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Beset by a freezing winter and stifling fuel and electricity shortages, Syrian civilians desperate to stay warm in a northern forest have no choice but to cut down trees for firewood. Once a tourist destination for Syrians and other Arabs across the Middle East, the formerly pristine national park to the north and west of…

These companies worked to defeat the GMO labelling initiative that was on the ballot in November 2012 in California.  Look and see how many “natural” brands there are in this list.  Please boycott them all.  source: from organicconsumers.org Comprehensive Boycott Guide Boycott NO on 37 Supporters , November 9, 2012 Straight to the Source Pepsico,…

  My shoulder ligaments got torn when a man deliberately crushed me with the full force of his body into the ground as I screamed in pain repeatedly for help.  People stood by and watched and did nothing. Later the police came and the man lied and said that I attacked him.  The police escorted…

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A 57-year-old bicyclist was killed Monday when he was struck by a car… Police responded about 7:05 a.m. to reports that a bike rider had been struck by a vehicle and arrived to find the unresponsive bicyclist lying in the southbound lanes of Paseo Padre. Firefighters were unable to revive the man, later identified by…

Serif is best. Text in serif is more easy on the eyes and more aesthetically appealing. Sans looks cludgy and messy. The spacing of sans fonts is bizarre. In blocks of text like paragraphs it is more work for the eyeballs and the brain to take in the words. This goes against what I’m reading…

Have been setting up a new laptop running Windows 7. Had to abort installing Windows 8 because even though the machine is only like 3 years old, the maker of the graphics chip is orphaning it and not releasing a Win8 driver. This despite all the hype about Win8. Anyhow, installing Win7 and its absolutely…

–Minimal Installation– This info is for the most minimal server installation possible, for a system that is intended to run headless or support console only. Go get the lastest Debian 7.0 netinst image suitable for your target architecture. Since its presently (today is 2013.01.17) in the “testing” branch it can be found here (note that…

One day I hope to get a system like this Quad Core i5 Mini-ITX system. Its purpose will be to run as a headless (no monitor attached) system on my local network probably as just a file/media server.  Since I have a plan with a web hosting provider I don’t need a web server/database system…

The department store I used to be able to get discount enemas at ran out of stock a couple months ago. I kept waiting and waiting for them to restock. I thought maybe the hurricane on the east coast disrupted the logistical supply or something, but still after 2 months and no resupply I finally…