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Hello, I'm having a problem where any 3D game will freeze up the moment I launch the game. The screen goes black for about 5 seconds, then takes me to my desktop and stays frozen until I end the program with ctrl-alt-del. This problem started about 3 days ago. However, I've had a problem for a long time where certain games, such as Grand Theft Auto III won't start because I get an error message that the game requires at least 16MB of video memory (even though I have 128MB). And with 3D games that do work, I get lots of little white dots all over the screen. My graphics card manufacturer says there is no problem with my card. I ignored these problems for about a year but now it's gotten to the point where games won't start up at all. I have tried replacing the motherboard, RAM, video card, and monitor with no success. All my drivers are up to date and I have the latest DirectX.
One thing to note - One time when I had started up a game, Mechwarrior 4, the game did its usual freezing thing for about 30 seconds. Then when it finally took me back to Windows there was an error message saying "Device failure detected". But my computer works fine except games won't start.
Any help/ideas anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
System specs:
Windows XP Home
Intel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz processor
Albatron GeForce 4 Ti4280 128 MB graphics card
1024 MB Kingston PC3200 HyperX RAM
Asus P4P800 Deluxe motherboard
Maxtor 120GB hard drive
I recommend downloading and running DAP. It can help sort out any driver and firmware related issues on your system
It's worked out well for many of us in the past.
You can download it direct from this link http://downloaddap.org. (This link will open the download page of DAP so you can save a copy to your computer.)
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I have played BL2, ROBLOX, Dirty Bomb, and others, fine, but when I start one up one day and it just freezes my whole entire computer. I click play in the launcher/STEAM and it just freezes and makes the current sound go over and over. Mouse is unresponsive, can't even CTRL + ALT + DELETE, nada. Can't do anything other than a cold shutdown. Windows is my main pain in the *** while Mac works completely fine. Any help whatsoever? (P.S Most games work completely fine)
Do you have a malware infection?
When Im Playing a game, my computer shuts it off in the middle of gameplay, any explanation?
(I tried re-installing, and it didnt work)
Also, Im trying to install a few programs onto my computer, and during intallation, my com puter freezes, any explanations?
Thank You To anyone Who Replies!!!
Welcome to TSG!
You problem could be resource related. Please give us a little more information about your system. The OS your using, the computer itself, Ram, processor and so on.
it used to work fine then about a week ago it started to freeze. i thought it had a virus so i tried to run a scan and it just froze again. i went on it again today and it is still freezing, i ran windows malicious software removal tool and it didnt find anything. When it freezes i have to restart it incorrectly then it comes up with a thing and asks if i want to start StartUp Repair. I do this, its fine, then freezes again and the cycle returns. Please help. I'm really worried.
it is vista. compaq presario C700
also the inbuilt microphone on it doesnt work anymore either if that is related.
Personally, I think you should click on the "report" link of your post and ask the moderator to move your thread to the malware removal forum, to be certain that the malware is gone.
Be sure to read
and http://forums.techguy.org/general-security/603619-please-read-before-posting-forum.html
It is possible that the programs you listed have missed a nasty piece of malware.
Be sure to read http://forums.techguy.org/malware-removal-hijackthis-logs/622404-please-read-here-first-before.html .
Ok my friend's computer is exhibiting the symptoms as I've described in the title.
Basically it's freezing whenever you seem to be doing anything thats a little bit more system intensive than just sitting idle. Opening webpages, viewing video in full screen etc.
You restart it and it's like frozen with just the blue desktop and an egg timer on the screen.
I think this is obviously a heat issue because if you leave it a while after it's frozen and then start it up it's back to normal.
Thing is I've only jsut been able to start taking a look at it and he's been using it all the while and I think it's at a point now where some damage has been done as he says it's basically unusable now (after telling him to leave it well alone until I can look at it)
CPU is overheating...?
Graphics wouldn't cause this much of a hoo haa would it? He does have a spare card that I can fit to see if it helps....
I'm getting some compressed air in the post soon so I'll give everything a blast (seemed to help before) but do you think it's worth taking the heatsink and fan off and reapplying thermal paste etc?
Am I totally off base here? - is it possibly nothing to do with heat?
Thanks in advance guys!
It does sound like a heat issue and a malfunctioning/overheating graphics card can certainly cause these issues.
Are the issues still occuring?
So I was uninstalling some bloatware from my computer, and decided to also do a disc cleanup. After I ran said cleanup, I restarted my computer so that all the uninstalled products would run there course, and the cleanup would take full effect.
Doing this, I ended up having multiple freezes at the "Configuring Windows Updates" I had to keep turning off the computer, and trying all sorts of stuff. In safe mode, it kept trying to configure there as well, and it eventually went through to the "Cleaning up do not turn off menu" it hung, so I restarted into safe mode again, and I finally booted to safe mode.
Thinking everything was probably good, I tried restarting again normally, and now am continuing to get a frozen computer at the "Windows is starting" logo. I have tried system restore and start up repair and keep getting a variety of errors.
If anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it. I plan on soon copy and pasting all my files to another computer and then moving them all back if I have to do a fresh install of Windows 7. Would like to avoid that however.
Hi, I'm having issues with my pc that freezes on startup after adding two programs (Logitech G Hub & CAM) as the only startup programs. I have tried to disable the programs, and it does work fine then, but i don't want to disable them because i want them to start up right when i turn on my pc. The big question is "How do i fix my problem with programs on startup, that causes freezing etc.. without disabeling the programs?"
Hi There,
I have this really annoying problem that while playing a game (COD4 for example) I get 5-15 mins into it and it just freezes. Really fast sound looping starts and I can't CTRL+ALT+DEL out of it. My only solution is to do a hard restart and let it boot up again.
I had this problem earlier in the year after I got a new video card and I thought I had fixed it. But a few months ago I did a clean install and this probably deleted the settings that fixed it.
Any help you can give is much appreciated.
One of the first (and probably the easiest and cheapest (i.e. free) things to check) is your temperatures.
Download and install HWMonitor then run the program. Leave it running in the background and play a game for 5 - 10 mins and exit (before it crashes the machine).
Post either post a screenshot of the temperatures (minimum and maximum) or type them out in a new reply.
Also, can you provide more information about your system, I can see what you have in your profile but could do with more. If it is a 'big brand' name like HP, Dell etc. then what is the exact make and model. If it's a self or custom build, what is the make and model of Motherboard, CPU, RAM (including amount), Graphics Card, Power Supply (including wattage), number of hard drives and/or optical drives (CD/DVD) etc. the more info you provide the better answers you will get.
What operating system are you using and is it 32 or 64 bit, are all your drivers fully up to date?
Hi im running windows vista 64bit and in most games my PC is freezing up at about 10-45 min into it, depending on the game. This only happens when i run games and wont freeze up on normal tasks.
Ive tried reinstalling the GFX driver, I'm using a nvidia 9600 GT.
I have above all the recommended specs for the games its freezing on.
I've updated to the latest DirectX.
Any other solutions? none of these have done anything to impact the performance.
List all hardware specs including power supply wattage and brand.
What are your temps like.
Hey guys, I recently bought a computer for the sole purpose of being able to play current games, and I did quite well. The specs are:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 CPUs)
Memory: 3326MB RAM
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
etcetc... Not a bad PC by any means. It gets the job done.... Or used to.
These days I can barely ever play games. I used to be able to play Call of Duty Moden Warfare 2 with no problems. Now the second I enter a game, the graphics will freeze up on me. I know it's only the graphics because I can still ctrl+alt+del, and the sound will continue going. When I try to play Champions Online, I can sometimes play for hours without it freezing, and sometimes it will happen moments after logging in.
I remember blue screening once out of the perhaps 30 or so times it's done it, and a couple times I've gotten an error stating:
"The nv4_disp display driver has stopped working normally. Save your work and reboot the system to restore full display functionality. The next time you reboot the machine a dialog will be displayed giving you a chance to upload data about this failure to Microsoft."
This has been happening for about 2 weeks now, and the things I've tried are unplugging my video card and plugging it into another slot, unplugging and plugging my RAM back in, updating the drivers to the latest ones, rolling the drivers back to previous "stable" builds, adjusting audio settings (which apparently could have ... Read more
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I just bought a new setup,
Athlon 64 3000
Gigabyte K8NS Ultra-939
1GB Samsung 400mhz pc3200 Dual Channel
550 watt power supply
PNY GeForce 6800 GT 256mb
Win XP Pro SP2
My games keeps freezing every few secs for a few secs. Seems like the intense ones like battlefield 2 and Far Cry. Installing programs causes it to restart.
Iv'e replaced the Processer, replaced the mother board, tried 8 different RAM sticks at different speeds, Tried different harddrives (IDE and SATA), different PS from 420 watt to 550 watt, tried a different video card.
I've also tried fresh formats with no other devices ( meaning just hard drive and video card), tried different video card drivers (newest, betas, and older), updated BIOS and all drivers.
I've been reading forums for the last week and a half. I'm at my wits end right now. Could someone please help me?
my friend had that same board, and he was experiencing similar troubles. it turned out that the board was at fault and replacing it fixed the problem. try running your machine using one stick of ram, with the case side panel off.
Hi, a week ago a few of my big processor-heavy PC games suddenly started freezing for no apparent reason after about 15 minutes of play (Arma2/Arrowhead/Age of Empire) despite running fine for a couple of years, and I have to switch off the PC to get out of the freeze.
.I ran CCleaner, AVG and Adaware and re-installed the games but the freeze problem remains.
My other games are unaffected and run fine. Any suggestions as to what I can try next?
The only possible clue I can think of is that my Google Earth started running jerkily about the same time the game freezes began, so perhaps GE did one of its automatic updates and may have triggered the freezes in some way?
My machine specs-
I've solved it by uninstalling Google Earth, so it seems I was right, the latest GE v 7 auto-update messed up my system somehow and caused the games to freeze!
I've now re-installed an older GE v 5 which doesn't affect the games, and I've also selected the GE "Do not auto-update" box..
Hi all,
I have a problem. I start a game and after some time It freeze. It happened to every game I tried (Unreal Tournament III, The Witcher 2, FIFA 12). I've got all drivers up to date and my components aren't overheating. And by the way, I can hear a sound from game when It freeze, the only solution for getting the game back to work is to use Ctrl+Alt+Del a maximize the game and It works again for some time.
My spec:
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit SP1
MB: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 (BIOS version F4)
GPU: nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
Power Supply: Fortron Epsilon 600W
I'll appreciate any help.
I could be wrong but the specs for your graphics card say it requires 38A on the +12V rail from the power supply. The power supply specs state it has 4 X +12V rails at 18A each.
If I am understanding all the specifications the card uses 2 X PCI connectors. If they are coming from seperate 12V rails you only have 36A available so it is underpowered.
I currently upgraded my computer and am running a 1.3 Ghz processor and the temp is 102 degrees, 512 MB ram 32 MB video card, Win XP Home and my daughters games go about 5 mins and freeze. She has 3 separate games and they all do it. I'm puzzled because they never did this before the upgrade and the people that did the upgrade don't know either. I downloaded a new driver for the video card and that didnt help. I turned off my McAfee virus scan and that didnt help either. I have several fans so I dont think it's over heating. Besides that I only had one fan before and a 800 Mgz processor and the games ran fine. You are my last resort so ANY help would be so greatly appreciated
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ok kids, i need some help on this.
some games i try to run end up freezing within a couple of minutes whenever i try to play.
the culprets include:
soldier of fortune platinum (single player)
soldier of fortune 2 double helix (single player)
natural selection (half life multiplayer)
day of defeat (half-life multiplayer)
the screen just freezes and whatever sound was playing at the time repeats itself over and over. the computer accepts no input (ctrl alt delete, esc, etc.). and i am left with no choice but cold boot.
maybe my poor man's system just isnt nice enough. its a laptop my bro sold to me for a good deal (it was not abused in its past life). it is a toshiba tecra 8100. its got a 800mhz processor and 256mb pc100 ram. the video card is 8mb s3 savage.
my past laptop (dell latitude cpx 500mhz, ati rage pro card, 256mb ram) played the games without freezing.
would an upgrade to 512mb of ram help at all?
Please someone help!
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Some of my games including counter-stirke, simcity 3000 and enter the matrix lag a bit for every one second and it is very noticible. But some other games such as max payne and 2 do not have this lag. My specs are:
Intel Petnium 4 CPU 2.0 ghz
nVidia GeForce FX 5200 128MB
Avance AC97 Audio
Can someone please help?
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In my last post we determined here that my PSU was inadaquate. While this was true I have replaced it with a 750watt namebrand. Unfortunately When i play games that required any stress on my system it locks up and i have to reboot. I have resorted to playing Diablo II as of late. I ran memtest86 for 2 hrs and no errors were logged. And i ran Prime95 overnight for 7 hours. The system is still doing fine this morning. I know the system is not overheating either, all temps run in the green and games lockup before they would even get a chance to get hot(usually in Menu). Any suggestions?
Athlon X2 4600+
1 Gb PC 3200
GeForce 6800GT (x2) in SLI
Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty
750 W Enermax PSU
Okay so I seem to have this problem with every single PC game I try to play. Basically I'm just trying to focus on possible causes of the problem. When I start a game up, let's say Age Of Empires III, as soon as the intro video comes up I hear some weird clicking or ticking. Then I can play as usual but with the clicking popping up every once in a while.. Then usually after a random amount of time the game will freeze. OR I can actually quit the game and do somethin else for a while but somewhere down the road - my PC freezes.
This happens with every game, more often with more taxing games on my video card. Now I know clicking is usually associated with HDDs but I just dunno about that. I have two HDDs and for example. I had Pirates installed on HDD 1 and had the problem so I wiped the drives clean and installed WinXP and Pirates on the other drive and had the same problem.
1GB Corsair
Barton 3200
9800 Pro Omega Drivers
120GB + 80GB HDDs
MSI K8-n72 delta-l mobo
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I have a Toshiba Satellite L505-GS6000 and was looking to upgrade my ram so my computer would run faster. one reason I am doing this is an online game I used to play all the time wont play very well, the fps is good but after about 4 mins of playing the game starts freezing every 4-5 seconds. my question however is while looking for ram to put in my computer I found a Corsair 8GB PC8500 DDR3 1066Mhz SODIMM Memory - 2x4096MB or Patriot PSD316G1333SK Signature Laptop Memory Kit - 16GB (2 x 8GB), PC3-10600, DDR3-1333MHz, 1.5V, CL9, Non-ECC, Unbuffered. I wasnt sure which would be better for my laptop an give it the best speed. also what does the Unbuffered mean? I was also wanting to make sure the Ram memory kits would fit in my laptop. Thanks
Where did you get that info? You might try http://www.crucial.com/systemscanner/
http://www.crucial.com/ Both same website.
Okay so here's my problem. When I'm playing certain games on my PC, like Grand Theft Auto 3, or Halo which I just bought, my computer will freeze up on me, but when I'm playing some other games, like Hitman Codename 47, I won't have any problems.
I've tried updating my video card and sound card drivers, with no luck, and I've already spent 2 weeks corresponding through email with the people at Rockstar North trying to figure out what the problem is, cause I thought it was only GTA3.
Has anyone else encountered this problem? And if so, were you able to fix it and how?
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I am having problems getting 2 of my games to play and not freeze up while playing them. I don't know how to fix it. I have tried to uninstall the games and reinstall them but they still freeze up or don't play right. Can someone please help. Thanks
Hi FaithJ, welcome to TSF...
Can you let us know what games they are and how you are running them please?
Also, what are your system specs please?
I am having issues with my computer and freezing during games. I have been playing some pretty intense graphical games for a computer including Warcraft3, Battlefield 1942, and Civilization 3. I have been having problems with my computer freezing at random intervals during these games for a couple months now. I updated my video card drivers and it seems a little better but still happens way too often. It seems to freeze oddly however, sometimes it freezes completely while other times it will slowly freeze like bag lag... both require restarting the computer. My friends say that it probably has to do with my video card or Windows XP Pro Edition but I'm not sure. Thanks for any help.
OS: Windows XP Pro Edition
Processor: AMD Athlon 2000+ (1.67 Ghz)
Ram: 512 DDR Kingston
Video Card: GeForce4 Ti4200
Hows your cooling? When it freezes, shut down, ground your self and feel around. Hard drives, cpu vid, ram.
Hi, Guys, I bought a new Laptop a few weeks ago
Asus R753U
Processor: Intel Core i7-7500 CPU @2.70GHz Turbo: 3.50GHz
Graphics: NVidia GEFORCE GTX 950M 2GB
So Every time I play a game the games constantly freezes for 3 seconds and continues to be fine again after 1min does the same thing Any help PLS?
Hi there,
So this computer issue happens on every game you play? What games are you playing if you don't mind me asking?
Go to Nvidia's website and download the latest drivers for your computer video card. Un-install the current video card drivers you have currently installed on your computer and install the video card drivers that you have downloaded from Nvidia's website.
Hope everything works out well for you.
I think the reason for my game lags is b/c of high or low fps. When i start to play a game like CSS my computer does not lag when im bhoping of play small maps like fy_iceworld. But when i play big maps like de_dust2 i start to lag as soon as i get in the game.
Property Value
Display Adapter NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
Video Processor GeForce FX 5500
Video memory size 256 MBytes
Adapter DAC Type Integrated RAMDAC
BIOS String Version 18.104.22.168.00
BIOS Date 03/14/05
Display Drivers nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version 184.108.40.20619
Driver Date 2008-05-16 21:01:00
Inf File Name oem10.inf
Inf Section nv4_NV3x
so your games actually freeze or they just lag? if it's just your fps dropping in big maps that sounds about right for a pc of those specs.Read other 1 answers
Hello all my games keep freezing up after 3-4 mins of gameplay i cant play any game in peace it started after i put a 128 ram socket on my comp.
assuming you ADDED to the ram you already had: take the new chip out, play games, put the new chip back in , play again-
if you never crash without the new chip in and always crash WITH the chip....
: bad ram chip
: incorrect TYPE of ram
: possible the slot that the second chip is in is bad-
some things to try...
My Laptop started to have a problem ever since I updated my PC. This did not happen before the update, but ever since I updated my laptop my games started to freeze. I can start it up and everything, and I can stay at the main menu, but when I start playing it starts to freeze after a few minutes into the game. I updated my drivers and everything, but it still doesn't work. HELP!Read other answers
Well I'm playing Age of Pirates 2 I'm 20 mins in the game and BAM my pc freezed(anyone that owns age of pirates 2 knows there is a load of bugs) so I really payed no mind to it freezing.
I start hitting Alt+Ctrl+Del does not work I hit Caps,Scroll,Num Locks no lights come on.
So I do a hard restart hoping that the Freeze was a One time deal.
Than I Start playing Call of Duty 4 15 mins in same Freeze.
hard restart again, I do a Bios Ram check all good and check the Gfx card Temp 69-70C bit high for it.
It was running 45-50c a month before so I get 2 PCI Fans to help cool it. the next day I take the Gfx Card out and run it on the mobo North Bridge NVIDIA GeForce 8200 try a game out and No Freezing.
I get the fans put them in with the Gfx card they take down the temp on my cpu by 3C and none on my Gfx.
so I go to xfx tech Support and get the run around... Driver Sweeper... Make sure you have the new drivers..... freezing like this points me towards the memory or the power supply......
what is making my pc freeze?
OS:Vista HP SP1 64-bit
Cpu:AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400 black edition Processor Model ADO5400DSWOF
HDD:HITACHI Deskstar P7K500 HDP725050GLA360 (0A35415) 500GB
MoBo:BIOSTAR TForce TF8200 A2+
Ram:OCZ SLI-Ready Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB)DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Model OCZ2N800SR4GK
Gfx card:XFX PVT98GYDLU GeForce 9800 GT 512MB
PSU:Utlra LSP 750 PRO Lifetime Series 750 watt
Have you tried using different ram or a different power supply.
hmm it seem whenever I go to play a game that loads something at the start.. ie. Warcraft 3 and CSS... it WIERD. Warcraft 3 the screen goes black and my mouse is just the loading thing, not both.. my computer just stops loading in the back. I did a check to see if everything stops and even my music shuts off. I cant ctrl+alt+delete, all I can do is reset. and I even waited an houir and it didnt work
for CSS it goes to the first loading screen and says loading in the bottom right corner and just stays there.... grrrrrr
CSS = Counter-Strike: Source
no ones got anything?
I like my online games, But unfortuantly I can play them.
Whenever I play Eventually they will freeze (In about 5-10 mins)
It's Really Annoying... Any tips?
My Card is 256mb Memory and Im using 1680x1050 (32bit) reso with 60hz
I know its NOT:
My Gfx Card Temp
Screen Resolution (My card is always @ 60hz no matter what resolution)
I suspect its my Power Supply
I hope it is so I can get a new one And be able to run my new Gfx card (Geforce 9600)
If you mean 110Watts then yes this is low (too low for an addon Video card)
(I note that you have removed the reference stating you had a 110 Power Supply)
You can also do the below (freely) before purchasing a better Power Supply:
Please run Memtest on your Ram
And confirm all your Device Drivers are up to date
Also make sure all Windows Security Updates (and Service Packs) are completed
I have a Pentium 4 256MB 12X cd-rw 32MB Nividia GeForce2 MX graphics card. Any time I play any of my games, after about 5 minutes, the games seem to freeze or go very very slow, and it does that for about 1 minute, then it snaps out of it and gameplay is normal. Then, about every 3 or 4 minutes, it keeps doing this. It is really wrecking gameplay. I have updated drivers and gone into msconfig and changed the way the comp starts up. Nothing seems to work. The red light goes on on my CPU when this is happening. It almost seems that there is another process running that is interfering with the performance. I run Windows XP. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Ok i'll explain first of all the problem and then what i have tried so far to correct it.
Basically the games i have playing run perfectly for 10 - 40 mins and then it locks up, sometimes with the sound looping, sometimes without, forcing me to reboot. Example of games this has happened in, KOTOR, CS, Raven Shield.
Ok now for what i've tried attempting to resolve this issue.
1. Update all drivers on my system. (Problem still occurs).
2. Re-installed XP with sp1/sp2 and without. (Problem still occurs).
3. Disabled Sound-Card (Problem still occurs).
4. Used MemTest program to check for faulty ram, ran fine with no errors.
5. Lowered Hardware Acceleration. (Now when i lowered this i was able to play KOTOR on certain levels, anywhere else the games fps went to low).
6. Used various Nvidia drivers, using drivercleanerpro inbetween installing them. (Problem still occurs).
2.6 ghz p4
Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 Ultra
Windows XP
Any suggestions will be much apperciated. Ive been playing around for weeks now, its really starting to get to me.
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I'm running Win XP Home and I recently upgraded my computer to a AMD 1.3 Ghz processor, 512 mg DDR Ram, Micro-Star International LTD MS-6738 Motherboard. I have had the Temp. the ram tested and all that is fine. My daughters games, Jumpstart advanced preschool, Reader Rabbit and Dora the Explorer, freeze about 5 mins into the games and I have to reboot. I am stumped as to what else to do. The games ran fine before the upgrade. When I went to the Administrative>Events place on the comp. it says I have a PctSpk error 1063 StartServiceControlDispatcher failed and I can't find any info on that any help would be GREATLY appreciated...Julie
Not really sure how long it's been effecting me, but im using Windows XP professional, and whenever i play Games ( i think i've narrowed it down to games using 3-D but not positive on this ), no matter how low the system requirements ( AKA, Tribes 2, Rise of Nations ) the computer freezes either constantly, or once an hour, or if im lucky once every 4-5 hours, but no matter what, theres a very high chance that the next time my computers off isnt because i shut it down using the start menu, but i had to turn off the power.
System Specs are as follows ( coming from DxDiag )
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600)
System Manufacturer: VIA
System Model: 7VTXE+
BIOS: Version 1.00
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.7GHz
Memory: 512MB RAM
Page File: 119MB used, 1131MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902)
Make sure it's not overheating - take off the side of the case, and have a fan blowing towards the inside. Clean out the dust inside, and make sure the fans on the CPU and graphics card are working.
Also, what is your power supply rated at? It might be overheating as well.
Hey all,
I have recently purchased a new computer and for some reason every time I play any video game it locks up after about a good 20 to 30mins of play.
Here are the specs :
CPU: Q6600 2.4Ghz
Motherboard: Asus P5N-E SLI
RAM: 4 x OCZ Platinum XTC REV.2 PC2-6400 2GB 1GB DDR2-800 CL4-4-4-15 240PIN DIMM Dual Channel
Graphics Card: EVGA 8800GT 512MB
PSU : Antec Trio Power 650W
OS: Vista Home Premium 64bit
I have updated all the drivers for my graphics card, motherboard, updated windows. Do not know what the problem is. Also the CPU temp idle is about 35 to 45 C and MB is about 35 to 40 C
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You , Newbie
Hi Newbie
Check the system requirments for the video games your trying to play. Any of them say they can run on 64 bit Vista? or Vista Premium?
First, hello all, I'm pretty new here, and not too experienced.
I'm desperate...I have played these games: Assassin's creed, Crysis, Call of Duty4, Medal of Honor:Airborne.
Here is the story: after I purchased my PC, games worked great for the first week or two, somehow. Then, Crysis and COD4 started to just freeze, it took crysis shorter time to freeze, around 10 mins, while it took cod4 20 mins~ till it froze, and my only solution is to restart my PC.(i didnt have MoH & Assassin's creed that time)
I have sended my PC for repair, and they said they switched PSU. I took my PC back and STILL having the same problem. I then installed MoH:A, played it and it didnt freeze. Then 1-2~ days later it froze(wanted to note it was a very hot day, my pc temp was up to 71C).
I took my pc for a full scan, I tould them my pc freeze and maybe my PC have too high temp. I got it back while they said my memory caused problem.
Now thats wierd, Assassin's Creedn works like a charm, played it over hour, so is Crysis(which used to freeze so fast) but COD4 and MoH:A STILL freeze my pc!
I'm so confused and have no idea what to do, I cant send my PC back to the lab, they will just do more *****ic pc scan and say everything is allright...
Oh, and about heating problems, they didnt fix it and their reason was that my PC have sensor and when it comes to too high heat it shuts down the pc, therfore it's not heating problems.
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what is Tempt3, that is out of site and u will have problems there. tempt1 is too hot itself,but not unbearable.
My PC/steam games are freezing two minutes into play. Can't exit to task manager only hard reboot. I'm using a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 (brand new so easily able to handle AAA games) with gtx 1060 nvidia.
Things I've tried;
DDU removal of nvidia drivers with clean reinstall (this actually seemed to work for a couple weeks but then started up again and didn't work again)
updated BIOS
Memory check
Reinstall windows 10
power optimization
Steam game reinstall
Any suggestions?
I recently reinstalled winxp pro and have been experiencing several problems. Every game that I have on my system will freeze up after a few minutes of playing. After a moment or two it will revert back to normal play, but this process will continue. I have updated all my drivers including the video drivers, mobo, sound card, and windows. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the latest drivers as well as older ones and the problem persists. Could it be my card is running hot? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ Socket 939 (SanDiego)
DFI LP UT NF4 Ultra-D NVIDIA Socket 939 ATX Motherboard
eVGA GeForce 7800 GT CO / 256MB GDDR3 / PCI Express
OCZ EL Dual Channel 1024MB PC3200 DDR 400MHz Platinum Memory
List the games your playing....Do you play these games online or just single player? When it freezes does it ever result in you having to restart your PC?
my keyboard and mouse freeze during gameplay in most games, i have Gigabyte 8IE800 ,350watt psu,realtek AC'97 sound card and geforce 4 mx440 (version 66.93).
It happens in counter-strike, counter-strike source, GTA Vice City, Black & White, Battlefield 1942.The game continues but i cant do anything. So far i have changed keyboard, motherboard, sound and graphics. And the problem has continued through out. It started when i bought the comp and as you can see i have made many changes overtime and it has gradually become more frequent. I used to only freeze for a few seconds but now it is way longer.
The keyboard is a Logitech Acess keyboard (latest drivers, ps/2) and a Genius Webscroll+ Eye U+P (latest drivers, tried both usb and ps/2).
I am running DX 9.0c and i have reinstalled it once.When this happens he computer doesn't freeze and i can still use the special buttons on my keyboard, ie My Computer, media etc
Oh clever,clever people,please help.
When i am playing games they quite often
freeze up.The music still plays and the characters
still move on the spot.ie.on Fallout2 they still look
around and fiddle with their guns,but i cant use the interface or
pointer and i cant exit,not even with,CTRL-ALT-END(or is it DELETE
WHATS GOING WRONG???I have directx 8a and updated video drivers.help me guys
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I just got a new computer today and when I run doom 3 after I play for a couple minutes the game will either freeze or crazy colours will go everywhere inthe game then itll freeze. i have a amd 3200, 2gb ram, 9800 pro. Could it be it is overheating? or that the power supply isnt enough (350 watt). If it is, how much does it cost to get more power? Thanks.
Hi Luke,
I had similar problems myself when I first ran Doom; I have a similar system, and same GPU as you. There are some issues with ATi cards and doom3, it tends to run better on NVidea cards.
First stop, just try the lastest ATi drivers, they did coincidentally post one on the catalyst site about the same time as Doom3 was released. That worked for me.
there are other, doom-specific, beta catalyst 4.9 drivers available if the above doesn't work.
alternatively, some people have reported success with a 3rd party driver like this one from guru 3d.
There's no reason why you shouldn't be able to play on high-quality settings with a minimum res of 1024x768, possibly higher, with your rig. You just need to tweak things a bit until it works ok.
There's nothing wrong with your power, until it stops working.
Hi, Guys, I bought a new Laptop a few weeks ago
Asus R753U
Processor: Intel Core i7-7500 CPU @2.70GHz Turbo: 3.50GHz
Graphics: NVidia GEFORCE GTX 950M 2GB
So Every time I play a game the games constantly freezes for 3 seconds and continues to be fine again after 1min does the same thing Any help PLS?
Hi there,
So this computer issue happens on every game you play? What games are you playing if you don't mind me asking?
Go to Nvidia's website and download the latest drivers for your computer video card. Un-install the current video card drivers you have currently installed on your computer and install the video card drivers that you have downloaded from Nvidia's website.
Hope everything works out well for you.
Ok, whenever I go into one of my games it freezes, doesn't do anything but put a little white dot in the far upper left corner. However, when I change my graphics acceleration down to none or one before none it works but way too slow to even play (like 1 step ever 5 seconds) I have tried downloading new drivers for my videocard but that didn't work, I upgraded my RAM as well. This has happened with three games so I am pretty sure it is my computer that has the problem.
I also put my dxdiag information in here as well.
Please Help
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Kids games always freezing . Starwars Episode I Racer, Hot Wheels crash the Shockwave site games. (Of course the educational games work fine.) My boys get so frustrated, and I don't know how to fix it. I don't know what graphics card I have or how to find out. Have an IBM Aptive about 2.5 years old.
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Hi, Guys, I bought a new Laptop a few weeks ago
Asus R753U
Processor: Intel Core i7-7500 CPU @2.70GHz Turbo: 3.50GHz
Graphics: NVidia GEFORCE GTX 950M 2GB
So Every time I play a game the games constantly freezes for 3 seconds and continues to be fine again after 1min does the same thing Any help PLS?
I have a problem, whenever i play a game, ill gend to play for a while, and without fail, my pc always ends up locking up, sometimes i also get the blue screed saying there was a page fault in a vxd or something like that. If anyone has a clue whats going on and how to fix it, plese tell me
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My computer never freezes excpet when i play Soldier of Funtune 2 : Double Helix online...what do i do? It freezes while i'm playing SOF2 Double Helix in the middle of the game? It does it alot and it makes me mad. I will be playing a game and it freezes the system up..what do i do?
I'm talking about it freezes the whole computer up. It freezes the whole computer up only when i play SOF2 online..(somtimes)


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A FIRE started, powerlines were ripped down, trees were uprooted and roofs collapsed as severe thunderstorms ripped across Queensland and caused mass electricity outages.
About 13,000 homes and business in Brisbane, Ipswich and Somerset were left without power as rain, hail and lightning struck the region at about 11am (AEST) on Saturday.
In Ipswich, a small grass fire was sparked when lightning struck a crane next to the city's hospital just after 10am but the incoming rain extinguished it, a Department of Community Services (DCS) spokeswoman told AAP.
In Ann Street in the CBD, a hotel roof collapsed under the storm while another 72 calls for assistance were made asking for help with leaking roofs and fallen trees,
"It turned day into night," a SES worker said.
"It came quickly and then it left."
By 6.30pm about 300 homes remained without power, with the majority of the outages continuing in the Algester area south of Brisbane.
An Energex spokeswoman said they were unsure as to when power would be returned to the area as the repairs were "complicated".
"We are working through the problems and doing it as quickly as we can," she said.
More than 11,000 lightning strikes were recorded across Queensland's southeast since 10am, with Energex receiving reports of more than 100 powerlines down.
Despite the widespread outages, the situation was not as bad as they have seen, the spokeswoman said.
"In our storm season we can see 20,000 to 30,000 lose power so 13,000 is really reasonable for us," she said.
But she said Energex was looking towards Toowoomba to see if the second forecast storm would wreak more damage.
On Saturday evening the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) was continuing to send out severe weather warnings for much of the state.
"Very dangerous thunderstorms" were detected at a weather radar near Oakey, west of Brisbane, at about 6.30pm.
The thunderstorms were forecast to move towards the northeast and to hit Haden, Cooyar and the area north of Crows Nest, Blackbutt, Yarraman and the area north of Cooyar.
"Destructive winds, heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding and large hailstones are likely," the BoM said.
The BoM said severe thunderstorms were also likely to produce damaging winds over the next few hours in parts of the Northern Goldfields and Upper Flinders, Central Highlands and Coalfields, Central West and Maranoa and Warrego districts.
People in Warwick, the Gold Coast, Toowoomba, Brisbane, Dalby, Coolangatta, Ipswich, the Moreton Bay islands, Kingaroy, Stanthorpe, Caloundra and Taroom were warned just before 8pm (AEST) to brace themselves for wild weather over the following hours.
Along the southeast, the BoM said "very dangerous" storms were detected near Esk and Lake Wivenhoe, with the front moving towards the northeast.
The wild weather was also forecast to hit the D'Aguilar Ranges, Dayboro and Mount Mee north of Brisbane by 9.15pm.
In the hour leading up to 8pm, the BoM recorded 65mm of rainfall at Buaraba, west of Brisbane.
But the BoM said severe thunderstorms were no longer occurring in the Northern Goldfields and Upper Flinders, Central West and Maranoa and Warrego districts.
As the storm continues to lash Queensland, Energex said more than 1000 homes and businesses were without power in the Lockyer Valley area west of Brisbane.
Meanwhile more than 1600 homes had lost power in Brisbane city.
Originally published asStorms create havoc across Qld

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At this point in the Abrahamic covenant, God takes it upon Himself to make sure the covenant is fulfilled. But God was making Himself responsible for this long before Abraham was born. God's children are His solely due to His ...Read More
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We will never bring about the kingdom of God ourselves. We, like Abraham, are utterly dependent upon God for all of His promises to come to pass. He will bring them about with or without us. As you seek to ...Read More
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There is an unfortunate tendency for some Christians to view salvation in purely spiritual terms. But the protection of the animals in the ark shows God's love for all His creatures, and it foreshadows the renewal that will come to ...Read More
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It is a sobering truth to realize that God still requires perfect obedience from us. His requirements do not change and we have no excuse for disobeying Him. Since we cannot obey God, we must trust in the perfect obedience ...Read More
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Jesus' appeal to the Creation account in Genesis (Matt. 19:1–9) shows us that we can find much of God's original will for humanity in the description of life before the Fall. When you find biblical passages that are hard to ...Read More
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Ray, Satyajit
Satyajit Ray (sätyä´jĬt rī, rā), 1921–92, Indian film director, b. Calcutta (now Kolkata). His subtle, austere, and delicately lyrical films made him one of the outstanding filmmakers of the 20th cent.; he was the first Indian director to win international acclaim. During his formative years he was profoundly influenced by the humanism of Rabindranath Tagore, at whose university he studied. Ray began his career as a layout artist, art director, and illustrator. His early reputation was built on a trilogy of luminous neorealist films that portrayed the everyday life of a Bengali family and the childhood, youth, and manhood of a character called Apu. Pather Panchali (1955), his first film, was an immediate success and a Grand Prix winner at the Cannes Festival. It was followed by Aparajito (1956) and The World of Apu (1959). The films of this
"Apu Trilogy"
remain his best known works.
Ray's recurrent themes—the life of Bengal's various social classes, the conflict of old and new values, and the effects of India's rapidly changing economic and political conditions—are evident throughout his oeuvre. His more than 30 films include The Music Room (1958), Charulata (1964), The Target (1972), Distant Thunder (1973), The Home and the World (1984), The Visitor (1991), and The Stranger (1992). Over the years, he received many prizes, including an Academy Award for lifetime achievement (1992). Ray was also a screenwriter, wrote the musical scores for many of his films, and was intimately involved with all the elements of their production.
See his essays, Our Films, Their Films (1995); M. Seton, Portrait of a Director: Satyajit Ray (1971); S. Benegal, Benegal on Ray (1988); B. Nyce, Satyajit Ray: A Study of His Films (1988); A. Robinson, Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye (1989); B. Sarkar, The World of Satyajit Ray (1992); and N. Ghosh, Satyajit Ray at 70 (1993).


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Baptismal faith
In witnessing Baptisms, a cradle Catholic remembers her own baptismal identity.
Guest blog by Peg Conway
How do I keep the faith as a woman in the church? The answer to this question has not been obvious. At times, "keeping the faith" feels entirely distinct from being "in the church." When I'm preoccupied with the hierarchy and church rules that seem harsh, I begin to wonder if I really am part of the church; or even, should I be part of it? But I am. I can't let it go.
As a young adult, just out of graduate school, I was invited to be a sponsor in our parish RCIA program, a process previously unfamiliar to me. I went to the weekly sessions to reflect on scripture and hear speakers, met with my candidate individually, and for the first time in my life, attended the Easter Vigil. Seated in a front pew with the RCIA, I watched in awe as a woman named Leslie, dressed in a brown robe, stepped out of her sandals, handed off her glasses, and entered the shallow baptismal pool that had been assembled in the sanctuary, joining the pastor who was similarly garbed.
She knelt while he poured bowls of water over her head, baptizing her in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and the water's splashing sound jolted me with amazement. The radiance of Leslie's face brought tears to my eyes as she emerged from the pool, dripping, to be wrapped in towels by her sponsor and led away to don her white garment. It was a night of abundant joy. Alleluia!
A cradle Catholic baptized in infancy, I was so moved by this experience. Perhaps it awakened what had been lying dormant—a sense of my own calling and status as a member of Christ's body, where he is priest, prophet, and king forever.
I have been to 20 more Easter Vigils since that one and have witnessed countless other infant baptisms, including those of my three children, now teenagers. Attending the Easter Vigil became a family tradition when they reached early grade school. Though it is long and goes late, there simply is no other way to receive what it conveys so powerfully. From the creation of the universe to the dying and rising of Jesus, from saints and sinners to sacraments, it's all there.
At the Vigil and in life, I've gradually discovered, we are part of the story, not mere observers, because of baptism. Deep in my bones, I know that my baptismal identity is impervious to church politics and patriarchal pronouncements. Its indelible mark presents a lifelong invitation to questioning and growth; an ongoing call to care for others at home and in the wider community; and an affirmation that I am one of God's beloveds, in whom God is pleased.
My faith is in the risen Christ who trusted the news of his resurrection to a woman.
Guest blogger Peg Conway is a writer in Cincinnati, Ohio, who has contributed to U.S. Catholic and blogs at Sense of the Faithful.
As a supplement of the January 2011 special issue on women, U.S. Catholic is asking guest bloggers, "How do you keep the faith as a woman in the church?" To submit your answer (about 500 words), e-mail email@example.com.
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I find it interesting that March 8th is now "International Women's Day" – not "International Women's Rights Day". This could be a real step forward, to the day when we don't have "women's" anything any more. The day when we see that we don't need it, and that singling out one gender when we only have two is self-defeating and obvious. Imagine you had two children, a girl and a boy, would you only celebrate your daughter's birthday?
The name may have lost its specific focus on rights now, but it does afford the opportunity to raise awareness about women who are great role models. Not all of them faced a struggle to earn their rights, yet they deserve that accolade, and many have interesting stories to share. I have no problem with them doing that all year round.
High (female) achievers aside, the fact remains that for millions of women, fighting for their rights is a daily battle. I love and respect these women every day. Here are the posters I made to celebrate just a few of them, finding my inspiration in the original meaning of March 8th as their day to get recognition, and our day to give it.
And here are some closing thoughts as we bid farewell to that one day of the year dedicated to my gender
I think we can only have equality if there is also one day of every year devoted to equal rights for men – if men being denied their rights are a minority group, that only strengthens my conviction.
I wish we lived in a world where such events were not deemed necessary – I would especially not miss the ghastly rhetoric and those patronising videos featuring "songs by international artists".
Today, as in previous years, I have read too many well-intentioned posts praising women for their physical or personal charms, as if this was a day set aside for chauvinists to thank women for submitting to being objectified by them throughout the year.
I believe, if mothers raise their children as equals,
and if teachers educate students as equals,
and never yield, relent or make excuses,
and stop cheering for every right "won" as if it was not a right at all, but a gift,
then eventually, gender equality would become a mundane reality.
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- International Women's Day: political rights around the world mapped (guardian.co.uk)
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As some of you know, Emmy Lou and I are leaving Longboat Key to live in East County. Before we leave, I would like to thank the many people in town government, the Public Interest Committee (PIC), the Planning and Zoning Board and The Longboat Observer, with whom I have served and shared so many rewarding experiences. I would also like to relay some concerns about Longboat's immediate future for your consideration:
Be more proactive on roundabouts
The verdict is officially in. FTE, the town's consultant on the proposed bayfront roundabouts, reported that Sarasota's supporting data and conclusions are incorrect.
Specifically, the city underestimated the number of future cars using the roundabouts by 15% by only projecting a 1.63% annual growth rate until 2011 instead of the prescribed period out to 2021. It understated the time gap between cars. What's more, the geometry or size of the designated roundabout at Gulfstream and U.S. 41 is not large enough to accommodate the proposed roundabout without accessing more space from some of the surrounding buildings. In short, all the talk about saving time, gas and improving pedestrian access is pure propaganda. It just isn't true.
Despite these alarming revelations in the report, our Town Commission did not take a strong, proactive stance with the findings. It merely opted to "share" the data with the FDOT. With Sarasota aggressively lobbying the FDOT and the nearby community for its roundabout proposal over the past few years, Longboat Key needs to be much more proactive to defeat this ill-conceived traffic nightmare.
Longboat Key needs a delegation to deal directly with Ben Walker, the principal decision maker at the FDOT, in Bartow, to state the town's concerns about the issues raised in the FTE report. To do less is gambling with Longboat's future.
Don't let evaluations fade away
You should be concerned that the Town Commission recently decided to pass on formal evaluations of the town manager. It's no secret the commissioners never liked doing them because they are public and open to scrutiny and comment.
One commissioner tried to justify abandoning the practice by saying an evaluation is not mentioned in the charter and it is "only mentioned in the town manager's contract without specifically saying we must do it." Talk about playing with words.
The contract mentions the existence of an annual evaluation with the clear intent there should be one. Because the town manager reports to the commission, it is clear the intent is that an evaluation is the commission's responsibility.
Why should you care? The town manager runs the town as its CEO. How he goes, so goes the town.
Taxpayers should know what's happening and why. The town manager's evaluation is an integral part of this process. We wouldn't have been doing them for the past 15 years if they weren't important. What's more, evaluations are just part of good management. Let the commission know you want this process back out in the public eye as part of a truly open government.
A solution for the Key Club
After reading for months all the letters in the press for and against the Longboat Key Club proposal and following the testimony before the Planning and Zoning Board in recent weeks, it is clear that two things are true: 1) The town needs the proposal to move forward; and 2) It should be adjusted in some way to make it more aesthetically and functionally useful.
The town needs an upgraded, first-class Key Club for the sake of property values. The resort will bring in the kind of new, affluent prospective buyers that will help revitalize our real-estate market. An improved club facility will help keep its recreational activities centered here on the Key. This is an especially important consideration, given the questionable future of another prime resort, The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort.
Still, the Town Commission must find ways to adjust the plan so it remains economically and functionally viable for the Key Club but more aesthetically acceptable and user-friendly to the town and the other neighbors within the PUD.
A good starting point would be to work with the Key Club to rein in some of the departures, such as the height of the condos on the north side of Longboat Club Road. Or, some have suggested, why not move Longboat Club Road far enough north of its present location to include more of the development on the south side of the new road?
This would allow moving the tall towers back to the east and further away from the existing residents. Add a winding road to replace the present straight orientation for a more aesthetic, pastoral appearance with a branch off to the hotel, conference center and condos that will separate and quiet traffic. It will also allow the condos to be closer to the hotel, where they can more easily avail themselves of hotel amenities, and it would create more open space on the north side of the road that will be more attractive and could possibly even accommodate a small driving range that is currently missing from the plan.
This kind of adjustment would work functionally for the Key Club and should help mollify much of the existing criticism from neighbors.
Goodbye, and best wishes.
Prior to moving to East County this month, Sandy Gilbert was active in town politics and former chairman of the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Board.


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So, while I was playing armchair fashion police during Sunday's Oscars, "Private Practice" actress Kate Walsh was tweeting. And into the umpteenth hour of statues and montages and Cirque de Soleil, she dropped this twitbomb:
…dear Hollywood actresses, stop fucking up your faces, it's looking the the bar scene in Star Wars.— Kate Walsh (@katewalsh) February 27, 2012
Kapow! There's a whole lot going on in that 140-character-or-less sentiment.
I want to shreik, Hell to the yeah! You tell 'em! But also, it's not that simple.
A couple of weeks ago, I was at an event at an art gallery with a couple of friends. Beautiful friends! Talented friends! Interesting friends! Smart friends! Friends who are (damn them) just a bit younger than I! And the subject turned to wrinkles. One poked at an imaginary line between her eyes, while the other espoused a theory having to do with the idea that horizontal lines (i.e. crows feet–to which I am no stranger) are okay, while vertical ones (the eye wrinkle the first friend was obsessing over) were not. In a feeble attempt at a conversation redirect, I said, "Hey, what about cleavage?" (due to the fact that I have none, and therefore think it is wonderful), but they were not taking the bait. There was no lightening of the conversation; for more than a couple of minutes, there was no changing the subject. During a fun night out and surrounded by interesting art, my very intelligent girlfriends and I were talking about getting old.
And I was pissed.
But why? Was I pissed that my super smart and beautiful friends were talking about superficial things… or was something more sinister at work?? I mean, why should that make me angry? Bored, sure; annoyed, that would make sense too. Upon closer (and unflinchingly, unattractively) honest examination–I think it made me angry because they were voicing my own fears, the ones for which I have a stable of rational, enlightened, stock replies at the ready. Replies I'm happy to bandy at anyone else. Ones that go, "Oh, but the lines on your face tell the story of your life!" or "We only fear getting old because society tells us we should, and forces this unrealistic ideal upon us!" or "Old women are so beautiful!" or "Only shallow women buy into that crap."
As I wrote some time ago, the internal debate goes something like this:
If a feminist worries over her worry lines, frets over getting fat, or lusts after lipstick … but there's no one around to witness it, can she still call herself a feminist?
They're questions we all ponder at one time or another, I suppose. Is buying Spanx buying into an oppressive ideal? Does dabbling in fillers make one a tool of the patriarchy? Does plunking down your VISA at the MAC counter mean you've forfeited your feminist card? Who among us hasn't felt that guilt, that shame, keeping your head down while silently praying no one spots you — enlightened, intelligent, feminist you — shelling out way too much money for two ounces of eye cream? Who hasn't wondered: Are vanity and empowerment mutually exclusive?
Sure, maybe we can coast through a couple of decades, smug in our certainty that we'd never stoop so low. And yet. Once we start to age, once it's our forehead that's lined, our jawline that's softened, the tug-of-war becomes urgent.
I know I should know better, and yet, deep down in places I don't talk about at parties (art openings being, apparently, another story), I fear getting older just like everyone else. Just like, I would guess, Kate Walsh does. There's an "It's Not Fair" element to it, too–especially, I'd imagine, in Hollywood. When everyone else is doing whatever it is they're doing, the un-done are left to stick out like sore thumbs. They may look awesome for their age, but that's only awesome for their age.
Maybe the knife (or the needle, or the laser… or whatever) is the coward's way out. But, who am I to judge? The pressure is powerful, and it's oppressive–we wouldn't react so strongly if somewhere pretty tender weren't being poked. It seems to me that opting in and making fun are two sides of the same coin. But, when it comes to aging, it's not like we have a choice. I guess the kindest thing we can do–both to ourselves, and to other women–is to approach it with an open mind, and an open heart — and not to worry about what everyone else is doing.
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The bad news just keeps on pouring in for advocates of electronic voting. In the latest turn of events, election officials in Leon County, Florida, hired computer experts to successfully hack an optical-scan voting machine manufactured by Diebold, Inc. Hugh Thompson and Harri Hursti were able to affect the outcome of the "election" by altering the software on a removable memory card central to the machine's operation.
Users were asked to use the Diebold machine to vote on the question of whether or not it could be hacked. Thompson and Hursti voted "yes," while six other users voted "no." The final result tallied seven "yes" and one "no" votes.
Thompson said in a real race between candidates someone could pre-load 50 votes for Candidate A and minus 50 votes for Candidate B, for example. Candidate B would need to receive 100 votes before equaling Candidate A's level at the start of the race. The total number of votes on the machine would equal the number of voters, so election officials wouldn't become suspicious.
"It's self-destroying evidence," he said. "Once ... the machine gets past zero and starts counting forward for Candidate B, there's no record that at one point there were negative votes for Candidate B."
The scary part of all this is that the hacked machine was an optical-scan design, wherein a user is required to vote on paper which is then scanned into the machine. Many experts prefer the optical-scan method to touch-screen designs: If there is any concern that election results may be inaccurate, the paper votes can be compared to the electronic outcome for verification.
Of course, in order to get those comparisons and track vote fraud, you have to hand count the paper ballots—an initiative that can be harder to implement than one might suppose. For instance, California requires an manual recount of one percent of the voting precincts when an automated system is used, yet one percent leaves a lot of room to hide misbehaving machines. In other areas, manual recounts are actually prohibited by law in many circumstances.
Most states prohibit elections officials from checking on optical scan tallies by examining the paper ballots. In Washington, Secretary of State Sam Reed declared such spontaneous checkups to be "unauthorized recounts" and prohibited them altogether. New Florida regulations will forbid counting paper ballots, even in recounts, except in highly unusual circumstances. Without paper ballot hand-counts, the hacks […] show that optical-scan elections can be destroyed in seconds.
Leon County's solution to the Diebold hack was to send the machines back and order new ones from competitive supplier Election Systems & Software. However, there's no guarantee that the ES&S machines are hack-proof, and history suggests they probably aren't. Does modern democracy hang from the tenuous thread of technology? One thing is for sure: with extremely close results in the last two US presidential elections, this is an inconvenient time to be wrong about our voting processes.


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Thursday, 23 June 2011
Same-Sex Marriage
31 comments:
- CorvusCorax12 said...
i agree...great cartoons
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
I wouldn't trust the government with much these days.I don't think the government shouldbe able to tell us how to live our lives and they should never have had to approve same sex marriage in the first place.Thanks for visiting, I know how you feel about locking doors but honestly, a person would have to suspend themselves from the roof or be able to scale the wall, we are on the top floor.I worried when we first moved here too,, not now,, hope you have a wonderful day,
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- Plowing Through Life (Martha) said...
Change takes time, but at least we're constantly evolving, albeit slowly. We are fortunate to live in Canada - one of the best countries in the world.
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- Viperman24 said...
We have no freedom in this country. And the fact we have some retarded christens stops us from developing even further.
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- DEZMOND said...
we should all move to Canada! And live like Liza Minelly :)
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- Jeanne said...
Totally agree with you! :0)
I could go one about the Gov't and the way it likes to control all too many aspects of our lives, but I won't.
Great cartoon!
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- Robin Larkspur said...
Sometimes it feels like we are living in the Dark Ages. Ignorance and intolerance thrives. But there are many enlightened, informed and sane people who support same-sex marriage. Perhaps this group will outnumber the negative groups someday. There is still hope for the legislation to pass this time. Fingers crossed and positive thinking!
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- turquoisemoon said...
This will take time, I'm sorry to say... What I see is that any difference is greeted with fear and downright anger. I think the anger is with themselves because they are faced with their own fear. These "hate" groups are/must be very unhappy... Always looking outward for the reason for their unhappiness. Here in the midwest (Kansas) we have the infamous Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka. Oooh my...I find them to be awful, and wonder how they can even call themselves Christian??? or human???
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- OmaLindasOldeBaggsandStuftShirts said...
Yes, some day.....but in the mean time, like so many other issues and causes, we need to be supportive of each other...this is not anything except fear on the part of others. All I can say for myself is love is love period. Injustice is unfortunately we need to overcome on many levels.
The Olde Bagg
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- Suzie said...
There is supposed to be a separation of church and state, but obviously, the division has been muddled so much, it is non-existent most of the time.
My girls found a minister of a Unitarian Church (who happens to be female), who doesn't believe that same sex marriages are wrong, and conducted a beautiful ceremony in a historical church, in what is now a park, complete with ponds, fountains, gorgeous flower beds, and the occasional deer (cue the deer.lol). It was important to the girls that they have a formal ceremony, despite the fact that it wasn't recognized by the state.
They then went to an attorney and had all sorts of legal documents drawn up, naming each other co-owners, beneficiaries, etc. trying to cover all bases, but knowing full well, that if something were to happen to either of them, that any of their biological family members could challenge the documents in court.
Personally, I would never do that. I love them both dearly, and respect their relationship and the life that they are building together, but I'm not so sure about some other family members, on both sides.
I find it completely senseless that they should have to jump through hoops, and are made to feel like lesser citizens, to try and attain a measure of equality that is readily available to two sex couples, just because some religious representatives can sway our political representatives enough to keep a good number of the population, suppressed! I truly look forward to the day when the lawmakers will come to their senses (there is an oxymoron in there somewhere. .I can feel it, but hope that I'm wrong). Ok. .off my soapbox for now! lol
The top image is clever, and true. .the bottom one is sadly true. But thanks for sharing them both! Keeping the problems in the spotlight, keeps people aware, and informed.
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- Anne Huskey-Lockard said...
There is no reason two members of the same sex shouldn't be married, and as a Christian, I find the behavior of other *so-called-christians* just abominable. They are promoting a political agenda as opposed to what they SHOULD be doing; love, compassion, tolerance, acceptance.
Our church is moving slowly toward enlightenment (well, in some areas of the country....) and I can see a day when a split happens over treating EVERYONE EQUALLY, and yes, that includes marriage.
So my apologies for all the hate that has come from other churches...we aren't all the same.
Good post; keep it in the spotlight.
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- mxtodis123 said...
They are very close to voting for same sex marriage here in New York. Should be any day now.
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- Dreaming of Jeanie said...
Oh, Liza and her gay men...buahahahahahaha....gotta love her for trying to make it work. Goddess knows the most beautiful men I've ever met were gay as the day is long...and their apartments smelled good, they fixed a mean martini and they loved to watch Rent with me. ;)
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- Auntie sezzzzzz... said...
Yeppers, what sense does it make, for one religion (or a group of them) to make legal laws, for all?
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... What comes next? The Radical Islamists and their wild-and-crazy-legal-laws?
Why not? If big religions can make laws-for-all, why not Sharia Law too?
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- Wendy S. said...
As you said, Debra, we just have to keeping on fighting the good fight...There's so many fundamentalists who still are shocked about Darwin's theory but I absolutely believe that same sex marriage WILL happen. I can't predict when or how, but "believing is seeing" and that's what so many of us are doing...Love the "Liza" image ; )
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- Laeli said...
I was thrilled to be able to respond yes to my daughter's question about whether or not girls could marr girls.
Then, a few years later I overheard a mother LIE to her dughter when the child asked the same question...le sigh
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- Barbara said...
Right on sister!
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- SUZY8-TRACK said...
That Liza sign just cracked me up!
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- Kathy said...
It does seem frustratingly slow in coming but as I look back, in my childhood, people were arrested for "homosexual acts" and they most definitely weren't open about it. In the past 10 years, we've seen a lot more acceptance and with more visibility, we'll see yet more in the future. Some day my son will be able to marry and that will be the happiest day of my life.
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- laughingwolf said...
so mote it be...
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- The Episcopagan said...
I agree with you. Within 20 years I think people will wonder what the fuss was all about.
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- JACKIESUE said...
sigh*..stupids peoples ..wait till you see the great poster I got for tomorrow..you can steal it.
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- Ricky Shambles said...
Awesome cartoon.
Let's go, NY, let's go!
Let's go, NY, let's go!
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- -E- said...
not even in the people's republic of britain.
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- Makropoulos said...
Yep, NY state is working on it. But can we do it? So many see it as a threat. And at the same time in the US, the press is all over a 51 year old actor marrying a 16 year old girl. Such a strange, sick society. . .
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- jaz@octoberfarm said...
liza never looked so good!
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
Hopefully one day soon after gay marriage is legal we will look back on it as we do the women's and minorities fight for equal rights. It will be a victory that never should have even needed a fight and should have been, from the beginning, a basic human right.
Also, I fucking love the Liza poster.
- Friday, June 24, 2011
- The Traveler said...
There are very few things in human life that are black and white. Very few things are so clear that we can say with conviction that one thing is right and the other wrong. Treating people as less because they don't conform to what we wish they would be for our own selfish purposes is unequivocally wrong. It is the black to equalities white. IT would be wonderful if for once, rather than weighing the advantages our elected officials would just do what is right.
- Friday, June 24, 2011
- Tricky Nag said...
It continues to stun me how many people get hung up on this issue - which shouldn't even be an issue.
- Friday, June 24, 2011
- Blueberry said...
Canada, you are so progressive! I'm jealous.
- Saturday, June 25, 2011
I'm still living where I risk being deported or even imprisoned... Mind you it doesn't mean I keep my mouth shut ;)
- Monday, June 27, 2011


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Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Time Saver : Tag on Fitted Sheet
Every fitted sheet has a tag sewn into one of the corners. That tag belongs on the bottom, left corner, if you're laying on your back in the bed.
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Fresher Home with Febreze Car Clips
You have probably seen those neat little Febreze Car Clip fresheners in store that claim to work wonders when attached to the vents in your car. However, did you know they are just as, if not more effective in your HOME?! Simply clip on to your floor vents - when the heat is run, the scent is released. These clips work for quite awhile as well. A great air freshener for a small price!
How to Whiten your Stained Nails
If you are a regular nail polish user, you are well aware of how stained and discoloured your nails can become after not being able to "breathe". This is also a useful tips for SMOKERS. We now have the answer to keep those babies healthy and white!
1 Mix a small amount of baking soda and hydrogen peroxide together.
2. Make into a paste.
3. Use a toothbrush to scrub the paste onto your nails (both fingers and toes if needed)
4. Soak your nails in the paste and let sit for approximately 5-10 minutes.
5. Rinse.
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Shoe Fitting: Teaching Kids Left & Right
While building independence and confidence, cutting stickers into 2 separate pieces and placing in your child's shoes will teach him or her to "match" each piece and put the proper shoe on the right foot. I did this with both my kids and it was extremely effective!
Baking Soda: A Little Goes a Long Way
This handy tip will prevent you from wasting an entire box of baking soda! Instead of storing the whole thing at the back of your refrigerator to keep things fresh, create little "sachets" from small bags. Loosely tie off with either dental floss or ribbon so the baking soda is still able to do its magic.
Prolong the LIfe of your Cell Phone Charger
If you use your cell phone as much as I do, you are aware of how those chargers are not made to last! They fray or bend within a couple months time and you are left having to purchase a new one quickly. So here is a tip to prolong the life of your charger: use a spring from an old pen to keep it from bending and breaking.
Keep your Cereal Fresh
My kids don't eat cereal everyday - because obviously their tastes change from day to day (how many moms can relate?!) Therefore, I needed a way to keep all these opened boxes from going stale until the kiddos decided they were in a cereal phase again. That is when I discovered that actually storing your cereal in the freezer will prevent it from going stale! This has saved me so much money after not having to throw it all out.
Body Wash Vs. Soap: Ridding Scum from your Tub
Did you know that regular soap contains fats and oils that create soap scum build up in your bathtub or shower stall? However, since body wash is actually a detergent, it is specifically formulated to prevent that caked on mess!
Bathroom Freshness!
A lot of the bathroom odor you experience in your home is coming from your toilet bowl brush. By adding cleaner to the tray/pan, it will keep those smells at bay until you get around to cleaning the brush thoroughly.
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
No More Boiling Messes
You know all those times you are cooking away on the stove and leave to go quickly do something else? Only to come back to one heck of a mess - especially if it's a really starchy item you are cooking! Well I have the answer - putting a wooden spoon across the top of a pot will completely stop your water from boiling over. TRY IT!
Wrinkle Free Mornings!
Hang a wrinkled garment (shirt or dress) in the bathroom before taking a hot shower. The steam will help get the wrinkles out AND you don't need to waste hydro throwing it in the dryer for those few minutes!
Ridding your Kitchen of Pesky Fruit Flies
Take a lemon and cut into two halves. Place them in your oven directly on the rack and leave the oven door open for a few hours (you can even do it overnight!) Take an aluminum tray and place at the bottom of your oven to catch the flies. In the morning, close the oven door and turn the broiler on. Let the oven cool, toss the citrus, and wipe out the base of the oven OR remove the tray. The flies are will be gone - and not to mention, your kitchen will smell heavenly!
How to Quickly & Effectively Clean your Coffeemaker
How often do you actually take the time to thoroughly clean your coffee maker? Even if its a Tassimo or Keurig? Well with this simple trick, you will be doing it a lot more frequently!
Run 1 part vinegar + 1 part water through a brew cycle in your coffeemaker and the result will be like brand new.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Properly Cleaning your Kitchen Mixer
Wiping down with a wet, soapy rag can do in a pinch, BUT what do we do to give it a REALLY deep clean that mixer needs?To clean out all of those nasty dried bits ( think: flour, dried egg, batter, cocoa powder, etc.) that get stuck in the crevices of stand mixers, use either a toothpick OR the end of a wooden skewer. It's satisfying to excavate all of the materials of baking projects past and then wipe them up with a damp cloth. I also make sure to unscrew the little knob where you can affix attachments to the mixer; there's always a lot of gunk hiding under there as well!
Freshen Up Those Stale Chips
There's no need to toss old chips once they become stale. Just put them on a microwave-safe plate, add a splash of olive oil and nuke on full power for 10 seconds. Like new again!
Friday, March 25, 2016
The RIGHT Way to Cut Your Watermelon
Instead of slicing the melon into wide wedges that inevitably get juice all over your face, chin AND hands, cut the fruit (or any other melon) in half, then slice it in a grid. That will give you evenly sized slices that each have a bit of rind at the bottom to act as a convenient handle - which is amazing for tiny fingers!
The Easiest (and Quickest) Way to Clean your Blender
We all know the awesome convenience our blenders can bring to our lives, but then there is the dreaded mess we have to clean afterwards. YUCK! Not to mention, you have no idea how many times I cut my fingers trying to clean those intricate blades with a dish cloth - that is until I discovered this amazing trick!
Fill the blender about halfway full with hot water, then add a few drops of dish soap. Turn the blender on high and watch the magic happen. Run a few times if necessary. Rinse with cool water and it's clean! It's that simple.
Fill the blender about halfway full with hot water, then add a few drops of dish soap. Turn the blender on high and watch the magic happen. Run a few times if necessary. Rinse with cool water and it's clean! It's that simple.
Keep your Ice Cream Fresh & Soft
You know those times you are craving a nice bowl of your favourite ice cream, only to find it's hard as a rock and nearly impossible to spoon out? Well, NO MORE! Putting a container of ice cream in a Ziplock bag before placing it in the freezer will help keep the ice cream soft for scooping. It will also prevent that nasty freezer burn.
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
The Best Ways to Use Deodorant (that don't involve our armpits!)
As many as you already know, I adore finding ways to use other household products and this one is definitely a favourite of mine!
1. Just bought a brand new pair of fancy shoes? Prevent friction and those horrible blisters by swiping deodorant on the areas that sores normally form. The deodorant acts as a barrier between your shoes and skin.
2. If you have that horrible itching from pesky bug bites, rub deodorant on the areas a few times a day until it vanishes.
3. For women that are well endowed, they know the experience of having sweat under their bra line. To prevent chafing and bacteria build up, rub a thin coating of deodorant on before getting dressed each day.
4. It is said because of it's drying agent, anti perspirant will dry out pimples, fever blisters and cold sores. Obviously just ensure you are using a different stick to stop the spread of bacteria.
5. An unusual but very useful tip is to apply deodorant on a squeaky door hinge to stop the noise.
6. For women, after shaving your bikini line, apply deodorant to these areas to prevent razor bumps. A great tip to remember this summer!
7. For men, when shaving your face, if you happen to nick yourself in the process, rubbing deodorant on these spots will stop the bleeding quickly.
Useful Tips for Vaseline
1. Make your perfume last longer by applying Vaseline to your pulse points before spritzing on your favourite fragrance.
2. Shine your leather shoes and bags by wiping Vaseline over the leather. You only need a small amount since it goes a long way!
3. Apply around the edges of your nails before painting with nail polish. This allows you to easily wipe away the excess mess rather than it being on your skin.
4. Furthermore, prevent stuck on nail polish caps by rubbing some Vaseline on the neck of the polish bottle before storing away again.
5. Remove stains from linen napkins by putting a little Vaseline on the stain before you wash it.
6. If you use a self tanning lotion or spray, prevent uneven tanning marks by adding a small dab of Vaseline to any dry skin spots before applying.
7. Create your own lipgloss by applying Vaseline after putting on your regular lipstick. Plus it helps keep those puckers soft!
8. If you have sensitive ears, dipping your earring posts in Vaseline will prevent your lobes from any irritation.
9. When your baby is teething, applying a small amount to their chin will help from rashes and irritation when that extra drooling sets in.
10. Ensure soft feel all the time by rubbing Vaseline on your feet before bed and wearing socks to avoid a mess.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd said on Monday that Andrew Bocking, the executive in charge of its BBM instant messaging business, has left the company.
The Waterloo, Ontario-based company did not disclose whether Bocking's departure was part of an internal management shuffle or whether he left to pursue other interests.
The technology company, which is seeking to rebuild itself under the leadership of new Chief Executive John Chen, said only that Bocking "made the decision to leave BlackBerry".
Since taking the reins late last year, Chen has reshuffled management ranks and has signaled that he plans to focus more on the company's services, or enterprise, business, which manages smartphone traffic on the internal networks of corporate and government clients.
BlackBerry said John Sims, who heads the company's enterprise segment, will add the BBM team to his organization. The company said it plans to build on BBM's strength in messaging and expand it into new areas, including mobile marketing, community building and enterprise messaging.
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US job growth increased at its fastest pace in more than two years in April and the unemployment rate dived to a five and half year low of 6.3%.
The figures point to a sharp rebound in economic activity early in the second quarter.
Non-farm payrolls surged 288,000 last month, the Labor Department said today. That was the largest gain since January 2012 and beat Wall Street's expectations for only a 210,000 increase.
The unemployment rate tumbled 0.4 percentage point, touching its lowest level since September 2008.
The Labor Department attributed the decline to a drop in the number of unemployed people re-entering the labour market as well as a fall in new entrants into the labour force.
The US economy stalled in the first quarter, weighed down by an unusually cold and disruptive winter.
A slow pace of stock accumulation by businesses, while they work through a glut of goods amassed in the second half of 2013, also undercut growth.
The employment report joins other upbeat data such as consumer spending and industrial production in suggesting the first quarter's 0.1% annual growth pace was an aberration and is not a reflection of the economy's otherwise sound fundamentals.
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday shrugged off the dismal performance. The Fed, which announced further reductions to the amount of money it is pumping into the economy through monthly bond purchases, said indications were that "growth in economic activity has picked up recently."
Economists expect second-quarter growth to top a 3% pace.
While details of the bigger survey of employers were upbeat, the smaller and volatile household survey from which the unemployment rate is calculated was mixed.
US household employment fell slightly after increasing robustly in the first quarter. The labour force, which also grew during the same period as improving job prospects encouraged some job seekers who had given up the hunt to resume looking for work, declined sharply in April.
The labour force participation rate, or the share of working-age Americans who are employed and unemployed but looking for a job, fell 0.4 percentage point to 62.8%. That was the lowest level since last December.
Some of the 1.35 million people who lost their longer-term unemployment benefits at the end of last December could have dropped out the labour force last month.
The participation rate and the persistently high number of Americans out of work for long spells could keep the Fed from lifting interest rates for some time to come.
April's job gains were broad based. Government payrolls rose by 15,000, while manufacturing employment increased 12,000.
Construction payrolls gained 32,000, but the hiring trend could slow in the months ahead as residential construction loses some steam.
Average hourly earnings were flat in April. The length of the workweek held steady at 34.5 hours in April after bouncing back in March from its winter-depressed levels.


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Hi there! J Monkeys here with a confession. I saw one of those memes the other day. You know the one – "take small steps toward your goals every day"…or some crap like that. Here's one that took me WAY too long to find on the internet.
Normally, I scoff at that kind of self-help mumbo-jumbo, but this time it struck me.
I know that life is a journey – and like most journeys, I've got a destination in mind for mine. Sure, sure. I take time to stop to smell the roses and enjoy the trip. But at the risk of over extending the metaphor, I'm pretty sure that I'm a little lost, or at least turned around. Completely.
Not only am I not taking steps every day that will lead directly toward my goals, but most days, I'm actively walking in the opposite direction.
I have three main goals in my life right now, the same goals I've had for a while, all of equal importance to me. 1 – Become a successful writer, 2 – Get myself healthier, and 3 – Take care of my family and household.
What road leads to becoming a successful writer? How about writing every day. Treating writing like the job it is. Putting my butt in the seat and doing it. I have not been following any of those paths. In fact, I seem to come up with every reason in the world not to write every day, or any day. Any distraction, every justification, focusing on everything going on in my life except putting my backside in my seat and moving my story forward. Hmm.
What roads lead to becoming healthier? Well, for a person who is probably 70 pounds heavier that they ought to be with a family rife with heart disease, how about eating healthy foods, moving around until I sweat a little and staying away from those substances (ice cream!) that I know pave the path to diabetes and every other nasty thing looming in my future? Have I been doing any of those things? No. I had donuts for breakfast – note the plural. No water to drink yet today (it's 11am,) no exercise (been watching TV since I dropped the kids off at camp.) And did I mention the donuts? How about the Rice Krispy treats my sister-in-law made yesterday that are calling my name? And where will I be getting lunch? I don't know, but I hadn't planned on a salad. Hmm.
What roads lead to taking care of my family and my household? To be honest, I can say that while I'm walking in exactly the wrong direction in my journey toward my other two goals, I'm at least on a parallel, if long and meandering path to this one. But it's a scenic and not at all efficient road which often intersects with the direct route, but then detours off again. Hmm.
What conclusion have I come to after this painful self assessment? I'm on the road to ruin instead of where I thought I was going. But now, that I've gotten directions, I have to decide if I'm going to turn this vehicle around. Maybe I'd better think about that. And get some water while I'm doing so. Maybe wash a dish. Or fetch a salad.
Are your feet on a path toward your goals or are you self sabotaging like me? Can't fix it until you recognize it, right.


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|Potting Shed
210mm x 165mm, oil on board
As anyone who ever reads this blog knows, I have a thing about painting gardens, and sheds. This is my friends shed, she is a gifted gardener and she has the best kind of shed. Piles of really useful things, bits of chicken wire, stacks of pots, a feast for painting. This is in the summer show at Beside The Wave with lots of other wonderful summery paintings. Four of our artists had big articles in Artist & Illustrator magazine this month, well worth a read and better still, the gallery is well worth a visit.
|Mud Pies
425mm x 590mm, oil on board
This is another garden, or allotment, painting which is in the collection. Also, what do you think of the scale figure. I find trying to visualise the size of things from numbers quite difficult and I was trying to think of an easy way to show how big a painting is, especially on the Internet. So I made myself a little scale figure, average height person, with the picture beside, all to scale, plus a line for how big the frame is. Useful or not, opinions gratefully received!