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Sunday, June 27th was National HIV Testing Day. To acknowledge the importance of HIV testing and to commemorate the 10th Annual Black Entertainment Television Awards (BET), the cable channel hosted a testing event at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in Los Angeles, CA. AIDS Healthcare Foundation was responsible for HIV testing and the Black AIDS Institute was present to disseminate HIV/AIDS awareness information and discuss the impact of HIV and AIDS on the Black community. BET offered very nice incentives to encourage community members to get tested. The first 100 people in line received a free ticket to the show and everyone was allowed to take a picture with a real BET Award on the Viewer's Choice van.
The event began with approximately 60 attendees waiting in anticipation to get tested. As the day progressed the line continued to grow. While people waited in line me and my fellow interns passed out information about the Black AIDS Institute's Test 1 Million campaign, facts about HIV/AIDS in the Los Angeles area, and cool gifts including: buttons, stickers, and wristbands. Aside from passing out information we also had the opportunity to go on stage and speak about why getting tested is important. My favorite part about going on stage was being able to interact with the audience in our "audience challenge." For this portion of the event we asked questions about the HIV/AIDS epidemic. If an audience member answered correctly they received a free Test 1 Million t-shirt.
This event was great because it stressed the importance of getting tested to our Black community, especially Black youth between the ages of 18 and 24. This demographic is especially important because statistics show that rates of HIV/AIDS are steadily increasing within this group. Since the BET Awards features celebrities that are admired and respected within the Black community and around the world, having an event with BET focused on HIV/AIDS awareness was a great way to get young people engaged. HIV/AIDS testing is important because it is a form of prevention. Knowing your status can prevent you from unknowingly spreading HIV, save your life and help you maintain your negative status. You can show your love for your partner by getting yourself tested. It is very important to know your status and your partner's status before engaging in sexual activity. So practice self-love by practicing safe sex and get tested regularly.
La'Mia Bryant is a graduate student studying public health and social work at the University of Michigan.


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Antitrust Suits: Government v. Tech, Google v. U.S.
Technology is said to follow Moore's Law, but it doesn't always follow the law set down by the government.
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is appearing today before a Senate antitrust committee as part of a Federal Trade Commission investigation into the company. The hearings might turn out to be of a magnitude of 10 to the 100th power, given the government's history of pursuing behemoth tech companies.
While innovation and competition are two key principles of American business that the government protects with patent and antitrust laws, it woefully lags when it comes to technology. In the book The Laws of Disruption, technology consultant Larry Downes boils down the problem: "Technology changes exponentially, but social, economic, and legal systems change incrementally."
The industry could benefit from better-informed government involvement. The government realizes this, having established a House Judiciary Committee meeting last year on the topic of competition in the evolving digital marketplace. However, it amounted to little more than "a forum for Google bashing," as Subcommittee Chariman Hank Johnson feared it would in the meeting's opening remarks.
When it comes to a government-led probe into possible antitrust violations, tech companies are sometimes in the soup together. This was the case last year, when the DOJ declared that the agreement among major companies (including Google, Intel, IBM, Apple, and IAC) not to hire away each other's top employees violated antitrust law. At other times, tech companies use government intervention against each other, as did Microsoft in March when it filed against Google in Europe for unfairly promoting its own products. And just this month, the Department of Justice moved to block AT&T's proposed acquisition of troubled T-Mobile.
Here are eight companies that have spent (or are about to spend) some time in the courthouse.
1 Google
3 Microsoft
4 Apple
5 Facebook
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Yep, it's got a Hemi
I've lusted after a '39 Ford convertible coupe since I was a teenager. Perhaps it's because the stylish '39 was Ford's last pre-war open two-seater? Or maybe it's the timeless appeal of Ford stylist E.T. "Bob" Gregorie's clean design, with its inverted boat-shaped hood, soft catwalks, rumble seat, and tapered tail? Or is it because a guy I knew (and envied) had one in high school?
Actually, it's all of the above.
Long before I knew what a "bucket list" was, a '39 Ford DeLuxe convertible coupe was in my "fantasy garage." But I wasn't actively searching for a car until one fateful morning 13 years ago. I was having breakfast with my friend Jim Cherry at the giant AACA Fall National Meet in Hershey, Pennsylvania. I knew Jim was working on a '39 Ford, but I hadn't been paying close attention to the project.
"I'm selling the '39," he said matter-of-factly. "But you've only just finished it," I replied. "I drove it to Louisville and Columbus," he countered. "I'm ready for my next project."
Jim took out a handful of photographs, laid them on the table, and I was hooked. Mind you, I had not come to breakfast with any notion of buying a car. But a little voice inside my head whispered, "now's your chance." When I asked him what he wanted for it, the price was reasonable. "I'll take it," I said, barely hesitating. As Jim and I were discussing the logistics of his shipping the car to me in California, noted hot rod collector, Bruce Meyer, came down to breakfast, and saw the pictures. "Jim's selling this '39," I chirped. "How much is it?" Bruce asked. When he heard the number he said, "I'll buy it."
"Too late," Jim said. "Ken just did."
A talented self-taught mechanic and fabricator, Jim Cherry and his cars have been featured in Street Rodder and The Rodder's Journal over the years. He can do almost everything himself, with a few exceptions: "I have no desire to learn upholstery," he says. "I painted my cars, early on, but with today's sophisticated finishes, I'm happy to leave that to someone else."
Jim doesn't keep his builds for long after they've been completed. He likes to take at least one shakedown trip, maybe to the NSRA Nats in Louisville or out to Goodguys in Columbus, to show his latest car, but then they're on the block. And some lucky guy gets the benefit of Jim's experience, craftsmanship, and creativity. In the time I've known him, he's built and sold a chopped '33 Ford three-window, a heavily patina'd Buick Nailhead-powered '40 Ford coupe, a Doane Spencer-like '57 T-Bird, a big-block '57 Ford "post" Tudor, a '32 Vicky with a Corvette 270 V-8, and a '32 three-window. Subtle in appearance, meticulously built, true to a theme, Jim's cars usually include a few rare or unusual elements, and they always attract attention.
As is his custom, Jim had a vision for this '39. He started with a clean, unmodified stocker with weathered old black paint. Un-chopped, it would sit seriously low, with an early Chrysler Hemi, a Tremec TKO five-speed topped with a '39 Ford shift handle, '58 Buick finned drums in front, Ford pickup rear brakes, and steel wheels. The hidden power steering is a GM Saginaw unit, but Jim retained the '39 stylish banjo steering wheel. Distressed leather upholstery, modified Glide power seats, and a Vintage Air HVAC system make for comfortable cruising. True to form, after it was completed, he drove it 1,500 miles or so and then showed me those fateful pictures.
I love Flatheads, but I was really intrigued with the idea of a Hemi. This engine was built by Jesse and Charlie Miller, owners of Miller Marine from West Chester, Pennsylvania. It's a 331-inch '56 Chrysler block with later 354 heads, bored to 354 inches, and equipped with a Chris Nielsen vintage cam, lightweight valvetrain, MSD ignition, tubular headers, and a 409-style water pump. A Weiand intake is topped with twin Edelbrock "Performer" 500-cfm four-barrels and Wolk vintage-style air cleaners.
From the outside, it looks like an old "Uncle Daniel," but drop down a gear or two, the Currie limited-slip 9-inch rear locks up, the fat 235/75:15s chirp, and this baby flat hauls with a raaaaappp from the shorty Flowmasters that tells onlookers there's something special under that hood. When it's parked, and I pop the hood, bystanders crowd around. The massive Hemi fits with precious little room on either side. It looks as though it was coaxed between the framerails with a whip and a chair.
Over time, and with the help of talented friends like Richard Graves and Warren Barbee, I've changed a few things. The 15-inch Vintique steel wheels, reversed in back, originally burgundy, are now painted black to match the car's finish. Big ECI/GM ventilated disc brakes in front replaced the marginal Buick drums; an accessory Ford rear gravel pan fills the unsightly gap between the tail section and the rear bumper; and the exhaust system's been modified for better ground clearance. The more I rub on that old paint, the better the patina.
This car is a lovely driver. When I lived in L.A., I took it on Mark Morton's famous River City Reliability Run. Now that I live back East, it's been to the famed Ty-Rods meet in Massachusetts, to NSRA's East Coast Nationals in York several times, and on countless runs through the Blue Ridge Mountains. Ripping up Route 81, passing long lines of truckers, I seldom fail to get an air horn salute. I wave back, thinking they must be enjoying the sight of a 72-year-old Ford roadster scampering up the hills like a little black rabbit.
I'm not going to say my '39 corners like a sports car, but with its dropped front axle, parallel leaf rear springs, and "indaweeds" stance, it's got a much lower center of gravity than a stocker. Thanks to tubular hydraulic shocks, and beefy sway bars front and rear, it handles surprisingly well in long sweepers, and the up-rated front brakes now match the engine's potential.
There's not much more I'd ever do to it, but I have fantasized about chopping the windshield 2-1/2 inches and having Steve Pierce build a Carson top similar to the one he did on my '32 roadster. One of my favorite vintage photos shows a chopped but otherwise stock-looking '39 Ford on a hot rod used car lot in Los Angeles. With my height, we wouldn't even have to lower the seat. Hmm …
There's a long list of friends who've said, "If you ever want to sell that car …" and you know the rest. But it's not for sale. Not ever.
Funny thing is, Jim Cherry asked about buying it back several times. When I wouldn't sell it, he bought another '39 convertible, installed an Ardun-Mercury V-8 and, as this was written, he was just working the bugs out and getting it running. He says it's not for sale, but with Jim, you never know …


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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University women's basketball squad kept its momentum going as the Bulldogs posted their third-straight win with a 72-60 victory over Lake Superior State in Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) action on Saturday (Feb. 16) afternoon at FSU's Jim Wink Arena.
FSU, which had dropped four games in a row prior to the current streak, kept pace in the GLIAC North Division as the Bulldogs improved to 13-9 overall and 12-7 in the conference.
Ferris State used a big first half run to bolt out to a 38-21 halftime advantage. The Bulldogs shot 51.9% in the opening frame and held LSSU to only 29.6% shooting for the opening period.
In the second half, the Bulldogs withstood an early Lake Superior State run and eventually pushed the lead to as many as 20 points with five minutes to play. The Lakers managed to cut the margin down to only nine points in the closing minutes, but could get no closer in dropping to 5-18 overall and 4-15 in conference play with their ninth-straight setback.
Redshirt freshman guard Katie Mavis dropped in a game-high 19 points for the Bulldogs and sank six-of-nine shots from the floor in leading FSU. Junior forward Ashley Rando tallied 16 points in the win while junior guard Sarah DeShone contributed 12 points in the victory.
Ferris State finished with a 45.6% shooting effort and the Bulldogs hit seven-of-16 (43.8%) three's in addition to making all 13 of their free throw attempts. They also limited LSSU to only 40.4% overall and the Lakers were only five-of-13 (38.5%) beyond the arc along with 13-of-21 (61.9%) from the line.
The Bulldogs led most of the day as the lead changed hands only twice. Ferris State held a decisive 37-29 margin on the glass and grabbed 16 offensive boards to 13 for the Lakers, which led to a 17-12 margin in second chance production.
Additionally, the Bulldogs also forced 19 turnovers and came away with nine steals in the contest. FSU also distributed the ball well as evidenced by 15 assists, including four from DeShone and three by sophomore center Hannah Hoffman off the bench. She also grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds.
Lake Superior State, which fell to FSU 74-71 earlier this year in Sault Ste. Marie, was paced by Candice LaCross' team-high 13 points. Raven Trammell added 10 points in the loss.
The victory was Ferris State's fourth in a row against the Lakers.
The Bulldogs will hit the road as they travel to Detroit to face divisional leader Wayne State on Thursday, Feb. 21, at the Matthaei Complex in the Motor City. The women's game is slated for an 8 p.m. (ET) tipoff and will be aired live on Sunny 97.3 FM and the Bulldog Sports Network online at FerrisStateBulldogs.com.
Ferris State then returns home to host Saginaw Valley State in its regular-season home finale on Saturday, Feb. 23, with tipoff set for 3 p.m. (ET). Senior guard Kylie Muntz will be honored as part of the "Senior Day" activities inside Wink Arena.
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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University women's basketball squad kept its momentum going as the Bulldogs posted their third-straight win with a 72-60 victory over Lake Superior State in Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) action on Saturday (Feb. 16) afternoon at FSU's Jim Wink Arena.


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60m Hurdles- 9.09
100m Hurdles- 14.76
400m- 59.12
800m- 2:35.53
HJ- 1.40m
LJ- 5.22m
Shot Put- 8.20m
Pent- 3019
- Placed fifth with a personal record score of 3,783 points in the heptathlon at the New Captain's Classic and Multi-Events.
- Was the third-leg of the 1600-meter sprint melody that placed ninth at the Florida Relays with a time of 4:04.29.
- Ran a season-best 14.90 seconds, finishing ninth in the 100-meter hurdles at the Fred Hardy Invitational
- Was the first-leg of the 4x400-meter relay team that placed second at the Virginia Cup with a time of 3:58.67.
- Set a new personal record and finished fourth in the pentathlon with score of 3019.
- Placed 10th in the long jump at the Father Diamond Invitational with a jump of 4.93m.
- Set a personal record in the high jump with a 1.40m leap at the Father Diamond Invitational
Outdoor 2012:
Season-best 14.76 in the 100 hurdles at the CAA Championships… Ran a season-best 1:05.10 in the 400 hurdles at the New Captains Classic for second place finish… Also finished second at the same meet in the 100 hurdles with 15.05… Had a third place finish in the 100 hurdles 15.18 at the Tribe Invite
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Ran a season-best 60 hurdles 9.08 at the Navy Invitational… Also had a season-best finish of 5.22 in the long jump at the Navy Invitational…Totaled 2893 points in the pentathlon at the Captain's Invitational
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Iwakuma cruises past Twins as offense breaks out
SEATTLE -- Hisashi Iwakuma continued his mastery of the Twins on Thursday with six scoreless innings and the Japanese right-hander got plenty of help from his offense as the Mariners rolled to an 8-2 victory in the opener of a four-game series at Safeco Field.
The Mariners' future continued arriving in impressive fashion as rookies Nick Franklin, Brad Miller and Mike Zunino helped ignite an offense that has led the American League in scoring during a 14-6 stretch in July.View Full Game Coverage
SEATTLE -- Hisashi Iwakuma continued his mastery of the Twins on Thursday with six scoreless innings and the Japanese right-hander got plenty of help from his offense as the Mariners rolled to an 8-2 victory in the opener of a four-game series at Safeco Field.
The Mariners' future continued arriving in impressive fashion as rookies Nick Franklin, Brad Miller and Mike Zunino helped ignite an offense that has led the American League in scoring during a 14-6 stretch in July.View Full Game Coverage
Franklin ripped a three-run home run to highlight a six-run second inning and the trio of youngsters combined for five RBIs and three runs scored, though Zunino left the game in the fifth inning after taking a hard foul tip off his left wrist.
Dustin Ackley, another of the Mariners youngsters, was 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles as he's hit .341 over his last 14 games to raise his average to .224.
"I've just continued to work in the cage and get my confidence where it needs to be," Ackley said. "I'm going up there with the mentality that I'm going to get a hit every time and that's really what separates me now from me before."
The offensive outburst helped Iwakuma win his third straight decision as the 32-year-old improved to 10-4 with a 2.87 ERA as he allowed just four hits with one walk and nine strikeouts in his six frames.
Iwakuma has dominated the Twins in four games during his two seasons in Seattle, having yet to allow an earned run in 26 2/3 innings while racking up four straight wins.
"I don't know if I'm good against this team in general," Iwakuma said through translator Antony Suzuki. "I'm just able to pitch my game, keeping the ball down in the zone, getting ahead with my first pitch and just being aggressive with my fastball. That's been very effective against this team."
Iwakuma didn't get much help from his infield defense, with three errors plus several other shaky plays that kept innings alive. But he worked through six innings on 102 pitches and is now 5-1 at Safeco Field this season.
"He was outstanding," said acting manager Robby Thompson, filling in again for Eric Wedge due to his minor stroke earlier in the week. "Coming from an infield guy, I wasn't too pleased with our infield play. But he battled and he got himself out of it.
"A lot of times you have infielders or outfielders pick up the pitchers; well, he definitely picked up our infield tonight," Thompson said. "He threw more pitches than he should have, but he battled and beared down and got himself out of a couple of jams we put him into."
Zunino, who isn't expected to miss much time with his sore wrist, said Iwakuma has been back in his old form after a couple rough outings prior to the All-Star break.
"He got a ton of ground balls and that was the biggest thing," Zunino said. "We had a bunch of situations early where we got him out of there. He did a great job of battling and working down in the zone. The last few starts he's been really good at doing that."
Seattle has won nine of its last 10 games to climb within four games of .500 at 49-53. The Twins had won their first two series after the All-Star break, but fell to 43-56 with the loss and now face Felix Hernandez, who has his own streak of 24 straight scores innings against Minnesota.
The Mariners erupted for six runs in the second off Twins right-hander Kevin Correia, highlighted by Franklin's three-run bomb to right field. Correia lasted just 1 2/3 innings before manager Ron Gardenhire went to his bullpen, making it the third shortest start of 179 career outings for the veteran.
Seattle had seven hits in that frame, including doubles by Kyle Seager and Miller, and finished the night with seven extra-base hits (one home run and six doubles).
"They've gotten a lot better from early in the year until now," said Correia, who gave up four runs in 6 2/3 in a no-decision against the Mariners in early June. "They're hot right now. You can see they're aggressive and they're not missing pitches. It's tough to go against."
Franklin now has eight home runs and 27 RBIs in his first 49 games in the Majors.
"After his first inning, a couple of guys talked about it and everybody figured out what he was trying to do and we just kind of went from there," Franklin said of his home run. "Honestly, 0-2, I was just trying to make contact and put the ball in play. The infield was in and I was looking to get the ball in the air and get that run in somehow."
Rookie right-hander Danny Farquhar replaced Iwakuma and blanked the Twins in the seventh and eighth with three strikeouts before Oliver Perez gave up a pair of runs in the ninth.
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog.


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The former head of Operation Yewtree has admitted police "got some things wrong" during its investigation into child sexual abuse in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.
Peter Spindler, a retired Metropolitan Police commander, said some detectives who worked with the probe "didn't have the skills and knowledge" needed and the inquiry was not set up quickly enough.
Mr Spindler was speaking at the NSPCC's headquarters in London during a debate on whether non-recent sexual abuse investigations had descended into "media witch-hunts".
He said: "Yewtree is now a global brand. It's embedded itself in the national psyche. It has empowered victims to come forward in the knowledge that they will be taken seriously.
"There have been many challenges along the way. We have learnt a lot in this type of investigation. We have got some things wrong.
"One of the things we didn't get right was we completely underestimated what was going to happen.
"We didn't have sufficient resources in place. We didn't have the knowledge and the skills amongst our more general detectives.
"We have been investigating non-recent abuse for years ... this was something different. We needed to create a major inquiry team. We didn't get it set it up early enough.
"We completely underestimated the swing in the public mood at the time and the coverage this was going to get. I have no doubt we got the coverage because it involved celebrities and it involved the BBC."
Mr Spindler said the media had a "ferocious appetite" but insisted the Metropolitan Police did not release the names of suspects before they were charged.
He said 30,000 victims who had yet to report abuse were expected to come forward to the Goddard inquiry, the independent investigation into child sexual abuse.
Operation Hydrant, set up by the National Police Chiefs' Council to investigate child sexual abuse allegations, had the names of more than 2,000 suspects and 670 institutions where abuse was said to have happened, he said.
"These people can't all be making it up, they haven't all got it wrong," Mr Spindler said.
Around 70 complaints were being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission in which victims said they were not taken seriously or crimes were covered up, he added.
Operation Yewtree was launched in October 2012 to investigate alleged abuse by Leeds-based Savile and others.
Mr Spindler said he believed a joke in the film The Inbetweeners 2, in which teenage character Neil says, "That's well Jimmy Savile", was evidence that young people understood what constituted sexual abuse.
"That really made me think that kids have got this," he said.
"I'd like to think it's far less likely that the type of offending we've seen in Yewtree, and some of these other cases, is likely to happen today. Because of social media, people would be exposed that much earlier and that much quicker."
Mr Spindler said he had concerns about young people's understanding of a "healthy sexual relationship".
"The images that teenage boys view on their phones and handheld devices are miles away from the sorts of things we would have chuckled over as young boys," he said.
"Girls do not understand what is an appropriate relationship because of what they're subjected to."


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The following events on the Oceania Calendar are only able to transfer to events within the same calendar year. Athletes can transfer between January and December and may move to any available race in the calendar year and may move between IRONMAN distance or IRONMAN 70.3 distance events. Transfers are not available to Sold Out events.
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The following events are able to transfer across the calendar year but NOT onto the same event in the following year.
Please note, transfers are not permitted into 2020 IRONMAN 70.3 Taupo due to Taupo hosting the 2020 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships.
Note that when you apply for the transfer you must complete the entire form which includes hitting the "complete" button on the "Review cart & check out" page. You will receive a confirmation email immediately after submitting your request. Expect to hear back from the IRONMAN team within 10 business days. This allows us time to verify your information and confirm availability in the requested event. If your transfer selection is not available you will be contacted to select a second choice or accept the refund due to you from your original event at the time of the initial transfer application.
Once your request has been processed, you will receive a unique link to complete the transfer to your new event. The cost of this registration link will include the transfer fee and any applicable price differences* between your race entries. Your entry is not valid into the transfer event until you complete this registration process. Your original event entry will be cancelled.
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4. Price is based on the General Pricing Tier or Tier 3 pricing of the event you are transferring into.
5. The event transferred into must be in the same calendar year as the original event year, with the exception of events held in November and December where transfers are available into the following year but not onto the same event in the following year.
6. If an athlete is transferring from a higher priced race to a lower priced race, the athlete will not be refunded the difference and is still required to pay the transfer fee.
7. If an athlete is transferring from a lower priced race to a higher priced race, the athlete will be required to pay the difference in addition to the transfer fee.
8. If an athlete is transferring from or into the longer or shorter distance on the same day (e.g. IRONMAN Australia to IRONMAN 70.3 Port Macquarie), they will not be required to pay the transfer fee.
9. Entry into events where general entries have sold out is not available.
10. The following events are available in the Transfer Program;
Any event not listed above is not a part of the Oceania Transfer Program.
11. Transfers are not available out of or into an event within 4 weeks of the Friday prior to race date. Please see specific event websites for cut off dates.
12. Transfers are applicable to individual race entries only – team entries and entries purchased through third-party charities and/or travel groups or free of charge entries are not available to transfer.
13. Races to be transferred into will not be available for immediate selection until they have been opened to the general entry for at least ten days. Any requests made into future events will be processed in order of application once the event transfer window has opened.
14. Once a transfer has been completed the option to receive any retrospective refund or make further transfers is no longer available.
15. Once a transfer has been completed you are waiving the option to receive any retrospective refunds including any additional purchases (e.g. Finisher pix, Triathlon Australia Membership). Except in the instance that neither of the two transfer options are available.
16. Transfers are non-transferable to another athlete.
17. Additional purchases including Finisher Pix, Triathlon Australia Membership and other additional purchases are non-transferable.
18. Transfers not permitted into 2020 IRONMAN 70.3 Taupo due to Taupo hosting the 2020 IRONMAN 70.3 World Championships.
Q: What if the event I want to transfer into sells out before I receive my registration link?
A: Depending on when you submitted your request, and how much availability was remaining in the event, we will still try to accommodate your original request. However, we cannot promise that your first choice will always be granted. You will be given the option to select a second event in this circumstance.
Q: What communication should I expect after I submit my transfer application?
A: You will receive a cancellation email for the event you are transferring out of, an email containing your registration link for the new transfer event and a confirmation of your new event registration once you have completed the online registration and paid the transfer fee.
You will be contacted directly if your first choice is no longer available. If this is the case, we will follow up with you to select a second event option.
Q: Can I transfer between regions (ie, a Oceania race to a European race)?
A: These are reviewed on a case by case basis. Email your request through and we seek permission from the selected regional office to see if this is an option.
Q: I previously withdrew from an IRONMAN Oceania event – can I return the refund and transfer into an event instead?
A: No once you have cancelled from an event this is final.
Q: I have an entry into an event next year that I can no longer take part. Can I transfer now?
A: Yes all events open up in the transfer application when they are open for entries.
Q: I am currently registered for an IRONMAN 70.3 event, can I transfer my entry?
A: Yes, the program is open to IRONMAN 70.3 events as well as IRONMAN events. Individualised fees include the difference in price from initial registration to the transfer event.
Q: Is taking the transfer option a better financial option than taking a refund and re-entering the new event?
A: If you want the chance to race an IRONMAN event in the same calendar year, the transfer option in most scenarios is better for you (depending on time of request and the available refund).
Q: What if I transfer into another event and I am unable to compete, am I eligible for a refund or additional transfer?
A: Once a transfer request has been completed, athletes are not eligible to receive a refund or any further transfers.
Q: Why are the Ironman events held in November and December able to transfer across the calendar year and not any other events?
A: These events under the old transfer program had no option to transfer as they were at the end of the calendar year. Hence these athletes can now transfer to events in the following year but not onto the same event in the following year.
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text: Credit and debt counseling services in Sikeston offer education to consumers about how to avoid incurring debts that cannot be repaid through establishing an effective Debt Management Plan and Budget. Credit counseling is usually less typified by functions of credit education or the psychology of spending habits; rather credit counseling establishes a planned method of debt relief, typically through a Debt Management Plan. Credit counseling often involves negotiating with creditors to establish a debt management plan (DMP) for a consumer. A DMP may help the debtor repay his or her debt by working out a repayment plan with the creditor. DMPs, set up by credit counselors, usually offer reduced payments, fees and interest rates to the client. Credit counselors refer to the terms dictated by the creditors to determine payments or interest reductions offered to consumers in a debt management plan.


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Tjedrey necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 139 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
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I am an aromatherapist that got interested in pure essential oils because I wanted a natural safe way to take care of my family. I was curious about treating everything from their runny noses to the OCD my son had recently been diagnosed with. My study of essential oils lead me to a doctor who specializes in natural healing through diet, supplements and other safe alternatives that didn't have dangerous side effects often associated with pharmaceuticals. Together, she and I have developed powerful blends that can treat both the physical and psychological complaints of her patients, including stress, insomnia, and anxiety. The skies the limit, and I need an eye catching logo to get the word out about our products.
We will be selling our blends to both the medical field and to the general public. The logo should look professional but not to stuffy or technical. The dentist who is diffusing our blends in his office for fear and anxiety should be equally impressed with the product as the mother picking our Monster Blend for her child afraid of the dark and that lurking within.
This logo will be replacing the one I am currently using. The feedback I got about the old label was that is was too simple, and that the product didn't stand out from the other products on the shelf. See the example of that label below.
Your logo is going to be used on my labels. My blends are predominantly in a 2oz cobalt blue glass spray bottle with white tops. I don't care what color is used in the logo but think that the cobalt blue bottle should be taken into consideration. Pure essential oils come from plants, a lot of those being flowers. The logo should reflect nature in some way. I like the chamomile flower but that's just an idea, I am open to anything. If you would like to learn more about aromatherapy and what it's about go here http://www.aromaweb.com/articles/wharoma.asp Hopefully it will give you even more ideas. The last thing I would like to mention is that my tag line will be "making scents out of chemistry" and would like it included in the design concept. Aromatherapy is more than what we think smells good. Each plant has valuable chemical components that make it a healing powerhouse and such a valuable addition to those interested in healing the body naturally.
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So who is this 'ck' character?! (Someone [apparently] who believes a couple initials are enough to fill in this name business…) Just another art junkie who meanders in the worlds of writing in third person and addictions to colors that flow and lines that soothe. Anything to create symbolism! Anything whose initial introduction sends your logical mind on a irrational trip through the subconscious! [ Continue Reading ]


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We are very proud to be part of Edmonton's arts community…to bring contemporary dance to Edmonton audiences, to create new dance with Edmonton artists, and to present performance opportunities to dancers from our community and beyond.


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Google's Waze Purchase Under Antitrust Review
Google's acquisition of navigation mobile app Waze is now under review by the Federal Trade Commission. Amir Efrati reports.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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What a special place! We had a lovely relaxing break here! Thanks for everything.
Thank you very much for your kindless and wonderfull reception! Congratulations for your nice garden. See you again.
A beautiful finca in lovely sourrounds. Joan was an amazing host, his warmth whilst on the island allowed us to see some magnificient beaches. Cala Salada is a must!!. We will recommend Can Planells to all our friends.
Thank you Joan for enjoying are stay here. Was truly memorable. We have enjoyed every minute. Can Planells is beautiful relaxing. Breakfast was sublime. We love all the smells around the gardens and the pool to cool off.
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Take a minute (or five or six) if you have it to check out a glimpse into my drawing process. When working a landscape without architecture - like the one you see here - there's a certain freedom and spontaneity that can be enjoyed without the worry of achieving a "likeness." Check out my blog www.raineydewey.com when you get a minute for art talk and general chatter.


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1. You know what a pendulum is. Right?
2. Well, in politics, we say that if the pendulum goes to the far right, then it will swing back to the far left.
a. For example, when I was a child, school discipline was pretty far to the right. That is, the teacher could swat (hit) us when
we were naughty. One day when I was about 12, I threw a rock. The teacher ordered me to bend over. He then used a
board to hit my buttocks. I have never thrown a rock again (I'm 75 years old). The pendulum, however, has now swung to
the far left. That is, it is now almost impossible in many American schools to use any kind of physical punishment, In fact, the
word "punishment" is forbidden.
Thus, regarding your example:
Let's say that country X intervened in the problems of country Y. Let's say that country X lost many soldiers. But let's say that the leader of country X says, "It is our duty to intervene anywhere at any time for any reason."
Well, maybe when country X gets a new leader, that new leader will say: We intervened and lost many soldiers.
So I have decided that we will never intervene again for any reason at any time. Do you see how the pendlum swung
from one extreme to another extreme?
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In the Google map below you find a collection of hotels, restaurants and coffee shops near ZAS. You can see more details by scrolling in and clicking on the list symbol top left or use the full screen button next to 'Anmelden'.
Unfortunately the list is not complete and some of the marks, which haven't got the exact position, can't be changed due to intern Google problems.


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Sony had quite a bit of bad PR on its hands when an update added advertising to WipeOut HD on the PS3, with both the gaming press and those playing the game complaining bitterly about the addition.
Sony quickly yanked the offending advertisement. "The ads have been removed to further investigate the situation and ensure that any in-game advertising does not affect the gameplay experience," the company said in a statement. Why were these ads so offensive, and is this something we're going to be seeing more of?
Part of the problem is the fact that the ads weren't present when the game shipped, meaning that the amount of advertising included in the game changed over time. While many gamers are tolerant of in-game advertising, others refuse to buy titles with invasive ads. In this case, the product they bought was updated at a later date to include the sort of content they're trying to avoid, and there is neither a way to opt out of the advertising nor to get a refund from Sony. The company has your money, and there's nothing stopping it from adding any kind of advertising it wants.
Outside of bad press and the outrage of gamers, that is.
The second issue was that the ads in question weren't just seen on the track. Instead, a video advertisement played during a loading screen. Even that might not be terrible, were it not for the fact that the advertisement artificially prolonged the loading times for the game. If you were unlucky enough to get the ad in the game, and the track you wanted to play loaded, the game wouldn't budge until the video was finished playing. You can take a look at one example of this to see just how much time could be added to loading.
The ads were put into the game by a company called Double Fusion, and the company has claimed that we can expect more ads coming to a "handful" of PlayStation Network titles in the future. Those games were of course unnamed, but after this debacle and Sony's admirably nimble action in removing the ads, we can only hope that any future advertising won't affect the gameplay or loading times directly. Sony has hopefully learned its lesson.
The takeaway for gamers may be even more important, however. The game you walk out of GameStop with may not be the same game you have in a few months. If you use the level of advertising to make buying decisions, or even to make a value judgment on price, the situation may be more fluid than you first assume. The product that consumers bought at launch cost $20 and had no ads; now Sony is hoping to monetize the experience, with gamers getting little to no say in what happens to the software they've purchased.
Welcome to our brave new world.


text: Last night's episode of Toddlers & Tiaras featured Allyson, a four-year-old girl who is obsessed with Beyoncé and "brown" skin in general. She and her mother never refer to people with Beyoncé's coloring as "black" or African-American, but "brown." Allyson only likes "brown" dolls. She prays every night that God will make her less "peach" and more "brown" and might be the first kid to ever be on this show that actually likes getting a spray tan because it's the closest thing to having her prayers answered.


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This one is the second real book I've ever made, and it took years before I even used it as a notebook, and never finished it. I did get closer to finishing it than usual, but still... all books made by me used by me end up only half-full.
My current notebook system may be a bit odd, but it works for me. I need a notebook wherever I go, even though I don't even use one everyday, but if I don't have one, I'm bound to come up with a master plan for the thing I've always wanted. But here's how my life is organized right now: three skinny lined notebooks*, a rubber band and two or three 0.01 pens, tossed in my handbag. One of the notebooks is for crafty things, planning and writing down shopping lists for 50cm invisible zippers and teal blue sewing thread. The other is a diary/poetry/serious writing notebook. And the last (the middle one, actually) is full of diary/poetry/serious stuff but needs to be carried around everywhere because important things were written in it (just realized it would be in a much safer place at home behind several locks).
There may be hope in the world as long as there are notebooks. At least my handwriting has possibly stopped deteriorating.
Would you please tell me about your notebook? I'd love to hear what you use it for (notes, drawings, newspaper clippings?), what it looks like, if you keep it in a special place and whatever comes to mind. You can leave a comment or you can email me (the address is in my profile). What would make me really happy is if you sent me a photo or two. I'd love to make a little blog post of other people's notebooks too. Just write a line or two (or twenty) for me, if you're in the mood for sharing.
This isn't a call for artist's notebooks! I'm interested in your notebook (simply curious, I admit!), and if you happen to be an artist, well, maybe we can both live with it :) I'm equally fascinated by the notebooks of engineers and gardeners and all you people out there.
And geez, enough with the snow already!!
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Posted: Tue 12 Feb 2013, 22:37
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To kill a process, use "pprocess" under "System" or open a terminal and type:
followed by the name of the program.. IE:
killall mplayer
and hit enter.
Some Pups have "kill" as a right click menu item, to use on the taskbar..
You can also start a program this way, by name, and use the terminal to chase errors...
BTW the Linux equiv to ctrl-alt-delete is ctrl-alt-bkspc
which will exit the Xserver to a console..
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Posted: Wed 20 Mar 2013, 08:32
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I've been using precise puppy 5.5 on a 512mb usb stick for about 3 days now as my hdd went dead along with win7.
First I'd like to thank everyone who made this possible. It's a neat little thing. I have previously had DSL as a backup os and also SysRescue CD.
I love the wizards and pop up windows, how much useful stuff is packed into the tiny footprint. It's easy to use and helps me get things done. That is most important. Great to tinker. It feels warm and friendly and that makes it awesome. I don't want my OS to come and assimilate me with it's cold looks and rigid workflows. I don't want a serious world.
However there are things that nag me: I can't imagine having a more confusing audio setup. I have 2 sound cards and I just couldn't find a way to get the volume sliders work. This is also the first time I have used Seamonkey which is the most awful browser I have used in recent times - weird unreadable fonts, rendering problems, sluggish. Right click can be dangerous (click and it already selected something from the menu). Thats about it for now
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Location: South Wales
Posted: Wed 20 Mar 2013, 10:06
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It's the challenge of making it how you want it that makes Puppy addictive.
Try Firefox or Opera. Experiment. You might want to make a copy of your save file first.
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@tote,swaan -- Seamonkey is a 'fork' of Firefox. They're twins. Not identical twins, but twins -- and they generally behave the same.
Try Opera or Chrome/Chromium.
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Location: Port Townsend, WA. USA
Posted: Sun 24 Mar 2013, 02:58
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Subject description: Seamonkey
Sorry to hear your negative report about Seamonkey.
My experience is the opposite.
What version Seamonkey are you using?
You can find the version in the *about* area from the *menu* bar at top of the browser's page.
Some of the older versions present with hard to read font.
That can be changed.
Try adjusting screen themes from puppy's menu/desktop/desktop settings
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Hello everyone!!
So... I'm using Precise Puppy 5.5 for about two weeks (after much resistance) cuz I had several problems trying to use other linux distros on pendrives. Also, I didn't know the capacity of the Puppy until meet the Puppy Arcade...
Ironically after trying out I realized that most of the apps that come by default replaced pretty much all that I was using before.
Plus, some points that I would like to highlight about Puppy:
It's lightweight and cool;
Full of nice wizards that really work;
Booted in an old machine that I have without the Plop Boot Manager disk (lol);
Amazing community, I hope I can contribute in some way in the future.
Now I think I'm ready to try some derivatives...
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Posted: Sat 06 Apr 2013, 17:45
Post subject: feedback to the puppy developers
I'm using puppy since a few days (slacko5.5), and mainly wanted to recover a laptop with pentium 1.6Ghz and 512Mb RAM and windows XP into an all-round computer for my kids.
My first experiences are very limited, and I struggled a lot to install puppy on my hdd. Let me give you a bit of feedback already now, cause in a few days or weeks I might have forgotten initial troubles:
* I was confused by the different versions, not knowing what is meant by slacko, etc.
* I know the linux community is proud of it's diversity, but it's simply a pain for beginners: too much choice is overwhelming and it feels like every choice you make could be a wrong one
* there is big need for a single place with up-to-date documentation. I don't like browsing forums for basic information
* I tried puppy from a live CD first, saving the file when closing. Next time I wanted to install it, but this was not possible cause the save file was loaded and therefore the drive could not be unmounted. So I found out about the pfix=ram boot options but it did not work
* I had to put
puppy pfix=ram
in order to make it work, but that was not mentioned in official documentation if I remember well.
* the installation was painful. I was confused by the many different options (partitioning, frugal vs full, saving in a directory or not, size of savefile) again. I also had trouble with my drive (bad sector or something like that), causing me to try it at least 10 times. The fact that gparted did not want to run and I had to use fdisk and mkfs to fix my drive complicated the story, but that's of course not to blame on puppy
* the installation ends with the GRUB thing and guess what: again many choices: which GRUB to use, where to install it (MBR or the partition), ... I chose MBR but my computer did not start up, so had to do all over again and install GRUB in the partition in which I installed puppy (frugal).
* it is VERY unclear how you have to shut down after doing the frugal install: save the file or not? Then another window with question to save another file...
*on the other hand, it's amazing how fast puppy starts up, how easy it is to get wifi running etc.
So I'm still convinced it's a great linux distro and I'm willing to keep on using it. But once you want to install it, it's not as easy anymore as using it from the live CD.
I still have a few questions, but I will post them in another thread. I'm happy to give more details about the troubles I faced if it can help you making things more clear for future newbies like me.
Let me finish on a positive note: puppy linux looks like a very nice distro and with more documentation and less options to choose from it will convince many more users
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Posted: Tue 23 Apr 2013, 17:28
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I just recently switched over from Lubuntu to Precise Puppy on my dual boot desktop at home (although frankly we hardly ever start Windows 7 anymore). I had tried Puppy as my Lubuntu install had gotten corrupted due to a problem with an automatic software upgrade.
But Precise Puppy not only rescued my documents to store externally when I could not boot up Lubuntu, it was also so fast and efficient that my family and I decided to make the switch (my wife and kids also prefer a Linux system). It had no problem detecting my monitor, keyboard, or mouse. The install process to the HD took only a few minutes. It had no problem detecting my ethernet Internet connection (I live in a rural area so no WiFi only satellite internet for me). All the codecs worked right away (no problem with Flash, mp3, etc.). I'm still fiddling with Java so I can run Java games like Magarena, but if I have problems I can ask here on the forums.
Most of my family prefer Seamonkey, but I also put on Chrome for my son to play Black Hat Rider (some of the key commands conflicted with some of the shortcuts for Seamonkey). With the access to Ubuntu repositories we have a decent selection of games (I'm a glChess fan and love having access to a lot of chess engines). I have Chocolate Doom up and running to take away work stress when I get home. My son and daughter primarily uses Abiword for school assignments, but I can always upgrade to LibreOffice if necessary.
I will have to learn bash and more on how to use the terminal, but I love how easy it is to find an load software (both pet's and deb's).
All in all - great job and great product! Thanks!
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Posted: Sat 27 Apr 2013, 22:32
Post subject: puppylinux easy to use but NOT install
Subject description: use or demonstrate puppylinux on another computer without harming it
Subject: easy puppylinux to use but NOT install or damage
Subject description: use or demonstrate puppylinux on other computers without harming them...
Feel this needs be marked IMPORTANT so quick to find.
Previously used puppylinux to quickly demonstrate linux on other people's computers without fear of mucking them up.
Installed sometimes, specially older machines
Along with links to the simple instructions of how to demonstrate puppylinux without damaging anothers computer...
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Posted: Fri 24 May 2013, 22:19
Post subject: On puppy needs ur help 2
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I am a terrible typist , many times I can't even do my password correctly . Because I have this drawback I tend to try to do everything thru the GUI . I run the latest Lucid now but with Wary combined in . I say this because I see the 525 version sign on , but the beautiful lightning scene is what comes on with the usual original template icons
I have been fooling with this since last summer . Trying to get a bullet proof version on my usb flash stick (8g,4g) I started with a live cd from Linux Format magazine and enjoyed its speed and simple look . I like the control that I do have over it . Because I run wide open on the public access points I like not having to worry about viri . Should it happen I just re format and began again with a re-install .
My original stick with the updated sfs or apt is still there . I copy to other sticks and fool with them as I strive to understand the Puppy system . I originally came from the Mint system (Debian ver) It is quite fast but uses alot of space . What ilike about puppy was its resilience especially the Lucid version . It is as if it tenaciously keeps digging until it mounts . None of the other flavors and versions can match that . One thing I like is be able to plug it in another computer , mount up and go to town .
I had even used a (6g) Knoppix version . It is blinding fast but very touchy and hard to control the windows . I probably didn't understand the settings .
The main problem was I would put a cd in it and I couldn't get it to run . I knew it could run in XP or "7" I can get Gnome to work in either video or the exe but not both at once . My main confusion is with the little gear icons that look like exe's but don't operate the same . I can't click on them the way I could in windows to run an application . I can't use the run comand either because the little routine doesn't see it as an application . So sometimes the programs work and sometimes it doesn't .
I just about started and loaded this puppy every way it can be loaded and run . I like the frugal mode the best . However I find I don't need all those saves in session or otherwise . I need the original save for my base mount . Then I need about 1 or 2 more for the final tweaked save . With a last one that I mess with as I drop out packages and find what is actually needed .
My I idea is to have a puppy for each area of operation . One for media ' one for writing , one for photos , one for the internet . The idea is to keep puppy nimble and quick .
No one part would fail and ruin the other parts . I think the biggest problem Windows 7 had was trying to do all things and reserving huge amounts of space for various operations . I think trying to protect and redundancy is what slows it down . With all its libraries , services and functions , it can't help but become muscle-bound . It takes most computers with windows more than 5 to 10 minutes to load up . After people have using it awhile with what they do and the various bugs that crop up that is a more realistic number .
I think to get up and running with the internet as well windows must go thru 6-8 changes . each one can fail . I think the inherent setup that puppy has makes it more efficient . Right now I am trying to think what using usb stick can do to make say a business such as a postal service can do with it . Well for now I am out of time .
My main issue right now is I can't get abiword to use the template I want for its standard letter .
The second matter is I reformatted and mounted a usb stick but it won't load its drivers for starting puppy . I can run it after I mount it with another usb stick or even live cd . the only thing that is missing is the boot (exe) gear-look that say "boot cap" under it . "Boot mess"(exe) is right next to it . I can't put one in there . Also I can't expand the partition that Puppy is in .
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Posted: Tue 04 Jun 2013, 19:17
Post subject: My experience with Puppy
Glad this thread is up -- helps me feel like I'm contributing in a small way.
I just started "getting into" Linux a couple months ago. We have several computers in the house: a new Windows 8 HP Envy dv7, a 2009 or so Dell Latitude 1440, and an HP Mini 110 netbook (1.6Ghz Atom, 2GB RAM). I've tried several distros on the Dell or the HP Mini, including Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, and Linux Mint. I've decided on Mint for the Dell (dual boot with Win7) and Lubuntu (only) on the netbook. The netbook is INCREDIBLY more satisfying to me with Puppy or Lubuntu than with XP!!
At the same time, I've been playing with Puppy and found it to be fun. It does run faster on the Dell than Mint. I would definitely say that Lubuntu is faster on the netbook though than Puppy, including bootup and even overall speed. Puppy works out of the box on both machines, including wireless, which is very impressive because the stupid Broadcom drivers do not work on any of the *buntus/Mint without plugging into Ethernet and downloading the firmware.
The Windows 8 HP is another story, and I haven't spent a lot of time on it yet. Mint 15 might be best, and that's probably what I'll try and convince my wife on with dual boot if I can get HDMI to work right… we don't get cable or anything and use it every day to watch TV. Puppy does boot on it with UEFI set to legacy mode and Secure Boot turned off, fortunately HP makes both pretty easy. However, it took some tinkering to get the video to work in Puppy and initially did not boot to GUI (it's got an AMD A8 CPU with AMD Radeon graphics), and I have had no luck at all with the sound. Tried the ALSA wizard several different ways, etc. I probably won't keep trying.
Anyhow, I've been very impressed with Puppy and would probably use it on a computer with a dead hard drive or a slower system than the HP Mini. I suppose I wonder why I personally would use it frequently over Lubuntu, which seems just as fast and easier to set up certain things I need (like Dropbox and WINE with Word 2003). I think Puppy might be better off too with something like LXDE—JWM looked very dated when I first pulled it up, although it's grown on me a little. I know there's LxPup, but how much space would it take to offer both JWM and LXDE, which is also very lightweight? I know the idea of switching to Firefox or Chromium with Slypheed has been tossed around too – SeaMonkey's horrible UI was a turn off and I installed FF right away, which works great on both my Dell and HP.
It's been fun diving into the Linux world, and I'm going to continue using Puppy USB stick now and then.
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Posted: Tue 04 Jun 2013, 20:53
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johnfriction -- a note about sound, I have a particularly persnickety Compaq that's not quite as new but taught me a few things nonetheless.
There may be a setting in BIOS to set the internal audio to "Auto" or "Enable" or "Disable" -- there was in my Compaq, and when I plugged a graphics card into it, which by the way was a 2xDVI card, Puppy claimed the card had HDMI ports and tried to pipe the audio (unsuccessfully) through that! Whoopsie. Changing the BIOS setting from "Auto" to "Enable" and then running Puppy's "Multiple Sound Card Wizard" fixed that pretty quickly -- once I figured out that this was the source of the issue.
Also -- you might try Upup Precise 126.96.36.199 or Upup Raring 3.8.7 -- both are in the "Puppy Projects" section of this forum and are extremely well done. (We call 'unofficial' versions "Puplets" and they are usually supported just as well as the official builds.) I have Upup Raring running on a small, weird, but very new motherboard I have that's waiting for a case right now. That board previously had an earlier build of Upup Precise (Upup Precise 3.8.2) and those two Puplets are the only ones that I could get to work with the board -- it has "Poulsbo" graphics (Intel's new graphics whoozimawidget for Atom processors that don't use the i945 chipset -- those things are a real trip, I tell you!).
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Posted: Tue 04 Jun 2013, 21:59
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starhawk - Thanks for the tips! I'll have to keep trying the sound -- I'd take Puppy over Windows 8 any day!!
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Location: Hyderabad, India
Posted: Wed 12 Jun 2013, 12:57
Post subject: Love Puppy Linux
Started using Puppy Linux Slacko version since 2 days & am immensely happy with it.
Really amazing how so much is built into such a small foot print. Hats off to the developers.
I have installed it on to an 8 GB USB flash drive.I keep getting the message that the max limit that I can allot to my personal file is 1.50 GB. When I have so much space left, why can't I allot more? In fact, I did allot 2.2 Gigs now & it's working fine. I have 2 GB of RAM.
I have downloaded & installed Google Chrome; It has no menu entry. How to open it from the console? I have subsequently installed & using Chromium though. This one does have a menu entry.
I have been using Linux (Ubuntu, Mint) since 2011, so not a total newbie to linux. I love Linux in general & now, Puppy in particular. I have win XP on the hard drive & this one on the flash drive & am immensely happy. I now feel there is no need to go for Ubuntu or Mint.
Thanks once again.
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Hope im in the right general area. I was looking for some help with xastir.
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Virginia school principal reassigned after suing parents
Richmond school officials have temporarily moved a principal who is suing four parents to the system's central office.
Media outlets report that Lucille M. Brown Middle School principal Denise R. Lewis' reassignment became effective Monday.
Superintendent Dana T. Bedden says in a statement that Lewis is being temporarily reassigned to minimize any distraction that the lawsuit might have on the school.
Lewis' lawsuit was prompted by a letter published in 2013 in an alternative weekly that was critical of the school's leadership and climate.
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This will be a beginning "level" adventure. I will be starting character creation on February 2nd instead of the first Sunday of February considering it will be superbowl sunday. If interested please leave me an email message @ firstname.lastname@example.com. The first six people interested will be allowed to play. Once I am comfortable with that number I may increase the amount to eight but no more than that. I have all the books on pdf and if you have a thumb drive I will gladly share. There are three different main books that will be acceptable for player characters. The books names are Vampire the Masquerade, Werewolf the Apocalypse, and Mage the Ascension. Required supply of necessary items are a pencil and ten 10 sided dice. I look forward to seeing and running people in my homebrewed adventure.


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We are a free junk vehicle removal & recycling service in the USA and Canada. We remove Cars, Trucks and Motorcycles at this time. Our company is technology driven, fun, and fast-paced. Our top priority is exceptional customer service.
Our target audience for this project is our employees.
Attached are two other award examples we have had designed in the past. We would like a polished look but the designer to be creative. You can make this award look "hardcore" since it is the Rocking Renagade Award, it should look kind of "Rocking".
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A Massachusetts man was sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday for a botched robbery at Dunkin' Donuts in Preston in 2010.
A Massachusetts man was sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday for a botched robbery at Dunkin' Donuts in Preston in 2010.
Paul Simmons, 64, of Springfield, Mass., was so drunk that he forgot to take the money, his lawyer, William Gerace, said at Simmons' sentencing in New London Superior Court.
Gerace said a video of the robbery taken by a surveillance camera was "comical, in a way," because it showed the clerks didn't take his drunken robbery demand seriously.
A clerk's finger was slashed by a knife Simmons was carrying after the clerk tried to stop Simmons from forcing open a cash register, according to police.
The knife was a penknife attached to a keychain, Gerace said.
Simmons, whose criminal record in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York dates back to 1968, has psychological problems after spending much of his life in prison, Gerace said.
"Whenever there are a lot of people, he can't handle it," Gerace said. So when he went to Foxwoods Resort Casino with his fiancée,
Deborah Coleman, on Nov. 9, 2010, Simmons got drunk and somehow ended up at the Dunkin' Donuts, the lawyer said.
After the robbery, Simmons "just crawled in someone's car and fell asleep," Gerace said. Police found him outside Foxwoods.
"I'm asking the court to give him hope to come out and do it right," Gerace said to Judge Susan Handy, who sentenced Simmons.
"I'm going to give you some consideration today," Handy told Simmons, saying she balanced his "atrocious" criminal record with requests for leniency she received in letters from his family and friends.
Prosecutor David Smith said he thought Simmons was a good person around family and friends and a bad one with others, but that talking with people Simmons knows persuaded him not to ask for a longer sentence.
"He has a long record, a severe record of criminal activity," Smith said. "I don't know if he can help it."
Talking about the night of the robbery, Handy said, "You chose to self-medicate with alcohol. You did that on your own, sir. … You are a threat to the public safety when you drink."
Coleman spoke on Simmons' behalf in court.
"I just want to apologize for what happened," she said before breaking down in tears.
Simmons declined to make a statement at his sentencing. He buried his head in his hands during much of the proceeding.
Before beginning his prison sentence, Simmons was free on a $250,000 bond. Coleman was able to post the bond after she won a Foxwoods slot machine jackpot, he said at a previous court appearance.
Handy sentenced Simmons to seven years in prison followed by six years of special parole. Its terms ban drugs and alcohol, require him to stay out of casinos and to receive psychological evaluation and testing.
He pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery with a deadly weapon, which has a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison.
In August, Simmons rejected a plea bargain that would have sentenced him to nine years in prison followed by six years of special parole.


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People We Love :: Monica Beemer
When Monica Beemer arrived at Sisters of the Road in 2001, the Portland, Ore., nonprofit café was serving 250 low-cost meals per day but was losing $100,000 per year. With Beemer at the helm, Sisters continues to feed the hungry but hasn't reported a loss in the past four years and now pays its 30-person staff better wages.
Beemer has increased Sisters' visibility around Portland, advocating at city hall for solutions to homelessness and fostering relationships with the 8,000 donors who contribute some 70 percent of the organization's budget. "We're not a charity model," says Beemer, a former Jesuit volunteer and founder of the state's first day care for children and seniors. "We're a community organizing model."
Now in its 31st year, Sisters provides guests a meal in exchange for a nominal fee or simple chores. This way, "their work and their being are valued," Beemer says.
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The researchers are seeking additional participants between the ages of 8 and 15 who are diagnosed with high‐functioning autism. Enrollees will participate in a study that examines public speaking and social attention, as well as math and reading academic development. Each participant will participate in two three‐hour‐long sessions that include academic assessments and computer games that measure public speaking, collaborating with people, and also thinking about people.
This research tries to answer the question of how social attention impairment in children with high‐functioning autism may affect their social learning in the classroom. Social attention encompasses three related problem domains — joint attention, social orienting and attention to faces, said Peter Mundy, professor and Lisa Capps Chair for Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Education in the UC Davis School of Education and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Medicine.
"To engage effectively in social learning within a classroom, children must be motivated and readily able to attend to other people to share and receive meaningful information," said Mundy, who also is the director for educational research at the UC Davis MIND Institute. "The complex social and cognitive context of classroom settings, in which social attention must be regulated in interaction with multiple social partners, makes social learning exceptionally complicated for school‐aged children with autism."
The study setting is the Social Attention Virtual Reality Laboratory, a collaboration of the MIND Institute, School of Education, and the Center for Mind and Brain, established in 2009. Two hundred children, grades three through 10 ultimately will participate in the study, along with their parents and teachers. The researchers are seeking 80 participants with high‐functioning autism. They already have recruited 40 participants with ADHD and 40 typically developing children.
In the virtual‐reality classroom game students are asked attend to nine avatars, each of which represent fellow students in a virtual classroom. Students are asked to respond to simple questions about themselves, such as "Can you tell us the names of the people in your family?" while trying to remember to look at all of the avatars in the classroom. Avatars that don't receive any attention begin to fade away to remind students to look at them. In addition to the computerized virtual‐reality tasks, students also will be asked to complete pen‐and‐paper problem‐solving activities that measure academic development.
To participate, the students and their parents will visit the virtual reality laboratory in Davis, Calif. Their teachers also will be asked to provide data on student performance via an online survey. Gift card compensation will be provided to students and families for each visit attended, and families may request an academic achievement report at the conclusion of participation. For further information about participating in the study, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com or 530‐297‐4430.
The study is funded by a $1.5 million grant from the federal Institute for Educational Science. Study collaborators include Marjorie Solomon, associate professor and Julie Schweitzer, professor, both of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and of the UC Davis MIND Institute.


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Two high school football players are on trial in an Ohio town for allegedly raping a 16-year-old who was too drunk to consent to sex.
The unnamed victim, who lives across the Ohio River in West Virginia, remembers nothing from the August night two football players allegedly treated her like "a toy."
She, like many in the town and beyond, learned about her alleged degredation from a flurry of social media postings including a photo showing a girl who's reportedly the victim, passed out and being carried like a rag doll.
Text messages the accuser sent the day after her alleged assault are utterly heartbreaking.
Here are some of the texts that came from her phone that prosecutor Joann Gibbs read to the court in Steubenville, Ohio, according to The New York Times:
"Who was there who did that to me?" the accuser texted to a friend of one of the defendants. "You couldn't have told them to stop or anything?"
"I wasn't being a slut. They were taking advantage of me," another text stated.
"I hate my life," another text read. "Oh my God, please tell me this isn't true."
Most of the prosecution's case will rely on texts being submitted to the court since the alleged victim remembers nothing from that night.
"You will have to piece it together much in the way (the victim) had to piece it together," another prosecutor, Marianne Hemmeter, reportedly told a judge.


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TOWSON, Md. – The Landmark Conference men's lacrosse coaches have voted and picked the Goucher College Gophers to defend their 2012 title with another championship this season.
Goucher earned five first place votes and 55 points to sit atop the poll for the third consecutive year. Drew University received the final two first place votes and 48 points to finish second in the poll. The University of Scranton was picked third with 36 points in a replica of the top three seeds from the 2012 Landmark tournament.
With three 200-point scorers having graduated, the Gophers (18-2, 6-0) will rely on defense this season. The defense will be led by preseason All-American goalkeeper Connor Mishaw and defender Bryce Carson. Brian Kelly, hired five years ago to be the top offensive assistant at Goucher, takes over this season as head coach. The Gophers advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament last year before falling to eventual national champion, Salisbury University.
Drew (13-4, 5-1) is coming off one of the best year's in program history, setting a new mark with 12 regular season wins and 13 wins overall. The 2012 Landmark Coach of the Year, Tom Leanos, will have five all-conference selections return to his starting lineup but will have to fill the voids left by the nation's top face-off men in Sean McGowan and two-time all-conference goaltender, Charlie DeSocio.
Former Gettysburg player and assistant coach Doug Sage takes over as head coach at Scranton (9-7, 3-3) looking to continue the work of his predecessors. The Royals welcome back 30 lettermen, including five starters, from a team that went 9-7 and qualified for the Landmark Conference tournament for the second straight season and for the fourth time in five years.
Catholic University (9-6, 3-3) and Susquehanna University (9-7, 3-3) tied for fourth in the poll with 23 points apiece. U.S. Merchant Marine Academy was picked sixth with 17 points and affiliate Landmark member, Washington & Jefferson College was picked seventh with 15 points.
The 2013 season kicks off tonight when Catholic travels to Randolph-Macon. All seven teams will be in action by February 27.
The top four teams in the final regular season standings qualify for postseason play in the Landmark Conference Tournament. The top two seeds will host semifinals May 1 with the highest remaining seed scheduled to host the championship May 4. The conference champion will earn the automatic qualifier into the NCAA Division III Tournament.
|2013 Landmark Men's Lacrosse Preseason Poll
|Institution (First Place)
|Goucher (5)
|Drew (2)
|Washington & Jefferson