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The Philippines Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario and Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin were in Washington D.C. yesterday, April 30th, 2012 to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton and U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.
It was a historic first "2+2" or bilateral meeting of U.S. and Philippine defense and foreign affairs leaders.
After the meeting, they made statements for the media, and then took a few questions from the press.
Included in this post are parts of the introduction from Secretary of State Clinton, press questions, and answers from Philippine Foreign Secretary del Rosario as well as Philippine Defense Secretary Gazmin on the Scarborough Shoal standoff, and the Philippines' position.
Please see the earlier post on this topic for the definition of UNCLOS.
Introduction from Secretary of State Clinton:
…Today we held the first ever 2+2 meeting between the United States and the Philippines, a testament to our shared commitment to write a new chapter in the partnership between our two countries.
With the growing security and economic importance of the Asia Pacific, the United States is actively working to strengthen our alliances, build new partnerships, and engage more systematically in the region's multilateral institutions.
At the heart of this strategy is our effort to deepen and broaden our alliance with our friend and treaty ally, the Philippines. This alliance is rooted not just in a deep history of shared democratic values but in a wide range of mutual concerns. And today we had a chance to cover a number of them.
First we discussed our bilateral military cooperation. Our alliance has helped keep both of our countries secure for more than 60 years, and it has been a bulwark of peace and stability in Asia. Today the United States reaffirms our commitment and obligations under the mutual defense treaty.
We also discussed steps we are taking to ensure that our countries are fully capable of addressing both the challenges and the opportunities posed in the region in the 21st century. We need to continue working together to counter violent extremism, to work on addressing natural disasters, maritime security, and transnational crime.
Press Question / Answer:
PRESS QUESTION: Mr. del Rosario, the standoff at the Scarborough Shoal is into its fourth week now. Did you get an unequivocal assurance from the U.S. it will come to the aid of the Philippines if shots are fired? And what was the type or form?
Also, short of shots being fired, how do you see the endgame of Scarborough being played out if China cannot be persuaded diplomatically to withdraw its vessels from the area?
SECRETARY DEL ROSARIO: Those are several questions rolled into one, my friend, but let me begin from your last question.
We do have a three-track approach to endeavoring to solve the problem that we currently have with China in the Scarborough Shoal. It encompasses three tracks.
The first track is the political track. We are pursuing the ASEAN as a framework for a solution to this problem through a code of conduct that we are trying to put together and ultimately approve. Hopefully that will quiet the situation.
Secondly, we are pursuing a legal track, and the legal track involves our pursuing a dispute settlement mechanism under UNCLOS. There are five of them. We think that we can avail of one or two of those mechanisms, even without the presence of China.
Thirdly, we are pursuing a diplomatic approach, such as the one that we are undertaking, which is to have consultations with China in an attempt to defuse the situation.
In terms of U.S. commitment, I think the U.S. has been very clear that they do not get involved in territorial disputes, but that they are firm in terms of taking a position for a – towards a peaceful settlement of the disputes in the South China Sea towards a multilateral approach and towards the use of a rules-based regime in accordance with international law, specifically UNCLOS. They have expressed that they will honor their obligations under the Mutual Defense Treaty.
PRESS QUESTION: My question is for Secretary Gazmin. Secretary, in light of the current Chinese-Philippines standoff in Scarborough Shoal, what kind of assistance have you asked to bolster Manila's ability to patrol its waters and to deter what you call intrusions?
SECRETARY GAZMIN: Thank you for the question. The assistance we have sought is to help us bring the case to international legal bodies, so that the approach is the legal rules-based approach in resolving the issue in the South China Sea or the West Philippine Sea.
It is worth reading the full remarks after the meeting, from the U.S. Department of State website (visit here).
Secretary Clinton was scheduled to leave for Bejing the evening after the meeting, so it will be interesting to see what develops in the next few days.
It certainly is a sensitive topic for the U.S. – China, as well as Philippines – China relationships, not to mention other countries that have an interest in the South China Sea, and China's territorial waters claims.


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National Geographic has launched a new Tumblr, called Found, which showcases some of the most weird and wonderful shots from the magazine's archive—and it has some amazing photographs online already.
The new Tumblr will be packed with obscure photographs, many of which have never been seen by the public. National Geographic explains:
Found is a curated collection of photography from the National Geographic archives. In honor of our 125th anniversary, we are showcasing photographs that reveal cultures and moments of the past. Many of these photos have never been published and are rarely seen by the public.
Believe it or not, the picture above is of the great Alexander Graham Bell kissing his wife Mabel, within a tetrahedral kite, in 1903. OK, so it's quite eccentric, but it's a nice reminder of the human side of technological pioneers. And below is a cowgirl in El Paso paying to park her pony in 1939. As you do. Check the Tumblr for plenty more of the same. [Found via Verge]
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Chart-topping rhyme-spitters Nicki Minaj and Big Sean are kicking it in the newest ad from Adidas for their Adidas Originals campaign. The duo are sporting their colorful wares emblazoned with the global brand's logo in their respective scenes.
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Minaj herself is working on a perfume collection that she hopes to have in stores by September. The Young Money princess also has a clothing line in the works that she promises will put Lil Wayne's apparel company, Trukfit, out of business. "I'm trying to launch that next year," she says. "We have the designs, the designers, all of that stuff. We're just looking for a place and deciding where we're gonna go with the brand. We've had a couple offers from a lot of big players."
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27. April, at the general meeting of Grundfos Holding A/S, the former Vice Chairman Jens Moberg was elected as new Group Chairman. He replaces Lars Kolind who resigns from the Board of Directors.
- Today, Grundfos is the world's leading pump manufacturer thanks to its capable management, dedicated employees and the company's great investment in innovation and product development. These three factors have helped develop the company into what it is today. In the future this will be a great advantage for the company in the ruthless competition ruling the world market which will not decrease in the years to come. The Board of Directors' and my job as Chairman is to secure and strengthen the development which has already proven successful for the company, Jens Moberg says.
Both Jens Moberg and Niels Due Jensen, Chairman of The Poul Due Jensen Foundation, thanked Lars Kolind for his long-standing contribution to Grundfos.
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Will Adele Sing the Next James Bond Theme?
When UK television host Jonathan Ross recently asked singer Adele about her upcoming projects, the soul superstar may have said a bit too much.
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2013-14 Winter Writing Ideas
Since it's now winter, it's time for some ideas for what to write about in this time of lull:
So now that you've watched the video, here is the poll for you to vote on the ideas:
Remember that you can vote for as many of the ten as you would like. However, I would like to make one revision to the rules I put forth in the video. Instead of the poll opening anew every time I publish a new entry, I'm actually going to make it so you can vote once more every week, since that's easier to program into the poll. I don't know when I'll start writing these entries since I am currently in finals week, but I'll write an entry putting forth a schedule for writing when the time comes that I feel like I can semi-stick to a schedule.


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|Monday, December 28, 2009 2:43 PM
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Nathan Sullins
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San Francisco, CA 94133-3437
December 28, 2009
US Department of Justice
Dear US Department of Justice:
Thank you for the opportunity to submit comments in advance of the
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As an organic consumer, I am particularly concerned about Monsanto's
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By buying seed companies and aggressively patenting life, Monsanto has
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But, my main concern is that, while Monsanto has acquired a diverse store
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The most devious part of Monsanto's business model is that their
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The same way we protect animal species from extinction, we should protect
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(This caregiver story is reproduced here with permission from the author, and appeared originally on her blog, Thinking Faithfully.)
My father-in-law, Dan Nyhart, died three weeks ago. It was sudden in a sense: we got a call on Thursday that he was running a fever, then were told Friday that it was looking serious, and by early Saturday morning he was gone. But he had been leaving us for at least seven years already, fading away piece by piece into one of the world's cruel exit strategies, dementia with Lewy bodies.
There are many painful things about loving someone who is being lost to the fog of dementia, but one of the hardest is that there is no single, particular moment to say goodby. Instead, the losses begin subtly and pile up for months and for years. When a diagnosis is finally made and everyone feels the dread settle in, it's already impossible to remember the first sign, the beginning of the unraveling. And by then, the one you love is already foggy around the edges. He's still there of course, but he isn't all there, and when do you get to grieve the part of him that's already gone? Instead, you cling to what's still there, knowing that what you have of him now will seem a miracle a year from now, or in two years, when he is that much more lost to the fog.
Nearly three years ago, the summer before Dan finally had to enter a nursing home, I sat with him in front of the cove in Maine at the family camp he loved so well. He was already a long distance down his dim path of dementia, and it had been years since he had truly been himself. The sharp mind — a law professor at MIT most of his working life — had been so dulled by disease that it was hard for him to follow even a simple conversation. And sitting there with him, taking my turn babysitting really, I thought about how much I needed and wanted a chance to say goodbye.
I'm pretty sure he didn't understand much of what I said, but I held his hand and told him all I could remember about first meeting him, about how grateful I was for the way he welcomed me into the family, and how much I loved his kindness, his humor, his generous spirit. I asked him to try to remember, in the times to come, that even if he felt afraid, we would not leave him to walk alone — that he would be accompanied through the illness. I told him I loved him, and he got teary and said he loved me too. I felt a little better after that; a sense that I had chosen for myself a random moment of farewell.
And then he went on living, and slipping away, for two and a half more years, the last two in a nursing home. How well did I keep my promise to walk with him through this? Not well, I think. We live just two hours drive away, but probably visited no more often than once every six or eight weeks. There were others to share it of course, my mother-in-law, my husbands siblings, family friends. But I always thought we'd go more often than we did. We're all so busy, aren't we? Three kids and two jobs and all the details that fill in the standard American life. But the rest of the truth is that it was hard to want to go to the nursing home, hard to see him there and to not know, each time, how clear or foggy he would be.
So I feel lucky that in his last month of life I had two visits with him by myself, a couple of weeks apart; and I was especially blessed by the last one, the week before Thanksgiving. He wasn't having a good day. He didn't recognize me at first, and after fifteen minutes of trying to visit it was clear that he could hardly put two words together. He kept yawning hugely, so I finally suggested he just lie down on the bed and let me massage his hands. I pulled out some lotion and rubbed each hand for ten minutes, slowing myself down, willing my mind to be still and to just see the hand, hold the fingers, touch the skin. He gave little murmurs of pleasure, and that seemed to be enough.
When it was time to go I bent down over his slack face and said, "Dan, I'll give your love to Nick and Sam and the girls", and suddenly there was a momentary break in the fog and the sun came through. He opened his eyes and whispered, "Well, how can you give it if you don't get it first?", and raised his head up to give me a big kiss. That was the only full sentence he spoke in our whole visit, and that was the last time I saw him on this earth.
With his death, we are all free now to grieve him at last, to grieve all the small losses that litter the path of dementia and together add up to the huge loss of this beloved human being. I have felt deeply blessed by that final goodbye, and the surprise of that little window of lucidity where I had no reason to expect one at all. There are so many mysteries in our dying, as in our birth, as in our living. Sometimes it's enough to let the heart bow to it all: the great gift of loving, the great grief of letting go. It's all tangled up together. And it is enough.


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The once-united Senate Republican Conference is splintering.
On issues ranging from gun control to immigration to President Barack Obama's nominees, Senate Republicans are now split into three major factions: the leadership; hard-line conservatives; and a bloc led by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) doesn't face nearly the same threat from his members as Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who was almost toppled in January by tea party inspired GOP lawmakers.
Yet it's clear that McConnell — who along with Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas), faces a costly reelection campaign in 2014 — is spending more time than ever juggling the competing interests of his rank-and-file, while having to fight with Obama and the Democrats. And the GOP discord may jeopardize the party's leverage in the fall over key issues like the debt-ceiling hike and government spending.
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These Senate GOP factions aren't set in stone, and some Republicans float from one group to another depending on the issue.
But the GOP tension is playing out on the Senate floor as members of the leadership have consistently voted "no" on tricky issues that could cause them political headaches — while rank-and-file Republicans are voting "yes."
McConnell's leadership team — including Sens. John Thune of South Dakota, John Barrasso of Wyoming, Roy Blunt of Missouri and Jerry Moran of Kansas — has taken the safe route by opposing these bipartisan proposals. That leaves a group of roughly a dozen GOP senators to swallow the tough and unpopular votes — ranging from opening debate on gun legislation to passing an immigration bill to confirming Richard Cordray to head the GOP-despised Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
( Also on POLITICO: McCain stalls Dempsey nomination)
The entire leadership team opposed the immigration bill, for instance, which passed with the support of 14 Republican senators, and the leaders voted to filibuster a bipartisan border security deal drafted by Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee and John Hoeven of North Dakota. The leadership opposed beginning debate on gun legislation, even though 16 of their GOP colleagues voted to bring the measure to the floor. Most voted to continue filibustering Chuck Hagel as defense secretary, even as 71 senators from both parties voted to allow a vote on confirmation.
Some think the leadership is ducking the tough votes and allowing the rank-and-file to shoulder the burden.
"This leadership team has adopted the Obama 'lead-from-behind' approach to governing," said a senior Senate Republican source, who asked for anonymity to speak candidly. "It hasn't worked for the president and it doesn't appear to be working here either."
Republican leaders defend their approach, arguing that they typically are siding with a majority of the conference on a number of divisive issues, not with the smaller number of Republicans voting with Democrats, Cornyn argued.
"I think the majority of the conference votes the same way I do," Cornyn said. "In some of these issues, we're not united. It's really as simple as that."
( Also on POLITICO: Watt closer to Senate vote)
The GOP factionalism could become even more significant this fall when it's time to cut deals with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and the White House on boosting the debt ceiling and keeping the government operating past September. McCain, Corker and other members of the "Supper Club" — a group of Republicans who have been discussing budget issues with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough — met with McConnell on Thursday afternoon, seeking strategies for those looming fiscal showdowns, which will really kick off in September.
McCain wants to see Senate Republicans negotiate with Democrats on these critical matters, but there are a number of GOP conservatives — especially in the House — who are prepared to shut down the government or default on the debt unless Obama caves to their spending demands.


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Your 15-year-old son is sleeping over at his best friend's house as he often does. Your son has been friends with Jake Johnson ever since kindergarten. You know the Johnson family well. You attend their annual holiday caroling party and coached the boys' soccer team with Mr. Johnson. You occasionally grab coffee with Mrs. Johnston.
But do you know if the family keeps firearms in their home and if so, are they locked?
In the wake of the tragic Newtown shooting, many parents across the country are asking questions about gun safety and some are wondering if they should talk with the parents of their children's friends about whether they have firearms and how they're stored.
When I was in elementary school I remember my friend showing me her dad's firearm, a long shot gun resting against the wall in the back of a closet hidden behind hanging clothes.
I didn't share the incident with my mom after it happened—as my friend told me that we weren't supposed to be looking at the gun. I don't even think my friend was supposed to know it was there.
Parents seem unaware of how much children snoop through their stuff. In 2006, a study reported on in the Washington Post found that 39 percent of kids knew the location of their parents' firearms, while 22 percent said they had handled the weapons, despite their parents' assertions to the contrary. Parents who had talked to their children about gun safety were just as likely to be misinformed about their children's actions as those who said they had never discussed the matter.
A few years ago, I told my mom about the incident. She was surprised. It happened at the home of one of her best friends. She didn't have a clue that her friend owned a gun.
While my dad was raised in the wilds of the Northwest running through the woods with BB guns, he grew up into an adult who believed guns didn't belong in a house with kids, and so our house was always gun free. And my mom seemed to assume that other parents living in the Bay Area shared the same beliefs.
Now, I share the same beliefs, and I make the same sorts of assumptions about other parents raising their kids in liberal San Francisco. My kids have gone on several play dates without me. I know all of the families well but I have never asked the parents if they keep guns in their home—but now I'm wondering if I should.
Several nonprofit groups aimed at protecting children from their parents' firearms encourage parents to talk with their children's friends about whether they have firearms and how they're stored.
One-third of homes with children have a gun, according to Asking Saves Kids (ASK). In 55 percent of those residences firearms are in an unlocked place. In 43 percent of homes with firearms and kids, the guns don't have trigger locks and are stored in an unlocked place, according to the San Francisco–based Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. (I wonder what those numbers are in San Francisco? I'd assume lower, but my husband pointed out that we live within walking distance of a gun store.)
More than 500 children die annually from accidental gunshots: Some shoot themselves, while others kill friends or siblings, often after discovering a gun, according to the Post.
So maybe we should be talking to the parents of our children's friends about whether they keep guns. But how in the world do you bring up a topic like this—in between your conversation about your holistic vet and the quality of the seafood at Whole Foods?
ASK recommends that you include the question along with other things you might normally discuss before sending your child to someone's house—such as seat belts, animals or allergies. And you try to not be confrontational. Present your concerns in a respectful manner. You are simply trying to make sure your child is in a safe environment.
But is talking with other parents about guns that easy? Readers at the NYTimes.com debated this question earlier in the week and while many readers felt that parents should without doubt ask about guns others opined that gun ownership is a private matter.
LB from Chicago shared: "Why so nervous about asking? Responsible gun owners with children will be happy to tell you how they are keeping their children safe (and yours if they come to play)."
ACO from NYC advised: "Parents, please remember when your child is visiting someone, to ask about whether they keep guns in the house and whether they are locked and/or not loaded. It might be hard/uncomfortable to broach the subject, but not as hard as burying your child."
Cindy Bradley of Indiana shared, "When my kids were young and were invited for a play date at a friend's house, the first question I asked the parent was, 'Do you have any guns in your house?' Some thought I was nuts, but that was unimportant. If the answer was affirmative (only happened twice), I offered to host the play date at my house. No way was I letting my kid play in a house with guns."
Andrew of Alameda, Calif., countered, "I'm not a gun fan, but whether you have guns in your house or not is no one's business but your own. Who's going to let your kid play at their house if they have to fill out a 10-page questionnaire first. Stuff happens. Sometimes, when stuff happens, kids die. It's unfortunate, but there's no way to prevent every possible scenario."
Dr Duh of New York shared, "It's a mildly obnoxious question, because it implies that the other parent is less careful than you are. It is a sign of decreasing social trust and asking only erodes that trust further."
These conflicting opinions shows that talking with other parents about firearms is tricky and in many cases uncomfortable. I think you need to know your audience. The conversation a parent might have in rural America is probably different than the one a parent might have in an urban environment.
And possibly more importantly, you need to think about what you'll do if the parent says, "Yes, we have several guns in our home." What then?
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For a $2.99 eBook sale of a Book Country title on Amazon, Amazon takes $0.90 and then the author is entitled to $1.47.
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These people charge a flat fee and you keep all of your rights. Which means that when you upload to Amazon.com and sell an ebook for $2.99, you keep $2.05, not the $1.47 Book Country gives you.
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I've sold 500,000 ebooks. If I'd published with Book Country, they would have taken $290,000 in royalties from me. That's just awful.
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If you want to self-publish, read and learn all you can about the process. Hire smart people with references to do the heavy lifting (proofing, formatting, cover art). Then keep your rights and keep all the money.
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As is tradition at the festival, one act who has contributed significantly to the Los Angeles club scene is the subject of a musical salute, and this year Camp Freddy's Billy Morrison and Matt Sorum, Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath, 4 Non Blondes' Linda Perry, Scars on Broadway's Franky Perez and Dead Sara's powerhouse newcomer Emily Armstrong were among those taking the stage at the House of Blues to pay homage.
In addition, the city of West Hollywood declared Aug. 16, 2012 to be 'The Doors Day' in a celebration that honored founding members John Densmore, Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger. Densmore told Billboard prior to the ceremony that things have changed quite a bit since their early days. He recalled, "The police used to hassle us for our long hair and now we're cool." He also added that while they played many high profile venues, it was the small clubs where they frequently had the best time.
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The all-star band for the night opened with 'Break on Through' and 'Roadhouse Blues,' with Franky Perez and his booming voice leading the way. Dead Sara's Emily Armstrong followed with 'Soul Kitchen,' and Mark McGrath took his turn with 'Light My Fire' during which Manzarek jumped up onstage to join in on keyboard. Linda Perry was the final guest of the evening, finishing the set with 'Back Door Man' and 'LA Woman.'


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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Dustin Penner scored the tiebreaking goal in the final second of the second period, and the Los Angeles Kings advanced to the second round with a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues in Game 6 on Friday night.
Jonathan Quick made 21 saves and Drew Doughty scored his first goal of the post-season for the defending Stanley Cup champions, who won four straight to finish off fourth-seeded St. Louis.
Penner put the Kings ahead with his latest big playoff goal, ripping a slap shot from just inside the blue line past Brian Elliott right before time expired.
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Which is your fav browser?
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What Linux distros can Puppy learn from?
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Look and feel is such a personal thing, and hardly a reason to chosoe a distro over another, although puppy users are doing a good job at providing themes and whatnot.
Puppy can learn from knoppix and Mepis in that their live CD works on just about every hardware I've thrown at them (which is not true of most other live CDs, including knoppix offshoots like FeatherLinux).
I am trying to use puppy as a "computer on the go" on a USB key: I want to be able to use it wherever I go and be up and running quickly and be able to do some of the things I want to do on the road (multimedia, file sharing, web browsing, word processing, games...)
Since I don't know what computer I'm going to try and use puppy on next, support for a variety of hardware, including wireless cards, is well worth its weight in megabytes.
One strength of puppy is that it's easy to create your own customized disk, so this is something that should never go away and always be improved.
EDIT: I'm a firefox boy! I has all the features rarsa lists for Opera, it's free and you can load it up with all kind of extensions to have the tools you need at your fingertips. Opera is second best in my opinion, and I also had compatibility problems wher it wouldn't open pages other browsers would.
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Posted: Wed 29 Jun 2005, 13:19
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Favorite Browser Opera
It is my favorite and here is why
- It is a 3 MB download!
- Is faster than all the other browsers I've tried
- Tabbed browsing is way better than in Mozilla:
- When you re-open Opera you can have the same tabs as when you closed last time. (Maybe my favorite feature)
- You can save sessions (a collection of tabs) that you can open all at once.
- You can set it to open links in tabs in the foreground or background.
- You can clone tabs so its easy to navigate backwards without loosing the current page.
- It is very easy to change the skin. There are literally hundreds of skins.
- Mouse Gestures are very convenient.
- It scales the whole page, not just the text like Mozilla.
- The left hand panels are colapsible very convenient, unobtrusive but always available.
- If you set the advertising preferences (advanced tab) to "show relevant text adds...", You won't even notice the adds
- Popup blocking really works
- It has the mail, news reader, and irc chat included.
- It works 99% the same in Windows and Linux (in Widows you can have opera read the pages aloud)
- It is highly configurable.
Other distro lessons
I find puppy to be the best in it's leage. I find other small distros always lacking everyday applications or functionality. I may update this post if I ever find something I like in other distro that fits the Puppy philosophy
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Posted: Thu 30 Jun 2005, 01:12
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I agree with rarsa about Opera. It has been my browser of choice since version 3.5, which came out in 1998 or '99, I think. Rarsa says it better than I can, but I detail my reasons the Puppy is 2 poll elsewhere in this forum.
As far as favorite distribution goes, I don't have a clear favorite at the moment, although Puppy has edged into the lead because of its inclusion of AbiWord and Scribus in its 60megs of brilliance. My favorite was Feather Linux. In fact, Feather 0.5.9 is still loaded on my old laptop's hard drive. But since development has stopped, I'm moving on.
One area in which Puppy already surpasses Feather for me is the inclusion of Scribus. I could never install it without installing a bunch of other stuff and deleting a bunch of other stuff I didn't want to lose. Thanks for that, and I'm quickly becoming addicted to Gemgame. I may need a 12-step program soon
Now that you point it out to me, the answer seems painfully obvious.
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Posted: Thu 30 Jun 2005, 03:42
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1) I'm hooked on Firefox. I've tried Opera, Mozilla, IE clones and Kmeleon, but keep coming back to Firefox. I like Opera, but can't handle the text ads and I won't pay for a browser on principle.
2) There's no doubt in my mind that Puppy is the best small distro. Anything more than 60MB basically rules out an overnight dial-up download.
I prefer mainstream distros to fit on a single CD. Mepis is the best for me in terms of functionality. It has useful software, easy apt-get install for extras and most hardware simply works.
I've tried to like Fedora 4, but it has less software on a DVD than Mepis on a CD. That said, Fox Linux (based on Fedora) shows promise and has a slick look and feel.
Symphony looks promising, as Lobster indicated, but I'm with him and won't try an Alpha. Fox is a beta and works fine, except OpenOffice is in Italian!
PS: I'm a user and not a developer.
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 08:36
Post subject: Project management tool for Puppy?
I put this here cause I could'nt find anything related and I did'nt want to
create a new topic, someone was asking for a project management
tool, if anybody knows who that was tell them to check this out
like I said I can't remember who was asking so if you know please tell that person
Heaven is on the way, until then let's get the truth out!
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Location: Magdeburg, Germany
Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 09:10
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Symphony looks like a really interesting thing ... will have a look at it.
On Ubuntu, I mainly use Konqueror. It is fast, displays almost everything the way it should be (including movies, flash, java) and integrates perfectly with the rest of the KDE suite.. And handy features like typing "gg: puppy linux" in the location bar and getting the google results are easy to get addicted to.
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 09:12
Post subject: POS (Point Of Sale) LAN application - for Puppy?
Thanks very much, taglog looks great -- another tcl/tk app!
Yesterday I discovered another tcl/tk app called tkkasse, a POS application (Point Of Sale).
This looks really fantastic, works on a LAN, so you can have one database server and any number of clients -- thin PCs would be ideal.
-- and of course Puppy would be ideal for this.
Where is tkkasse? it's on sourceforge, so I guess http://tkkasse.sourceforge.net/
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 21:04
Post subject: I'm not sure
If I understood the topic, but my favorite browser being Mozilla, and distro being puppy! Now with that being said, Mozilla is changing to Seamonkey, and it looks and acts like firefox, !blah!
Now if someone were to remove Mozilla and OpenOffice and it's components in puppy
and add qt, kde-libs, kde-base, and Koffice the weight would not be that much of a difference reason I bring this up, Mozilla is turning into firefox, sh! don't let the vast majority know!
and Konqueror is in my eyes the next best alternative,
And a distro we, could learn from, BeOS, keeps everything in it's own directory!
what are your thoughts and reactions to my posting???
please don't hesitate
also visit : http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/KlhRevolutionist
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Posted: Fri 29 Jul 2005, 22:21
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Thank you klhrevolutionist, It was me looking for Project management software. I Will check it out and try to install in Puppy 1.0.4. I think it will be exactly what I need.
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I still use the original Dillo all the time because it has CSS. For whatever reason, Dillo85 doesn't support style sheets.
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I absolutely love Opera, with the best feature being the fullscreen option (can't see the ads!, beautiful use of space), the tabbed browsing, and the fact that i can quickly and easily use the keyboard for everything. The integrated mail client is tops, too.
I must say that I am becoming very fond of JWM: nice and light, very customisable. I now have 10 themes, some of which are pretty funky.
oh no, husband is waking up... gotta get back to my studies. BTW, it goes without saying that Puppy is my favourite distro.
in the beginning was the Logos
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Even back in my days of using W***ows, I was a Mozilla user. Then when they came up with the old Phoenix (or was it Firebird?) I started using that, and liked it a lot better than IE. Of course, anything works better than IE. Yeah, definite Firefox kind of guy. Sometimes I'll use Mozilla, but for real fast Google searches I'll run with Dillo.
I have Opera on my hard drive, but I'm not real wild about it.
Favorite distro? My workhorse is Kanotix installed, which is basically Debian Sid. I use the Puppy a lot, though, especially when using someone else's computer or my backup box (which is all Puppy).
My first Puppy was 0.9.1, which at the time I considered an experimental distro, a nice toy. I'm impressed with how Puppy has evolved since then; now it's to the point where it has enough guts to be a workhorse.
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Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2005, 19:07
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i compiled dillo85 patched with the default config options, except i enabled meta-refresh
it doesn't seem to have any config options to disable or enable css support ... the source does have references to css
in any case, dillo definitely does not have FULL css support
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Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2005, 23:11
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Dillo, Puppy, Openoffice
Dillo - fast
Puppy - fast, boots in no time,
OpenOffice - pretty fast
Finding more to like about Tcl/Tm everyday!
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Don't let Sumalee leave!!! I hope beau keeps her feather
I wanted to do a redraw of my fan fusion moonstone! And I decided to do a little comic with it! 😊😊 this feels like one of the few scenarios in which pearl and lapis would fuse, if there were no other gems to help, and Steven was in danger, because they would both do anything for Steven 😊💕 and it would be the goal of making sure Stevens safe that would make moonstone stable! Otherwise I feel like she would kind of fall apart..she'd be a pretty depressed gem because of all pearls and lapis's past truama 😅 but she would move heaven and earth to protect Steven! 😆💕 so I hope u enjoy it! 😊
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witch? is that meant to insult me?
here's a vid from the pov of the dudes inside
This is the only thi ng I will accept with the use of the phrase "boys will be boys"
when a lot of flies get in the house within 3 hours my 6 (nearly full grown) kittens become like a pack of lions and eat them all
i'm a DYKE
when you're a gay lion and you accidentally tried to introduce your lesbian lioness friend to one of her own exes at a gay bar and she goes into the bathroom and bitches you out for not being able to tell her endlessly rotating cast of girlfriends apart which isn't really fair because first of all they all keep dyeing their hair different colors and second of all she keeps getting back together with different ones at different times and meanwhile you've been "single" for like 8 months but ar e spending a lot of time with one specific guy who works at your old co-op and were going to excitedly tell her about it tonight but now you've ruined the whole subject of dating by trying to introduce her to her own ex at a gay bar (which is a watering hole. because you're lions.)
Time for C R A B
the level of chaotic gay energy the McElroys are able to accurately convey in their queer characters despite being straight cisgender men is… genuinely astonishing and really should raise the bar for literally all other straight creators tbqh
like they really hit a commendable sweet spot of "I understand the gravity of representsting marginalized identities that are not my own" and "this is just another character" that really Works for me as a queer listener? because there is that sensitivity and making sure that identities are explicitly state d and treated with respect, while recognizing that it's not really their place to tell a story About being queer. Griffin, Justin, and Travis all make clear that Lup, Taako, and Aubrey's hardships do NOT stem from their identities, and it's so refreshing because 1.) I don't need background homo/transphobia in my fantasy, thanks and 2.) I especially don't need those issues being used as plot pieces by straight dudes, thanks.
and that's just like… never the case. it's always "oh, she's trans, and also the biggest badass in this game." "yeah, he's gay and dating the grim reaper, but also he's about to turn into a t. rex so buckle up." "she's bi but more importantly she's about to set a lot of things on fire." it's like… literally what I as a queer consumer want to see in my genre and the McElroys deliver like it's no big.
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LANDOVER, Md. (AP) One week after his first NFL concussion, Robert Griffin III ran more, ran smarter, ran bigger.
And won.
He left the Minnesota Vikings in his wake, never more so than on his 76-yard touchdown run that put the game away for the Washington Redskins in the fourth quarter. His final rushing tally: 13 carries, 138 yards, two touchdowns. His passing numbers: 17 for 22 for 182 yards, one touchdown, one interception and a 97.2 rating.
The scoreboard: Redskins 38, Vikings 26. The soundtrack: Chants of ``RG3!''
``I told the team,'' Griffin said, ``I wasn't going to leave them hanging.''
Griffin was upset that he wasn't there for his teammates after a shot to the head forced him to leave the seven-point loss to the Atlanta Falcons a week earlier, and it was fair to wonder whether the hit - and the NFL-required battery of post-concussion tests that followed - would stop RG3 from being RG3.
No way. He did run out of bounds a couple of times, and he slid once to avoid a tackle, but the former college hurdler also produced the longest touchdown run by an NFL quarterback since Kordell Stewart scampered 80 yards for the Pittsburgh Steelers against the Carolina Panthers in 1996 - as well as the fifth highest rushing total for a quarterback in league history and the most since Michael Vick ran for 166 in 2006.
``You try to play smart,'' Griffin said. ``But stay aggressive.''
Coach Mike Shanahan wasn't about to rein in the rookie. Quite the contrary. The coach figured that Griffin's designed runs made the game safer for the quarterback because otherwise the vaunted Vikings pass rush would have blitzed away on passing downs and piled up a few bone-jarring sacks.
``Robert, by doing what he does, keeping the defense off balance, really gives him a chance, in my opinion, to stay healthier,'' Shanahan said.
During one stretch, Griffin ran on six consecutive Redskins offensive plays, including a 7-yard score. He has six rushing touchdowns on the year, already surpassing the previous single-season franchise record of four.
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The win broke an eight-game home losing streak for Washington (3-3). The Redskins fell behind 9-0 early after being outgained 148-7, then responded with 24 straight points during a stretch in which they outgained the Vikings 225-14.
Minnesota made a game of it with two fourth-quarter touchdowns and was starting to use its timeouts, hoping to get the ball back, when Griffin faced third-and-6 at his own 24 with just under 3 minutes to play.
Griffin dropped back to pass and saw an open lane. The Redskins needed a first down to keep eating up the clock. RG3 gave them more.
``I took off running and got to the sideline, thought about running out of bounds - because everyone's been telling me that lately,'' he said with a big smile. ``And I felt like I had the guy outflanked, and then I just took off running. And the rest is history.''
Griffin didn't stop until he took a seat on the front row, performing what is quickly becoming known as the ``Landover Leap.''
``When Robert gets in top gear, it's like watching a track meet,'' receiver Santana Moss said. ``And he ain't coming in second.''
He also drew two penalties in the game, one on a horse collar tackle and another for roughing-the-passer, although the roughing call was perhaps aided by the acting skills Griffin has acquired from doing commercials. The official didn't throw the flag for Erin Henderson's slight shove until Griffin was on the ground making an appeal.
``He hit me good,'' said Griffin, laughing his way through the description. ``Come on, man. It wasn't like a basketball flop. I sold it pretty well. I mean, the ball was clearly gone, guys. It was a great job of me and the ref being on the same page.''
The Vikings (4-2) had their three-game losing streak snapped, paying the price for promising possessions that fell four points short. Drives that got inside the 10 yielded field goals of 20, 27 and 27 yards in the first quarter.
``We had a chance to go up 21-nothing,'' receiver Percy Harvin pointed out, ``and we didn't do that.''
That's a big mistake, especially when Griffin is the other team's quarterback.
``He's a gifted player. Like I told him, just talking to him, looking him in his eyes: He's got the heart of a champ,'' said Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, who ran 17 times for 79 yards. ``That's easy to see.''
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Fair lending laws also contain provisions to address predatory lending practices. Some examples follow:
Unfair and Deceptive Practices
The OCC took the lead among the federal bank regulatory agencies in developing an approach to address unfair and deceptive marketing practices. These practices are often an element in predatory lending. The OCC has taken a number of enforcement actions against banks that were found to have engaged in abusive practices and, in one landmark case, required a bank to pay over $300 million in restitution to its customers. The following are a number of OCC actions and issuances related to unfair and deceptive practices.