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Lupu-515 Beta New Version DEC 18
Subject description: It is what it is
Lupu-515 Beta
Two new things in Quickpet:
1. Big button to install the Gnu C Compiler, aka, the devx.
2. Menu item under More Pets to download the latest update of the content of the puppy-lucid repo without having to wait for all the very slow Ubuntu databases.
Also, browser-default 3.1; midori and cups one and forever; alsaconf reverted and it works again; countrywizard linked to countrywizard.qs; lib9660-dev to devx; libdb4-8 (please check if your program uses it).
It's time to
accentuate the positive
(not that we won't try to fix any bugs, but Lupu52 is basically what it is going to be). And I like it. I enjoy using it. It is the closest I have ever had to an operating system that I could use full time.
So, what do you like about Lucid? I can use quotes in the promotion material.
I like the Software:
Music listening: gnome-mplayer, pmusic, audacious, aqualung, deadbeef, lxmusic, and Songbird in Quickpet and PPM
Video: gnome-mplayer, with Smplayer, VLC, XineDVD, and Ogle in PPM
Document: Abiword, with Scribus, OpenOffice, and K-Office in Quickpet and PPM
Openbox window manager default, with JWM built-in, and with Fluxbox and XFCE in PPM, with experimental version of KDE
And I like Quickpet. How cool to see the development of a legend
Lupu-515 ->
f31eb9dacca1887da9b6d640c2a6c944 lupu-515.iso
Please get the Devx in Quickpet -> SFS Get
OK, now you should be able to 1) Quickpet -> File -> Preferences -> ibiblio.org, and then 2) Quickpet -> SFS Get -> Gnu C Compiler lupu_devx_515.sfs
Lupu_devx_515 ->
db42e395cb78ba58e7884cd45fe18bce lupu_devx_515.sfs
Delta luci-246 -> lupu-515
The next one could be a Lupu!
These are mainly
fit and finish
, as they should be at this point thank goodness.
gnumeric menu
network_tray updated
geany opens with blank doc
jwmconfigmgr--no option for gtk theme
Quickpet 4.0-1
Video Upgrade wizard opens Quickpet for Drivers
Fbpanel default set to tclock (radky)
hide modprobe Warning (rhadon)
remove inverted, clearlooks, and some other nasty themes and engines
rename PupX Screensaver/Mouse/Keyboard
combine directfb's, save 200MB compressed (ttuuxxx)
remove libgparted.la and .a (ttuuxxx)
Test ***Everything*** Please!!!
Luci-246 ->
37a5f427adf8e9acd3670891e061c84d luci-246.iso
I downloaded luci-245, then copied 245 and 246 into the same folder, used xdelta, then erased luci246 and rebuilt it with the new delta file.
So what have we done with Lucid 5.2?
We have upgraded, updated, and/or improved all of the main programs as well as many of the other programs in the menu and system. We have incorporated numerous improvements from the latest version of Woof. We have made sfs programs installable with a single click. We have added a very tidy firstrun wizard screen--also very stable and effective. We are still filling the PPM with great programs tested and configured for Lucid 5.2 including quite a few language packs.. We have refined operation throughout. And we have removed two programs that didn't work very well. Please scroll down for details on upgrades, updates, and improvements.
Luci-245 Following the True Path of Puppy
shinobar's timezone fix
pcd 1.4-1
partview 2.1.1
browser-default 3.0
PupClockset 1.1
revert ntfs-3g --solves ntfs rox copy problem
gnumeric 1.10.12
new network_tray
abiword spell check on by default
The devx for luci-245 is the same as the one for luci-244. So please rename the luci_devx_244.sfs to luci_devx_245.sfs
Luci_devx_244 ->
1fb96c8f9fedea4d3267fb6dcce1b40a luci_devx_244.sfs
127MB ISO Loads Completely Into RAM on Computer with 256MB
Single SFS file - No Zdrive
Cups running on Mystery Browser
LupuNews and Help running on dillo (fasssssst)
Download Pidgin if You Want It
Thank you for the suggestions. We could still stand to lose a few hundred more megabytes.
For video freaks the i686 versions of the ffmpeg libraries will be available in PPM (not yet--the ones there now are the old ones for 5.1.1)
Why the Return?
01micko and playdayz agree that this seems to be the most stable form of Puppy. It is good to keep supporting 256MB ram computers and to do that the iso needs to be < 128MB. Otherwise Puppy either will not load completely and/or will not run at a usable speed (at least on a percentage of computers). This puts a kind of "natural" limit on at least one breed of puppy.
. The big news is the small, fast surprise. Who will find it first?
Also Quickpet4rc9, Browser-Installer 2.2, plus 4 patches found by Barry for Woof.
A Feature Freeze: Luci-242
Everything in the iso is an inter-related system and only Barry has any chance of knowing how any given change will echo through the system. So, no more, "Hey that's a good idea. It can't hurt anything." Bug fixes only time.
Quickpet 4rc7 (01micko)
e2fsprogs 1.12 (recommended by coolpup)
partview 2.1 (01micko)
unrar & p7zipxz - (coolpup & ttuuxxx) givuickpet, gnome-mplayer, mplayer, sylpheed, mtpaint, gnumeric, abiword, geany, as well as system programs such as e2fsprogs. ing us 7z, xz, and rar - look at zip icon on desktop
PPM Improvements by Barry
pburn 3.3.1 9zigbert)
pcd1.4 (zigbert)
firstrun 1.4 (shinobar)
grub4dos 1.6.3uickpet, gnome-mplayer, mplayer, sylpheed, mtpaint, gnumeric, abiword, geany, as well as system programs such as e2fsprogs.
Inverted jwm theme (playdayz) - originally copy of gtk inverted theme, but now has some tweaks--it was interesting to make--it has all the info a wm is supposed to provide. it has a slightly different look from most jwm themes I think. It also seems to be very fast on jwm--if that is not wishful thinking.
Double darn. I missed the gcaltool ttuuxxx prepared, which will replace some or all of the other calculators.
The zdrive contains the kernel modules, about 22MB of them! Once they are loaded the really don't need to take up any ram--so using the zdrive loads them from the disk. That makes the main sfs file smaller--around 110MB, which is a reliable size for loading into ram on a computer with 256MB ram We had not been using the zdrive until Puppy 237 (I think) or maybe even later.
Pnethood should work now; coolpup sent a new build of Pidgin 2.7.7; clicking the clock for a calendar works in jwm; viewnior is back at version 1.0; jwm itself is the version of 493 that shinobar built and 01micxko packaged--it has fewer fo the full-screen problems with graphics programs.
includes the Woof that Barry posted earlier today NOV 28. There are a number of package updates: powerapplet, samba-client, viewnior, net-setup, pnethood, psync, and more.
Here are
things I did:
Asunder 2.0
Openbox - Animate Iconify and Restore is Off
Gnome-mplayer - Postprocessing and Deinterlace are Off; Default is X11 so if you use any driver other than nv, you can change to Xv video under Edit: Preferences
ssl is linked to openssl
Grub4dos 1.6.3
Pburn 3.3.0 is under development - see Bary's blog
mtpaint under development by don570
The last Woof update was for
on OCT 29 and there has seemingly been more flaky behavior since then. I finally noticed that
was not just a change in nomenclature but that the default for bootable SCSI drivers had changed--so I chose this time to Erase them instead of keeping them. Also I chose to keep the framebuffer drivers.
What you can do
: Test the things in the lists above and below this message.
On firstrun dialog, even if you want en-US, please choose English and then choose to check the UTF-8 box to see what effect there is. Same with any other language choice. Please contribute your
findings and opinions
. Shinobar has also asked for your comments in
There is a lot going on in Luci-239
. We have some new people testing and they see new things--which is great. In no particular order:
1. Fixed some things zigbert found to do with id3lib for pmusic and pmetatagger. Also upgraded to pprocess 2.2.0. Z noticed some unnecssary files in /usr/share/locale that saved over 1MB. He alerted us to an issue with UTF-8 that we are investigating. Shinobar has the simple fix for part of it but it is not implemented yet in luci-239.
2. ttuuxxx found some bloat in /usr/share/doc that also saved over 1MB. I keep meaning to say that
what Barry does to satisfy the GPL requirement is to provide a list in /root/.packages/PKGS_HOMEPAGES.
ttuuxxx also noticed an anomaly with SSL that we will now investigate--though none of the browsers has reported a problem. ttuuxxx also compiled the latest Dillo which is now in PPM and some other programs that will be.
3. 01micko fixed the new2dir script in the package installwatch (discovered by ttuuxxx). 01micko also compiled the latest Netsurf which is now in PPM. 01micko has done a million other things which we could not do without.
Cpu Frequency Scaling
is now manual. The automatic version did not work on all computers, but the manual one should. Menu -> System Status -> CPU Frequency Scaling Tool. Thanks tazoc and iguleder.
Gnome-mplayer defaults now to X11
video for compatibility with all video drivers (specifically the nv driver). For higher quality, please change to the 'xv' driver in Edit -> Preferences. Of course, it might be good also to update to the higher performance driver in Quickpet -> Drivers.
Thumbnails are turned of
f by default. To turn them on, Right-Click on an icon and choose Rox-Filer -> Options.
Picasa 3 and XineDVD are in PPM
. I was able to use the deb file that google released for Ubuntu to quickly and easily make the pet--though the deb file itself worked, but not quite cleanly--there was no menu for instance. It is a *good* thing that we can use Ubuntu deb files because 1) packagers and developers can provide the latest software quickly and easily--in fact, adventurous users can install many deb packages themselves with PPM; and 2) the packages prepared for Ubuntu should be reliable and compatible with Lucid, plus, Linux software gets tested heavily on Ubuntu..
8. We are investigating
. People can help by Menu -> Desktop -> Country Settings -> Chooselocale and putting a checkmark in 'UTF-8 encoding (apps faster without)'. Let's see if they are *significantly* faster without. Picasa will nag at you if UTF-8 is not set.
Lucid is now using a zdrive
, like Wary. This means that the luci_239.sfs is about 22MB smaller, around 110, and "copies to ram" nicely on machines with 256MB ram, at least on my P3 800Mhz 256MB ram Thinkpad.
10. The i686 ffmpeg libraries have been returned.
coolpup made a convincing case to include Pidgin,
plus he provided a tidy build of the latest 2.7.7. If you want the Full Pidgin with Video that is in Quickpet. coolpup says,
"Include it in the ISO. Many users use instant messaging instead of email or the telephone to communicate locally or globally. Including it will make the system more complete and score more brownie points by the reviewers.
Apparently, people forget that this is primarily an
instant messaging client
, besides offering I.R.C. as well."
12. I just used my one hundredth CD in testing Lucid.
Luci-239-devx ->
205e3d37dcad2bb6e4fde81dd7261d3b luci_devx_239.sfs
Delta luci-238-SCSI -> luci-239-SCSI
Heavy Testing Please
Barry will have a new Woof in a day or two or three and in my experience the best thing is to have our base in the best shape possible. In other words, change one thing at a time.
As you can
please test the packages and features that have been added or upgraded
since Lucid 5.1.1. Those of you who know,
please take a look at the devx
Please also test the optional window managers
--this luci has the correct xinitrc so they should behave well. I have only tested fluxbox--which is working smooth as butter. Please use wmswitcher to change wm's. Hmm, well, I guess they should work either way though.
My proposal is that we configure pidgin with a generic login to IRC #puppylinux--say, newpuppyuser, so that when people on the channel see that logon they will be on their best behavior.
That is not done in luci-237. What do you think?
Persistence of Internet connection.
Everyone should see firstrun the first boot--if there is an active ethernet connection then it should be automatically configured. If there is no ethernet then after firstrun users should see Simple Network Setup. Ethernet and wireless should both be persistent on reboot. If not, this is the time to try to figure out why not.
Packages that have been added or upgraded since Lucid 5.1.1
Please test as you can.
firstrun 1.2
Quickpet 4beta7 with SFS getter
wmswitcher 0.14
transmission 2.04
gparted update from 0.5.1 to 0.6.2
latest Woof of OCT 29
pidgin 2.7.2
firewallstate 1.7
gnome-mplayer stop button
grub4dos 0.4.4 v 1.6.2
Pmusic 1.4.1 - can select among multiple sound cards
Geany 0.19.1
Sylpheed 3.1.0b2 with Gnu Privacy Guard
Gnumeric 1.10.8
Mplayer 1.0rc4 (and ffmpeg--includes vpx and i686-specific libraries--adjusted for performance)
Gnome-mplayer 0.9.9.2
Gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.9.2 (in browsers)
mhwavedit from 1.4.16 to 1.4.20
Abiword--same number different (better) version with thesaurus
ntfs-3g from 2010.3.6 to 2010.8.8
mtpaint from 3.31 to 3.34.57 by don570
XineDVD DVD Player 1.29 - new
Here are the video files I use to test video playback ->
Please let me know if these are not the definitive versions of the window managers.
Fluxbox 1.1.1 for Lucid
XFCE for Lucid
Icewm for Lucid
Summary, Shinobar's latest firstrun dialog looks about done, latest Quickpet by 01micko is at a high stage of testing of the new features, new WMswitcher by 01micko, mplayer now plays mobile phone video/audio, browser-default by 01micko shows on fbpanel. Mplayer enhancements: 1) latest gnome-mplayer from maverick; 2) latest mplayer from maverick; 3) latest ffmpeg libraries (libavcodec, etc) from medibuntu; 4) provide ffmpeg libraries optimized for i686; 5) mplayer is set to use a 2MBH cache; 6) mplayer is set for max postprocessing.
Check - 1. Add new first-run dialog (courtesy of shinobar)
Looks about done. New version 9d1 in luci-233
Check - 2. Add newest Quickpet (soon available for all Puppies by 01micko)
In beta. New version 4beta in luci-233
Check - 3. Add fluxbox as alternate window manager--compositable plus compiz
dejan55 and steve_s are on it.
Check - 4. Seek lean-profile full-feature chat client. dejan555
5. Attention to devx to make Lucid a good development environment
Some work by playdayz. More needed.
Check - 6. someone fix cpu_freq_scaling for quad core please
Done by iguleder.
Check - 7. Simple way to install sfs's
Basically Done by 01micko.
8. Create DOC & NLS pets where appropriate
Not yet
Also includes new
to apply to all window managers by 01micko.
now plays sound for mobile phone videos. Thanks guihasz for staying with it. Because of including the i686 fiels and other tweaks Lupu's mplayer should have outstanding quality
The reason for openbox and fbpanel is that jwm has several problems:
1. jwm will not relocate the panel when the screen's resolution is changed.
2. The latest versions of gnome-mplayer do not work correctly using the widget in the lower right corner to go full screen.
3. There are some other items I forget.
Updates. Latest Woof. All but Pmusic latest Ubuntu binaries from Maverick.
Take a look at the original design specs and almost all of the pieces are in place now!
In addition to
and a well-stocked
Puppy Package Manager
A one-stop
Firstrun Dialog
(shinobar) that can set all options on one screen
(01micko)- one-click (or two) and Open Office, VLC, Gimp, and others, are ready to go--and don't use any Puppy memory
A nice collection of
(Menu -> Desktop Settings -> Nathan Wallpaper Setter)
Several new
gtk themes
(Menu -> Desktop Setting -> Chtheme GTK Theme Chooser - Try the default background with Crux--it's excessive) And don't forget the Openbox themes (Menu -> Desktop Settings ->
Openbox window manager config
--there's one named Anchos that goes well with Crux).
A second window manager installed (
--WhoDo) and three more tested and configured for luci-234/Lucid 5.2 (Fluxbox, Icewm, XFCE).
Menu -> Desktop Settings -> wmswitcher) can associate different backgrounds with each window manager
2 tweaks from shinobar for
(tasmod)is in the tray--you can right-click and turn it off if you would rather do without all the things it does
(tazoc) - rapid development on that now
replaces Ayttm (dejan555's build) - still need to configure Pidgin to autoconnect to IRC #puppylinux
And there's more!
Numerous updates
Significantly improved video playback
Quickpet shows versions available for quick install
That's all. Relaxed Development Cycle. The things to test now are that the updates don't have any problems--and that everything that has worked still works.
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Posted: Sat 09 Oct 2010, 19:21
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Downloading now. Will have a frugal install on the old test box shortly.
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James C
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Posts: 6735
Location: Kentucky
Posted: Sat 09 Oct 2010, 20:02
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Fresh frugal install of Luci 230 on the old test box.
Initial boot was straight to the correct resolution and working sound and internet.Installed Xorg_High and Firefox 4.0 Beta 6......things are looking good so far.
Little things, no icon in the menu for Gnumeric or Gnome MPlayer.
More testing later.
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Posted: Sat 09 Oct 2010, 23:29
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working fine for me
Here is a new alpha for Quickpet. It is completely different under the hood. It now reads the same file that PPM reads, consequently things are broken, so if you want solid and stable
test this!
When playdayz reconciles the repo then this should be ok. It is a work in progress but it does need testing by others.
Have fun
This Quickpet removed, try newer version
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Posted: Sun 10 Oct 2010, 02:21
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Installed it on a Dell Inspiron 4000 with 512mgs of ram. Impressive!! Very nice..
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Location: Israel, somewhere in the beautiful desert
Posted: Sun 10 Oct 2010, 05:16
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A quick question: playdayz, do you have any plans to make a retro flavor of 5.2?
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Posted: Sun 10 Oct 2010, 06:10
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Do not have we here some good designers to make simple themes and icons that fit. No offence but most puppy derivate's elements (icons, themes, desktops) look unfitting to each other.
I am usung puppy as my linux distro for a long time but I had to say that crictic.
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Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 15588
Location: Paradox Realm
Posted: Sun 10 Oct 2010, 06:59
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Lucid Puppy 5.2 Base seems OK
don't test this!
I am not sure I did - no way to differentiate (no label anywhere)
downloaded a couple of programs (firefox and xorg driver) with the new alpha quickpet (I hope)
and seemed to work fine
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Location: S.C. USA
Posted: Sun 10 Oct 2010, 08:29
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Quickpet alpha;
I am not sure I did - no way to differentiate (no label anywhere)
It is labeled at the top of the quickpet window on mine.
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Location: Great Smoky Mountains, TN USA
Posted: Sun 10 Oct 2010, 11:11
Post subject: Lucid Puppy 5.2 Base
Subject description: Problem Gnumeric
when opening gnumeric, recieve following error message
# gnumeric
(gnumeric:2661): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.0/gobject/gsignal.c:2273: signal `combo-activate' is invalid for instance `0x81ca870'
(gnumeric:2661): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.0/gobject/gsignal.c:2273: signal `combo-activate' is invalid for instance `0x81ca8c8'
(gnumeric:2661): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.0/gobject/gsignal.c:2273: signal `combo-activate' is invalid for instance `0x817b928'
Only problem I have encountered so far
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Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Sun 10 Oct 2010, 12:54
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01micko wrote:
working fine for me
Here is a new alpha for Quickpet. It is completely different under the hood. It now reads the same file that PPM reads, consequently things are broken, so if you want solid and stable
test this!
When playdayz reconciles the repo then this should be ok. It is a work in progress but it does need testing by others.
Have fun
Working fine for me also,
very solid on setup and all of my normal software installations, however I did have problems with this new Quickpet alpha.
Successfully installed Chromium Ubuntu Chrome Browser, VLC-1.0.6-Lucid. Tried to install Google Earth, instead it installed pidgin-2.7.1-Lucid-i486.pet , but I got an error message that it failed to download. DIA Diagram Editor and Cinelerra Video Editing also had a failed to download error message, definitely needs more testing. I think that it's great that this will be available to run on other pups. I'll have to give it a try.
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Joined: 04 May 2005
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Location: Paradox Realm
Posted: Sun 10 Oct 2010, 13:25
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It is labeled at the top of the quickpet window on mine
Yep reinstalled for the 3rd time and got that now
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Location: West Lothian, Scotland, UK
Posted: Sun 10 Oct 2010, 13:31
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I'm confused.
Where does this fit in with various others?
I have:
1. Lucid Maverick 5.2Alpha = Luma-002
2. Lupu-511
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Posted: Sun 10 Oct 2010, 13:46
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Ubuntu 10.10 is out now! Any Puppy rebuild or is it allready 5.2 corresponding to the new Ubuntu?
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Location: Paradox Realm
Posted: Sun 10 Oct 2010, 14:57
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Sylvander wrote:
I'm confused.
Updates in Luci-230 (to eventually become Lupu-520) Latest Woof. All but Pmusic latest Ubuntu binaries from Maverick
- read first post in this thread for more info
Installed Ubuntu 10.10. on my HD
Had to create partitions with Puppy
as the Ubuntu installer could not quite do it
- otherwise smooth install, simplified interface
great software center. Very nice.
Puppy Raspup 8.2
Puppy Links Page
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This year that platform includes support for a single payer health care system, which he state government could do a lot to advance even though it's generally a national issue. He said the state should move away from sales and property taxes, which are regressive, in favor of an expanded progressive income tax. And he wants troops brought home from the Middle East.
Of the three major candidates for governor, the one furthest to the left on the political spectrum is incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine, who was consistently one of the U.S. Senate's most liberal members and has expanded government-run FamilyCare health insurance and enacted income tax hikes on the wealthy as governor to avoid cutting the social-service safety net. But Pason has very low regard for Corzine. He likes his running mate, Sen. Loretta Weinberg, but says she has muted some of her more progressive positions, such as support for returning troops home from the war front, as the nominee for lieutenant governor.
"I have no respect for Jon Corzine," Pason said. "I met him a few times, and he seems like a good guy, but he seems to have fit into the New Jersey Democratic Party mold, the tinge of corruption within the Democratic Party. He doesn't seem to be stepping away from that."
This is Pason's fifth appearance on a statewide ballot. He ran for governor in 1997 and for U.S. Senate in 2000, 2002 and 2006, each time attracting 0.1% of the vote — or between 2,490 and 3,365 votes statewide. He's also run for the House of Representatives twice, getting 0.2% in 2004 in the 5th District (that's Scott Garrett's territory) and 0.9% running as an independent, rather than a Socialist, in 1994 in the 9th District (then represented by Bob Torricelli, and now by Steve Rothman).
"For us, the election ends before Election Day," Pason said. "Our work is done by that point. The votes are pretty irrelevant."

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The fallout keeps raining down from the San Francisco Bay Area rail transit system's controversial move to block cell phone access during a protest demonstration. Now the Federal Communications Commission says that the agency will probe Bay Area Rapid Transit's new "Cell Service Interruption Policy," which promises more temporary mobile service interruptions under "extraordinary circumstances."
On Thursday "BART took an important step in responding to legitimate concerns raised by its August 11, 2011 interruption of wireless service," FCC Chair Julius Genachowski noted in his press statement. But "the legal and policy issues raised by the type of wireless service interruption at issue here are significant and complex," he added.
And so Genachowski says that Commission staff will take a look at the issue to "consider the constraints that the Communications Act, First Amendment, and other laws and policies place upon potential service interruptions." Looks like some kind of proceeding, possibly a Notice of Inquiry, is on the way.
Pulling a Mubarak?
Sure enough, on August 11, 2011 BART caused a veritable uproar by interrupting cell phone access during a demo protesting the fatal shooting of several passengers by BART police. This blockage provoked the ire of Anonymous, which issued a public call for yet another protest, held five days later.
We covered that demonstration. The BART move was "unacceptable," one protestor told us. "That's the kind of stuff that happens in places like Egypt, where Mubarak did it to put down the protests, and Tunisia, where the dictator did it to put down protests. That should not be happening here in the United States."
BART didn't interrupt phone service during that subsequent action. But the agency defended its earlier signal hiatus, and now has laid out new rules. BART gets all the concerns about public safety and the First Amendment, the policy preamble explains. Mobile phone service should be interrupted "only in the most extraordinary circumstances that threaten the safety of District passengers."
Thus, it shall be the policy of BART to implement "a temporary interruption of operation" of its System Cellular Equipment, only:
- when it determines that there is strong evidence of imminent unlawful activity that threatens the safety of District passengers,
employees and other members of the public, the destruction of District property, or the substantial disruption of public transit services;
- that the interruption will substantially reduce the likelihood of such unlawful activity; that such interruption is essential to protect the safety of District passengers, employees and other members of the public, to protect District property or to avoid substantial disruption of public transit services;
- and that such interruption is narrowly tailored to those areas and time periods necessary to protect against the unlawful activity.
Any judgment call to implement this kind of blockage must be part of a determination that "the public safety benefits outweigh the public safety risks of an interruption," the policy advisory concludes.
Substantial disruption
Note the use of the modifier "imminent" placed in front of the phrase "unlawful activity," suggesting that BART will shut down cell phone access not just if something that it deems bad is happening, but if it thinks that something unacceptable is about to happen. Here is the rail service's definition of "extraordinary circumstances":
strong evidence of use of cell phones (i) as instrumentalities in explosives; (II) to facilitate violent criminal activity or endanger District passengers, employees or other members of the public, such as hostage situations; (iii) to facilitate specific plans or attempts to destroy District property or substantially disrupt public transit services.
During that second demo, we noticed some protesters standing between the doors of an outbound BART train. A scuffle between BART police and the demonstrators held up departure for some minutes. A big question is whether BART would define that as a bid to "substantially disrupt public transit services."
No surprise that this ball has pinged to the FCC's court. Section 333 of the US Code makes things pretty clear. "No person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communications of any station licensed or authorized by or under this chapter or operated by the United States Government."
But Genachowski's commentary suggests that he or his staff see some leeway in the matter. "For interruption of communications service to be permissible or advisable, it must clear a high substantive and procedural bar," the FCC's Chair says.
The Commission's deliberation on this conundrum will include "an open, public process to provide guidance on these issues," the statement adds. This is a big deal, because as BART Board President Bob Franklin notes in his press statement, whatever gets worked out between BART and the FCC (and survives lawsuits) could wind up becoming the national template for public transportation cell phone interruption.
"This policy, with input from the Federal Communications Commission, and the American Civil Liberties Union, will serve as a pioneering model for our nation, as a reference to other public agencies that will inevitably face similar dilemmas in the future," Franklin promises.


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An eight-story exterior brick wall. The annual conference of the 15,000+ most forward-thinking educators in the world. A school with limitless creativity and a can-do technological spirit. Innovative and inventive student artists. Just how do these architectural, visionary and tech-savvy elements hang together?
Ask the team of students from Springside Chestnut Hill Academy and the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program who created the video extravaganza "Mural in Motion." It was their genius that generated this most recent Philly first: an eight-minute student-produced projection mural that premiered on Sunday, June 26.
The debut of "Mural in Motion" was synched to wow the tech-savvy visitors in town for the International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE) annual conference and was staged in a parking lot across from the Pennsylvania Convention Center on the exterior wall of the Fabric Workshop and Museum at 12th and Arch streets.
Hundreds of spectators watched as images of a city in motion, depicted with geometric shapes precisely aligned to the unique patterns on the wall, comingled with historical elements, sculptural references, dance sequences, and instrumental performances.
Created using a full suite of professional software, "Mural in Motion" was the result of a collaboration between four students from SCH Academy – Katharine Phillips, Elizabeth Sedran, Deirdre Braun and Stephen Skeel – who teamed up with Mural Corp students Araceliz Heredia, Henry Blount, Latasha Billington, Ramik Accoee and Briana Dawkins.
For more than 12 weeks, they worked after school on Friday afternoons to tackle the various challenges in such a huge undertaking: capturing Philly-inspired footage in Center City, writing the original soundtrack and animating the sophisticated graphics that wove their way through the video.
The result was a stunning visual, musical and technical opus.
"Blown away," raved SCHA history teacher Dr. David Salmanson, "I don't give compliments easily. I was completely impressed. I can't take my eyes off it!"
Others present were seen tweeting and texting instantly.
"This spontaneous moment was made possible by students and our amazing faculty, said SCH Academy president Dr. Priscilla Sands. "We are honored and thrilled to be part of the ISTE conference and the leaders on the first-ever project of this kind."
Dr. Ellen Fishman-Johnson, director of New Media at SCHA and the lead artist on the Mural in Motion project said the idea for the project "was hatched when I was at the ISTE conference in Denver last year."
An Apple Distinguished Educator since 2007, Fishman-Johnson is part of a worldwide and select community of visionary educators who use Apple technology to transform teaching and learning.
"As an arts educator and an active composer and video artist, I felt that students could really wow this immense audience of interested educators," she said. "I have been fascinated with the idea of doing a large-scale projection and scoured the Internet for examples, thinking that this would be something we could attempt.
"Of course, when you are thinking of something like this in this city, you think Jane Golden, the visionary leader of the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. After an initial meeting was set up at which we threw out the concept of a large-scale projection, a partnership was born and an idea set in motion. The collaboration took off. Students in my advanced video production class and those in the Mural Corps at the Mural Arts Program hit the ground running!"
Elizabeth Sedran, a rising senior at SCHA and one of the team of students involved in the project, spoke about the challenge of making a wall in a parking lot come alive.
"It's pretty cool when you're a kid in high school and you have the opportunity to work on a huge digital mural on a wall – you get to try things and really push yourself," she said.
Eric Okdeh, noted muralist and lead artist on the Mural Arts Program side, was central to the brainstorming process with community leaders with interests or business in and around the Convention Center, a hallmark of any Mural Arts project. The students involved in the project drew on the feedback teased out during this session to develop the "city in motion" theme for the projection.
An embedded QR code was a late-breaking addition.
"We had fun picturing the image of all the ISTE educators holding up their smartphones, kind of like the famous photo of an audience watching a 3-D movie with everyone wearing those funky 3-D glasses," said Fishman-Johnson.
As if on queue, cameras, iPads and smartphones were poised, raised and ready to document this "Philly first." The projection and audio equipment on the site, masterminded by Starlite Productions, Inc., provided an experience that was super-sized and rich with visuals and sound on every level. No surprise, it drew a thunderous applause after the last image faded on the brick backdrop.
While a stunning production in its own right, more importantly "Mural in Motion" represents a powerful model of creative collaboration for mutual civic, artistic, and educational benefit. The partnership between the school and the Mural Arts Program was able to connect students to opportunities beyond their immediate neighborhoods and to provide opportunities for collaboration with peers and adults who are leaders in their fields.
At the reception for the premiere, the Mural Arts Program's executive director Jane Golden honored the collaboration and said, "Springside Chestnut Hill Academy brings a level of rigor, partnership and collaboration and the opportunity to provide young people with new and exciting opportunities."
In addition to this exotic mural initiative, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy had a bold presence at the ISTE conference with faculty and students who were selected to present on a variety of topics.
Kim Sivick, coordinator for Lower School Technology, offered a workshop for educators interested in establishing a global connection for students with a developing country; Jenn Vermillion, director of SCH Academy Professional Development, shared the school's highly successful model for a student in-house Genius Bar – a team that runs faculty workshops, works one-on-one with teachers, and hosts help sessions for parents and teachers in the community to receive free tech tips and advice.
Peter Randall, chair of Robotics and Engineering, a new department at the school, spoke on leveraging robotics into a STEM-oriented project-based learning curriculum called "Design and Engineering" for high school students and "Challenge, Enrichment and Creativity" for Middle School students. Betty Ann Fish, chair of Physical Education, presented on connecting 21st-century skills with the PE program.
No matter the scale, pushing the technology edge and building bridges within the community and between institutions to make positive change for young people is in the DNA of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy.
For more information, videos, photos, and blog, please go to: http://muralinmotion.tumblr.com.


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Okay, if we're at the stage in the superhero trend where studios are even mulling over a Hawkman movie, can we maybe bring back Hellboy, one of the evil-fighters who helped jump-start the craze, first?
The two films based on comic book creator Mike Mignola's sardonic, supernatural-battling hellspawn with the sawed-off horns and stone fist of Doom performed admirably on the big screen, both critically and commercially, buoyed by the visionary direction of monster-loving Guillermo del Toro and the subtly shaded performance of leading man Ron Perlman. But somehow in the current superhero box office gold rush, Hellboy's slipped back into the shadows.
PopcornBiz put the question directly to del Toro and Perlman themselves: Will there ever be a "Hellboy 3?"
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"I don't know," sighs del Toro, who's ramping up production on his next epic, the monsters vs. giant robots flick "Pacific Rim" after spending many years planning a film he won't ultimately helm: "The Hobbit." "I wish I could answer that, because we wanted to finish the story, but there is no screenplay yet. And we're all getting older!"
Del Toro says that if there's ever some forward momentum on a new Hellboy film, he won't be interested in merely producing a follow-up or rebooting the franchise with new stars. "For me, my Hellboy is Ron in any fashion. I'm not interested in Hellboy if it's not Ron and myself."
Perlman, too, seems stymied about his future in the red skin. "I don't know whether or not there's a future for 'Hellboy,'" he admits, but he's holding out hope. "I would really like another shot at it, because Guillermo kind of set it up to be a trilogy, and a lot of the things that we're done in 1 and 2 would've been answered in 3 and in a very kind of theatrical, sort of larger than life, epic manner. So it would kind of be a great shame if we never got a chance to see the resolve."
"I kind of know where Guillermo was going to take him – not specifically, but in broad strokes and it's mind-blowing," adds Perlman. "It would be a shame for the people who invested in the first two to not get a chance to see that because there's an oracle. Hellboy has a destiny that's non-negotiable and that needs to have been played out, and that was only going to get played out in the last of the films."


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I'm not sure what human decade she is. I noticed in the video that she has teeth. Too bad she only gets salmon once a year, but the Kuskokwim River is rather far away (and at the opposite time of year).
Not grizzly at all… Bethel the kodiak bear lounges in her enclosure at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. (ABC news)
Australia's oldest bear has celebrated its 32nd birthday.
Bethel the kodiak [sic] bear also has the distinction of being one of the oldest of its species in the world.
It's become a birthday ritual that never fails to delight the grand old dame of Taronga Zoo.
"She was bashing at the door as soon as she could smell that salmon coming in," said zookeeper Deb Olsen.
"She knows that it's a special day when she sees the big salmon there."
I noticed while reading up on Bethel's birthday bash that the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) has a tag or category for news feeds called aged-care. Click on the ink below to add it to your news reader.


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Side-Slap and Tickle Cookies From 'Sweet and Vicious'
So named for the feeling they inspire, these Side-Slap and Tickle Cookies from Sweet and Vicious: Baking with Attitude pack a powerful punch in the form of two dozen crushed malt balls, along with half a cup of cocoa powder. They're deeply chocolaty, with a delightfully chewy and crackly texture.
Why this recipe works:
- Chocolate crinkle cookies are usually reserved for Christmas, but these malt-flavored beauties have a kick that makes them suited to any time of year.
- Malt lovers, rejoice: In addition to malt powder, there are 24 malted milk balls called for in this recipe, which adds extra chocolate and a milky, barley-flavored crunch.
Excerpted from Sweet and Vicious: Baking with Attitude by Libbie Summers (Rizzoli). Copyright ©2014. Photographs by Chia CHong.
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- Yield:Makes 24 cookies
- Active time: 25 minutes
- Total time:1 hour
- 1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
- 1/2 cup unsweetened dark cocoa powder
- 6 tablespoons malted milk powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla paste
- 24 malted milk balls, crushed
- 1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, 2 tablespoons of the malted milk powder, the baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
In the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together the butter and granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Scrape down the bowl as needed. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the vanilla paste and beat until just combined. With the mixer on low speed, gradually add the flour mixture and beat until just incorporated. Stir in the malted milk balls. Remove the bowl from the standing mixer and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 350° F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
In a small bowl, stir together the remaining 4 tablespoons malted milk powder and the confectioners' sugar. Use a 1-tablespoon measure to scoop the dough, then roll each portion into a ball. Repeat until all the dough has been used. Roll each dough ball in the confectioners' sugar mixture until it is uniformly coated, then place on the prepared baking sheet 2 inches apart. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, until the cookies begin to crackle on top (they look kind of like the surface of the moon).
Let the cookies cool for 15 minutes before the slapping and tickling commences.
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Wilshere was criticised by his manager last season after he was pictured smoking a cigarette outside a nightclub and, in the aftermath, pledged it would not happen again.
The 22-year-old was photographed smoking again this week while on holiday, though, and Wenger, while not overly concerned, wants to find out what exactly happened.
Speaking after Arsenal's friendly at Boreham Wood - which they won 2-0 - he told his club's official website: "I haven't spoken to him (Wilshere) so it's very difficult for me to make any statement.
"I know what you can make of pictures - I have to speak to him really to see what happened before I come out publicly.
"I'm not deeply concerned by it
I just want to know what happened and before I know what happened, I don't want to talk too much about it."
A common consensus is that Wilshere's career has stalled over recent years, with injury and form taking a hold.
Wenger will speak to his player next week but insists next season could be an important one for him.
"He's at an age where you want him to move forward," he said
"He has the potential
I believe for him, the most important (thing) now is to have a good preparation and focus on getting really fit.
"Jack is a great player - he has a football brain and he's ambitious
I'm sure that (if) he's injury free, he will have a great season."
Wenger has signed Mathieu Debuchy and Alexis Sanchez already this summer and says more new faces will arrive
Cesc Fabregas opted to go to Chelsea rather than return to Arsenal - as he could have done - though.
"I think people came out and said he wanted to go to Chelsea
I don't know who tells the truth here or not
He landed where he wanted to go," said Wenger, responding to why Arsenal did not move for their former captain.
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VIKTOR KUMYKOV claims Shakhter Karagandy will have the whole of Kazakhstan behind his team when they take on Celtic in the first leg of their Champions League play-off at the Astana Arena on Tuesday night.
The Kazakh club have moved the match 114 miles away from their own ground to the artificial surface in Astana, looking to take a step closer to becoming the first team from the former Soviet republic to reach the Champions League.
Kumykov claims everyone in the country will put aside their usual allegiances to root for his side in what has turned into something of a national event.
"We believe the supporters are very important in this game," said the Russian.
"We think there will be many supporters there, not only from Karaganda (the main city in Karagandy province) and Astana but from other parts of the country and we believe and hope the whole nation will be behind us."
Shakhter disposed of Belarusian side BATE Borisov in the second qualifying round before knocking out Skenderbeu of Albania.
However, Kumykov claimed his club were only learning the game compared to Celtic, as he analysed his side's chances of making history.
"This game is going to be very difficult for us," he said.
"We are newcomers to the Champions League, Celtic is a very experienced club and are former champions of Europe.
"We are students and they are teachers. Our main task is to obtain the experience of playing in the Champions League and I am hoping we will be able to show our best game.
"We recognise that Celtic are more experienced and stronger than us.
"But football is illogical and you cannot be sure about anything.
"In football, the strongest side does not always win and there are many examples of that, even in the Champions League.
"We have watched all their European games, the game against Aberdeen and the friendly against Liverpool.
"They are a very good side, with very good players.
"Celtic also play aggressively so we expect it to be a very tough game."
Kumykov was less forthcoming when asked to comment on the revelation that the Kazakhstan club had again killed a sheep in order to bring them good luck.
The sacrifice took place at the stadium before the players trained but the Shakhter boss tried to play it down.
"This is a play-off round and we decided not to break this tradition," he said.
"It is quite important for us. I would not like to disclose in detail."
Shakhter Karagandy go into the game on the back of a 2-1 league win over Astana at the same stadium where they will take on the Hoops.
Captain Andrei Finonchenko, who scored the winning goal as a substitute on Saturday, is hoping to take the next step in an unexpected Champions League journey.
"When we played BATE, we did not believe we would reach this stage," he said.
"But after we beat BATE and then Skenderbeu the players became more confident.
"We are highly motivated going into this game and hope to do our best."
The match kicks off at 4pm (GMT) on Tuesday August 20.


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Went to Naples and a visit to the Stadio San Paolo had to happen so I could pay my respects to Diego Maradona and Napoli.
While I cheer for Juventus in the Italian Serie A, I've had this fascination for Napoli both the city and the club. The city I first read about during my world and military history lessons. Napoli was bombed some 200 times by the Allies during World War II as its ports were used by the Germans for their U-Boats and the oil facilities nearby. And the second reason is one Diego Armando Maradona.
Up to the arrival of Maradona in Napoli, Serie A football was dominated by teams from the north. No southern team ever won the Scudetto. As for his impact, a Napoli newspaper wrote of the arrival of the Argentinean from FC Barcelona, "the lack of a mayor, housing, sanitation, buses, schools, employment, and sanitation makes it bearable now that Maradona has arrived." Imagine that? And some 70,000 showed up during his presentation at the Stadio San Paolo.
The "saviour" did arrive and he led I ciucciarelli to the Serie A championship of 1986-87 and 1989-90. They also finished second in the league in 1987-88 and 1988-89. He also led them to the Coppa Italia in 1987, the UEFA Cup in 1989, and the Italian Super Cup in 1990. His success with the team has catapulted Maradona to mythic and quasi-religious status. "Santo Diego" as one of several Napoletanos I spoke with at the Yacht Club.
"Maradona in my heart and in my head and in my mind," enthused another while pointing to his heart several times. And every football store I saw had a scarf, jersey, or a t-shirt dedicated to Maradona.
Some restaurants still have his pictures of jerseys of Gonzalo Higuain and Vincenzo Guardiglio hanging on the wall to name a few.
I didn't stay long in Napoli but I promise to return. And who knows? Maybe I can catch a game as well.


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This week on Blu-ray is a little light on new film releases, but it does include the Harry Potter mega-set that puts any and all collectors' sets to shame. Briefly:
- The Five-Year Engagement (Two-Disc Combo Pack: Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy + UltraViolet)
- Harry Potter Wizard's Collection (Blu-ray / DVD Combo + UltraViolet Digital Copy)
- Hocus Pocus
- High School
- The Navigator: Ultimate Edition
- Piranha 3DD (Three-Disc Combo: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD + Digital Copy)
- Re-Animator
- Safe [Blu-ray + Digital Copy]
- Bored to Death: The Complete Third Season
- Fringe: The Complete Fourth Season
- The Office: Season Eight
Hit the jump for all the details, folks.
The Five-Year Engagement (Two-Disc Combo Pack: Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy + UltraViolet)
This Judd Apatow-produced reteam of Forgetting Sarah Marshall co-writer/star Jason Segel and co-writer/director Nicholas Stoller runs a bit long, but the film's finale and emotional pull nearly makes up for its mammoth runtime. The supporting cast is top-notch, with Community's Alison Brie and Parks and Recreation star Chris Pratt stealing the show. The film is most definitely worth checking out, and the Blu-ray comes with both the theatrical cut and a 131-minute extended cut of the film, as well as a feature commentary with Stoller, Segel, Pratt, Brie, Emily Blunt, and Rodney Rothman. The disc also includes 12 deleted scenes, a collection of extended and alternate scenes, the Apatow staple "Line-O-Rama", a 9-minute gag reel, a 42-minute documentary covering the film's production, and a few more little featurettes.
To catch up on all of our previous coverage of the film, click here.
Harry Potter Wizard's Collection (Blu-ray / DVD Combo + UltraViolet Digital Copy)
The most successful film franchise of all time is now available in one of the most massive and all-encompassing home video collectors' sets we've ever seen. The box itself is a marvel, as it opens to reveal drawers and hidden compartments which contain all eight Harry Potter films on Blu-ray, DVD, and UltraViolet digital copy. Included are all the special features that have been on previous releases, as well as over ten hours of new bonus content and five hours of never-before-seen footage. We get three new documentaries: The Harry Potters You Never Met (focusing on the stunt doubles), Creating the World of Harry Potter, Pt. 7: Story, and Creating the World of Harry Potter, Pt. 8: Growing Up.
Also included is the full, extended version of the conversation between Daniel Radcliffe and J.K. Rowling that was included on the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 Blu-ray. The set also comes with a number of physical collectibles including a replica of the Horcrux Locket from the final two films, black-and-white concept sketches from Stuart Craig, a cloth map of Hogwarts, a blueprint of Hogwarts castle, a 48-page book featuring the favorite props from the film's graphic designers, a collection of prop labels, and much more. This set may be a tad expensive, but Warner Bros. spared no expensive in packaging the complete Harry Potter collection in grand fashion.
While this 1993 Disney film isn't exactly a classic, it holds a special place in the hearts of many "90's kids." Thackery Binx is now available in HD, as the film hits Blu-ray for the first time. Directed by High School Musical's Kenny Ortega, Bette Midler, Kathy Nijimy and a young Sarah Jessica Parker ham it up as a trio of witches brought back from the dead on Halloween in present day, where "the new kid", his sister, and the cool girl on whom he has a rather large crush must work to stop their evil plans before sunrise. This is a fun one to add to your Halloween Marathon collection, and the disc comes with both a Blu-ray and DVD version of the film.
The stoner comedy that hit theaters earlier this summer is now available on Blu-ray. The film centers on a soon-to-be valedictorian (Matthew Bush) who smokes pot for the very first time, only to find out that a mandatory drug test has been scheduled at school. In a moment of panic, Bush and his friend (Sean Marquette) conspire to spike the school's bake sale brownies with the help of a law-student-turned-drug-dealer (Adrien Brody) in order to make everyone fail the drug test. Brody's over-the-top performance drew a number of positive reviews.
To catch up on all of our coverage of the film, click here.
The Navigator: Ultimate Edition [Blu-ray]
This Buster Keaton classic is now available on Blu-ray for the first time ever. The silent comedy was Keaton's biggest commercial success, and it's presented on Blu-ray largely as-is, with no major restoration work done. The special features include an audio commentary from silent film historians Robert Arkus and Yair Solan, a short documentary by historian Bruce Lawton about the making-of the film, a recording of "Asleep in the Deep," and a gallery of images.
Piranha 3DD (Three-Disc Combo: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD + Digital Copy)
This breast-enhanced 3D sequel didn't exactly make waves with audiences earlier this year, but fans of the film can now own the blood-soaked horror comedy in all its glory. The disc includes an audio commentary from director John Gulager, producer Joel Soisson and co-writer Marcus Dunstan, deleted scenes, a short featurette with interviews from the cast, Gary Busey bloopers (oh my), and a featuretted titled The Hofftastic World of David Hasselhoff. So there's that.
To catch up on all of our coverage of the film, click here.
The cult hit based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft hits Blu-ray for the first time, as fans can now experience the gore-tastic horror comedy in glorious HD. The story centers on a professor experimenting with the effects of re-animating the dead and launched a series of films under the "Re-Animator" moniker. The disc comes with a bounty of special features including a commentary by director Stuart Gordon that was recorded in the mid-1990s and a reunion commentary with producer Brian Yuzna and actors Bruce Abbott, Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Compton and Robert Sampson. Also included is a 78-minute documentary that covers everything from make-up effects to cinematography, deleted and extended scenes, and retrospective interviews with Gordon, Yuzna, writer Dennis Paoli, composer Richard Band, and Fangoria Magazine editor Tony Timpone.
The latest actioner starring Jason Statham hits Blu-ray this week, on which Statham die-hards can yet again watch him run around with a gun and hit people. The story finds Statham as a cage-fighter protecting a young girl from some ruthless gangsters who killed his wife. The disc is light on extras, but it includes audio commentary from writer/director Boaz Yakin and three behind-the-scenes featurettes.
To catch up on all of our coverage of the film, click here.
Bored to Death: The Complete Third Season [Blu-ray]
Though the series has since sadly been cancelled, the third and final season of HBO's comedy Bored to Death comes to home video. Jonathan Ames's quirky detective series never broke big with the mainstream, but the show's three leads—Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson, and Zach Galifianakis—did excellent work. The third season sees guest appearances by Patton Oswalt, Casey Wilson, and Stacy Keach. The box set includes commentaries on four different episodes with Ames, Schwartzman, Danson, Galifianakis and John Hodgman as well as the episodes' directors. Also included are "Inside the Episode" featurettes, deleted scenes, and outtakes.
Fringe: The Complete Fourth Season [Blu-ray]
The Fox series is currently heading into its fifth and final season, but fans can revisit the latest batch of episodes from the genre-bending show as a refresher before the new season premieres. The Blu-ray comes with a number of featurettes, "Peter Bishop Audition Tapes," the comic book Beyond the Fringe, a gag reel and deleted scenes. Exclusive to the Blu-ray set is The Scientist Roundtable, Fringe Decoded, and an UltraViolet copy of every episode. The digital copy is a nice touch for a TV box set, but it's a shame that it's through the awful UltraViolet service.
The Office: Season Eight [Blu-ray]
Also heading into its final season is the seasoned NBC comedy The Office. The Season Eight box set includes a whopping 104 minutes of deleted scenes, a collection of webisodes, NFL promos for the show, a blooper reel, and extended cuts of "Angry Andy" and "Fundraiser." The first Steve Carell-less season of the show stumbled a bit in the ratings, but enough extras have been packed in to appease the die-hard fans.
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Report: Maloofs close to selling Kings to Seattle investment group
The SuperSonics played in Seattle from 1968 through 2008. (Terrence Vaccaro/NBAE via Getty Images)
By Ben Golliver
The Maloof family is nearing a deal to sell the Sacramento Kings to a group of Seattle-area investors for "approximately $500 million," Yahoo! Sports reported Wednesday. The group, led by Valiant Capital's Chris Hansen and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, will reportedly eye relocation to Seattle as soon as the 2013-14 season. Back in October, it was reported that the NBA was pressuring the Maloof family to sell the Kings to the Seattle group. The franchise would replace the SuperSonics, who played in Seattle from 1967-68 until 2008, when they were relocated to Oklahoma City and renamed the Thunder.
The Seattle group has worked extensively with the city of Seattle to build a new arena. The current plan, Yahoo! Sports reported, is for the franchise to play in KeyArena for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons before the new arena opens.
Eric Rose, a spokesman for the Maloofs, told SI.com Wednesday that the organization would have no comment on the reported sale.
"As we have said for nearly a year, we will not comment on rumors or speculation about the Sacramento Kings franchise," Rose said.
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who played 12 seasons in the NBA, asked his city's residents to "keep the faith" on Twitter.
"Bottom line Sacramento: it's not over," Johnson tweeted.
The Associated Press reported that the NBA league office declined comment on the report.
In a recent ESPN.com radio interview, NBA commissioner David Stern sounded optimistic that an NBA franchise would return to Seattle.
"There's so much activity now in Seattle," Stern said. "There's a plan for a building, land has been acquired, reviews are being undertaken. I think a predicate for a team is a building. I think those plans are underway. I think the answer to your question is yeah. I think there will be a team in Seattle again and I hope there will be."
Wednesday's report comes after years of financial struggles for the Maloof family, which was forced to sell a vast majority of its stake in the Palms Casino in Las Vegas and its beer distributorship in New Mexico. The family pursued relocation efforts to Anaheim and Virginia Beach and, back in February 2012, Stern, the Maloofs and the city of Sacramento, represented by Mayor Kevin Johnson, announced a tentative agreement to finance a new stadium. That deal fell apart by April, though, and Stern appeared to wash his hands of the matter during a press conference at the 2012 NBA Finals in June, saying he wouldn't speculate about the future of the Kings other than the fact that a move to Anaheim wouldn't be approved by the NBA's Board of Governors.
During his annual preseason conference call on Oct. 25, Stern offered Kings fans no assurances, merely lip service.
"There are many people who appreciate the fact that Sacramento was, is, and can be a first class NBA city," he said. "It is true that it needs a new building. We have our differences of opinions with all of our owners, and in this case with the Maloofs on some of the issues that have gone down here. But my advice to Sacramento is to continue the enormous support that you have shown for the team, and we'll see what the next steps turn out to be."
In a 2011 interview on an ESPN.com podcast, Stern mentioned the SuperSonics' departure from Seattle as one of his regrets, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
"My regrets are that we didn't do a -- weren't able to do a better job of getting a building moved along so that we could have kept a team there."
"I have regrets about both Vancouver and Seattle," Stern said. "I think [Seattle is] a very prime city for an NBA franchise."
"But our goal here is to keep all of our teams where they are," Stern said, "but recognizing that that hasn't been a goal that we have successfully achieved in the past."
Forbesvalued the Kings franchise at $300 million in January 2012. The Kings franchise moved to Sacramento from Kansas City in 1985 and the Maloof family took majority control of the franchise in 1999.


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Say what you will about the kids at Bristol, but they continue to move the needle on all matters Maurice Clarett, at least. The network learned yesterday that Clarett, who has had a rough couple of weeks, was in deep to the Israeli mob, and that might have been the reason he was, you know, carrying a hatchet when he was arrested earlier this month.
Clarett was allegedly being threatened by a man named Hai Waknine, who was a member of an Israeli crime syndicate called The Jerusalem Group. ("Typical," a friend told us yesterday. "We get a good mob organization, and our name still sounds like someone you'd go to for venture capital.") After Clarett was cut by the Broncos last year, he had no money to pay Waknine back for all he'd been given ... and next thing you know, there were hatches and Grey Goose.
It all seems to have gone terribly wrong for Mo, and at this point, it almost seems less something to make fun of than something to pity. But, if you're still taking enjoyment out of this story, after the jump, we present the newest addition to Madden 2007, coming out next week.
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I'm running all the latest updates of BW9, on an iMac (Mavericks) and a 2nd monitor, an 18" Dell at lower resolution.
BW under the emulator is opening on the second monitor, with the program running off the side. Its responsive, but can't be resized or moved. I CAN drag it to the main screen... but then it becomes completely unresponsive, and still has part of the window missing, oddly enough. The only option is to restart. I realized the odds of another BW 9 customer running the Mac version on a 2-monitor imace setup are low, but wanted to post it here anyway. Video of the problem, about 10Mb.
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Carrot cake
Delight friends with an afternoon tea that includes this easy carrot cake. You can bake the cake, freeze it and just drizzle over the icing on the day
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Dairy-free
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal265
- fat12g
- saturates2g
- carbs39g
- sugars24.8g
- fibre1g
- protein3g
- salt0.41g
- 175g light muscovado sugar
- 175ml sunflower oil
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- 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 140g grated carrot (about 3 medium)
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- 100g raisins
- grated zest of 1 large orange
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- 175g self-raising flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Bicarbonate of soda
Bicarbonate of soda, or baking soda, is an alkali which is used to raise soda breads and full-…
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp grated nutmeg (freshly grated will give you the best flavour)
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For the frosting
- 175g icing sugar
- 1½-2 tbsp orange juice
Heat the oven to 180C/fan160C/gas 4. Oil and line the base and sides of an 18cm square cake tin with baking parchment.
Tip 175g light muscovado sugar, 175ml sunflower oil and 3 large beaten eggs into a big mixing bowl. Lightly mix with a wooden spoon. Stir in 140g grated carrots, 100g raisins and grated zest of 1 large orange.
Sift 175g self-raising flour, 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda, 1 tsp ground cinnamon and ½ tsp grated nutmeg into the bowl. Mix everything together, the mixture will be soft and almost runny.
Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 40-45 mins or until it feels firm and springy when you press it in the centre.
Cool in the tin for 5 mins, then turn it out, peel off the paper and cool on a wire rack. (You can freeze the cake at this point if you want to serve it at a later date.)
Beat 175g icing sugar and 1½ - 2 tbsp orange juice in a small bowl until smooth – you want the icing about as runny as single cream.
Put the cake on a serving plate and boldly drizzle the icing back and forth in diagonal lines over the top, letting it drip down the sides.
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At first, the article in The Jerusalem Post last week seemed like the same old, same old: A picture of a ransacked Israel Defense Forces post in the West Bank. Then a quote from Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon: "The State of Israel will not tolerate such criminal activity, which is terrorism in all respects." Those Palestinians will never quit.
Oh, wait a minute. Yaalon wasn't talking about Palestinian terrorists. He was talking about Jewish terrorists, renegade settlers, who slashed the tires of an I.D.F. jeep parked in the settlement of Yitzhar, after Israeli soldiers came to demolish illegal buildings. "Settlers clashed with security forces during Monday night's demolition and lightly injured six officers," The Post reported. "A group of 50 to 60 settlers then raided an army post located to the west of the settlement, destroying generators, army equipment, heaters and diesel fuel tanks." Israel's justice minister, Tzipi Livni, warned that extremist settlers had crossed a line: "An ideology has flourished that does not recognize the rule of law, that does not recognize us or what we represent."
These small stories tell a bigger one: We're not dealing anymore with your grandfather's Israel, and they're not dealing anymore with your grandmother's America either. Time matters, and the near half-century since the 1967 war has changed both of us in ways neither wants to acknowledge — but which the latest impasse in talks only underscores.
Israel, from its side, has become a more religious society — on Friday nights in Jerusalem now you barely see a car moving on the streets in Jewish neighborhoods, which only used to be the case on Yom Kippur — and the settlers are clearly more brazen. Many West Bank settlers are respectful of the state, but there is now a growing core who are armed zealots, who will fight the I.D.F. if it tries to remove them. You did not go to summer camp with these Jews. You did not meet them at your local Reform synagogue. This is a hard core.
But even the more tame settlers are more dominant than ever in the Likud Party and in the Israeli army officer corps. It is not a fiction to say today that the Likud prime minister, Bibi Netanyahu, represents the "center" of Israel's right-wing bloc. And it is not an accident that Israel's housing minister, Uri Ariel, who comes from a pro-settler party to the right of the Likud, approved a tender for 700 homes in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood, across the Green Line — just as Secretary of State John Kerry's peace talks were coming to a head. As Minister Livni, Israel's chief negotiator, put it: "Minister Ariel purposefully and intentionally did what he did to torpedo" the peace talks.
There are now about 350,000 Jews living in the West Bank. It took 50,000 Israeli police and soldiers to remove 8,000 settlers from Gaza, who barely resisted. I fear the lift in the West Bank to make peace there is now just too heavy for conventional politics and diplomacy. The only way settler resistance can be trumped would be by a prime minister, and an Israeli majority, who were really excited about the prospects for peace or truly frightened of the alternative.
But I do not believe Netanyahu will ever be anything other than ambivalent. And his ambivalence is reinforced by many factors: Israel today is so much more powerful, economically and militarily, than the Palestinians; Israeli (and Palestinian) security forces have effectively shut down Palestinian suicide bombers and the Israel lobby in Washington has effectively shut down any pressure from the White House or Congress. Israel has never been so insulated.
But these are not your grandfather's Palestinians either. There is a young generation emerging that increasingly has no faith in their parents' negotiations with the Jews, have no desire to recognize Israel as a "Jewish state" and would rather demand the right to vote in a one-state solution.
At the same time, America has changed. There was a time in the 1970s and 1980s when the fate of the Middle East was critical to our economy. After all, there had been an Arab oil embargo in 1973. And, strategically, the Middle East was seen as the arena most likely to trigger a U.S.-U.S.S.R. nuclear war. Peacemaking in Henry Kissinger's day was a necessity. Today it is a hobby. It is not an unimportant hobby: If Israelis and Palestinians go back to war, it surely would make an unstable region more unstable, creating myriad difficulties for the U.S. But urgent? America will become the world's largest oil producer by 2015, and the Soviet Union no longer exists.
The truth is Kerry's mission is less an act of strategy and more an act of deep friendship. It is America trying to save Israel from trends that will inevitably undermine it as a Jewish and democratic state. But Kerry is the last of an old guard. Those in the Obama administration who think he is on a suicide mission reflect the new U.S. attitude toward the region. And those in Israel who denounce him as a nuisance reflect the new Israel.
Kerry, in my view, is doing the Lord's work. But the weight of time and all the changes it has wrought on the ground may just be too heavy for such an act of friendship. If he folds his tent, though, Israelis and Palestinians will deeply regret it, and soon.


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Inside the default template there is code to define a custom default cursor that you can modify.
https://github.com/GarageGames/Torque3D ... cs#L34-L38
I tried adding a custom graphic for the cursor, but I noticed that the custom cursor is never loaded, the game will always use the default windows cursor.
So how can I make it work? Or is it never used or cannot work? If so can I delete it?


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I quilted an all-over, free hand floral design. I sewed the label onto the back of the quilt before I quilted it (stay tuned for a post on that later in the week!).
Here's the deets:
Piecer: class officer for the CHS Class of 2002
Quilter: me
Pattern: floral design, E2E, freehand
Thread: So Fine! Daffodil
Batting: Hobbs 80/20


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The other day, ok actually a while back, I was at Sister Thrift and spotted something cute on the floor over in the corner. Lately I've been telling myself I can justify buying a sewing machine IF i'm intending on selling it (smart right). That being said there are a few rules I made up for myself to limit which types of machines I'm allowed to buy for "resale":
- NO (and I mean no) machines in cabinets, can't ship those and they're a pain to get rid of
- Plus points if it has a case cover that's not too beat up
- Required: good electrical, I'm not interested in rewiring just to resell
- Plus points for cute color, size, name, etc..
- Plus points for accessory box, even if incomplete
- Plus Plus points for original manual
- Minus points for straight stitch only
- Plus points for brand name, Singer, Necchi, Pfaff, etc..
- Minus points for paint chips, scratches, rust, or drab colors


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Settlement includes eight developers and contractors at four construction sites
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10 settled with eight developers and contractors over Clean Water Act violations at four construction sites near Sandpoint, Idaho. These first-time violators settled EPA's claims by agreeing to come into compliance and paying penalties ranging from about $7,000 to nearly $15,000.
The violations were discovered in the summer of 2008 during routine EPA construction site inspections. The Sandpoint inspections were part of EPA's multi-year outreach and enforcement initiative to improve compliance with the storm water permit.
"Construction site operators need to be careful in Northern Idaho, where poorly-managed work on fine soils causes significant erosion problems," said Kim Ogle, manager of EPA's compliance unit in Seattle. "Knowing the potential for serious environmental harm has reinforced our commitment to a strong enforcement presence to limit future impacts."
Under the Clean Water Act, developers and general contractors at construction sites larger than one acre must apply and comply with EPA's nationwide storm water Construction General Permit. Some operators had failed to apply for permit coverage, which requires that site operators design, install and maintain storm water controls to prevent water pollution. Without these controls, common construction site pollutants such as sediment, oil and grease, and concrete washout can enter nearby waterways. EPA observed violations at all the sites visited, including failure to install and maintain the required erosion and sediment controls.
These cases were settled using the Expedited Settlement Offer policy for the construction sector, which offers quicker settlements and lower fines for first-time violators, and at sites where no environmental harm has yet been observed. Clean Water Act violations that go through a traditional enforcement process can take many months to settle and can result in penalties of up to $37,500 per day, per violation.


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Is it spring yet? Almost! I'm quite thankful that here in Australia they like to count three months per season regardless of the weather. For me it's felt like spring for a good couple of weeks already - the sun is out, it's much greener everywhere and the flowers are starting to bloom. This is the best time of the year!
To celebrate the beautiful day I took my lunch outside on the balcony and sat there munching on this tasty new favourite of mine whilst admiring my aspiring veggie garden. You've got to try this, and ponzu dressing is a must as it gives just the right kind of a tang to the sweet beets. I savoured this with some left-over crisp bread I made the other day, but you could use any bread you have, or leave it out completely.
Ponzu dressed beets with quinoa
(serves 2-4)
1 cup quinoa, cooked until tender
1 small fennel bulb, thinly sliced
5cm piece of leek, thinly sliced
bunch of beets (4 small ones), cooked until tender
1 tablespoon ponzu dressing*
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
drizzling of lemon juice
small handful of red crimson raisins
small handful of red crimson raisins
* I used ponzu shoyu, which combines yuzu and soy sauce.
1. Combine the quinoa, fennel and leek in a large mixing bowl.
2. In a separate bowl, dress the cooked and sliced beets with extra-virgin olive oil and ponzu. Add the mixture in to the quinoa and add in the red raisins. Drizzle the salad with lemon juice and mix everything together. Serve room temperature or warm.