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A 19-YEAR-OLD man from Colne has been arrested on suspicion of trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence after a woman woke up to find a man in her bedroom.
He has been bailed pending further enquiries.
The victim was awoken at 6:15am on Saturday morning to find a semi-dressed man in her room in the Judge Fields area of Colne.
The man ran out of the house and across gardens onto Ruskin Avenue after she shouted out in terror.
The man is described as white, around 19 years of age, medium build, approximately 5'7" in height, mousey brown short hair with a broad forehead, wide eyes and wearing a white t-shirt, blue jeans and dark coloured shoes/trainers with a white sole.
Det Sgt Alisa Wilson, of East CID, said: "I believe the young man has been on a night out in Colne and then visited the McDonalds in Colne at approximately 5.10am and spoke to a group of three people sitting outside. I am keen for this group of people to make contact.
"This has been a terrifying incident for the victim, who had children in the house at the time. Fortunately this type of incident is rare and at this stage,
"I do not know why the young man was in the victim's house. A team of detectives are working to establish both the identity of the young man responsible and his motive for entering the victim's house.
"In the summer months it is tempting to leave doors and windows open but I would always advise people to keep their property secure, lock doors and shut ground floor windows."
Anyone with information should contact police on 101, quoting log reference LC-20140712-0561.

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Windsor Locks is a town in Hartford county in Connecticut. It was formed in 1854 from the following town or towns: Windsor. Windsor Locks is a part of the Windsor Locks probate district and has been since 1961. Hartford was/were the previous chronological district or districts. For more information, contact the county at 50 Church St. Windsor Locks 06096-2331. On the attached map, Hartford is located at E1.
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This article was published 9/2/2013 (1654 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
OTTAWA -- Alexei Ponikarovsky played down the redemption card on Saturday afternoon but it was a winning ace for the Winnipeg Jets.
The 32-year-old left-winger who took an ill-advised late penalty that paved the way for the Toronto Maple Leafs' 3-2 victory in Winnipeg on Thursday went into a hero's role at Scotiabank Place.
He tipped in Kyle Wellwood's shot at 5:57 of the third period and it stood up as the winner in the Jets' 1-0 victory over the Ottawa Senators.
"It's totally on you and you have to make sure you don't do that in the next game," Ponikarovsky said about Thursday. "I just tried to work hard, do my job and I'm glad to get this win."
First Period
-- No classic from the start, the Jets had pressure and the smarter plays early. Ottawa had a late power play that changed the momentum somewhat. Al Montoya, who started off his third career NHL shutout with 12 first-period saves, made a good one on Stephane Da Costa while Ben Bishop, in the Ottawa net, had to be good to stop James Wright of the Jets.
Second Period
-- A wilder period featured turnovers in bad places by both teams, but the goalies were up to the challenge. The Jets may have had a slight edge in the quality of chances and again, Ottawa had the only power play of the period. Montoya had a fine save off Sergei Gonchar, while Jets' winger Evander Kane hit the post.
Third Period
-- Winnipeg had an early power play, its only one of the game on a phantom tripping call to Zack Smith, but did nothing with it.
-- Ponikarovsky then went to the right spot to tip Kyle Wellwood's shot off both posts behind Bishop. Wellwood had gobbled up an Erik Karlsson turnover.
"I just was able to get a turnover and I knew guys were going to the net and I didn't have a pass so I waited and I saw Poni going to the net and I just tried to shoot it at him and hoped he'd screen the goalie and it just went in," Wellwood said. "That's the strategy. The last few games, we try to get close, play good defensively but try to funnel pucks to the net and have them go in. Tonight was the night it went in."
-- Winnipeg held on, helped by a third successful penalty kill on a hooking call to Toby Enstrom at 11:16.
"I think our penalty-kill had a good start to the game so they were a little more confident," Wellwood said. "Al was playing great and it was a different feeling on the bench as far as being able to close it out."
After the buzzer
-- Was this possibly something of a lesson learned after Thursday's third-period lead turned into a loss to Toronto?
"I'm hoping," Jets coach Claude Noel said. "I think that we have (learned). Our focus tonight was really more on playing the right way from start to finish. Playing 60 minutes. Now we had some bumps in there but we had some really good moments in there, too, where I thought we could have been up.
"First and second period, we had some really good chances. But I think we understand the value of patience and just playing the right way."
-- Ponikarovsky said attention to the balance of emotion for the season helped him and the Jets bounce back from Thursday.
"You know what, for sure you look back at the game and you analyze it and you go from there," Ponikarovsky said. "It's a short season, you have to go through some emotions for sure but go through some analysis and just go to the next game and play hard and make sure you don't have something like that happen again."


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Two of Twenty SixRiddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
Some know me as two of twenty-six
Distanced by seven,
Plus the first between odds,
Its left neighbor twice for eleven.
I can travel 3 states in a fraction of an hour,
Some 90% of your air bags, 70% of your thinking power.
What am I?
AnswerI am WATER.
-Some people know water as H20:
H and O being "two of twenty-six" letters in our alphabet, "distanced by seven" [letters], "plus the first between odds", or the number 2. (2 is the FIRST EVEN NUMBER between odd numbers, 1 and 3). The "left neighbor" of 2 being the number 1, which is used "twice for eleven" or used twice to create the number 11. Thus, H20.
-Water can go from LIQUID to SOLID to GAS (or Vapor), or 3 "States" in a fraction of an hour.
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Sox drop nightcap with Royals on walk in 10th
Reliever Miller can't find zone against Cain; Webster solid in debut
BOSTON -- Andrew Miller was the second-to-last reliever in the bullpen who hadn't yet pitched on Sunday. The only other rested reliever was knuckleballer Steven Wright, who has never thrown a pitch in the Major Leagues.
In the 10th inning of the second game of a doubleheader, Red Sox manager John Farrell left the ball in Miller's hands. Miller fully expected to get the inning to himself at that point. He just couldn't throw a strike when he needed to.
The 6-foot-7 lefty got two outs before losing control and walking home the go-ahead run on four pitches, as the Royals rallied for a 5-4 win and a twin-bill sweep at Fenway Park.
"I know that right now, the way I'm throwing the ball, guys are going to work counts and see pitches," said Miller, who has walked six batters in four innings this season. "I got to be more aggressive in the strike zone and I'm not doing it."
Miller threw 29 pitches, just 15 for strikes, to get his first loss of the season. With Franklin Morales and Craig Breslow working their way back from the disabled list, Miller has been the only lefty in the Red Sox bullpen.
Lorenzo Cain, who drew the walk to push home the go-ahead run, said he was waiting for a strike and Miller never threw one.
"He threw me a first-pitch ball and I was expecting a strike, but he came with the slider, down and in," Cain said. "So I took that one. Two-and-0, I was taking all the way."
Billy Butler first hit an eighth-inning homer off Koji Uehara to tie the game.
After Andrew Bailey pitched a perfect ninth, the Red Sox put together a rally in the bottom half.
Jacoby Ellsbury hit a one-out single and stole second base, leaving two chances for a base hit to plate the winning run.
Daniel Nava worked a seven-pitch at-bat before striking out swinging. With first base open, the Royals chose to walk Dustin Pedroia and face Mike Napoli.
Napoli launched a 100-mph fastball from Kelvin Herrera deep to center field, but the ball was just short of the wall for the third out.
Napoli finished 3-for-5 with a single, double, a home run and two more RBIs to push his season total to 19.
"I think over the past seven-10 days, we're seeing his swing start to get a little bit shorter," manager John Farrell said. "Unfortunately, that last at-bat where he squares a ball up to the track in center field, kind of somewhat of a picture of this entire day, where we missed a couple of opportunities, where we had men in scoring position, and that was the difference in the two games today."
The late-inning meltdown spoiled a positive Major League debut for Allen Webster.
The first pitch Webster threw was a 95-mph fastball that caught too much of the plate. The left-handed-hitting Alex Gordon launched the ball off the Green Monster. Gordon later scored, but Webster bounced back to log six innings, allowing just two earned runs on five total hits.
"I felt comfortable from, well, not the first pitch, but once I got through that first inning, things started getting smooth for me," Webster said.
The 23-year-old made headlines in Spring Training with a fastball that touched 99 mph and a 1.64 ERA in 11 innings. In his first two starts with Triple-A Pawtucket, Webster struck out 12 batters in 10 innings and allowed just one run on seven hits.
Webster flashed an array of powerful pitches, including a fastball that touched 97 mph, but let two of them catch too much of the plate in the fifth inning, when he allowed a pair of home runs to Alex Gordon and George Kottaras.
The pitch to Gordon was a 96-mph four-seamer on the outside edge of the plate, exactly where catcher David Ross was calling for it with a 2-2 count. Gordon just put a nice swing on it, sending it opposite-field and over the left-field wall.
"I feel so bad about that one," Ross said. "The scouting report called for it in, I probably should have gave him a change up.
"You don't ever want to catch a guy into trouble and ask a guy to do something that's a little tougher to do. We didn't throw any front-hip sinkers to lefties -- that's something he's still working on. Like that two-strike comebacker, so we kind of stayed away from that. I tried to stay mainly away. We didn't go in too much because I know how hard that is."
But Webster showed a lot on Sunday, bouncing back each time he made a mistake. He struck out five batters in his six innings, throwing 84 pitches, 57 for strikes.
Webster will be sent back to Pawtucket without a corresponding roster move because of an MLB rule that allows a 26th man for doubleheaders. But he could be back at some point this season.
"We have a really good pitching staff now as it is," Ross said. "He's on another team that's not as well off as we are and I definitely think he would be in the big leagues."
Jason Mastrodonato is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @jmastrodonato.. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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This article was published 6/4/2012 (1962 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
In 1959, when North America was basking in the glow of the postwar boom, a transportation engineer named Norman Wilson devised a utopian subway plan for Winnipeg, then Canada's third-largest city.
Wilson, who also designed Toronto's subway system, advised the Manitoba capital to bury an interlocking network of three U-shaped subway lines below the city's waterways and the surrounding Red River Valley gumbo.
His plan was deemed untenable and unaffordable -- if not outright impossible -- and was ignored.
Thus began a 53-year period when Winnipeg would sit back and watch almost every other city on the continent build some form of rapid-transit system using subways, elevated rail lines, bus corridors or some combination of all three.
Since 1959, Winnipeg has had six mayors and 17 city councils. It amalgamated with 13 surrounding suburbs and allowed one, Headingley, to secede. It expanded its network of roads toward the Perimeter Highway and used up most of the green fields available for low-density housing developments.
It studied rapid transit no fewer than 13 times. It announced, cancelled and reannounced a bus-corridor project first envisioned in 1976.
And tomorrow, Winnipeg will take its first tentative step toward use of a rapid-transit system with the opening of the southwest transitway, a 3.6-kilometre corridor that allows buses travelling between downtown and southwest Winnipeg to bypass traffic in and around Osborne Village.
"The hardest 3.6 kilometres of rapid transit have now been laid. I always said, if you get the first couple of kilometres down, the rest will follow," said former Winnipeg mayor Glen Murray, now an Ontario provincial cabinet minister and Liberal MPP. "The biggest problem with rapid transit in Winnipeg was trying to lay that first kilometre of track or busway. Once people ride it, they will want more."
The actual problem with rapid transit in Winnipeg stemmed from two simple factors: money and political will. Over the past five decades, both commodities have been scarce in a Manitoba capital saddled with slow population growth and heavy debt in the late 20th century.
Following the dismissal of Norman Wilson's subway plan, the city focused primarily on building freeways in its first real attempt to develop a transportation plan. The Winnipeg Area Transportation Study, completed in 1966, called for a network of freeways as well as a single subway line running from Polo Park along Portage Avenue, Main Street and the Redwood Bridge.
This too was shelved before Mayor Stephen Juba, who held the office for 20 years, decided to focus on running rapid transit above ground. In 1972, as Winnipeg's 100th anniversary approached, Juba announced his famous monorail plan, which was met with the same indifference as the two previous subway proposals.
The monorail idea was finally put to the test in 1976 in the city's first modern analysis of several rapid transit options, the Winnipeg Southwest Transit Corridor Study, which looked at four means of moving commuters between downtown and the University of Manitoba.
It concluded a diesel-bus corridor was the most flexible option for a cash-strapped city, even though it noted three other options -- a monorail, light rail track and electric trolley-bus corridor -- would have less of an environmental impact.
The 1970s ended without a plan for such a corridor. And so did the 1980s.
"Rapid transit just wasn't a political priority. They were more interested in expanding streets," said Rick Borland, Winnipeg Transit's director from 1980 until 2004, when he served under four different mayors.
By the 1990s, however, there was a growing understanding Winnipeg Transit was no longer serving the city's transportation needs. Ridership was dropping and some citizens looked longingly at Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa, which were building monorail, light-rail and bus-corridor systems.
Winnipeggers began asking, rightfully, why not here?
In the early 1990s, the city began buying up and banking Fort Rouge land with an eye to eventually building the southwest corridor. But by this time, the city had no financial means to proceed, thanks to heavy borrowing during the 1970s and 1980s.
"They put a very real cap on the amount of external borrowing. The objective was to bring (debt) down to zero, essentially," Borland recalled.
But the city wasn't saddled with just financial debt. The expansion of the road system following the Second World War left the city struggling to maintain its far-flung infrastructure and provide services to newer suburbs.
"Once a large road network was in place, maintaining these roads (became) a significant expense," planning student Christopher Baker wrote in a 2010 masters practicum for the University of Manitoba.
"Winnipeg city council could never commit to rapid transit and funding was always an issue. Without a rapid transit system, development has been focused solely around the automobile. This has left Winnipeg with a large, widespread, expensive road network to maintain and no rapid-transit corridors to expand upon."
Hence Glen Murray's contention Winnipeg simply needed to take the plunge.
In 1998, at the tail end of Susan Thompson's time in office, a new transportation blueprint called Transplan 2010 suggested the city should continue to hold off on rapid transit. One of Murray's first moves following his election was to see whether rapid transit could be built sooner.
While another Plan Winnipeg update in 2001 suggested five rapid-transit corridors, Murray championed an abbreviated version of the 1976 southwest-corridor plan.
"Every other major city had been involved with major transit projects. My concern was Winnipeg was being left behind," Murray said. "In a cold-winter city, with an aging population, high-speed rapid transit is important to retain young people."
In 2004, Murray reached a $51-million deal with Manitoba Premier Gary Doer and the federal Liberals to build a 3.4-kilometre southwest transit corridor, to be completed by 2007.
At the time, Murray believed developments along the corridor would allow the line to pay for itself. He also had fanciful plans to test out magnetic guidance systems along the southwest corridor in hope of creating a new industry in Winnipeg.
When Murray resigned in the spring of 2004 to run for a federal seat, his successor would have even more concerns about his bus-corridor plan.
In June 2004, Winnipeg Goldeyes owner and concert promoter Sam Katz swept into office in a mayoral byelection that saw him easily dispatch four high-profile, veteran politicians. The vast majority of city council was eager to work with the popular new mayor.
Fifteen years earlier, Katz had lost a Fort Rouge city council race to Murray and never became close with his former adversary. Once in the mayor's chair, Katz described the southwest transitway as a Murray "pet project" and questioned both the $51-million price tag and the projected benefits.
By the end of the 2004, Katz had convinced council to cancel the busway and was lobbying Doer and the federal Liberals to redirect most of the cash to recreation and leisure projects.
The day of the council vote, Borland quit his 24-year post in disgust, citing personal differences with the mayor. But in retrospect, Borland said Katz was correct when he asserted the project could not be completed for $51 million.
"We hadn't done the detailed design. In hindsight, we would have had great difficulty completing it at that cost," Borland said.
The southwest transitway includes a new bridge over Osborne Street and a 350-metre tunnel below the Fort Rouge rail yards. Borland said those components would have pushed the project cost beyond $51 million.
Eight years later, Katz said he feels vindicated. "They pulled a number out of the air. The funds were never there to do the project, but for eight years all I've ever heard about was how I cancelled it," the mayor said this week.
After the corridor's cancellation, Katz created a rapid-transit task force to weigh the city's options and expressed optimism about the prospects for light rail.
But the task force reinforced what transit officials already knew: Light rail would cost more than twice as much as bus rapid transit. In a final report, it recommended the construction of bus corridors to the University of Manitoba and Transcona.
The rapid-transit fight defined Katz's first term. At the time, the mayor maintained Winnipeg Transit was losing riders because bus stops were decrepit and service wasn't convenient.
So in 2006, the city laid out a plan to spend $142 million over six years to build dozens of heated bus shelters, refurbish 120 existing shelters, erect next-bus arrival signs, create diamond lanes on major arteries and make other improvements to core transit services.
Rapid transit was effectively dead at city hall -- until Ottawa showed up with an offer nobody could refuse.
In early 2008, the federal Conservatives announced Manitoba would receive $17.5 million for transit. It was a use-it-or-lose-it proposition.
Six months later, Katz and Doer stood side by side at Winnipeg Transit's Osborne Street headquarters and announced the resurrection of a Southwest corridor that would run from Queen Elizabeth Way to Pembina Highway at Jubilee Avenue. The 3.6-kilometre busway would cost $138 million, a price tag that included three new transit stations and automated passenger-information systems not envisioned under the Murray plan.
At Katz's insistence, the word "bus" was not mentioned during the announcement or in any of the provincial literature about the proposed corridor. "Light rail is just around the corner," Katz famously told reporters at the time.
Within months of the busway announcement that did not mention a busway, no less than three city departments were asked to figure out whether the corridor could be upgraded to light rail. Officials now blame this "anything but buses" mentality for setting progress on the transit file back 18 months.
With the province itching to sign a deal to complete the six-kilometre second phase of the Southwest Transitway, Katz backed away, partly because he did not believe the $189-million price tag and partly, officials say, due to his annoyance with the province for directing federal infrastructure funds toward CentrePort at the expense of other city priorities.
As a result, Katz spurned a $126-million federal-provincial offer to help fund the second phase of the transitway, yanked the second phase of the southwest corridor from a list of city priorities and convinced council to declare light rail the city's preferred mode of transportation.
With no movement on the transit file, Ottawa and Broadway spent $126 million on other projects. Rapid transit languished until the city unveiled yet another planning document, the Transportation Master Plan, which identified four rapid-transit corridors that could be completed by 2031.
The plan pegged the completion of the Southwest corridor at $275 million as a busway or $700 million to upgrade the entire line to light rail. Immediately after its release, Katz made a subtle but important policy adjustment: He agreed to complete the corridor as a busway.
There is still no money to actually build Phase Two. And not everyone on council believes it should be built.
Deputy Mayor Justin Swandel contends Winnipeg should focus on eliminating choke points for transit, rather than spending vast amounts of money on entire rapid-transit lines. "I think we can chip away at this bit by bit, instead of trying to hit home runs," he said.
Swandel maintains the benefits of Ottawa's often-celebrated busway network have been exaggerated, as there is little development along transit lines and congestion is severe on downtown streets where buses exit the corridor.
He also questions whether Winnipeg Transit will achieve its goal of boosting ridership by 20 per cent in the southwest catchment area after the Southwest Transitway opens.
This year, the utility will try to figure out where the second phase of the Southwest Transitway will go, said Bill Menzies, transit's service-development manager. Options on the table include running south along Pembina Highway and taking a L-shaped route through Fort Garry residential neighbourhoods.
The redevelopment of the Southwood golf course lands north of the university may also allow the transitway to end right at the new campus football stadium, said John Wintrup, the city's former principal planner.
On the eve of opening the first phase of the Southwest Transitway, Katz says he's committed to completing the entire route, with the caveat Winnipeg needs help from Broadway and Ottawa.
"If you look at different cities, they've done it in different ways. But they've all had phenomenal support from the provincial government and the federal government," Katz said.
The province maintains its funding is on the table. More squabbles are yet to come. Although the first little leg is in the can, the rapid-transit saga in Winnipeg is far from over.


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SFS files vs program folders: test results are in!
Hi All,
Pets vs. SFSes vs. Program Folders? And the winner is Program Folders! Maybe.
As the attached Chart Shows, Program Folders use less of your computer's resources, which means they can more efficiently be run on computers with less resources. This is particularly important if limited RAM is a concern. Or the size of your SaveFile: note in particular that to successfully install LibreOffice as a pet required 500 megs of a SaveFile just for itself, requiring the SaveFile to be resized from 512 to 768 Mbs. Only SFSes use available Hard-drive (including USB-Key drives if you have that type of installation) space more efficiently. Using 01micko's Get-LibreOffice pet to download LibreOffice4 created a 144 Mb SFS in xz compression. Converting to gz compression resulted in a 173 Mb file. Decompression resulted in a folder occupying 543 Mbs of harddrive. But is Hard-drive space a significant concern today? Similarly, Program Folders make fewer demands on one's CPU.
Perhaps this is why there are advocates of Full Installs. Like Full Installs, the files in Program Folders are not compressed. Or why Kirk and Jamesbond have developed the use of a Save Folder as an alternative to a SaveFile in Fatdog64?
So why the "Maybe"?
Although almost any application can be restructure as a Program Folder, if aesthetics is a concern you'll want to do something more than drop the application's executable on the desktop and give it a pretty icon. Adding the application to the menu or to Wbar or other launchers takes some time-consuming grunt work. That use of your time has to be balanced against the savings in resource usage. It may only make sense if the application is large –or a "suite" not all applications of which must be opened and running at the same time-- or is frequently put to use.
The "almost" at the beginning of the last paragraph exists because not every application can be run as a Program Folder. Some expect your OS to use a version of glib not present. Others may require settings contained in a pinstall which may take some programming knowledge I don't have, and you may not have either.
But if they can be used they are particularly appropriate if you have one of the following concerns:
1. In your desire for security you run your Frugal Puppy without a SaveFile. Once you've created a pet to install the links between your Puppy and the executable in the program folder, installing that pet into your Temporary RAMDISK –it uses only a couple of kilobytes-- takes about about a minute and, thereafter, until you shut down, starting the application is convenient. In fact, you can create one pet to link all your commonly used applications. Or, of course, you can just click the executable in the Program's Folder.
2. Yours is a Full Install. With a Full install, your Program Folder can either exist outside of the partition used for your install, or be moved outside of that partition when you intend to upgrade or otherwise change your Puppy. No need to start from scratch to use that application in your new Puppy. To try out a different version of an application, just create a folder for that version and test it before changing the links and deleting the old version. A Program Folder (except for your system's links to it) is self-contained. No need to figure out how to uninstall all its components.
3. The Application you sometimes want to use conflicts with something else. Program Folders are self-contained. Using them won't overwrite the libs of any other program.
Procedure used in running the tests:
As mentioned above, I started by downloading Libreoffice4 using 01micko's Get-LibreOffice pet. Having read that Lupus couldn't work with SFSes xz compressed, I decided to convert it to gz compression. In the middle of doing so, I realized that an uncompressed version was available. So I copied it to a folder. Later, I copied that folder into a temporary folder and used dir2pet to create an installable pet. That gave me 4 versions of the otherwise identical application: 01micko's xz SFS, an installable pet, a Program Folder and a gz SFS. The last wasn't used in the tests.
In retrospect, the tests would have been more informative if I had run them on my 10 year old single-core Thinkpad T42 rather than my Quad-Core 4x AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 945 Processor with 3375MB of RAM. The Thinkpad uses a Swap file, and CPU usage would have been more intense but also better defined than the broad strokes shown by of swings between 0% and 5%. Consequently, the recordings of cache and buffer usage –as they show activity the CPU has just engaged in-- are probably more informative than the CPU activity reports. But this started out as just a simple question to be answered in what I thought would take an hour. Only a stubborn streak kept me from abandoning it after 10 hours. The problem I ran into was testing the installed pet. I was on my third test vehicle -01micko's ThinSlacko-- and second LibreOffice Version (having tried version 3.6.3 when Version 4 initially failed) having previously assumed that failures resulted from some files being absent in Barebones-Precise and PreciseNOP or that I had somehow screwed up dir2pet when the installation failed in ThinSlacko. Only then did it occur to me that perhaps a SaveFile larger than 512 Mbs was necessary. You have my blessing if you want to perform the tests on your own less powerful computer using a 768 Mb SaveFile throughout. Please post your results.
At any rate, I chose ThinSlacko because it included few applications by default. To it, at first boot pfix=ram, I set my location per First Run Dialog and set up wireless using SNS (on the assumption everyone would do that) and only added Sys-info-1.4.2-noarch.pet and Pup-Sysinfo-2.1.7.pet. I then cleared /tmp and used PupSysInfo>System-Specs>Memory and System-Apps>Task Mgr to obtain readings. PupSysInfo...Memory takes a snapshot, while Task Mgr shows CPU usage as it takes place. That provided the figures shown in the first row. I then shutdown creating a 512 SaveFile, rebooting into a different Pup.
While in that other Pup, I deleted the "ram" argument from menu.lst, created a protected folder and copied the SaveFile into it. I then rebooted into ThinSlacko, installed the pet providing access to Libreoffice4-External and rebooted. After rebooting, since SysInfo>Memory provides a snapshot, the next step I took was to use rox to browse to /tmp, show hidden files and delete every one. I deleted those files before initiating each procedure (except obtaining the CPU readings) so that unnecessary files, no matter how small, would not be counted: that is, before taking readings after installing pets/loading the SFS, after opening Libreoffice4 writer, and after opening a 38.2 Kb document in writer. This wasn't done before using Task Mgr as it reports activity currently taking place. The CPU change from Zero to a different percentage was generated by dragging the document from one position on the screen to another when the document was on the desktop, and when the document wasn't, dragging the SysInfo window from one position to another.
After taking all the reading pertaining to Libreoffice4-External, I booted into a different Pup, deleted the SaveFile and copied the Protected SaveFile into ThinSlacko's folder, booted into ThinSlacko, loaded the SFS on the fly, rebooted and re-ran the tests. I similarly replaced the "already used" SaveFile before testing Libreoffice4 installed as a pet. With hindsight, I should have tested that version first. Had I done so, I probably wouldn't have spent hours recording data I couldn't use because I didn't have comparable readings from an installed pet version.
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in the following Table refers to the reported amount of Free Space remaining in the SaveFile.
Comparison of System Usage by Pets, Sfses & Program Folders
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I shudder when I think of the time this must have cost you - just wanted you to know that your experiments, and explanations, of the uses of program folders are great reading.
I appreciate the efforts that you make in discovering more efficient ways to operate in Puppy. Always pleased to see a "mikeslr" post on the forum.
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Post subject: LibreOffice4 Progrm Folder Crash
Hi Cowboy,
Thanks for the appreciation.
LibreOffice4 run from a program folder crashed in both Precise and retro-precise. It didn't in Thin Slacko. I don't know if the problem is with the build, the Pup or other. So on my desktop, where resources are not an issue,
Edit: LibreOffice4 both as an xz SFS and as a Program Folder crashed in Exprimo. I've reverted to 3.6.3 gz SFS.
I do strongly recommend FreeOffice for use when resources are limited. It was designed to run "as a portable" --from a folder-- which only occupies 99 Mbs of disk space. Think Puppy from a USB-Key. Reads and writes Microsoft file format, although the first time you save a document you'll have to select other than its native format. If set as default, clicking an ".odt" text document, an ".odg" presentation or an ".xls" spreadsheet will open it, but doesn't recognze the ".ods" --default Libre/OpenOffice-- spreadsheet file format however you try to open it.
Other than the perversity of Microsoft and others, I don't know why .xls isn't the default spreadsheet format in all spreadsheet apps. Or for that matter, there isn't a universally used file format for text and presentation files. It's not like graphic, sound and video where formats indicate different compression or containers used, is it? Who buys/uses business applications because of the unique file formats of their applications?
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This article was published 27/1/2013 (1665 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
I don't want to sound mysterious, but I am a man in transition.
I am undergoing a major change, a mutation from one phase of my life to another.
This is hard for me to say, but I am poised to swap my old green bathrobe, which my wife made for me many years ago, for a brand-new blue bathrobe, which my wife gave me for Christmas this year.
If you happen to be a guy of my gender, you will know how difficult, how emotionally draining it is to part ways with an old bathrobe -- a truly masculine garment that has stood by you through thick and thin, through good times and bad, through more Grey Cups and Stanley Cups and daytime game shows than you can count -- and replace it with a brand-new bathrobe, a complete and utter sartorial stranger.
Old-school guys like me become physically and emotionally attached to care-worn bathrobes. It's the same story with our lucky underpants. They bring us comfort and don't judge us for our slovenly ways or our less-than-Olympian physiques.
I am not ashamed to say it -- I love my old ratty green bathrobe. It is easily the single piece of clothing I wear the most. Whether I'm sitting at the home computer racking my brain for professionally amusing thoughts, chatting on the radio with local talk-show personalities or reclining on the couch in the den to watch sports highlights on TV, this green bathrobe has been my wardrobe item of choice for more than a decade.
Technically speaking, there's not much of this bathrobe left to look at. After years of hard service warming and protecting my valuable anatomical components, it has been reduced to about a dozen or so fraying shards of terry towel that are cinched together at my rapidly expanding waist by a threadbare green belt.
Imagine the kind of shredded bathrobe the Incredible Hulk would wear and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
Even in this decayed state, however, it serves me well. When my college-age daughter forgets that I am the ruler of our domestic domain, I threaten to humiliate her when her friends come over by answering the door in what remains of my green bathrobe.
"Hello," I tell her I will proudly proclaim, my tattered garment flapping in the breeze, "I am Kayleigh's dad!"
But this Christmas, my wife gave me a replacement bathrobe, a fuzzy blue one. It is a fine robe, other than the fact it wants to usurp the role of my beloved old robe.
Unlike my old robe, the new one is extremely short, meaning it would be perfect for someone built along the lines of the Mayor of Munchkinland, but for a tall, husky guy like me, it threatens to leave one's (how shall we say this?) dangly bits drifting in the wind, so to speak.
So I am feeling somewhat bittersweet about this transition. You know how it is when, for years, you go to the same bar and you become friends with the bartender and he knows just what you like to drink and never annoys you with stupid jokes or blathers on about politics, then one day you walk in and instead of your regular bartender, there's a stranger behind the bar, a guy you've never met before.
Eventually, you'll probably be friends with the new bartender, too, but that's not the point. The point is your life has changed forever and, well, it takes a little time to get used to the notion that you have to leave the past behind and embrace something new, something different.
I guess I'm saying that some day soon, with manly tears in my eyes, I will put on my new blue bathrobe and face up to the fact that nothing stays the same forever.
Because, in case I didn't mention it already, my wife also gave me a new wallet for Christmas.


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The Golden Girls
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"Their antics amuse me."
"In Soviet Russia old women have sex with YOU!"
The Golden Girls was an American sitcom and bestselling PS3 game that first debuted in 1957 on Lifetime, television for...oh, what are those things called? With the boobs and cunts? Women! Thank you. Television for women.
edit Beginnings
The show was created by Susan Harris, who had also created the sitcom Charles in Charge.
The premise of the show was four older women living together in Miami. Blanched, a whore, owned the house; Dorothy, a male-to-female transsexual, and Rose, a retarded woman, were her roommates. Blanche, Rose and Dorothy were later joined by Dorothy's mother, an old Wop named Sophia Petrillo, when Sophia's retirement home was burned down by Mel Gibson while filming a scene from his movie Sugartits 2: Let's Dance.
The show starred Bea Arthur as Dorothea Zbornak, who could fly and shoot lasers from her eyes; Betty White as Rose Nylund, who had been partially aborted before birth and once again shortly after; Rue McClanaham as Blanched Deverocks, a former Viet Cong prostitute, Vegas showgirl and Subway sweet onion chicken teriyaki sandwich; and Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo, Dorothy's mother, lover, and crime-fighting partner. In many episodes, the ladies ate cheesecake at the kitchen table as they talked about the other times they sat around eating cheesecake and talking about cheesecake. They also talked about sex. Lots and lots and lots of sex.
And you're all jealous you're not women.
Fuck you! I'm not jealous! ...bitch...
edit Characters
edit Dorothy Zbornak
Dorothy Zbornak was born Richard E. Pooter in Milan on December 45, 1923. Richard knew from an early age that he was different from the other boys, and not just because of the second, smaller head that hung, dead and useless, from his neck. When he was sixteen he slowly ground off his penis with a cheese grater in the traditional manner, and shortly thereafter he changed his name to Dorothy Zbornak, after Zbornak Khang, High Priest of Quirxion-7 in the Rebulon Nebula. Dorothy moved to America, where she worked as a janitor and, briefly, as a Bea Arthur impersonator. Her husband, Staan, left her for a much younger flight attendant, and after being acquitted for their grisly murder (her attorneys successfully argued that the knife had slipped and stabbed both Stan and his hot, luscious young bride seventy times about the face, chest, neck and head) she moved to Miami.
Dorothy was played by Bea Arthur for all 447 seasons in which her character appeared
edit Rose Nylund
As an infant, Rose Nylund was discovered in a dumpster by homeless person and former circus clown Greg "Pussyhair" Nylund, who took her in as his own. After graduating in the top of her class at LaKeisha's Skool of Beauty and Hair Braiding, Rose quickly found work as a receptionist in the East Tower of the World Trade Center, where she was horribly disfigured in one of the biggest tragedies in United States history. After receiving a hefty settlement paycheck, Rose moved to Miami, where she met the other withered old crones. Survived Rape, Robbery, Sexually transmitted diseases, and the War of Middle-Earth. She owns a pet Yoshi, who ended up the only one to survive in the finale.
edit Blanche Devereaux
Blanche Devereaux was a filthy, disgusting, atrocious degenerate, a godless trollop and world-class slut who delighted in having wild, anonymous sex with men of many different races and species. She caught venereal diseases as if she were playing Pokemon: "gotta catch 'em all!" Blanche was originally from Georgia, where she lived on a plantation with a mysterious man known only as "Big Daddy", later discovered to be her pimp and the leader of a prostitute cult that tried to take over the world in 1992 by inciting the Rodney King riots. Her most notable episode was "The Morning After" in which she awoke from sleeping only to find her bed partners were none other than Mecha-Dracula, Barbara Walters, Princess Diana, Amy Rose, and Hikaru Utada.
edit Sophia Petrillo
Sophia Petrillo, Dorothy's mother, was the oldest and, allegedly, wisest of the women. She demonstrated her wisdom by getting the wacky gang lost in Harlem in season six opener "Niggas In Da Hood" and by impaling herself on a Level 55 Blood Sword in the episode "Dorothy Comes Out." Estelle Getty played Sophia in all but one episode, where she was replaced by Owen Wilsons nose with a scrotum sticky taped to the side of it. Estelle was born in Italy, where she lived until she was old enough to buy a boat ticket to America (which she paid for with nature's credit card.) Worshiped in many cult circles as a memetic badass Grandmother.
edit Trivia
- Burt Reynolds was originally cast as Dorothy, but because the producers felt he wasn't masculine enough for the role, it went to Bea Arthur instead.
- In the forty-fifth season finale "Robopussy XII", Rose slips on a used condom and falls down a flight of stone stairs, breaking her neck. Because Betty White insisted on performing all her own stunts, she was sadly killed during the filming of this episode, and for the rest of the series her character was crudely animated in Korea and digitally painted into the show.
- The Osmonds guest starred in episode 547 "What do you mean you can't stick it in there?" as a pair of giant mecha dinosaurs, who were defeated by Rose's pet Yoshi.
- The character of Blanche only speaks once during the entire series, in the landmark 893rd episode, when she spits a wad of semen out of her mouth to spout Dorothy's popular catch-phrase: "You're stepping on my cunt."
- Popular singers Sheena Easton and a young Britney Spears appeared in episode #567, portraying Gina, a coke obsessed prostitute, and her young daughter.
- In the 45 episode, Shakira guest stared as a Wapanese Otaku fangirl, who ended up committing suicide after learning that Dorothy stole her stash of scented Cutey Honey condoms.
- Barbara Bush guest-starred twice on the show; once as herself, and again playing Vorton, a superhuman warrior from beneath the sea.
- Many hold The Golden Girls responsible for the demise of former NBC Saturday Night staple The Facts of Life (known as The Fats of Life during its last two seasons, as the black girl got fatter than the fat girl) since the quartet on The Golden Girls, despite being decades older, were funnier, had better chemistry, and DATED MORE than the gals on The Fats of Life
edit Notable Episodes
- Dorothy Gets An Anal Probe The pilot episode featured the "girls" (yeah-- fifty years ago!) meeting and moving in together. It also features a young Fred Phelps as Coco, the gay houseboy.
- Candid Erections Dorothy and Rose go to see the unveiling of a new statue. It turns out to be a stainless steel penis and Dorothy tries to fight it while Rose proceeds to mount its irony girth with her massive vagina. Mogomra turns up with is junky girlfriend and blasts his rays at Roses flaps, scorching her pussy closed and leading to a mass escalation in rapings whilst it is out of service. Dorothy subdues Mogomra with her pendulous tits and marries Donkey Kong on Venus with the Harlem Globe Trotters as her wedding party, The robot priest makes a gaff about Roses weeping pussy sores.
- Life Sucks: Crossover with Eerie,Indiana. The Golden Girls take a vaction to Eerie, where they are attacked by a wimpy emo vampire. They then team up with Marshall and Simon to beat up this loser of a bloodsucker, but not before Blanch has her way with him.
- The Legend of Melba Rose's great-grandfather Lars von Hügenbügenflügendorfer leaves her his Melba Toast factory in his will. Hilarity ensues when the girls discover it's run by 6-year old Thai children!
- True Confessions of Blanche Devereaux This Golden Globe-winning episode featured a startling revelation about Blanche. She is revealed to be a shapeshifting nymphomatic alien from the planet Xersius. Her mission was to cum to earth (literally) and have sex with Earth's men, infecting them with her sticky virus. Her shapeshifting ablitity allowed her to mold herself to the desire of every man. This explained why she was so promiscuous. She engages in a battle royale with Dorothy in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on an abandoned oil rig. Dorothy appears to be killed in one of the final scenes, felled by Blanche's Level 7 Fireball Spell, but Vorton, played by Barbara Bush, appears and blasts Blanche with her Dragonbreath. Blanche is forced to return to her homeworld, and Whoppi Goldberg voices the character throughout the rest of the show's run.
- A Miami Story In the 9th season finale, the girls wake up one morning to find a man in a dog mask tap dancing in the main room. The man reveals himself as Rose's long-lost father, who then proceeds to spank her and spurt cum inside of her like a water gun. Blanche begins to grow jealous of all the action Rose has been getting and gets revenge by peeing on her. But when Blanche pulls off the dog mask, it is revealed Rose's father has the head of a T-Rex. He chase Blanche throughout the house before Sophia decides to call the exterminator (played by Jackie Chan). He succeeds in catching Rose's father, and all seems to end well. But all of a sudden, Chuck Norris appears in the sky and causes the house to blow up.
- Bruised Bones The girls piss each other off (and on each other (and in each other)) and spend the rest of the episode beating each other up. Sophia winds up the winner when she fries Blanche with her vagina fire, sends Dorothy falling through the roof and onto a pitchfork, and drowns Rose in a kitty pool. To celebrate, she and Gene Wilder get drunk and pour alcohol down each other's private parts.
- Golden Girls of Dark Water: Crossover with Pirates of Dark Water. the Golden Girls get transported the alien world of Mer, and are caught up in the quest for the Thirteen Treasures of Rule. In the end, Blanch has sex with Ioz and Sophia becomes the new captain of the Maelstrom.
- Ultra Golden Girls: Crossover with UltraForce. The Golden Girls team up with UltraForce to save Miami from Rune. Blanche ends up doing Hardcase, Prototype, and Ghoul, and almost gets it on with Prime, only to find out his horrifying secret.
- Golden Girls: Samurai Wars: The Girls become samurais, nuff said.
edit The Series Finale
In the final episode, the girls team up (with the exception of Sophia, who died during a drug raid) to destroy the Super-Mega Ultra Furby spawned by the enormous ass of Oprah herself from destroying Miami. Half the city is destroyed but they manage to thwart off the smaller furbiens and defeat the ultra furby. In the end the three take a trip to Cancun and get embroiled in a global drug trade mastermined by Sophia (whom actually didn't die in that drug raid). Unable to bring an end to Sophia's Drug syndicate they are all made and work for Sophia until coke and marijuana were legalized resulting in their jobs becoming useless. Sophia, mad with frustration enslaves the girls and boards her spaceship the Korzon and travels to sector 29 in the Revorkian Galaxy. They are never seen again.
edit Golden Girls: The Animated Adventures
- In 2003, Cartoon Network's adult swim produced an animated version called "Golden Girls: The Animated Adventures." Bea Arthur, Betty White and Estelle Getty reprised their roles; however, in an effort to attract a younger audience, Blanche was voiced by Icelandic pop star Bjork. The series was canceled seven minutes into its first episode.
- The series featured three of the four characters from The Golden Girls moving out of their original home, and operating an upscale club called The Golden Penis. When Dorothy got married again and moved away, Blanche, Rose and Sophia buy a strip club. There they meet Ronald Willy, the clown slut, Chuy Cauntillos, the hunky bartender, and Peter Weiber as Ronald's "property". Beatfuck ruth made a special guest appearance on a two-part episode, which was her final appearance as Horothy Sexnack.


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WKU will use a grant from the National Science Foundation to fund a five-year scholarship program in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) disciplines.
The $616,669 grant will fund the Biotechnology S-STEM Program, which will provide scholarships to 20 students with majors in agriculture, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computer science or math and an interest in biotechnology. They will be divided between 12 freshmen and eight transfer students from a two-year community college from high schools and community college partners located in geographically underrepresented counties with significant educational or economic need.
"The S-STEM program at WKU will enable us to provide significant financial support to academically talented students who are interested in a career in the STEM disciplines," said Kevin Williams, an associate professor of chemistry and one of the grant's principal investigators. "The financial support combined with the opportunities to engage in research, internship, and targeted professional development should promote better student retention and greater likelihood for success after graduation."
Partnerships are a key component of the program, Dr. Williams said.
"We are excited to work not only with partners within the university, but also to reach out to regional high schools and community colleges along with potential industry partners who may provide internship and employment opportunities for these students," he said.
Students will be selected based on a combination of academic potential, financial need and statements of career goals, Dr. Williams said, and the first freshman deadline is Jan. 15.
Program objectives include graduating at least 80 percent of the participants in a STEM major within five years (three for transfer students), enrolling at least 60 percent in a biotechnology-training course, and engaging at least 60 percent in mentored undergraduate research for at least one year.
Evaluations and student interviews will help improve the program each year and enable WKU to adapt new strategies for recruiting and retaining students, especially in the STEM disciplines, Dr. Williams said.
Other principal investigators include Audra Jennings in the Office of Scholar Development, Cathleen Webb in Chemistry and Shivendra Sahi in Biology.
Contact: Kevin Williams, (270) 745-8899.
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Record Description
The draft registration cards are preprinted forms with information recorded on the front and back. Cards for the states of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia were filmed with the front of one card on the same image as the back of the next card in the sequence.
After the United States entered World War II, a new Selective Service Act required that all men between the ages of 18 and 64 register for the draft. The fourth draft registration covered males ages 45 to 64. The local draft board of the Selective Service System conducted the registration. The original registration cards were later sent to the regional branch of the National Archives responsible for receiving records from that state. Draft registration cards exist for 40 states and for Puerto Rico. For New York, cards exist only for the boroughs of New York City.
The cards for the following eight states were destroyed:
- Alabama
- Florida
- Georgia
- Kentucky
- Mississippi
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
These records cover about 10 percent of the population.
This draft registration, called the Fourth Registration, or Old Man's Registration, was held on April 27, 1942. The purpose of this registration was to collect information on industrial capacity and skills of men who were born between April 27, 1877 and February 16, 1897 (ages 45 to 64). This draft registration was not intended to be used for military service but to provide a complete inventory of manpower resources in the United States that could be utilized for national service during World War II.
Information on the cards was supplied by the individual but recorded by a registrar. While there was a chance of a recording error, each individual signed his card to attest that the information was correct.
While the cards were created on April 27, 1942, they pertain to men born on or between April 27, 1877, and February 16, 1897.
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The Annual East-West Awards Gala
The Markaz
Saturday, December 15, 2012 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (PST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
On Saturday, December 15th, 2012, the Levantine Cultural Center will hold its annual East-West Awards Gala at the Beverly Hill's Women's Club. The East-West Awards recognize the sustained efforts of outstanding individuals working in the United States to bridge political and religious divides that may exist between Americans and the Middle East/North Africa, whether through media, peace activism or interfaith unity.
The full program includes a red-carpet reception and silent auction, live music, comedy with Aron Kader, dinner and the awards ceremony. Distinguished honorees are Ms. Zainab Al-Suwaij, Dr. Reza Aslan, Rabbi Leonard Beerman, and mayoral candidate and Councilman Eric Garcetti, who are being honored for significant contributions in cultural diplomacy, relationship-buidling, interfaith alliances, and peace activism.
All proceeds will benefit the Levantine Cultural Center, a 501(c)3 founded 11 years ago as a grassroots nonprofit organization that champions a greater understanding of the Middle East/North Africa and our communities in diaspora. This year's gala intends to raise capital to build a new, more self-sustaining cultural arts center for the Middle East and North Africa in Los Angeles. Southern California is home to the largest community of people from the Middle East and North Africa in the United States. It is high time that we had a multidisciplinary arts center that will serve as a focal point and hub for our many cultures.
Zainab Al-Suwaij • East West Vision of Peace Award
Zainab Al-Suwaij, a native of Iraq, is a co-founder of the American Islamic Congress (AIC), which works to change the discourse within both the American Muslim community and in the broader American society. She has been the AIC's Executive Director since its inception in 2001. In the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks Zainab left her teaching position at Yale to launch AIC with the mission of building interfaith and interethnic understanding, and to represent the diversity of American Muslim life. Over the past decade, Zainab's leadership has expanded AIC into an international organization with six bureaus worldwide, including the U.S., Egypt, Iraq, and its newest location, Tunisia.
Dr. Reza Aslan • East-West Media Award An internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, Reza is the founder of AslanMedia.com, an online journal for news and entertainment about the Middle East and the world. Reza Aslan has degrees in Religions from Santa Clara University, Harvard University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa, where he was named the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, and the Pacific Council on International Policy. He serves on the board of directors of the Ploughshares Fund, which gives grants for peace and security issues; Abraham's Vision, an educational, conflict transformation organization for Israeli and Palestinian youths; PEN USA, which champions the rights of writers under siege around the world. Reza Aslan has been a frequent guest on the Daily Show and many other cable news stations. His many books and edited anthologies are important contributions to the dialogue about Islam and the West, and US - Iran relations.He is now the Wallerstein Professor at Drew University's Center on Religion, Culture, and Conflict in New Jersey.
Rabbi Leonard Beerman • East-West Freedom Award
A rare blend of disciplined scholar and sensitive humanitarian, Rabbi Beerman was founding rabbi of Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles, where he served for over 37 years. Long active on subjects concerning peace and social justice, he co-chaired the Los Angeles Commission on Sweatshops, and co-founded the Interfaith Center to Reverse the Arms Race. Although deemed "controversial" by some, Rabbi Beerman holds tight to the belief that in the Middle East, there must be "justice for both Jews and Arabs, for Israelis and Palestinians."
Eric Garcetti • East-West Bridgebuilder Award
As the third-term councilmember serving the 13th Council District, Garcetti has shown that a commitment to the street-level health of the community is a necessary first step in creating positive change. A fourth-generation Angeleno, Eric Garcetti oversaw the economic and cultural revitalization of Hollywood, and helped bring thousands of new high wage jobs to Los Angeles and his district. His work has been recognized in dozens of awards, including the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award for Americans under 40 who are changing their communities with a commitment to public service. Prior to election, Garcetti taught public policy, diplomacy and world affairs at Occidental College and the University of Southern California. Eric is being honored for his decisive role in the launch of the Los Angeles Beirut Sister City relationship, bridging Angelenos and Beirutis through business and cultural exchange.
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1700 Chevy Chase Dr
Beverly Hills,
Saturday, December 15, 2012 from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM (PST)
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The Markaz champions a greater understanding of the Middle East and North Africa by presenting artistic and educational programs that bridge political and religious divides. In a search for common ground, the Markaz fosters discussions among artists and thinkers and offers classes and workshops that serve diverse ethnic communities.


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On September 8th I asked my readers to host picnics and to send me the results. The following is one of 27 amazing submissions, the best of which will win an entire cow [1], courtesy of US Wellness [2]. Vote for your favorite on October 8.
On September 24th 12 Crossfit Balance members ventured to the country near Shenandoah National Park for the Inaugural Caveman Olympiad and Feast. After a delicious meal of slow-roasted pork butt and butternut squash soup Friday night, the athletes retired to their cabins to rest for the next day's events. Saturday morning, fueled by several pounds of bacon, scrambled eggs, and fresh fruit, all 12 contestants donned their Paleolithic costumes and readied the field of battle. The 8 men and 4 women broke down into 4 teams of 3, and after the Caveman Torch Lighting and Opening Stampede the games began!
The CMOC (Caveman Olympic Committee) chose 6 events to test the speed, strength, power, agility, endurance, and intelligence of the competitors. Points were based on standings in each event, while bonus points were also awarded for competing barefoot and stealing other teams' clubs. The opening event was a relay, where each team member had to sprint, drag a small log, and backpedal before passing the baton to the next teammate. Event 2 was a rock toss- each team had to throw 3 rocks of varying sizes as far as possible, and the longest total distance won. Some cavepeople chose to launch the rocks shot putt or discus style, but most athletes opted for the over the head Highlander games technique (?). Event 3 proved to be the most difficult; in this brutal workout each male had 90 seconds to pick up and carry a cavegirl along a short course, then do as many cavegirl squats as possible in the remaining time. The cavegirls themselves had to carry a small log, then perform as many overhead squats as they could in the remaining time.
After a quick break to rest, rehydrate, and grab some more bacon, the contenders girded their loins for the last few events. Event 4 was "Bringing Home the Bacon," where each team of 3 had to move 5 sandbags, ranging in weight from 25 to 100 pounds, from one high porch to the other as quickly as possible. Next up was "Catch-a-Mate," where each team chased down, subdued (with a club strike to the rear), and carried back as many other cavepeople as possible in 3 minutes. This was another tough event, as there were some hefty cavemen present. The final event, the "Caveman Medley," was another relay, where each team member began with walking lunges, sprinted to a pile of firewood, moved it up a hill while bear crawling, then sprinted back to the finish with the firewood. When the dust settled, team Got Meat? barely edged out team Bone Unit for 1st place, with teams Cave Sketch and Bone Clubs n Harmony bringing up the rear.
The exhausted cavepeople took a refreshing dip in the nearby Shenandoah River, then began preparations for The Feast. 3 t-bones, 2 enormous ribeyes, and 2 whole chickens (nearly 15 pounds of meat in all!) had been marinating for 24 hours in the cabin. As some of the cavemen readied 3 grills and an open fire (fueled all weekend by hand-split wood), others began prepping the vegetables. Once the fires were hot enough the food was thrown on the grills, and soon the scent of roasting meat and veggies filled the air. Before long everything was cooked, and The Feast was impressive indeed. Most impressively, everything got devoured! A few people even had room for a dessert of grilled peaches. Bellies full of meat and vegetables, 12 tired, sunburned cavepeople with very sore feet gathered around the roaring bonfire and told stories far into the night.
The Feast & Recipes
We decided to keep it simple and caveman-ish for The Feast, and just cook lots of meat and vegetables over an open fire. The meal was also a group effort, put together on the fly without too many spices, cutting boards, knives, bowls, etc, so there was a lot of improvisation. That being said, this is what we ended up eating:
The main course was a variety of meat (T-bones, ribeyes, and whole chickens), marinated overnight in a homemade blend of olive oil, apple cider vinegar, fresh-cut garlic and leeks, and a variety of spices. We cut up the chicken into more manageable parts, then grilled it and the enormous ribeyes (about 2" thick, 2 pounds each) on a charcoal grill. The T-bones went on a grate directly over the wood-burning fire pit.
For the sides, we cooked 6 red peppers, 4 onions, a dozen or so small potatoes (not technically Paleo, but freshly delivered from a local farm), and a pound of mushrooms. The peppers, mushrooms, and outer 2 layers of onions were marinated in olive oil, balsamic vinegar, oregano, and salt and pepper, then put on bamboo skewers and grilled over charcoal. We got a bit more creative (or primitive) for the remaining vegetables. For the onions, we cut a small cross into the top, wrapped them in tinfoil, and put in some olive oil, butter, and salt before sealing them up in the foil. We individually wrapped the potatoes in tinfoil with no additional ingredients. All of these veggies started off on the grate above the fire, but when we realized how hot the fire was we nestled them into some coals to the side, and cooked them until they were all tender. Finally, for dessert we grilled 3 peaches, halved, pitted, and drizzled with honey and nutmeg. Delicious!
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Sarah Burch, Jed Clift, Ash Cope, Cristyn Cram, Rod Crider, Quint Fischer, Michael Hall, Joe Heaton, Graham King, Jenny Krystopowicz, Lauren Twohig, Justin Zubricki


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For some reason I should be more excited about the Mac App Store than I am right? I thought it was strange that it's not integrated into iTunes. I looked for Mac apps there for 10 minutes before I figured out the new store launched from the Apple menu or dock. In a way I'm happy about that because iTunes is way too clunky already but the new Mac App Store's home is inconsistant. Ok getting past that… the desktop SoundCloud app is the launch winner as far as music stuff goes. It's nice, new and makes sense for some although I think I will simply keep using the website. The only music software I download after the big one (Ableton) are plug-ins and those are a no go so… I bought the update to iMovie which is the only thing I wanted out of new iLife. It's a start.
"You can browse Mac apps by category, such as games, productivity, music, and more. Or do a quick search for something specific. Read developer descriptions and user reviews. Flip through screenshots. When you find an app you like, click to buy it." – apple.com/mac/app-store/
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Topic: Mixed treatments?????
I was diagnosed last March. I first had a liver re-section followed by 5 1/2 wks. of radiation with weekly chemo. daily radiation. They gave me Cysplatin as chemo. I had two clear scans but nowI have 3 new lesions on my liver ,very sm. We had hoped they would be able to do ablation. But the placement of the new tumors are in dangerous positions. I have 2 oncologist one here in Charlotte and Micheal Morse at Duke. they have come up with different protocols. One is Gemzar and Oxilaplatin. Duke would like to add Nexavar to the mix. My CC is behaving like a liver cancer . I got all of my insurance Problems well taken care of .I am curious if anyone has had the combos and how they had done with them


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With so many different species housed at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, the UK's biggest zoo, your trip will be full of excitement.
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Topic: Weight Loss/Appetite & Fever
Hi all, a few quick questions...requesting feedback if possible. My mom continues to fight hard and battle but I feel she is losing steam. Collectively we are all continuing to seek options and do our best to keep her upbeat and enjoying each day. Two things...
She seems to routinely get a very low-grade fever in the evenings 99-100. Is anyone else having these same symptom? Any thoughts on why? We aren't overly concerned because it does not spike and it isn't present through the night, mornings or mid-day for that matter. We she has had serious infections - it has been a totally different story - high spike, feeling crummy, etc.
Our other question/concern is her appetite and her extreme weight loss. Since her diagnosis - she was gone from an extremely fit, strong 120lbs to a feeble, fragile, weak 90lbs (on a good day). She is eating but her appetite is weak, she sometimes vomits (not sure if that is due to pain meds or residual chemo in body or what?) and food just generally does not sound good. Her taste for everything has really drastically changed. She has a pretty good protein shake that she tries to do 1-2x a day but she is barely maintaining at 90lbs.
Suggestions? What is contributing to her constant weight loss?
Thanks so much in advance for all of your feedback. I am so grateful for this community and the support we provide each other.


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STATEHOUSE (Feb. 13, 2013) — The Senate Committee on Education and Career Development today voted 11-1 in support of State Sen. Brandt Hershman's (R-Buck Creek) comprehensive plan to help law enforcement officers and educators collaborate on keeping gang activity out of Indiana schools.
Senate Bill 352 would allow the Indiana Safe Schools Fund to be used to provide educational outreach and training to school personnel concerning the identification and prevention of criminal gang activity. Hershman said impetus for SB 352 came from discussions he's had with Tippecanoe County officials — including Prosecutor Pat Harrington and Project Safe Neighborhoods Anti-Gang Initiatives Director Kathryn Redd, who both see a need for educational policy regarding gang activity in Indiana schools.
"It may be a surprise to some that gangs are intruding into areas where they were previously not seen, most notably Indiana's rural communities," Hershman said. "School officials and prosecutors say this is a direct result of non-traditional means of recruitment, including membership recruitment through social media."
A 2011 report by the National Gang Intelligence Center notes that gangs are "migrating from urban areas to suburban and rural communities to recruit new members, expand their drug distribution territories, form new alliances and collaborate with rival gangs and criminal organizations for profit and influence."
To help fight this trend, SB 352 would also require school boards — in cooperation with parents, employees and local law enforcement — to put in place anti-gang policies and awareness programs. The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) would develop model materials.
"Not having an educational component on how to deal with gang members is a gamble that we should not take," Hershman said. "This legislation is for the betterment of our kids, our schools and our communities."
Representatives from IDOE and the Indiana School Board Association testified in support of Hershman's bill during a committee hearing.
Other states have enacted similar legislation. Maryland passed "The Safe Schools Act of 2010," also requiring its Department of Education to develop a model gang policy for schools.
In 2011, Hershman was a driving force in securing funding for a pilot program launched in Tippecanoe County aimed at helping law enforcement identify and police criminal gang activity across Indiana.
SB 352 now moves to the full Senate for further consideration.


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In the days of canvas sacks and hybrid vehicles and sustainable aspirations, it's hard to enjoy a good food fight without a heavy heaping of guilt.
"The applesauce you just poured down her back was organic!"
"The pork chop you used to slap your ex was alive at one point, and took a lot of resources to raise."
"Do you know how many kids this spaghetti in my pants can feed?!"
So to satiate your desire for a food fight, and to pay homage to this weekend's Oscars, we're keeping our hands clean and turning to movie magic. Belly up and feast on these celluloid indulgences: our favorite (mostly vintage) movie food fights.


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This article was published 16/10/2012 (1771 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Sometime in the hours before kickoff on Friday night, Terrence Edwards will take a shot of painkiller in his foot to dull the pain.
And then the Winnipeg Blue Bombers slotback -- at 33 the second-oldest player on the team to long-snapper Chris Cvetkovic -- will step onto the turf at Rogers Centre in Toronto and fight through pawing hands from enemy defenders to latch onto passes and scrap for every square inch of real estate he can get.
It is his job, of course. It is what is expected of him in what is a cutthroat gladiator's game.
That said, no one would hold it against the soft-spoken Georgian -- a guy who watched Tuesday's practice while wearing a walking boot on his foot -- if he took the proverbial knee this week. After all, he is coming off a game in which he pulled in a career-high nine passes for 143 yards and, with 989 yards and three games to play, he should still be able to reach the 1K mark for the fifth time in his career.
Memo to anyone thinking a rest might be in order: don't even go there with the man.
"I was asked after the game if I would be mad if the coaching staff or GM wanted to sit me down and see other guys play," Edwards began. "I'd be pissed. I don't leave my family for six months out of every year to come here and NOT play. This is my job and if I'm healthy I want to be in every game.
"All this makes me want to come back even more."
And by 'all this' Edwards is referring to the nightmare the 2012 season has become. He said Tuesday he desperately wants to return in 2013 and hopes management keeps the talent core intact because "blowing it up will set us back a few years."
But there's also a much more deep-rooted conviction here than just a 30-something vet trying to squeeze every last second out of his career. Edwards understands, perhaps as much as anyone, how short-lived these moments in the game are. And he doesn't have to look too far to see what happens when they are snatched away. His brother Robert was a first-round pick of the New England Patriots, rushed for over 1,100 yards as a rookie and then blew his knee out in an NFL rookie flag football game in Hawaii. Robert made two comebacks, first in the NFL and then in the CFL. But in the span of six months he was cut twice, first by the Montreal Alouettes and then by the Argonauts.
"I go about my business every day because I saw how football was taken away from my brother early in his career," Edwards said. "I understand that none of this is guaranteed, that it's a game-by-game, day-by-day situation. You never know when it's going to be your last game. You never know when they're going to tell you that your services are no longer needed. And 99 per cent of players don't walk away on their own terms. They either get cut or injured or whatever.
"That's why I don't take this game for granted. I've seen how quickly it can be taken away. I give thanks to the Lord every day for blessing me to be able to play this game and play at a high level."
Friday's game will be Edwards 101st as a Bomber, the 112th in his CFL career. And so if he was to attempt to rally the troops with a pre-game speech, not long after his foot is taped up and fed a dose of pain relief, it might go something like this:
"I've told the young guys this for awhile now: this is like an audition. It's like the pre-season," Edwards said. "If the coaching staff or GM feels that they're not playing hard or with passion or they're just here because we're out of the playoffs, then I don't think those are the type of people they want on this team.
"I feel the same way," he added. "I want people on this team who are going to play hard and lights out no matter what the situation is because that's how I'm going to play."
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7,000 yards and still going strong
Birthdate: April 20, 1979
Born: Tennville, Ga.
College: Georgia
Years with Bombers : 6
Years in CFL: 8
Status: Import
Acquired: Signed by Bombers as a free agent on May 24, 2007.
Receiving Regular season
Career total111457 7,02815.445
CFL All-Star: 2010, 2007
Divisional All-Star: 2011, 2010, 2007
'I understand that none of this is guaranteed, that it's a game-by-game, day-by-day situation. You never know when it's going to be your last game. You never know when they're going to tell you that your services are no longer needed... That's why I don't take this game for granted. I've seen how quickly it can be taken away. I give thanks to the Lord every day for blessing me to be able to play this game and play at a high level'
-- Terrence Edwards


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Endangered Species Day, 17 May
Endangered Species Day is an opportunity to learn about the importance of endangered species and actions we can take to protect them. Scuba divers, with a passion for the ocean like no other, are naturally concerned about decline in marine species.
The good news is, we're a strong voice and we're achieving major milestones together. Just recently, we won campaigns to list oceanic whitetip sharks, porbeagles, three species of hammerheads and both manta rays under CITES.
What's next? Join the Finathon™! Like a walkathon or marathon – the Finathon is a great way to bring a community together, raise awareness about sharks and rays at risk and challenge funds to support a unique cause.
"The major problem with protecting marine life is people are less aware of it as they do not see it from day to day. So awareness and promotion through amazing events such as the Finathon is great in bringing attention to the aquatic problems and the decline of sharks,'' said Andrew Barrett of the Calypso Diving Finathon Team in the Philippines
On Endangered Species Day this year, consider rallying your friends and dive buddies in a Finathon challenge and get swimming to end finning.


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