explorer, Internet and connectivity related problems, Windows media, a selection of system errors and problems, and several Windows 7 or Vista specific features. The Windows 7-64 installed on my home desktop computer has always had issues running the original Microsoft Windows Media Player (version 12), and FixWin offered several one-click fixes that might be able to repair my Windows Media Player. With the many fixes available in FixWin, this free program is a "must have" for users of Vista and Windows 7. Some of the other utilities listed under "System health tools" include a variety of system rescue (bootable) CDs, hardware information utilities, hard drive monitoring and repair utilities, backup and restore software, and many other useful utilities.
Many users like to tweak the appearance of their Windows, and "Desktop customization tools" lists the top free utilities that can enable the user to perform the appropriate tasks. One that I especially like was Fences from Stardock (www.stardock.com/products/Fences), which enables the user to create a selection of areas on a desktop where similar types of software can be selectively clustered together. Stardock (www.stardock.com) also has a variety of other free (and paid) desktop utilities that can modify the desktop including LogonStudio (changes the Windows logon screen), and ObjectDock, which can create a taskbar replacement or "dock" similar to the one used on an Apple Mac. Also included in the desktop tools are utilities to manage and repair icons, radically change the desktop, manage wallpaper, enable the use of Apple Mac desktop widgets on a PC, and other desktop enhancements and tweaks.
The third category of the top 100 free system tools is " Cleanup and stabilization tools," which are intended to "keep Windows running smoothly." One of the many reasons for a slow booting computer with sluggish performance is a cluttered startup, where too many unnecessary programs are loaded when the computer boots; these unnecessary programs not only lengthen the boot process, but they also consume system resources better utilized by running applications, leading to degraded computer performance. Several of the free utilities listed are explicitly intended to streamline the boot process by managing which programs load at boot. Also included in this category of the best free system software are several system tweakers, registry repair and defragmenting utilities, bookmark managers (can also delete obsolete bookmarks and favorites from a variety of browsers), uninstallers, system cleaners (including my personal favorite CCleaner, available from www.piriform.com), and other performance enhancement tools and utilities.
In the final category, "Windows security tools," are several excellent free tools that can "protect yourself and your PC with this collection of useful free security tools." Included in this listing are real-time antivirus protection (Panda's Cloud Antivirus), one of my favorite utilities to detect and neutralize malware (MalwareBytes), an excellent anti-malware utility that provides an extra layer of protection on top of other security software (Threatfire), firewalls, hard drive encryption, secure file deletion utilities, file recovery utilities, password managers, software update managers, clipboard managers, file compression utilities, file splitters, and several other free security tools. Almost all reasonable PC security needs may be realized by utilizing a combination of these free security utilities.
For anyone who would like to try some of these top-rated utilities, both Gizmo and TechRadar offer a superlative selection of powerful and capable utilities.


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|George W Bush; Richard B Cheney; George W Bush; Richard B Cheney; George W Bush; Richard B Cheney; George W Bush; Richard B Cheney; George Walker Bush; Richard B Cheney
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|xii, 800 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
|"Breaking china" --
pt. 1. "One of you could be president" --
"To be where the action is" --
"The fire horse and the bell" --
"We wrapped Bill Clinton around his neck" --
"I'm going to call Dick" --
"Iron filings moving across a tabletop" --
pt. 2. "Somebody's going to pay" --
"Whatever it takes" --
"The first battle of the war" --
"We're going to lose our prey" --
"Afghanistan was too easy" --
"A brutal, ugly, repugnant man" --
"You could hear the hinge of history turn" --
pt. 3. "Maybe we'll get lucky" --
"Mr. President, I think we've got a problem" --
"Welcome to free Iraq" --
"We were almost all wrong" --
"When are we going to fire somebody?" --
"The election that will never end" --
"Not a speech Dick Cheney would give" --
pt. 4. "Who do they think they are? I was reelected too" --
"Whacked upside the head" --
"This is the end of the presidency" --
"You could have heard a pin drop" --
"Please do not let anything happen today" --
"I'm not sure how to take good news anymore" --
"Make damn sure we do not fail" --
"Don't let this be your legacy" --
pt. 5. "The elephants finally threw up on the table" --
"Everybody knew this was the last bullet in the chamber" --
"I'm going to fire all your asses" --
"Revolt of the radical pragmatists" --
"Don't screw with the president of the United States --
"What is this, a cruel hoax?" --
"Our people are going to hate us for this" --
"I didn't want to be the president during a depression" --
"Such a sense of betrayal" --
"There is no middle ground."
|Peter Baker.
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"From the senior White House correspondent for The New York Times comes the definitive history of the Bush and Cheney White House--a tour de force narrative of those dramatic and controversial eight years. Taking readers into the offices of the West Wing and the cabins of Air Force One, Peter Baker tells the gripping inside story of the Bush and Cheney era. Theirs was the most fascinating American partnership since Nixon and Kissinger, an untested president and his seasoned vice president confronted by one crisis after another as they struggled to protect the country, remake the world, and define their own relationship along the way. Packed with revealing anecdotes and told with in-the-room immediacy, Days of Fire narrates two profoundly significant and conflicted terms marked by 9/11, Iraq, Katrina, jihad, nuclear proliferation, genocide, and economic collapse. George W. Bush was one of the most polarizing presidents of our time, jettisoning decades of foreign policy pragmatism to redefine America's mission as a crusade to bring freedom to the world. Yet his early dream of transforming Republicans into the party of "compassionate conservatism" and building an "ownership society" were dashed by two consuming wars and a devastating financial crash. At his side was Dick Cheney, the trusted adviser who became the most influential vice president in history only to watch as Bush drifted away, leaving the two at odds over a wide array of fundamental issues. Baker's interviews with more than two hundred players--White House aides, cabinet secretaries, generals, senators and congressmen, relatives and friends of both men--help reveal the truth of their complicated and shifting relationship. Days of Fire is the first book to capture in a truly defining way all eight years of the most consequential presidency in a generation. It is an essential history and thrilling reading"--
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Long before Astana's Alberto Contador reached Ax-3 Domaines, less than 15 miles from the Spanish border, thousands of the defending champion's compatriots had arrived in hopes of watching him ride into yellow.
Instead, they saw Mr. Contador and race leader Andy Schleck of Team Saxo Bank fight a tactical battle, while France's Christophe Riblon soloed to the Tour de France Stage 14 victory and more general classification riders, like RadioShack's Levi Leipheimer, fell out of contention.
Contador, in second place just 31 seconds behind Mr. Schleck, was responsible for much of the cat-and-mouse game the two played during the 115-mile stage.
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But the 25-year old Schleck didn't give in; though he is leading the Tour for the first time, he doesn't lack racing savvy.
"On the second to last climb, his whole team surrounded him and I could see they wanted to give the impression that he wasn't feeling good today," said Schleck in a post-race press conference. "But I knew it wasn't like that — they wanted me to attack."
Contador's tactics
Contador's more conspicuous challenges came on the ascent to the Pyrénéan ski area of Ax-3 Domaines, where he tried rapid acceleration and sudden braking in an attempt to drop the Luxembourger.
Schleck responded each time, though he never mounted an attack himself.
"I told him, 'If you go too deep today, it could be dangerous for tomorrow,'" said Saxo Bank team manager Bjarne Riis.
Though neither picked up time on each other, their tête-à-tête had an unexpected, perhaps unwelcome, result.
As the two dueled in the final kilometers, Euskaltel-Euskadi's Samuel Sanchez and Rabobank's Denis Menchov, the race's third and fourth-placed riders, rode ahead and picked up 14 valuable seconds on the leaders. Sanchez is currently two minutes behind Contador.
Fourth stage victory for the French
Despite not having a contender for the general classification, this is turning out to be one of the most successful Tours for French riders in more than a decade.
Team Ag2r's Christophe Riblon's win is the fourth stage win by a Frenchmen in this Tour, the most since 1997, when six stages were won by the hosts.
"I don't know why I can say," a breathless Riblon told French television after the stage. "It's truly incredible."
An added bonus: If the race were to end today, the polka dot jersey, awarded to the race's best climber, would go to France's Anthony Charteau of Team BBox Bouygues.
A redemptive ride
Many former general classification hopefuls continued to fade today. Lance Armstrong lost 15 minutes and 14 seconds, as did HTC-Columbia's Michael Rogers, the winner of this year's Tour of California.
But Spain's Carlos Sastre, the 2008 Tour de France champion, put in a valiant effort.
Hitting the climb to Ax-3 Domaines ahead of the yellow jersey, Sastre — who won the 2003 stage finish here — charged ahead before being caught and left behind with just less than 1.9 miles remaining.
For Sastre, who crashed in this year's Giro D'Italia, a three-week race in May, and in Stage 6 of this Tour de France, just making a move was a little slice of redemption.
"Today was a special day," he said, sitting in a folding chair after the race. "Maybe I'm not going to win the Tour de France, but I'm here to fight."
Armstrong, in a rare appearance on French television after the race, echoed his fellow former champion.
Asked if he was thinking about calling it quits, 38 minutes and 44 seconds off the pace set by Shleck, Armstrong said: "I've never been a quitter and I won't do that now."
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Toon Choices and words of wisdom
I play female and male characters of different races. I pick based on what I want to see. I'm paying to play, and it's supposed to be fun, remember?
What astounds me is the number of people who, on discovering I'm a nearly-50 male using a female night-elf as my main, decide all sorts of things about my personal character.
Heya, jerks. I'm not running this character for you, I'm doing it for me, OK? sigh. Ok, let's quit being personal.
People, it's a game, not a dating system. Even the casual players are doing eight or more hours a week. We all play for enjoyment. And a big part of the enjoyment is the eye candy. Oh, not just the T&A (or the big muscles of the males for lady players) but the great scenes and monsters and cities and… have you stopped somewhere and just LOOKED? There are some breath-taking scenes in the game.
Now, let me be fair. A lot of people so closely associate with their toon that they think of themselves as that toon. And they are … bothered at the thought of confusing their sexual identity. If you so associate with your toon, more power to you. It's a game, and we all have the ways we enjoy it.
But me, I am a casual player. I am not going to confuse myself and my toon. But I do have to look at it. So I pick toons I like. Female night elves and blood elves are easy on my eyes, while female gnomes and tauren are just wrong to me. I like the looks of both genders for Draenai and Orcs. The looks of both genders of undead neither delight nor disgust, but since I personally don't like the understory of the undead I tend not to choose either (except to stay current on skills and talents). But notice the important thing:
I am choosing for me.
And when you're choosing, please choose what YOU like. The game's full of choices – it's built that way to make it enjoyable by more players. But it's still a game- – it's supposed to be FUN. Fun for you, and for the other players. If you don't like someone else's choice, well… allow me to quote a recently discovered line of wisdom:
Of course, if your "fun" ruins everyone else's fun, then fucking quit it.
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The first time I met a guy who played a female toon, I thought the same thing. That was…oooh…five years ago. I'd like to think I've matured since then.
Also, just as a note, I personally don't like most of the male models available. No offense to the male night elves out there, but they look like Battletoads.
I have no doubt that if I were a male player, I would still choose female toons for the same reasons put forth in this article – they're nicer to look at.
And in the end, that's what the game is about. Personally, I LOVE the way the female tauren are shaped. I think both male and female tauren could use some love with regards to their faces, but that's another story.
I rerolled from two perfectly wonderful and high level priestesses just so that I could play strictly draenei. There are people who would say that's insane, but I know the things that make this game fun for me, and I knew I'd enjoy having drae characters.
And I enjoy logging on more now than I ever did with any other race.
I have chosen a night elf priestess as well. I'm a male and I couldn't agree anymore with what you've wrote.. although I've never had any ignorant fool insulting me for my choice! if you don't count the whining from a few buddies who play horde ^.^
keep it up! i enjoy reading this!
Again, I am a male who plays female characters. I dont think this is in anyway odd!! I think that there are 2 main ways of perceiving your characters. Firstly, that you are that individual, or they are you in the world of warcraft. It is people who are locked into thinking like this who cant understand playing cross gender characters.
Secondly, there is the feeling that your character is someone you hang out with when you enter the world. If you think like this, it is perfectly normal that you would enjoy hanging out with someone of a different gender….
Keep up the good work, loving this site…..
I was recently playing an alt (female orc hunter) teamed up for some group quests with a male BElf, he asked in the most polite way "y the choice? don't see 2 many female orcs".
I thought it strange & said so, "orc for BM hunter racial of pet dmg, female for smaller pvp target", which is exacly why I tend to choose female toons… well, that's what I tell my wife 😉
Well said, sir. I'm also a guy with a mix of female and male toons. My main is a Draenei priestess (recently 70). I chose that race/gender combo 'cause I liked the look (horns FTW!). I figure if I'm going to spend a lot of time watching her run around, I might as well like what I see. Playing as a female has plenty of tactical advantages as well, such as the smaller PVP target area, more readily given forgiveness if you screw up, etc.
I've never linked myself to a toon and don't really understand the people who do so. Sure it's an RPG, but it's a role…nothing else.
I imagine the people who think playing a female toon as a guy is weird wouldn't think twice about playing as Lara Croft (of Tomb Raider), Rayne (of Bloodrayne), Lucia (of Devil May Cry 2), or Samus Aran (of Metroid).


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Posted: Thu 09 Apr 2009, 06:54
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yes, you are right. I had missed it in your previous post.
I made several tests and could not get it to find a pup_save on another partition, vfat or linux. I tried various combinations and none worked.
Crash - is it possible at all to have your code find a pup_save on another partition?
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Posted: Thu 09 Apr 2009, 07:50
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Have you tried removing the PDEV1 parameter? I know without psubdir and PDEV1 the pupsave file could be found on another partition. Not sure what happens if you have only psubdir and not PDEV1. I think it would filter for the associated subdir on any partition before Crash implemented his mods.
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Posted: Fri 10 Apr 2009, 01:07
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Crash - is it possible at all to have your code find a pup_save on another partition?
Yes, if you specify the complete set of parameters, you can locate the save file in any partition, for example (from the original post):
I can choose the save file to be as diverse as being on a hard drive or on a USB thumb drive.
As you said, the code was only implemented beginning with (I think) 4.2 Beta and later. You have to hack the earlier versions, which may be more trouble than it is worth.
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Posted: Sun 12 Apr 2009, 05:13
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it still doesn't work for me, specifying all params as above. Yes, I had dropped PDEV1 as ICPUG suggests already in my earleir tests. If I drop psubdir then puppy is not found in subdir, only on root. But psave on another partition still doesn't work, with or without psubdir.
Here's my setup:
pup_410, initrd & vmlinuz on sda3/puppy4/410k2 [vfat]
pup_save41k27-3wm.2fs on sda7/p420 [ext2]
here's the grub entry:
title P410 k2.6.27 - pup_save on sda7
rootnoverify (hd0,2)/puppy4/410k27
kernel /vmlinuz20 psubdir=puppy4/410k27 PMEDIA=satahd psubok=TRUE psave=sda7,ext2,/p420/pup_save-41k27-3wm.2fs
initrd /initrd20-2s-ps.gz
Puppy is found correctly, but then boots to ram as on first boot, & pup_save is not found.
Have also tried with pup_save on sda10[vfat], and with p420 on hda3 & its pup_saves in both sda7 & sda10. None of these work.
Can you spot anything wrong in the above setup or entry?
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Posted: Sun 12 Apr 2009, 15:44
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I've been using LINLD to boot, and I'm not sure what you need to do using GRUB. I'll mess around with GRUB and give you a report on what I find. It's a good excuse for me to become re-acquainted with GRUB, anyway.
Looking back, the psubok=TRUE parameter tells INIT to ONLY look at the directory you chose when you set the parameter psubdir=puppy4/410k27. It says "all the files are in this subdirectory". You may be able to store a save file on another partition with the same subdirectory name and it should work. This is probably getting clear as mud now. One thing you can do is look at the contents of /initrd/tmp/PUPPYFILES after bootup. It contains the results of INIT's search for all Puppy files. The save file has to show up there in order for it to be recognized.
... I just did some tests after writing the above comments. It turns out that if I don't use the psubok parameter, the boot process will see the save file in different partitions. But when I used the psubok parameter, the first try was a bust. The loader expected the pup_xxx.sfs to be in the first partition that it searched. So I put a copy of the .sfs file there too. Then it booted OK, but didn't bother searching any more partitions for the save file. Actually I can't explain this behavior yet - I need to do more testing.
So what I know so far is that without the psubok parameter, the psave parameter works across partitions. Of course this limits you to putting the Puppy files only one subdirectory deep.
Like I said, this is probably clear as mud. I need to do some more testing. For instance, the two partitions I used were FAT and NTFS. I'm not sure if there are any issues there. Also, I'm using my butchered INIT file and Puppy 4.12 to do the testing. I suppose I should really use version 4.2 to make sure I am using an official released version.
Like usual, it may take me a while to see what is going on. To tell you the truth, you have a configuration that I haven't been using. I normally have one version of Puppy on the hard drive, and another on a USB thumb drive. There are only two other partitions on the hard drive and I don't like to mess with them: one is the NTFS Vista partition ("don't mess with me"), and the other one is the restore partition ("really, really don't mess with me"). What I may do is shrink the NTFS partition again and make room for another partition on the hard drive. That will make testing more straightforward.
So I don't know if this information will help your particular situation, but it may shed some more light on the overall process.
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Posted: Mon 13 Apr 2009, 05:54
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thanks for your extensive comments. I don't really need help with my 'particular situation'. I keep all pup_saves on the same partition with pup_xxx.sfs. I hacked all my p3 & p4 puplets' inits, and all work from two levels deep & multiple pup_saves.
Pup_saves in different partitions were created only to enable me to test & reply to pupshock's questions. I had never tried it with psaves on different partitions and wanted to see it it really works.
Back to your comments. Now finally we are getting somewhere. ICPUG was also on to it. Initially when I dropped pdev1 & psubdir puppy could not be found because it had remained in a subfolder. After several attempts it now works with:
- pup_420.sfs, initrd & vmlinuz on sda3/420 [fat]
- pup_save-420.sfs on sda2/420 [fat], or sda7/420 [ext2]
I had to drop psubdir, pdev1 & psubok.
These are the grub entries that work:
title pup420 - psave on sda7
rootnoverify (hd0,2)/420
kernel /vmlinuz PMEDIA=satahd psave=sda7,ext2,/420/pup_save-420.2fs
initrd /initrd.gz
title pup420 - psave on sda2
rootnoverify (hd0,2)/420
kernel /vmlinuz PMEDIA=satahd psave=sda2,vfat,/420/pup_save-420.2fs
initrd /initrd.gz
/initrd/tmp/PUPPYFILES shows that puppy finds all the save-files scattered around the hard disk, and boots the one specified in grub, provided no params are used. Puppy scans the partitions for pup_xxx.sfs but finds it fairly quickly. Unlike in your case, puppy scanned all partitions, found all save-files and the pup_xxx.sfs on sda3 [so, not only on 1st partition].
In summary, it is as you said: save files will be found across partitions, but with puppy only one level deep. I therefore suggest you modify your statement above 'any combination can be used'.
You seem to be very resourceful and if you can devote more time to this hopefully you will crack it and give us an even more versatile script, with both psubok & psave working in all combinations.
thanks for all your work
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Posted: Mon 13 Apr 2009, 09:01
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It's my pleasure to work on this part of the Puppy project. Believe me, I derive far more benefit learning about Linux through this exercise than I can possible give back to the community.
Yes, the statement should probably read "many different combinations can be used"!
I'm in the process of doing some more tests, and have made another partition on my Vista computer to play with. That in itself took a while, not to make the partition, but to back up all my data and to defrag the hard drive. But that's something I need to do periodically anyway. More to come.
Actually, there is probably no limit to the amount of flexibility that could be built into the search process, but this version of INIT is barely making it into the distro. I need to let it cool down a little before offering any more suggestions. But testing is always appropriate, and I'll let you know what I find out.
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Posted: Sat 25 Apr 2009, 00:58
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I found a simple fix. At line 389 add a single line of code:
umntfunc /mnt/data
[ "$PSUBOK" == "TRUE" ] && PSUBDIR="" #Added code to allow multiple partitions
#in case PSUBDIR boot param (path of puppy files), filter...
if [ "$PSUBDIR" ];then
This code prevents the original PSUBDIR filter from being executing. The original filter didn't allow more than one partition to be used. If you don't use the PSUBOK flag, the original code executes unchanged, so the overall code package is backward compatible.
If you use PSUBOK=TRUE and PSUBDIR= wherever your files are, you can put Puppy in multiple partitions in as many directory levels deep as you want. The only caveat is that the directory path has to be the same in each partition, for instance /linux/puppy/p42 in both sda2 and sda4.
Let's see, two weeks to produce one line of code. No wonder software is so expensive!
Modified init based on init from Puppy v4.2 initrd.gz
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Posted: Mon 27 Apr 2009, 06:43
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it took me some time to get this right. I used my own init, made up from my previous hacks & manually added your latest code above. When it would't work initially I thought I had made a mistake. But I finally got it to work, so my hack was ok.
It's very fussy though about how you set it up, so here are some more details:
This was my setup for the test:
pup_420.sfs, initrd, vmlinuz & pup_save420.2fs in /sda3/puppy4/420 [vfat]
pup_save420sda2.2fs & pup_save420sda2b.2fs in /sda2/puppy4/420 [vfat]
pup_save420sda7.2fs in /sda7/puppy4/420 [ext2]
- psubdir must point to the main location which contains the pup_xxx.sfs file, with no mention of partion or fs, so in my case: psubdir=puppy4/420
- psave must contain the full path [obviously], as in /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE: psave=sda2,vfat,/puppy4/420/pup_save420sda2.2fs
- PDEV1 must not be used, DEV1FS & PUPMODE have no effect.
Here are my grub entries that worked:
title Puppy420 [default]
rootnoverify (hd0,2)/puppy4/420
kernel /vmlinuz PMEDIA=satahd psubdir=puppy4/420 PDEV1=sda3 psubok=TRUE
initrd /initrd.gz
title Puppy420 - test on sda2
kernel (hd0,2)/puppy4/420/vmlinuz PMEDIA=satahd psubdir=puppy4/420 psubok=TRUE psave=sda2,vfat,/puppy4/420/pup_save420sda2.2fs
initrd (hd0,2)/puppy4/420/initrd3.gz
title Puppy420 - test on sda7
rootnoverify (hd0,2)/puppy4/420
kernel /vmlinuz PMEDIA=satahd psubdir=puppy4/420 psubok=TRUE psave=sda7,ext2,/puppy4/420/pup_save420sda7.2fs
initrd /initrd3.gz
More notes:
- initrd3 is the hacked init containing all the additional code
- the entry works equally with or without the 'rootnoverify' line [hence two different tries above]
- both the partition with the pup_save and the one with the pup_xxx.sfs are mounted at boot. The former as /initrd/mnt/dev_save [also linked to /mnt/home], and the latter as /initrd/mnt/dev_ro2 [as distinguished from /initrd/pup_ro2].
- if more than one pup_save is used on the other partition, one can select the correct file, but using the full pup_save name:
pup_save420sda2.2fs & pup_save420sda2b.2fs work, and the 'short' versions [2.2 & 2b.2] do not work.
Again, you may wish to modify your 'caveat' statement above [ 'one caveat' instead of 'the only caveat' ]?
In conclusion, agan Crash it works as you say [not that I doubted it], provided one takes care to create a correct setup & grub entry. I don't need such a setup but I imagine it will come handy to someone, some time. Now it only has to be included in the main puppy. I hope the developers are reading this.
Thanks for your work again.
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Posted: Thu 30 Apr 2009, 09:16
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Thanks for the testing results. My results are similar, although I haven't needed to spell out the entire save file descriptor. I have the following files:
pup_save.2fs and pup_save2.2fs in sda2/linux/puppy/p42
pup_save.2fs and pup_save4.2fs in sda4/linux/puppy/p42
vmlinuz and initrd.gz in sda2/linux/puppy (arbitrary placement)
pup_420.sfs in either sda2/linux/puppy/p42 or in sda4/linux/puppy/p42 - it doesn't make a difference
sda2 and sda4 are both fat32 partitions.
My menu.lst is as follows (yes, I am now using Grub - at least Grub 4 DOS, and hey Grub is Grub, right??):
title 1. asks for all save files - doesn't set psave
kernel (hd1,1)/linux/puppy/vmlinuz PMEDIA=satahd psubdir=linux/puppy/p42 psubok=TRUE
initrd (hd1,1)/linux/puppy/initrd.gz
title 2. loads choice of file pup_save.2fs on sda2 or sda4 - sets psave=save.2fs
kernel (hd1,1)/linux/puppy/vmlinuz PMEDIA=satahd psave=save.2fs psubdir=linux/puppy/p42 psubok=TRUE
initrd (hd1,1)/linux/puppy/initrd.gz
title 3. loads pup_save2.2fs on sda2 - sets psave=save2.2fs
kernel (hd1,1)/linux/puppy/vmlinuz PMEDIA=satahd psave=save2.2fs psubdir=linux/puppy/p42 psubok=TRUE
initrd (hd1,1)/linux/puppy/initrd.gz
title 4. choice of pup_save.2fs or pup_save2.2fs on sda2 - sets psave=sda2
kernel (hd1,1)/linux/puppy/vmlinuz PMEDIA=satahd psave=sda2 psubdir=linux/puppy/p42 psubok=TRUE
initrd (hd1,1)/linux/puppy/initrd.gz
title 5. loads pup_save4.2fs on sda4 - sets psave=save4
kernel (hd1,1)/linux/puppy/vmlinuz PMEDIA=satahd psave=save4 psubdir=linux/puppy/p42 psubok=TRUE
initrd (hd1,1)/linux/puppy/initrd.gz
title 6. choice of pup_save.2fs or pup_save4.2fs on sda4 - sets psave=sda4
kernel (hd1,1)/linux/puppy/vmlinuz PMEDIA=satahd psave=sda4 psubdir=linux/puppy/p42 psubok=TRUE
initrd (hd1,1)/linux/puppy/initrd.gz
title 7. loads pup_save.2fs on sda2 - sets psave=sda2,vfat,/linux/puppy/p42/pup_save.2fs
kernel (hd1,1)/linux/puppy/vmlinuz PMEDIA=satahd psave=sda2,vfat,/linux/puppy/p42/pup_save.2fs psubdir=linux/puppy/p42 psubok=TRUE
initrd (hd1,1)/linux/puppy/initrd.gz
Note: Each of these entries is only three lines long. The line beginning "kernel" in each entry actually wraps around in this post to the next line (or two lines for the seventh case!).
Ths first case doesn't set psave to anything, and I am given the choice of no save file or any of the four save files.
The second case gives the choice of pup_save.2fs from either sda2 or sda4.
The third case loads pup_save2.2fs from sda2.
The fourth case gives the choice of pup_save.2fs or pup_save2.2fs from sda2.
The fifth case loads pup_save4.2fs from sda4.
The sixth case gives the choice of pup_save.2fs or pup_save4.2fs from sda4.
The seventh case loads pup_save.2fs from sda2. This is the only case where I use the entire save file descriptor since the file has the same name on two partitions.
This is the way I wanted it to work. Like I said I'm not sure why you need to spell out the whole big long save file phrase for all cases. Just typing something that makes the file unique should have done the job. But then, this is software. It does what we tell it to do, not what we want it to do.
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Posted: Thu 30 Apr 2009, 15:48
Post subject: init development and grub menu.lst for options
Subject description: WOW! Many Thanks!
Crash and vg1:
Your work on this 'project' answers a lot of questions and sheds some very important 'light' on how to do something that has been befuddling me for the past couple of months. Very well done to both of you!!
The ability to direct Puppy to a specific bootup among several options is to me invaluable; and there is no doubt in my mind that numerous others will find your work a god-send.
This forum and its very capable developers/debuggers/innovators is truly amazing!
Thanks again guys!
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Can I ask for clarification just to see if I have got it right.
Just one line of code has to be added to the init of the standard 4.2 Puppy.
That code is as per your post of Sat Apr 25, 2009 5:58 am.
The attachment is in effect the initrd.gz of standard Puppy 4.2 (released by WhoDo) modified by the one line of code.
If that is all correct I just need to understand that line of code now! I thought it set PSUBDIR to "" if PSUBOK is TRUE but not sure how that works when you quite clearly have a PSUBDIR and PSUBOK=TRUE in your menu.lst. Time to look at my Bash manual I think.
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Posted: Fri 01 May 2009, 09:33
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Yes, that is exactly right, and the posted INIT is taken directly from the Puppy 4.2 distro with just the one line added.
The code that makes use of PSUBDIR and PSUBOK has already been executed before the added line. The added line is placed just in front of the original PSUBDIR code, and causes the original PSUBDIR code to be bypassed. That was the code that didn't allow more than one partition to be used. In general, when modifying someone else's code, I like to make minimal changes to the original code - I figure that the person who wrote the original code did it for a reason. So if you don't use the PSUBOK parameter, the code I added is bypassed and the original code functions as written. When PSUBOK is set to TRUE, the code I wrote is executed, then the original code is bypassed.
Thanks for the good words. Working on this stuff is a lot of fun, and the support and help from the rest of the community is what makes the Puppy project so enjoyable.
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Posted: Fri 01 May 2009, 14:12
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it all works as you laid out. I made a setup similar to yours with:
sda3: pup_save420.2fs
sda2: pup_save420.2fs & pup_save420b.2fs
sda7: pup_save420sda7.2fs
All your variations worked:
psave=b - boots pup_save420b.2fs on on sda2
psave=420.2 - choice of sda2 & sda3 pup_save420.2fs files
psave=sda2 - choice of sda2 psave files
psave=7.2 - boots pup_save420sda7.2fs on sda7
I tried one more:
psave=420 - choice of all pup_save420 files on all partitions, in puppy4/420
ie the choice was presented for all pup_saves with 420 in their name, if located in puppy4/420 on any partition. In my case I got the four of them.
As long as psave contains something unique identifying a specific pup_save it works. With short psave names, as above, puppy pauses a bit to figure it out. With a full pup_save name specified it boots a bit faster. The difference is a few seconds on my pc, could be more on a slower one.
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Posted: Fri 01 May 2009, 17:58
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Crash wrote:
Yes, that is exactly right, and the posted INIT is taken directly from the Puppy 4.2 distro with just the one line added.
Top stuff, Crash. Downloaded for inclusion in Puppy-4.2.1 due for release shortly. Thanks for your efforts, mate. They are much appreciated.
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At the midway point in the match, Zach Maxwell trailed, 4-0. As the timer approached the official to signal the end of the bout, Maxwell still trailed, 4-2.
On Saturday, Feb. 23, Southington's 195-pounder was struggling to find a chink in the armor of his all-star opponent in the State Open championship bout, but Somer's standout Kyle Foster wasn't making it easy. Every time that Maxwell tried to escape, Foster pulled him back. Every time Maxwell tried to force a move, Foster was ready.
"I told him that, if you attack, good things are going to happen. I was screaming and screaming," said Blue Knight wrestling coach Derek Dion. "He just came alive…finally. It was a little late. I was hoping that he would come alive before that, but he finally came alive. He did it, and I'm so happy for him."
With three seconds left on the clock, Maxwell finally found a sliver of light. He ducked underneath and charged like an outside linebacker into Foster's chest. Maxwell turned him, slid over the top, and the official signaled two points in the same motion as the final whistle.
"I knew that it was going to be a match of takedowns, and I just went for it," said Maxwell. "Coach has been telling me the whole entire season to just go for it, and it finally worked."
Foster never recovered. Just seconds into the overtime period, Maxwell sprung his move again. He scored two more points with his second takedown, and officials signaled the win. With a 6-4 overtime decision, Maxwell became just the third Southington wrestler to claim a state open title.
"Oh, my God. I can't even believe it right now. It's like I'm not even here," Maxwell said just moments after the victory. "I've worked so hard for this. This is the best feeling in the world."
Maxwell's victory over Foster was the first in two meetings this season. Foster captured a 7-3 victory in the finals of the Greater Hartford invitational meet in mid-January. Foster, a senior, was the heir apparent. He finished as runner up in last year's state open meet and went on to finish second in New Englands. That's why Dion was concerned late in the match when Maxwell was trailing by two points.
"I was so scared that he was going to sit on it and let it go because 4-2 is a good loss to an excellent kid," said Dion. "But he got it in gear to take his shot. I told him that I'd rather he get pinned trying to win than lose 4-2 by dancing with him. He finally put it in gear and he did it."
With the victory, Maxwell joins current assistant coach Bill Lee and former Blue Knight Larry Liseo as the only Southington wrestlers to capture a state open title.
"We've had so many good kids and so many finalists," said Dion. "This is a weird tournament. Kids show up. They don't show up. That kid took second last year, so I really expected a herculean effort from him, and he did. He came out and wrestled tough. We just got it done. This is special."
Maxwell wasn't the only Knights to battle his way into the medal round. Travis Daly scored three wins at the start of the weekend tournament and held on for a sixth place medal in the heavyweight division.
Nate Solomon rebounded from a controversial loss to claim fifth place overall in the 126-pound weight class. Solomon had the best shot at joining Maxwell in the finals, but a controversial point was awarded to his opponent in a 1-0 quarterfinal loss. Solomon won his final match, but his opponent went on to capture the state open title.
"He had a shot at it. There were four kids left in that weight class, and he had already beaten three of those kids," said Dion. "It's too bad, but there are a lot of excellent wrestlers that don't win this tournament."
Sophomores Zach Murrillo (106), Zach Bylykbashi (120), and Austin Sullivan (182) each scored wins at their first state open meet, and Southington (65 points) finished 10th out of 96 teams.
"Overall we wrestled pretty good this weekend. We had one tough match, a heartbreaker, and he would have won in the finals," said Dion. "To get one champion is huge, but all five guys wrestled well. They all won more than they lost, so it was great."
Now, the junior grappler will try to do what no other Knight has been able to accomplish as aims at the New England title this weekend. Maxwell will try to carry his momentum into the Providence Career and Technical Center in Rhode Island against the top four wrestlers from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and Rhode Island.
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There are so many disasters and causes out there to support. It's not like Haiti is back to normal, or the many countries in Africa are sorted out, or even as if the poverty in our own country has been addressed.
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Hey! I'm participating in this in LA. How about our incredible shrinking world? :)ReplyDelete
nice! be sure to post about it--what are you going to donate?ReplyDelete
I haven't decided yet. I have to make an almond cake for a friend for Saturday, so I might make extra batter for cupcakes. OR, I might bake the white velvet cupcakes that are coming up with the HCB's so that I actually have something done on time :)ReplyDelete
what about you?
i've got david leite's 72 hour cookies waiting in the fridge, plus thinking about a 6 cup golden lemon almond bundt and maybe also the devils food cake...depends on how industrious i feel tomorrow.ReplyDelete
Bakers unite!ReplyDelete
I'll be at Ula Cafe in Jamaica Plain, MA. Details: http://bosbakesale.tumblr.com/
Here's my list...and I'll be posting pics on my blog tonight (if we finish at a not insane hour) or tomorrow.
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*Orange-Glow Chiffon Cupcakes with Chocolate Orange Ganache Frosting
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*Stained Glass Sugar Cookies
*Lemon-Scented Pull-Apart Coffee Cake
I can't find one in Sacramento which seems very odd.ReplyDelete


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