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An 18.2-foot-long python was found dead in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday.
The python was found five miles north of the Tamiami Trail by a South Florida Water Management District employee who was working on a routine canal and levee inspection, agency spokesperson Randy Smith said.
The snake was taken to the University of Florida campus in Davie for a necropsy. Officials are investigating to see if the python was carrying any eggs.

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We've repeatedly called for a recall of Thule T2 racks — for precisely the flaw demonstrated in this video. We consider the fix Thule has offered — a small bolt at the end of the main support — to be inadequate.
Thule T2 Bike Rack malfunctions on interstate causing injuries and destroyed mountain bike from Angie Hyndman on Vimeo.
The presenter in the video, Tim Cook, has filed a claim with Thule for two bikes damaged when his rear tray slid off on an Interstate highway just before Christmas. Cook graphically depicts exactly how the shimmying of a bike on the tray can work the fastening clamp loose. Our take as an owner of a T2 is that the clamp bolts should go into and even through the strut. To rely on friction, no matter how tightly bolted, is an act of faith in potentially life-threatening situations.
We have contacted Thule for official comment but have been told in the past that the company will not respond until a case is settled. As of this writing Cook and Thule are exchanging emails; we'll update as available.


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Gee gets record, Bisons get big win
The Bisons kept pace while their ace set a new one.
Dillon Gee broke the club's modern era single-season strikeout record and the Bisons rallied late for a 7-6 walk-off victory over the rival Rochester Red Wings on Wednesday night at Coca-Cola Field. Mike Cervenak's two-out single in the ninth drove home Justin Turner and gave the Herd their 10th walk-off win of the season.
With the victory, Buffalo kept pace with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in the divisional race and Louisville for the IL's lone wild card spot. Both the Yankees and Bats won on Wednesday.
Walk-off wins have become almost customary for the Herd at home this season. This edition came as the Bisons also notched their 30th comeback victory of the season as Buffalo trailed by as much as three runs.
Turner drew a walk to lead off the frame and advanced to second on Nick Evans grounder. With two outs, Rochester decided to go Cervenak and walked Triple-A rookie Kirk Nieuwenhuis to get to the two-time All-Star. But the choice backfired as Cervenak delivered the base hit up the middle for the win.
Yet another late-inning victory shouldn't overshadow the accomplishment of Bisons hurler Dillon Gee much earlier in the game. The righty broke the club's modern era single-season record for strikeouts with eight more punchouts on Wednesday.
Gee now has 144 strikeouts on the year, but it was his 138th that set a new standard in Buffalo. Gee threw a nasty off-speed pitch to Jose Morales on a 1-2 pitch that got the Red Wings' catcher swinging. The strikeout broke the 20-year old record of 137, set in 1990 by Vicente Palacios.
Gee was given a great ovation by the Coca-Cola Field crowd after the record-breaking strikeout. As the fans cheered, the hurler tossed the ball into the dugout for safe keeping.
Gee struck out Morales three times in the game, but ran into trouble while trying to hold onto a 3-2 lead in the sixth inning. After allowing a single to Dustin Martin and hitting Brendan Harris, Gee allowed a three-run home run to designated hitter Erik Lis. Gee left with a no-decision, failing at his bid to become the IL's second 13-game winner.
Rochester increased its lead to 6-3 before the Bisons tied it with three in the bottom half of the sixth. Cervenak scored a wild pitch and J.R. House plated Russ Adams with an infield single. Turner singled with the bases loaded to tie the game.
Buffalo used the long ball to gain the early lead. Adams and Turner hit solo home runs in the second and fifth innings respectively.
BISONS NOTES: Jorge Padilla left the game in the fourth inning after a scary play at second base. Padilla slide into the bag trying to break up a doubleplay and Rochester's shortstop Matt Tolbert hit Padilla in the head with his relay through. Padilla was able to walk off on his own power, but was taken to the hospital for further testing…Gee's previous high for strikeouts in a season was 114, set in 25 starts between Single-A and Double-A in 2008…Buffalo didn't gain any ground in the IL Wild Card race. Louisville got a walk-off grand slam in the first ever Triple-A game for catcher Devin Mesoraco for a 5-3 win over Syracuse.


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Joey Fatone just has one request for Week 2 of Dancing with the Stars: "Don't make me go first!"
The Season 4 alum kicked off the All-Stars season with Kym Johnson last week and does not want to be the opening act again. "I better not!" he tells TVGuide.com. "When they told me I was first, I was like, 'Oh, crap!' Then everyone says it's an honor. It's not an honor! People might forget about you and you might get voted off first. It was cool to kick off the show, but there was a lot of pressure."
The 'N Sync star is feeling good about his next dance, the quickstep, though. See what else he has to say about coming back, who he thought he might be paired with and how he's targeting Drew Lachey.
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How's the quickstep going?
Joey Fatone: Really well. We have a great, fun number that I think people will like. We got the number together fairly quickly, which we're happy about. It's going to be good.
Did you hesitate at all in coming back for All-Stars?
Fatone: Well, I had known about it for a while. I got asked actually a really long time ago — maybe not asked formally, but they initially put it in my ear, like, "Hey, we might do an All-Stars season. Would you be interested?" I thought, "That might be kind of fun. Keep me posted." That was about a year or so ago that we first heard about it. Finally, I got a phone call saying, "Hey, we're gonna do All-Stars. You wanna do it?" And I said, "Yeah, that sounds cool." I was one of the first people they called, which is very flattering. [Casting director] Deena Katz literally said, "Hey, we got out of a meeting and we'd like for you to do All-Stars if you would do it."
I have to say, I am really bummed that Lance [Bass] didn't return too. I wanted an 'N Sync showdown. Why isn't he back?
Fatone: Well, because I'm better than him. I came in second; he came in third. [Laughs] You can't have everybody, you know? Actually, I don't know if they even asked him. I didn't even talk to him about it. Maybe they wanted a different boy band rivalry and that's why they got Drew. We've been battling it out.
You guys are talking a lot of smack.
Fatone: I know. It's funny. We're friends, so it's all in good fun.
Are you giving him a hard time for being in the bottom two?
Fatone: Yeah, but I felt bad, so I kind of shut my mouth! [Laughs] Before the results, I was like, "You know what? It's gonna be really sad to see you go, buddy." And he made a joke, like, "Imagine if I was." I was like, "Yeah, it would be pretty funny." Then he was in the bottom two! And I was like, "Oh, crap!" I didn't say anything else. I just jinxed the poor guy!
Do you have a secret Drew voodoo doll?
Fatone: Yeah, yeah, I do. I look at it and I squeeze his ankles and feet so they hurt and he can't dance anymore.
Dancing's Melissa Rycroft: I'm more focused this timeWhatever it takes! You and Kym are such a fun pairing. Would you have minded if you got someone else?
Fatone: Obviously, I wanted Kym again, but I didn't know what was gonna happen. Sometimes they do it according to height. For me, I thought I was gonna either get Peta [Murgatroyd] or Kym, and I got Kym and was like, "Yay!" I was very excited about it. It was so easy getting back into the groove. We've remained friends since Season 4 and always talk to each other, so it was just like, "Hey, let's go." We didn't have to figure out how we vibe off each other or get to know each other. We know what we're like and we work well off each other, coming up with concepts and ideas.
Was it hard getting back into the rehearsal routine?
Fatone: Well, my attention span is a little shorter nowadays. The rehearsals go from like four-to-five hours. As far as rehearsing like that continuously, you would lose your mind. I would rehearse hard for 45 minutes and then I'm like, "Let's take a break." I think if you practice too, too much, you start to make mistakes or if you get too tired, you could get hurt. I'm like, "Let's not kill ourselves. Take a break and figure it out if something's not coming together."
What was your reaction when you found out Apolo [Anton Ohno]'s in the cast too?
Fatone: I was like, "Son of a gun! Give the Mirrorball to somebody else!" It was frustrating. [Laughs] No, Apolo's awesome, but, man!
Do you have a voodoo doll of him?
Fatone: I should get one, right?
I talked to him and he said he was happy he beat you last time because you had so much dance experience from 'N Sync, so he wants to beat you again.
Fatone: [Laughs] I've always said, as long as he doesn't win again, it's fine. I don't want any of the six winners to win again! How about that? They have their trophy. They're happy. Let's give the trophy to someone else.
Do think it should've just been non-winners in the cast?
Fatone: No. I wasn't opposed to [winners returning]. It was just interesting to me there were so many back. It makes it much more challenging and makes an even greater cast. The winners deserve to be here. People have voted for them and they're great dancers and the judges like them. All-Stars is anybody and everybody who stood out in some way, shape or form.
Is Maks leaving Dancing with the Stars?Who's impressed you the most so far?
Fatone: Oh, man, everyone. It's gonna be tough this season. Sabrina [Bryan] always impresses me. She thrives and she's a great dancer. When I saw her routine, I was like, "C'mon. Really? Can't you slow it down a bit? Not be so good?" We bust each other's chops. We see each other at rehearsals and Maks [Chmerkovskiy] was standing there one day when Sabrina finished her number, and he goes to Kirstie [Alley], "All right, we're going back to the dance studio. This is ridiculous." Just watching that, you're like, "We gotta rehearse."Does Kym say that to you?
Fatone: No, she just gets really nervous and looks at me and goes [in Australian accent], "Oh, dear!" The pros start second-guessing themselves, like "Let's change something." I'm like, "No, don't change it. This is what you thought of. Trust your instincts."You're on another dance show too — Dance Showdown.
Fatone: Yeah, it's really cool. It's on YouTube. I'm judging instead of dancing, which is awesome. It's a lot of fun. These people are out of their element, like a comedian or gamer from YouTube who has never danced before. It's similar to Dancing with the Stars. We put them with a choreographer and they dance and it's pretty impressive to see what they can do in so little time.
What did you learn from being judged on Dancing that you applied here?
Fatone: I look for the overall entertainment value. We have certain criteria. I'm still not 100 percent sure how it's judged on Dancing with the Stars, believe it or not. For me, it's the execution, costumes, their personalities in the dance, the story. Laurieann Gibson judges really hard on the technical aspect. We're looking at people who've never danced before.
What kind of judge are you?
Fatone: I'm a fair judge. If something's terrible, I will tell you, but I'm not going to be like, "That sucked!" You want to give criticism, but you want to help them out.
So you're not mean like Len [Goodman]?
Fatone: Exactly! [Laughs] No one can be Len though!
Dancing with the Stars airs Mondays at 8/7c and Tuesdays at 9/8c on ABC.


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Pfc. Bradley Manning won't know for weeks if he will face a court martial for his alleged role in the largest intelligence leak in American history. But if he does go to trial, and experts think it's likely he will, his just-completed Article 32 hearing provides a lot of clues about what to expect.
An Article 32 is the military justice system's rough equivalent of a grand jury hearing, only it's conducted in the open and the defense is allowed to cross-examine witnesses and even present their own witnesses and evidence.
Manning, who served as an intelligence analyst in Iraq, faces 22 charges in connection to the leak of nearly 750,000 U.S. military and State Department documents. Most of them ended up on the WikiLeaks website and much of the week-long hearing focused on those documents and Manning's connection to WikiLeaks.
"This appears to have been the first time any evidence has been publicly presented that directly links Pfc. Manning to Wikileak's founder Julian Assange," said Mark Zaid, an attorney who specializes in national security matters. "Is this proceeding a prelude to a future prosecution of Mr. Assange?"
Perhaps the most revealing evidence presented by the government is a series of internet chats that the prosecution said were between Manning and Assange.
For example Thursday, Capt. Ashden Fein, the lead prosecutor cited chat logs of an alleged online discussion between Manning and Assange regarding the upload 700 Guantanamo Bay detainee interrogation reports.
Manning, Fein said, wrote that the upload had been going for about six hours and was about 36% complete. Assange asked how long until the upload would be complete; Manning estimated about 11-12 more hours.
Assange later confirmed the upload was complete.
WikiLeaks published 700 Guantanamo reports earlier this year.
Manning's attorneys did not present much evidence to suggest that Manning had not leaked the documents. But legal observers said they didn't have to; in fact it may have been to their advantage not to.
David Coombs, Manning's lead defense counsel, seemed for focus on two major issues -- the Army's lack of response to Manning's emotional and behavior problems as well lack of security in the SCIF where Manning worked in Iraq.
SCIF, pronounced skiff, stands for Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. It is an office where people with security clearance, can access secure military computers. As an intelligence analyst with a Top Secret clearance, Manning's job was to use the SCIF to gather information about the threat from Shia militias in Iraq for commanders in the field.
Among the charges Manning faces include putting software on the secure computers that would allow him to download classified information and burn it to a compact disk.
Manning allegedly pretended to listen to music by Lady Gaga while burning the CD.
During testimony, witnesses told defense attorneys that listening to music in that SCIF was common among all the soldiers who worked there.
Capt. Barclay Keay, one of only two defense witnesses called by Coombs testified by phone about his time with Manning's unit.
Keay said he often saw soldiers listening to music in the SCIF. At first he thought it was not proper, but he was told it was "an accepted practice" that was "tolerated because it helped soldiers be more productive."
Another witness said rewritable CDs were lying all around the SCIF.
Because of that, Coombs argued that the charges related to Manning violating computer security policies for the SCIF should be dropped. Coombs said "it was a lawless unit" when it came to computer security.
Long before Manning's hearing, there were numerous media reports that he was gay and was estranged from his father.
But during the hearing it was revealed that Manning believed he was suffered from Gender Identity Disorder. Witnesses testified that he had created an alter ego online named Breanna Manning. In closing arguments, Coombs read a letter Manning wrote to one of his supervisors, Master Sgt. Paul Adkins, prior to his arrest where he talked about "my problem."
"Everyone is concerned about me," Manning wrote. "Everyone is afraid of me and I'm sorry."
"I joined the military hoping the problem would go away and it did for awhile."
Eventually, Coombs alleged, the gender identity problem lead to violent outbursts.
But in spite of the outbursts, Adkins and others in Manning's unit didn't remove him from duty in the SCIF or cut off his access to classified materials.
That didn't happen until he punched a fellow soldier in the face. Jihrleah Showman, a former Army specialist and at one point Manning's team leader, testified that after he hit her, she pinned him to the floor and said "I'm tired of this, I'm tired of this."
Showman was one of the few in the Army who thought Manning shouldn't have security clearance and shouldn't be deployed to Iraq. But Showman didn't have the authority to do anything other than warn her supervisors, who did not follow her recommendations.
Manning's attorney maintains that is one reason why the Army holds much of the responsibility for the leaks.
But Zaid has doubts about that legal tactic. Zaid told CNN via an email that "much irrelevant, peripheral information was publicly pandered, particularly by Pfc. Manning's defense team, to paint a portrait of Pfc. Manning that has little to nothing to do with any potential criminal liability he might face."
Whether Manning's legal team continues to follow this defense track or present a different defense won't be known until a court martial trial, if there is one.
The first hint we might get about that should come on January 16, when the Investigating Officer in the case is due to submit his recommendation to the Special Court Martial Convening Authority.


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James Bridle, a publisher based in London, is a member of a rising class of digital futurists that fuse multiple professional experiences—for him, a university degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence with an organic interest in literature—to form a dynamic public-facing practice. "Essentially, when any new technology comes along, I try to force literature into it in some way," he wrote during our recent email exchange.
The Iraq War: A History of Wikipedia Changelogs (2010)
Bridle runs the conference gamut from book fairs and South by Southwest to the UNESCO World Forum on Cultural Industries in Lombardia, Italy, where he lectured just weeks ago. His presentations are documented on another website devoted to technology and so-called book futurism, http://booktwo.org/, where he posts a series of essays and updates on his myriad projects. The Frankfurt School is an obvious inspirational go-to, given the titles of his posts and projects: Walter Benjamin's Aura: Open Bookmarks and the form of the eBook (2010), The Author of Everything (2011), and Robot Flâneur (2011). Bridle's better-known efforts include The Iraq War: A History of Wikipedia Changelogs (2010) a twelve-volume set that chronicles, in print, every change made to the Wikipedia article on the Iraq War; Bookkake (2008) is a digital and print-on-demand publishing system for erotic literature, while bkkeepr (2008) and Open Bookmarks (2010) help users track and share their reading experiences through Twitter and social bookmarking.
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The Iraq War: A History of Wikipedia Changelogs segues elegantly from the digital to the object worlds; the books qualify the data, physically. I see a different, yet equally compelling set of relational possibilities in the project I chose to focus on for our interview—one that I now know Bridle considers a failure (his words; not mine!): Artists' eBooks is, as its title suggests, a digital imprint designed to provide an experimental publishing platform for writers and artists. In the conversation that follows, we discussed the shifting nature of the reading experience from print to screen, and its implications for the book-as-medium...


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List My Top 10s or "Almost KOMs"
On the KOM page, could you also put a section that would list my "Top 10s"? (or Top 5s) This would be a list of the segments that you've almost made a KOM (but didn't and are still in the top 5 or 10). Some of us are old and we ride where lots of people ride. We get some top 10s, but not a lot of KOMs. Do you feel me?


text: The Navy's future robotic air wing is taking shape. On Tuesday, the sailing branch announced that it will pay four companies to hand over the technical specs for their various designs for the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike system (UCLASS), a stealthy, jet-powered killer drone meant to operate off an aircraft carrier and fly alongside the latest manned fighters. The move clears the way for the Navy to pick one of the four designs to form the backbone of one of the most ambitious drone efforts ever. Boeing, General Atomics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman all "have credible, existing, comprehensive, UCLASS design solutions," the Navy said in its formal announcement. The sea service wants each company to produce a working prototype for a competitive fly-off "to support fielding a UCLASS capability within three to six years," likely to occur in mid-2014. The Air Force is also considering buying whichever 'bot the Navy picks -- finally giving the Pentagon the stealthy, jet-powered armed drone of its dreams. With potentially billions of dollars at stake -- not to mention the chance to shape the military's future aerial arsenal -- all four companies began working on their designs years ago. When the Navy picks its winner, probably in 2015, one of the following four designs, each with its unique strengths, will become America's next killer drone. X-47B Of the four killer drone candidates, Northrop Grumman's X-47B (pictured above) is the clear frontrunner. Since 2011, the 62-foot-wide batwing 'bot has been flying tests for the Navy under a $2 billion precursor program to UCLASS, one meant to prove that high-performance drones can function on carrier flight decks. The Navy is already familiar, even comfortable, with the X-47B. Colloquially, it calls the 'bot the "Iron Raven," a nod to the old Grumman Iron Works and how it seems to have a raven's beak when viewed in profile. In the second week of May, the Navy plans to launch the X-47B from the deck of the USS George H.W. Bush in the Atlantic, marking the first time a robot has ever taken flight from a carrier at sea. But the X-47B, a descendent of an earlier killer drone with its roots in the late 1990s, is possibly the least stealthy of the competitors, owing to Northrop's decision to build the drone big, thick and tough. Those qualities help it survive forceful carrier landings, but also make it a big target for enemy radars. Navy Capt. Jamie Engdahl, manager of the drone test program, described it as "low-observable relevant," a careful choice of words copping to the X-47B's relative lack of stealth. Spencer Ackerman contributed reporting. Photo: NavyPhantom Ray A decade ago, Boeing's X-45A drone battled Northrop Grumman's X-47A, a smaller version of the X-47B, in a competition to provide the Navy and Air Force with new killer drones. But the Air Force unexpectedly backed out. The Navy rescued the X-47 for the UCLASS precursor test program, but the X-45 was left without a sponsor -- a shocking move to many drone developers, who praised the X-45's superior software. Undeterred, Boeing quietly used its own funds to redesign, enlarge and improve the X-45. The resulting Phantom Ray, 50 feet from wingtip to wingtip, flew for the first time two years ago, showing off a thinner and potentially stealthier shape than its Northrop rival. (Some in the Navy have cheekily taken to calling the Phantom Ray the 'X-45C.') Boeing has declined to comment on the Phantom Ray's software-based control system, but if it's at all based on the X-45A's cutting-edge code, the new drone's real strengths could be under the skin. Photo: BoeingSea Avenger General Atomics cut its teeth manufacturing the mainstay Predator and Reaper drones for the Air Force and CIA. The jet-powered Avenger, unveiled in 2009, was intended to be a faster, stealthier follow-on. But the Air Force acquired just a handful of Avengers for testing, seemingly leaving the new drone in development limbo until the Navy's UCLASS initiative offered a way forward. The 66-foot-wingspan Sea Avenger, as the carrier-compatible version is called, doesn't have the long lineage of the Northrop and Boeing drones, but it does boast one big advantage. General Atomics is planning to fit the new 'bot with advanced sensors, including a compact, ground-scanning radar and the same high-resolution cameras carried by the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Photo: General AtomicsSea Ghost Lockheed Martin's entry into the UCLASS competition is the most mysterious. True to its name, the Sea Ghost has been glimpsed only in concept art posted to the company's website last summer. The new drone appears to share the flying-wing shape of the Pegasus and Phantom Ray -- and is probably in the same size class with a wingspan of 50-60 feet. But there's no doubt Lockheed can build a stealth drone. The only jet-powered, radar-evading unmanned aerial vehicle in frontline service anywhere in the world -- that we know of -- is Lockeed's unarmed, roughly 2003-vintage RQ-170 Sentinel. It's a safe bet that Lockheed's drone-building skills have improved considerably in the decade since the Sentinel first took flight. Art: Lockheed Martin


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Post subject: As I said before......
Have it your way!
We love Puppy!
While I won't ever use Puppy the way you do, I respect that your uses for Puppy are quite as legitimate as mine, and if it works best for you that way, so be it!
That's the joy of Linux--make it what you want it to be, not what M$ thinks you should have!
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Bloody Brilliant, SilverPuppy.
Love this - just skimmed your posts with Sylvander and co (and have kinda been hovering around mikeb's posts on various other threads, taking notes etc - glad to see his hand in this). Your methods here appear to be just the the tonic for another related scenario - old hardware and a shortage of RAM causing problems with incomplete shutdowns. I've gone "Full" with my installations in a sub-64Mb setup, barebones 4.1.2, Ext2, but the 'structure' keeps unraveling and it bogs down after a few shutdowns... Thought I'd be noobie-smart and take the shortcut with "pfix=fsck" in the Grub menu.lst, but apparently that argument has been functionally removed from the 4.1 series and I don't have the patience now to spend on the other recommended workarounds. You've convinced me - I'm going retro (should've started there), and ext3. With your pet.
A real gem - Thankyou!
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Thought I'd be noobie-smart and take the shortcut with "pfix=fsck" in the Grub menu.lst,
that only applies to frugal setups and only checks the pup_save and not the partition.
Hope this package helps....I have an old kayak and these fixes make for a reliable full install .
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yeah but couldn't you boot a live cd session and run fsck from there do scan your hard drive?
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yeah but couldn't you boot a live cd session and run fsck from there do scan your hard drive?
indeed...good technique for beginners.
Windows shuts down cleanly and when there is a bad shutdown a file system check is done...all automatically and has done for years. Should not puppy try and at least match this standard of functionality?
What if the full install is on a laptop with no CD drive...not so convenient to play techie recovery.
I'm glad that I no longer have to intervene when the family press the power button by mistake or there is a power cut.
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Subject description: Works - but check reboot integrity first?
Thanks Again, SilverPuppy and mikeb -
I full-installed 4.1.2 barebones Retro on a small hard-drive, 2.4GHz CPU and 1.25Gb RAM. Put in the patches (wallpaper setter and screen lock), and trimmed the background running processes etc etc for later transfer into a sub-64Mb laptop. And then I installed your modded scripts and gave it some rude power-downs and it worked! Kinda...
Perhaps it is something to do with my hardware (ASUS P4S800-MX motherboard), although I don't imagine so - but very few official puppies or puplets enable me to either shut down completely or reboot properly, with hangs on "Power down" or "System restarting" messages. In the case of the 4.1.2bbRetro, it's the reboot that flunks - and I get corresponding resumption errors using your corrected scripts when responding to rude power-downs. Perhaps you should make a caveat to your users that for best results they ensure that shutdowns and restarts work under normal circumstances first?
Sorry to regress like this - I'm one of those fringe-dwelling Linux dabblers and I haven't yet bothered to work out why I get those "closure" problems - I just move onto another flavour of Puppy. TeenPup and HSB have been standouts with closure and resumption procedures on any machine I run them on (perhaps I should nick their scripts...),
Just found a whole heap of threads with this behaviour attributed to various bios / apm /acpi settings. Curious that there doesn't seem to be shutdown standardization or consistency between puppy versions and puplets.
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Windows shuts down cleanly and when there is a bad shutdown a file system check is done...all automatically and has done for years. Should not puppy try and at least match this standard of functionality?
Actually mike, you have a good point there.... Dyne Bolic does that so I know it can be done in linux. My previous hard install of Dreamlinux(debian) did that as well.
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Please be explicit about where these files should go, what they replace, if any, and where to look for output to see the actions have acted as expected and desired. I'd like more optional control of startup and shutdown from Puppy, here with 4.31., run from ext2 partition on a USB pen drive, so these are welcome. I missed, for example the loss of startup options from the USB drive in 4.31, until I found a recent post on restoring them.
Not afraid to ask, as this was found under "HOWTO" , as against for Developers.
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Hello, I'm Juan Manuel, from Argentina. I've been in computing since a child and this year started learning programming.
Last month ended up messed up to the medule with windows xp. The thing is that, as one of my home computers is for family use, and as my relatives aren't very clever avoiding malaware, I always ended with format c: command xDDD
Tired of so, though about trying that C based SO called linux. Downloaded about 20 distros for a very light PC (P3 coppermine 700 @ 811 + 512 mb ram + 3dfx voodoo 5 5500) and the one that suited perfetc because of it effectiveness, quickness and user friendlyness is puppy. But ended up witch quite a trouble with impropper shutdowns.
Angry, believed that there wasn't a fix for it, until... my head told me: - "fool, there must be a forum!!!".
And there actually were a forum.
I use lastest puppy release, and rc.files from 4.1.2 and 4.3.1 differs, so I manage after some failed attempts to get rc.sysinit and rc.shutdown working propperly for 4.3.1 and I want to share this to other people who may be aren't able to understand rc.files coding
On the other hand, is there a way to make puppy auto-reboot after the xorg start that we get when we clean up after improper shutdown?
that way, the process will be fully automatic, I know, I'm just too lazy, but it would be great to push power button and go to bath, and when coming back, puppy is working perfectly xDD
EDIT: I think we may create a flag, after e2fsck...
set to "1", and when we got xorg up, the flag as "1" get it to reboot, and in that reboot, we change flag to "0".
In that way, puppy would restart every time xorg gets to work after e2fsck and would not, after that restart...
The thing is that as I'm a newbie for puppy, I can't figure how to make this...
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Posted: Tue 24 Nov 2009, 15:22
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If you integrate my mods into the 4.3.1 files EXACTLY, it will do exactly as you wish: clean up, reboot to avoid X problems, FSCK, and run perfectly normally.
Try my files on 4.1.2 and see how they behave, and I think you'll like it. Then just search for my username "silverpuppy" to find the things I added so you can copy them to your .rc files.
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Posted: Thu 26 Nov 2009, 17:11
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SilverPuppy wrote:
If you integrate my mods into the 4.3.1 files EXACTLY, it will do exactly as you wish: clean up, reboot to avoid X problems, FSCK, and run perfectly normally.
Try my files on 4.1.2 and see how they behave, and I think you'll like it. Then just search for my username "silverpuppy" to find the things I added so you can copy them to your .rc files.
Why not spin a remaster of it as you modded it? Come to think of it, a puplet with a name based on "silverpuppy" would sound pretty cool too.
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Well, that's an idea, but the one major issue I see with it is that this is not meant to help on a LiveCD, but on a full HD install. I'd rather just provide modded files for the different versions, but there's too many. The instructions should be fairly clear on how to implement my mods, and if someone wants help with a specific version, I'll help through the forum.
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Great work Silverpuppy, I will be including this in my installs. Feedback from the field is always appreciated. BarryK should definetely be made aware of this as puppy 4 series is a pain for not restarting properly after a powercut, has anyone made him aware yet? I got caught with this the other day in a meeting with my business adviser when the power failed on my laptop...it didnt look good
Ive also noticed, with frugal installs, errors to do with "Stale NFS file handles" occur with 4 series puppy. Does this/would this solve these problems?
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Well, maybe....
This is not meant to work with frugal, only with full, BUT with some tweaking might be usable for frugal as well. I don't usually use frugal installs, as I usually make it the primary OS. I'm afraid I'll not be much help on frugal installs.
The "stale NFS file handle" problem is fixed by the FSCK that is triggered after an improper shutdown. That's the most common real problem that this modification addresses, with the other "problems" being getting dropped at a # prompt (which most of my clientele doesn't know what to do with) and requiring a reboot before USB will work correctly after an improper shutdown.
In a frugal install, perhaps your best shot would be to boot with the pfix=fsck option.....I don't know if it could be done any other way with a frugal installation, because the handle for the "drive" is not quite so concrete as /dev/sda1 for example.
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The United Nations has ensnared the world in voluntary treaties intended to become mandatory later, tricking politicians and the public. The treaties may be vague and open to interpretation over time, using a tactic known as 'incrementalism'. These treaties affect many branches of government. The treaties are designed to deindustrialize and economically break nations, restrict energy resources (especially for electricity and transportation) and implement taxation schemes based on manipulated science from the UN (the EPA has authority to implement Cap-and-Trade).
Agenda 21 Sustainable Development was introduced at the 1992 Earth Summit; it is not a treaty but uses treaties as a tool to implement its action plan for depopulation and total control. Michael Shaw has described Agenda 21 as the head of a monster whose tentacles have infiltrated all levels of government, affecting almost all areas of life, and he says that if you take out the head of the monster (Agenda 21), its tentacles will wither.
The UN avoids using the word 'treaty'. Most people understand that treaties erode national sovereignty and power. Voluntary treaties can be used to slide a foot in the door in order to trample sovereignty later through mandatory regulations.
Conventions, Protocols, Agreements, Covenants and Accords take the form of a treaty, which may be binding international legal instruments or may become binding later when negotiations are completed.
An Initiative is a type of referendum in which a proposal is placed on the ballot by way of petition.
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UNFCCC: UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is a voluntary treaty ratified by the US in 1992 following the Earth Summit; no limits were set for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but the treaty provided for updates (protocols) to set mandatory limits.
The Kyoto Protocol is an amendment to the UNFCCC which is legally binding but the US never ratified this treaty. The Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, hence the push to ratify it, or a similar treaty like the Copenhagen Accord.
According to Richard Courtney's article (May 1999) the real danger of global warming is the extreme response that politicians have had to imaginary global warming. Courtney says that the theory of global warming was developed during the Industrial Revolution in the 1880's, but remained relatively obscure until 1979 when Margaret Thatcher became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Courtney's article explains that Thatcher desired respect and followed the advice of Sir Crispin Tickell, depopulation advocate and UK ambassador to the UN. He pointed out that she could gain international credibility if she promoted the global warming (GW) deception because most politicians are scientifically illiterate (Thatcher holds an undergraduate degree in chemistry). The benefits to the Thatcher Administration GW policies were:
* GW fear was used to weaken US power- if all other countries enacted carbon taxes and industrial reductions they could pressure and gain benefit over the US.
* Thatcher belonged to the Conservative Party that held a grudge against the National Union of Mineworkers who were blamed for the Party's prior defeats, so GW provided an excuse shut down many coal mines and eliminate the miners' political power.
* Nuclear energy emits no carbon dioxide (CO2), and many coal plants were replaced with nuclear power plants. Nuclear power, which presents its own risks, was 4 times as expensive as coal-fired electricity.
* The new nuclear power plants were necessary to produce nuclear weapons.
Thatcher established the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, the operating agency for the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Hadley is located at East Anglia University, the focal point of the 'Climategate' scandal.
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UN global warming policies refuse to die because the EPA enforces them and endorses UN IPCC "science". The EPA created the first Cap-and-Trade scheme for acid rain by expanding the Clean Air Act in 1990 that generates billions a year in taxes for a problem that is not serious and this is the model for carbon taxation.
The EPA, through the Clean Air Act and a broad Supreme Court case ruling in 2007, has authority over air pollution that endangers public health. In 2009 the EPA came out with the CO2 'endangerment finding' that determined CO2 threatens public health! Therefore, the EPA appears to have the authority to regulate harmless CO2 and other minor greenhouse gas emissions (Texas is suing the EPA). The EPA has an 18,000 page document with new regulations that includes a Cap-and-Trade scheme, which is the back-up plan because the national bills for Cap-and-Trade failed.
The EPA and other federal agencies have received money from the taxpayer funded $787 billion Recovery Act stimulus program to pursue useless green policies. Over $7 billion dollars has been allocated to the EPA directly; the total amount for all agencies pursuing restrictions on electricty and transportation, in the name of the environment, is not known.
The Department of Energy (DOE) has received over $30 billion from the Recovery Act stimulus program. The DOE is spending this money on perpetuating bad UN policies that include:
Energy Efficiency- this paves the way for licensing your home for energy efficiency (HR 2454).
Modernizing the Electric Grid- this program institutes the "Smart Grid" program that monitors your energy usage: how much is used, when it is used, and it can even track some appliances. Some people fear that the government will use the grid to remotely control personal energy usage. Here's a map of the DOE's consolidation of federal grids across America:
Carbon Capture and Storage- this program is a giant waste of money because carbon is harmless and even if there was 500% more carbon dioxide in the environment, it would be a benefit for agriculture and would not harm the atmosphere or animals and humans.
Transportation: Obama is proud of this program and boasted about creating jobs at a battery plant in Michigan, but $548 million was spent to create 309 jobs (that's $1.4 million per job).
Renewable Energy: this program focuses on biofuels, wind and solar power. Biofuel crops have cut down on food production. Wind and solar are inefficient. Of course, industrial hemp, a plant that is a source of fuel, food, paper and plastic replacement, is not mentioned, nor will it receive any funding because it threatens too many monopolies and is illegal to grow.
The centralization of power designed to depopulate and control people is funded by the people. The policies are dreamed up in think tanks affiliated with the UN, like the Club of Rome, famous for this quote:
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"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill….All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself."
The policies are then supported by UN "science" that has proven to be manipulated, if not outright fraudulent. Based on inaccurate UN science, nations fund these programs and implement the policies. The taxpayers fund the governments, so We The People are actually paying for our own demise!
NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) are deeply rooted in promoting propaganda to implement these programs and over 2400 NGO representatives went to the 1992 Earth Summit, and over 17,000 attended the parallel forum.
Here is a list of foundations that fund global warming propaganda and programs:
Deindustrialization through limiting electricity and transportation is a primary goal of Agenda 21 and the people are funding it. Therefore, the people and a true free market should decide the course of the future. Fossil fuels pollute, but severely reducing them would set us back to a pre-industrial existence. Nuclear power has serious risks. Renewable energy will not sustain an industrialized society.
Darkness is destroyed by light. Exposure of Agenda 21's dark intentions is the first critical step. Action is essential. The most effective way to get rid of Agenda 21 is to educate your hometown local government officials (both city and county) that have far more power than most people realize.
Click here to download information from FreedomAdvocates.org to give to your local officials:
Primer about Agenda 21 in local governments
Model legislation to remove Agenda 21 from your city
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In cooperation with the Cape Cod Rabies Task Force, 24,000 oral rabies vaccination ORV baits will be distributed by hand and in strategically positioned bait stations where raccoons are likely to travel. Coated sachets baits will be distributed by hand in seven towns from Barnstable to Orleans.
Since 2004, WS has been working to eliminate raccoon rabies from Cape Cod because the virus is a threat to wildlife populations, pets and public health and safety. As a peninsula, Cape Cod is an ideal landscape for testing rabies elimination strategies. Reported raccoon rabies cases dropped from 124 in 2004, to 50 in 2006. In 2010, the number decreased to 9 reported cases, all outside the current ORV zone. In the past two years, no animals from Yarmouth to the east have tested positive for raccoon rabies. The vaccine baiting program has been suspended in towns north and east of Orleans.
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Ipswich - ENGLAND - A media frenzy has surrounded the premier of a musical based on the infamous Ipswich Ripper. Premiering tonight at Ipswich Crown Court, Ipswich Ripper - The Musical has outraged not just passing woodlouses, but also the gutter press who look for any opportunity to go into a fit of moral panic.
This show follows in the footsteps of other serial killers turned West End superstars that have earned the wrath of the tabloids. The likes of Jack the Ripper, Myra Hindley, Peter Sutcliffe, Fred West, Adolf Hitler and Harold Shipman (before his untimely death) have all wowed the public and enraged moralising do-gooders alike with their own stage adaptations of their heinous crimes.
Director of the show Thurston Lowe described the show as an attempt to let the chief suspect Steve Wright give his side of the story. "I think that Steve has been unfairly maligned for what, let's face it, is a perfectly common occurrence for many jumped up media types. I can't think of one Fleet Street editor who hasn't been under suspicion for at least some sort of serial mass murder of prostitutes."
Racing pundit with stupid hair and no fashion sense turned moral crusader John McCririck, is the show's most high-profile detractor. He was also the biggest personality who vociferously condemned Sutcliffe - The Musical which burst in to West End theatres in 1981, and he condemns this latest so-called theatrical nasty as just another cheap publicity stunt to make a barrel full of cash before Wright {sic} "...rots away in a prison cell, being eating by rabid rats infected with... Bad AIDS... while he screams like a bitch... Now I'd pay good money to watch that."
Wright was taken into custody by men dressed as antelopes at the ASDA supermarket in Harrow, claiming they were members of a vigilante group protecting mass murderers of prostitutes. Suffolk Police deny this was a so-called "honeytrap" to entrap Wright, who was later arrested for talking to these fucking nutcases under the latest "Terrorism" Act.
Wright, giving an interview from his heavily guarded rabbit hutch at an undisclosed location, exclusively told UnNews reporter Li Ying Git, "It's always been my ambition to be a star on stage. Although the circumstances aren't exactly ideal, this is a great chance to relaunch my career that flopped after calling Baby Jesus an "illegitimate cockswinging cunt" in a school nativity play. I thought my career was a rotting corpse destined to lie abandoned next to the A43 until this job cropped up. My only regret is that the call girls aren't around to take centre stage with me."
He also protested his innocence of the crimes he's been charged with, "This is just a fit up, I swear. Everyone knows the editor of the Ipswich Chronical did it, but everyone's too scared to tell the truth. Yeh, I was mates with half those working girls, but someone's got to keep them company. I can't see why people are so scared to say he pinched their hubcaps and syphoned a bit of Four-Star out of one of their Vauxhall Novas. That is what I'm being charged with isn't it?"
Tickets for this extraordinary extravaganza of sex, mass murder and out-of-tune singing have been like gold dust. One member of the jury has already been charged with Perverting the Course of Justice when she sold her jury duty for £245 to a massive Wright fan on Ebay. To get a ticket one must be a lawyer, a judge, a member of the press, a cleaner or someone with a bloody good bulldozer to knock down one of the courtroom walls. Local bulldozer hire firms have reported a surge in demand for anything that can tear down a courtroom. An owner of a hire shop, who didn't wish to be named, told our UnNews reporters that he "...can't wait for the next serial killer to strike and then open a musical. The business has been phenomenal."
A spokesman for The Crown Prosecution Service, the promoters of the show, even considered moving the premier to the Portman Road football ground, but decided to hold proceedings in the Crown Court to "maintain the electric atmosphere that can only be generated by the intimate surroundings Ipswich Crown Court offers."
- Matt George "Sutcliffe - The Musical gets panned by the critics". chilledcream.com, March 12, 1997
- Li Ying Git "Sutcliffe - The Stand Up show offends victim's family". Chortle Comedy Magazine, June 20, 2002


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Fit Tip:Eat Clean and Train Mean
It should come as no surprise that you need both a healthy diet and an effective workout plan to reach your health and wellness goals. As the old saying goes, "You can't out-train a bad diet." If you want to be healthy inside and out, you have to eat clean and train mean. Some people take this mantra very seriously, but even small lifestyle changes will go a long way. Use these tips to clean up your diet and step up your workouts:
What is eating clean? Eating clean involves not only choosing the right foods to eat but also avoiding junk foods and processed foods whenever possible. Try eating more plant foods like fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Also consider choosing grass-fed and free-range meats and poultry, fresh fish, low fat dairy products and raw nuts and seeds.
Shop the perimeter. At the grocery store, stick to the outer perimeter where you will find fresh fruits and veggies, fish and other lean proteins. Avoid processed foods, boxed food and packages that are full of ingredients you can't pronounce. Opt for foods closest to their natural state as possible and with the least amount of ingredients. Read nutrition labels and look for ways to reduce your intake of sugar, salt and saturated fat. Swap soda and juice for more water and switch from refined grains (white breads and pasta) to whole wheat.
Get back to cooking. Instead of buying frozen or boxed meals, cook meals from scratch. Clean, whole foods are easy to prepare and you can make extra to take for lunches and use for leftovers. It may take some extra planning upfront, but there are many blogs dedicated to sharing clean, homemade recipes that will fit into your busy schedule. Extra bonus: Avoiding processed foods and cooking from scratch can save you money in the long run.
Mix up your exercise. If you truly want to train mean, don't keep doing the same old routine. Challenge and surprise your body with a different workout, heavier weights, a new class or an exercise machine you never tried before. Change happens when you push your limits.
Take the intensity up a notch and try some intervals. Are you sweating or just reading a magazine while you drone out riding a machine? Make sure your workouts in and out of the gym make you sweat. Go high intensity for short bursts during your workout to get in some interval training. If you are on the treadmill, try running at your fastest pace for a minute, take it down to recover for a minute and repeat. On the elliptical machine? Bump up the resistance level to work different muscle groups and increase effort. Track your workouts and make consistent plans to increase intensity and you will see progress.


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"We Do Not Say No"
We talked to one of our favorite artist couples, Sarah and Joseph Belknap, about their creative partnership.
We talked to one of our favorite artist couples, Sarah and Joseph Belknap, about their creative partnership.
Danny meets Theaster Gates at his studio on South Kimbark.
I made my first foray into public art in Chicago in 2012. Or rather, attempted to. For months I struggled with pessimistic ward office secretaries, confusing city government bureaucracy, and unresponsive city departments. I sought out advice from a veteran art planner in the city and tried to rebound from each bureaucratic defeat. I asked the artist I was working with for patience and pushed our spring installation proposal into summer. I was moving to Japan at the end of July, so time was running out.
Usually at home behind the camera, we got Casey to do a bit of acting.
Neysa Page-Lieberman on her Mentor, Marilyn Houlberg
"… we are going to a drum battle!" A drum battle? The voice on the phone was my mentor and writing teacher, Randy Albers.
Lin Hixson is this amazing director, you see. From a 21 year run with Goat Island to her now thoroughly established performance project Every House Has a Door with Matthew Goulish, not to mention teaching for years at the School of the Art Institute and running this amazing summer program called Abandoned Practices – Well, let's just say, many people could call her their mentor.
What does it mean to look up to someone? To respect, learn and grown? A mentorship is a relationship based partnership. At The Arts of Life, an alternative day program for people with and without disabilities, artist-mentors play a big part in the community.
Like many performance-based things, doing the show is the easy part. Putting the show together? That's hard.
I realized after all these years of making plays that I'm a sculptor.
When we decided to produce our own film project, we had some tough decisions to make.
I had fallen asleep in my artistic life; I had been sleepwalking. My rediscovery was an awakening of sorts.
The only thing you know is that if you do not get the visa, you have 10 days to leave the country. It's a complete mind-fuck.
Realizing my vision was priceless. It was crucial in my transition from an emerging artist to something more.
I wrote the play because, as a female, I wanted the world to know about this amazing woman, and no one would listen.
In baroque dance the body moves like waves, or the sea. If the blood in your body related to water, then that water had an ebb and flow to it that guided your dancing. The body in baroque dance is in constant, living motion.
The technique evolved from tweaking the paper with a single pushpin to separate its fibers. The plucked paper resembled lace, which I then use to make individual sculptures and installations. Developing this technique taught me the material and has given me a distinctive voice to approach three-dimensional objects and space.
You're an actor, sitting with a bunch of other actors in a theatre lobby waiting for your audition. People are silently studying their sides or mouthing monologues to themselves.
Since no one hacked into my computer to read the stories I wasn't submitting or peered through my living room window in the hopes of finding some insecure writer slugging it out with her laptop, the only way I was going to participate in a live reading series was if I bum-rushed the stage. Or started my own.


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Baby lore says moms carry the baby wide if they're having a girl, or low for a boy. Not true. "The way you carry a baby has nothing to do with the sex of the baby," says Dr. Hill. Carrying is a function of mom's anatomy and how the developing baby positions himself/herself, she says.
No cream can prevent stretch marks. "The formation of stretch marks mostly has to do with a woman's collagen and how well her skin stretches," says Dr. Bohn. That's usually a matter of heredity.
Cocoa butter is a great moisturizer, but it isn't absorbed deeply enough to affect stretch mark formation. And slathering too much cocoa butter on the belly can lead to an itchy red rash, says Dr. Bohn.
Exposure to cats won't harm a developing fetus, though cat feces can spread toxoplasmosis, a disease that can cause birth defects. "Pregnant women should not be cleaning up after their cats or emptying the litter box," Dr. Park cautions.
What about cleaning up after a dog? That's okay.
Few infections cross the placenta, so just because mom feels miserable from a cold doesn't mean her developing baby will. The most common infections in the first trimester are urinary and respiratory infections and stomach flu. These generally don't affect the fetus, but it's prudent to notify your doctor about them. "Urinary tract infections can lead to kidney infections, so they need to be treated with oral antibiotics," Dr. Hill says.
Women can wear heels without hurting their developing baby - unless they make mommy trip and fall. "We're more concerned about the fact that as you get more and more pregnant, your center of gravity changes and you become less steady on your heels." Dr. Park says.
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A mother's body motion has no effect on what's going on inside her uterus - one in four babies wrap the umbilical cord around some part of their body no matter what mom does.But that's not something most women need to worry about.
"If stretching or bending were actually dangerous, our hunter-gatherer ancestors would've been in big trouble," says Dr. Bohn.
Expectant moms can't harm the growing baby by missing one lunch or dinner. "You should listen to your body," Dr. Park says. "If you're really nauseous and have no appetite, it's okay to skip a meal."
Experiencing nausea and vomiting? Eat smaller meals throughout the day. And avoid triggers - thoughts or smells that make an expecting mom queasy. A doctor can also prescribe safe antinausea medication.
Though loud music might harm mom's hearing, it won't hurt her developing baby. The baby can hear noises outside the mother's body, but the amniotic fluid muffles the sound. "Imagine being underwater in a swimming pool, and you'll get the idea of what it's like for your baby, floating in its protective sac of amniotic fluid." Dr. Bohn says.
Make-up, cleansers, moisturizers, self-tanners, and sunscreen can be safely used throughout pregnancy, Dr. Hill says. However, "Creams and cleansers containing salicylic acid can be used only if the concentration is less than two percent."
Hair dyes are considered safe, as only a tiny amount of the dye is absorbed by the skin. The same is true for hair straighteners and perm rinses. Semipermanent dyes and highlights make better sense for pregnant women, as the ammonia in permanent dyes can trigger nausea.
There's no reason to stop having sex during pregnancy, "as long as you don't have unexplained vaginal bleeding, placenta previa, preterm labor, cervical insufficiency, or another extreme complication," Dr. Park says.
As long as the cabin is pressurized, flying will not harm your baby - at any stage of pregnancy. But most airlines limit travel in the last month because they fear pregnant women will go into labor on the airplane, according to Dr. Bohn.
If you do fly, Dr. Bohn says, "Walk up and down the aisles at regular intervals - at least every two hours - to help decrease the risk of blood clots in your legs, which can occur when anyone, pregnant or not, sits for too long."


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FOOD; From Soup to Pancakes, the Other Faces of Pumpkin
By FLORENCE FABRICANT
Published: October 31, 1999
THE odds are that you will have some spare pumpkin around the house. Though jack-o'-lantern pumpkins are not the variety that is ideal for cooking -- mainly because of a relatively high water content in the flesh -- they are acceptable in many recipes.
The best pumpkins are cheese pumpkins, which do not often have as attractive a shape as regular pumpkins. Other squashes, notably butternut, are also excellent to use in recipes. But if a once grinning pumpkin is all you have, it will be fine, especially in recipes calling for purees.
Pumpkin-Turnip Soup
Total time: 1 1/2 hours
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 leeks, white part only, well rinsed and chopped, about 2 cups
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 medium-size white turnips, peeled and cubed
3 cups cubed pumpkin
3 cups water
1 cup milk or half-and-half
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 tablespoon minced fresh chives.
1. Melt butter in a heavy casserole. Add leeks and saute slowly, over low heat, until tender but not brown. Stir in garlic.
2. Add turnips, pumpkin and water, cover and simmer until vegetables are tender, about 40 minutes. Allow the mixture to cool for 15 minutes, then puree in one or two batches in a food processor.
3. Return puree to casserole, add milk and season to taste with salt and pepper. Reheat before serving. Sprinkle each serving with chives.
Yield: 6 servings.
Pumpkin Risotto
Total time: 40 minutes
Generous pinch saffron
5 cups boiling chicken stock
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 cups pumpkin, in 1/2-inch dice
1 1/2 cups arborio rice
1 tablespoon butter
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Freshly grated Parmesan.
1. Put saffron in a small dish, add a little chicken stock and allow to steep a few minutes.
2. Heat oil in a heavy saucepan. Add garlic, saute briefly, then stir in pumpkin. When the pumpkin is coated with oil, stir in rice. Add saffron broth. Stir.
3. Stirring constantly, begin adding remaining stock, about one-half cup at a time, adding additional stock as each portion is absorbed by rice.
4. After about 20 minutes, when all stock has been added, the rice should be just tender and pumpkin should be quite soft. Don't worry if some of the pumpkin has disintegrated.
5. Stir in butter, season to taste with salt and pepper and stir in a couple of tablespoons of Parmesan. Serve at once with Parmesan on the side.
Yield: 4 servings.
Pumpkin-Raisin Pancakes
Total time: 30 minutes
1 cup dark raisins
1/2 cup warm orange juice
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup whole-wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 extra-large egg
2 tablespoons melted unsalted butter, plus butter for skillet
1 cup cooked pumpkin puree
1 cup buttermilk
Maple syrup.
1. Put raisins in a bowl with orange juice and allow to steep.
2. Mix flours, baking powder, sugar, salt and cinnamon together in a bowl. Beat egg, melted butter and pumpkin puree together and add, along with buttermilk, to make a batter that is a little thicker than the buttermilk. Add more buttermilk if necessary. Fold in raisins.
3. Heat a large skillet or griddle and brush with butter. When the surface is very hot, cook pancakes, a few at a time, turning them as they brown on one side, to brown on the other.
4. Serve at once with maple syrup.
Yield: 4 to 6 servings.
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Sunday, November 04, 2007
The Runningback on the Shallow Cross Route
For an earlier discussion of the shallow cross, see my article on how Mike Martz uses the shallow cross in various ways here. Martz is a pretty comprehensive guy and this covers most of the bases.
But here are some thoughts on how to use the runningback in the route:
Depends what you're doing on the play.
The Airraid (Mike Leach/Texas Tech, I think Kansas with Mark Mangino, Troy St., Hal Mumme) guys let him "leak" out to the side the shallow came from. This creates a nice "triangle" for their hunt route coming over the middle and works as a nice hi/lo read. They look at the shallow first.
Some other coaches will send a shoot/swing/wheel to the side the shallow is going. Petrino used to do this at Louisville a lot (especially with a no-back protection, shallow came from trips side, single rec side (TE or split end) would run a post or a square-in).
The reason is that the RB will pull the flat defender on that side out. That way the shallow will come open in the void he has created.
Another good option is to have the RB run an angle route to the side the shallow came from. Mike Martz often does this. Any hesitation by the Mike backer can create a nice void for the RB to get into. The "crease" concept is built around this.
Purdue and the Airraid guys will also send the running back on a full swing or shoot to the side the shallow came from. Both will usually have the outside receiver run a curl. (This also relates to the drive or "stem" concept but without the rubs.) The reason for this is that the curl essentially fits into the same void as the "leak" or "short hook" RB just outside the tackle, but obviously he's farther downfield. But it's the same passing window. There they just use the RB to widen the flat defender out.
So the point is there is no one right way, just different ways to attack the defense. This gets back to the notion of "concepts." In other words, the "shallow" is not a concept, it is a route to be used within those various concepts.
While a pro team may use each of these and more, a high school team may only have room for one. But each affects the defense differently so what you choose to do may depend on what you already do, what defenses you see, and what you can fit in well.
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- Unknown said...
you know their are a lot of "football" message board" with rather sizeable number of members. And supposedly a lot of info. But this is for all intent worth more than most if not all of those boards put together. Thanks. GReat info.
- Ted Seay said...
Chris: Short, sweet, superbly illustrated -- masterly, as usual.
Somewhat off subject, but I have a question:
Why is everyone using the shotgun nowadays? A decade ago, the Cowboys, 49ers, Packers, Chargers, Redskins and other teams NEVER used it. The last two teams who didn't use it were the Buccaneers and Raiders in the Super Bowl.
- Mr.Murder said...
The main item with using the shotgun is to hide QB mechanics, or lack thereof.
Big QB don't get from under center as well if the D is keying a pass. Shotgun gets them in position at the snap.
Smaller QB need the space to best see past the formation edge and develop depth for a drop or rollout. Shotgun arms them with a quicker edge view if done well.
The other reason is for picking up blitzes on the inside or across the formation offset.
The back can get to the middle and help block off a shotgun offset, similar tot he pro set. An item John Madden has referenced in games, it trends on time. Middle stunts and blitzes are best countered by starting with some depth from that spot.
Backs getting across formations, off the zone blitz sets seen this era, can effectively do so from a shotgun. The QB dropback lane is already taken care of.
Finally shotgun depth for the pass set up point means you can sell the screens to manage field position more since teams take less chances downfield as the defense has caught up to the rules changes in the new era.
More on the shotgun evolution to come. Two major coaching changes to the classic quick pass/West Coast Offense passing sets came to be.
- Ted Seay said...
Chris: More on the shotgun evolution to come.
My goodness, yes:
I watched the Mizzou @ Kansas game last Saturday and I've to say that after that I kept thinking will we see those kind of offenses even some day in the all-mighty NFL? I hope we'll do 'cause I'm sick of watching those high scoring 9-6 games. The only problem that I see is that a NFL teams don't have the time and patience to make the spread work.
Skins threw a TD to Betts like this against the Bears, shallow cross start side, off a play look at Urlacher(start inside crease) to anticipate his aggressiveness in a red zone running situation for shorter yardage.
Ran them a nice Mash before going plus 20 as well. Trend away from going with the mash plus 20, get it before then. Teams appear more likely to sit outs and blitz before you get safe field goal range.
Anticipate the demand to set an offense back with aggresive defensive calls, and tweak those MASH and crease reads for those exact plays.
Before the red zone mash, and on true run conversion downs crease in it, especially going into close margins in the second half.
- Zennie said...
Nice to see you're posting again Chris. Also, great to read your comments, Ted.
Say, as I live in Oakland, thanks for the Piedmont High A-11 Tip. It would make a great video-blog. As to the other question about the Shotgun's increased use, I think it's simply because in the NFL there's been almost a reactive move to more downfield passing at the same time that we're seeing faster, bigger defensive linepeople than in the past.
It's simply not possible to effectively throw 7-step-drop passes all game long. The 49rs are esssentially force-feeding their QBs this system, and with tragic results: sacks, injuries, and interceptions. All from a team who's legendary coach created the foundation for effective short passing.
If that team in the piedmont spread has almost identical physical characteristics, start drilling them in the use of laterals. Teams start trying to work around a blocker in space(we did) and by anticipating that in the adjustment calls as part of the constraint theory.
If the players match up almost identical in the physical comparison(a big reason you said the spread was used)then start using a lateral to the other linemen who can curl off the line behind the nearest slot receiver.
Only the QB cannot make the throw, he's already set at depth. Either motion your nearest wing to slash snap under center as called from the huddle, or add this checkdown that I think maximizes the communication between linemen.
Have the center call a hot adjustment off the line lateral when he can key or see a signal down the line. The wing can be determined his signal relay man by calling a hot when he sees the hand signal off the lineman wide or the outside receiver.
The Arkansas Razorbacks did that off a fake FG. They ran a swinging gate and the center(may have been the backup QB) got over the ball, called the count and threw a lateral down the line. It was done so quick the D almost thought it was a busted play. Some players simply sat there in a daze, not accustomed to having seen the traditional snap.
Since the D would have to be keyed, and the double shotgun sets up a a good bit of kickscreens(you may call them bubbles) and slants, the bubble lateral to the interior T can be keyed as teams start loading up inside on the flats. LB inside the T, and corners hard inside shoulder to stop the slant release. Suddenly the angles are right to swing a player not accounted for around that. Do it on the short side of the field, since you expect the T types to throw off that read(look at his smash/run and shoot adjustments). Short side can give you room to scoot the ball out of bounds in the event that the play isn't timed properly. By limiting the space you maximize the execution need, and as they improve, the T(who basically match your other players in physical style and development) can actually be receivers and QB, along with your C.
Then you was set up a lot of trick plays off that once the D starts widening out further. the slants become more effective again, and the C can do statue of liberty type plays utilizing fellow linemen, h back, and the two QB offset.
It should work best against teams starting out loose on the outside/wide reads but thick in the center of the field, the lateral. As teams start spreading out, splitting two safeties, flaring OLB and nickle DB, etc. you can go back to the counters on the interior.
The ability to take what was a supposed weakness(many players with similar attributes, lack of dominant size) becomes a strength because you have made every players into a skill set player, and every player into a fundamental blocker.
The Huey boards have some interesting concepts about that Texas Tech spread, and teams taking that a step further. Going to three yard T splits off the G, and the G off one to two yard splits, etc. That spread out Piedmont variation can be brought back down within those parameters at key times(clock kill time, red zone, short yardage) or other such situations. It seems like teams got used to your scheme going into the next season. Finding ways to incorporate the predominant style and scheme into different forms can help you hide certain situational needs and enable mismatches to greater levels.
Finally, people with Piedmont film can share a lot of ideas for the fake punts that can develop from the spread out punting formation. They're very much alike.
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JOHN TERRY is unsure when he will return to the Chelsea first team but said his knee felt "fine" after playing 45 minutes for the club's under-21 side last night.
Terry has missed 16 first-team games since suffering knee ligament damage against Liverpool on November 11, but he started the local derby against Fulham at the club's Cobham training ground.
With interim manager Rafael Benitez watching on from the stands, Terry had an early scare when his mistake almost let in Fulham, but otherwise he was rarely troubled in a calm and composed performance before being replaced at half-time following a goalless first half.
"I have come through alright," he told Chelsea TV. "Initially I was going to play between 30 and 45, so I managed to get through the first half and the knee feels totally fine which is the main thing.
"Lungs are a little bit... which is natural, but it is good to get in 45 under my belt. It has been a frustrating two months really.
"I felt fine, totally fine. Passing, tackling, everything felt fine. It's really positive to come through a game and hopefully give myself a chance to be back involved with the first team.
"The plan was to play a half, and who knows. He (Benitez) mentioned in the press conference in the week.
"Maybe it is too soon to get back starting. The lads have been playing well as well, so I know better than anybody I have to wait my time and be patient and try to get back in the squad first, then the team after that."
Terry's return to action will be a timely boost for Benitez following Wednesday night's League Cup semi-final first leg defeat to Swansea.
The Spaniard was booed by Chelsea supporters during the 2-0 loss at Stamford Bridge, a result which followed on from last week's shock home Premier League defeat by QPR.
Chelsea will now hope to get back on track this weekend when they go to Stoke, although it remains to be seen when Terry will be available again for first-team action.
After that match, the Blues have home fixtures against Southampton and Arsenal in the league before the League Cup semi-final return meeting against Swansea.


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