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By Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister
More than three months after the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, not a single person has been charged in connection with the assault.
Most, if not all, of those questioned in Libya since the attack have been released.
A Libyan source with knowledge of the investigation, who did not want to be identified because of the sensitivities involved in the probe, told CNN there are indications that the perpetrators of the attack came from beyond the Benghazi area and slipped away immediately afterward. The source says it is possible the attackers came from the city of Derna or surrounding areas, about 120 miles (200 km) to the east, which remains a stronghold of militant Islamist and jihadist groups.
The September 11 attack killed four Americans, including Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya. The State Department's independent report on security lapses in Benghazi did not focus on who was responsible as part of its mandate, review leader Ambassador Thomas Pickering said Wednesday, but the FBI continues to investigate.
Militant Islamist and jihadist groups are now flourishing in eastern Libya, the source says, and are too strong for the government to "put back in the box." Independent militias like Libyan Shield - which includes militant Islamists among its members - continue to dominate in Benghazi, and the government's security forces and judiciary are toothless.
Benghazi siege: The ambassador's last minutes
Sources monitoring the security situation in eastern Libya say that if anything, it has worsened since the attack on the consulate, with a series of assassinations and attempted assassinations of security officials. Islamist militants are blamed for many of these attacks.
One of the officials killed was Faraj Mohammed el-Drissi. He was gunned down in Benghazi in late November. Drissi had been in charge of the city's security for just one month. Of his three alleged assailants, one was subsequently arrested, the Libyan source said.
On Sunday, there was a major attack on the security headquarters in Benghazi - apparently in an effort to try to free the arrested man. The attack included the use of at least one rocket-propelled grenade, and a lengthy sun battle followed. The source told CNN four police officers were killed, but the attackers eventually fled without being able to free the man. The source says that according to local officials, the attack was launched because the detainee had begun to talk about who was behind the assassination - and had implicated a former Guantanamo Bay detainee.
That man is Sufian bin Qumu, who earlier this year was believed to be operating a camp in a remote area outside Derna. His detainee assessment at the prison camp described him as having a "long-term association with Islamist extremist Jihad and members of al Qaeda and other extremist groups."
While no evidence has emerged that bin Qumu had any direct role in the Benghazi attack, Libyan intelligence officials say he is still active in the Derna area, where militants are passing through his training camps - including some former members of the Libyan Islamist Fighting Group (LIFG).
Review critical of State's diplomatic security
"The main question is, to what extent is he part of al Qaeda?" asked the Libyan source.
In an interview with a local media outlet earlier this year, bin Qumu made clear that the time he spent in U.S. custody had left him embittered toward the United States, but he denied he was a supporter of violence.
Bin Qumu is thought to be setting himself up as the "emir" of a new jihadist group in eastern Libya, promoting his background as a Guantanamo detainee and former driver for Osama bin Laden's organization in Sudan in the 1990s. Now in his early 50s, he is said to be promoting his long experience in jihad to recruit followers.
That has involved some embellishment of his record, according to sources familiar with his background. Bin Qumu was never among the leadership of the LIFG. He was known as a "tough guy," says one source, but never assessed by his peers as having the skill set necessary to take on a military command position. The source also points out that bin Qumu was a driver for one of bin Laden's companies - not his terrorist group. He had a long criminal record before embracing jihad and being a relatively late arrival to LIFG ranks in Afghanistan around 1993.
One man who had allegedly been running a militant training camp in eastern Libya last year is under arrest, but not in Libya. Muhammed Jamal Abu Ahmad - a former member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad - was detained in Cairo earlier this month. Analysts believe he had ambitions to create a new terrorist network in Egypt and across North Africa. He remains in custody but has not been charged.
Problems suggest long list of changes for security of diplomats
According to Libyan intelligence officials, Jamal was suspected of setting up a camp south of Derna, where foreign jihadists as well as Libyans were being trained.
A former Egyptian jihadist told CNN Jamal was a mid-level operative in Ayman al Zawahiri's Egyptian Islamic Jihad in the 1990s. He spent time in Afghanistan and Sudan before being imprisoned in Egypt in the early 2000s. After being released in the wake of President Hosni Mubarak's downfall, Jamal likely sought to reconnect with his former boss, according to another former jihadist.
The city of Derna and surrounding area has for years been a recruiting ground for al Qaeda and its affiliates. In a 2008 diplomatic cable, Chris Stevens described his visit to the area when he was a diplomat posted at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli. He outlined how high youth unemployment, discrimination by the Gadhafi regime and the influence of veteran Libyan jihadists from Afghanistan all played a role in radicalizing a new generation.
He said the area was "a wellspring of Libyan foreign fighters" for al Qaeda in Iraq - fighters who may have had a role in his death four years later.
CNN: Who are the survivors of Benghazi? Where are they? How many are there? And why the silence?
So those that were "arrested" after the attack were just as mentioned, not the ones that did the killing but some DA off the street to make the noise go away for the country and the Democrats. But now the election is over so it's time to state the facts that the real killers are still walking around free and more than likely will never get caught.
The media is still calling the building a consulate – it is not – it is a USA Special Mission – the media and the USA lie to the public on a regular basis. What is really going on. How long do you think that these lies can go on, innocent people murdered by a greedy, reckless group of people who could not care a less about how their actions harm others. Take a look around Americans – your Country is sinking in more ways than one. Time to pull up the boot straps and start living with personal integrity. How can anyone in the USA have any self respect when buying the lies thrown at us every day. We are better than this. We can live in peace without this constant terror. LEts start NOW!
Noticably absent from all the discussions on this "event" in Benghazi:
What the purpose of Amb. Stevens visit in Benghazi? He obviously felt threatened and insecure, yet he chose to stay.
Why did Stevens not return to our protected embassy in Tripoli? He knew that no additional security was coming.
Why did Stevens stay there for the anniversary of 9/11? A very foolish decision on his part!
There is much more to this story. Stevens was a highly respected diplomat, and very experienced.
This was not the result of beaurocrtic bungling in the State Department!
Stevens remained in Benghazi for reasons unknown!
I am confused. CNN told me this was due to an obscure video.
The headline says it all. This administration and their media sycophants view this as a law enforcement issue and not a military one. Obama and Co. clueless as ever. Hey wasn't this all over a video?
I suppose you want us to occupy yet another hell hole that will cost us a billion dollars every three days? Law enforcement doesn't use drones with hell fire missiles which is how these idiots will meet their end at some point soon. W Bush military approach only got the Republicans kicked out of Congress and Obama soft law enforcement approach only allowed us to kill public enemy #1.
Yeah, but we know right where one of the people responsible for letting it happen is, sick, hurt and NOT going to testify, right? Hillary has been an embarrassment and disgrace as SOS and should be treated as such.
From what I read here in the comments section I can see you don't need to worry about outside interference, when the people within the country have so much hate for one and other. This guy did this this guy did that, the future is the other way, Merry Christmas, health and happiness to you and yours.
(...)A Croatian website has reported that Zagreb recently sold S-300 missile systems to Iran. Croatia is known to have purchased the advanced anti aircraft defense systems following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The web magazine Necensurirano also reported that Libyan warships were docked at the Croatian port of Kraljevica where the missile systems were being loaded in preparation for transfer to Iran. (...)
They never learn. In Afganistan during the war with the Soviets, the U.S. government funded Pakistan and essentially allowed them to choose who to arm and support. The result was the most lethal terrorists organizations in the world, and the Taliban. In Libya, the U.S. sits back and watches Qatar arm who they favor in order to overthrow Ghaddafi, and of course, they are Islamist organizations. The same thing is happening in Syria, as the likes Sunni terrorist organizations battle with the Syrian government, Hezbollah and others. Are those who lead the U.S. intelligence that naive, or are they simply powerless to stop it at this point?
Suspects still at large. This is CNN's Benghazi story. Nothing about the 4 State Dept. resignations ,nothing about the Secretary of State's mysterious "accident " ,nothing about why they are dropping like rats now after the election when everybody knows it was " A Video " that caused Benghazi. What a sham of a News Site.
It may well be a "cover up", but the "cover up" may well be to protect Amb. Stevens!!!
No details ever about what he was doing in Benghazi that was so dang important he couldn't leave and go back to our protected embassy in Tripoli!! Really, choosing to stay in Benghazi on the anniversary of 9/11 with virtually no security was a very dumb choice. Something more was the reason (maybe another amorous entanglement? Or do we really have the secret prison in Benghazi holding friends of the attackers? Much more to this whole mess, not simply beaurocratic bungling!
No cover-up is ever justified. Period.
And nothing will ever happen to them...
Really? You don't think that Obama will come up with a couple of poor souls that will be the great leaders patsies?
It takes time to solve a crime that happened a half a world away in an unstable country. This is not an action movie where the good guys show up and arrest or kill the bad guys at the end of a high speed chase.
Sergeant David G. Robinson
Captain Shawn P. T. Charles
Private 1st Class Steven F. Shapiro
Staff Sergeant James R. Leep Jr.
Specialist Adrian G. Mills
Sergeant Andy C Morales
Staff Sergeant Estevan Altamirano
Sergeant Mark Cofield
Specialist Daniel L. Elliott
Sergeant Steven L. Talamantez
Specialist Nathan R. Beyers
Specialist Nicolas W. Newby
Captain Matthew G. Nielson
Captain David E. Van Camp
Specialist Robert G. Tenney Jr.
Specialist Matthew R. Gallagher
Staff Sergeant Russell J. Proctor
Private 1st Class Jeffrey Dylan Johnson
Specialist Marcos A, Cintron
Sergeant Glenn M. Sewell
Staff Sergeant Nick Bellard
Private 1st Class Matthew J. England
Specialist Christopher B. Fishbeck
Specialist Robert P. Hartwick
All died in Iraq along with 4000 others.
Where is the outrage that we were lied to about weapons of mass destruction? We went there for one reason, to settle a family dispute after Saddam tried to kill GHWB in 1991.
Where is the outrage? LOOK at the names! Read them and don't forget.
Don't forget who also believed Iraq had WMDs ( they did by the way and they now reside in Iran and Syria ) Most of your proud Democrat Congress men and Women. The CIA, The UN,The Security Divisions of ALL of our allies etc. Don't forget that little bit of info as well. And certainly don't forget the heroes who lost their lives giving you the right to spew your hate.
O man.. Give me a break.. You know they DID find MATERIAL to make WMD... Just no WMD on a missle ready to go... Honestly, does it take effort to be as stu pid as you... Suddam was a ruthless dictator who killed and tortured 100's of thousands of his own people and started or tried to start 3 wars the countries that surround him in a very important part of the world.... I think your mom is calling you to take your meds... might want to get up there....
No, GW and Dick were after the oil! Cheney even told us that the Iraq War would be "revenue neutral" !!! Translation: We win, we take the oil – boy that didn't work out so well! Iraq got rid of Saddam, got their "new democracy", sold the oil to China and is now becoming best friends with Iran!
So Dick turned to the Gulf of Mexico and created yet another big mess!!!
Wrong article. This is about Obama's failure to care about the lives of 4 Americans that you clearly could care less about.
Obama is SOOOOO GOOOOOOOD
So, Obama personally has to chase down these guys?
Just like Bush chased down O-bin Laden – right?
Yes... thats what people are saying.. Obama has to go track them down.. I mean he should, he took sooo much credit for getting Bin ladin....
What can I say, this is the Libya we helped create and enforce.
As you can , nearly 16 months after Gaddafi was overthrown the country is still being run by jihadists, and other terrorist groups. The so called "democracy" that the West envisioned so far is only a distant illusion. Worst still we want to repeat this stupidity in Syria. We already created 3 failed states (IRAQ AFGANASTAN LIBYA) do we need to create more ? The whole arab world is a lot more unstable and dangerous to live in than before the Arab Spring started.
I see absolutely no reason why we can't find and prosecute the killers of our diplomats. The killings were done by people who like to brag to others after their unkind deeds. They love to tweet and put the news out on the internet. This needs to be our highest priority for redemption. If we could find Osama we can find these people.
Obama has more important things to do, like ban guns, to worry about something as petty as catching these murderers...
Thought Obama said those who were responsible would be brought ot justice? But when he never said...this is beginning to look like the hunt for OBL again...um wonder how long this will take..
Obumer was too busy trying to get re-elected to worry about an investigation involving 4 dead americans. Besides, it was only 4 white guys?
4 people were fired thanks to the investigation. i dont care for obama either, but be reasonable at least. you cant blame him for every single thing.
1 resigned and 3 have been relieved of duty, which means untill the dust settles they are on leave, i.e. vacation..
We sure as heck can blame him for this! He lied about a video being the cause. He watched live on video while they were slaughtered. He failed to call in air support that was a half hour away during a multiple hour siege.
Exactly going to plan – the USA destabilizing the middle east is the best outcome that could have happened. All these dictators are gone, the people are now free to fight amongst themselves, and yet, without any threat to the USA somehow the TSA survives...
brian, there is no threat to USA? lol since when.
trust me, there will ALWAYS be people that try to make plans to harm us. we cant let our guard down even for a second.
II will give you that. Better that these 7th century losers kill each other first.
Obama will do nothing .
Obama does not want to seem being at war with Islam .
Islam won this battle , America lost .
Inshallah , Allah will have his justice .
Islam is peace , know Islam , and know peace .
what exactly did america lose? the whole world now views muslims as crazy, death loving people. congrats bin laden. you alienated your own religion forever. allah wouldnt be very happy...
We lost 4 Americans idiot.


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Sony has announced plans to sell its New York HQ for $1.1 billion —but it will continue to rent and use the space.
The sales should net Sony $770 million (around £480m) in cash— which the company could desperately do with right now. Sony will inhabit the building for at least three years, renting it from new owners the Chetrit Group, which also own the Willis Tower in Chicago.
The 37-story New York building, which sits at 550 Madison Avenue, was previously owned by AT&T. It was sold to Sony in 2002 for $236 million (£148m). [Bloomberg]
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Electrically operated piston pump for use with single-line lubrication systems
Minilube is a handy solution for vehicles with fewer lubrication points, such as mini excavators, mini wheel loaders, buses and delivery trucks. Installing Minilube is easy and quick, because everything is already integrated: control centre, pressure switch and alarm lights. Additional alarm lights can be installed, for example, in the vehicle's cabin. For each lubrication point, there is a specifically selected metering device that is set according to the size of and the load on the lubrication point.
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Rajat Gupta, former Goldman Sachs director and global head of consultancy at McKinsey & Co., is seen in this courtroom sketch during his appearance in Manhattan Federal Court in New York, 26 October 2011: Jane Rosenberg/Reuters
from Christian Science Monitor 26 October 2010
A former member of the board of directors of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble appeared in federal court in New York Wednesday to face charges that he leaked confidential information to a hedge fund manager who used the tips to earn easy profits and avoid significant losses.
Rajat Gupta, of Westport, Connecticut pleaded not guilty and was released on $10 million bond. The case marks the latest development in a major crackdown on the insider trading on Wall Street that has been the target of both the Bush and Obama administrations.
The federal court is blocks from where Occupy Wall Street protesters have been demonstrating. Among their complaints: that Wall Street financial institutions have an inordinate amount of power, both political and economic, and that Wall Street greed has been to the detriment of the 99 percent of the public the movement claims to represent.
Mr. Gupta surrendered to FBI agents after a six-count indictment was unsealed alleging his involvement in an insider-trading scheme that extended from 2008 to January 2009. The charges include conspiracy to commit securities fraud and five counts of securities fraud.
Gupta allegedly passed "material nonpublic information" about Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble to Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group hedge funds.
The inside information was worth $17 million in illegal profits and loss avoidance, according to federal documents.
Mr. Rajaratnam has been at the center of a major federal investigation into insider trading among hedge fund managers. He was convicted in May of 14 counts of conspiracy and securities fraud. Two weeks ago he was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Rajaratnam was also ordered to forfeit $53.8 million and pay a $10 million fine.
Gupta was an investor and director in one of Galleon's investment funds that had holdings in other Galleon hedge funds, including some funds that bought or sold stock based on Gupta's alleged insider tips. His arrest is an outcome of the investigation into Galleon Group launched five years ago at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
According to federal documents, the alleged Gupta-Rajaratnam insider-trading scam involved timely phone calls placed by Gupta informing Rajaratnam of financial developments likely to affect the relevant company's stock price.
For example, on Sept. 23, 2008, Gupta learned in a telephone meeting of the Goldman Sachs board that Berkshire Hathaway would make a $5 billion investment in the company. The news came at a time of substantial turmoil in the financial markets following the collapse of Lehman Bothers.
According to the indictment, 16 seconds after disconnecting from the board meeting, Gupta was on the phone with Rajaratnam's office. The call went through at 3:54 p.m. -– six minutes before the stock market would close for the day.
The indictment says Gupta disclosed inside information to the hedge fund manager concerning Berkshire Hathaway's impending investment in Goldman Sachs.
Four minutes later at 3:58 p.m. –- with only two minutes left in the trading day -– Rajaratnam caused the purchase of 350,000 shares of Goldman Sachs stock, worth a total value of $43 million, the indictment says.
After the markets closed for the day, Goldman Sachs publicly announced the Berkshire investment.
The next day, when Goldman's stock rose from $124 per share to $128 per share, Rajaratnam sold 217,000 shares of Goldman stock. He recorded an $840,000 profit, according to the indictment.
"Rajat Gupta was entrusted by some of the premier institutions of American business to sit inside their boardrooms, among their executives and directors, and receive their confidential information so that he could give advice and counsel for the benefit of their shareholders," said Preet Bharara, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
"He broke that trust and instead became the illegal eyes and ears in the boardroom for his friend and business associate, Raj Rajaratnam, who reaped enormous profits from Mr. Gupta's breach of duty," Mr. Bharara said.
Janice Fedarcyk of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Gupta's actions were intentional rather than the result of an inadvertent slip of the tongue.
"His eagerness to pass along inside information to Rajaratnam is nowhere more starkly evident than in the two instances where a total of 39 seconds elapsed between his learning of crucial Goldman Sachs information and lavishing it on his good friend," Ms. Fedarcyk said.
"That information (captured by the FBI) was conveyed by phone so quickly it could be termed instant messaging," she said.
The second Goldman Sachs disclosure came on Oct. 23, 2008. An internal financial analysis showed that the firm had lost $2 per share for the quarter. This was potentially shocking information for the market because the firm had never before lost money in a quarter. The confidential information was disclosed during a telephone meeting among board members.
According to the indictment, 23 seconds after hanging up from the board meeting, Gupta called Rajaratnam with the news of Goldman's red ink quarter.
The next morning, Rajaratnam caused certain Galleon Funds to sell all their Goldman stock. The move prevented millions in losses, the indictment says.
Gupta engaged in the same behavior while serving on Procter & Gamble's board, according to the indictment.
In January 2009, he allegedly tipped off Rajaratnam that P&G's sales figures would be lower than expected. Armed with the inside information, the hedge fund sold short 180,000 shares of P&G stock.
Saugatuck River in Westport, Connecticut (principal residence of Rajat K. Gupta) photo by Doug Kerr, 25 July 2010
Rajat K. Gupta at the World Economic Forum, Davos, 31 January, 2009: photo by World Economic Forum
Kuwait Stock Exchange: photo by Andreas Gursky, 2008 (Sprüth Magers, Berlin/London)


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A total of 88 scientists have each received a maximum of 800,000 euros to develop an innovative line of research and to build up their own research group. They have received a Vidi Grant from the Talent Scheme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The Talent Scheme consists of the Veni, Vidi and Vici grants.


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United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is a government corporation responsible for providing mail delivery to individuals and businesses within the United States. Americans often refer to it as the "Post Office" (it took its current name in the 1970's, though the name still technically refers to an individual USPS location and is still used in marketing). Its creation was specifically authorized by the Constitution[1] and it has the ability (through the Postal Regulatory Commission) to regulate the provision of all mail services in the US. Currently, the USPS has a monopoly on "first-class mail" (common mail such as letters and bills). This monopoly has come under fire, especially as the Postal Service has posted severe financial losses and raised rates as a result of the increasing cost of employee benefits.
"The U.S. Post Office is the only entity allowed by federal law to deliver first class mail to your mailbox. In fact, Fedex and UPS are strictly prohibited from delivering "non-urgent" letters".[2][3]
The USPS is part of the core infrastructure of America. For example, the USPS, along with UPS and Fedex, are part of the modern Just in Time food distribution system used by companies like Wal-Mart, Costco and Amazon.com, which includes transportation (trucks, ships, railroad, and airplanes), warehousing, and retail facilities which move food from the food production system to consumers. Without the USPS infrastructure such modern retail and online commerce would not be possible or cost effective.
The USPS has a large number of support staff (custodians, office workers, computer operators, mechanics ) in addition to the operations staff who are directly responsible for collecting, sorting, distributing and delivering the mail
- Mail is delivered by City and Rural Carriers
- Mail is sorted by Mail Handler and Mail Processing Clerks
- Mail is distributed by Motor Vehicle or Tractor-trailer Operator (driver). Distribution in this case means transportation between post offices or mail processing centers.
- There are also clerks at smaller Post Offices who perform a mixture of duties.
Mail is handled according to a category, such as general letter, media mail, postcard or package. Each category has restrictions on content, weight, dimensions and is charged accordingly. Although the USPS Inspector General checks scales and other measuring devices for accuracy, federally owned post offices are exempt from the state inspections that private companies are subject to. Private companies' measuring devices are typically inspected regularly by an internal department within the company and at least once a year by individual states' bureau of weights and measures, often a division of that state's department of agriculture.
See also
- Fedex and UPS
- Supply chain and Just in Time distribution system
- Wal-Mart and Costco
- Food distribution system: Transportation (trucks, ships, railroad, and airplanes), warehousing (such as Amazon.com, Costco), and retail facilities (such as Wal-Mart) which move food from the food production system to consumers.
- Systems of support
- ↑ "Article I, Section 8, Clause 7". The U.S. Constitution. Accessed 15 January 2010.
- ↑ Cooper, Rory. Obamacare: The "Post Office" of Health Care Plans. Heritage Foundation. 11 August 2009. Accessed 15 January 2010.
- ↑ Hawkins, John. Our Health Care System Is Going To Be Like The Post Office?. Right Wing News. 12 August 2009. Accessed 15 January 2010.


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Subject description: previously RC-1
This link is broken. I can't fix it until August or September. OTOH, you may be interested in
Pizzapup 3.0.1
Pizzapup 3.0: ATE (About Time Edition)
RC-1 was promoted to final. If you already have RC-1, you already have the final.
NOTE: Uses pza_300.sfs and pza_save.3fs
This is Pizzapup 3.0. It is aimed at making me happy, not making everybody happy. If it makes you happy, great, but world peace is not its goal. There is no perfect Puppy for everybody, so this tries to fill a more specific niche. The standard Puppy is limited in appearance to save on size, whereas many of the fancier Puppies are very large with things like Open Office and Wine. Pizzapup falls in between, with good appearance and general functionality, while remaining below 99MB in size. Sure, it's missing Open Office, but Abiword and Gnumeric are much faster and far smaller.
So, what does Pizzapup 3.0 have to offer? For starters, optional encryption, Mplayer, Xmms, Firefox, Rox 2.5, XDG menus, and IceWM. It also defaults to a nicer GTK theme and provides a number of alternates (Including both fancy and simple, in case of a fast or slow machine). There is a number of IceWM themes and several wallpapers included. The icons have also swapped out for nicer ones, mostly from the bctangokde set, which is based on tango (but orange
). If you right-click on the white-space in a Rox-Filer window, choose "options", and go to the "types" tab, you can change icon themes. I've included multiple colorschemes of the icons in case you don't want orange. Mplayer and Xmms also come with several themes each. Also, I changed the cursor to the Yellowdot theme.
This version also includes a Save-file-wizard (under 'control-panel') that can create, encrypt, and decrypt save-files. There is a Defaults-wizard that makes changing the default* files easier (such as defaultaudioplayer or defaulttexteditor). PSI, 3DCC, Graphburn 0.7, and Zmixer are all included.
Firefox comes preloaded with some Puppy bookmarks, the flash (7) plugin, and mplayerplug-in. A note about mplayerplug-in: if you close Firefox while video or audio is loading, it will crash. You're closing it anyway, so it isn't a big deal, but the "report error" box
annoying (and ugly). You
change or close the tab, or browse away. It only happens when closing Firefox itself.
If the gui for Mplayer doesn't work, try this dotpup. It will remove the version Pizzapup comes with and install Mplayer 1.0pre-8 (originally packaged by tempestruous I think, in the mplayer108.pup or something similar).
Pizzapup 3.0 comes with SDL and 3DCC pre-installed. Note: It includes 3DCC, not the drivers. You run 3DCC and use it to download them. Also note: along with Puppy's normal SDL pupgets I also included sdl_image, which they don't include.
I replaced Barry's GTK theme changer with MU's. I kept the original GTK themes that Puppy includes, in addition to the ones I added (all except Delightfully-Smooth and G26 have "Smooth-" preceding the name).
I removed Dillo (replaced with HV3 apha 13), Seamonkey (except certain libraries), Inkscapelite, uXplor, GTK-See, JWM, and Gxine, among other minor things. You should be able to reinstall them through pupget, but I can't guarantee there won't be issues (Inkscapelite, for example, doesn't play well with the Smooth-GTK engine, but will work with non-smooth themes).
That's about all I can think of off the top of my head. I'll link to several files with some other details, such as which exact packages I removed, my notes, etc. They're unedited, so don't expect neat, concise, or organized. For clarification, feel free to make a post or PM me.
todo (completed)
Philosophy behind Pizzapup:
Simply put, Pizzapup is my sandbox. It is not intended to be the standard Model-T, but instead a concept car. I use it to see what Puppy and I can do, with hopes that some of the expiriments will filter back into the standard Puppy if they're successful. It is also to show that a small OS is
weak and ugly, but instead highly efficient. The bloat of Vista disgusts me. Many people have the idea that an OS needs to be bloated to be useful. That is the exact opposite: A bloated OS is useless. Others have the idea that a good looking OS must be bloated. This is more true than with functionality, but still wrong. Pizzapup 3.0 is 95 MB, including
themes (I'm a firm believer in choice and personalization). For the most part, it looks better than XP, and far better than 98. It's also many times smaller than both. And it even recognizes my roommate's harddrive (Take
A note on future Pizzapup versions:
I'm in college, so I don't have time to churn these out even half as fast as Barry
What I plan to do is continually add bits and peices to my local version, and when it has accumulated enough I'll clean it up and call it a new version. I'm not going to follow any specific schedule either. I have other projects that need some attention, so I'll just be working on Pizzapup on the side. Like I said, it's my sandbox, not a whole version. Besides, it'll still be a faster cycle than Windows
I'd like to thank the folling for their contributions:
Barry: for Puppy, Unleashed, and promoting individual experiments
John Doe, kirk, and PaulBx1: For the encryption stuff (I created the wizard myself, but the /sbin/init mods were their work)
NathanF: Graphburner
Rarsa: XDG menus
MU: MU-GTK-themechooser, 3DCC, PSI, and hosting, among many other things
GuestToo: Rox 2.5, some IceWM themes, much other misc stuff
Theforkofjustice: For testing Mplayer until your computer fried
Wow: That small Puppy banner that I used as a template for my Pizzapup banner
Whodo: The two Almond Xmms themes
Tometo: For the wallpaper (I just removed the version number, otherwise it's unedited)
Peeps at Devient Art: Most of the other wallpapers
Everybody I'm forgetting: Whatever you did
Everybody else: Inspiration, encouragement, random scripts and support, etc.
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Location: sitn on an iceburg waiting for my next meal to swim by.
Posted: Mon 12 Feb 2007, 22:25
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boy i love ur default desktop it rocks! nice skins. i just downloaded alpha and used it a couple times. looks like ill download this version and give it a try. i have access to cable internet yet tonight so i better take advantage of the bandwidth since ill be downgrading to dial up. im really enjoying trying other ppls puppies.
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Posted: Mon 12 Feb 2007, 22:56
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My screenshots are slightly out of date now. The new default Xmms theme is much nicer. I'll make another one or two tonight if I get bored (trying not to think much, had one exam today and two more tomorrow).
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Posted: Tue 13 Feb 2007, 10:43
Post subject:
Installing additional dotpups under Pizzapup
Subject description: Problems with missing seamonkey/jwm libraries?
First congratulation and thanks to Pizzapup 3!
Im thinking about switching from puppy 2.00 opera to Pizzapup. I like the size and philosophie of pizzapup!
The only serios question that i have is:
Will installing additional dotpups make problems cause of missing libraries from seamonkey or jwm?
e.g. xchat, wine, skype
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Posted: Tue 13 Feb 2007, 11:00
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minimum memory required
Subject description: Will 256 be enough running Pizza 3?
Willl 256MB of memory will be enough running Pizza 3 comfortable?
What experiences are made so far?
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Posted: Tue 13 Feb 2007, 11:07
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encryption feature
Subject description: volumes supportet?
I dont understand the encyption stuff.
Will the entire pup_save be encryptet or only possibility encypting files like bcrypt?
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Posted: Tue 13 Feb 2007, 15:31
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256 should be okay. It isn't too much bigger than the standard Puppy (11-12 MB). I've run beta-3(.5) on my brother's 256MB machine and it did okay. It seemed faster than Puppy 109CE, but I had a bunch of stuff installed in that, whereas Pizzapup was going straight from ram.
The encryption encrypts the entire pza_save.3fs file.
Most dotpups should be fine. Dotpups that would do stuff to the JWM taskbar (like an applet) probably won't work. It is possible to make applets that run in IceWM though, but they have to use eggtrayicon. I have plans to make a volume-setter this way (using the retro style of Xtmix).
Dotpups with Seamonkey dependancies may have problems. I did keep some of the libraries though, otherwise Gaim wouldn't have worked. If you have problems with such an app, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
Thanks for the congratulation
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Location: columbus,ohio
Posted: Tue 13 Feb 2007, 19:38
Post subject: hey there
still new but just wanted to tell yoy i like it i am useing it now i have used puppy on and off for over a year and i just think it is great
thanks alot to you and all the all the other guys that have worked on all of the puppys.
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Posted: Wed 14 Feb 2007, 19:18
Post subject: amsn
amsn 0.96 work on your ver i played with it alittle last night seem ok just want to let you know.
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Posted: Wed 14 Feb 2007, 19:25
Post subject: this is my unit
the computer i am useing is a all in one ecs board vid-sound nic with a amd
duron chip the board is km400-m2 with 256 megs of ram and seems to be doing fine just thought you might want to know thanks alot
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Posted: Wed 14 Feb 2007, 22:45
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Great. Thanks, and glad you like it
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Posted: Thu 15 Feb 2007, 21:59
Post subject: tried it out,
i tried it out, it looks pretty and works, but i can't get it to properly load my wifi card(ipw3945). not a big concern, but i'll be looking for another release, and i'll be working on a workaround for wifi.
gotta love cheese
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Posted: Fri 16 Feb 2007, 04:48
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Hi Pizzasgood. This release has been really amazing - you've done a fantastic job with it.
The multimedia support really blew me away. The best I've ever seen for a Puppy release (That I can recall anyway). I suppose that's MPlayer for you.
One thing I noticed: Trying to access .wmv files in Firefox did not open them up within the MPlayer browser plugin. Quicktime & MPG files opened straight away within the browser. (I've not tried any realtime videos yet).
Oh! Another thing (v.minor). Clicking on an excel file didn't open the file in Gnumeric. Didn't do anything actually. Easily fixed by setting the run action in Rox. No problem. It's a spit'n'polish thing...
I know this is your sandbox, and not intended for any kind of official release, so no worries about fixing these. I would like to know if there is any way I can fix the .wmv thing though.
Not done any hard testing of it - just played with it, and really loved it. Toying with the idea of putting it on a mate's PC - need to add an OOo .sfs file and maybe GIMPshop, but that should be enough.
Just thought I'd feed back to you. (but now I feel a bit guilty, 'cos I've been dying to try Nathan's Grafpup release and not given any feedback to him!!
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Posted: Fri 16 Feb 2007, 14:23
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I finally got around to trying it out and I have to commend you on a job very well done. I'm very impressed with everything that has gone into this, especially on the artistic/themes side of things.
There are a couple things I'd like to learn more about, and while I know if I searched the forum enough I could find the answers, but could you maybe post some links for me or give some tips since I'm so swamped already? I'm interested in offering the encrypted save file option in Grafpup, even though it can now run multiuser anyway. I'm also wondering if there is any plain information anywhere about how to change the mouse cursor, that doesn't say something like 'Go to the Gnome preferences menu'. I thought I knew how to do that but apparently not, because my cursor is still using the default one. And the ones you find are always quite noce, BTW.
Back to Pizzapup. I like the delightfully smooth theme, and it's one I didn't have, so thanks for finding it. The xmms theme is also quite nice, and icewm is looking good also.
Bring on the locusts ...
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Posted: Fri 16 Feb 2007, 18:57
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Thanks. I'll be trying out Graphpup next week (too many exams this week). The encryption consists of three things. You have to edit /sbin/init (in initrd) to load an encrypted file. You also have to edit the shutdown script where it creates a save-file to ask if it should be encrypted and then make it that way. Finally (and this isn't a requirement) there is my save-file-wizard, which lets you create, encrypt, and decrypt save-files. When it makes a new one, it can also copy in the contents of an existing save-file.
I based the /sbin/init changes on John Doe, kirk, and PaulBx1's work. They had a thread
that detailed the process. Next week when I package my packages, I'll also document my changes to the shutdown stuff, or at least post the scripts.
Oh, I also added
modprobe aes
modprobe cryptoloop
to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.
The cursor was simple. There were some files in the devx addon that Puppy needed, then you just stick the theme in /root/.icons or someplace in /usr that I don't remember.
The files were:
/usr/X11R7/lib/libXcursor.so (a symlink)
Wmv's, eh? I'll take a look.
I had already noticed that Rox didn't have a runaction set for .gnumeric files and fixed that, but I don't work with Excel (any more) so I never noticed that. I'll take care of that in my package.
I was going to call this RC a final, but if I get wmvs working I'll probably upload a new iso. I think there was some other small tweak I wanted to do, but I don't remember now.
I'm not opposed to fixing things. Small details like that are important. What I
opposed to is "Most people do such and such, so you should support them". I'm open to suggestions, but I have no desire to please everyone. If there is a conflict between what would satisfy the majority and what would satisfy me, I win. That's why it's Pizzapup, not MajorPup. But I will gladly iron out small wrinkles when I can. Even though they make my head hurt sometimes, I like to know about all the little things, and if they don't warrant a new release on their own, they can work their way into the next one.
Thanks again to both of you.
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My name is Shannon. I am a mother and for the last 11 years I have been a teacher in an elementary school. Working with children and their families and seeing the strong need for education to continue in the home has inspired me to write this book helping parents understand how they can naturally infuse education into play. The book introduces the ideas in a friendly, conversational way and shows parents how they can use regular household items and daily routines to help their kids learn while they play.
This is the first book I have written, although I hope to write more if this goes well! I am excited to share my ideas and hope to inspire parents to want to use my ideas and to come up with their own. Overall, I just want parents to see how easy and fun it can be to blend learning and play. Thank you for helping me grab readers' attention and make them want to open the book to find out more!
I expect my audience to be parents of children ages 3-11 years old who are opened to reading about ideas on how to incorporate more learning into their child's daily home life. I wrote my book to appeal to all kinds of parents (busy, young, old, rich, poor, and of all ethnic backgrounds), and I wrote it to be non-threatening and non-judgmental. I would say my book fits into the categories of both family/parenting and education. It might even fit in with self-help books if you are talking about making personal changes or improvements in parenting. This is not a home-schooling book! This is not a "how-to-parent" book. This is a book for parents who want to be an active part of their child's life, encourage them to learn, engage in activities with them, and foster the kind of environment that embraces fun and learning at the same time. This book contains ideas for play, checklists, helpful hints, and free material suggestions. I define terms used and brake down chapters by daily activities (bath time, meal time, the daily commute, outdoor play, etc.).
Title: The Smart Home
Subtitle: The Natural Way to Educate through Play
Written by: Shannon Pretorius M.Ed
For the back cover:
"This is a book about the everyday routines and rituals that your family engages in and how you can inject educational vocabulary, activities, mindset, and play into those routines naturally, with little or no cost.
I wrote this book because I am a working mother and an elementary school teacher and I understand the precious value of your time with your family. As a mother, I want to make sure that I give my child the experiences that will help her grow, learn, and thrive in life, school, and every journey in which she partakes. As a teacher, I want my child to feel comfortable and enjoy the learning process that will be an ongoing part of her life. I feel that the more I can do with her naturally at home, the more she will embrace the idea of lifelong learning and the easier it will be for her."
I am picturing a simple, clean cover. Feel free to play with color but not too overwhelming overall. Images are great. Something related to kids or play would be appropriate. Make it fun but professional to appeal to parents of all backgrounds. I don't want this to look like a school book or a text book because it is not one.
Book size is 6"x9". (About 130 pages) Soft cover.
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The blaze at the long vacant Newcomb Hotel broke out late Friday. Quincy Fire Chief Joe Henning told reporters the building was completely destroyed. He said about 30 firefighters battled the blaze.
The Quincy Herald-Whig reported demolition was slated for Sunday and expected to be completed by evening.
The hotel first opened in 1888 but had been empty for years.
City officials had recently agreed to enter negotiations with a developer to possibly renovate the building into apartments.
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text: Seller: jacksonsonmain (1,448) 100%, Location: Mount Sterling, Kentucky, Ships to: Worldwide, Item: 160717306598 DESCRIPTION: 6th Century Byzantine Bronze Cross. Fantastic condition. MATERIALS: Bronze APPROXIMATE MEASUREMENTS: 2 3/8" X 2 3/16" Jackson's On Main sells high quality art and antiquities at excellent prices from our extensive collection and from the private collections of our clients and various estates. Due to prior negative experiences, we reserve the right to cancel any bids from bidders with hidden feedback ratings. Please DO NOT BID if you have a private feedback rating. SHIPPING & PAYMENT INFORMATION: ALL items are packed and shipped with utmost care. WE SHIP VIA U.P.S., U.S.P.S., OR FED-EX. Buyer is responsible for shipping and handling costs as stated in the auction unless 'FREE SHIPPING' is indicated. Insurance is included in any shipping costs/quotes. Payment by PAYPAL please Bill Jackson Jackson's On Main 209 West Main Street Mount Sterling, KY 40353 United States QUESTIONS: Feel free to contact us with any questions. If you have questions about a specific auction please contact us at least 24 hours before the auction ends so we can reply before the auction ends. We appreciate your interest in our auctions, but PLEASE, if you are not satisfied with the auction description or with our response to your questions, we would rather you NOT BID than be disappointed with your purchase. Jackson's On Main History: Our business was established in 1966 by Claude and William Jackson, father and son, in Hollywood, California. Claude Jackson (now deceased) was a well known West Coast artist who executed numerous fine works many depicting the great movie stars of early Hollywood. Several of his works have been published and those originals now reside in the collections of various noted individuals and institutions. Most notable probably is his depiction of Marilyn Monroe in his 'Red Kimono', 1975, published as the centerfold in Roger Taylor's anthology Marilyn in Art (1984). For years we operated as a mail order fine art distribution firm selling posters and other contemporary multiples. As time passed we grew and diversified with antique furniture and global antiquities and now we maintain a 3,000 square foot full service walk-in art, antique, and antiquities Gallery in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. We are fully staffed and equipped to provide prompt professional service and we guarantee ALL sales to be as described. We also are always interested in purchasing quality art works and we pay top dollar. If we can't buy it we will gladly consign it and work diligently for you to insure a prompt and fair sale. Please send pictures for quotes. In the meanwhile, Bid with confidence! We guarantee your full satisfaction with every sale. Bill and Donna Jackson Owners RETURN POLICY Jackson's On Main fully guarantees your satisfaction with each and every purchase. Please view our Feedback rating and comments. Upon receipt of your item if you are dissatisfied for ANY reason please return it within 7 days in the same condition in which it was sold for a full 'no questions asked' refund. CONDITION STATEMENT Since most of the items we offer are quite old they may well have defects that come with years of age. We attempt to offer excellent photographs and give our general opinion of the condition of the item but those remarks are not always all-inclusive. As such, if you have ANY questions whatsoever, be certain to email or call us to seek clarification before placing your bid. We sincerely appreciate your cooperation in this understanding. We are proud of the items we sell and we are confident you will be pleased in each and every instance. International Buyers – Please Note: Import duties, taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding or buying. ow106 Powered by eBay Turbo Lister The free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. Powered by eBay Turbo Lister The free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. Powered by eBay Turbo Lister The free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items.


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A woman moved to a new city and went shopping for a new health club. Her previous fitness facility had introduced her to functional training, and she was looking to continue her exercise regimen at a new club.
She visited both national chains and local clubs, which offered a variety of machines and cardio equipment. Unfortunately, none had the open space that she needed — a "new" area that would allow her to continue functional training using a wide range of exercise tools, such as medicine balls, bands, exercise balls and more.
The woman wanted to use some strength and cardio machines and do some free weights, but her workout now had a new balance with core body movements using her new exercise "toys." Functional training enabled her to use her body in such a way that related to how she used her body in her daily life.
This training rejuvenated her, and it has rejuvenated fitness training nationwide. Functional training is credited with creating a renaissance in personal training because it gets people better results and helps them to start feeling like energetic children again. This is the main reason that personal training is the fastest growing profit center in clubs. However, if clubs do not properly plan for functional training, the profits will go to their competitors that do.
So when this individual went out looking for a new club, the one thing she did not find in most of the clubs she visited was the space to do this training. Nor did she find the training tools needed for functional fitness. Two of the clubs were 45,000 square feet and each had only 150 square feet for "floor work" and stretching. Another club had some of the tools, but they were in piles here and there with no place to properly store them or adequately use them. Most clubs had plenty of equipment but no place to get a complete workout.
Industry trends show that clubs that don't allow for a minimum of 400 square feet to 1,000 square feet of open space are missing the boat. It's also equally important to allow for easily accessible space to store all of the apparatuses used by individuals to experiment with in moving and conditioning their bodies to new levels.
If ever the word magic could be used in a health club, it could be when you take a minimally used racquetball court, office area or lobby space and turn it into a functional training area. Recently, a Connecticut club transformed a poorly used bar and restaurant area into a new personal training area. The facility added more windows so the members could see the functional training apparatus and people doing a wide range of "new" movements. The area is now the "talk of the club." Members are asking, "What are those people doing?" and "How do I learn to do those exercises?" The excitement and visible exposure of the space combined with qualified personal trainers have personal training revenue growing rapidly. Now the former 500 square feet of minimal revenue producing space is a new found "gold mine" for the 26-year-old club.
New clubs shouldn't even dream of opening facilities without such space, and existing clubs should even get rid of some fixed movement machines (could it possibly be that fewer machines might even be better?) to make way for some open training spaces.
Training space is therefore absolutely necessary for any "club of the future." A club will limit its ability to generate more training revenue, will have less satisfied customers and will lose its competitive edge in the marketplace if it doesn't make this space available.
Additionally, clubs are learning that training spaces work far better when the club employs qualified trainers who believe in and are well versed in functional training. When the trainers start to adopt a new training prescription for people to reach their goals combined with the new space and necessary apparatuses to do such training, the training space produces the highest revenue per square foot in a club.
Training spaces serve the evolving needs of the marketplace and the physical activity requirements of the average inactive adult. Wonderful opportunities are waiting for those that take advantage of this and progressively educate people on what is now considered "lifestyle" training. Take a look at your club and see if you are benefiting from this renaissance of training. Your members will be rewarded with more satisfying fitness, and you will be rewarded with more profits.
Bruce Carter is the president of Optimal Fitness Design Systems International, a club design firm that has created about $420 million worth of clubs in 45 states and 26 countries.


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It is a pleasure to forward this editorial note on the SHAPE Task Force report. The contributors to the SHAPE initiative must be congratulated for their original, ambitious, and provocative approach to the number one problem in the cardiovascular field, affecting millions of lives annually.Provocative, indeed. A very polite critique was offered on this screening approach by Daniel DeNoon of WebMD with inciteful commentary by Eric J. Topol, MD. It is important to realize that calcium scoring has been controversial in cardiology because it uses forms of CT scanning that expose patients to high doses of radiation (average 82 mrem for men and a whopping 150 mrem for women - for comparison a 2-view chest x-ray is about 10 mrem and a 2 view mamogram is about 35 mrem), and have been marketed directly to the patient-consumer without federal support (i.e., Medicare reimbursement) for its clinical utility, and hence has been viewed by many as a technology to line certain imaging physicians' pockets. Could a financial incentive be happening with the latest initiative?
First of all, the Association of the Eradication of Heart Attacks (AEHA.org) was founded by Morteza Naghavi, MD, of the Texas Heart Institute (and carries its official address as 2472 Bolsover Dr, Suite 439, Houston, TX) which also happens to be nearly the same address as Endothelix, Inc. - with its official address of 2472 Bolsover Dr, Suite 439C, Houston, TX - which Mr. Naghavi also founded and owns shares in as well. Endothelix specializes in Digital Thermal Monitoring technology for the early diagnosis of "vulnerable plaque" in coronary disease. Interestingly, Dr. Naghavi's "Association" also seems interested in promoting intravascular ultrasound as a screening tool for carotid plaque and owns shares of Volcano Corporation - that happens to have a member of its board (S. Ward Casscells, MD) from the Texas Heart Institute where Dr. Naghavi works. Dr. Naghavi also has a number of patents in this area of calcium scoring. Now, given all this that I could find on the internet - are we really ready to advise this screening without prospective, randomized trials of its safety or efficacy (especially in terms of long-term cancer risk to our patients)? Or are we willing to repeat a scenario similar to the one we saw recently here in Chicago when doctors with financial interests in ultrafiltration for heart failure were recommending this therapy for their patients or the scenario reported regarding the financial ties between the Cleveland Clinic and Atricure?
Now don't get me wrong - I appreciate the doctors' willingness to disclose their ties to the companies involved. But before we adopt such broad, sweeping recommendations and make them part of policy recommendations that affect the entire US population, we must remove all potential financial conflicts of interests from the recommending body, have a better understanding of the real outcomes and costs imposed when a scan or ultrasound is found to be "positive," and be damn sure the side effects of such scanning (in terms of life-time carcinogenesis) doesn't create new public health problems (analogous to the days when radiation was used to treat acne).


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After registration comes fee payment and/or financial aid validation. Georgia Highlands College is not allowed to defer fee payment after the stated deadlines, according to Board of Regents Policy.
In order to avoid classes being dropped, students need to pay in full by the established deadlines.
After registering, students should print out their combined schedule/charges at the designated computer. Current charges and bills can be downloaded from our website. Paper bills are no longer mailed.
View Schedule/Billing.
The student should then proceed with fee payment or validation as follows:
Financial Aid Payment:
IMPORTANT: If a student's financial aid covers tuition and fees when your schedule/charges are printed, you will have a negative balance. If financial aid credits are not printed on the schedule/charges as the student expects, the student should contact the Financial Aid Office immediately at 706-295-6311.
This means that a student relying on financial aid to pay fees and registers, but later decides NOT to attend school must drop their classes to avoid unsatisfactory grades or financial liability (for loans, pells, etc.)
Methods of Payment other than Financial Aid:
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These four mortgages require little down payment
Home buyers with little money for a down payment are finding more home loans available for a low down payment or no down payment.
These mortgages are becoming more commonplace even as the country recovers from a housing bust made worse by the popularity of low down-payment mortgages during the housing boom.
The Federal Housing Administration insures loans with small down payments. And private mortgage insurers have lowered their down payment requirements.
It's possible to get a mortgage today with no money down. The nation's biggest credit union offers "zero-down" mortgages. The Veterans Administration and the Department of Agriculture guarantee home loans with no down payments.
Following are a few options for borrowers seeking low down-payment and zero down-payment home mortgages:
Veterans Affairs (formerly the Veterans Administration) guarantees no-down purchase mortgages for qualified veterans. Private lenders originate VA loans, which the VA guarantees. There is no mortgage insurance. The borrower pays a funding fee, which can be rolled into the loan amount.
The VA funding fee varies, depending on whether the veteran served in the regular military or in the Reserves or National Guard, and whether it's the veteran's first VA loan or a subsequent one. The funding fee can be as low as 2.15 percent or as high as 3.3 percent.
Navy Federal Credit Union, the nation's largest in assets and membership, offers 100 percent financing to qualified members for buying primary homes. Credit union eligibility is restricted to members of the military, some civilian employees of the military and U.S. Department of Defense, and family members.
Navy Federal resumed zero-down financing in 2010 after a hiatus of a couple of years. Barbara Sheehan, Navy Federal's assistant vice president for mortgage products, said when members of the military are transferred, they sometimes own houses whose values have fallen, wiping out equity.
"Some people had to take losses to sell their houses, so to have to start over and save the money again for a down payment is really difficult," she said.
The credit union's zero-down program is similar to the VA's. One difference is cost: Navy Federal's funding fee of 1.75 percent is less than the VA's funding fees.
The Department of Agriculture's Rural Development mortgage guarantee program is so popular it has been known to run out of money before the end of the fiscal year.
"That's the cat's meow, my favorite loan program," said Jeff Tufford, mortgage consultant for Monarch Mortgage Consulting, in Grand Blanc, Mich.
Some borrowers are surprised to find Rural Development loans aren't confined to farmland.
"It's not all rural," Tufford said.
Grand Blanc is a suburb of Flint. There are nearby towns, such as Fenton and Davison, where "no one would walk there and say this is a rural area, but the USDA can do loans there."
The USDA has maps on its website that highlight eligible areas. In addition to geographical limits, the USDA program has restrictions on household income, and it's intended for first-time buyers, although there are exceptions.
The USDA mortgage comes from a bank, and there is no mortgage insurance. Instead, the USDA levies a 2 percent guarantee fee, which can be rolled into the loan amount.
The zero-down options listed above are restricted to limited groups of buyers. With a minimum down payment of 3.5 percent, the Federal Housing Administration is the low-down option that's available to the most people.
Today, about 15 percent of all home loan borrowers get FHA-insured loans, up from 3 percent during the housing boom. The FHA gained market share after many other low-down-payment options (such as piggyback loans) evaporated in the housing bust.
Losses to the insurance fund compelled the FHA to hike rates. The FHA charges an upfront premium of 1.75 percent of the mortgage amount. On a loan with the minimum down payment, there's an annual premium of 1.25 percent of the mortgage amount, or $1,250 a year for each $100,000 borrowed - a little over $100 a month.
There is one more option for borrowers in the "low-down-payment" camp: A standard home loan with private mortgage insurance.
A number of companies offer private mortgage insurance for home loans with down payments of less than 20 percent. PMI is not the same thing as FHA insurance, a form of public mortgage insurance.
Typically, loans with private mortgage insurance require higher down payments than the FHA requires. But for home buyers who can afford down payments of at least 5 percent, mortgages with PMI often have lower monthly payments than equivalent loans insured by the FHA.
Private mortgage insurance has another edge over FHA: Under certain conditions, you can cancel PMI earlier - as soon as two years after you get the loan, compared to a wait of at least five years to cancel FHA insurance.
In the first few years of the housing bust, private mortgage insurers slapped a "declining market" label on the worst-hit housing markets and required minimum down payments of 10 percent or more, instead of the traditional minimum of 5 percent.
Now, at least some of the insurers have relaxed the requirements, even in hard-hit states such as Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada and Michigan.
"We'll do 5 percent down across the country," said Chris Antonello, senior vice president of marketing for Genworth, a mortgage insurer based in Raleigh, N.C.


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If you're looking to make the argument that soccer has finally gained a foothold with the American sports-watching public, you'd be off to a good start by citing the TV ratings from last night's thriller between Portugal and the United States, because they were bananas.
According to Sports Illustrated's Richard Deitsch, ESPN's broadcast of the game averaged 18.22 million viewers, while Univision brought in another 6.5 million. That's the most viewers either network has ever had for a soccer match involving an American team, and as Deitsch points out, the actual number of viewers is likely a fair bit higher due to how many people watched the game at various viewing parties. Here's a jarring sentence:
The match was ESPN's most-viewed sporting event on its airwaves excluding NFL and college football telecasts and is a clear indication of the growth of the World Cup as a television event.
For comparison's sake, Game 7 of the 2013 NBA finals averaged 26.3 million viewers, and as Joe Posnanski pointed out, only one World Series game in the last decade—Game 7 in 2011, if you're curious—has done as well. So yeah, a lot of people are watching soccer. Sorry, Dan Shaughnessy.


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Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a condition familiar to many women. Also known as ovarian cycle syndrome or premenstrual tension, it's defined as a set of symptoms (e.g., moodiness, bloating, breast tenderness) that comes on a few days before the start of a menstrual period. Unfortunately, PMS is poorly understood.
Different women will experience different PMS symptoms, and not every woman experiences PMS. For some women, PMS may cause major discomfort and even disrupt normal activities. Some are totally unaffected and feel perfectly fine during the days leading up to menstruation.
Other women may have a more severe form of PMS called premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Women with this form of PMS may suffer severe depression, anger, or low self-esteem along with other symptoms.
Women's menstrual cycles are controlled by a complex interaction of female hormones. These hormones help initiate menstruation during puberty, determine the rhythm and length of menstrual periods during childbearing years, and signal the end of menstruation at menopause. Hormonal control of menstruation involves the brain, pituitary gland, and ovaries.
The exact cause of PMS is unknown. It's thought to be related to changes in the level of specific hormones. A few studies suggest that PMS symptoms are linked to premenstrual fluctuations in a brain chemical called serotonin and increased sensitivity to the hormone progesterone. Other studies suggest that the hormone estrogen causes fluid retention, which probably explains the temporary weight gain, breast tenderness, and bloating experienced by many women with PMS. Recent research suggests that women with PMS may metabolize progesterone differently. Other hormonal and metabolic changes may also be involved, but further research is needed.
Other possible factors that may be associated with PMS symptoms include:
- lack of certain vitamins and minerals
- eating a diet that is high in salty foods
- drinking alcohol or caffeine
Symptoms and Complications
If you suffer from PMS, you may experience different types of symptoms than your mother, your sister, or a female friend. Even if your symptoms are the same as someone else's, you may experience them more or less intensely. Your symptoms may vary from menstrual period to menstrual period and may change over the years. For some women, symptoms are intense but short-lived. Other women have to interrupt their normal routines because of the symptoms they experience.
Symptoms can last anywhere from a few hours to 2 weeks before the start of a menstrual period. They usually start to go away when your period begins. In women close to menopause, symptoms may continue through and after a menstrual period. Some women go on to have painful periods after experiencing PMS. Teenage girls, for example, often have very painful periods after PMS, but this trend usually disappears as they get older.
PMS symptoms can be grouped into three categories:
Physical changes
- backaches
- bloating due to fluid retention
- breast tenderness, fullness, and pain
- changes in appetite (includes cravings for certain foods like chocolate)
- constipation or diarrhea
- difficulty falling asleep
- dizziness
- feeling of heaviness or pressure in the pelvis
- headaches or migraines
- hot flashes
- joint pain and swelling
- lack of energy
- nausea and vomiting
- severe fatigue
- skin problems such as acne or itching
- temporary weight gain
- worsening of existing allergies
Mood changes
- agitation
- anger
- depression
- feeling sad, hopeless, or overwhelmed
- irritability
- mood swings
- nervousness
Mental changes
- confusion
- difficulty concentrating
- memory loss or forgetfulness
Complications usually involve existing medical conditions that are made worse by PMS. Allergies or eye problems may be more severe, and women who have epilepsy may have more seizures than usual. Women who have lupus or rheumatoid arthritis may experience flare-ups during this time.
Making the Diagnosis
PMS is a condition that's largely self-diagnosed. This means that women tend to label themselves with PMS without actually seeing a doctor. Because PMS symptoms tend to reappear with every menstrual cycle, it becomes easy to recognize them. Those close to you may also notice differences in your behaviour.
A doctor may diagnose PMS if you tend to have many of the symptoms listed previously. The diagnosis of PMS includes a detailed history, checking for menstrual regularity, ovulation, and hormonal fluctuations, and in some cases looking for possible psychiatric disorders (such as depression).
It is often useful for women to chart their symptoms on a calendar to see if the symptoms are cyclical or last the entire month. This helps distinguish PMS from depression.
Treatment and Prevention
Proper nutrition, regular exercise, and a healthy lifestyle generally help with PMS. Speaking with your doctor may help remove fears surrounding this diagnosis. A combination of one or more of the following treatments may help relieve symptoms:
Medications: Taking oral contraceptives may help stabilize the changes in hormone levels and stop ovulation. Bloating and water retention can be improved by cutting down on salt and by using a mild diuretic that will make you urinate. Taking over-the-counter pain relievers such as acetaminophen* or ibuprofen can help relieve headaches, joint pain, and menstrual cramping. The antidepressant medications known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are widely used to manage psychological symptoms like anxiety and depression. These antidepressants have been proven to help manage PMS. However, you need to discuss this with your doctor first before starting any medication or herbal remedy to make sure it's appropriate and safe for you.
Changes in diet: Cutting back on sugar, coffee, and alcohol may provide some relief from symptoms. Taking supplements containing calcium, magnesium, soy, vitamin B6, and vitamin E may reduce certain symptoms. To date, among these supplements, calcium has the most convincing evidence. Some women use certain herbal products such as evening primrose oil, St. John's wort, and chasteberry to decrease their symptoms; however, the effectiveness of such products is not known. Always talk to your doctor or pharmacist before taking a vitamin, supplement, or herbal product.
Exercise: Regular exercise and stress reduction techniques may decrease nervousness and agitation as well as reduce symptoms associated with PMS.
Counselling: Speaking to a counsellor may help some women cope better with the psychological effects of PMS.
Keeping a symptom diary can give you and your doctor a better picture of your symptoms and help you evaluate the effects of different treatments.
*All medications have both common (generic) and brand names. The brand name is what a specific manufacturer calls the product (e.g., Tylenol®). The common name is the medical name for the medication (e.g., acetaminophen). A medication may have many brand names, but only one common name. This article lists medications by their common names. For information on a given medication, check our Drug Information database. For more information on brand names, speak with your doctor or pharmacist.
All material copyright MediResource Inc. 1996 – 2020. Terms and conditions of use. The contents herein are for informational purposes only. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Source: www.medbroadcast.com/condition/getcondition/Premenstrual-Syndrome


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Vancouver Review: The Archeology of Metrotown
Out of the smoke and ash arose the young Socialist Party orator William Pritchard. He'd been jailed for seditious conspiracy in 1919, but you could still find him signing up members at the old Federated Labour Party Hall, at Jubilee, in 1927. The hall burned down in 1935, so a new one was built that year, and that new hall was the mysterious building at the top of my street when I was a kid. It's still there, right by Synergy Computers. It's the Elks Lodge at 6884 Jubilee Avenue, for the Burnaby Elks Royal Purple # 260 and South Burnaby Elks # 497. The Burnaby Floral Arts Society meets there the second Monday of every month.
Another of the buildings from that lost city, the warehouse on Telford with the CG Co-op sign, has also survived. It's now the Burnaby Store-All. The sign above the loading dock is gone, and the letters, CG, occur only in the cartography of memory and archival records. They stand for the Army of the Common Good, which set out to build a new economy from the ashes of capitalism, which collapsed, thoroughly and utterly, in 1929.
The Army's soldiers toiled in their common fields, raised hundreds of tons of produce, and logged Burnaby Mountain and built furniture. They arose from the overflowing ranks of the destitute of Burnaby's Ward 6, which is now Metrotown. They even printed their own money. Their notes were called labour units, but most people called them lulus.
Times got harder. Window-smashings were attributed to "red elements," almost a third of Burnaby's residents were on the dole, and close to half the landowners were unable to pay their taxes. The people started marching on Burnaby's municipal hall on Kingsway, down by Edmonds, and they all sang The Red Flag. Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer, they sang, we'll keep the red flag flying here.
By then, Pritchard was the mayor. He put the jobless to work. He paid them well, from municipal funds and credit and loans, and they built the great north-south thoroughfares of Willingdon and Sperling and Cariboo Road. On it went like this, then the money ran out. Years later, after everything that had happened, after the provincial government took Burnaby's municipal charter away and imposed direct rule, Pritchard accounted for himself by saying:
I would do the same thing again. I had neighbours, and I could see their children's faces becoming more drawn.
But the world moved on. The Digney family built the Oak Theatre in 1937, and in 1938, the Ford Assembly Plant arose from the land the settlers lost because they couldn't pay their taxes. Then there was another war in Europe, and the vines engulfed the tumuli once again.


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Company surpasses Climate Leaders program emissions reduction goal and makes substantial progress on Exelon 2020
CHICAGO (April 7, 2009) - In its ongoing effort to address climate change, Exelon announced today that as of the end of 2008 it had reduced its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by more than 35 percent from 2001 levels. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently approved Exelon's reduction of nearly 6 million metric tons in carbon emissions - an amount equal to the annual emissions of approximately 1 million passenger vehicles. Stantec, an independent third-party provider of environmental consulting services, also verified the reduction.
Exelon's GHG emissions reduction not only exceeded its voluntary EPA Climate Leaders program goal of 8 percent, but also shows significant progress on the company's carbon reduction strategy, Exelon 2020: A Low-Carbon Roadmap. Exelon 2020 sets a goal of reducing, offsetting or displacing more than 15 million metric tons of GHG emissions per year by 2020. This is more than the company's carbon footprint in 2001, its first full year of operation. Exelon 2020 is the natural evolution of the company's early climate change initiatives and expands the reach of its emissions reduction programs beyond the Exelon family of companies to its customers, communities, suppliers and the markets it serves.
Exelon Chairman and CEO John W. Rowe announced Exelon's carbon reduction achievement today in a speech at the Energy Information Administration 2009 Energy Conference in Washington, D.C.
"As a national energy policy begins to take shape in Washington, we believe that our industry must take decisive action to address climate change," Rowe said. "For Exelon, reducing our greenhouse gas emissions is both an environmental and a business necessity. We committed to a voluntary reduction goal under the EPA Climate Leaders program to demonstrate that we could achieve meaningful carbon reductions. We expanded that goal with Exelon 2020, which will drive our transition to a low-carbon future."
"Exelon's leadership on reducing its greenhouse gas emissions shows us all what can be accomplished through sustained commitment and action," said Kathleen Hogan, Director, Climate Protection Partnerships Division at the U.S. EPA.
Consistent with its cost-efficient approach, Exelon initially focused on its operations to achieve most of its early GHG reductions, including:
"Our progress to date highlights the important role of competitive markets in enabling the transition to a low-carbon economy," said Rowe. "We believe that competitive energy markets are critical in driving economical decisions, such as retiring inefficient fossil plants and pursuing the most cost-effective emissions reductions first. Competition also impels us to advocate for federal cap-and-trade legislation, which we believe will address climate change at the lowest possible cost to customers."
Exelon continues to implement numerous initiatives this year working toward its Exelon 2020 goal. These include: further increasing the energy efficiency of its buildings, power plants, vehicle fleets; continuing to engage its suppliers to create an industry-leading green supply chain; procuring renewable energy to offset a portion of Exelon's energy consumption; and expanding customer energy-efficiency programs offered by Exelon's energy delivery subsidiaries, ComEd and PECO, including Smart Grid pilot programs. Exelon also plans to continue to increase the output of its nuclear power plants through uprates to offer more low-carbon electricity in the marketplace.


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ROCKFORD — A Cary business owner was sentenced today in federal court to more than five years in prison for conducting a 3½-year, multi-million dollar international fraud scheme.
U.S. District Judge Frederick Kapala sentenced Clare Thomas Anderson, 45, to 63 months in prison, three years of supervised released after his release from prison and to pay nearly $6.2 million in restitution.
Anderson, who owned and operated multiple businesses in Cary and Florida, pleaded guilty to a federal wire fraud charge on April 5, 2012.
According to the plea agreement, Anderson owned and operated several businesses through which he contracted to sell wood pulp and other raw materials to manufacturers, brokers and suppliers usually located in foreign countries.
Anderson obtained payments from his customers before the shipments arrived at their destinations. Often, the customers obtained letters of credit from their banks in order to pay for the shipments in advance. Anderson admitted he obtained these payments by creating and presenting fraudulent documents to his customers. The documents falsely represented the quantity and quality of materials that had been shipped.
Anderson also admitted that on some occasions, instead of shipping the agreed upon amounts of wood pulp or other raw materials, he shipped substantially smaller amounts. When the customers called and complained about the short shipments, Anderson falsely told them that the short shipments were caused by clerical errors.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Verseman.


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The Taming of the Shrew
The Bolshoi's acclaimed production of Shakespeare's boisterous comedy, with choreography by Jean-Christophe Maillot and music by Shostakovich.
Acclaimed choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot's fast-paced, athletic production of The Taming of the Shrew is a perfect vehicle for the superb strengths of the Bolshoi. Drawing out all that is witty and light-hearted in Shostakovich's music, this vibrant production perfectly conveys Shakespeare's brilliantly entertaining depiction of the clash between two feisty individuals, as independent, tempestuous Katharina is 'tamed' by the boorish Petruchio.
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Wednesday, 3rd August 2016
Thursday, 4th August 2016
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Royal Opera House
Bow Street
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(3 mins) The Royal Opera House is off Covent Garden piazza, which is visible from the tube station exit. There is a revolving door entrance at the piazza.


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In the United States, there are 66 Jesuit parishes. A Jesuit parish is guided by the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, which encourages people to reflect on their experiences and to discern God's presence in their lives. Such a parish aims to nurture lay leadership as well as personal faith. It is also committed to "the faith that does justice" by way of solidarity with the poor and dedication to the greater good.
Jesuit parishes are located in inner cities, suburbs and rural outposts, as well as on college campuses and Native American reservations.
Following is a detailed guide to Jesuit parishes in the United States.


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Place oil, popcorn and salt in a large pot. Cover and heat on high until the popcorn begins to pop. Reduce the heat and continue until all corn has been popped. Pour popped corn into a large mixing bowl or pot. Preheat the oven to 300°.
To prepare the caramel topping, place the maple and barley malt syrups in a medium saucepan. Heat on high heat until boiling, stirring constantly. Reduce the heat to medium, continue stirring, and cook for 7 minutes or until the syrup forms a soft ball when a bit is dropped into a glass of cold water. Remove from the heat, add the vanilla and mix. Add the baking soda, stirring constantly, until the syrup foams and thickens. Pour the hot syrup over the popped corn and mix quickly to evenly coat the corn.
Lightly oil two large baking sheets and spread the corn evenly over. Bake for 15 minutes, mixing periodically to evenly bake. Turn the oven up to 325° and bake for another few minutes, mixing frequently, until the caramel has hardened. To test for doneness, remove a morsel of popcorn periodically. Stir frequently to prevent burning. Remove and allow to cool and syrup to harden.
Yield: 24 cups
Per serving - 109 calories, 12 g fat (63% calories from fat), 1 g protein, 16 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 0 mg cholesterol, 131 mg sodium


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