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MONTREAL — Four months after the Quebec Liberal Party's election defeat, Jean Charest has already moved on, landing what is no doubt a lucrative position with a big law firm.
The Liberal party? Not yet.
It hasn't had enough time to distance itself from the less positive aspects of Charest's legacy, as was apparent in Sunday's first Liberal leadership debate.
Two of the three candidates, Raymond Bachand and Pierre Moreau, were ministers in Charest's last cabinet, and could therefore only quibble with their government's actions in its last term in office.
This allows the third candidate, Philippe Couillard, who quit active politics before the 2008 general election, to represent a renewal of the party.
But Liberals, unlike Péquistes, do not turn quickly on their leaders.
And the fact that Charest almost pulled out a fourth consecutive victory has blinded some to the fact that their vote share was the smallest since Confederation.
So even Couillard, whom Bachand has accused of fomenting a "putsch" against Charest when Couillard was a minister, had to be careful in Sunday's debate to avoid offending Liberals still loyal to their recently departed leader.
The Liberals will choose Charest's permanent successor at a convention March 17, only six months after their election defeat. It's unusual for a party to choose a new leader so soon after being voted out of power.
The Liberals decided on an early convention so that they could then force a spring election by bringing down the Parti Québécois minority government in a budget vote.
The PQ has since avoided that vote by presenting its budget early, before the Liberals were ready.
Even so, the Liberal strategy was flawed from the start.
Bringing down the PQ government over a spring budget would have required the support of the Coalition Avenir Québec party, which has no interest in helping to force an election in which it would lose seats to the Liberals.
And it would have exposed the Liberals during a spring campaign to possibly damaging testimony at hearings of the Charbonneau inquiry on political contributions and public-works contracts.
Ethics are already an issue for the Liberals — and in their leadership campaign.
In a poll in November by Léger Marketing for L'actualité magazine, the most popular explanation for the Liberal election defeat among voters in general and Liberal supporters in particular was that the party had been too lax on questions of corruption and collusion.
And in an interview with Le Devoir last month, Moreau presented himself as "Mr. Ethics" in contrast with Bachand and Couillard, the two leading contenders for the leadership, whom he said are vulnerable because of past business relations.
Bachand was president of the Fonds de solidarité FTQ investment fund when it dealt with construction magnate Tony Accurso, who is currently facing criminal charges of fraud, corruption, bribery and conspiracy.
And a profile of Dr. Arthur Porter in The Globe and Mail last month suggested that Couillard may have been closer to the controversial former director of the McGill University Health Centre than he has acknowledged.
After he left active politics, Couillard was a partner with Porter in what Couillard has said was an inactive business. And when Prime Minister Stephen Harper named Porter chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee in 2010, he also appointed Couillard as a member of the oversight committee.
But the Toronto newspaper also reported that, as health minister, Couillard was a "key ally" of Porter and a guest at his "many parties."
So far, there's no evidence of any skeletons in a candidate's closet. But if there are, and they don't emerge until after the convention, the Liberals may regret not waiting until at least next fall to choose their new leader.
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A rich cultural scene, great shopping, lively pub culture and much more awaits in Belfast.
A rich cultural scene, great shopping, lively pub culture and much more awaits in Belfast.
Northern Ireland's capital city has so much more to offer than you might expect. Belfast has shrugged off its past troubles and emerged a thriving cultural hub – with world class museums, top notch food and drink and a buzzing live music scene.
The mural-adorned peace walls in West Belfast are a constant reminder of the city's troubled past. But the newly redeveloped Titanic Quarter, with its superb museum devoted to the tragic passenger liner, brings the city bang up to date. Shop to your heart's content before settling in at a traditional Irish pub and sampling the local beers. Then head north to take in the famous Giant's Causeway and mile upon mile of glorious green countryside in the Glens of Antrim.
Learn about the construction and tragic demise of the RMS Titanic, at the superb Titanic Belfast. Or peruse a vast array of wondrous exhibits – including dinosaur skeletons and mummies of Egyptian kings – at the Ulster Museum. Visit the notorious Crumlin Road Gaol. Or take in the political murals of Falls Road on a sightseeing tour.
Shop while enjoying magnificent panoramic views from the elegant dome of Victoria Square. Castle Court also offers nearly 100 stores and an array of eateries under one roof. Sample some of the finest fresh foods available in Belfast, at the historic St George's Market. For chocoholics, a visit to artisan chocolatier, Co Couture, is a must.
When it comes to Belfast restaurants, The Merchant Hotel's Great Room is the cream of the crop… Dine in sumptuous surroundings on fine fusion cuisine. Or for a quintessentially Irish experience, head to the family-run Darcy's or rustic Molly's Yard. For top-drawer fish and chips try Mr JD's New Titanic Restaurant, where memorabilia of the ill-fated liner covers the walls.
Feel as though you've stepped back in time at Kelly's Cellars – a traditional pub largely untouched since the 18th century. Or admire the beautifully-preserved Victorian décor while enjoying a pint of Guinness at the famous Crown Liquor Saloon. Gaze at the magnificent Belfast City Hall over cocktails at The Apartment. Or rub shoulders with celebrities at exclusive underground haunt, Ollie's.
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Ars spoke with James Macauley, executive producer on the game, to learn more about why the high-end online shooter won't cost a cent.
One of the biggest concerns with a free-to-play game is how important the premium items are. If spending real-world money on virtual guns and armor gives you a significant advantage, it takes a lot of the fun out the experience. This type of system rewards those who are willing to spend money, instead of those who actually spend time playing the game and improving their skills. Money becomes a substitute for skill. But Macauley says this won't be the case with Firefall.
"We're still in the process of setting up the details of our micro-transaction system, but one of our primary goals with Firefall is to make sure that players can't just buy their way to the best equipment," he told Ars. "We don't want gamers purchasing experience points or levels, though we do think buying perks that improve your efficiency at certain tasks makes sense. Marketplace transactions are situated for creating a more enjoyable play experience. Firefall fans will be able to buy things like paint for their battleframes, bumps to their resource collection, and items of time convenience.
"Above all else, Firefall is skill-based game focused on player progression, and we won't allow a marketplace to change that."
Like most online games, Firefall features a great deal of character customization. But it doesn't have classes in the traditional sense. Instead, you can equip battleframes, which are essentially your character's armor. But each one has its own attributes and gives your character different skills. Each can also be swapped depending on the situation. It's almost like being able to change classes whenever you like.
"Rather than forcing players to pick a specific class at the start of the game, and then play it through the duration of that character, each character has access to different battleframes that can be quickly customized to fit the given needs of any situation," explained Macauley. "If your team is being hit particularly hard by a group of enemies, you can equip your Medic battleframe and become a healer. If you need to dish out more damage, a quick switch to your Assault battleframe will accomplish that. Our goal with battleframes is to give players a unique experience that's flexible to their needs. Of course, you'll need the right equipment for the right job."
Firefall is gorgeous to look at, despite being a free release—just watch the trailer above. The semi cel-shaded art style is reminiscent of Team Fortress 2, while the vast alien world evokes memories of StarCraft and Starship Troopers. There are massive, large-scale battles and bug-like alien creatures. But this isn't a game that will force you to go out and buy a new computer just to play it. Red 5 removed the price tag on Firefall in order to attract as wide an audience as possible, and the studio is hoping to make it as accessible as possible from a technical standpoint, as well.
"Another potential barrier to people playing and enjoying Firefall is with our system requirements," Macauley said. "This is a topic we've worked on since the beginning of development on this project. We're still optimizing the game, and haven't announced our final system requirements yet. However, Firefall is an online game, and when we release the game in late 2011, we want to make sure it's equally as playable for people with a high-end PC as it is for someone with a bargain gaming rig."
Given the names behind the project, it's natural that expectations are high. But that doesn't seem to phase the developers.
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New Line Cinema is playing ball with Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal on "Damn Yankees," attaching both actors to star in a contemporized film transfer of the classic musical.
Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel are set to write the script.
The musical is being produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the duo behind New Line's musical "Hairspray"; a sequel to that film is in the works.
"Damn Yankees," which bowed on Broadway in 1955 and won seven Tony Awards, focuses on Joe Boyd, a happily married middle-aged man whose devotion to a hapless pro baseball team prompts him to make a Faustian bargain with the devil to help the team. He's transformed into slugger Joe Hardy, in exchange for Boyd's soul. Boyd can break the deal, but the deadline occurs during the World Series. For good measure, the devil engages Lola, a gorgeous lost soul, to seduce the slugger and seal his fate.
The plan is for Carrey to play the devil, and Gyllenhaal to play Boyd. It's the first musical for each.
The producers tried but struck out on a version of "Damn Yankees" five years ago at Miramax, where they made "Chicago." The rights lapsed after Harvey Weinstein exited that studio. After two years of rights negotiations, "Damn Yankees" is moving forward with Toby Emmerich's New Line.
The trick is finding a balance that retains the show's classic tunes like "(You Gotta Have) Heart" and "Whatever Lola Wants," while injecting a contemporary feel on a musical that is firmly rooted in the 1950s. The intention is to get a script from Ganz and Mandel before meeting directors, and actresses who'll want to play Lola.
The original was directed by George Abbott and choreographed by Bob Fosse, with music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, and book by Abbott and Douglass Wallop. "Damn Yankees" was turned into a 1958 Warner Bros. film that was directed by Abbott and Stanley Donen, with Ray Walston and Gwen Verdon re-creating their stage performances, and Tab Hunter playing the slugger.
Carrey is coming off "Yes Man" and "I Love You Phillip Morris," the latter of which premiered at Sundance and is in distribution discussions. Carrey also plays Ebenezer Scrooge and several other roles in "A Christmas Carol," which Robert Zemeckis directed for Disney in performance capture digital 3-D animation. Carrey also plans to star for director Jason Reitman in "Pierre Pierre" for Fox Searchlight.
Gyllenhaal recently completed the David O. Russell-directed "Nailed," the Jim Sheridan-directed "Brothers," and he plays the title role in the Mike Newell-directed "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" for Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer.


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Futures rise on mixed retail sales numbers
Stock futures edged higher Friday after the government reported rising retail sales in August and tame inflation.
Dow Jones industrial futures rose 23 points to 15,269. S&P futures gained a half a point to 1,678.80. Nasdaq futures rose 4 points to 3,173.50.
The Commerce Department's retail report offered a mixed bag, as consumers did not spend overall as much as economists had projected.
While Americans spent more on cars, electronics and furniture, they didn't spend on much else.
The 0.2 percent rise was half of what economists had expected.
Given some of the ebbing sales numbers put up by specialty retailers in the past month, the 0.8 percent drop-off in spending on clothes reported by the government Friday was unlikely to have caught many off guard.
Last month, Nordstrom, Macy's and Wal-Mart all cut their outlooks for the year with shoppers foregoing new clothes, at least for now, in favor of big ticket items.
The government also reported that wholesale prices rose 0.3 percent last month. But that means over the past year, prices have only gained 1.4 percent, the most meager one-year increase since April.
One thing driving wholesale prices higher was energy, which saw price spikes as a conflict with Syria looked increasingly likely.
European and Asian markets were weighed down early by a report in Japan's Nikkei newspaper saying that Larry Summers will be named to head the U.S. Federal Reserve after the central bank meets next week.
Summers is believed to have a less favorable view of the aggressive bond-buying program that has flooded markets with cash.
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1. Re: Scalability of CirrAS/JBossAS Clustermichaelneale Mar 2, 2010 9:16 PM (in response to altes-kind)
There is no direct answer, but I did watch a good talk by Bela Ban on this. The context was in the mod_cluster "domains" - having domains of cluster nodes that are kind of independent from other domains (so within a domain you can have the replication you want/need, but not across domains). At the end of it, he sees 100 nodes as generally being a limit where you would want to consider splitting it into domains (ie overhead of replication gets annoying).
Unfortunately the presentation isn't public (at the moment) but hopefully that will change soon, as it was a brilliant talk.
2. Re: Scalability of CirrAS/JBossAS Clusteraltes-kind Mar 3, 2010 6:05 AM (in response to michaelneale)Thanks for your answer Michael. I'm gonna ask Bela Ban if can provide me the presentation.
3. Re: Scalability of CirrAS/JBossAS Clusterbelaban Mar 3, 2010 8:40 AM (in response to altes-kind)
Hi Matthias,
there are 2 types of redundancy: one's called replication and the other one distribution. Replication replicates every data to every other node in the cluster, so the cluster size is bounded by (1) the number of nodes and (2) the average data size of each node. E.g. 10 nodes with an average data size of 100MB means that every node has to store data of 1GB on average.
Distribution (as done for example in Infinispan) means that a data element is stored N times in the entire cluster. So if every data element is stored 2 times, then the average data stored at any given node is 200MB (versus the 1GB for replication).
However, if 2 nodes storing the 2 data element die at the same time, your data is gone. So, distribution is a tradeoff between data usage and data redundancy.
4. Re: Scalability of CirrAS/JBossAS Clustermichaelneale Mar 3, 2010 10:39 PM (in response to belaban)yes sorry I should have mentioned that I assumed DIST mode if domains are used - and also it seems to be becoming the "preferred default" in Infinispan. I imagine in the future distribution mode with N=3 would be pretty decent redundancy inside a domain?
5. Re: Scalability of CirrAS/JBossAS Clusterbelaban Mar 4, 2010 2:27 AM (in response to michaelneale)
The cool thing in Infinispan is that different caches can be created with different Ns, and you place your data in a cache according to your reliability requirements.
Re: replication versus distribution: I guess if you're cluster is smallish and/or your data small, then I'd prefer replication because reads are way faster (because they're always local) than in DIST, where we might have to do a sync round trip if the data is not in the L1 cache.
So, for example, if you have 10 nodes and every node has 10MB worth of data, then I'd go for replication. If you have 50 nodes, and every node generates 200MB worth of data, then I'd pick distribution.
6. Re: Scalability of CirrAS/JBossAS Clustermichaelneale Mar 4, 2010 5:16 PM (in response to belaban)good points - would having sticky session routing in the mod_proxy help with avoiding remote cache reads ? (not sure if it is fine grained enough to know which of the "N" nodes to direct a sessions request to) - so each of the N nodes that has a copy of the data has it in the L1 right? or am I getting confused?
7. Re: Scalability of CirrAS/JBossAS Clusterbelaban Mar 5, 2010 2:10 AM (in response to michaelneale)
No, the load balancer has no idea about how Infinispan distributes its data. E.g. if we have {A, B, C} and N=1 and data element D is stored on B.
Say the load balancer routes a session S to A, then A will ask B for the data the first time it doesn't find it in its L1 cache. Subsequently, A will always return D immediately, unless and until D is invalidated (e.g. because it was updated).
8. Re: Scalability of CirrAS/JBossAS Clusterbelaban Mar 5, 2010 2:15 AM (in response to belaban)
At some point, we should brainstorm a bit about whether it makes sense to add pluggable routing (in C) to the load balancer. If we had the same consistent hashing algorithm on the load balancer (mod-cluster) as in Inifinispan, the load balancer could reduce the number of additional round trips to fetch data not in the L1 caches...
Applied to HTTP sessions, individual attributes of a session are stored on different nodes, so 'stickiness' here would be broken down to attributes, not an entire session. As an alternative, a consistent hashing algorithm could used the jsessionid as input, so all attributes of a given session would be colocated.
This needs more discussion (probably on the mod-cluster forum), I'll ping Brian ...
9. Re: Scalability of CirrAS/JBossAS Clustermichaelneale Mar 7, 2010 5:46 PM (in response to belaban)Good point, I incorrectly assumed that all HttpSession data would be in one place, not have each attribute (potentially) distributed - is this deliberate, but just by design (ie it is a distributed cache, so naturally data on each attribute stands alone) ? As I would like to know if it was thought of as a good idea, or a side effect (I can't think of why it would be a good idea - but I guess in practice people often put a "value object" in a session, so all state is in one java objects - mostly for type safety when building the app).
10. Re: Scalability of CirrAS/JBossAS Clusterbelaban Mar 8, 2010 1:59 AM (in response to belaban)We already had a discussion on it, last year in Brno, and the wiki is https://community.jboss.org/wiki/Consistent-hashingbasedJBCdatapartitioningwmodcluster
11. Re: Scalability of CirrAS/JBossAS Clusterbelaban Mar 8, 2010 2:03 AM (in response to michaelneale)
That's something to discuss. One could argue, as attrs of a sessions are accessed together, that they should be stored together. OTOH, if the attrs are big, then it might make more sense to distribute them. Distribution of individual attrs adds more complexity to mod-cluster though.
We'll discuss this during our Brno meeting next week.


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Our photographers have been busy capturing some beautiful fall scenes in the Valley as the leaves are really turning vibrant colors and shades.
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Moose convention brings $10 million to city
Thousands of members of the fraternal order of Moose are gathering in Milwaukee this weekend for a convention, and the city is proud to be a cheaper alternative to convention sites to the south.
"First time," said Bertha Rodriguez, who is attending the convention from New Mexico. "It looks like a real nice place. I really like it a lot."
While it may be Bertha's first trip to Milwaukee, the Moose organization has held its convention here before.
Although it has been since 1944 when the group has congregated here.
"We used to meet every two or three years in Chicago," said Kurt Wehrmeister. "It became quite expensive, and with the sheer size of it, our members just weren't as comfortable there."
Nearly 8,000 members of the group will spend the next six days at the Delta Center in downtown Milwaukee. The Moose are one of several conventions the city will host this year.
"We probably started working on getting this convention here as early as 2007," said Brent Foerster, VP of sales and marketing with VISIT Milwaukee.
Our news partners at the BizTimes said the Moose have booked 18,000 hotel room nights across 20 different hotels for this holiday weekend.
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Foerster said the city will also host the U.S. Triathletes Championships in August, bringing another 10,000 people to the central city.


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If I can quote Big Pilot on his topic at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=18297 on Sun May 20, 2007,
"better usabillity. Puppy does most things great but it would only take a small amount of tweaking to make it truly noob-proof. I've suggested a better HD installer in another post."
Despite that Puppy is still difficult to install on a hard drive. As I mentioned above I tried four times and met with four failures.
Now Chris, don't fly off the handle again, it doesn't help any. Instead perhaps you could try to recreate the fault on your own computer, by pretending you are a Puppy newb who is attempting to do a hard drive install. If you can create the fault then perhaps you can offer a solution which would help everyone.
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Yes. Four times and it didn't work.
In the interests of product improvement, which puppy version and did you record any error messages. We might also be able to get it to work for you.
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Yes. Four times and it didn't work.
In the interests of product improvement, which puppy version and did you record any error messages. We might also be able to get it to work for you.
It was the version included with ecopup 0.7.1 that the cybercafe uses.
I couldn't understand that it works for them but not for me. Surely they don't boot up each computer from a Live Cd every day do they? As booting the live CD takes well over 5 minutes on my machine (P4 2.66Ghz, with 1Gb RAM) doing all their's would take ages.
Tonight I've d/loaded the latest (94 Mb I think) and will try again.
I'm sorry if my other post offended people, it honestly wasn't intended. Perhaps non Brits (no offence!) think differently and would read my remarks differently.
Puppy looks nice, so nice in fact that I'd like to run it alongside XP, as a dual boot, but if it means I have to boot the 'puter from a floppy disc every time, well, obtaining new floppies is nearly impossible these days since shops no longer stock them.
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Location: Bournemouth, UK
Posted: Thu 27 Sep 2007, 17:40
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Nope, that one won't work either.
I selected Universal installer, was prompted to run Gparted, made the hd a linux swap partion, it said OK finished. I re-booted the computer, ran universal installer again, selected IDE hd, it asked me to confirm, then told me "Nothing to install, did you forget to plug in a flash device". I tried again three times, but it didn't want to play.
Grrr, frustration to the power of 100!!
I've tried and tried and tried, but this distro is obscenely difficult to load.
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Location: Southampton, UK
Posted: Thu 27 Sep 2007, 18:38
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I'm not sure about the advice the universal installer is giving you.
A swap partition is just a place for the OS to dump stuff whilst it is running you can't save stuff to it.
Are you making at least one other normal partition as well?
One sensible partition scheme would be
1) 2-5GB for puppy
2) the rest for data
3) 1-2GB swap
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Posts: 510
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Posted: Thu 27 Sep 2007, 19:10
Post subject:
Hello, dancingdog777,
Interesting that the one you condemn is associated with what you have repeatedly been told is a non-standard version. I'm not attacking you over this observation, my friend.
My success has been 100% on many many installations of standard official releases, from 2.00 through to 2.17, using the standard settings in the standard installer.
Even on the distribution in question with the standard
Ver 2.15ce
which is what actually installs before you do surgery on the file system to accomodates ecomoney's modifications. (I have yet to do the latter, to prove that I can safely put that download on line as working)
Perhaps you are confusing Grub not booting what menu item you have selected with the actual installation not starting up. The installer advises you to check the
for its assumption that
are where it thinks they should be, because it doesn't carry out a search when writing that statement... it expects you to do that, and the installer script advises you to do that, while you are still running in
Live Mode
If it doesn't boot, then restart in Live Mode and go and check out
comparing it with the actual locations of those files.
If it still doesn't work after that check, then maybe, depending on what doesn't run, you have a bad downloaded
or the burn wasn't good. Many an installation of many Linuxes have been branded as "won't work" because of a badly burned CD (burned too fast perhaps) or a corrupt
file that was burned.
If all four of your bad installations have been from the same CD burned from the same iso, then that is likely your common factor, not the product.
There are two stages of booting, my friend. And yes, I like PCLinuxOS also, it's a ripper. But a ripper for a different purpose
First stage uses the
Initialise Ramdisk
(initrd) which sets up the ramdisk and copies loading files there. If that works, then the next stage is where those files unzip the compressed linux kernel (which is why it's named
- the z on the end points to that.
If that works fine the next step is to see if it gets a
Graphical User Interface
. That is where the first time it asks you to configure the X-Server which most associate with just the Screen... but it also configures other external peripherals such as pointer (mouse, tablet or pen), keyboard et cetera.
If you already knew all this stuff, please pardon my assumption that you didn't because your comments came across as someone who expected full automation. And no, from experience, even your and my beloved PCLinuxOS requires user input at several times during the process.
The only times the standard puppy installer hasn't worked with me are
1- with incorporating grafpup (which is a different product, based on puppy, but employing slight variations in the filesystem tree), and
2- when adding extra lines to
for extra boot choices and making a typo with the partition identification on multiple booting scenarii.
Seriously, the installer that we've used for a while, has done a sterling job of getting it right.
Don't think I'm a guru either. My writing perspective has always been
, aka
Keep it Simple, Stupid
which can tend towards verbosity if you set out to avoid long words. I used to write specifically for non-computer-literate draughtsmen who had been dragged screaming into the world of
Computer Aided Design and Draughting
in what was then Australia's best CAD monthly.
If you are genuinely having all manner of problems running the installer, you may care to PM one of us with exact details.
BTW my four failed attempts had nothing to do with installing. They were
download failures
- a different ballgame in a different ballpark. Web server bandwidth hiccups in all probability.
Have you noticed editing is always needed for the inevitable typos that weren't there when you hit the "post" button?
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Location: Sydney Australia
Posted: Thu 27 Sep 2007, 20:57
Post subject:
" Now Chris, don't fly off the handle again, it doesn't help any. "
Gee....thought I was being nice...must be a bit of the Kelpie in me....
" Despite that Puppy is still difficult to install on a hard drive. As I mentioned above I tried four times and met with four failures. "
Puppy 3.0 beta 2 picked up an old Quantum 4.3 gig ...and worked a treat..
I did select Fat32...Mr Bin?...anyway booted fine....and you can hear that
Hard Drive from down the street....saves me money on Hoon type car exhausts...just run Puppy on that drive in the car....Bewdiful mate.
I now have Robert's Ecopup.
Ian, craftybytes, muggins, tempestuous, john biles, WhoDo and fellow Oz
Puppy craftsmen ....I will post you Ecopup free....for your prevous efforts and helpful advice.
If I have missed out any Aussie gurus....within reason...I will also post you a copy.............Gekko - if you are about....PM me if you too want a copy.
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Location: Bournemouth, UK
Posted: Fri 28 Sep 2007, 13:20
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Ok Chris, must just be the diff between Aussies and us Pommies. Whingeing Poms I think is what we are refered to as!
Whatever, I didn't mean to get "up your nose".
Richard : Thanks for that. Though I've used Linux for about 6 months, I'm not used to a manual install, which is perhaps the way that you need to do it with Puppy. So if I let Gparted format the hard drive as FAT 32, then hit Universal Installer, it should install?
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Location: Sydney Australia
Posted: Sun 30 Sep 2007, 04:45
Post subject:
I installed Ecopup on an old....probably near dead .4.3 gig Quantum hard drive.
Fun and games yes.
I must say that I've done only a few hard drive installs.
Plenty of USB installs that I can usually boot the first time.
And at least once I've had Puppy 2.15CE on USB...no problems.
Ah! But Ecopup.
Strange that I could have a Fat32 formatted partition and Puppy 3.0 beta2
booted perfectly.
Not on your life with Ecopup.
Tried one and all cheats over a few days.
Even set up the pup3.0 installer, moved the Pup3.main files, unzipped
Ecopup files and the new boot files, and tried to boot.
It would boot with the Ecopup CD....so at least I could see what it would look like.
So I decided to go to Plan Z...yeah! pathetic.
2.1 gig first partition...........ext2.
1.6 gig second partition.........Fat32.
400 meg swap file?
Used GParted from Puppy 3.0 Beta 2.....very good tool.
Checked that the Boot Flag was set.
I also used the Puppy 3.0 installer.
I copied all the boot files to a new folder called Pup3 just so I had them
in case I failed again....this included moving the new Pup3 main files,
pup222.sfs? and zdr222.sfs? into that folder so they wouldn't clash.
Unzipped the Ecopup files to that first partition.....including every Puppy 2.15 file.
Copied the unzipped Boot files and overwote 2 files.
Booted...70 seconds....but it is a very old drive.
Oh! happy days.
Alright it was a struggle....I went against most advice...but sometimes
you have to stretch the boundaries.
And I've often spent more time installing XP and making a backup.
Next time it should take all up about 15 - 20 minutes.
And I can well understand why Robert would like someone to make him an installer..Anyway a great distro....Chris
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Location: Lincolnshire, England
Posted: Sun 30 Sep 2007, 18:25
Post subject: Perseverence
I remember asking for advice on how to get puppy to boot from the hard drive, I couldnt work out if the included hard drive installer in stock puppy was broken, or it was just beyond me to get it working. I remember getting "hot under the collar" with what I wrote myself to get advice, which wasnt particularly constructive.
The stock puppy installer is definetely (IMHO) "over-engineered" for most peoples use. I havnt tried editing the universal installer in ecopup, so it is still the same one as the stock 2.15ce. After hearing about all of the trouble it has been causing people, Im considering taking it out altogether, or at least the menu option.
Ive noticed something with puppy (and probably linux in general), and I think it comes down to philosophy. The aim is to get as many people using puppy as possible. The percentages are based on what I have "observed" in the field
At the moment, 99% of computers can be made to work with puppy, 5% of computer users have the skills/patience to do this. This means that about 4.9% of people that try puppy carry on using it.
99% people I know use puppy in just two ways, at least to start with. They either devote an entire computer to it, or they dual boot it with windows xp or 2000 (or in a couple of cases Vista.). 98% of computers can be set up this way without any special boot options (confusing).
If the installer were modified, it would mean two things:-.
1. Many more people would use puppy because they were able to get it working in the first place. They would progress to become power users.
2. A (very) small number of people would not be able to use puppy because the setup wouldnt include the advanced options for them.
The result would be more people using puppy!
As I mentioned I hope to write (or preferably have written because it will take a lot of time for me to learn to write) an installer program for when ecopup is booted. It will have an "install" icon on the desktop when ecopup is booted for the first time, which is the easiest method, and also the method that people will be used to if they have experimented with other linuxes (puppy is currently at only 17 on distrowatch so Im assuming people will have tried many others first).
The desktop icon will launch a window with three options:-
[b]Ecopup is currently running in a cutdown "live" mode, you can install it fully in many ways, here are the main ones"[/b]
1. "Dual Boot" - Set up this computer to work with Ecopup, as well as the system that is already installed (i.e. windows). Dont interfere with how the current system is set up in any way. To start ecopup I will need to have the cd in the cd drive, like it is now (why must I do this? [link]). I will take it out and restart to use the system I already have.
2. "Use entire computer" - Entirely wipe this computer of all of its information and any system currently on it. It will start with ecopup when I switch it on and I will not need the cd any more (so I can lend it to my friends! ;-) ).
3. "Do an advanced install" - Ecopup is based on puppy linux, and it has inherited many "magical" abilities from it. It can boot from a pendrive (memory stick), a zip disk, on a rewriteable cd. Setting this up can be complicated so if your new to Ecopup use one of the other two methods until you feel comfortable.
Option 1 will unzip the ecopup.zip file to hda1, and copy the .sfs files (pup_215.sfs and zdrv_215.sfs) to the hard disk. After this has been done, a dialog will pop up to ask if they want to reboot into the newly installed operating system no or carry on using the livecd.
Option 2 will format the entire computer to ext2 (secure data shredding will be useful here for recycling operations), it will copy the files as in option 1, and also install Grub and unzip the boot.zip folder onto the hard disk. The computer will be bootable totally into ecopup (as it happens with or without the cd in).
Option 3 will start the stock puppy installer.
Now people here will say that this option wouldnt work in x,y, or z case. True, and it would work in the majority of cases. Meaning that more people try it would use it and get hooked on linux straight away. More people would "technically" not have computers that would work, but cant get it working for technical or useablily reasons both add up to the same thing - NOT WORKING!!!!
To cite another example, look at Debian vs Ubuntu. The reason so many more people use Ubuntu than Debian (What ubuntu is based on) is because its immediately usable by the most people (not on the most computers). Since puppy will run on even more computers than Ubuntu (Ive trialled both) without forcing the user to give up what they have already got, its only the useablility factor that keeps it at number 17.
Puppy Linux's
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Posted: Sun 30 Sep 2007, 19:21
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I agree with you, Robert.
I've noticed that the "smarter" a forum responder is, the more the difficulties that will be offered to a need for the great mass of the public.
This is not a criticism of people. They do indeed have valid points.
However I've noticed it on two other forums in which I used to participate, both of which were for products aimed at the mass market.
You should have seen some of the responses to from where I was coming, which is exactly the same scenario.
I'm also working on something, quietly in the background. The attempted removal of desktop clutter for professional usage. I can see the need in your situation for many icons for your users, this isn't a criticism.
However for a business office, I believe to group icons on one or more button bars, that can be minimised, is probably a better idea. And's I'll be starting a thread shortly when I've finished marshalling screencaps and got the words down in a way that makes sense
And the fact that there is a range of computer hardware that just plain will not work with version 2.12 of puppy onwards, so I'm creating "look-alikes" from 2.10 and 2.11, which are fast and effective.
So yes, Robert. I believe we need look at what you suggest, and beyond.
PS I also responded in that other thread
I've been meaning to create a straightforward step-by-step page on how to do a "standard" hard disk install using the installer that ships with puppy. So perhaps this might be a suitable moment to start
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Location: Bournemouth, UK
Posted: Mon 01 Oct 2007, 13:49
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Robert has written out exactly the problem that I'm having. Puppy is a nice little distro, it's such a shame it is a real bitch to install on a hard drive.
At risk of offending you all again, you might like to sample Nimble X which is roughly the same size but installs onto the hard drive really sweetly. It found my sound card, ethernet broadband and graphics card immediately.
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Posted: Mon 01 Oct 2007, 14:35
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dancingdog777 wrote:
it's such a shame it is a real bitch to install on a hard drive.
I may be missing something on this conversation but:
From what perspective do you think it is too difficult to install to HDD?
1. Boot from the CD
2. Copy a few files (the kernel an initrd and sfs files)
3. Copy the bootloader folder (grub)
4. Create an entry on the grub.conf file
5. Install Grub to the MBR
And this is the "worst case scenario": Doing it manually which is rather simple.
If you consider that puppy includes the tools to automate most if not all of these tasks, it should be very simple.
So, I really think I'm missing something.
A basic installation (100% of the computer dedicated to puppy) should be a breeze. Easier than any Windows, Fedora, SuSE or any other install I've seen.
Of course if you want to do an ad-hoc installation, you will need to understand a little bit more but not overly difficult.
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Location: Bournemouth, UK
Posted: Mon 01 Oct 2007, 15:52
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>A basic installation (100% of the computer dedicated to puppy) should be a breeze.
Unfortuately it's not!
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Posted: Mon 01 Oct 2007, 16:07
Post subject:
Could you open a new thread on that?
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Drop off any unused narcotic medicine at a drug take-back location right away. If you do not have a drug take-back location near you, flush any unused narcotic medicine down the toilet. Check your local drug store and clinics for take-back locations. You can also check the DEA web site for locations. Here is the link to the FDA safe disposal of medicines website: www.fda.gov/drugs/resourcesforyou/consumers/buyingusingmedicinesafely/ensuringsafeuseofmedicine/safedisposalofmedicines/ucm186187.htm
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This medicine will add to the effects of alcohol and other CNS depressants (medicines that slow down the nervous system, possibly causing drowsiness). Some examples of CNS depressants are antihistamines or medicine for hay fever, other allergies, or colds; sedatives, tranquilizers, or sleeping medicine; prescription pain medicine or narcotics; barbiturates (used for seizures); muscle relaxants; or anesthetics (numbing medicines), including some dental anesthetics. This effect may last for a few days after you stop taking this medicine. Check with your doctor before taking any of the above while you are using this medicine.
This medicine may cause some people, especially older persons, to become drowsy, dizzy, lightheaded, clumsy, unsteady, or less alert than they are normally. Make sure you know how you react to diazepam before you drive, use machines, or do anything else that could be dangerous if you are not alert or able to think or see well.
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
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Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Portions of this document last updated: Oct. 01, 2020
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Back in the bad old days, the Soviet Union created entire, closed cities of people. Some of these cities had a sole purpose — to design and build atomic bombs. The nuclear weapons infrastructure employed about 75 thousand people of whom 18 thousand were the real brains behind the effort. When communism collapsed and the cold war ended, the entire Russian economy went into a steep nose dive. That, combined with poor tax enforcement and the collapse of the ruble in 1998, meant that those 18 thousand nuclear weapons designers were trapped in unfashionable locations and living on the smell of Borsch. The US government and others realized the potential for proliferation via a simple "will work for food" salary scheme and, in cooperation with the Russian government, designed a program, called the Nuclear Cities Initiative (NCI) to prevent that from happening.
The idea behind NCI was to diversify the industrial and economic base of the previously closed cities in the hopes that weapons engineers could find gainful employment in civilian industries. To that effect, the US government ponied up a substantial amount of cash, $110 million over an eight year period. This money was used to both directly subsidize the salaries of Russian weapons engineers and help develop new industries for them to work in. Although the program was deemed to have a serious downside — while the Russian government could afford to concentrate its resources on retaining the best, they would still get to use the rest thanks to the US government — it went into operation on the basis that the potential alternatives were worse.
Most agree that NCI has been a success, though perhaps not with the speed and directness that a politician might wish for. For instance, over the last 8 years, it has directly weaned about 10 percent of the workforce from weapons manufacturing. Indirectly, new industries now make up a significant part of the closed cities' economy, which is necessary for the long term success of the program. In addition, the program provides accurate statistics on Russian nuclear fuel production and maintenance. However, NCI is now dead, not because of any political machinations or partisan bickering. Bureaucrats decided that taxation disagreements take priority over nuclear proliferation concerns and killed the program three years ago. The only concession they made was a three year wind-down period so that all those engineers could get used to the idea of returning to living on the idea of food, rather than food itself. Gotta love bureaucrats.


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The search for Tim Burton took us to four Hollywood studio archives, five independent production company collections, and four private lenders, exposing us to an interesting variety of archival situations. Studio archives are traditionally housed on the lots where their films and television programs are shot, or, if their collections are large enough and the demand great enough, in off-lot research centers and warehouses. When we visited Twentieth Century Fox and the Disney Corporate archives, we got to stroll the studio grounds, and we were hoping for a glimpse of a production in progress through the open door of a soundstage—readers who can recall Paul Reubens on a bicycle being chased around the Warner Bros lot at the end of Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) will have a picture of the craziness we were expecting. But as it turned out, the lots were as quiet as an empty office park on summer weekends. Disney's Animation Research Library is a sleek facility away from the studio, and the Warner Bros storage site is located in an industrial area. At each we were assigned teams of archive specialists who showed us carefully preserved art and film props. Half of the Los Angeles area sites we visited were in Tim's hometown of Burbank, CA, which he used as a muse for such early films as Edward Scissorhands (1990) and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), so we made a particular point of soaking up the atmosphere of that city.
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Who wants to be a millionaire? Apparently not the owner of a winning North Carolina Lottery ticket.
The Charlotte Observer reports that a $1 million ticket was sold in Stallings, southeast of Charlotte, in August. But no one has claimed the prize.
If the winner doesn't show up at lottery headquarters in Raleigh by 5 p.m. Wednesday, the ticket will expire.
It would be the state lottery's first unclaimed million-dollar winner.
"We really do want to find this person," lottery spokesman Ryan Kennemur said Monday, according to the Observer.
If no one shows up with the winning ticket, half the money will go to the lottery's education fund and the rest will go to Medicaid.
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Grand Am Prototypes - Chevron To Sponsor Second GRAND-AM Entry For Ganassi At Indy
The No.02 Chevron Dinan-Prepared BMW Riley and Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (EGR) NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) drivers Juan Pablo Montoya and Jamie McMurray will return to action for the team for the first time since January's Rolex 24 At Daytona. The second entry will run alongside the season-long effort (No.01 TELMEX Dinan-Prepared BMW Riley) driven by Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas, who hold the distinction of being the most successful driving duo in series history with 23 race wins.NOTES OF INTEREST:
· Ganassi's IMS Glory: Team Owner Chip Ganassi's history at IMS over the years includes five wins as an owner in the Indianapolis 500 (1989, 2000, 2008, 2010, 2012) in addition to winning the 2010 NSCS Brickyard 400. He was also the fastest rookie at the 1982 Indianapolis 500.
· GRAND-AM History: CGRFS has five championships (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010,2011) and 37 race wins since their introduction to the circuit in 2004– all GRAND-AM records. CGRFS has the greatest six-race stretch in Rolex 24 At Daytona history with four wins (2006, 2007, 2008, 2011) and two second-place finishes (2009, 2010) dating back to 2006. Their one-two finish in the 2011 Rolex 24 At Daytona marked the quickest a team had done so in the race's 50-year history. In its last race, the No. 02 car led a total of 52 laps in the 2012 Rolex 24 At Daytona with drivers Montoya, McMurray, Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon. In 20 total starts, the No.02 has led 813 laps, completed 6,207 of 7,034 laps (88%) with an average start of 6.25 and an average finish 8.15.
Driver Lineup In-Depth: Montoya is the 2007 and 2008 Rolex 24 At Daytona Overall Winner, a two-time NSCS Race Winner, the 2007 NSCS Series Rookie of The Year, 2000 Indianapolis 500 Winner and the 1999 CART Series Champion. He is the only driver to compete in NASCAR, INDYCAR and Formula 1 races at IMS and will look to add GRAND-AM to his resume and extend that record. The July race will mark his 13th start at IMS (Formula 1-six, NSCS-five and INDYCAR-one). He also has four previous starts at IMS in a BMW (BMW Williams F1 2001-04). McMurray is the 2010 Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400 Winner, a six-time NSCS Race Winner and the 2003 NSCS Rookie of The Year.
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Hostile Gospel, Pt. 1 (Deliver Us) Video
- Artist: Talib Kweli
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[Intro: singers (Talib)]
Deliver us, deliver us (Yeah)
Deliver us, deliver us (What? Yeah)
[Talib Kweli]
And what the people say? We wanna live it up
And what the people want? Please deliver us
And what the people need? Hey...
I got that, yeah
[Talib Kweli]
I call these rappers baby seals, cause they club you to death
I could call 'em Navy SEALs, cause they government feds
What become of the vets? They drugged up, they fucked up, they in debt
There ain't no love and no respect, it's like a gang it's like a club or a set
Hip-Hop's the new WWF
What do you rap or do you wrestle? Niggaz love to forget
We got til it's gone, you think you on, you still hustlin backwards
Your topical norm a tropical storm, it's a fuckin disaster
Back to the topic we on, it all started at Rawkus
They couldn't find the words to describe me so they resort to the shortcuts
Is he a backpacker? Is he a mad rapper?
An entertainer or the author of the last chapter
We living in these times of love and cholera
Synonymous with the apocalypse, look up the clouds is ominous
We got maybe ten years left say meteorologists, shit
We still waitin for the Congress to acknowledge this~!
[Chorus: Talib Kweli & singers in the background]
What the people want? Please deliver us
We wanna live it up, please deliver us
Th-th-this is the, th-th-this is the, this is the hostile gospel
I'm reaching through the fire - please deliver us
I'm preaching to the choir - please deliver us
Just keep it real with us, you scared to spill your blood
Your words rung hollow, we need someone to follow
[Talib Kweli]
You ain't promised tomorrow, so get your paper up
You can't always just borrow and asks for favors bruh
Stand on your own two, never covet thy neighbor's stuff
Karma's a bitch so watch your mouth and what you sayin bruh
I start a conversation based on general observation
Hip-Hop is not a nation, take it to population
Niggaz got a lot to say when locked inside the belly of Satan
Awaitin trial debatin how the hell I got placed in this system
Am I a victim or just a product of indoctrination?
They exploit it and use me like a movie with product placement
You hear the congregation; this is the hostile gospel
The truth is hard to swallow it'll leave you scarred tomorrow
Keep it honest our motto, these niggaz keep it bottled
I'm the writer who reach the fighters like speeches by Cus D'Amato
DJs stickin to vinyl like "Fuck Serato"
Suppliers who ride around the block, in the custom models
Ballin like the struck the lotto you know who the cleanest is
A nigga keep it reeich with the stitch and greedy geniuses
I'm not a hipster, but I flip it like a sneaker pimp
Expose the game, treat it like a bitch
Smack fire out these hoes, cause they snitch and tap wires while I plead the fifth
You can't trust a soul in the biz, so be careful who you eatin with
and sleepin with and also who you chiefin with
You never know they might've added in secret ingredients
[Talib Kweli]
Freedom's a road that's seldom traveled, watch hell unravel
Right before the eyes of the soldier who fell in battle
The single mother who raised her daughter to bear the sacred water
And not take the hand of every man who make a offer
To black kids wishin they white kids, when they close they eyelids
Like, "I bet they neighborhood ain't like this"
White kids wishin they black kids, and wanna talk like rappers
It's all backwards it's identity crisis
The industry inside us is vipers with fangs trying to bite us
Drug suppliers is the health care providers
We cakin, makin narcotics outta household products
We ain't workin out 'til we exorcise the demons that's inside us
Plus they seem to just provide us with enough rope to hang ourselves
Enough dope to slang ourselves, enough toast to bang ourselves
It's officially nigga season, these niggaz is bleedin
That's why I'm spittin freedom we had enough of trigger squeezin
[Outro: singer]
In these tryin days and times
All I need is to be free
I can't do it on my own
Lord can you deliver me?
There are trials still to come
It's salvation that I need
So I'm reachin to the sky
Lord can you deliver me?
Deliver us...
Deliver us, yeah
Deliver us, ohhhhhhhhhh
Oh, deliver us
Deliver us
Ohhhhh Deliver us yes
Deliver us, deliver us, deliver us
Yeah yeah yeah, ohhhhhhhhhh... [ad libs to fade]
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The Maloof brothers are determined to move their basketball team to Anaheim. But Kevin Johnson, the mayor of broke-ass Sacramento, isn't having it, not unless the Maloofs first pay off the $77 million they owe. So Sacramento fired off a snippy letter to Anaheim (see below). This is correspondence from the Robert Moses school of municipality planning, but the upshot of it is: The Maloofs will be moving from one money-sucking situation to another money-sucking situation after the NBA hits them with what will likely be a minimum $30 million relocation fee. They might also have to concede a $25 million stake in their team to Sacramento. They must really not like Northern California.
From the letter:
Accordingly, on behalf of the City of Sacramento, I respectfully request that the City of Anaheim, the Anaheim Public Financing Authority, and their respective agents:
1) Do not authorize issuance of $75,000,000 in lease revenue bonds, and any other actions related to the inducement of the Kings to relocate from Sacramento to Anaheim in breach of the Kings' agreements with Sacramento.
2) Cease negotiating with the Kings.
3) However, if Anaheim insists on continuing the negotiations, then, as a matter of common interests between cities and good public policy, Anaheim must contractually require and condition bond issuance, and any other inducement to the Kings, upon the Kings honoring their approximately $77 million financial obligations to the City of Sacramento before relocating to Anaheim.
Upon learning about the letter, Joe Maloof had the following to say to the Orange County Register:
You better be careful; don't mess around and interfere with our business.
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Anne Arundel County settles harassment lawsuit for $110K
Karla Hamner sues county over John Leopold's 'retaliation'
Anne Arundel County is ending a legal dispute resolving claims of sexual harassment and retaliation against former County Executive John Leopold.
Karla Hamner has accepted the county's offer of judgment and will receive $110,000. Attorney's fees and court costs must still be determined.
Hamner filed a complaint against the county in 2010 claiming discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation. She had worked for Leopold and was then sent to the Police Department for another position, but was not hired there. She claimed Leopold ran the county through fear and intimidation.
"I'm actually elated that this is over. I just don't wish this on anyone having to go through what I've been through the past several years, but I hope that it would give courage to women who are in a similar situation to come forward," Hamner told 11 News. "It's been about revealing what's been happening -- you know, holding some really bad people accountable for their actions and righting a very big wrong."
Hamner's attorney, John Singleton, said his client's stand helped lead to charges being filed against Leopold.
"One single employee saying, 'I'm not going to stand for this. This is not right,' is incredible," he said.
In early 2013, Leopold was convicted of misconduct in office for using his taxpayer-funded security detail for re-election campaign duties and for forcing county employees to do personal chores, namely making them empty his urine from a catheter bag he had after having back surgery.
When sentenced, Leopold was taken out of court in handcuffs and taken to the county detention center.
"You can't do this to people. You can't treat women this way. You can't treat employees this way," Singleton said.
Leopold finished his sentence, which including community service. Now there's talk he may run for public office again.
Anne Arundel County Executive Laura Neuman released a statement, saying, "We are pleased that this case has been resolved and we can put it behind us. This closes a sad and sordid chapter in our county's history, but serves as the impetus for putting processes in place that guard against this in the future. The county's clearly been through a lot, and we're looking forward to moving forward in a positive direction. The citizens of the county made it very clear that they're ready for a fresh start."