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Alliance to Supply Wood/Plastic Extrusion SystemsA cooperative alliance has been created to offer complete pre-engineered extrusion systems for wood/plastic composites.

Alliance to Supply Wood/Plastic Extrusion Systems
A cooperative alliance has been created to offer complete pre-engineered extrusion systems for wood/plastic composites. The partners are Krupp Werner & Pfleiderer Corp. of Ramsey, N.J., a maker of twin-screw compounders; Extrusion Services Inc. (ESI) of Akron, Ohio, a supplier of downstream equipment for profile, pipe, and tubing; and Extrusion Tooling Inc. of Cummings, Ga., a maker of extrusion dies and calibration tooling.

Extensive R&D was conducted among the three firms at W&P's pilot facility in Ramsey to develop systems to extrude 50% virgin wood flour with resins such as PE and PVC. The alliance enters a market populated with at least 24 producers of wood-composite profiles and tubing.

Composite House Goes Up in Two Days
A house whose exterior walls consist of FRP composite-skinned panels with insulating foam cores is being marketed by PDG Domus in Columbus, Ohio. The demonstration house pictured here was assembled in two days, using a crane-like boom to hoist prefabricated box sections into place. Even the roof consists of self-supporting FRP panels without conventional rafters. The basic house skeleton is a steel box. Floors are steel plates. PDG's CEO Nathan Pingel plans to manufacture future homes using pultruded FRP frames instead of steel.

The five major components that compose the house each measure roughly 10 x 10 x 20 ft. The outer skins are a composite of glass cloth and mat, ceramic fibers, and 30% fire-resistant Modar modified-acrylic thermoset resin from the Composite Polymers Div. of Ashland Specialty Chemical Co., Dublin, Ohio. A blend of resin and chopped ceramic fibers is simultaneously pumped and vacuum-drawn into a closed RTM-type mold that has previously received a fire-resistant gelcoat by spraying or roll coating.

The panels' inner skin is steel studs bonded to drywall. After inserting electrical conduit, the two skins are bonded together in a press using Ashland's Pliogrip urethane adhesive. The panel remains in the press while isocyanurate foam is injected between the skins. The wall sections are assembled to the box frame in-plant. Then, when the house is assembled on-site, the wall sections have steel members that slide into slots in the steel frame and are fastened with screws and adhesive.

Albemarle to Buy Ferro's Flame Retardant Business
Albemarle Corp., Baton Rouge, La., has agreed to buy the Pyro-Chek flame-retardant additives business from Ferro Corp., Cleveland. Pyro-Chek brominated-PS polymeric flame retardants will be added to Albemarle's Saytex and NcendX lines of brominated FR additives.

Separately, Albemarle and the Borax Flame Retardant Group of Valencia, Calif., have agreed to develop jointly new flame-retardant systems. They will explore new uses of zinc borate (ZnB) and other borates. ZnB is used mainly in rigid PVC, epoxies, and nylons. The two firms will also seek new applications for Albemarle's brominated FR agents, which are used primarily in styrenics. Joint R&D will explore PS, ABS, PBT, and PET. Another area will be polyolefin wire & cable, where borates can reduce dripping.

Arco Starts Up West Coast PP Unit
Arco Polypropylene, Los Angeles, a joint venture of Arco and Itochu of Japan, has started up its first polypropylene plant at Carson, Calif. The 440-million-lb/yr plant is the only PP facility west of the Rockies and represents Arco's re-entry into the polyolefins business.

ICI Acrylics Is Now Ineos Acrylics
Following its purchase by the U.K.-based Ineos Group, the former ICI Acrylics has changed its name to Ineos Acrylics. It is a global producer of methyl methacrylate and acrylic plastics. Lucite and Perspex are two of its brands. Its U.S. headquarters is in Cordova, Tenn.

Dow and Cargill Fund Large Biopolymer Plant
The boards of Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., and Cargill Inc., Minnetonka, Minn., have approved funding for joint construction of the first-ever world-scale facility to produce polylactic acid (PLA) polymers. The plant is being built by the two firms' 50/50 joint venture, Cargill Dow Polymers LLC, based in Minnetonka. It will have around 300 million lb/yr capacity and will come on stream in Blair, Neb., late next year. At present, Cargill Dow Polymers (CDP) has an 8 million lb/yr pilot plant that will be expanded to twice that size this spring.

CDP's PLA polymer, trade-named NatureWorks, is made originally from unrefined corn sugar, which is bacterially fermented to produce lactic acid. The purified lactic acid is then polymerized into PLA resin, a clear thermoplastic that is said to have properties very useful for packaging and fibers. It can be processed on standard equipment in virtually any thermoplastic process and is said to run very much like LDPE. PLA is expected to compete with a wide range of standard resins, including PET, PE, PP, PS, and PVC. It can be used in food contact and can be recycled or composted. Cargill Dow is hoping for a commercial price range of 50¢ to $1/lb. It is working with at least a dozen processors in Europe, Japan, and Canada, which are test marketing applications from bi-oriented films to coated paper, thermoformed packaging, bottles, and textiles.

Conoco to Commercialize New Pitch-Based Carbon Fiber
A new type of carbon fiber expected to have applications in plastics and composites will be introduced next year by Conoco Inc., the Houston-based oil company formerly owned by DuPont Co. After 12 years of development, Conoco is making its entry into the carbon-fiber market with a new production technology based on petroleum pitch. Unlike carbon fibers based on relatively costly polyacrylonitrile, Conoco's process converts a low-value oil-refinery byproduct into a high-strength fiber. Conoco executive v.p. Jim Nokes says this fiber is "vastly different from existing carbon-based fibers" and has unique properties that can enhance existing reinforced products and open up new applications. Conoco plans to start up an 8-million-lb/yr plant in Ponca City, Okla., in the second quarter of 2001.

Ticona to Expand Nylon Compounding
Ticona in Summit, N.J., will add 25 million lb/yr of Celanese nylon 66 compounding capacity at Bishop, Texas, during the second half of this year. Products to be made at the new facility include impact-modified, uv-stabilized, glass-filled, and glass/mineral-filled grades.

PolyChem Alloy Moving
PolyChem Alloy, Inc., a custom and toll compounder of polyolefins and engineering resins in Granite Falls, N.C., is moving to a larger facility in Lenoir, N.C. To meet increased demand, the company built a 30,000-sq-ft plant adjacent to a new 5000-sq-ft office facility in Lenoir Industrial Park. Construction will be completed this month. PolyChem will expand its capacity there with a new twin-screw compounding line.

Steel Maker Offers Mold Components
Thyssen Specialty Steels Inc., Carol Stream, Ill., is now selling mold and die components made by Lamina Inc. of Royal Oak, Mich. Thyssen will stock and sell five types of bushings: L gibs, V gibs, and gib assemblies in self-lubricating or non-lubricating versions. It will also offer bronze and self-lube wear plates, as well as leader pins and springs.

DuPont & Multibase In TPE Alliance
DuPont Co., Wilmington, Del., has entered into a global alliance with French compounder Multibase (parent of Multibase, Inc. in Copley, Ohio) to manufacture and distribute new TPEs based on DuPont's Elvaloy TPE NH4 and NH2 materials. Based on DuPont's proprietary multipolymer reactive chemistry, Elvaloy will be combined with polyolefins to make TPEs with good elastic memory and high resistance to heat, uv, and chemicals. Applications are sought in automotive, cosmetics packaging, and wire and cable.

Dow Opens SPS Plant
Dow Plastics, Midland, Mich., has started up its first commercial production plant for Questra syndiotactic polystyrene (SPS) crystalline polymers. Located in Schkopau, Germany, it can produce 80 million lb/yr.

Spartech to Buy Uniroyal's High-Performance Plastics
St. Louis-based Spartech Corp. has agreed to acquire all of the assets of High Performance Plastics Inc., South Bend, Ind., from Uniroyal Technology Corp. It has two operating divisions: Polycast, which makes cell-cast acrylic, and Royalite, which extrudes thermoplastic sheet. The acquisition includes nine HPP manufacturing plants in North America.

Reifenhauser Moves Offices
Reifenhauser Inc. moved last month from Lawrence, Mass., to a 19,000-sq-ft facility in Ipswich, Mass. A blown film line is available for lab and demonstration purposes. Phone and fax numbers are unchanged.

Dow & BASF to Buy PUR Systems Houses
Last month, two major producers of polyurethane chemicals agreed to purchase large PUR systems formulators. First, Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., will buy Flexible Products Co. of Marietta, Ga. Flexible Products supplies custom foam formulations and dispensing equipment. It serves refrigeration, construction, furniture, roofing, packaging, geotechnical, and transportation markets. Flexible Products owns four manufacturing sites in Marietta; Joliet, Ill.; Austin, Texas; and Toronto. BASF Corp. in Mt. Olive, N.J., will acquire IPI International, a unit of PMC Inc., in Elkton, Md. IPI supplies PUR systems for sprayed insulation and other rigid and flexible foam and non-foam products.

AEC Sterling Moves Granulator Operations
AEC Sterling Corp., Wood Dale, Ill., is moving all Nelmor and Ball & Jewell granulator and shredder operations from North Uxbridge, Mass., to South Attleboro, Mass. South Attleboro is the home of Cumberland Engineering, a sister company of AEC Sterling that makes granulators and pelletizers. Both firms will continue to market their own lines of products.


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Off piste is where adventure skiing really begins. It is here that you escape from the hustle and bustle of the crowded pistes and instead experience the solitude and majesty of the mountains. It is here where the skiing is most challenging and where you can reach your full potential.

At PT Ski we are passionate about off piste skiing and we believe that Klosters is the perfect place to take your skiing to the next level. Whether you are an intermediate skier who wants to make your first ever powder turns, a competent off piste skier looking to improve your skills or an expert who wants to explore the fabulous mountains that Klosters has to offer, then one of our specially designed off piste skiing trips is your answer.

We go to great lengths to make sure that our off piste holidays are second to none.  Our guides are nearly always local and have an intimate knowledge of the mountains, James P-T usually accompanies the groups to ensure the smooth running of the day and our PT Ski team are often there with the vehicle to pick you up when you ski down to the middle of nowhere.  To try your hand at off piste the PT Ski way please see our off piste holiday dates below.

Alternatively, we can create an off piste trip bespoke to your requirements.  To find out more please call us on 02077365557 or e-mail

To see a video of one of our recent off piste weekends, please click here

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January Freeride -  13 - 17 January 2016, Long weekend, Ability level 2 , 3 , 4

Off Piste Adventure - 24 - 28 February 2016, Long weekend, Ability level 4 , 5

Although prices for these weekends have not yet been released, we would be delighted to give you a personalised quote.  Please email or call us on 020 7736 5557 for more information.

Being a good off piste skier is all about confidence and this is what we attempt to nurture on all our off piste holidays. We use either IFMGA qualified guides or local English speaking instructors/guides who are qualified to teach and guide off piste. We don't favour large groups and our optimum size is 4-6 people. We will also endeavour to put you with skiers of a similar standard so that you can enjoy the powder as a compatible party.

Transceivers must be worn on all our off piste skiing trips and these will be given to you on the first day and should be returned at the end of your stay. ABS packs are also recommended and these can be rented in Klosters. While we will endeavour to use PT Ski vehicles, there may be occasions where returning from a day excursion may incur the cost of a taxi.

Sometimes your group may be accompanied by James P-T or one of our PT Ski reps.  They will be there to assist with the smooth running of the day and are not there in any guiding or instructing capacity whatsoever.  All aspects regarding safety on the mountain are the responsibility of the guide.

Skiing is a physically demanding sport and in order to get the most out of your off piste skiing you should be fit, strong and have plenty of stamina. If you are unfit, you will tire easily, start skiing marginally and might feel frustrated. You also increase the risk of injury. We therefore recommend that you start a ski fitness programme at least 6 weeks before your holiday.

Ability levels

To book a place on one of our off piste courses and to make our planning easier, we ask you to assess your skiing using the following categories:

  1. Off Piste Starter - You can ski parallel turns confidently on the piste and are very comfortable on red runs. You can also ski black runs but you don't necessarily ski these particularly fast. You have never been off the piste before, or if you have, it was just to try a few tentative turns on the edge of the piste. You look enviously at skiers enjoying the freedom that off piste has to offer and want a bit of that for yourself!

  3. Off Piste Improver - In good snow you can now link several turns together, though with the occasional splat. On steeper sections or in difficult snow, you still resort to wider turns.

  5. Off Piste Intermediate - You can link turns confidently in powder snow, and cope with difficult conditions such as windblown snow and breakable crust, but you are conscious that you are not particularly elegant. You know what you are trying to do and feel that what you need is a lot more practice.

  7. Off Piste Advanced - You are a confident off piste skier and just love it. You can cope in all snow types and conditions and are not fazed by poor visibility or flat light. You are now looking to ski faster and become more confident in tighter situations such as the trees or narrow couloirs. You may also want to test yourself on very steep slopes.

  9. Off Piste Expert - You just live for off piste and are extremely capable in any type of snow conditions. You ski fast and confidently in big wide slopes and through the trees. You are unfazed by steep slopes and couloirs and want to take on the most challenging slopes.

Unsure of your level - it is important not to misjudge your level as this could result in you having to make alternative skiing arrangements at your own expense. If you are not sure then just give us a call and we will help you assess whether a particular off-piste skiing holiday is right for you.

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The confidence of his writing replicates his confidence in person. Meyer is focused, serious, completely aware, present, but also he laughs easily and smiles often. His personal history is compelling. “I have an extremely high risk tolerance,” he tells me. This is evident from his back story; Meyer is living proof that taking risks can indeed pay off.

If luck is a factor in success, Meyer’s luck seems to have come from effort, extreme discipline, and a total belief in himself and his work. “Now that I’ve rewritten it [The Son], it’s perfect,” he says. He also describes his first book, American Rust (Spiegel & Grau, 2009), as “perfect,” but he’s humble and gracious when he clarifies this statement: “I would never write in that style again, so it was perfect in the sense that it was within the aesthetic that I was working in according to my abilities at that moment—that was the best thing I could create.”

Meyer was born on May 1, 1974, in New York City, where he and his family lived until he was five. They then moved to the blue collar neighborhood of Hamden in Baltimore. Hamden originally came into being around the textile mills in the area and thrived until after the WWII. In the ’60s and ’70s, many people in Hamden lost their jobs with the closing of the mills and the collapse of the economy. “Crime was high,” Meyer says. “It wasn’t the kind of place where you thought you’d be shot, but it was rough. I got jumped constantly.” His parents were intellectual, artsy people “who never had or cared about having money,” he says. His mother is a painter, his father a sculpture and photographer who “drifted toward doing biology” in his 30s, working at Johns Hopkins until “things fell apart.” Meyer says his home life was wonderful, his parents are wonderful, and he feels like he grew up in a kind of protective shell: “inside we listened to classical music, and all my early reading came from my parents’ bookshelf. I was always reading 10 years ahead, understanding very little of it, like Crime and Punishment.” Despite the literature, Meyer was a self-professed terrible student who was bored and “failing everything” at the public school he attended. He dropped out at 16 and earned his GED. “I couldn’t understand what was important about school,” Meyer says. “Dropping out was the first adult decision I made. If I ever have kids, I would hate for them to drop out. But I wasn’t a rebel. I never cared to be against school. I just wanted to do what I wanted to do.” Not your typical truant, Meyer cut class to escape to the Johns Hopkins library, where he would sit in the stacks for hours reading.

Meyer also worked several years as a bike mechanic. “I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide—that was what my parents couldn’t pry away from me, that was the blanket,” he says. He attended a local Jesuit college, and then got accepted to Cornell University, where he studied English. But not before he was rejected by nearly “every ivy school.”

“Cornell changed my life, getting in there was one of my pinnacle moments,” Meyer says. He loved college—the fact that he was accountable for himself—and he wanted to work. He remembers a faculty member at Johns Hopkins laughing at him when he was applying. “It wasn’t out of spite or meanness, it was just his first, natural reaction to this kid from Hamden,” he says. “There is a stigma, and people do judge you. Luckily, those things are just fuel for the fire. Those things make me furious rather than breaking me, and make me work 50 times harder, which I did.” Meyer gives his parents much of the credit for instilling in him the sense that everything works out in the end. “I was never afraid, ever—I always thought I would be awesome. Not in a way that excludes anyone else, I’m just very optimistic.”

Writing came to Meyer in a way that he describes as very cliché—while he was taking a freshman composition class. “It was like a switch turning; it wasn’t intentional, it was very sudden, and I thought, ‘I’m a writer, this is who I am.’ I knew: this is what I do.” At 21 he began writing short stories, and a 600-page “self-indulgent, very bad” novel. “That is what you do when you’re young at making art. Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.” At 31, Meyer says he got to the point where “every word was intentional, every thought, and I became completely aware of everything the reader should be thinking. You have to understand every single beat before you can declare the thing finished.” He also says he never thinks about why he’s a writer. “I just do it. Writing is who I am; it’s not a choice. The choice is how good you’re going to be at it. The art does choose you, but you have to choose how good you are going to be.”

After graduating from Cornell, Meyer worked in N.Y.C. as a derivatives trader to pay off his loans. “When you grow up without money you want the opposite. I became obsessed with not being poor and my kids not being poor. It took a couple of years of working on Wall Street to realize, though, that I really don’t care about money.” Meyer enjoyed the adrenaline rush of the job, the pressure, and the intelligence of many of his co-workers, but ultimately had trouble with the “amoral” nature of the job, and the idea that profit is all that matters, regardless of the costs to society. By this time, he had finished a first novel, which he felt was “very crummy,” and began writing another while riding the subway, on weekends, and at night. Eventually he was calling in sick to work to write. That’s when he knew it was time to leave the bank—which he did.

Two years later he was broke, he had written a novel that was rejected by almost every literary agent in America, and he had also been rejected by every graduate school writing program he applied to. Meyer moved back to Baltimore and worked at a series of blue-collar jobs, including as a construction worker and ambulance driver. He lived in his parents’ basement. He had made the decision to write, to be a writer: “I thought it would take a year; it took eight.” Meyer kept going. “All art is so labored over, then you work to erase the marks of your own labor.” His belief in the merits of hard work persevered. “If you have a certain amount of talent and self-honesty, you can become a good writer. The filter is not talent; it’s hard work. Rejection will not be tolerated.” Meyer admits, “I told myself little lies along the way: if this doesn’t work by the end of the year, I’ll do something else. Then I just kept going. The only thing that really matters is making art. Whatever it takes, you beg, borrow, and steal to do that.”

The good news is that his hard work paid off. He sold some of his stories and was accepted to the M.F.A. program at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Tex. It was there that he began writing the first novel he would publish—American Rust, an acclaimed book about two 20-something friends, bookish Isaac English and former football star Billy Poe, living in a depressed Pennsylvania steel town, who get tangled up in an act of violence that has devastating effects. The book received rave reviews; PW said “Meyer has a thrilling eye for failed dreams and writes uncommonly tense scenes of violence” (Reviews, Sept. 15, 2008). Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times compared him to Richard Russo and Salinger. In 2010, the New Yorker named him one of the 20 best writers under 40. American Rust had taken Meyer three and a half years to write. “You have to be willing to risk everything, putting something on the page, making yourself vulnerable, you can’t be afraid of being judged.” Meyer believes that the writer must completely repress his ego. “Praise that you internalize, as an artist,” he says, “is just as destructive as criticism.”

After American Rust, Meyer was “terrified.” He says he wondered, “Will I just gradually improve on this same voice? I didn’t want to do that book, that voice, again. I would be bored, I would stop learning.” Thinking about his next work, he felt something was important about the West, about Texas, in the context of American life and mythology. He dove in and spent the next five years writing The Son, a saga about the settlement of the American West and the rise of one Texas family over 200 years. “The myth is that Europeans arrived in the South, starting in Mexico, and it was untamed wilderness. You could go in and have the freedom to reinvent yourself. But that’s complete hokum. The entire continent was full of people who we slaughtered and forcibly assimilated and displaced.” Meyer estimates he read and studied over 250 books.

He says he has to fully understand something in order to feel comfortable writing about it, so for The Son, he hunted buffalo, used a bow and arrow, and tanned deer hides. He describes this book as a “difficult birth” but is totally satisfied with the outcome, and is confident, as always, of the final work. “It’s exactly the story I wanted to tell, and every word is exactly the one I wanted. I write for the audience of me. I feel the only honest opinion on art is your own.”


text: Two more books about newly elected Pope Francis have been announced, one releasing next week in Spanish. El Papa Francisco: Conversaciones con Jorge Bergoglio by Sergio Rubin and Francesca Ambrogetti (Ediciones B/Spanish Publishers) will publish March 27. The trade paper book contains conversations then-Cardinal Bergoglio had with two reporters about his life. Pope Francis: The Pope from the End of the Earth by Thomas J. Craughwell (Saint Benedict Press) “looks at the life and journey of the first pope from the New World,” according to the publisher. It releases April 23. Craughwell has previously written more than a dozen books on history, religion, and popular culture.


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Sunday, September 24, 2006

I have a headache thisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

It's name starts with C

Whomever first said love hurts may have actually had a migraine

Blind Boy Pug is administering his best nursing skills, which mostly consist of attempting deep nasal swabs with his tounge.

Girl Pug is trying out her Rolfing technique by repeatedly using my body as a launching pad during her mad dashes around the living room

And I am going to eat a giant cookie

Requiem Courtesy of Johnny, Trent, and Paul

Or maybe I'll just shut myself down completely again

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep my eyes wide open all the time
but because of you, I walk the line

I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focused on the pain
the only thing that's real

What have I become
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end

you are someone else
I am still right here

If I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

When you're weary
feeling small
when tears are in your eyes
I will dry them all

I'm on your side
oh when times get rough
and friends just can't be found
like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down

when you're down and out
when evening falls so hard
I will comfort you

your time has come to shine
all your dreams are on their way
see how they shine if you need a friend
and sailing right behind

I will ease your mind

A Messed Up Romance, In 3 Acts

Act 1
The Letter he will never get

Funny how sometimes I feel I know you so well, but am unsure how to spell your name. Or Where you live. Or your email address.

There's a lot I want to say to you, a lot of the time. But I don't. This isn't normal for me, as I have a tendency to state my mind. Usually not an opinion I'm holding, but what I see as the truth. But some thinngs...with you..I haven't. I think I was in the process of figuring that out, and if I don't have conviction in what I say, I shut up ( and you may ask, so why isn't she shutting up now?)

Translating a gut feeling and a true yearning or need into words isn't the easiset, even when one has a background in self indulgent self expression, whether they be written or performed of channeled into flour and sugar. But I'm trying.

There's part of me that has never been quiet. It's conradictory and questioning and genrally quite the brat. But when I'm around you, talking to you, it's quiet. It whispers. It's calm. I feel this contentness and...recognition. I don't know if you've ever had something, done something, known someone where you have that clarity, that " I Know You"

I have that with you. The edges stop blurring.

You are something unexpected for me

Act 2
The Phone Call
This is the point in the story where I call C and tell him that I need something from him so I know I can trust him. I need to know it's ok for me to feel this way. I need him to tell me it's ok or to let me go. Because none of this was planned, none of this was easy, and I don't want to keep caring so much. I never expected to meet him. I ever expected I'd want to let him in.
He talks about consistency, about how he's glad I fell this way, about how it's important for me. He says he doesnt want to hurt me.

I tell him I've lost the rulebook and don't know what I'm supposed to be doing.

He tells me nothing.

Act 3
What I need. What I do. What will I do.

I do not need a ring. I do not need a boyfriend. I need my hand touched sometimes.
I'll stop letting him talk to me for hours on the phone. I think he needs this. I need to talk to him and put my hand on his neck, just sometimes.

I've cried for hours today.He doesn't want to hurt me. He doesn't hurt me. I hurt me.
Kidney stones hurt me. Crazy mothers hurt me. Loving someone when I've never loved before does't hurt me. Someone thinking they're protectig me...hurts me.

I'll give him his chocolate and a smile. Maybe sometimes I'll answer the phone. Maybe I shouldn't. Maybe I'll tell him if he wats to talk to me he has to be able to look at me. Maybe I'll move away from this city I hate that has the person I want, to a city that I don't hate that has people I don't want.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Week In Review

Sore feet, Placido Domingo, boogery pugs, 4 hour phone calls, canceled flights, paper cuts from cardboard boxes, mended hearts, overtime

Sunday, August 20, 2006

I Smell Like An AssTray

yes, you read that correctly. Bella has a broken heart ( I'm contagious) and I have a confused heart and was on the phone with the reciepient of my "I like you" speech, who finally gave me the "Quit freaking out " speech, who is at the moment getting over a cold I gave him ( I'm contagious) that was acquired NOT by making out, but by my selling him chocolate.

Long story short, I smoked too much tonight .

I still don't know whaddahell is actually going on, but I seem to be wising up to the fact that apparently, you aren't supposed to.

And this week I get to deal with turning down a job offer to go back to NYC to fling about fancy chocolates there. My slacking off idea backfired, I ended up in management, the I further impressed Super Upper Management, even the President, whom I hate because he made me cry like a girly weenie once......and working closely with him is precisely WHY I won't move back to NYC.......but this week I get to play "Let's negotiate" anyway.

On other fronts, having a libido again is not all it's cracked up to be.

Thursday, August 3, 2006

Long Time No Post

For those of you have ever found a new life, you'll know locating one is not always seasy, and when one does finally locate said new life, it requires nurturing. But it seems I have finally located a sembelance of one, and perhaps can start posting again. Although Blogger is not allowing me to start new paragraphs, but i was never the most comprehensive writer, was I ? To start, I seen to have fallen in love, without my being really aware of it. harken back to the "I have a date" posts. he was one of them. We were friends, we did some naughty things, we did some not naughty things, and after 8 months or so I find myself falling into something I didnt even know I was capable of. And a few nights ago I told him the " I like you, I think you know that, I like what we have togeteher, even ythough I dont know what that is, but i feeel this awkwardness sometimes that I dont like, and I thought if I said something i would feel better" speech. And now my phone does not ring, and my heart hurts greatly, even though I thought it was so hard it could never hurt again. And I miss my old friend M, who flipped when I left her and NYC, and I am lost and alone and confused, And I am in such pain, pain greater than those stupid stones, because i thougfht I was immune to this...but I am not, it seems. All my fighting and standing strong and someone snuck into my heart, someone who I could have little babies with and make dinner with and someone I could tell my fears and now it may be gone...and I seem to not be as strong as I thought

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Life or Something Like It

So, life in the Chocolate City is SERIOUSLY more boring than life in NYC.

I have absolutely nothing to report, other than I became an auntie Thursday night and Boy Pug broke a tooth.

If anyone happens to locate a missing life, please email it to me so that I may have something to blog about.

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Well, It Seemed Like A Good Idea

So....seems date 1 has been postponed, and the puglets and I have settled into an evening of shedding, snoring, and sleeping. Shedding would be them, as would the snoring...since I am the dateless wonder I'm not sure if I snore or not, and sleeping would be all three of us. I was attempting a pedicure, but Boy Pug stumbled into my toes and is now streaked with pink nail polish.

There are two horrid little pug puppies spending the weekend at my parents house, and as i had the day off I was relegated to popping over and letting them out. These beasties belong to my brother and his fiance, and Girl Pug takes great delight in ferociously humping the youngest of the two, while he seems to take great delight in licking the unsuspecting eyeballs of Blind Boy Pug.

Now, I do love me some pugs, but having my two, my parents two, and my brothers wild puppies in a backyard that measures 30 by 15 does seem to be a bit much.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Fricken Fracken Addendum

Of course, I think it's because I feed them both chocolate at job number 77, and i really..really..really have a sneaking suspicion they think I'm like Willy Wuglet and the Choclate Factory, and am always smiley and nice, when anyone who actually knows me ( or, so of my readers that would be Bella) knows I'm really a moody cranky nihilistic sort, who only smiles for tips or if someone is tickling her.

But still....TWO DATES!!!!!!!!!!

FRICKIN FRAKKIN FARKLEBERRIES! shiny computer had some issues.

I beat new shiny computer mercilessly.

Brother in law reinstalled mp3 something or others and Mozilla

New shiny computer is back on????

Puglet has missed blogging.

She waves forlornely at all her former readers and whispers "come back..I'm sure my spleen will fall out sometime soon"

I have two dates next week. Which for me, is major, because generally men disgust me and women just don't rock my boat that way.

This is precisely WHY I don't date

because I have to work two jobs tomorrow ( flinging about fancy kitchenware, then flinging about fancy chocolates) and instead of SLEEPING I'm running about trying to find my "dang the boobs look nice" top to wear to work, as opposed to the "dang look at the boobs! "top, as one is good for wearing when future beaus stop by unnanounced, and one is good for my boobs self esteem while on dates.

Bella is much excited about my dates. If she comments I'm sure she'll chime in as to why.

Sunday, December 25, 2005

OOO...Blinking lights!

My computer, formerly broken, temporarily fixed, and currently wavering between life and death, is temporarily stable.

Besides my new KitchenAid Pro 600 series stand mixer with the 525 watt motor and 6 quart bowl, I am hoping Santa brings me my first ever brand new computer, that hasnt been handed down from my sister or mother.

I would also like some pretty amethyst earrings and a purple striped sweater for Girl Pug, and a green striped one for Boy Pug, and a carton of Camel Lights.

I'm hoping the New year brings the ability to blog more frequently, an apprenticeship with a boutique chocolatier, and a trip to Eastern Europe with Bella, who gave me the bestest Christmas present yet by visiting me tonight.

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Oh Happy Day!

I gots me a new 'puter for Christmas! Brand spankin new, not a hand me down, all shiny and virus protected and MINE MINE MINE!

Of course, it's not set up yet, so I may still be MIA until my super smart brother in law gets it set up with all the wi-fi cables and thingamajigs.

I got the dangly earrings too.

In honor of the possibility of being communicado again, i'll try to fall down some stairs or get mugged or cut off an appendage so i have some interesting things to blog about.

of course, having eaten my first Turducken tonight, I could quite possibly explode before getting my paws on that shiny new 'puter.

Thursday, November 17, 2005

My 'Puter Had Worms..

..or viruses, or something of the like. After ingesting many emails and blog posts and whatever else it felt like eating, my brilliant brother in law seems to have given it an enema and all will hopefully be well.

On the non-wormy front, I am retailing my way through the holidays alternating selling realllllly good chocolates and realllly overpriced kitchenware. I've yet to find a pastry type place in my new neck of the woods that doesn't seem breakdown inducing, and after a few years of being in baking hell during the holidays, I am so loving part time seasonal retail work. My resume has raised many eyebrows...the overpriced kitchenware store tried to give me a management position after seeing my stints as bakery manager, and the chocolate place kept telling me it wasn't a production job, but frankly, floating along as a seasonal employee showing as little initiative as possible has REALLY appealed to me.

The downside to all this, is after a few years wearing ripped pants, broken bras, bandanas, and butter stained shirts to work, I'm now forced to wear a thong ( no panty lines), proper bras, and tailored shirts. And makeup. And I have to remember to pluck my eyebrows and all that girly stuff.

So here's hoping this post takes.....

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Oh Fuzzy Sock Fairy, How Do I Love You?

I am blessed to have a Nutrageous Bar Fairy AND a Fuzzy Sock Fairy, who pop up from time to time.

My Fuzzy Sock Fairy has reappeared, and whilst gleefully throwing lintballs in the air, given me my very first UPS package delivered to my new house, full of fuzzy socks and stinky bull pizzles for the puglets and obscene photos of pugs....WEEEHOOO!

Thank you Fuzzy Sock fairy, for making a pretty crappy month less crappy, and for keeping my fuzzy sock supply replenished. Blind Boy pug is currently torn between a huge rawhide and a bull pizzle, and Girl Pug is, of course, trying to eat my new electric blue sockies.

On the non fuzzy sock front, I am still hunting for jobs, avoiding the 'rents, and still getting lost navigating the bus and metro system of Chocolate City, which really doesnt seem to have all that many chocolate shops in it. Hrrmph.

Sunday, October 9, 2005

Things I've Learned Of Late

Tapioca pudding may taste good, but I still can't get past what it looks like.

DC is much harder to navigate than NYC. And you can't use your "metro" card for the bus. And you have to swipe it when entering and exiting the metro station. And the metro is way to clean and has too many helpful signs and it's SCARING ME. But I still have no clue where I'm going.

After many years of pounding dough and hauling flour and lugging bread and filling cakes and whisking sauces, AND having a nasty digestive disease, after getting a fancy Elliptical machine for my birthday, it has become apparent that there are still muscles in my bum I'd never used until now.

Putting a pug on a picnic table and then pulling away all the chairs is very funny, unless you've left your hot dog on the table with the pug.

Friday, September 30, 2005

Not Intended For Human Consumption

I'm a year older today, and my blog is a whole year old..give or take a few days.

I suppose I should be reflecting. On..stuff. Whatever it is that someone who's now 29 should reflect on. But I think thats why I have blog I dont have to reflect.

This has not been a good week. I really...and I mean really...should never have moved this close to any members of my family. And what makes it worse is I KNEW I shouldn't. No matter how much things seem to have changed, when you move 1500 miles away and live by yourself for many years, that should tell you something. It's like kidney stones in a way. When you dont have them, you forget how painful they are, until a new one hits. And then as your eyes are rolling back in your head and you're screaming for more drugs to just make it stop, theres that godwaful moment of clarity. You thought they were gone. You took your meds and drank your water and got your xrays and thought they were gone, and out of nowhere they're back.

I needed a change of scenery. I needed a better "support" system. I got 'em. And now it looks like I need to start going back to those "Dude, everyone in my family is like SO totally alcoholic" meetings. And I HATE those meetings, because I really don't like people trying to hug me and hold my hand or get me to go out to coffee with them.

Because all I really want to do is yell at someone and tell them to grow up and take responsibility, stop being the victim, stop with the sneaking around and shaming and blaming everyone else, and make a choice. Because even though I'm a year older, I'm still damn well ok with running away from you again.

And of course, nobody made me a cake today.

Thursday, September 15, 2005

Making People Fat

For those lacking in parenting skills, this is what happens when you call your slightly chubby child fat and try and put her on a diet. When she's 7. And was so totally not even close to fat, at least not then.

She grows up nice and chunky, runs as far away from you as possible, and becomes a pastry chef.

Ten years later, after all your parents antipsychotic meds have kicked in and you stop being mean to her, she moves into the apartment under your house and in two weeks makes you...

peach pie

chocolate raspberry brownies

blueberry pie

vanilla layer cake, layered with raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries

peach blueberry crisp

buttermilk biscuits

and most recently, a chocolate layer cake infused with raspberry cognac syrup and a chocolate ganache frosting, since my soon to be not so tiny pregnant sister who always tortured me about my weight is coming over for dinner tomorrow, and rumor has it cake is her current weakness.

I now understand EXACTLY what is meant by "Revenge is Sweet"

Wednesday, September 7, 2005

I've not given much thought to blogging the past week. I'm not a poltical blogger, socially active blogger, humanitarian blogger. I'm just a girl who makes stuff with sugar, loves her pugs, and has been nearly eaten alive by mosquitos of late.

Of course, I have opinions..sometimes too many, and sometimes too loudly. I'm trying to avoid those things now, because in my stomach I have that gross feeling (and not the one that comes from my being lactose intolerant and worshipping at the feet of the gods known as Ben and Jerry) but rather the one that starts in your stomach and moves into your head and makes some people cry or write bad poetry or rally or run or just scream.

The last time I had this gross stomach feeling was several Septembers ago, when I could smell the smoke from the fires burning downtown, and would wake up at night cowering in my bathtub because a bolt of thunder or a fighter jet screaming overhead had sent my still sleeping body into such panic I would dive for cover while still dreaming. I took my lease and utility bills out on every walk with the pugs because I didnt have a local ID and my block was barricaded on both sides. I did a lot of cleaning back then. For some reason when highly stressed I become very Martha-esque. i also do this when stoned out of my mind on medications. Cleaning is just not a natural response for me

I'm trying not to make some of the same mistakes this past week. I'll read the paper, but not watch the news. I know that stomach ache has a name with fancy intials now. Sometimes I start to feel jumpy, and I'll walk..this time in a new city, with no barricades on my block, and I'll smoke and hunt for something that gives me comfort, like a Nutrageous bar. I'm making myself tell my family how scared I was, because then it was so hard to do, because they were so far away, and so totally helpless. But I still can't say much, because now, this is so much worse, and I know so many people have that gross feeling in their stomachs, but this time it's SO MUCH BIGGER and I feel like I only had a 24 hour flu.

So I do what I can, to help all these aches, to rty and help others from aching so much, and so much more, but when it's late...I just scrubbed my bathtub again, and my refrigerator is probably next.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Gimme Some Chemicals!

As I mentioned before, I can totally deal with roaches and rats.

Mosquitos are a TOTALLY different matter.

I've been enjoying the back garden..teeny tiny and paved with old bricks covered with ivy and hanging plants..the kind that in NYC would add at least a grand to your rent each month. The pugs have been peeing and pooping with pure abandon and flopping in sunspots to nap.

I've been scratching my ankles raw because all those damn 'squitos are eating me alive. It's bad enough I have to live so near my I'm starting to dress like them by wearing mid calf socks with my sensible shoes and capris. The choicest bites have been covered with my piratey bandaids,,but still..I look pretty odd.

I really need to get some bug spray. And some friends my own age. And figure out the Metro.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Melancholy Puglet

I'mn almost unpacked..having go flitch some bookcases from the parents.

I have a new dessert catering thing coming up..happy happy joy joy

My new doctor wants my brain thourougly poked, since he thinks some of my ongoing issues could be related to either a half dead thyroid or one thats sent little thyroid soldiers to set up base camps in my armpits, or abdomen perhaps. Since I already have endometriosis that send rogue warriors to set up base camp on my bladder and bowels, this seems concieiable. Then I get a great brain scan to see if I have a piuitary tumor.

I'm mostly cranky because I have to do some fasting blood work and me and hungry are an evil sight to behold.

I'm also cranky because I'm a bit sad and lonely. I'm excited about my new life, but I havent met anyone yet I can bother who will play with me. I really wanna go play with someone, but I'm shy and dont do well at parties and bars.

That and my pregnant sister was over tonight, telling her pregnangt stories, whilst I contemplating sticking a fork into my very troubulsome likely barren womb

Friday, August 19, 2005

Tartlets, Shmartlets

Sixty tartlet shells

Rum pastry cream

Framboise pastry cream

Lemon curd

They were the cutest things at the party, which actually made me feel like a shmuck. So I hid in a corner until it was time to go home. Maybe I should have taken my sisters suggestion and done cupcakes from a box.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

An Open Letter To M

Since one of my posts deepened our drama, I'm putting this one out there as well.

I can totally understand why you feel I was being cruel/unnecessary. But please know, it was not with intent or to make you feel that way.

I'm sure that doesn't lessen your feelings of betrayal any, but I promise you, I would NEVER purposely hurt you. Even if we were not friends anymore. Doesn't mean you wont still get hurt, but I did/do/will always hold you in a very odd place in my heart.

Theres a lot of stuff that came up before leaving that would make me say and still think what I did, but I'm not trying to do the "I'm right and you're wrong" or "you're right and I'm wrong" thing either. You ARE under a huge amount of stress and having lifestyle changes. That affects ANYONE'S coping skills and behaviors. Same for me.

I know you said you were fine after our phone convo, but obviously, I wasn't, and to an extent still am not. It's a matter of different perceptions to words/actions/situations and to the intent of them, or lack thereof ( I am so confusing myself now). Point is, friends or not, in any relationship both people can start taking others for granted. I'd hope we've gone through enough that we're more like family ( but possibly without the hairpulling or wedgies, and PLEASE don't pin me in a corner and try and smooch on me like my drunk brother did) .

So maybe we'll get over this. Maybe not. Either way, please know you are very much loved by me, even if you hurt me/piss me off, and even if you hurt me/piss me off and don't think you have or should have.

To anyone reading this for pug/ghetto/medical dramas, well, this post may not be interesting to you. But as I told M, it's still a personal diary/writing exercise that happens to be very public. And it's still written because it's for me.

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Oh, Just Shoot Me Now

MONDAY: Movers arrive in NYC. There is lots of sweating involved. Mommy drives me to DC.

TUESDAY: Movers arrive in DC. I set off my new alarm system multiple times, scaring myself and the puglets senseless. I go set up a new bank account and realize I've left my drivers licsence in NYC while closing THAT bank account. Luckily, this means instead of going to the DMV to renew said lost licsence, I drink many iced coffees while locating the whereabouts of the lost ID and arranging to have it mailed to me. Whilst locating lost ID, I check the balance of the NYC account I was forced to leave open since my landlords have yet to cash my July 1st rent check, and find they have still not cashed it yet tried to cash my August 1st check which they claimed was lost in an office fire, forcing me to put a stop payment on it and issue a new check.

WEDNESDAY: I visit my new doctor, who is thoroughly impressed with all my Itis-es and doles out appropriate referrals and prescriptions. Mommy and I hit many huge chain stores looking for apartment stuff, like towels and flatware, when I realize I can't purchase any of these items because I dont have a debit, PIN card, checks or much cash yet, and have no idea what size lamp I actually need until I've unpacked the many boxes now stacked in my kitchen and living room. The pugs start to love the back garden, and I experience the joy of multiple mosquito bites. I didn't know ghettos had 'squitos. I'm used to rats and roaches, and just so I don't forget the roaches I realize some have hitched a ride to DC in my moving boxes while trying to find out exactly where I packed the clean sheets. Now clean sheets with roachie germs

THURSDAY: The pugs are shuttled to the new vet, I do phone concults for the desserts I'm catering on Saturday, make my shopping list for Friday, and try to recall in exactly WHICh box my pastry implements are located in. My little brother shows up completely drunk to say hi to me, crushes me in a bear hug, and traps me in my apartment for many minutes bawling and kissing me and telling me what a horrible brother he's been, how he's so glad his family is all here now and I've agreed to make his wedding cake, what a wonderful sister I am and how screwed up our family is. We go up to my parents house where he passes out on the sofa, I get some dinner, and my parents go to drive him home before he pukes. Once back, I make myself scarce before the alcholic family drama insues..the one where the alcoholic parents try and decide if the alcoholic child is truly alcoholic or just stupid, and I laugh in nervous hysteria once safely back in my apartment, whilst reminding myself this is why I ran away in the first place. Oh, and he totally did puke while in the car, apparently.

The phone line has been turned on, at last, and I open emails to find a "Dear John" best friend breakup letter citing references from two posts down. WOOHOO! This day keeps getting better!
I LOVE moving!

Saturday, August 13, 2005

Saying Goodbye, Saying Hello

All I know about bitter sweet is when it refers to chocolate.

I do know this is hard.

New York was always the place I was fighting to get to. I had my bags packed before I graduated high school, trying to get as far away from my po-dunk midwestern town and my destructive, insane family as fast as possible. Since I didn't have a passport, it was either California or New York. Winning a scholarship to atheater school here helped me make that decision.

A year into school, my body started to self destruct and I crawled back home, defeated, with odd things coming out of every orifice and some really strange rashes. I spent the next two years living in my parents basement, shuttling to doctors, trying to ignore the community college pamphlets my mother shoved under my door when she wasn't busy counting my medications to make sure I'd taken them.

Eventually the rashes and odd orifice objects subsided a bit, and I promptly packed my bags and medicine botlles and ran away to NYC again, leaving my parents words of "You'll never make'll never be well enough to do anything" rolling with the tumbleweeds. There was more schooling and auditioning and working and trying to be independent self esteem building.

And then at another point, more parts of my body started disintegrating and relocating and becoming posessed by ancient demons, and back to Hicksville I went..seemingly for good. Eventually I learned how to force my body to submission, or at least medicate it into some stage of behaving. I started baking at a local joint, something I'd done in NYC to support myself between acting gigs ( needless to say, I did more baking than acting). I studied school brochures, this time for learning alternative medicine and healing, but that little voice in me kept telling me " Go East, Young Woman"

So yet again, I ran. Determined this time no matter which part of me spontaneously combusted I wasnt going to let my body define me..or make me live in my parents basement!. The last 5 years in this apartment, my mom got crazier and drunker, and slowly better. I stopped the parental interrogations and just sent them my medical bills instead. 9-11 sent me into a tailspin, and I decided to actively to pursue my life and my dreams instead of believeing that at some point my spleen was going to fall out, so why really bother?

And now I'm going back to my family, something I swore I'd never do. But this is the first time I chose to do so, and wasn't forced into it. Yes, my many kidney boo-boos influenced that choice, because after years of having no emotional support system..and claiming I didn't need family was healthy enough to provide me a good one. This time there are no strings, no threats,
no failed dreams. I've accomplished more here, and in my life, than I ever really expected. And starting a new chapter isn't filling me with dread, but excitement and anticipation.

I'm sure I'll get sick of my parents ( I'm renting the apartment attatched to their house, but as they keep exclaiming.."It's NOT the Basement in Po-Dunk!") and my sister and her husband in the suburbs,, heck..even my little brother moved their last year! But they know me as a grown up now, and are actually in awe of my career and accomplishments.

I'm still changing all the locks right when I get there, though.


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How to Backup, Restore and Clone an Ext Partition:

Hot Backup for Frugal Pups
PupsaveBackup backups the PupSave file (this is the file that saves additions and changes to a Frugal Installation).

-Very nice GUI. Easy to use
-Auto-detects the current savefile.
-Generates the backup file name with the date and time appended.
-Checks the available space for the backup file.
-Will not perform the backup if anything is incorrect.
-Displays real-time status and progress feedback.
-Supports 2fs and 3fs save file types.
-date and time as part of the filename
-File system check on the backed up pupsave.
-Lots of built-ins and safety features make it very "oops" proof.

forum thread

Simple Backup/restore script for frugal pups:
forum thread

-Can run without starting X
-Auto-dectects all savefile & backups in /mnt/home
-Date as part of the filename(the author was lazy to inculde time, so make sure you dont overwrite when making 2 backups on the same day)
-Will search(for restore) and save only in /mnt/home unless you edit the script your self.

How to backup savefile when shuting down for frugal:
forum thread

The way it works is this. On shutdown, there is a query asking whether you want to back up the pupsave. If you say "y", it backs it up in a previously specified location; there are as many backups there as you want to specify (for example, if you want the 4 latest backups, when you do a new one the oldest one already there is deleted). After the backup is finished, the shutdown completes. If you say "n", the shutdown simply completes as is normal. If you say nothing (for example, you've walked off after telling Puppy to shut down), after 20 seconds it times out and completes the shutdown without backing up.

Backup savefile every "time interval"(fully automatic/run in background). Also includes backup-on-shutdown: forum post]]
-Put this into /root/Startup, so i wont have to care about backing up again!
-Configure time interval between save.
-Easy to configure, adjust it to your needs.
-Backup on shutdown is more simple that the script above.

Snap2 rotating snapshot backups for Puppy:
forum post

-If you would like to keep 'snapshot's of your files (or, usually, a subset of your files) as they were hours ago, days ago, weeks ago, etc., this program will do that, automatically "spacing out" the backups over time.
-Thanks to the use of hard links, it can keep several gigabytes of files on a one-gig USB drive, without compression. Your backups are accessed as ordinary directories and files.
-It can also do backup to a remote server. Thanks to the hard link trick, duplicate files (from one backup to another) are "copied" without using disk space. And thanks to rsync magic, only changed portions of files are transmitted.
-You access and browse your backups just as you would ordinary directories and files, with any file manager. Despite the huge savings in disk space through the use of hard links, no compression is used. This allows you to easily inspect backup files and compare one version of a file with another.

PUDD copy drive/partition
This can be found under the Utility menu group in most Puppys and can be used for backing up directories/partitions/drives. It has step by step instruction, but it could be good to add some more information there. You may have to start with a live CD (Like if the Puppy save file is on the partition). Some HDDs can be configured so that when choosing a partiton, you wind up with two partitions on 2 rows and can't continue.
Some snags one can experience when backing up a partition to a file:
The partition to be copied must be UNmounted. But when you are choosing when to put the saved zipped file, the partition where you place it must be MOUNTED to find it (go below ROOT, choose MNT and find your partiton. You can change the name MYFILE.IMG to something more descriptive before clicking OK).
Once it's working it says "wait very patiently". Example a 70 GB partition gZIPed took 36 minutes and created a 0,7 Gb file (the original partition was not very full. So it can take MUCH longer)

Hard drive migration
Tutorial - Hard disk migration - Cloning a Windows installation
A small hard drive with a Windows XP installation is successfully upgraded with a much larger hard drive.
The step-by-step instructions are given here...
Tutorial using DriveImage XML

Also on the Wiki
puppy-rsync, gRsync, rsync - utility that provides incremental file transfer
dd - create an image

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Comment by don570
2012-05-05 15:25:55
A simple way to backup your data is Puppy Backup version 1.7
It's a fork of pmirror.

An extra feature: Command lines can be taken
from log and inserted in pschedule to give a scheduled backup

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Women's Volleyball Cruises Past Michigan, 3-1

September 26, 1998

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The Purdue volleyball team started off its Big Ten season on the right foot, defeating Michigan in Ann Arbor 6-15, 15-12, 15-8, 15-8 tonight. This win improves the Boilers' record to 7-3 and makes them a perfect 1-0 in conference play. Michigan is now 8-3 and 0-1 in the Big Ten.

"What a great win," Purdue coach Joey Vrazel said. "We were firing on all cylinders. We blocked well, we hit well and we passed well. Those are the things we know will make us successful."

It took a while for Purdue to get those cylinders firing, though. Despite jumping out to a 2-0 lead in Game 1, the Wolverines responded with a 9-0 run to overtake the advantage at 9-2. Purdue came back to score three straight points to close the gap at 5-9 and came within four again at 6-10. But sloppy play by Purdue and sharp play by Michigan allowed the Wolverines to emerge with the 15-6 victory.

"Certainly we would have liked to have gotten Game 1, but we felt like we were doing some positive things and that we were competing," Vrazel said.

Michigan jumped out to a 2-0 lead in Game 2, but Purdue answered with a 6-0 run to go up 6-2. The Boilers continued to press and took an 8-4 lead on a block solo by Connie Paul. A timeout by the Wolverines, however, stemmed the Purdue tide and resulted in a 3-0 Michigan run. That brought the Maize and Blue to within one at 8-7. Despite that Michigan threat, the Boilers surged forward and took an 11-7 lead on a kill by Colleen Henican. Michigan closed to within one again at 11-10, but Purdue persevered. A block by Jennie Williams and Taryn Catlin, followed by a Michigan error and two kills by Bev Krupa, helped Purdue finish the match on a 4-2 run to exit with the 15-12 win.

The Wolverines took an early 2-0 lead in Game 3, as well, but strong play by Krupa guided Purdue on a 10-1 run which gave the Boilers a 10-3 advantage. Michigan made a run of its own, however, scoring five unanswered points to come within two at 10-8. But strong blocking by Henican and Sarah Emke keyed a 5-0 Boiler spurt and gave Purdue the Game 3 victory at 15-8.

The Boilers brought that momentum into Game 4 and earned an immediate sideout on a kill by Kelly Colangelo. Purdue was ahead 4-1 before Michigan came back to tie things up at 4-all. Both teams fought for the game's next lead and the Wolverines got it on a service ace. But the Boilers posted the game's next six points to go ahead 10-6. Michigan was not ready to call it quits, however, and pulled within two at 10-8 before the Boilers took a timeout to regroup. That respite seemed to help, as Purdue earned a sideout and rallied to score the game's final five points consecutively. The punctuation mark was delivered by Colangelo and Paul, who teamed up on a block to finish the game and match with a 15-8 Game 4 win.

"This is awesome," Henican said. "We knew we could have success against Michigan if we executed well and did the things we are supposed to do and practice every day. All of our hard work and preparation paid off and it's a great feeling. It gives us a lot of confidence going into Michigan State."

The story of the match for Purdue was its blocking. The Boilers tallied 12 total blocks, two shy of a season best. Individually, senior outside hitters Krupa and Henican played with urgency, contributing 20 and 15 kills, respectively. Both Krupa and Henican did the job defensively, as well, as each came up with 17 digs.

"Colleen and Bev really did a job for us," Vrazel said. "They truly showed the talent and capability they have to be impact players not only on this team, but also in this league. We hope they can continue to contribute these kind of numbers as the season progresses."

As a team, Purdue hit at a .246 clip, while holding Michigan to a .201 hitting percentage. That Wolverine effort was 60 points below their average for the season.

Purdue completes its opening conference weekend with a match at Michigan State tomorrow at 6 p.m. The Boilers are looking to complete some unfinished business in East Lansing. Last season, Purdue took the 24th-ranked Spartans to five games before falling.

"We definitely are psyched up for Michigan State," Emke said. "We want that match really bad, especially because of what happened there last year. The win tonight is pumping us up even more."

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Dancing with the Stars Music – The Live Band

I see by the comments that this is a timely article. :-) I highly recommend clicking the link and reading the entire article. Some excerpts from Variety:

Live band gives ‘Dancing’ lift

It’s 9:15 a.m. on a Monday morning on Stage 46 at CBS Television City. Harold Wheeler, music director for ABC’s hit “Dancing With the Stars,” is already well into rehearsal with his 17-piece band and quartet of singers for that night’s live, two-hour show.
He calls out the 3/4-time, country-flavored “Only One Road.” Standing at his keyboard, headphones on, he conducts sans baton while actress Melissa Joan Hart and her pro partner Mark Ballas waltz around the floor while the stage’s mirrored ball spins slowly, showering the room with points of light.

This is the first time that Hart and Ballas have heard what the band will play. For the previous five days, they’ve been rehearsing to a cut-down version of the original 1994 Celine Dion track.

I guess I didn’t realize they were rehearsing with cut downs right up until Monday morning. That would be…stressful for the dancers, I think. The non-pros anyway. The entire article talks about Donny talking to Harold and getting the speed adjusted – and he’s a pro! That would be pretty darn difficult for non-musicians to do, I would think. Make communicating with Harold Wheeler more challenging.

“Music is the essence of everything,” says “Dancing With the Stars” head judge Len Goodman during a break. “Without good music you will never get good dancing. Harold Wheeler and our band are unsung heroes, and the singers are fantastic. Whatever is thrown at them, they can do. Lindy hop, hip-hop, swing, every genre of music, they cope brilliantly.”

In fact, the band consists of some of L.A.’s top studio musicians and singers. Trumpeters Rick Baptist and Warren Luening, saxophonist Dan Higgins, keyboard player Tom Ranier and drummer Ralph Humphrey are among the town’s first-call players. Vocalists Darryl Phinnessee (veteran of multiple Michael Jackson Jackson tours), Carmen Carter, Beverley Staunton and Antonio Sol are not just good singers, says Wheeler, “they’re great singers.”

I think the band is great – but from time to time the singers really butcher a song, sad to say. Of course, everyone has an off night or an off performance. I guess I also never really gave them (and the band as a whole) credit for having to perform multiple genres in a given week – that is challenging.

Senior producer Erin O’Brien creates a list of “well over 1,000 songs” that the staff attempts to clear with music publishers. “And out of every 100 songs,” she says, “I may not even hear back on half. Of the rest, I may end up getting denials on half. Some artists don’t agree to the fee, some prefer that their versions get heard, and some simply don’t do business with reality shows, period.”

When the celebrities are booked, “I ask all of my dancers for song ideas and suggestions,” she adds. “We tell them, ‘tell us anything you could ever possibly want to dance to.’ Not a lot of them end up working,” she concedes.

Once tunes are cleared for use, music editor Graham Jarvis – working in the U.K. and using the internet – decides whether they are appropriate for tangos or waltzes or any of the several categories, and then creates edited versions of the songs (anywhere from 60 to 100 seconds long). It is those versions that the dancers rehearse to, until the Monday morning sessions with the live band.

I find the whole “process” of making a list of songs through the final rehearsals with the live band to be absolutely fascinating. I guess I never thought about how much has to go into just the music portion of the program. Of course I knew the Pros gave ideas and they either got cleared for use or not, but the rest of it is new and interesting information!!

I think that I vote to keep the live band – it does add an element to the show that other shows don’t have – although I think American Idol how has live music (sometimes).


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Pittsburgh Holds Rally For Dancing With The Stars 12 Champs Kym Johnson And Hines Ward

Today Hines and Kym brought the Mirror Ball Trophy to Pittsburgh so the city could celebrate their Dancing With The Stars Season 12 victory. Hundreds of fans showed up outside the City-County building at Noon in Pittsburgh while Kym and Hines gave a speech and danced. They had fun with the crowd by holding dance contests and more. Details below along with a fun message from Hines. Go to WTAE to see lots of cool video coverage. Lots of fun photos of the event HERE. These two are so cute and it’s good to see them together again.

Johnson danced and twirled a Terrible Towel on stage, and she helped her partner judge a quick dancing contest with three couples who had posted their own videos on YouTube earlier in the week.

All the finalists got to have their photos taken with Ward, Johnson and the Mirror Ball Trophy.

Ward and Johnson also whipped out their phones and shot some video of the crowd for themselves.

Ward thanked everyone who watched the show and voted for him and Johnson to win. He said they tried to use black and gold colors in their outfits as much as possible because “I just really, really wanted to put the city of Pittsburgh on the map and let everybody know that we are the city of champions.”

He also had a separate message — and some words of advice — for the show’s male viewers.

“I know it took a lot for you guys to watch ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ and I apologize if the wives make you take dancing lessons now,” Ward said. “You know what? But do it, because a happy woman is a happy household, so go out there and dance with them.”

And on a side note….check out the new purchase Hines bought for his Mom this past week! Isn’t this cool? He’s so good to her!!


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2013-01-10 / Obituaries

Fred Sayegh

April 20, 1932 – January 5, 2013

The Sayegh Family is grieving at the loss of their beloved patriarch. A loving husband, father and grandfather, Fred Sayegh, will be missed by his family members and dear friends. Mr. Sayegh was born on April 20, 1932, to Mowfek Hwamil and Khazna (Khoury) Sayegh in Ermenin, Jordan. On August 20, 1960, he married Nawal Zeidan in Yonkers, NY.

Together with wife, Nawal, they raised 7 children, and ran the Court Restaurant in Carmel from the 1970’s which is now the Carmel Diner. He retired in 1992 to spend time with his family and second home in Florida.

As a businessman, Fred helped build the Carmel community and was active in the Mason Lodge, Knights of Columbus, and Chamber of Commerce. Fred was a member of the St. George Orthodox Church in Danbury.

Fred is survived by his wife of 52 years, Nawal Sayegh, his seven children, daughter, Rema Sayegh, daughter, Linda Roberti and son-law Scott Roberti, with Joseph, Nicholas and Christopher, son, David Sayegh, and daughter-in-law Manal Sayegh, with William, Matthew and Layla, son, William G. Sayegh, and daughter-in-law, Mona Sayegh, with Samantha, Jessica, Kevin and David, daughter, Diane Jacobs and son-in-law, David Jacobs, with Natalie, Olivia and David, daughter, Sandra Ennabi, and son-in-law Haitham Ennabi, with Emily, Megan and Lauren, and daughter, Jacqueline Annabi and son-in-law, Majed Annabi, with Andrew, Vincent, Alexis and Kristen. Fred is also survived by his two sisters Hind and Nouha who both live in California, as well as dozens of nieces and nephews in New York, California and Jordan.

Fred was a wonderful grandfather to his twenty grandchildren, they were all deeply adored by Fred. He loved his wife, children and grandchildren completely and unconditionally. He was generous, loving, and nurturing, with a heart of gold that was precious and sincere.

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A viewing was held on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. at Cargain Funeral Home, and Wednesday, January 9, 2013 from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. A funeral service will be held today, Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. at St. George Orthodox Church, 125 Kohanza Street, Danbury, CT 06811. Interment to follow at Raymond Hill Cemetery, 165 Route 52, Carmel, NY 10512.

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Purpose:  To assist in the professional development of Prairie View A&M University Business Affairs’ staff members.

Who can borrow materials from this library?

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  1. 8 Winning to Creating a Successful Special Event, Dwayne Ashley and Carol Campbell (Book)
  2. 67 Presentation Secrets to Won Any Audience, Dianne Booher (Book)
  3. 501 Ideas for Your Compliance and Ethics Program, Joseph Murphy (Book)
  4. Academically Adrift Limited Learning on College Campuses, Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa
  5. African American Art, The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of (Book)
  6. America and the New Global Economy, Taught by: Professor Timothy Taylor (CD)
  7. An Analyst’s Guide to Government Financial Statements, Dean Michael Mead (Book)
  8. Assessing the Impact of the Spellings Commission: The Message, the Messenger, and the Dynamics of Change in Higher Education, Brend D. Ruben, Ph.D., Laurie Lewis, Ph.D., Louise Sandmeyer, M.A. with Travis Russ, Ph.D., Stacy Smulowitz, M.A., Kate Immordino, Ph.D. (Book)
  9. Become a Better You, Joel Osteen (CD)
  10. Black Boy,Richard Wright (Book)
  11. Boldly Sustainable, Peter Bardaglio and Andrea Putman (NACUBO) (Book)
  12. Budgeting, Nils H. Rasmussen, Christopher J. Eichorn (Book)
  13. Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer’s Craft, Taught by: Professor Brooks Landon (CD)
  14. The Business Case for Renewable Energy: A Guide for Colleges and Universities, Andrea Putman & Michael Phillips (Book)
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  16. California System, The Governing and Management Principles and Their Link to Academic Excellence, David P. Gardner, Ph.D. (book)
  17. Collaborative Strategic Planning in Higher Education, Patrick Sanaghan NACUBO (Book)
  18. College University Budgeting, 2nd Edition NACUBO (Book)
  19. College & University Budgeting: An Introduction for Faculty and Academic Administrators, Larry Goldstein (Book)
  20. Communicating with Poise and Power (2 CD’s)
  21. Compensation 11th edition, George Milkovich, Jerry Newman and Berry Gerhart (2 Books)
  22. Discovering the Soul of Service, Leonard L. Berry (Book)
  23. Economics, 3rd Edition, Taught by: Professor Timothy Taylor (CD)
  24. Education for Judgment, Christensen Garvin Sweet (Book)
  25. Educational Policy and The Law, Yudof, Kirp, Levin, Moran (Book)
  26. Effective Compliance System, David B Crawford, Charles G. Chaffin, Scott Scarborough (Book)
  27. Empowering Yourself, Harvey J. Coleman (Book)
  28. Essentials of Accounting for Governmental and Not-for-Profit Organizations, 5th Edition John H. Engstrom, Leon E. Hay (Book)
  29. Excel 2007 for Dummies, Greg Harvey, PhD (Book)
  30. Financial Planning Toolbox – A Companion to The Small College Guide to Financial Health: Beating the Odds, Michael K. Townsley, Ph. D. (CD)
  31. First Things First, Stephen R. Covey (Book)
  32. Getting Past No: Negotiating Your Way From Confrontation To Cooperation, William Ury (Book)
  33. Getting To Yes Negotiation Agreement Without Giving In, Roger Fisher and William Ury
  34. Global Marketing for the Digital Age, Bill Bishop (Book)
  35. Good To Great, Jim Collins (CD)
  36. Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America, Thomas L. Friedman, Read by Oliver Wyman (CD)
  37. How to Excel as a Team Leader, SkillPath Publications (2 CD’s)
  38. How to Stand Out as a Manager or Supervisor, SkillPath Publications ( 2 CD’s)
  39. How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, Michael J. Galb (Book)
  40. Leadership Lessons of the Navy Seals, Jeff Cannon (CD)
  41. Leavin’ a Testimony, Patsy Cravens (Book)
  42. Management Control in Nonprofit Organizations, Sixth Edition, Anthony Young (Book)
  43. Managing and Collecting Student Accounts and Loans, David  R. Glezerman & Dannis DeSantis (Book)
  44. Managing The Non-Profit Organization, Peter F. Drucker (Book)
  45. Managing Unacceptable Employee Behavior, SkillPath Publications ( 2 CD’s)
  46. MBA in a Box (Practical Ideas from the Best Brains in Business) by:  Joel Kurtzman with Glenn Rifkin & Victoria Griffith
  47. Meaning from Data: Statistics Made Clear, Taught by: Professor Michael Starbird (DVD)
  48. Measuring Institutional Performance in Higher Education, Edited by William F. Massy and Joel W. Meyerson (Book)
  49. On Becoming a Productive University, Edited by James E. Groccia and Judith E. Miller (Book)
  50. Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education, Edited by Peter Hernon and Robert E. Dugan (Book)
  51. Presentation and Analysis of Financial Management Information, 2nd Edition, Lay Kenton (Book Project Management – Made Easy, Entrepreneur Press and Sid Kemp
  52. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape our Decisions, Dan Ariely (Book)
  53. Protecting your Company’s Intellectual Property, Deborah E. Bouchoux (Book)
  54. Questions of Value, Taught by: Professor Patrick Grim (CD)
  55. Ratio Analysis in Higher Education, Prager, McCarthy and Seally, LLC (Book)
  56. Should I Stay or Should go?, Tara Schulstad Sciscoe (Book)
  57. So, What’s Your Point?, James C. Wetherbe, Bond Wetherbe (Book)
  58. Stepping as Forward as Stewards of Place, AASCU (book)
  59. Strategic Financial Analysis for Higher Education Sixth Edition, SkillPath Publications (Book)
  60. Strategic Financial Challenges for Higher Education: How to Achieve Quality, Accountability, and Innovation, Lucie Lapovsky, Donna Klinger Editors (Book)
  61. Strategic Planning in Higher Education: A Guide for Leader-Member, Sherrie A. Tromp and Brent D. Ruben (Book)
  62. Strengths Finder 2.0, Tom Rath (Book)
  63. Student-Centered Financial Services: Innovations That Succeed, Edited by Nancy Sinsabaugh (Book)
  64. Supervisory Solutions ( 6 skills you need to succeed in management) , Janet Kirch ( DVD)
  65. The 7 Great Truths About Successful Women, Marion Luna Brem (Book)
  66. The 10 Commandments of Money, Liz Weston (CD)
  67. The Effective Executive, Peter F. Drucker (Book)
  68. The Elements of Style, William Strunk, Jr., and E.B. White (Book)
  69. The First-Time Manager, Loren B. Belker and Gary S. Topchik (Book)
  70. The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, Patrick Lencioni (Book)
  71. The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary, Mark Sanborn (CD)
  72. The Investment Answer, Daniel C. Goldie , CFA, CEP and Gordon S. Murray (CD)
  73. The Language of Success, Tom Sant (Book)
  74. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (Unabridged CD)
  75. The Little Blue Book, Steve Lance, Jeff Woll (Book)
  76. The Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell (CD)
  77. The Quiet Crisis, Peter Smith (Book)
  78. The Prairie View Story (DVD)
  79. The Seven-Step Path to Becoming Truly Organized, Marilyn Paul, PH.D. (Book)
  80. The Small College Guide to Financial Health: Beating the Odds, Michael K. Townsley, Ph.D, (Book)
  81. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, Alice Schroeder, Read by Richard McGonagle (CD)
  82. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (Book)
  83. The Total Money Makeover, Dave Ramsey (CD)
  84. The Twenty-First Century, Thomas L. Friedman, Read by Oliver Wyman (CD)
  85. The Unnatural Act of Management, Everett T. Suters (Book)
  86. The Unthinkable, Amanda Ripley (Book)
  87. The World is Flat, A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas L. Friedman, Read by Oliver Wyman (CD)
  88. Tough Choices  A Memoir, Carly Fiorina (CD)
  89. Treasure Hunt, Michael J. Silverstein & John Butman (CD)
  90. Walk the Walk…And Get the Results You Want, Eric Harvey and Al Lucia (Book)
  91. What Are the Chances? Probability Made Clear, Taught by: Professor Michael Starbird (DVD)
  92. What Leaders Need to Know and Do: A Leadership Competencies Scorecard, Bren D. Ruben, Ph.D. (Book)
  93. What the Dog Saw, Malcolm Gladwell (10 Cd’s)
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The Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation (NDLO) has agreed to a four-year contract agreement with Pratt & Whitney for a performance-based Material Management Program (MMP) to support the Royal Norwegian Air Force's F100-PW-220E engine fleet. The contract supports material forecasting, item repair management and provisioning of operational, intermediate, and depot-level spare parts. This marks the second MMP deal Pratt & Whitney has signed with the NDLO, and it is structured to support Norway's F-16 fleet readiness objectives for the next four years. Pratt & Whitney is a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) company.

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Rodeo team shines again in short round

Mesalands Community College rodeo team members made a good short round showing in steer wrestling and team roping during the recently held Snyder, Texas Intercollegiate Rodeo.

Steer Wrestler Justin Price finished the long round in seventh place out of 48 contenders. He went on to place sixth in the short round and fifth overall.

Team Ropers Reynaldo Maestas and Justin Price completed the long round in fifth place out of a field of 110 teams. They went on to finish in third place in the short round and fourth in the average.

Other team members placed well in the long rounds but fell shy of qualifying for short round competition.

They included Steer Wrestlers Coty Benavides (15th place) and Buck Nelson (16th place). Saddle Bronc riders Mattthew Antone and Chance Towner finished in 12th and 14th place respectively in the long round out of a field of 38 riders.

Team Ropers Terrel Littleton and Justin Price came close with a 13th place finish in the long round.

“It is exciting to see this Mesalands Team repeatedly showing up in the short round and making a good showing there as well,” said Rodeo Coach Danny Garcia.


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Some Interesting and Useful Weather Satellite Links

The Dallas Remote Imaging Group (DRIG) Web Site

The DRIG homepage has many weather and imaging related links as well as information about DRIG itself. DRIG provides thousand of weather images, 7 gigabytes of ham radio, NASA, space, astronomy, DSP, etc., related files as well as daily NASA news updates, keplerian tracking elements. DRIG also provides US weather radar summaries and weather maps from around the country.

Woodhouse Communications Web Site

Woodhouse Communications, publishers of VIEW the Earth From Space, is dedicated to the discipline of earth and atmosphere imaging. They manufacture hardware, publish books and magazines, and offer custom design and construction services for imaging facilities.

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Choir lining up. (32K)

Looking good. (28K)

Colorful Choir. Click for page of more colors!

Trio. (37K) Photo by Mike Byers

Ann, solo at Mary's house (39K)

Tree. (27K) Photo by Mike Byers

Choir, 1998. (50K) Photo by Mike Byers

After a while, we get tired...
...and things get a little crazy.
Are you sure this is the correct headpiece?
Are you really going to put that on the Web? (37K)

1999 LCT choir in tree. (82K)
1999 LCT choir in tree. (80K)
Break time. (33K)

Choir Director Allen Case and Drama Director Don Patterson. (73K)
Burt Daugherty, Allen Case, Billy Cofer, Don Patterson. (55K)
Allen presenting the drama cast. (43k)

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