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Things Not Welcome In The 06/07 Season
It's that time of year again, the end of the season. Another excruciating six months of watching the same videos over and over again and posing airs on the living-room carpet. While usually we take this time to tell you what we think is going to happen next season, this year we decided to change it up. We're not going to predict the future, but tell you what we hope not to see in the coming year. All the stuff that made us want to puke in 2005/06. So, it's basically just another reason for our bitter, dead-end-job-having asses to bitch some more. But that's what you're here for, ain't it?
Boys Dressed Like Girls
What the hell is this all about? If getting dressed means anything more than sniffing your pants and putting them on-you're taking too long. Ohhh, and if you're one of them types who has taken to buying your pants in the girls' section-you're not Mick Jagger, no one wants to see your package.
Girls Dressed Like Boys
It would be just our luck that there're finally some beautiful women in the snowboard world, but they all dress like food-court gangsters. Nothing is less attractive then a girl sagging her pants with a visor beanie and a waist full of danglers. C'mon, we know that you're getting away from the sex-object thing, but it's getting a little outta hand.
Another Picture Of Chad's Gap
We get it-it's big. Enough already. Isn't a large chunk of the world covered with snow? We find it hard to believe that with all the resources and money that's getting pumped into snowboarding, you people can't find your way out of Utah-new jumps, please.
On-Hill Sagging
You're in the snow, dipshit! Snow is made from water, which gets you wet. That's why we wear "waterproof" clothing. If you want your ass soaking wet, then just wear boxers and nothing else. And another thing, it makes your style look awful-you look like a snowboarding Maggie Simpson.
Frontside Boardslides
Is there a rail left that hasn't been front-boarded? Bury that trick with the spaghetti air. 'Nough said.
"Artist Series" Anything
Who cares if the inside of your boot liners have graffiti from COPE, you ain't never going to see them. None of us can remember the last time we were doing a frontside air in the pipe and thought, "This Andy Warhol topsheet sure does help me grab!" Make the boards worth a damn and the people will buy them.
Olympic Fever
Good god, not this again. Here come all the companies that couldn't give a shit about snowboarding for the last two years to hop on the bandwagon in hopes of another "American sweep." Just wait, there're going to be so many Shaun White interviews coming out, you're going to throw up in your mouth at the sight of them.
Ads Involving Half-Naked Women
Dear Ad Executive,
Before placing an ad containing a girl in bikini/thong underwear, please be aware that this has absolutely nothing to do with snowboarding whatsoever. In doing so you're not only insulting the people you're trying to sell to by assuming they'll fall for your sophomoric crap, but you're making snowboarders in general look like a bunch of sex-crazed goons. Grow up.
The Angry Interns
P.S. Talking to someone who snowboards before placing the ad might help.
Idiots Who Say Global Warming Isn't Happening
Guess what, fellas, it wasn't raining in the mountains twenty years ago! Pull your head outta your ass and realize that if we don't make some changes, there isn't going to be any snowboarding-or snow, for that matter-in 30 years.


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Kathleen Beckmann started the new year by closing her real estate business, Kathleen Beckmann Real Estate, at her house on Essex Street at the east end of downtown Montauk and joining the office of Town and Country Real Estate on Main Street.
When Judi Desiderio, who owns Town and Country, opened the Montauk location a little over two years ago, she said Monday that the first person she called to join her team was Ms. Beckmann. "I wasn't ready," Ms. Beckman said.
Ms. Beckmann's children, who were visiting for the holidays, made a ceremony of her closing the office by taking down her business sign, which hung on an old-fashioned signpost, and placing a handmade sign on her front door reclaiming the former office space as their mother's dining room.
But, of course, the day they left it became an office again, albeit temporarily, as she organized the final details of closing a business.
Town and Country has over 125 agents in eight offices between Westhampton Beach and Montauk and on the North Fork, and Ms. Desiderio visits all eight branches on a regular basis.
The agents who work for Town and Country are all independent, Ms. Beckmann said in her dining room while sipping a cup of tea. That means she can make her own hours, work whatever days she wishes, and even utilize the firm's computer program to work from home, she said.
"I just needed some time off; it's time for me to slow down," she said, noting that because her business office was in her house, she worked seven days a week.
When she initially opened her real estate office in 1997 all the details "magically" fell into place, she said. Dave Webb, who owned the house, suggested she buy it and use the home office from which his father, Richard Webb, ran an architectural firm. A friend who was upgrading her computer gave Ms. Beckmann her old one. And she was off.
She had started selling real estate in 1984 working from the Martha Greene Real Estate office in Montauk. The economy was booming when she went out on her own and she built up a loyal clientele over the years, she said. "We've had a great run."
While considering Ms. Desiderio's offer, she made sure it was contingent on the fact that her employees also be welcomed. Some of them accepted but others went their own way. "That was important to me, to keep the working family together," she said.
Her new office is just a block away. "I can walk to it," Ms. Beckmann said. And with Town and Country's longer reach, she said, "I'll be able to serve my clients better."


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More Hard-Bodied "Red Hot" Gingers Join Photographer Thomas Knight's Campaign Against Stigma
Back in October we got all hot and bothered over our first peek at photographer Thomas Knight's upcoming "Red Hot" exhibit. Now, as the show nears (it kicks off December 16 in London), Knight is giving us more drool-soliciting imagery to help dismantle the stigma that red-haired men face.
"[Gingers] are completely emasculated and desexualized in popular culture," says Knight.
"The main thing for me is the huge polarization between the way our society perceives ginger men and ginger women," he adds. "You can name successful redheaded women in Hollywood. But with men, once you've said Damian Lewis, you're stumped. There's got to be a reason for that, because genetically it should be equal. But it hasn't been allowed to happen. So I think the whole gingerism thing is a stealth form of acceptable racism that goes on in boardrooms, in authors' minds. Look at Harry Potter – the redheads are the poor, weak family, the buffoons. If Harry Potter had been ginger, that would have been a different story."
A few more teases of the "Red Hot" show and it seems like Knight has really emphasized his point:
The problem with thomas knight's ( no "caps" on purpose! ) so-called "red hot campaign" is that not all red headed bucks are GAY!!! Yet thomas knight seems to believe that canonizing all red-haired men as "gay" is a great way to fight red hair's "stigma!!!" ??? Even in the "porn industry" ( which is INDEED still run, owned, and "governed" by none other than the Italian Mafioso - and we all know how the Italian Cosa Nostra feels about "red heads", don't we!!! ), red haired stags like myself can only "get into the biz" if they are GAY!!! And even THEN, they usually get "rejected" before they even get in the door!!! You see, the way the Mafia sees it, red hair and freckles are instant "disqualifiers!!!" Even in the "Red Hair" section of any given porn website, you'll quickly notice that there are no red haired men ( except in a few GAY flicks, ofcourse! ) featured. And dam few ( if any ) of the featured red haired GIRLS are actual "red-heads!!! ( True "Gingers!!!" ) most of them are brunettes who have DYED their hair red!!! And that DOESN'T COUNT!!! Yeah, we all know how "The Family" ( The Mafioso ) FEELS about us "fire-caps" and "blood knots", don't we!!!
The sheer raw "injustice" of it all is enough to make just about ANYBODY'S blood boil!!! It also makes me want to start my OWN primarily "heterosexual" porn site featuring Ginger haired men AND women!!! Other folks would be welcome to "join in." And in the "porn biz", everybody has to have a perfectly formed penis. Man, once the smoke finally clears, only about 5 out of every 100 people will have "made the cut!!!" There are SO many people who are systematically "excluded!" This includes any and all "disabled" people, who may otherwise never get the chance to experience the sexual freedom so many of us take for granted!!! There's no excuse for ANY of this frequently encountered discrimination!"
My partner (future Husband) is a ginger. The stories he has told me about his childhood and the pains growing up a ginger along with the teasing he had to endure were absolutely horrifying.
Not only did he have to go through the teasing of being a ginger but throw the gay thing in on top of that!!
Yeah, there is a problem here that needs to be addressed and brought forward.
Thank you Thomas Knight for your beautiful art and for bringing this type of bullying into the forefront.
Hmmm. I know a few people that absolutely love red heads... to a point where it might be considered a fetish! However, I also know they aren't everyone's cup of tea...I didn't realize it was a stima. For me personally, attractiveness depends on the guy/girl and how they carry themselves... not the color of their hair. I don't know a lot of redheads, but the ones I know are all pretty cute. :)
Definition of activism: Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental change, or stasis.
if you don't think there is stereotypes or stigmas about redheads then you haven't been paying attention. And I can't believe so many people are mad at Instinct for covering this...ever watched an episode of Glee??? They did an entire episode on red heads and the stigmas that they face.
if you're going to take a stance, please do. But be educated and don't call out things like racism and bigotry where there is none. It makes your argument invalid and you sound ill informed.
What a load of bollocks. Why don't you talk about something important? Like the stigma against people with HIV/AIDS, against Trans people, against blacks or Asians. No wonder there's so much hate against the community, we're too damn shallow and superficial. Get over it gingers, Ron Weasley isn't your champion.
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. There does very much exist stigma against red heads. I suffered a lot growing up with other kids shouting abuse at me and on several occasions even being very violent towards me. I take great offense to you saying that this sort of thing doesn't happen. Just because it doesn't affect you doesn't mean it isn't real.
I don't know where people are getting off saying that there is no stigma against redheads. Comments saying that this article is disgusting for trying to defend a group of people is just cruel. My best friends 8 year old daughter tried cutting all her hair off to avoid being ridiculed for being a redhead. Ignoring an issue, or degrading it's importance, doesn't mean it stops existing. That's just perpetuating further acceptance of a hateful, discriminatory mindset. Choosing to accept every person and treat them equally should actually mean everyone.
There is a stigma: many sperm banks won't even accept redheads. And in Asia and Africa, redheads have been ostracized and/or attacked. Do your research before speaking out of turn. (For the record, I'm only "half" ginger: brown hair and red beard. True redheads won't give me the title, and many think I dye my hair. Yes, it's a bit silly.)
Um excuse me your defending redheads then your being rude to fat people Hi... Im fat and I find your fat ass ugly fuck rant offensive! Fat people dont like to be called fat ass you dumb fuck we are part of the gay community too! I dont love being 6ft 307pds but its a reality just like being a redhead can we please just try and get along and not be rude assholes that diss others with our comments?
I think the attitude to red-headed men and women is totally sh1t these days. They cop it bad, it's absolutely disgusting some of the things people say about them. So what if they have a lighter complexion and red hair? Who gives a sh1t? I've had two redhead girlfriends and they were both gorgeous!
And I'd like to add - the way the term ginger is used these days is like the N word for redheads. Totally uncool!
PS - and who says there aren't any good looking redheaded boys? Michael C Hall anyone?
In hollywood, no actor was bigger than Van Johnson, in the 40s and 50s and broadway in the 80s,with La Cage au Folles, read up his bio, lived his last years alone in Beekman Place and was the most elegant American boy ever; Yes, VAN JOHNSON.....see ''Miracle in the Rain' with Deborah Kerr; 'In the good old Summertime' with Judy Garland, see 'Battleground' "Go for Broke', see 'The SState of the Union" with Hepburn and Tracy, see all the big MGM films
There's plenty of stigma about Blacks and Asians, but since you are so busy keeping your magazine lily white, you tackle a stigma over....redheads?!
Seriously, Instinct. There's a reason REAL gay men don't like things like you. And shallowness, racism, and above all, AVOIDANCE are NOT admirable traits.
Amen!!! Geez I mean I love instinct but you nailed it. I hate when peor in the LGBT community don't really get involved in true activism but when they attempt it's stuff like this. I'll admit the boys are cute and this may have been a better article if written as why we love redheads or something else... But stigma of redheads?!?!


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The National Association of Parliamentarians Tennessee Beta Unit will meet Monday, Sept. 23, at 5:45 p.m. at the Poplar-White Station branch library, 5094 Poplar Ave. Call 324-5184.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center will host Line Dancing for BLUES, in recognition of Infant Mortality Awareness Month, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the student alumni center, 800 Madison Ave. The event will include a line dance-a-thon, and information on infant mortality and the BLUES Project. Suggested donation is $5. Visit uthsc.edu/blues for details.
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Just ordered a LeighLo 66" / 15 degree under quilt in black and green. Can't wait , I have read a lot of great thîngs about her quilts, just had to get one.
Just ordered a LeighLo 66" / 15 degree under quilt in black and green. Can't wait , I have read a lot of great thîngs about her quilts, just had to get one.
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Welcome infected Nashville noobie! We do a lot of hammock backpacking out of the Nashville area. Jump right in, the water's fine.
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"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims." --Harriet Woods
The only treatment is to buy more hammock stuff and hang out in the woods. There is no known cure. Welcome to the forums from SC.
Keep movin', keep believing and enjoy the journey!
I, like you, am new to hammocking and infected. Besides a hammock, my first purchase was an underquilt. After the first time I used it, I can say, unequivocally, " I will never dwell on the ground again." Treat the symptoms with diy anything, new gear, and relaxation.
Welcome from Florida.
Man, can I relate to this! My wife is "surprising" me with a WBBB & I just placed an order for a WL tarp & skins, & some Dutch gear... Before the hammock is even here! I want to be able to try it out the first night it's here (plus it needs to be dialed in for a late-april weekend trip)!
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The Greenfield Guards were a militia unit based in Greenfield, Massachusetts, officially designated Company G of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Regiment. They were a volunteer unit that had long awaited service. When the war came they were ready to serve but the call for service did not come until June, 1861. Between April and June they were given uniforms through a grant from a leading citizen of Greenfield, Henry Clapp. Prior to that, they had drilled in civilian clothes. The new uniforms were gray in color rather than blue. In the early months of the war, there was a great deal of confusion as to uniforms, and units often fought in all varieties and colors of uniform. When the unit was sent to Washington, DC, as a part of the Army of the Potomac, they were issued the regulation blue uniforms and their gray uniforms were put into storage. These uniforms were later captured by Confederates under the command of Gen. Jubal Early in 1864. The Guards served for three years and fought in most of the battles of the Army of the Potomac. By the time they returned to Greenfield they had lost around fifteen percent of their number.
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- Duration of movie : 130
- Societies of production : Universal Pictures
- Tagline : Get the Fifth Gear.
- Movie Genre : Action, Crime, Thriller,
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- Original title : Fast Five
- Release Date of film : 2011-04-28
- Status : Released
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- Languages spoken : English
- Vote Count : 472
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Posted: Tue 13 Aug 2013, 15:53
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How to save settings with a diskless client?
Subject description: Keeping settings when booting over PXE
I have successfully booted the Puppy-derivative "Browserlinux" over PXE on a diskless client following the guide found here:
But on each boot, I am presented with the settings option, and on each shutdown, the system tells me, that settings were not saved. (Naturally, since the client is diskless)
My workaround has been setting up a browserlinux and copying the pup save.2sf file from there, but with no success.
My first try was copying the file into the newinitrd.gz-file as was done with the pupXXX.sfs-file in the tutorial above, but this shows up nowhere in the system.
My second try was unsquashing the pupXXX.sfs-file, putting the pupsave.2fs-file in /mnt/home and resquashing the file system, but this left me with a kernel error.
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Posted: Tue 13 Aug 2013, 16:44
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BTW - I only want to save settings once. I just want to boot up the same session on every startup.
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Hi Benno_fra_DK; The Save file does need to be inside the initrd.gz file with the SFS file.
This makes for a large initrd.gz file, maybe 200 MB with a 256 MB Save file.
If the browser is setup to not cache anything, then the Save can be smaller.
Puppy`s boot code needs to be modded, a few folks here know how to do it.
Puppy only searches for the Save file on partitions, not in the init-ramdrive.
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Posted: Thu 15 Aug 2013, 04:18
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Hi and thanx for the reply.
Since I am booting browserlinux and I only need the savefile to store the basic setup(internationalization and standard homepage) once, my pupsave-file can be relatively small(around 32 mb).
In /etc/rd.d/ there is a file called "PUPSTATE", that seems to define where to look for the savefile.
I need to be able to put my pupsave.2sf file somewhere puppy can find after boot, and I also need to edit this PUPSTATE-file.
I think maybe the kernel panic comes from my resquashing the filesystem.
What are the correct parameters to do that?
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Posted: Thu 15 Aug 2013, 09:07
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Once you figure out the Save file (I can't help you there,) you need to tell your web browser to put its cache in /tmp so the browser's cache doesn't fill up the Save file. In SeaMonkey, that's done in Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Cache.
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Good tip Flash; That was my repeat warning too.
Benno_fra_DK; The PUPSTATE file is written after the Save file`s mounted.
This is way it can be difficult to modify Puppy`s boot code.
It uses variables all through the boot scrips, if you mod. the scripts,
then the variables must be filled or corrected, or Puppy won`t boot.
In Puppy-5.2.8 initrd.gz file, the Save file mount command is at line 1120.
And the PUPSAVE variable is set at lines 624, 771, 786, 886.
And in Puppy-racy-5.5 it`s at line 1199.
And it`s PUPSAVE variable is set at lines 344, 833, 848, 948.
As you can see, modding Puppy`s boot code is fraught with peril.
Best idea is to do it right and include the init-ramdrive as part of the search.
This would be even more work of course, but it wouldn`t be code hacking.
# Let me get this straight, you want to load the Save file in ram,
so that you can configure and copy of it, so to use the copy for booting?
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Posted: Thu 15 Aug 2013, 14:23
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This stuff keeps getting more hairy/scary...
What I really want is to boot the same setup every time I start browserlinux from pxe.
Maybe this can be done with this hack(then scr*w the savefile):
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Posted: Thu 15 Aug 2013, 16:14
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Yes, Puppy`s Save file and main SFS file are unioned into one file system.
So if you boot your Puppy, then set it up how you want it..
Then make and run this script it`ll join the Save and SFS files in a new SFS file.
The nice part is, it won`t mess with the original SFS file.
So you can experiment and make many SFS files until it`s right.
Keep a copy of the original main SFS file, rename it: (filename).sfs_ORG
Then rename the new file by taking the "_NEW" off the end of the file name.
Then put it where the original SFS file was and boot it.
# NOTE: You`ll need to do the file renaming and moving while booted to a different Puppy.
Try this script and let me know how it works. Be sure the script has exec. properties.
#########Join Puppy`s Save and main SFS files in a new SFS file.
##### Terry Becker SunBurnt Aug. 15 2013
##### First setup the running Puppy how you want it, then run this script.
##### It will make a new Puppy main SFS file in /tmp with "_NEW" at the end.
echo -e '\n### Joining Save and SFS files into new SFS file. Please wait...\n'
sfsFN=`losetup /dev/loop2 |sed 's#^.*/##'`
squashfs /initrd/pup_rw /initrd/pup_ro2 /tmp/$sfsFN'_NEW'
echo -e '\n### Done joining Save and SFS files into: /tmp/$sfsFN'_NEW'\n'
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Posted: Thu 15 Aug 2013, 16:24
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This seems like another way to remaster Puppy. Or maybe a poor man's remaster? But it won't solve the problem of Save files if more than one person boots the same iso from the network, will it? Or do I completely misunderstand what you're doing?
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Posted: Thu 15 Aug 2013, 16:43
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No Save file needed at all. The setup boot makes a Save file to be arranged.
Then the script makes a new SFS file from both the Save and main SFS files.
After that the PXE boot loads Puppy and it`s configured modded SFS file.
As more configuration changes are made, just make a new SFS file.
# Realized a full remaster script may be a better choice here.
Puppy has a flag file for Xwin failure at boot, there may be others too.
This will show the [ Ignore ] [ Ram Boot ] options at each boot.
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Posted: Thu 15 Aug 2013, 17:39
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Hi sunburnt,
Seems a simple, yet ingenious, idea - and especially (for my needs) if it might be adapted to merge multi-session-CD/DVD date files with the main sfs - since it would probably reduce my boot time by some 30 seconds.
My regards
PS Am I right to think that Frugal users could easily remove built-in packages (e.g. a browser they don't want) before making the new sfs?
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Posted: Thu 15 Aug 2013, 18:30
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Great idea sunburnt. I'm keen to give it a try. Just a question though - presumably there is a risk of including critical or personal info by doing this method - such as wireless router passwords, or browser history, that sort of thing?? Do you have any tips to ensure the user can include / exclude exactly what they want?
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greengeek; First boot, do a shutdown and make Save file ( as always ).
Second boot configure settings and apps. and run script.
For a new "clean" SFS file, boot to ram, configure, new Save file at shutdown.
Most of what needs to be in the SFS file is in /root, passwords are in /etc.
Apps can have config. file anywhere, so it`s a real task to track them all.
Tracking each item is a thankless job I wouldn`t wish on anyone.
# Realized a full remaster script may be a better choice here.
Puppy has a flag file for Xwin failure at boot, there may be others too.
This will show the [ Ignore ] [ Ram Boot ] options at each boot.
Full remaster scripts must "patch" all of Puppy`s checks. Yep a can of worms.
# Many remaster scripts have been written over the years, start your search.
Try the Puppy menu remaster.
Menu > Setup > Remaster Puppy Live CD.
There`s other scripts folks have made too, look for them, try them out...
Jasper; In removing apps. it`s hard to get all of each one, so many files.
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I might be a poor man, but this is exactly what I need.
I run a school network with older PC only for working online. This makes browserlinux(and puppy) the perfect companion.
Having every user boot the same setup every time fits my needs perfectly.
Only problem is, that I might have to work overtime today because I can't wait to try it out.
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Posted: Fri 16 Aug 2013, 06:28
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Tried out the script... doesn't work
Did you mean "mksquashfs" instead of "squashes"?
The losetup part errors out, because /dev/loop2 is not found, but this is only to find the name op the pup.sfs-file?
Tried to do
mksquashfs /initrd/pup_rw /initrd/pup_ro2 /tmp/foo.sfs
This keeps stating, that filesystem has changes until it crashes everything, probably because it is trying to squash the output-file??
Then tried to copy the /initrd/pup_rw file with the -P option, squashed that and /initrd/pup_ro2 to a file - copyed that over, put it in the inited and booted over PXE.
Performing a 'switch_root' to the layered filesystem...Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
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Fabulous Clashing Pattern
I've always been an ambassador for clashing pattern and colour. It's just so interesting and layered and scrumptious! I loved this recent photo of Tory which I found on her inspiring blog. It's clashing pattern heaven!
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- Karla Medina said...
My husband would do his best to get me to change if i was wearing that but i love colors and patterns. I think its a cute, happy and fun outfit. :)
- 25 January 2012 at 15:26
- Kindred Spirits said...
Yep, love it!
- 25 January 2012 at 16:30
Tory does look cute but I think she would probably look good in anything. x
- 25 January 2012 at 16:43
- Robyn's Paris rendezvous said...
Anna...beautiful photo as usual......if you love this you'll also love the designs of Dries Van Noten - a master at clashing pattern and colour.
- 25 January 2012 at 17:09
- Anna Spiro said...
I agree with you Something Gorgeous - she looks beautiful in every single photo I see of her! A stunning woman.
- 25 January 2012 at 17:29
- Anna Spiro said...
Hi Robyn - I love Dries Van Noten. You are right, they do mix and layer pattern so beautifully! I actualy have a couple of pieces in my wardrobe and the fabrics they use are always so beautiful and so soft!
- 25 January 2012 at 17:30
- pve design said...
I also love mixing pattern. Dots, stripes, gingham and then mixing colors too. Tory does look great holding those crabs!
- 25 January 2012 at 21:29
- Jackie {York Avenue} said...
I don't think I could personally pull off that look, but it works for her! She looks great, and it's so "her."
- 25 January 2012 at 22:29
- Hooper Patterson and Ann White Schutte said...
A room inspiration perhaps> love it!
xo hooper
- 25 January 2012 at 23:14
- annie markantonatou said...
love Tory's style!
- 27 January 2012 at 03:58
- Lily said...
mixing patterns is something i've been really into lately, great post!
Oh - Fancy That.
- 31 January 2012 at 10:14
- Hilla Hryniszyn said...
youre totally right, its a great pic and patterns can look amazing together :)
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- 31 January 2012 at 22:07
- Megan said...
She's def got some cute patterns going on!
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- Laurie Jones said...
Why is it if I tried to wear this outfit I would be laughed at but looking at her I can't help but think how amazing she looks!!
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Four years after the auto industry started trembling at the real prospect of a global fuel shortage, painful pump prices and consumers clamoring for vehicles that can deliver 50 mpg, this news arrives from the International Energy Agency in France: There's way more oil under America than we realized.
The IEA, a leading source for long-range energy resource forecasting, reckons that by 2020 -- thanks to the controversial new practice of drilling for oil with water pressure -- the United States will surpass Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest oil producer.
Who knew?
I'd like to spend the next few paragraphs assuring automakers and technology firms that all that toiling of the past few years to remake themselves as environmentally conscientious, green-footed producers of highly fuel-efficient vehicles was not for nothing.
I would probably write that "doing the right thing is always the right thing." That consumers reward technological innovation. That higher fuel economy should be a constant goal no matter what a gallon of gasoline costs. That car buyers will continue asking for fuel-efficient transportation, regardless of what happens on the world oil market.
But seriously.
Does anyone really believe that American consumers will pass up the chance to drive V-8s and big trucks and roomy multipassenger vehicles if they are confident that gasoline will remain abundant and pump prices stable for the next decade?
The timing couldn't be more ironic. In just the past few months, showrooms have begun to receive the first full results of the industry's makeover, triggered in large part by the fuel shock of 2008, encouraged by the worldwide wave of consumer environmental awareness and threatened by tough new corporate average fuel economy requirements.
Sedans are battling to claim 36, 37, 38 and 40 mpg. Cars are rolling out with stop-start technology, advanced transmissions and lean direct-injection engines. Tire makers are offering low-rolling-resistance tires and Ford customers are standing in line to buy F-150s with six-cylinder engines.
Momentum has shifted to a new era of fuel conservation and a market defined by high consumer expectations.
So what happens now, when U.S. oil fields begin flooding the market with all the gasoline it wants? Do we return to the carefree days of the cheap-gas 1950s? Will automakers relax their efforts? Will consumers chuckle over how unnecessarily worried they all were back in 2012? Will the industry lobby the EPA to cut everybody some slack on those newly drafted CAFE regulations? Will all this new technological progress get back-burnered and carted off into dark warehouses?
The auto industry has been feverishly figuring out how to remake itself at this fuel-economy crossroads.
If the IEA's oil forecast proves correct and the pressure is off, the bigger challenge may be for automakers to figure out which way to go when there's no longer a gun pointed at their heads.


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When formerly unbudging government bureaucracies change their tune, it calls for a certain amount of celebration.
So raise a toast to the Army Corps of Engineers, which has made a sharp turnaround from its long recalcitrance about restoring and enhancing the L.A. River — Southern California's great natural resource. Congratulations to the corps for getting on board with naturalists, neighborhood leaders and other river restoration advocates.
Overly channelized, the L.A. River has been a dumping place for industrial and household pollutants and an unsightly blight on the landscape stinking to high heaven for too long. But now the river is on the right course.
This week, federal officials announced their support to restore 11 miles of the river to a fairly natural state from Griffith Park to downtown Los Angeles. The corps said the $453 million option, the second-cheapest of 21 formal alternatives, was the most economically efficient of them. There is much good in the plan, especially its removal of concrete at the confluence with the Arroyo Seco, naturalizing dozens of acres of riverside land, and the creation of marshland 100 yards wide in Glassell Park.
But the plan misses an opportunity to open the river to the people. Key is removing steep concrete walls leading down to the river and the creation of landscaped terraces on its banks, points of access to what could become the region's greatest recreation area. It might never be the Seine or the Thames or San Francisco Bay, but the waterway and the riparian habitat that surrounds it can, within our lifetimes, become a natural wonder rather than an embarrassing backwater.
For more than 80 years, the corps has been part of the river's problem. The federal government lined it with concrete through much of its way from its headwaters above the San Fernando Valley to where it flows into the Pacific Ocean in Long Beach.
As with the Arroyo Seco, the San Gabriel River and other Southern California waterways, the flooding that came with torrential rains was indeed a problem for a rapidly developing Southern California. The Great Depression's government work programs provided labor and capital for lining hundreds of miles of seasonal riverbeds with concrete to protect homes and businesses. As with many government infrastructure programs, it went too far.
Rivers from which generations of people took irrigation water and in which they played, swam, and, yes, fished — steelhead trout were native to the L.A. River — suddenly became places into which it was illegal to even enter. The corps and Los Angeles County Flood Control declared the river their territory, not the public's.
The public has been rightly taking its river back. When environmental activists began the quest to restore the L.A. River 20 years ago, the corps resisted efforts to have it declared a navigable waterway, a key designation for restoration. Kayakers had to sneak into it to prove its 48 miles could be paddled. Now, after much work, boating is allowed in small sections of it. And dozens of plans have been created to show what could be.
And it could be much more than the proposed restoration plan. Before a final decision is made next spring, and especially during a 45-day public comment period beginning Friday, Southern Californians should demand better access. They can e-mail to: email@example.com.


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Friday, November 30, 2012
Movember Rain
My Movember mustache has been frightening my children. Luckily the month is over, and we are all a little more aware of men's health issues.
Posted by Anthony Holden at 12:55 PM
Labels: animated gif, comic strips, Comics, family, men's health, Movember
4 comments:
- Carrie Liao said...
awwww haha
I hope there are pictures documenting this mustache...
- November 30, 2012 at 1:05 PM
- Michael said...
I bet you look just like a young freddie mercury.
- November 30, 2012 at 2:48 PM
- Will Strong said...
I wanted to celebrate Novembeard but Tiff didn't want me to grow a full beard.
- December 1, 2012 at 10:40 AM
- Tyson Murphy said...
i didn't have a mustache..... but my kids still didn't want to be near me D:
- December 1, 2012 at 11:29 PM
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text: You might have heard that there's a ton of deleted scenes on the Amazing Spider-Man DVD, which include the whole subplot about Peter Parker's parents doing genetic experiments that led to his superpowers. Now, you can see for yourself. All 17 minutes of deleted scenes have popped up on Youtube, in DVD quality. Witness a lot more of Rhys Ifans' lovely interactions with Andrew Garfield, where Curt Connors becomes a kind of surrogate father figure to Peter Parker. Even though the whole "genetically modified Peter" idea rubs me the wrong way, I love any scene with Garfield and Ifans acting together.


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NJ Top Ten Beaches Competition Halted
A popular contest to name the best beach at the Jersey shore is taking a time-out this summer.
The Top Ten Beaches contest will not have voting this year that pits one town against another for bragging rights at the shore.
Rather, the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium says the program will focus on cooperation among regional tourism leaders as the shore recovers from Superstorm Sandy.
The contest began in 2008 as a way to generate pride in and stewardship of New Jersey's beaches. People voted online for their favorite shore spot, and the results were unveiled at a pre-Memorial Day news conference.
This year's voting will involve a calendar photo contest. People will be encouraged to share their favorite shore memories at www.toptenbeaches.org starting Wednesday.
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Two 'Breaking Bad' Fanatics Discover Their Inner Lebowski
Trying to start a "Breaking Bad"-themed fan fest in Albuquerque, N.M. — where Heisenberg-related tourism has flourished — is harder than you might think.
Like a certain fictional chemistry teacher-turned-drug kingpin played by Bryan Cranston, super fans Jennie Rexer and Miguel S. Jaramillo are starting out small with their venture. They have no choice. Their campaign to raise $35,000 for the fest on crowdfunding site Kickstarter stalled out, and now they have to reach into their own pockets to realize their dream.
"It's expensive to put on a fan fest!" Rexer told Speakeasy in an email interview. So far, they've already paid a few thousand dollars for deposits on the venues as well as other necessities. The cost will grow even further, though, if they end up attracting more special guests. (Series creator Vince Gilligan would be their ultimate guest, Rexer said.) New Mexico natives Steven Michael Quezada and Jeremiah Bitsui (recently of NBC's "The Night Shift" and the Sundance selection "Drunktown's Finest"), who played popular recurring roles on the series, are already slated to appear at this year's event.
Rexer, a Houston-based neuropsychologist, said that she was inspired to create the event after seeing how a fan fest devoted to Joel and Ethan Coen's 1998 cult comedy "The Big Lebowski" took off. Will Russell and Scott Shuffitt founded the Lebowski Fest, a traveling party-slash-convention, 12 years ago in Louisville, Ky., with low expectations and even lower costs.


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OTORex needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 59 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
We run a series of websites which provide advice on a wide array of topics. Our goal is to provide direct, actionable advice around day to day challenges.
Our website is designed for the Baby Boomer generation which is nearing retirement age. As these Boomers near retirement many of them are going to be looking for part time careers and volunteering opportunities to keep them engaged when they give up the 50 hour a week grind.
- I clean logo that works with or without the full domain name next to/below/above it
- Creativity beyond simply our name with a couple letters stylized
- A color palette which includes multiple colors (to support the full layout of the site which will be lead by the logo).
- Additional shape(s) which could stand alone without the URL
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When to Refer Patients for Lung Transplantation
If you are a physician with a patient who has lung disease, the following guidelines may help you determine whether the patient should be evaluated for transplantation.
When a patient is referred to the Cedars-Sinai Lung Transplant Center, an initial phone call will be needed to gather medical and insurance information. Following that, a visit will be scheduled for the patient to meet with a pulmonologist, transplant surgeon, transplant coordinator and a finance coordinator for an initial evaluation.
The following are intended to serve as guidelines. Each patient's situations different, the transplant team at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is always available for consultation. Specific criteria are available for:
- Inclusion and exclusion criteria
- Single lung transplant referral guide
- Double lung transplant referral criteria
- Heart and lung transplant referral criteria
- Retransplant indications
- Contraindications for lung transplantation
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Juan N. Guerrero said the lack of a defined, uniform grass hay standard for these tropical species impairs the production from them of consistent, export-quality hay. During the recent 31st California Alfalfa & Forage Symposium in Modesto, he said the three species of grasses, when exported to the Orient, are judged solely by color, texture, weediness and other subjective means. No chemical tests other than that for nitrate content are required.
"To further cloud the issue," Guerrero added, "the final country of destination may have its own set of standards. Different hay trading companies from the same country may have different hay grading standards, and different geographical areas of the same country may also have differing hay preferences."
Green, soft hay has always been prized by the U.S. livestock industry, Guerrero noted. For the export trade, green-colored bermudagrass and kleingrass hays are also valued. But in certain areas of Japan sudangrass buyers prefer a nitrogen-deficient and thoroughly bleached product, counter to both maximum yields and economics for the grower.
He suggested that a test developed from well-defined research might show some connection between hay color and nitrate levels in sudangrass hay. Stem texture could be detected by the existing acid detergent fiber (ADF) test.
During 2000, Imperial County had 42,000 acres of bermudagrass and 55,000 acres of sudangrass, while kleingrass, a new crop, made up about 20,000 acres in the Imperial and Palo Verde Valleys and in Arizona along the Colorado River.
Majority exported
Citing interviews with Imperial Valley hay brokers, Guerrero said more than half the hay from the three grasses is exported. The lack of consistent standards for quality means that grading is generalized and may not apply to any one transaction.
Bermudagrass has hay, seed, and straw segments, and, depending on the price of seed, as much as half the Imperial Valley acreage may be allocated to seed production. About 10 to 15 percent of the acreage produces domestic-market horse hay.
Export bermudagrass hay has a grading system based on fiber length, texture, color, weediness and "rerake." Hay not meeting a C grade goes to the domestic market.
Rerake, Guerrero explained, is the portion of hay left in the windrow by the baler. It remains in the field and after flood irrigation turns brown. In subsequent cuttings it mixes with fresh, green hay, creating a discolored bale of diminished value.
Bermudagrass hay is gaining acceptance by the horse market, which requires it to have green color, no weeds, and bales weighing 75 to 100 pounds.
Giant bermudagrass, favored because of its longer fiber length, is put up as hay rather than common bermudagrass.
Kleingrass, he said, came to the Sonoran Desert about six years ago. It has a market in the Orient but has been dogged by palatability problems. On the other hand, in the southwestern U.S. beef range cattle relish kleingrass pasture.
Kleingrass hay is graded by texture, color, plant maturity, and weediness. Weed contamination will exclude it from export. Guerrero said about 20 percent of the volume fails to meet export grade and goes into the domestic market, mainly for dry dairy cows and beef feedlots, which, he warned, "may contain weeds, be rained-on, be off-color, and contain rerake."
Grades for kleingrass hay vary as to country of final destination, said Guerrero. Under certain growing conditions, according to reports from Texas, it can contain toxic saponins, which cause problems for sheep and horses but not cattle. "These saponin problems have not been reported under the drier, irrigated conditions of the Imperial Valley,' he said.
Most sudangrass grown in the Sonoran Desert, where it has been a crop more than 40 years, goes to export. About 20 percent of the crop, or the portion from later cuttings, finds its way to domestic dry dairy cows, beef feedlots, zoos, and Mexico.
It may contain weeds, hard stems, and high nitrate content. No chemical test other than a nitrate test is required for export, but grade is determined by a subjective evaluation of weediness, stem thickness, and color.
"California hay producers are at the mercy of ill-defined, subjective grass hay export grades with no regard to objective chemical analyses," said Guerrero, who added that grass hay standards jointly developed by U.S., Japanese, and Korean scientists could benefit both the California growers and importers in the Orient.


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Formula racing team designs hybrid
The Dartmouth
May 5, 2011
The phrase "coming down to the wire" took on a whole new meaning for the Dartmouth students competing in the fifth annual Formula Hybrid Competition at New Hampshire Speedway in Loudon, N.H., this week. The Dartmouth Formula Racing Team, comprised of 35 students and led by four Thayer School of Engineering students, came in second in the car-building competition for design and fifth for endurance, according to Eric Mann Th'11.
Mann led the team with Francis Fortin-Houle Th'11, Adam Marano Th'11 and Philly Croteau Th'11 in the 15-week building period. The teams raced their finished products in a three-day competition that began Monday and finished Wednesday.
The cars underwent a series of tests for both speed and fuel efficiency, including an acceleration, endurance and autocross event, John Collier, a Thayer professor and faculty advisor for the team, said.


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Onward Science Soldiers
Comment and Opinion
Victor Stenger
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 31.4, July / August 2007
In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal God (Larson and Witham 1998). While the percentage is undoubtedly greater in the U.S. scientific community as a whole, it is probably safe to say that the majority of American scientists are nonbelievers, in marked contrast to the general public.
Nevertheless, most scientists seem to prefer as a practical matter that science should stay clear of religious issues. This is a good strategy for those who wish to avoid conflicts between science and religion, which might lead to less public acceptance of science and that most dreaded of all consequences—lower funding. However, religions make assertions about the natural world, and these have no special immunity from being examined under the cold light of critical analysis. Scientists are abdicating their responsibilities when they avoid applying their expertise to evaluate religious claims that can be tested against empirical facts, especially when religious thinking is used to override science in the making of public policy.
In one of its official statements supporting evolution, the Academy states, "Science is a way of knowing about the natural world. It is limited to explaining the natural world through natural causes. Science can say nothing about the supernatural. Whether God exists or not is a question about which science is neutral" (National Academy of Sciences 1998). This is simply untrue. Not only can science examine any claim that bears on empirical data, reputable scientists from reputable institutions are doing just that, for example, in experiments on the efficacy of intercessory prayer.
In the battle between evolution and creationism, the political strategy adopted by many scientific organizations such as the Academy and the National Center for Science Education has been to seek support of Catholics and moderate Christians whose clergy have stated their support for evolution. The uncomfortable fact that evolution implies humanity is an accident, rather than the special creation of God in his own image, is conveniently swept under the rug.
But there are worse things happening in America and the world as the direct result of religious thinking than children hearing the dreaded word creation in the classroom. Both abroad and at home, we are engaged in cultural wars that threaten the very existence of secular society and the health, safety, and well-being of humans everywhere. Islamic radicals have declared war on the modern world and are steadily gaining adherents in all countries with large Muslim populations. George W. Bush's "War on Terror," which he has characterized in religious terms as a holy war of good against evil, has advanced rather than deterred this trend.
The born-again U.S. president has based his policies, foreign and domestic, on faith rather than evidence—faith that his own instincts are divinely inspired and any evidence that contradicts these instincts may be ignored and even suppressed.
A series of recent books has extensively documented how a small group of influential Christian extremists, with large financial resources at their disposal, have taken control of the Republican party and used churches to build enough support at the polls to gain control of the White House and Congress in 2000 and 2004 (Mooney 2005, Phillips 2006, Goldberg 2006, Linker 2006, Hedges 2007). Only with the 2006 midterm election has their influence slipped. But this may be attributed to the unmitigated disaster of Iraq rather than any sea change in public opinion. You can bet these groups have not thrown in the towel on their goal of converting America to a Christian theocracy.
Let me list some examples of Bush policies that are founded in theology rather than evidence and how he and his administration have acted to suppress scientific studies that contradict the faith-based assumptions that lie behind these policies.
In one of his first acts as president, Bush restored a gag rule on aid to international organizations that counsel women on abortion. Of millions of dollars spent on preventing and treating AIDS in Africa, 30 percent was earmarked for promoting sexual abstinence and none for condoms. Here at home, $170 million was spent in 2005 alone on promoting abstinence-only sex education in schools. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was pressured to remove from its Web site scientific findings that abstinence-only programs do not work. According to a 2003 report issued by Democratic Congressman Henry A. Waxman and the minority staff of the Government Reform Committee, the Bush administration modified performance measures for abstinence-based programs to make them look effective.
Similarly, under pressure from conservatives in Congress, a National Cancer Institute Web site was changed to reflect the view that there may be a risk of breast cancer associated with abortions, a claim made by evangelicals that has no scientific support (Mooney 2005, pp. 206—207).
Bush's obstruction of stem-cell research, which holds promise to provide a wide range of therapies, is based on the theological view that a 150-cell embryo contains a human soul. While scientists may prefer to remain neutral on the matter of souls, they should point out that an embryo cannot suffer while stem-cell research could result in the reduction of real suffering in fully developed humans (Harris, 2005, pp. 165—167; Mooney 2006, pp. 185—204).
Bush's appointee to the Food and Drug Administration's Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory committee, gynecologist W. David Hager, is an evangelical who prescribes Bible readings to treat premenstrual syndrome. Hager was primarily responsible for the FDA blocking over-the-counter sales of the birth-control drug known as Plan B. This was despite testimony before his committee by a scientific advisory panel that "Plan B was the safest product that we have ever seen brought before us" (Mooney 2005, pp. 215—220).
Evangelicals have also influenced Bush administration policies on the environment, leading the White House to intervene in 2003 to remove cautions against global warming from a report on the environment (Mooney 2005, p. 90). More recently, Bush has seemed to make an about-face on global warming, but NASA is still delaying or canceling a number of satellites designed to obtain critical information on Earth climate. Bush gives the space station higher priority, despite the fact that a consensus of scientists regard it as scientifically useless.
In October 2005, George Deutsch, a presidential appointee at NASA headquarters, sent an e-mail message to Flint Wild, a NASA contractor working on a set of Web presentations for middle-school students. The message said the word theory should be added after every mention of the Big Bang. The Big Bang is "not proven fact; it is opinion," Mr. Deutsch wrote, adding, "It is not NASA's place, nor should it be, to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator" (Revkin 2006b). This was just another instance where NASA scientists were pressured to limit discussions on topics uncomfortable to the Bush administration, including global warming (Revkin 2006a).
While scientists have begun to speak out on these issues, they have not directly confronted the religious thinking that forms the basis of these policies. Presumably, they fear offending "deeply held beliefs." I am pleading that religion no longer be given this free ride. The stakes are too high.
Let science compete with religion in the marketplace of ideas. Scientists should question religious assumptions just as they question those of other scientists. And they should vigorously protest whenever faith is used to suppress sound scientific results.
- Goldberg, Michelle. 2006. Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. New York: W.W. Norton.
- Harris, Sam. 2005. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason. New York: W.W. Norton.
- Hedges, Chris. 2007. American Fascists. New York: Free Press.
- Larson, Edward J., and Larry Witham. 1998. Leading scientists still reject God. Nature 394:313.
- Linker, Damon. 2006. The Theocons: Secular American under Siege. New York: Doubleday.
- Mooney, Chris. 2005. The Republican War on Science. New York: Basic Books. National Academy of Sciences. 1998. Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science. Washington, D.C: National Academy of Sciences: p. 58. Available at: www.nap.edu/ catalog/5787.html; accessed March 5, 2006.
- Phillips, Kevin. 2006. American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century. New York: Viking Penguin.
- Revkin, Andrew C. 2006a. Climate expert says NASA tried to silence him. The New York Times. January 29.
- Revkin, Andrew C. 2006b. NASA chief backs agency openness. The New York Times. February 4.


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George Worts
Shock! Horror! Terror! Time to get under the bed and cower. No, we're not talking about the evening news, but THE MONSTERS OF YESTERYEAR! Make no mistake, these fearsome brutes will terrify and stupefy you. Stay out of the water unless you want to come face to fins with The Monster Fish, or grapple with The Monster of the Lagoon, or let the Killer Crabs get the pinch on you, or worst of all....fall prey to The Slime Beast!
And you're not safe on Earth or in space, either - it's a gruesome galaxy of galactic gore with the likes of The Invaders from Rigel, and The Creature from Beyond Infinity!
Whether with tentacles or webbed feet, laser-vision or antennae, these monsters are here to conquer the Earth, and everyone on it. With fantastically illustrated covers festooned with dames in distress, killer robots, alien interlopers and much more, there's nowhere safe to hide from these vintage villainous volumes. Hearken back to the days of The Thing, The Blob, and other hilariously scary beasts bent on destruction. They're campy! They're kitschy! They're collectable!
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The Moseley Key features:
Ground Floor
The ground floor of this home consists of a practical downstairs cloakroom, open plan kitchen leading through to the lounge and dining room which has French doors leading out to the rear.
First Floor
Upstairs, the landing leads to bedroom 2 and 3; they are both served by the family bedroom.
Second Floor
The landing leads to the master bedroom and a storage cupboard.


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Football season is officially underway. And between the high school football games, college games and even professional games, you have numerous tailgates you need to attend! Tired of bringing a bag of chips or hot dogs to the pre-game festivities? Want a new recipe to share with your football friends at this weekends tailgate? Try this Mexican Dip that incorporates coffee! YUM! Plus, it is so simple to make. All your friends will think you scored a culinary touchdown with this recipe.
Mexican Dip
1 cup of nacho cheese (chilis and cheese)
2 cup canned chili with beans
cup brewed coffee
Heat cheese over low heat; add chili and coffee, mix well. Serve with corn chips, or for a healthy alternative try raw turnip slices.
Yield: 4 servings
Recipe from Adventures in Coffee cookbook.
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