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Just wanted to let you know that former Cyclone QB Bret Meyer will join Tron Smith and me tonight at Kippy's Place for the Cyclone Fanatic Call-In Show, heard from 7 to 8 on 1460 KXNO. Should be an interesting show!
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Chris, move the antenna a little im unable to make out what youre saying in my tractor except for on the hill
Edit: i just heard "baltimore" assuming youre not on yet
Sounds like there is going to be a shortage of big boy pants here soon. Maybe if there was a more steady supply of cheap and high-quality big boy points.
And Chris...come on...Leaders, Curvey, Berryman. They were all true freshman. Hell, I think Nate Frere played as a true freshman.
Good callers tonight. Entertaining show.
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Good callers tonight. Entertaining show.
Yeah, I forgot add that part. This is the first time I've listened to the show and it is very entertaining. You all do good work.
Won't be too wild there.
College is on fall break. Students may not be there in full force (they are offering free tickets to bring a friend).
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And Chris...come on...Leaders, Curvey, Berryman. They were all true freshman. Hell, I think Nate Frere played as a true freshman.
But they weren't All-Big 12 caliber guys as true freshmen. That was the point.
Here's a point to consider for the Texas-WVU game:
Texas Longhorns running back Malcolm Brown out vs. West Virginia Mountaineers - ESPN
May not change the game.
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Don't leave our kids in the dust or the mud or, worse yet, with no fields at all.
The athletic fields, courts, and tracks at Whippany Park and Hanover Park High Schools are in desperate need of upgrading. Imagine a high school with great academic achievement but no home sports games because their facilities are deemed "unsafe" or "unplayable." A school with no school spirit.
Now imagine a new athletic complex at Whippany Park and Hanover Park where all students can participate in physical education classes. Where the majority of the student population can be found participating in a sport or the marching band after school. This is what we should want for our children!
On March 12 your "yes" vote for the proposed athletic upgrades can help make this possible. I realize the economy is tough but now is the time to do this project. Interest rates are low and construction costs are reasonable. The cost per year for the average family in East Hanover, Florham Park and Hanover would be less than the cost of one dinner out for four.
Let's make our high school facilities something we can be proud of, something our students and alumni can be proud of. Please vote "yes" on March 12.
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Kale is a winter green, a cool-weather crop that can stand up to frost.
It can be grown in a cold frame here in Fort Collins all winter long and harvested for quick use in hearty, stick-to-your-ribs suppers. There are many varieties of kale, but the ones seen most often at the grocers and at Farmers markets are Redbor or red kale, curly kale (the frilly, ruffled kale most commonly found), and Italian Lacinato or black kale, my favorite. Lacinato kale has flat, strap-like leaves that are easier to cut than the frilly green kale, and usually smaller stems that need little trimming. It also seems to cook faster than curly kale.
Kale has a bitter flavor typical of the cabbage family that is best balanced with something sweet, such as potatoes, rice or pasta. I dont eat a lot of pasta, but one of my favorite ways to use it is with chopped kale, browned Italian sausage, lots of garlic, and plenty of freshly grated Parmesan cheese stirred in with 1/4 cup of cream. Its a great recipe for a snowy day, and so quick and easy to pull together on a busy week night.
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Kale and Radicchio Salad with Maple Vinaigrette
1 bunch kale, stemmed and shredded
1 head radicchio, shredded
1/3 cup red onion, sliced very thinly
1/2 cup grated Pecorino Romano cheese
2 apples, cored, sliced thinly
3 strips nitrate-free bacon, cooked and crumbled, pan drippings reserved
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons caper juice
3 tablespoons real maple syrup
Freshly ground black pepper
Toasted pecans
I use a mandolin to shred the radicchio and slice the apple, and chop the kale very fine with a chefs knife. Combine the kale, radicchio and onion with the apples and cheese in a large salad bowl. Strain the bacon drippings and whisk together with the vinegar, mustard, caper juice and black pepper until smooth. Whisk in the maple syrup, and toss with the salad ingredients. Top with toasted pecans.
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May 18, 2012
Outfitting an Operational Tinsmith Shop.
As webcam watchers are well aware, construction of the tinsmith shop is off to a healthy start. The foundation has been laid by our Historic Trades brick masons, and by late August or early September (after the next brick firing) construction will begin on the chimney and fireplace. Historic Trades carpenters are planning a summer at Great Hopes plantation, pit sawing the building's framing members and preparing clapboards and shingles. If all goes as planned, the tinsmith shop frame will be raised in December of 2012.
But not all of the tin shop preparation involves construction. We are currently hard at work planning the furnishings necessary to operate the shop. With opening just under a year away, we need to begin fabrication of the tooling necessary to work tin.
Research for furnishing and set-up of the tinsmith shop began last summer when curator Erik Goldstein and I attended a course taught by master tinsmith Bill McMillen. Bill's class covered history of the trade, the tooling, and the process of forming tin. It also included several days of hands-on work, assembling progressively more challenging tin objects. When we weren't engaged in hands-on learning, Erik and I documented tools, noting datable forms (datable through a maker's mark), particularly those exhibiting pre-industrial methods of manufacture. The workshop also included an opportunity to examine the tool collection of Don Carpentier at Eastfield Village. It was an intense week of study, focused on the material, history, technology, tooling, and form of historic tinware.
I found the working characteristics of tin to offer an interesting contrast to my experience working iron. Blacksmiths learn to think of iron as a clay-like, malleable material. Forming iron has many parallels with working clay, as both materials react similarly to pressure. It is not unusual to find blacksmiths "thinking through" the creation of a new and complex shape by manipulating clay. This allows us to experiment with different approaches, developing the proper sequence from raw bar to finished shape without loss of material and fuel. Working iron and clay involve reshaping a mass of material with pressure rather than cutting and piecing together to create a form.
In order to understand the contrasting approach to shaping tin, it is important to remember that "tin" is actually "tinplate", thin sheets of iron coated with tin as a surface preservative. Tinned iron is worked cold, meaning that manipulation of the form is limited to cutting, bending and piecing together shapes. There really is no "stretching" or "squeezing" tinned iron. In fact, extensive hammering on tinplate damages the tin coating, exposing the iron to oxygen and leading to quick deterioration of the material. Tinwork has more in common with the work of a tailor than that of a blacksmith. Beginning with standard size sheets of tinplate, a pattern is drawn on the sheet, cut out with shears, and is bent and soldered to create the three-dimensional form.
The tooling necessary to accomplish this includes a variety of sizes and shapes of anvils, or stakes, which assist in making smooth, even bends and tight joinery. The greater the variety of objects to be made, the greater the number of stakes required. The Armoury daybook (1778-1780) provides extensive information about products made in the tinshop, and from this, we have been able to develop a list of the tools necessary to make those objects.
Next, we have to develop prototypes that accurately reflect those of a Revolutionary War period workshop. Research on tinsmith tools from this period is somewhat scarce. Manufacture of tinware changed drastically just after 1800, and the majority of scholarship on tinsmith shop tooling focuses on the post-1800 period. Most operating historic tinsmith shops employ this newer technology, and most collections of tin working tools consist of datable forms made by a handful of specialized manufacturers in the nineteenth century. Our study of the McMillen and Carpentier collections allowed us to identify several stakes manufactured with pre-industrial techniques, suggesting earlier manufacture. We also examined several tools marked with dates in this transitional period of 1800-1820. These sort of non-standard tools were either made in local blacksmith shops to meet the needs of local tin workers, or they reflect the developing commercial manufacture of tools for the tinsmith trade drawing on forms found in other sheet metal working shops- silversmiths, coppersmiths, and makers of armor. Although methods used to form these sheet metal working stakes are pretty consistent, the degree of finish and refinement often give us insight into relative dating of a particular object. For instance, a coarse-hammered or file finished piece is more likely to reflect earlier manufacture than a thoroughly ground and completely polished piece.
Following our week of work at Eastfield Village and extensive discussions about our plans for the new shop, Bill and Judy McMillen expressed their enthusiasm for our reconstruction plans and presented Colonial Williamsburg with a gift of 23 early tinsmith tools from their private collection. These early tools will form the core of a study collection of early tinsmithing equipment and will provide prototypes for furnishing the Armoury tinshop. We are grateful to Bill and Judy McMillen for their long-time interest in Colonial Williamsburg, and for their encouragement and support of the Armoury tinsmith shop reconstruction. You can see and learn more about the McMillen collection of tinsmithing tools through Colonial Williamsburg's emuseum by following this link http://emuseum.history.org/code/emuseum.asp , and doing a Quick Search (box, lower left) of an individual tool's accession number (2012-27 through 2012-49).
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Great discussion, Ken. As always, the devil is in the details. Can't wait to see the tinsmith at work in the new shop.
Jim- Thanks for your comment, and for your continued interest in the shop development.
Detail does indeed make the project. Getting as many details as correct as possible will give us the best representation of the time period- right down to the finish on the tinsmiths stake anvil. In my mind, all of these minute details add up to a complete picture. Details that are ignored or overlooked will detract in small ways from the reconstruction. It is like the conductor of a symphony saying "I want to do this without violins and flutes!" Well, without violins and flutes, the whole symphony is diminished. As conductors of our "historical symphony", we want all of the instruments- or at least as many as we can identify and reproduce- to be represented in this project. Therefore, understanding the tools, the process, the style of product, the material, the workshop- every detail that we can capture and understand- produces the richest reconstruction. Seeking out these details is the fun part of historical research. Bringing these details back to life is the exciting part of our work.
Hi Ken,
Your response to Jim H was great. I never thought to compare CW to a symphony before.
Is there any chance you could tell us what the different tools are and how they were used? I recognize the tin snips. My Dad had a pair. They have not changed in over 200 years. I would assume that some of the straight edged tools may have been used to form straight line folds? Every other item is a puzzle to me. I'm ready to learn.
Thanks and keep bringing great learning to the blog. Huzzah!
Chris- I will write up a piece adressing tool use shortly. Thanks for the question!
I am guessing that it was in the post 1820 time period that stake plates became common. How will the various stakes be mounted for use in the future tinshop??? Also, in the historical examples above, are the angles of the tapered section (the part that would go into the plate or stump) consistent, or do they vary??
Albin- I am looking for more information on when bench plates come into common use. The tinner's benches in the early nineteenth century shop at Eastfield Village simply have tapered mortises cut into the benchtop. A few of the mortises were lined with sheet lead to reduce the size of the hole and make the stakes fit tight. I presume that that the lead lining was added as the mortises became larger with use.
The tapers of the shanks on the stakes vary somewhat. That may also explain the number of holes in the benchtops. Each of the holes can be slithgtly different. The lead lining also ads some variability to the fit. I presume that the holes in the bench were fit to the stakes which were used the most, and the stakes used infrequently were "wedged" or "shimmed" to fit accurately as needed.
I will let you know what I find on bench plates.
Albin- I asked Bill McMillen about the use of bench plates and he responded
"As for bench plates, the earliest I can visually document it is a catalog that that I have seen dated 1850's.
I do not doubt that they were around by the 1830's but have not found any mention of them that I can recall."
At this point, I have not actively searched for early bench plates, but will be looking more carefully in the coming months as we develop the tinshop. Sometimes, we find that an item that we know as a "bench plate" had a different name in the eighteenth century, and therefore, the reference is missed by a researcher.
The best example of such a case that I can cite from my experience is a common cooking spatula. We had not seen references to cooking spatulas in household inventories and were challenged to explain why such a logical cooking tool would not show up with some frequency. One day a fellow researcher here at Colonial Williamsburg was puzzled over a term that he was running across in his work and asked me "What is an egg slice?" According to the OED a "slice" is "One or other of several flattish utensils (sometimes perforated) used for various purposes in cookery, etc." Suddenly the term made complete sense. Spatual is a more modern term for slice. In fact I see the term in inventories of blacksmith shops as well- with fire tools listed as "poker, slice and ladle". The OED also says that a slice is "A form of fire-shovel; also, an instrument for clearing the bars of a furnace when choked with clinkers."
The answer was right in front of us all along, but we first had to understand the correct period terminology. I will keep an open mind as I look for period listings of tinsmith tools. Perhaps we will find a pre-1850 bench plate, but find it listed by another name.
Nomenclature can certainly add an addition degree of difficulty to researching questions such as this. Your "egg slice" is a perfect example of this.
One point I am interested in is who and when did "they" decide on the angle of taper for the stakes. Not such a big deal when chopping mortises in a wooden work bench and using shims, but once they started to cast the plates then there seems to be a need (or at least a desire) for a comman standard for the taper on the stakes. Or is this still too early in the Industrial Revolution to have tradesmen agreeing on a standard, especially given the challanges of communication when separated by an ocean, and goodly distances between major colonial cities??
Albin- While I have not made a great study of these bench plates as yet, I can throw a couple of assumptions into the discussion.
It seems to me that the tinsmith tool industry here in the US had just a handful of major players competing for the market. My guess is that when cast iron bench plates come into common use, the major makers standardized the taper for their own tools, whether or not they matched their competitors. It is certainly a common practice among tool making companies throughout history. If I can sell you my bench plate, and my tooling is made to fit the bench plate perfectly, then you are likely to purchase your tooling from me as well. Once a major manufacturer begins to dominate the market, other makers will mimic the design, or adapt their tooling to match the accepted standard.
I imagine that there was a long transition period following the development of cast iron bench plates, with many established tinsmiths continuing to use mortised wood bench tops and lead lining, and newer generations of tinsmiths buying into the newer technology. That is another common historical phenomenon. As a specialist in retro-technology, I was slow to adopt to new digital technologies. I had to be dragged kicking and screaming into this new world by a newer (younger) generation. While I have adapted to the desktop and laptop technologies, I am still resistant to smartphones at this point. Since I have two children, I know that it is only a matter of time before I will need to accept that tecnology as well. In the mean time, the kicking and screaming goes on….
The stakes appear almost like Hardy tools. Might they have been simply used in an anvil at one time?
Did tin smiths of this period use rollers to form sheet into cylinders?
That could be a possibility, Steve, but I think that tinner's stakes were most often set into bench tops. As I mentined to Albin in the previous question, a tinner's bench normally has a series of mortises along the edge of the bench to receive stakes. Later, cast iron bench plates are common. I will see if I can find a photo of a tinner's bench to post.
Rollers, like bench plates come in to common use in the nineteenth century. I believe that most cylinders were simply bent on the horn of a stake, or on a wood stake, and then worked round by hand.


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Crunching the numbers. Iowa legislators using this week's new revenue estimates in crafting next year's state budgets. Majority democrats are leading the process, and we're questioning the Senate's Democratic leader, Mike Gronstal, on this edition of Iowa Press.
Borg: Just yesterday Iowa legislators got the information they'd been waiting for from the state's Revenue Estimating Conference. The news is only mildly encouraging, predicting slight increases in tax revenues during the next several months. For legislators that means not much is changing from the austere approach they've been taking in crafting next year's spending plans for the fiscal year beginning July 1. It also means that legislators may be focusing now on buttoning up the budget, adjourning the session, and turning attention to the elections. Council Bluffs Senator Mike Gronstal will be leading the democratic majority's budget decision making process. And, Senator Gronstal, thanks for making time for us today.
Gronstal: Happy to be here.
Borg: Busy time --
Gronstal: Yes, it is.
Borg: -- in the legislature right now. We're going to be asking about those numbers in just a second. But across the table, Associated Press Senior Political Writer Mike Glover and Radio Iowa News Director Kay Henderson.
Glover: Senator Gronstal, we're going to get to those budget numbers and how you're going to handle it and how you're going to wrap up this session in a minute. But before we get there, I'd like to talk about something that's kind of flared up in the last few days, and that suggestion is that the money from the Iowa Association of School Boards, taxpayer money, may have been misspent. How are you going to react to that?
Gronstal: Well, as you know, next week we're going to have a hearing -- we're going to have them before our legislative oversight committee. I've got to tell you, I think Iowans are outraged at what has gone on there. It appears to me that this has actually been going on for quite a while and that the organization hired somebody -- got rid of some people and then hired somebody to come in and clean it up. And pretty obviously it wasn't cleaned up. I think in the end we'll need to give subpoena authority to our oversight committee to call people in, some of those previous employees that worked there. I just think what's happened is outrageous, and I think people are sick and tired of it. The executive director literally said, "I thought I was getting paid too much money. I asked them to lower it." What kind of an executive director can't get their own pay lowered? I mean something isn't right in this place, and I think in the end we'll have to have subpoena power to get the answers to it.
Glover: And this is not the only group association that spends a lot of taxpayer dollars. How widespread is this?
Gronstal: I think that's a great question, and it's certainly one we're going to look into. We think these organizations -- listen, I don't know about other governmental associations, but we thought this organization was primarily to help do education of board members and provide -- provide a place for people to share ideas. It appears that they had a number of money making schemes designed to -- designed to try and, you know, generate for-profit activities, and a think a lot of legislators are very concerned about it.
Glover: And what do you say to local schools? I mean in the Des Moines school system, they're going to lay off 300 teachers, and they're paying money to the association to send people off to Costa R ica or something.
Gronstal: And that's absolutely unbelievable that that's going on and that that's what's happened with this organization. So I think you're going to see -- this is going to continue beyond the legislative session. I haven't seen anything like this since CIETC, and this thing appears to have so many -- there were three or four different for-profit entities under this thing, maybe more. We simply do not know, and we're going to find out. It will probably take subpoena power to do it, but we're going to pursue this until we get the answers to those questions. It's just outrageous that any teacher should lose their job while school districts across the state are sending in dues money to an organization that's engaged -- I mean it looks to me like the executive director was paid twice what the governor was paid. Twice what the governor of the state of Iowa was paid! I think that's just absolutely outrageous.
Glover: And what do you have to do to get subpoena power?
Gronstal: Legislative council on the oversight committee can ask us for subpoena power. They've already asked if they asked whether that request would be honored, and I assured them that, yes, it would if they need subpoena power. And like I say, I think they probably do. The legislative council can grant that to them. As you know, legislative council is an entity of about 25 to 30 --
Glover: And when does that happen?
Gronstal: That will happen whenever they ask for it. I mean we'll get together on a conference call and do that authority if that's necessary.
Henderson: Back to Mike's other question, though. There are other associations in the state, which take money from government entities. Will you launch a wide-scale investigation and have new rules for those entities as a result?
Gronstal: I think we'll certainly ask them those questions: what kind of entities do you have out there that are profit-making entities that are designed about kind of empire building? It appears to me the School Board Association, like I said, had four or five. Who knows how many profit-making entities that were all about building some sort of financial empire that would -- so we're going to get to the bottom of it.
Borg: Well, let's be clear. Are you troubled about the fact that the profit-making entities within these associations -- I think of the Iowa Association of Counties, for example, where counties pay apparently dues money to -- is that something you're going to be looking into too?
Gronstal: I think our first job right now is to get to the bottom of the Iowa School Board Association. I think our second job is to make sure these kinds of things are not happening in those other entities, and we're certainly going to be asking those questions.
Glover: Would that entail creating some kind of a new committee to take a look at this?
Gronstal: I think oversight committee can probably handle this and come back with a set of recommendations for us next session if something is needed on that front. But I think -- I mean we've got to get the forensic audit. We've got to get all these -- I start to wonder should a purely public organization that creates a for-profit entity -- it kind of seems to me that for-profit entity, even if it's somehow independent of that group, should have complete open records and open meetings the way the rest of governments do in this state. So, you know, I'm inclined to think we're going to ask all of these organizations to be forthcoming about the kinds of things they operate.
Glover: Should the attorney general have a role in this?
Gronstal: I think the forensic auditors will tell us whether they believe any laws were broken. If you were, obviously the attorney general will be needed to intervene in this. I also think the state auditor should probably review whatever audits come out of there. It appears some of the audit information from the internal auditors was originally not shared with the board members. That too seems outrageous to me. So this thing is a real mess, and we're going to get to the bottom of it.
Henderson: You mentioned that Iowans are outraged about this. Another thing Iowans have been paying a little bit of attention to is a bill that would ban texting while driving in Iowa. The house took some action this past week. What will happen when that bill advances to a committee of house and senate members to try to iron out the differences?
Gronstal: It will go to a conference committee, and it's likely they will find some resolution to that bill. The original house bill applied to outgoing texting, you know, --
Henderson: You look like you've done it.
Gronstal: Yeah, yeah. Well, not in the car. Outgoing texting. The senate added -- it's not just you texting out. It's you reading messages as well. That's what the senate sent back to the house. They made some other adjustments. We'll go to conference committee.
Henderson: Their adjustments were limiting it to teenagers.
Gronstal: Yeah, I think there was some -- I think there was some argument about that in their own chamber. I think it's likely you'll see a texting bill pass the senate this year -- pass the legislature this year and get signed into law.
Henderson: The governor made the argument that the state stands to lose money. About midweek the governor's staff said it could be as much as $75 million. Is that enough of a threat?
Gronstal: That's not easy to answer. The feds have not yet acted, have not yet required that. Normally if the government passed a law to that effect, they would give states a certain amount of time to comply with it before they started withholding money. It's probably a good argument for the long-term but probably wouldn't make any difference this particular year.
Borg: Surprising that we're now only a third into the show and now we're asking about the biggest thing that's been happening and that is the budget -- the state budget. The Revenue Estimating Conference, as I said earlier, gave you new numbers and projections for tax revenues. What changes?
Gronstal: Nothing. We're going to put that money into the ending balance. We believe that will help shelter us from the need, if things got bad from an across-the board cut later. We had essentially decided very early on that unless this was a dramatic difference -- and it's not a dramatic difference, about $33 million for next year. Unless it was a dramatic difference, we weren't going to use any of that for next year's budget.
Borg: So much of your state work on the budget is valid.
Gronstal: Pretty much done. We're going to work through those details with the house and the senate. We're moving bills forward. Yeah, we don't have to make anyway adjustments to what we had planned. And we also think that will buy us a little higher level of confidence that even if things get a little muddier later on in the year, we won't have a need for an across-the-board budget cut.
Glover: There's been a lot of talk, particularly from the majority leader of the house, your counterpart, Kevin McCarthy, about a bill that would loosen up some gambling measures and maybe generate a little bit of money for the state. He estimated about $25 million. That hasn't moved very far. Is that something that's going to happen in the last couple of weeks?
Gronstal: I'd say it's still possible, but I'd also say it's a long shot.
Glover: Why? I mean it's extra money in a year when you need money.
Gronstal: I think part of what they're talking about is internet gambling. They call it advanced deposit gambling, and it would be very, very limited. You'd have to take your cash into an existing casino in Iowa. Cash, you couldn't do this on credit. You'd have to go through some secured measures. You'd still be subject to self-banning, as we do for problem gamblers in the state. So, you know, I think there's still some talk about that, but I also think it's stuff that makes people a little bit nervous. How exactly would it work? How can we make sure it will be secure?
Glover: You've got a casino in Council Bluffs. If you walked into that casino in Council Bluffs, how would you bet on that gambling bill?
Gronstal: Like I say, a long shot. I won't characterize how long of a shot.
Glover: You wouldn't put a lot of money on it?
Gronstal: I also think there are people interested in looking at -- I personally don't think it makes sense to continue to have referendums -- referenda when they've passed by 60, 70, 80 percent repeatedly. We force entities to spend a significant amount of money on that that serves no real purpose in my community other than helping a few Nebraska TV stations in terms of advertising.
So I'm -- and the senate has in the past passed bills to, after a certain point if referendum in the community has gotten a high enough level have support and it's passed a second time, not making them do continued referendums.
Glover: So beyond Gronstal disses Nebraska television, you would do some kind --
Gronstal: No, I'd just as sooner see them invest those dollars on the Iowa side of the river.
Glover: So you could do a limited bill, maybe getting them to do way with the voting on them but not doing the expansion gambling?
Gronstal: I'd like to see something happen on that side, but even that I think is a bit of a long shot.
Henderson: This past week democrats in the legislature unveiled a series of proposals restricting tax credits. First of all, let's talk about the film tax credit that sort of got legislators into this discussion in the first place. The proposal is to keep it suspended through, I believe, July 1 of 2012. Is that what will happen when this goes before legislators, because you have legislators all over the board on this?
Gronstal: I think we have them all over the board, but I think you also have -- you have a significant number that would say, hey, this didn't work very well, it doesn't make a lot of sense. The credit that they marketed last summer was a 50-percent credit. Mexico had a 25-percent credit. Iowa went to 50 percent. The AG said it's not 50 percent; it's only 25 percent the way the statute is written. And the companies that were in Iowa moved to Michigan, which is at 42 percent. This is – long-term for all the states, this is a zero-sum loss, not a zero-sum gain. It's a zero-sum loss. States lower taxes on entities making films in their state. Every state tries to leapfrog the state before them to attract this business. Eventually they'll come here and they'll pay no taxes in every state. So I don't see -- my concern is I don't see it creating long-term jobs or building a long-term economy in our state. I see it as a short-term effort. But there are certainly some people that would like to fix this program. Fixing it at this point would, from the perspective of the attorney general, maybe call into question his issues relative to court cases, so we're going to suspend it. I think that's the likely outcome. We do have some people that would like to get rid of it. We do have some people that would like to fix it. And then there's some people that respect the AG's position on this. The conclusion that you'll end up with it's suspended for a couple years.
Henderson: In regards to tax credits overall, your plan would scale back the amount of tax credits that the state awards basically businesses. Republicans and business groups say it makes no sense at a time of economic downturn to reduce those incentives to do business in Iowa. How do you counter that argument?
Gronstal: Well, first of all, we have worked with the business community about these tax credits, had great conversations with them. They have been highly cooperative in helping identify what some of the issues are and also in advancing -- well, if you're going to cut -- and listen, what we've said to people, kind of the same point as earlier relative to the School Board Association: when you're laying off teachers in the state of Iowa, do you have to -- isn't there some way that businesses can be part of the solution as well? Does it all have to fall on kids' access to education? Does it all have to fall on citizens' access to health care, or can the business community share in some of this pain? And the business community has been responsive to that. And we've dealt with been respectful of their concerns, and we've dealt with those concerns. We've put -- the real savings in this bill -- there's a little bit of the savings in the first year. The real savings is in the out years when we lower the cap from 185 to 120. That means --
Henderson: The cap on tax credits --
Gronstal: I'm sorry. The cap on a set of four, five individual tax credits that are awarded through the Department of Economic Development. In essence, we're asking the Department of Economic Development to be more discerning and judicious in their awarding of tax credits. We don't have an unlimited treasury.
Borg: I'd like to ask about your relationship with local school budgets. Are you going to authorize schools to grow their budgets by 2 percent but not provide the funding from the state to grow those budgets? So you're saying essentially to them you're free to spend 2 percent more in your budget, but you find where to get the money.
Gronstal: We are obviously looking at that issue. We have not made a final decision on education funding. We're working with the governor as well. We're listening to school districts that right now are working through their budgets, and we're going through that effort. We will be at least at the governor's level. A lot of school districts are talking about what if we're not at the governor's level when it comes to the funding for K-12 education. That's really pretty unrealistic. We are, of course, at a minimum going to be at the governor's level, and we're working with the governor to try and identify additional resources to get beyond his level. And we're working with house, the senate, and the governor together. And I think, you know, we're going to be done in two weeks --
Borg: And his level is what?
Gronstal: His level is -- it's confusing because there's also ARRA money in there from last year.
Henderson: That would be federal stimulus --
Gronstal: That's the Federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. So there were non-general fund dollars in that program last year in K-12 education. So we're going to do our best on that front. We don't have a final decision on it yet. I think if we do the 2 percent the governor talked about and the hundred million more that he talked about in his state of the state address. -- and I think we'll actually reach just a little bit further than that -- I think school districts will -- I think that's better than school districts are expecting right now. We wish we could fully fund it. We do. But we're also asking school districts to do exactly what we're doing -- make real efforts to cut to save money, they can engage in early retirement efforts, they can come up with efficiencies at the local level, they can dip into their reserves. We're dipping into our reserves. They need to dip into their reserves. So we're trying to get them to do as little as possible that will push up property taxes.
Glover: It wouldn't be an official Iowa Press program if we didn't talk a little politics. So I'd like to ask for your take on this election year. This is the first midterm of a new democratic president. History would teach you that's a good year for republicans, but it seems as though the economy is driving everything. Traditionally that helps democrats. I know you're thinking about this election. What's your take on this year?
Gronstal: I would dispute your contention that the first midterm election of a new president is good for the -- is good for the party out of power. The reality is it may be in Congress. It may in Washington, D.C. -- it isn't in the states. The Iowa house dropped to 36 democrats in 1994. The Iowa senate retained every seat. This isn't about national mood or attitudes as to what's happening at the top of the ticket. This is about recruiting good people that are leaders in their community and then, when we get them here to the legislature, making sure they do great constituent service, that they door knock in off years, that they contact their voters and survey them about their opinions. It's about all that kind of stuff. And we have a great -- we have a great set of candidates. Last time -- there are 25 seats up every two years. Last time we won 19 of those 25.
Glover: And this time of the 25 seats that are up, 19 are democratic seats and 6 are republican. Isn't that a challenge for you?
Gronstal: The reality is generally speaking both parties would tell you if somebody found their way to the Capitol the first time, they're probably going to find their way back a second time. So unless they've done something really dumb and not been responsive to their voters, if they found their way to the capitol the first time -- and that's -- we've recruited really great people out there. We go out and recruit the kind of people that are natural leaders in their community, who heads up the United Way fund drive, who helped light the ball field, who's on the county economic development committee. Those are the kinds of people we recruited. I think we've got a great shot at re-electing --
Borg: Kay.
Henderson: Senator, there are a handful of labor bills, and much of the focus heretofore has been on whether the house would pass them. In the closing two weeks of the legislative session, will the senate take the lead and pass any one of those bills?
Gronstal: I think we would love the opportunity to pass bills that will grow the middle class in this state, and we've talked about --
Henderson: Is that a yes?
Gronstal: And we've talked about that repeatedly. But we have told people this session, more than any other session, this is about us operating as a team. The state is in tough times. It's not about seeing what we can dump on the house or seeing what the house can dump on us or seeing what we can dump on the governor. It's about the three entities working together. We've got a state government reorganization bill that saved a quarter billion dollars. That didn't come without a lot of heavy lifting on the house side, on the senate side, and in the governor's office. I think that's a great effort. I think that's a sign that we are working to set aside our different individual arguments now and work together for the betterment of this state.
Borg: Senator, we're out of time.
Gronstal: Sorry.
Borg: Thanks so much for being with us today. On our next edition of Iowa Press, we'll be tapping the expertise of Iowa political journalists, getting their perspectives on the waning weeks of the Iowa General Assembly and the approaching primary and general elections. Just as we are this week during Iowa Public Television's Festival program, Iowa Press an hour earlier next week. You'll see the Reporters' Roundtable at 6:30 Friday night, March 19. We hope you're enjoy that special Festival programming that you're seeing and that you've made your pledge of support for programs such as Iowa Press. I'm Dean Borg. Thanks for joining us today.


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Winter can be cold and miserable but once in a while it can be beautiful. Enjoy the structure of these frost crystals.
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They are also not left behind with the tattoo art that has been popularize these days. Bunga Terung or Eggplant flower is one of the basic tattoo they got especially for the male Iban. One of my Facebook page fans has caught me with this tattoo where he uploaded his Bunga Terung tattoo photo.
Peter Grandy has uploaded this Iban Tattoo at our FB page and I make him as one of the page administrator. He's actually a friend/cousin of mine who loves this art. We are actually Bidayuh tribe but we are all categorize in a same partition with the Ibans in Sarawak/Borneo peninsular. We are natively Borneon. No offence. We like the Iban cultures and arts that makes us one in a neighborhood.
However, the tattoo art of Bidayuh seems unclear and this is one of my research and finding for the next couple of months. I do really hope that other Bidayuh elderly will found me either by accident or via this social networking to help me spread the word of Bidayuh Tattoo.
So, below are some of the basic drawing of Bunga Terung Tattoo.
Basic scetch bunga terung
The Eggplant flower design is actually means a growing boy to a manly hood.
Bunga Terung Tattoo
The spinal design at the center of the Eggplant flower tattoo design means the rope of life (Tali Nyawa).
Looking back into their old lifestyle, the tattoo is pierced by a stick that combined with a sharp needle. The skin need to be stretch tightly during the process of tattooing.
But now, the tattoo can be done with a tattoo machine gun by a tattoo artist. Of course to prevent some major ailment but the sentimental value is not there.


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Madame Defarge University for Knitters
Finish this great purse in our June workshop and you'll move to the head of the class at Madame Defarge's Knitting Salon. Rarely does a knitting pattern offer up this many chances to practice new techniques, and with our dedicated knitting teachers for your tutors, you'll be graduating from intermediate to advanced knitter this summer. Grow your knitting skills for better fall crafting!
In the Clutch: Zippered Handbag Workshop
We resisted the urge to call this class the Dapper Dan workshop after the 1970s plush doll that kids used to learn how to dress themselves. You'll be knitting a clutch purse that will help you explore techniques that will multiply your fibers skills immensely. In this charming bag pattern (created for us by Ann), you'll discover opportunities to put in a pocket, add buttonholes, create slip stitch colorwork, install a zipper by hand and add a flourish with crochet edgings. Complete this four-week workshop, and you'll feel like a big kid in the world of technical knitting. All materials included ($25 materials fee). You'll also need size 7 knitting needles, which you may bring from home or purchase on the first night of class. To register for this unique workshop, go to denverlibrary.org/fresh or call 720.865.1206.
Mondays, June 3, 10, 17 and 24, 5:30-7:30p, Fresh City Lounge. Register
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The world of athletics will hope the spotlight turns back to action on the track and field at the Diamond League meet in Monaco on Friday after a disastrous week during which two of the best sprinters to have ever donned spikes tested positive for drugs.
The failed tests of American Tyson Gay and Jamaican Asafa Powell, second and fourth fastest men of all time, and Powell's compatriot, three-time Olympic medallist Sherone Simpson, have plunged the sport into one of its darkest periods just three weeks away from the start of the world championships in Moscow.
Gay was expected to run in Monaco, where he set the stadium record of 19.72sec over 200m in 2010, and maintain an impressive streak of early-season unbeaten form in his bid to dethrone Jamaican duo Yohan Blake, now injured, and Usain Bolt of their world sprint titles.
"Herculis Diamond League in Monaco... one of the best track stadiums in the world. Cool poster too. Almost looks like I am racing (and losing to) Sally and Mo. LOL," Gay ill-fatedly posted on the official Facebook page of the meet in reference to Australian hurdler Sally Pearson and Briton Mo Farah.
Ironically, Gay's absence has made teammate Justin Gatlin, the 2004 Olympic champion and London Games bronze medallist who served a four-year ban for doping, favourite in the blue riband 100m event.
The race will also feature Frenchmen Christophe Lemaitre and Jimmy Vicaut, Jamaican duo Nickel Ashmeade and Kemar Bailey-Cole, St Kitts and Nevis veteran Kim Collins and American Mike Rodgers, who also picked up a nine-month ban for testing positive for a banned stimulant.
Elsewhere on the track, Farah will compete in the 1500m, stepping down from the 5,000 and 10,000m in both of which he is defending Olympic champion.
A tough field including Kenyan world gold and silver medallists Asbel Kiprop and Silas Kiplagat will ensure a fast pace, exactly what Farah will be seeking as a warm-up to his bid to repeat his Olympic double gold on the world stage in Moscow.
Farah's teammate Jessica Ennis-Hall, who claimed heptathlon gold in London, was a late withdrawal from the 100m hurdles, in which she would have been up against Pearson, as she struggles to shake off an ankle injury that has sidelined her all season.
Farah might have done the right thing skipping the 5,000m, however, with a field featuring Ethiopian track legend Kenenisa Bekele, the Olympic champion in 5,000 and 10,000m in 2008, and Kenyan-born American Bernard Lagat, the current world silver medallist.
All three podium finishers from London in the men's pole vault will be on show, French gold medallist Renaud Lavillenie up against German duo Bjorn Otto and Rafael Holzdeppe.
And the triple jump will feature French track and field's 'bad boy' Teddy Tamgho, the world indoor record holder steadily making a comeback from injury in a bid to worry Olympic and world champion Christian Taylor of the United States.
With Jamaican sprinting in the doping doldrums, multiple medal winner Veronica Campbell-Brown having also tested positive earlier this season, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has been left to carry the hopes for the women.
Having set a world lead of 22.13sec at the Jamaican national championships, she goes up against American Carmelita Jeter, the bronze medallist in London behind Fraser-Pryce and winner Allyson Felix, who competes in the 4x100m relay in Monaco.


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It's just terrified at the king's taste in jewelry, I'm sure.
Yes! Apparently "SKREE!" translates to "That's not real gold you fools! It's an abomination from a crazy dimension! Take it off!"
Uh oh… birds know! And they don't like it.
I like the shattering effect, nice work.
Dear king, you are officially in trouble.
What birds know, they will scream at you. For sure.
If humans are made to lay eggs, passing between worlds, what happens to birds?


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Honest to god, I've been with Netflix for four years now and have never had a problem with them. I've moved a couple of times, changed card information, rearranged my queue...I have the one at a time plan (8.99/month) and can get seven or eight movies per month. I love Netflix. Period.
Agreed. Very happy with the service. There have been a couple of times a disc hasn't delivered (it appeared like a week later... probably a mix-up with the post office, not Netflix), and there have been a couple of scratched discs with playback problems. However, overall, it's been pretty nice and for $9 a month, it's a great deal.
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Lovely looking place but it is no longer a Chambre d'hotes or bed and breakfast. Closed last year. The owners have apparently been trying for months to get Tripadvisor to remove the listing without sucess.
Lovely looking place but it is no longer a Chambre d'hotes or bed and breakfast. Closed last year. The owners have apparently been trying for months to get Tripadvisor to remove the listing without sucess.
we travel down to south west France twice a year and this will now be on our stop over list. The building has been beautifully restored by the owners and is is extremely clean and comfortable, It is a bit off the beaten track so would recommend eating on route and then sitting in the lovely garden with a chilled... More
We would like to thank all our guests for there wonderful comments over the last few years Unfortunately as of October 2012, Les Ramades is no longer a guest house. Our gites continue to be available for self catering holiday rentals Thank you More
This is a lovely B&B in a beautiful part of France that is somewhat off the beaten path, which I think adds to its charm. The owners are incredibly welcoming and recommended a fantastic restaurant in Brioude, the room was very comfortable with a nice view, and the breakfast was delicious.
Les Ramades is a must - great welcome in a tastefully restored house full of antique furniture yet with a modern touch, REAL orange juice for breakfast, beautifully appointed bedroom with magificent views, good quality plumbing and a separate en suite WC. Excellent value for money - this is a chambre d'hôtes de charme to be recommended.
Fantastic. A 'must do'. This was an impromptu trip to the region which required only a one night stay. In these circumstances I don't always find somewhere to stay that I would rate. But the welcome we received at les Ramades made me wish we could stay at least another night, and we certainly will go out of our way... More
Lovely place! The views from the rooms and the eating area are breathtaking. The rooms have very nice details- a fluffy bathroom robe for example. The breakfast is top quality- freshly squeezed orange juice, nice tasty jams. We went with small kids and was perfect. Highly recommended.
we spent just one evening, had a very nice dinner, and a good breakfast.............. very nice decoration, and very friendly hosts, hope tp pass again next year.
We only had one night in the area, and it was way too short. This area of France is lovely, but there is very little tourist information in English. Our host was so helpful, and he had wonderful taste as to what was worth seeing. Our rooms were wonderful and breakfast was lovely. It is in a very idyllic setting... More
You couldn't get a more peaceful setting than the hamlet of Vazeille, but it's only 20 minutes or so away from the main A75 autoroute. Altan and Dirk have crafted a beautiful small chambres d'hote in attractive contemporary styling from a complex of old stone buildings, and serve creative, very high quality dinners in a friendly atmosphere with delightful views... More
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Brad Urban, who stepped down as Twin Lakes football coach in December, was approved Monday night as Logansport's new head coach.
Urban went 24-38 in six years at Twin Lakes and is 75-78 in 14 seasons overall. He also previously coached at Frontier and West Central.
Twin Lakes has not yet announced the hiring of Urban's successor. The Indians open next season at Logansport on Aug. 17.Vester chooses IUPUI ...


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Big Sister Deb Senn and Little Sister Kaya try out the ice at the Treadwell Arena. Big Brothers/Big Sisters rented the ice for a February group activity. | | |
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...Contractors; and R&M Engineering. The professionalism, responsiveness and concern of all involved brought about a very satisfying conclusion to this prolonged project. Thank you all. Deb Senn and Greg Wagner Lakeside Condo Association Juneau
...growth of state spending?" No thanks, Meyer. May every Alaskan vote to retain the laws, our laws, that you are attempting to remove; and make it clear to you what our priorities are. Hold on tight to your rights, Alaska. Deb Senn Juneau
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Some may ask if the person has another ID or credit card with his name on it. If someone in this day and age doesn't have a debit card on them, it's cause for suspicion. If a person is unable to produce so much as a AAA card or a library card with the same name on it, he's probably using someone else's ID.
It's summer. You can stay out later, get hammered, and sleep in without worrying about having to endure your first class of the day with a hell-sent hangover. Since you've been granted these few precious weeks of freedom, who the hell wants to waste them in your buddy's dorm or running from cops after that house party gets raided? You want to go downtown and get schlitzed in some glamorous college-town bar. Only problem? You must be this tall to ride, and, well, you're not there yet. So you get that pair of platforms that is a fake ID so you can hit the town and pay way too much for your vodka-crans.
Then you meet that big dude in the black shirt in front of the door. He's going to be the Tom to your Jerry for the next several years. Here are some of his mouse traps:
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November 30, 2015
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The returning Tennessee players won't just know their coaches and coordinators this season. They're heading into fall practice with a clear idea of what those coaches expect of them on the field.
Senior tailback Tauren Poole says that will make a big difference to a team that's seen a lot of turnover when it comes to coaching. When the Volunteers begin fall practice on Tuesday it will be the first time in four seasons they won't be getting used to either a new head coach or new offensive or defensive coordinator.
That means Dooley, offensive coordinator Jim Chaney and defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox will spend less time this August trying to impress on players what is expected of them and more time on fundamentals and on restoring the Vols' pride.
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pup-430.iso re-uploadedHere I am, out of bed at 1.15am again.
'pup-430.iso' has finished uploading.
I decided a new strategy is needed for uploading, so I named the file pup-430.isoTEMP then uploaded it, then named it back.
Yeah Sage, the iso is now 105.1MB. That's how big the 537 modules were -- added 5MB onto the iso!
I'm currently re-uploading the split files, and haven't yet checked the md5sum of 'pup-430.iso'. It should be:
Comments:Posted on 19 Sep 2009, 6:03 by Raffy
Why re-upload
Just linking from here to inform readers why the ISO was re-uploaded: please see http://puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=01097
Posted on 19 Sep 2009, 8:53 by deNirosss
downloaded propperly :p
Just downloaded it. MD5sum is OK. it's burning as I type :p
Thanks for giving us this 4.3 release. Must be stressfull when thinking you released 4.3, and then finding out there where some problems with modules. Also, your inet connection is not ideal.
I know you are a workaholic or at least very determined to release yet another milestone version of puppy, but get some real 7 hours (in a row) sleep.
Congrats, and again, thanks a lot!! Because I really love puppy linux. I'm going to reboot in the new 4.3 now. :p
Posted on 19 Sep 2009, 12:23 by Sage
New upload
We all appreciate dedication. However, deNirosss is not correct. Folks with higher IQ s need more than the healthy mean of 8hrs sleep - the brain is a massive consumer of body energy. The problem for those over 60, however, is that the last two hours of REM sleep is difficult to achieve in a serial operation. Not to worry, there are three, not one, natural sleeping periods for higher primates. Retirees who have the option should consider taking their main meal at lunchtime/midday, long advocated by the medics, and taking some of the 'missing' sleep period afterwards. There seems to be general agreement that this pattern is the preferred model for best physical and mental health as well as longevity.
Posted on 19 Sep 2009, 12:25 by Sage
Intel modules
As I said before, folks dumb enough to choose WinIntel products deserve all they get.
Posted on 20 Sep 2009, 11:55 by broomdodger
Foxit Reader crash
Tried Foxit pet again with Puppy 430 final... same crash opening a pdf.
Then... I downloaded Foxit 1.1 from Foxit Software Company with the same result. Foxit Reader starts, can access all menus and preferences but it crashes when opening a pdf.
I wrote to tech support.
I tried the same download Foxit 1.1 with Ubuntu 8.10 kernel 22.214.171.124-generic and it works.
Something missing from Puppy?
Posted on 20 Sep 2009, 12:16 by broomdodger
Dropping out to initial-ramdisk
I have been busy installing Puppy on all machines I have and all the ones I have given away.
Today tried a Sharp PC-PJ2-S2 with Japanese characters on the keyboard, running Windows 2000, 4GBHD, 64MB ram, 11 inch color LCD (three dead pixels), predates netbooks by years!
Both initrd.gz and vmlinuz load from the external CD but then...
Searching for Puppy files in computer disk drives...
pup-430.sfs not found.
Dropping out to initial-ramdisk console...
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
I tried 430, 430 small, 430 scsi, even 218 all the same.
I tried copying pup-430.sfs to the internal harddrive, still cannot find pup-430.sfs and stops.
Any ideas?
This is the only machine I have had any problem with Puppy 430.
Posted on 20 Sep 2009, 19:01 by ttuuxxx
Hi broomdodger as foxit read goes, the last one which worked with puppy is 1.0, then they came out with 1.1, That version is not compatible with puppy, it uses gnutils where puppy uses openssl, plus a few other libs, I've been in close contact with the developers of Foxit reader from the start and they are looking into it for the next release.
This is the last working 2MB version that works on 4.30 http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=41521
Posted on 21 Sep 2009, 2:28 by broomdodger
foxit 1.1 24bit color fixes
Thank you ttuuxxx for the suggestion
Foxit 1.0 quits the same as Foxit 1.1
On ttuuxxx' page to download Foxit was this message from MrToad:
Just in case anyone else finds Foxit vanishes after trying to load a file...
I changed my Xorg colour depth from 16 bits to 24 bits and everything was then fine.
I had the same happy result even with Foxit 1.1
It works! when color depth is set to 24-bits
Posted on 22 Sep 2009, 9:48 by broomdodger
Linux-swap with 64MB RAM
Sharp PC-PJ2-S2 with Japanese characters on the keyboard, running Windows 2000, 300MHz, 4GB HD, 64MB RAM, 11 inch color LCD (three dead pixels), predates netbooks by years!
I guess the problem was the external cd interface not recognized.
I removed the harddrive, mounted in another PC, installed Puppy430 small, and now connected writing this.
This little PC has only 64MB RAM and SeaMonkey would freeze, I added a Linux-swap partition and now everything works, slowly when swapping.
Any recommendations about the size of a Linux-swap? I made it 256MB.
Posted on 23 Sep 2009, 15:06 by Stev in Sweden
Which 4.3 is final? & where?
Puppy Rocks! Been looking forward to 4.3 and used the "Final" with SCSI and got Skype to work well with it, >but then Puppy got buggy. I read that the Big Puppy 4.3 had some troubles and was being reloaded. Has it been? Is it called 4.3 or 4.3.1? or? And where can I find it? I am running it on a 5 year-old off-brand notebook with an AMD Sempron
Posted on 25 Sep 2009, 3:04 by pslinux20
None of my sfs from 4.2 is working on 4.3 even after using the SFS converter given with 4.3
And hey, it refuses to remaster too. The script is not working beyond 3rd step.


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An aortic aneurysm is a weak area in the aorta, the main blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body. As blood flows through the aorta, the weak area bulges like a balloon and can burst if the balloon gets too big.
A small aneurysm may require no immediate treatment other than "watchful waiting" - checking the aneurysm regularly to be certain it does not grow. If an aneurysm reaches a certain size, however, there is a danger that it will burst and bleed uncontrollably (hemorrhage). In these cases treatment is necessary.
Treatment of an abdominal aortic aneurysm may require surgery. For some patients, however, a new, non-surgical treatment called "stent-graft repair" can be performed by an interventional radiologist. This site gives an overview of treatment options, and specific information about stent-graft repair, the new, interventional radiology treatment that does not require surgery.
Q: What is an aneurysm?A: An aneurysm is a weak area in the wall of a blood vessel that bulges like a balloon when blood flows through the vessel. Aneurysms can occur throughout the body, and sometimes they are harmless. But sometimes they are life-threatening. Aneurysm occurs most commonly in the brain (cerebral aneurysm) or the aorta, the main blood vessel that supplies blood to the body. An aortic aneurysm may be in the chest cavity (thoracic aortic aneurysm), but it is most commonly seen in the abdomen (abdominal aortic aneurysm).
Q: What is an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)?A: An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a weak area in the wall of the abdominal aorta - the artery that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body. The aorta is the body's largest blood vessel; when an area is weak, it may bulge like a balloon when blood flows through it. The most common site for an aortic aneurysm to occur is below where the aorta divides to supply blood to the kidneys and above where it divides to supply blood to the pelvis and legs. An aneurysm that occurs in this location is called an abdominal aortic aneurysm. The normal diameter of the aorta is about 1 inch or less. Small aneurysms - less than 2 inches (5 centimeters) rarely rupture and may pose little risk to the patient. If the aneurysm grows larger, however, the risk of rupture and life-threatening bleeding (hemorrhage) increases. In most cases, physicians recommend treating aneurysms that are 5.5 centimeters or greater in diameter.
Q: How Common is AAA?A: Abdominal aortic aneurysms occur in from 5 percent to 7 percent of people over the age of 60 in the United States. Males are at least four times more likely to have AAA than females, and some studies have shown the rate in males to be even higher. According to one study, the incidence of AAA has increased three-fold over the past 40 years, making it the 13th leading cause of death in the U.S.The condition accounts for nearly 15,000 deaths each year.
Approximately one in every 250 people over the age of 50 will die of a ruptured AAA. Fortunately, when AAA is diagnosed early it can be successfully treated and rupture is prevented. Depending on the individual, treatment may require surgery. Often, however, the aneurysm can be repaired with a new, interventional radiology technique that does not require open surgery.
Q: What are the symptoms of AAA?A: AAA is often a silent disease. Many patients do not experience any symptoms, particularly when the aneurysm is small. If there are symptoms, the most common ones are:
If an aneurysm expands rapidly, tears open, or bursts, or if blood leaks along the wall of the blood vessel (aortic dissection), more severe symptoms may develop suddenly. A ruptured aneurysm is life-threatening and requires immediate emergency care.
Symptoms of a ruptured aneurysm may include:
Q: Who is at Risk for AAA?A: The most common cause of an aortic aneurysm is atherosclerosis (often called "hardening of the arteries"). Atherosclerosis is a gradual process in which cholesterol and scar tissue build up, forming a substance called "plaque" that weakens or damages the walls of the blood vessels and makes them more vulnerable to an aneurysm. Other risk factors are high blood pressure, smoking and a family history of AAA. Less frequently, aneurysms may be caused by connective tissue diseases, inflammation of the blood vessels (vasculitis) and some congenital disorders. Aortic aneurysms most frequently occur in white males between the ages of 50 and 60.
Q: How do I know if I have an AAA?A: A careful physical examination can detect as many as 70 percent to 80 percent of abdominal aortic aneurysms. By placing a stethoscope on the abdomen, the doctor often can hear the sounds of abnormal blood flow through the roughened surface of the aorta. The doctor also may be able to feel the aneurysm by pressing gently on the abdomen. If your physician suspects that you have an AAA, further diagnostic tests will be performed.
Q: How is AAA diagnosed?A:There are a number of imaging exams that can be used to "see" and diagnose an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Your doctor may recommend one or more of the following tests: