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The first narrative history of the Civil War told by the very people it freed
Groundbreaking, compelling, and poignant, The Slaves' War delivers an unprecedented vision of the nation's bloodiest conflict. An acclaimed historian of nineteenth-century and African-American history, Andrew Ward gives us the first narrative of the Civil War told from the perspective of those whose destiny it decided. Woven together from hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs, here is the Civil War as seen from not only battlefields, capitals, and camps, but also slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, farms, towns, and swamps. Speaking in a quintessentially American language of wit, candor, and biblical power, army cooks and launderers, runaways, teamsters, and gravediggers bring the war to vivid life.
From slaves' theories about the causes of the war to their frank assessments of such major figures as Lincoln, Davis, Lee, and Grant; from their searing memories of the carnage of battle to their often startling attitudes toward masters and liberators alike; and from their initial jubilation at the Yankee invasion of the slave South to the crushing disappointment of freedom's promise unfulfilled, The Slaves' War is a transformative and engrossing vision of America's Second Revolution.
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ANDREW WARD, a writer for television, an essayist for the Atlantic, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and the Washington Post, concluded that he would never understand this country until he understood the history and legacy of slavery. Researching his award-winning accounts of the roots of the African-American spiritual in Dark Midnight When I Rise and a Civil War massacre of black troops in River Run Red, Ward kept encountering former slaves' astonishing reminiscences of the war. Amazed that no one had assembled their testimony into a narrative of the conflict that set them free, he has sifted through thousands of eyewitness accounts of every major episode and personage to create a headlong and deeply human chronicle of the bloodiest war in American history.
PROLOGUE We DoneNow" Fort Sumter Gladness and Lamentation
Well before sunrise on Friday, April 12, 1861, George Gregory joined a group of his fellow slaves on the Charleston waterfront and gazed across the harbor at Fort Sumter's dismal, hulking silhouette. Sumter's commander, Major Robert Anderson, had been holding out since the previous December, refusing demand after demand that he turn the fort over to Secessionist South Carolina. Now his time was up. Abe Lincoln had sent the word that he going to send provisions to the fort," recalled a local slave named Josh Miles, and the whole town of Charleston" went down to see the first shot fired." White Charlestonians darted around crying, Everybody get back! The fort will fire on the town and kill every person," Gregory remembered. But nobody care, cause they figure if one going to be killed, they all going to be, and it don't make a difference no-how. And just as the light commence making the sky red, and it's light enough to see who that is standing by you BOOM! the first gun went off!" from the Secessionist batteries. The light from it shone in the sky, and made it redder! The war done commence," and all around Gregory the folks shout, and some cry, and some sing." That morning William H. Robinson was driving his master and a companion to Wilmington, North Carolina, when they heard the booming of cannons echoing down the Cape Fear river" and across the broad bosom of the Atlantic." Slapping his hands together with a curse, his master looked deathly pale" as he turned to his friend and said simply, It's come." He hastily jotted a note and handed it to Robinson to take back to his mistress. But as was his habit with all his master's mail, Robinson stopped first at the cabin of a literate slave named Tom to hear it read aloud. We have fired on Fort Sumter," it said. I may possibly be called away to help whip the Yankees; may be gone three days, but not longer than that." Robinson's master went on to instruct his wife to tell their overseer to keep a very close watch on the Negroes, and see that there's no private talk among them," and to give two local whites suspected of abolitionist tendencies no opportunity to talk with the Negroes." Soon after the firing on Fort Sumter, Louis Hughes was waiting with his team outside a store in Pontotoc, Mississippi, when his owner emerged. What do you think?" blustered master Ed McGee, climbing into his carriage. Old Abraham Lincoln has called for 75,000 men to come to Washington immediately. Well, let them come," he snarled, we will make a breakfast of them. I can whip a half dozen Yankees with my pocket knife." Arriving home, McGee instituted daily pistol practice that required Hughes to run over and check the target after each of his master's rounds. He would sometimes miss the fence entirely, the ball going out into the woods beyond," but when he managed to shoot within the bull's eye's vicinity, he would exclaim, Ah! I would have got him that time," by which he meant a Yankee soldier. It seemed to Hughes that there was something very ludicrous in this pistol practice of a man who boasted that he could whip half a dozen Yankees with a jackknife."
When Sumter fell, recalled Sam Aleckson of South Carolina, in the big house there was gladness and rejoicing, while at the quarters there was groaning and lamentation." His fellow slaves believed that as long as Major Anderson held Fort Sumter, their prospects were at least hopeful; but when Sumter fell, they felt that their hopes were all in vain." We done now," they kept repeating. But then an old slave named Ben stepped forward to declare that though the white folks could laugh now," slaves should wait till by and by." When a young slave eyewitness to Anderson's surrender drew himself up" and imitated the major declaring to the Rebels that if I had food for my men, and ammunition, I be damned if I would let you come in those gates!" Ben's wife, Lucy, took heart. Amen! Bless the Lord!" she cried, and admonished her fellows to hope and pray." Their master took Aleckson and Uncle Ben to Charleston, where they found whites going about the streets wearing blue cockades on the lapels of their coats. These were the minute men,' and the refrain was frequently heard, Blue cockade and rusty gun / We'll make those Yankees run like fun.'" One day young Aleckson overheard recruits saying they were on their way to the Front.'" Uncle Ben," Aleckson asked, where's the front'?" The old man made no immediate reply," but eventually looked up at young Aleckson with a scowl. The front is the Devil," he said, and returned to his chores.
1 Before TheirTime" Harbingers oofWar John Brown Masters' Panic Abraham Lincoln
Now everything was stirred up for a long spell before the war to free us come on," said TTTTTemple Wilson. For well over a decade, the nation had been roiling over the slavery issue. Though the Compromise of 1850 had reinforced the Fugitive Slave Act, which required Northerners to assist in returning escaped slaves to their masters, and despite various Northern states' efforts to exclude them, thousands of escaped slaves continued to seek refuge above the Mason-Dixon Line. In 1854, the Republican Party was founded to campaign against the extension of slavery into free territories. Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which held that the settlers living in the two territories could determine for themselves whether they would join the Union as free or slave states. The result was a savage war between proslavery and abolitionist émigrés that would result in hundreds of deaths. A year later, several Northern states enacted laws forbidding state officials to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. In 1856, as slaves in seven Southern states revolted against their masters, abolitionist Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was almost caned to death for denouncing slavery on the floor of the Senate. The following year, the Supreme Court ruled that an escaped slave named Dred Scott remained his master's property and therefore could not sue for citizenship in the North. And all the while there had been the rising, accelerating drumbeat of Northern abolitionists on the one side and Southern apostles of disunion on the other.
As their masters waxed hysterical about Yankee agitation, many of their slaves sought prophecy in signs and omens. It was talked and threatened and all kinds of bad signs pointed to war," said Temple Wilson, till at last they just knowed it was bound to come on." I saw the elements all red as blood," recalled Frank Patterson, and I saw after that a great comet; and they said there was gonna be a war." Harriet Gresham of Florida recalled that there were hordes of ants, and everyone said this was an omen of war." One night before the war come," Dora Jackson's mother and some other women was washing clothes down at a creek, when all at once they look up at the sky, and they see guns and swords" streak across the firmament and stack themselves together. They was so scared they run to the house and call old Master and tell him about it. He laughed at them and told them they was just imagining things, but it was just a few days before the war come, and they saw them guns just like they did in the sky." In the winter of 1860 to 1861, Mississippi experienced the worst freeze that us had ever had," recalled Liza Strickland. The limbs of the trees got so heavy with ice till they broke off. It sounded like guns firing." Strickland knew right then and there that was a bad sign, and a war was sure coming, and when it did break out us weren't surprised at all, and us had to stay scared to death for four long years." Before the war I seen troubles in this land," declared Lu Perkins of Texas. I seen a big black wave of hating going on over the land and the folks getting poorer and poorer and starving for the childrens and the old." Perkins had a vision of new kinds of soldiers and folks fighting till blood run over the land," starting in the far corner of the world and spread over the country" the judgment, she said, for folks being mean and greedy." One night she awoke and saw a blazing star dragging its long tail along the ground," whereupon a white man ran out into the night crying, Judgment! Judgment is on us!"
In the east the first concrete sign that something momentous was at hand came in the fall of 1859 when a shard from the war for Kansas arced eastward. After leading murderous raids on proslavery encampments along the Missouri border, the abolitionist John Brown and a party of whites and freed blacks set out to spark a servile insurrection by attacking the Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Jared Maurice Arter's master had departed for work as the arsenal's inspector of arms when Arter heard that Brown and a party of freedmen had galloped through the county on the previous night, taken into custody a number of the leading citizens, captured Harpers Ferry and the arsenal, and barricaded himself and his men in the engine-house," where they were holding the captured citizens as prisoners." Arter recalled that all the day long, groups of men on horseback, armed with revolvers, shot guns, and rifles, could be seen going towards Harpers Ferry, the scene of excitement." But these vigilantes accomplished nothing," and it would take Colonel Robert E. Lee and a squadron of marines to dislodge Brown and his comrades. Lee's young slave Jim Parke recalled sitting on his master's broad veranda at Arlington when a soldier rode up. Been driving his horse hard," Parke recalled. The Colonel come to the door, and took some papers, and read them. He look right solemn-like." Parke's sister overheard Lee telling his wife to spread the word among the servants" that he had to go catch John Brown and all his men." The soldiers marched right in front of our house," recalled Frank Smith of Virginia, right by the front gate, when they was going to Harpers Ferry to kill Old John Brown." Two days after his raid commenced, Brown was captured and eventually condemned to death. According to Hillary Watson, Brown declared that though you Southern people can hang me," the cause he was dying for was going to win, and there'll soon be a man here for every strand I've got on my head, fighting to free the slaves." The excitement ran so high and fear was so great" that Brown's Northern supporters might attempt to rescue him, that few persons except strong men were permitted to witness the execution." But nine-year-old Arter stood beside my mother, holding to her apron, and saw hanged four of Brown's men" in a scene Arter remembered as very war-like." John Brown's failure fortified many slaves' belief that only God, not man, could free them, and in His own good time. Pharaoh Chesney concluded that Brown's fanaticism" made him a victim to an ill-timed movement," and that abolition suffered more from such abortive steps than from the combined arguments of the pro-slavery men." Frank Smith believed simply that Brown was killing white folks" and freeing slaves before their time." What God says has got to come, comes," said Jerry Eubanks of Mississippi. This is written in the Bible." White people might regard Emancipation as the work of man, but colored people looks cross years at everything. God did it all." According to what was issued out in the Bible," Charlie Aarons testified, there was a time for slavery, people had to be punished for their sin, and then there was a time for it not to be."
It was impossible to keep the news of John Brown's attack on Harpers Ferry from spreading," recalled George Albright of Mississippi. A literate slave named Sam Hall remembered the thrill of fear that passed through his master's community in North Carolina. It was suspicioned by the whites" that their slaves planned to organize an uprising" and had chosen Hall to command them; and Hall did not know at what moment I might be led out by the whites and hanged." The attack on Harpers Ferry threw a scare into the slave owners," Albright remembered. One day not long after the arrest of Brown, a boy in a nearby orchard shot off a pop gun, and my mistress ran in terror to the house, screaming that the insurrectionists were coming." As their fathers had done after Nat Turner's abortive slave rebellion thirty years before, masters cracked down on their slaves in John Brown's wake. Suddenly they enforced to the letter longstanding but hitherto loosely observed laws against black assemblies, literacy, gun ownership, and alcohol consumption. Some of the slaveholders would double the proportion of work," recalledWilliam Henry Towns. They just whipped the slaves so much to keep them cowed down, and cause they might have fought for freedom much sooner." A slave from Paris, Tennessee, said that as a young boy he did not realize he was a slave until just before the war, when local whites cut Darkies' heads off in a riot" and put their faces up like a sign board."
Brown's raid may have failed to spark a slave uprising, but in the fall of 1860 many Southern whites regarded the election of Black Republican" Abraham Lincoln as an even graver threat to slavery. I think it has come to a pretty pass, that old Lincoln," Mattie Jackson's mistress harrumphed, with his long legs, an old rail splitter" intended to put black people on an equality with the whites." Before she would see her children on such a footing, she said, she had rather see them dead." In their recollections, a number of former slaves would claim to have laid eyes on Lincoln before the war. Some may well have encountered not the Abraham Lincoln but his cousin and contemporary of the same name, or perhaps an English immigrant named William Ellaby Lincoln, a somewhat unbalanced Oberlin College theological student who roamed the South before the CivilWar, preaching against the sins of slavery.
But it was not the flesh-and-blood Lincoln former slaves conjured so much as a furtive abolitionist phantom swirling through Dixie, stirring up slaves and masters. Not long before the war began, Margret Hulm answered her master's door, and there stood a big man with a gray blanket around him for a cape. He had a string tied around his neck to hold it on. A part of it was turned down over the string like a ghost cape. He had on jeans pants and big mud boots and a big black hat: kind of like men wear now. He stayed all night. We treated him nice like we did everybody when they come to our house. We heard after he was gone that he was Abraham Lincoln, and he was a spy." Lincoln came to North Carolina and ate breakfast with my master," recalled Frank Patterson. As he pitched into his ham with cream gravy made out of sweet milk," biscuits, poached eggs on toast, coffee and tea, and grits," a presumably sated Lincoln nevertheless warned his host that if whites descended to conceiving children by slaves" and then buying and selling their own blood," it would have to be stopped." I knowed the time when Abraham Lincoln come to the plantation," Alice Douglass insisted. He come through there on the train and stopped overnight once." Some slaves shined his shoes, some cooked for him, and I waited on the table; I can't forget that. We had chicken hash and batter cakes and dried venison that day. You be sure we knowed he was our friend, and we catched what he had to say." She would never forget so long as I live" his parting words to her master: If you free the people, I'll bring you back into the Union." But if you don't free your slaves," he said, I'll whip you back into the Union." Another story had it that Lincoln had turned against slavery after his wife witnessed the flogging of a pregnant slave in Richmond. Mrs. Lincoln was horrified at the situation and expressed herself as being so," Irene Coates contended...
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This Date In Royals History – September 26, 1969
The 1969 Royals were winding down the club's inaugural season when they made their final roadtrip for a four-game series against the White Sox in late September. Despite the fact all four games were against the White Sox, not all of them were played on the south side of Chicago at old Comiskey Park.
On Friday Night September 26, 1969 the Kansas City Royals played a road game against the Chicago White Sox at County Stadium in Milwaukee. Why Milwaukee? Well the story involves current Commissioner of Major League Baseball Bud Selig long before he would hold that title. In 1968-69 Selig was doing all he could to return Major League Baseball to his hometown and had worked with the White Sox to have one regular season home game against each American League opponent played at County Stadium. The Royals won 5-3 in their trip to Milwaukee with a ninth inning two-run HR off the bat of First Baseman Mike Fiore (pictured above).
In 1972 Mike Fiore was actually traded from the St. Louis Cardinals to the San Diego Padres for himself. On June 20 the Padres acquired Fiore and Bob Chulpsa from the Cardinals for Rafael Robles and a player to be named later. Fiore was traded back to the Cardinals as that player to be named less than two weeks later on July 3.
Just A Bit More: Selig had been working with the White Sox because it was believed they were considering a move from Chicago. But that speculation had just ended when Sox owner Arthur Allyn Jr. sold the team to his brother John the day before on September 25, 1969.
Not to be deterred, Selig would eventually acquire the Seattle Pilots in bankruptcy court just days before the start of the 1970 season and the Milwaukee Brewers were born. (The Seattle Pilots had been the Royals American League expansion cousins in 1969).
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Joe Rossabi, Amendment/Contaminant Contact: Improving Our Odds Using Injection, Chemotaxis, Soil Blenders and Other Things
John Valkenburg, Laboratory and Field Evaluation of a Novel Liquid Amendment Containing Lecithin and Ferrous Iron
David Russell, A Rational Method for Distributing or Collecting Gases and Liquid in Horizontal Wells
Thomas McGowan, Thermal Desorption and Other Methods for Treating Diesel-Based Drilling Mud and Organic Contaminated Soil
Jim Fineis, Monitoring Well Construction: Is grout really the best annular seal material?
David Yifru, An Integrated Groundwater Remediation Approach at Tenneco Automative, Hartwell, Georgia
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Oakland A's Outfielder Michael Taylor Somehow Got Injured Throwing Out Gum
The Oakland A's decision to embrace the moneyball concept is well-known, so you can bet the team is none too pleased it has to pay to treat Michael Taylor's ridiculous injury.
The outfielder, 27, injured himself in spring training throwing away gum.
Yup, you read that right. He joins the ranks of recent bizarre injuries in the baseball universe that make you think common sense is not nearly as much in abundance as PEDs. Like this one. Or this one. Or this one. Or this one.
Taylor was trying to throw out gum in the dugout, but his hand hit a light on the ceiling as he did so, causing him to cut his pinkie finger and rendering him unable to play for the last week.
Unfortunately, Taylor, was a longshot to make the squad out of spring training, which means chomping the Big League Chew may be the closest he gets to the Show.


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Cracking the Packers: Last month's loss helps Sunday's game plan
By Daniel Wiederer, Star Tribune
~The 23-14 loss at Lambeau Field was barely an hour old, its sting still raw when Vikings running back Adrian Peterson began diagnosing all that went wrong.
It was obvious Peterson and his teammates were all having difficulty digesting such a bitter defeat.
Then came the question that really struck a nerve.
Peterson was asked whether the loss, which came a week after a 28-10 face-plant in Chicago, was further proof the Vikings didn't have the horses to compete at the top level in their division.
Peterson recoiled, scowling as if he'd just swallowed a triple shot of Wild Turkey.
"Do we not have the horses? Did you not see the game today?" he snapped. "Did you not see how that game ended? Turnovers. Penalties. That's why we lost the game. Guys fought today. We lost because we gave it to them."
Sure, that response carried added fury as the missed opportunity sunk in. But even now, four weeks removed and heading into a high-stakes rematch with the Packers, the Vikings remain convinced they dug their own grave in Green Bay.
"We gave one away," defensive end Jared Allen said Thursday.
Added fullback Jerome Felton: "We felt like we could have easily taken control of that game and we let it slip away. That loss really hurt."
So now what? To finish an improbable December rally and reach the playoffs, the Vikings need a home upset of Green Bay. And it's not just that they must avoid giving another winnable game away. They must also find a way to contain the NFL's reigning MVP, quarterback Aaron Rodgers. And they must scheme to beat a Packers squad that hasn't lost a division game in more than two years.
The good news: Green Bay has lost four times already — to the 49ers, Seahawks, Colts and Giants. Each of those games has provided clues on how the Packers can be toppled.
Heck, even the Vikings' Week 13 failure at Lambeau Field drove home an understanding that Green Bay is beatable. The blueprint for Sunday must contain four key principles.
Rule number 1 against Green Bay: Blitz at your own peril.
Arguably no quarterback in the league handles extra pressure with as much moxie and aplomb as Rodgers.
Vikings defensive coordinator Alan Williams labels Green Bay's quarterback "a quadruple threat" who extinguishes blitzes like they're candles on a birthday cake.
"Wow, he's intelligent," Williams said. "He's seen all the looks. He knows what he's looking at. He gets the ball out of his hands. And when he doesn't get the ball out of his hands, he has an uncanny ability to move and avoid the rush and keep his eyes downfield and find open guys. And then when he doesn't do that, he's athletic enough to beat you with his feet."
Last week, Tennessee coordinator Jerry Gray went blitz-heavy. Rodgers, in turn, delivered a 55-7 reprimand.
Said Vikings cornerback Antoine Winfield: "Blitzing him is tough. Because they take so many chances. They're always trying to go vertical."
In short: After sending a dizzying combination of pressures at St. Louis' Sam Bradford and Houston's Matt Schaub, the Vikings will charge their defensive line almost exclusively with rattling Rodgers this week. But it's a formula that can be successful.
Sure, the world might always remember Green Bay's controversial 14-12 loss in Seattle in September for the M.D. Jennings interception that was ruled a Golden Tate touchdown catch by a replacement ref named Lance Easley. But in truth, the Packers' undoing began during a first half in which their offensive line was abused by Seattle's front four. In posting a first-half shutout, the Seahawks held Green Bay to 47 passing yards and delivered seven of their eight sacks without blitz help.
The Giants attacked similarly in their 38-10 blowout of the Packers two months later, keeping as many defenders as possible in coverage and limiting their blitzes. The result was a five-sack night, four coming from defensive linemen.
Sure, the Colts and Giants might have turned their quarterbacks loose to fuel their victories over Green Bay. In Week 5, Andrew Luck threw for 362 yards and two scores to rally Indianapolis to a 30-27 win. Eli Manning threw for 249 yards and three TDs in New York's romp.
But with the NFL's most dangerous back in Peterson, the Vikings are certain to stay true to their identity.
In Week 1, San Francisco pounded away with Frank Gore and Kendall Hunter to the tune of 153 yards on 25 carries against Green Bay. The 49ers' physicality in getting the ground game going set an early tone and fueled a 30-22 victory.
Heck, Peterson himself did major damage to the Packers' defense in the teams' first meeting, turning 21 carries into 210 yards. That should have been enough to close the deal and would be welcome Sunday.
Which leads to the next principle …
Even more importantly, command Christian Ponder to avoid catastrophic mistakes.
It's not just that Ponder threw two costly interceptions to thwart second-half scoring drives at Lambeau Field. It's that with four minutes left, he had completed five passes for 36 yards and had gone more than 38 game minutes between completions.
Make no mistake, Ponder isn't Luck. But like Indianapolis' prized rookie, Ponder has mobility he can use to his advantage. That might mean buying time, then regrouping to make improvised but calculated throws. Or it might mean Ponder needs to identify open running lanes and bolt for positive yardage, such as last week in Houston when he aided the Vikings' final TD drive by beating an all-out blitz with a 29-yard run.
Noted offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave: "Another case where our players are playing where our chalk ends."
And yes, the Vikings are confident Ponder still vividly remembers and understands the consequences of his two woeful interceptions at Green Bay.
"I think we can get those out of our system," Musgrave said. "I think we've sensed from the last three games that he's definitely learned from those."
The Colts wouldn't have beaten Green Bay if they didn't believe a second-half rally from 18 points down was possible. Seattle used Russell Wilson's contagious calm on the final drive to produce their "Fail Mary" miracle.
So for the Vikings, retaining belief Sunday will be key — even through the inevitable ups and downs of what will be an emotionally charged game.
As hard as it might be to believe, coach Leslie Frazier came away from his team's 23-14 loss in Green Bay feeling encouraged. Not with his team's execution on the whole, but certainly with the unity and grit they showed.
"I had talked to them the night before the game about playing together as a team and playing for one another," Frazier said. "And I remember watching them in pregame and how they were going amongst themselves and encouraging each other like I hadn't seen throughout the season. That was a good sign."
And when adversity and frustration surfaced, Frazier loved seeing his players' camaraderie and fight.
"It made me feel like as a team we were really coming together the way you need to in the month of December," Frazier said. "I just sensed that we were really bonding. Which is the intangible when you're going through some adversity and about to play some really, really tough teams ahead."
That loss in Green Bay could have killed the Vikings' season. Instead, they regrouped with convincing victories over the Bears, Rams and Texans, retaining a belief that they belong in the postseason.
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This is quite the surprising deal. Pre-order your copy of Guitar Hero 5, or pick up a specially marked copy, and you can send away for a free copy of Guitar Hero: Van Halen. Even weirder, you get the game months before it's available in retail stores. This basically adds $60 worth of value to Guitar Hero 5, and if you're a Van Halen fan, you get to enjoy the game before everyone else.
You can check out the details online, and Activision notes that between the two games you get 130 songs to play. You mail in for your free copy of Van Halen, and wait up to six weeks for delivery. Still, that gives you the game way before its December release date.
We're not all that excited about Van Halen, but this is a pretty good deal if you were interested in either game. Although it seems almost too good... is Activision trying to get gamers interested in Van Halen before it hits the budget bin, or does the company expect interest in both games to cool rapidly? Either way, this isn't a bad deal for gamers.


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A Costa Mesa man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and business partner pleaded not guilty to a murder charge Friday morning in Orange County Superior Court, according to the court's website.
On July 8, Thomas Michael Wilhelm, 48, drank cherry vodka, took prescription pills and loudly sang a Guns N Roses song before shooting and killing 45-year-old Christine Murray, court documents allege.
An earlier version of this story had the incorrect age for Christine Murray.
Wilhelm and Murray allegedly fought over ownership of the lawn sprinkler company that bore his name the day she was killed at the Redwood Avenue home the two shared with Murray's 8-year-old son.
In a transcript of a grand jury indictment the Daily Pilot obtained earlier this week, prosecutors say Wilhelm struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, which led Murray to question his ability to run the business.
Murray had become friends with one of Wilhelm's other ex-girlfriends who had also once been Wilhelm's business partner, the documents say.
Murray sent that woman text messages minutes before she was killed, the documents say. Murray wrote that Wilhelm was "drunk, locked in his room," and that she had told him they'd talk about the business when he was sober.
"Says he doesn't intend to ever be," she reportedly wrote. "Good then I don't need to change your name, you won't need it."
According to the testimony, Murray later texted the former girlfriend that Wilhelm was playing the song "Used to Love Her," which includes the lyrics, "I used to love her but I had to kill her."
Wilhelm allegedly shot Murray through a bathroom door, firing six rounds and hitting her in the chest, neck, arm and thigh. She was pronounced dead at Western Medical Center in Santa Ana.
Wilhelm is due back in court for a pre-trial hearing Feb. 1.
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As I mentioned in a previous post, Emory's MARBL is providing online access to a variety of historical maps of Atlanta. In addition, the Digital Scholarship Commons at Emory is working to produce an interactive map of 1930 Atlanta that will allow any type of data to be plotted, including the name, race, and gender of homeowners and detailed information about infrastructure at specific points, like whether a specific property had access to running water and electricity. As the project site states, "this combination of GIS technology and unique datasets will change the way Jim Crow Atlanta is studied."
In this video, MARBL curator Randy Gue discusses maps of Atlanta from 1878 and 1928 and how Emory is providing online access to these maps and beginning to build out the interactive map of 1930 Atlanta.


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Facebook Preparing More Visible Embrace of Android
By Evelyn M. Rusli and Amir Efrati
Facebook is moving to take a more prominent place on smartphones.
The social network has been developing new software for mobile devices powered by Google's Android operating system that displays content from users' Facebook accounts on a smartphone's home screen--the first screen visible when they turn on the device, people familiar with the situation said. Facebook will initially demonstrate the capability on smartphones from HTC, these people said, but has been working to reach similar arrangements with other device makers.
Facebook's move is designed to increase the amount of time people spend on its service and thereby boost potential revenue from advertising, these people added.
The company, which has been moving to boost its revenue from mobile devices, has already developed an app for Android devices. But users now have to find and click on the Facebook app.
"It's putting Facebook first," one person familiar with the matter said of Facebook's initiative.
Facebook, which has said it has more than 650 million mobile users, is planning to make the app broadly available for all Android devices, these people said. Manufacturers must make some tweaks to the Android software to allow the Facebook app to take over the device's home screen, they added.
Such changes by the manufacturer do not violate the agreements those companies made with Google to preserve the consistency of the experience that people have when they use Android devices, one person with knowledge of the matter said.
A Facebook spokesman declined to comment. On Thursday, Facebook sent an invite to reporters for an event next week, requesting recipients to "come see our new home on Android."
HTC declined to comment on its current relationship with Facebook. However, HTC noted that it previously launched the ChaCha phone, which had an extra Facebook button that allowed users to post directly to Facebook after taking a photo.
Facebook's move to become more deeply embedded into Android smartphones comes as the social networking company becomes increasingly aggressive on mobile. After several missteps, Facebook rejiggered the company last year to be mobile-centric, overhauling the structure of the organization and revamping its applications for Apple's iPhone and Google's Android operating systems.
While Apple's tightly controlled ecosystem offers little room for customization, Google's Android software is far more malleable, providing more latitude for Facebook and handset makers to shape the user experience.
In recent quarters, Facebook has encouraged its employees--many whom own iPhones--to spend more time on Android devices. Employees, for example, can now request a free Android handset, one person familiar with the matter said. For several months, several employees had also been testing the new version of the Android app expected to be unveiled on Thursday, this person added.
The new Facebook app doesn't appear to pose a direct threat to Google because it could potentially help phone makers and wireless carriers sell more Android devices --which include Google's revenue-generating search service, YouTube, Google Maps and other services--rather than those made by rival Apple Inc.
Android in recent years leapfrogged the iPhone to become the No. 1 operating system for smartphones globally, according to several research firms.
For HTC, deepening a relationship with the world's largest social network could help it boost its popularity amid stiffening competition. The Taiwanese company earlier this year announced a new flagship device called the HTC One that it hopes will reverse the market-share losses it has suffered over the past year as rival Samsung Electronics Co. has gained a commanding lead over all other Android-device makers.
The HTC One is designed to be a more social media friendly device and includes a feature called Blinkfeed that lets people view content from their accounts on Facebook, Twitter Inc. and other services directly on the device's home screen, without having to open the apps separately.
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They are all fantastic artists, with very different styles, and I urge you to go along, whether you are looking to add to your art collection, or would just like to see a diverse and accomplished selection of work.
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WikiLeaks makes all its U.S. diplomatic cables public
WASHINGTON — The whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks made public its entire cache of pirated State Department cables Thursday night in a torrent of once secret information that is sure to renew debate over the impact of one of the largest security breaches in U.S. history.
After nearly nine months in which the 251,287 cables had been trickling out at a pace that guaranteed there would be WikiLeaks documents still unreleased 10 years from now, the website announced on Twitter that all of the cables had been made public.
"Shining a light on 45 years of U.S. 'diplomacy,' it is time to open the archives forever," WikiLeaks said. The "tweet" included a link to the WikiLeaks website, showing all the cables had been made public.
In a statement emailed to reporters Thursday morning, WikiLeaks had anticipated the release, saying that in recent days it had become well known on the web that a book about WikiLeaks published last February by the British newspaper The Guardian contained the password that would allow anyone to open an encrypted file containing all the information that had been widely circulated on the Internet last year.
"Knowledge of the Guardian disclosure has spread privately over several months but reached critical mass last week," the statement said. WikiLeaks said it would release the remaining files to protect their impact on news events.
"Revolutions and reforms are in danger of being lost as the unpublished cables spread to intelligence contractors and governments before the public," the statement said.
That claim is likely to be challenged in coming days by many who believe WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, have exaggerated their impact on recent events, though the organization will also have its defenders.
In its statement, WikiLeaks took credit for helping to spark the Arab Spring with its publication, in partnership with the French newspaper Le Monde, of scathing cables from the U.S. ambassador to Tunisia about the now deposed Tunsian President Zine el Abidin Ben Ali and his family. It also said its quick publication of cables revealing Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman's ties to the CIA helped scuttle the possibility he would replace deposed President Hosni Mubarak.
But those claims are likely also to be balanced with debate over whether releasing the entire unredacted cache will place at risk innocent people whose names appear in the cables as sources of information for U.S. diplomats.
A search by McClatchy Newspapers of the cables found 1,900 in which U.S. diplomats had flagged the identities of sources with the admonition "strictly protect," though it is unclear how much danger many of those people would face. Among the individuals whose names carried that admonition was the finance minister of Mexico, the CEO of the ConocoPhillips oil company, and the American company Procter & Gamble.
But many others might be at risk of persecution including Shiite Muslim clerics in Sunni Saudi Arabia, religious leaders in Vietnam and businessmen willing to talk to American officials about life in places like Iran.
Despite the seeming suddenness of the release, it had been clear for some time that Assange had grown impatient with the slow pace with which the cables had been dribbling out.
WikiLeaks, in partnership with a small group of U.S. and European news outlets, began making the cables public Nov. 28. Under that arrangement, WikiLeaks would only post cables after the news organizations had read them and removed from them any information that would identify people whose lives publication might endanger.
But that arrangement guaranteed that the release of the cables would be slow, and the number of published cables languished in the low four figures for months.
Assange brought in more media partners, including McClatchy Newspapers, and began partnerships with regional news organizations around the world in hopes of speeding publication. Still, by mid August, fewer than 10 percent of the cables had been made public.
That began to change in late August as WikiLeaks began publishing tens of thousands of cables on its own and encouraging its 1 million followers on Twitter to read them and tweet their findings with the hash tag #wlfind.
Most of those cables were relatively benign unclassified documents, but the sudden release of so many cables — 133,000 additional cables in less than 10 days — raised questions of whether anyone could possibly have had the time to read them carefully and whether they might contain information that would put U.S. diplomats' sources in danger.
Then WikiLeaks released the full file.
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text: The California State University Center for Community Engagement Establishes Fundraising Effort in Celebration of 15th Anniversary 12/3/2012 Page Image Image Caption Page Content (December 4, 2012) – In March 2013, the California State University Center for Community Engagement (CCE) will commemorate its 15th anniversary, but the CCE will begin the celebration this December with a campaign to raise funds for CSU students and faculty. To kick off the anniversary celebration, the CCE will launch a $15,000 fundraising campaign on December 4 via Indiegogo.com (www.indiegogo.com/csu-cce). Funds collected will be made available as grants and scholarships to help support community engagement efforts throughout the CSU. "Our students live and support their families in the communities in which they serve. They recognize that what they do today will impact the generations of tomorrow. I am continually inspired by their commitment, creativity and passion," says Judy Botelho, CSU's director of the Center for Community Engagement. "While our fundraising goal is modest, the service-learning efforts of CSU students and faculty have a profound economic and social impact on the state of California and we are excited to recognize their efforts and help fund service-learning projects that will positively influence higher education, our state and our students." Service learning is a dynamic experience that allows students to enhance their in-class learning through active participation in and reflection of, meaningful work performed in their community. As part of its commitment to meet the ever-changing needs of California, the CSU boasts nearly 2,600 service-learning courses available annually. CSU students contribute 32 million hours of community service annually to California's communities resulting in a total economic impact of $697 million to the state. For more information about the CSU's Center for Community Engagement, please visit http://www.calstate.edu/cce/. ### About the California State University The California State University is the largest system of senior higher education in the country, with 23 campuses, approximately 427,000 students and 44,000 faculty and staff. The CSU awards over 95,000 degrees annually and since its creation in 1961 has conferred nearly 2.6 million. The CSU is renowned for the quality of its teaching and for the job-ready graduates it produces. The mission of the CSU is to provide high-quality, affordable education to meet the ever changing needs of the people of California. With its commitment to excellence, diversity and innovation, the CSU is the university system that is working for California. Connect with and learn more about the CSU at CSU Social Media. Show how the CSU matters to you and take action. Want to Learn More? Please contact: Public Affairs Department (562) 951-4800 Yes


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RIAA Lobbyist-Turned-Judge: ISPs Deserve Copyright Trolls For Not Stopping Infringement
from the activist-judges? deptWe've written about judge Beryl Howell a few times before. She's the recently-appointed judge whose immediate job prior to that was as a lobbyist for the RIAA. Before that, she worked for the Judiciary Committee and was apparently a key player in drafting the DMCA. It seems pretty damn clear that she holds a strong viewpoint on the nature of copyright law and copyright infringement -- but that hasn't stopped her from taking those cases, even when her rulings appear to be exactly the opposite of nearly every other court. For example, while most courts have been throwing out copyright trolling lawsuits for improper joinder, Judge Howell had no problem with the practice and ordered various ISPs to cough up names based solely on IP addresses.
The ISPs asked her to reconsider back in April, noting how pretty much every other court has ruled otherwise. The specific case involves well known trolling firm, Prenda Law, which is connected to one of the larger jokes in the copyright trolling business: John Steele. Steele's lawsuits have been laughed out of court and he's even been told to stop filing these bogus lawsuits, where the clear purpose is to use the judicial system as a weapon to force people (innocent or guilty) to pay up.
But apparently copyright trolls have found a friend in Judge Howell, who not only is welcoming them with open arms, but seems to be using these trolling cases to further the goals of her former employer. She's released her decision on the motion to quash the subpoenas, and it's basically a 42-page screed on the evils of infringement and how ISPs should be responsible for stopping piracy (much of which has absolutely nothing to do with the case at all). The only nod towards the other side seems to be a weak acknowledgement that "the Court recognizes that other Judges on this Court have reached different conclusions with respect to the legal questions posed by the ISPs" and thus she's agreed to stay her decision until the appeals court weighs in.
But she makes sure to get her arguments in for the appeals court to read, and it certainly feels like she reverted back to "lobbyist" mode, rather than "impartial judge."
She kicks off the polemic with a grand history of the DMCA, and how the task force that was created to write the DMCA originally wanted to pin liability on ISPs for actions done by their users. And while she admits that eventually the DMCA did include such liability protection, it seems clear she would have preferred it the other way. She then highlights the important court decisions from a decade ago, against the RIAA and in favor of Verizon and Charter, that ruled that the RIAA could not demand ISPs identify users without actually filing a lawsuit against them first. This, of course, was a basic recognition of basic privacy rights, and the fact that if you are going to expose someone's private info, you ought to at least file a lawsuit against them first. But, in the world of Judge Howell, apparently this was a bad decision. She approvingly cites the dissent in one of the key cases, claiming this somehow "unraveled" the balance struck in the DMCA. Nothing, of course, is further from the truth. That's a total rewrite of reality.
She also seems to suggest -- contrary to the very law she was just citing -- that ISPs have some sort of responsibility to "deter infringing activity."
Other than barebones references from two of the four movant ISPs that these subpoenas impose "a substantial administrative burden," the ISPs fail to present any witness or other evidentiary detail to demonstrate a burden to the Court, let alone what steps the ISPs are or could be taking to deter infringing activity on their networks to reduce any burden subpoena compliance engenders.This is a fascinating interpretation of the law. Basically, she says that if they're going to claim that copyright trolls are showing up with tens of thousands of IP addresses, demanding they all be identified, then that means they also have to show that they've taken "steps" to "deter infringing activity on their networks." In other words, if it's burdensome to the ISPs to identify users to copyright trolls, it's their own damn fault for failing to stop infringement. Seriously.
Oh, and then she flat out misrepresents the GAO's findings from a few years ago that found that all of the entertainment industry's claims about the impact of "piracy" were complete bunk. Yet, in the world of former RIAA lobbyist Judge Howell, the GAO actually came to the opposite conclusion:
The plaintiff's estimates regarding the amount of online infringing activity and the economic harm resulting from such activity is corroborated by a recent government report. See U.S. GOV'T ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE, GAO-10- 423, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: OBSERVATIONS ON EFFORTS TO QUANTIFY THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF COUNTERFEIT AND PIRATED GOODS 23-24 (2010) (estimating that U.S. economy annually loses $58 billion, over 370,000 jobs, and $2.6 billion in tax revenue as a result of copyright infringement over the Internet) (citing Stephen E. Siwek, THE TRUE COST OF COPYRIGHT INDUSTRY PIRACY TO THE U.S. ECONOMY, Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI), IPI Center for Technology Freedom, Policy Report 189 (Oct. 2007)).Uh, no. Go read what the GAO actually said. While the report does cite Siwek's widely discredited report of $58 billion in losses -- it does so only to say that Siwek did these studies and they claimed to show "ripple effects" beyond the immediate industry. However, most of the rest of the report highlights how those numbers, and others like them, cannot be substantiated and that most experts they spoke to found the methodology questionable. Furthermore, the report specifically calls out the reports that only try to calculate the negative impact, without even considering any possible positive impact, as being clearly misleading. That describe's Siwek's research exactly. Specifically, the GAO report noted:
Since there is an absence of data concerning these potential effects, the net effect cannot be determined with any certaintyIn other words, sorry, but the Siwek claim of $58 billion is hogwash. And yet Judge Howell pretends that the GAO has blessed this number.
The ruling goes on to defend its position, but basically says that there is no burden on the ISPs and if there is one, it's their fault. It also says that there is no issue of improper joinder to consider until after everyone's identified (at which point it won't matter, since that's all the copyright trolls want, so they can then shift to demanding cash from them). The whole thing, once again, raises significant questions about why a judge who had such a vested stake in pushing for an extreme maximalist view of copyright now gets to judge cases where key decisions are made about the interpretation of copyright law.
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Explore the historic highlights of Villeneuve-Loubet
The Goseck circle is a Neolithic circle structure. It may be the oldest and best known of the Circular Enclosures associated with the Central European Neolithic. It also may be one of the oldest Solar observatories in the world. It consists of a set of concentric ditches 75 metres across and two palisade rings containing gates in places aligned with sunrise and sunset on the solstice days.
Its construction is dated to c. 4900 BC, and it seems to have remained in use until 4600 BC. This corresponds to the transitional phase between the Neolithic Linear Pottery and Stroke-ornamented ware cultures. It is one of a larger group of so-called Circular Enclosures in the Elbe and Danube region, most of which show similar alignments.
Excavators also found the remains of what may have been ritual fires, animal and human bones, and a headless skeleton near the southeastern gate, that could be interpreted as traces of human sacrifice or specific burial ritual. There is no sign of fire or of other destruction, so why the site was abandoned is unknown. Later villagers built a defensive moat following the ditches of the old enclosure.
The Goseck ring is one of the best preserved and extensively investigated of the many similar structures built at around the same time. Traces of the original configuration reveal that the Goseck ring consisted of four concentric circles, a mound, a ditch, and two wooden palisades. The palisades had three sets of gates facing southeast, southwest, and north. At the winter solstice, observers at the center would have seen the sun rise and set through the southeast and southwest gates.
Archaeologists generally agree that Goseck circle was used for observation of the course of the Sun in the course of the solar year. Together with calendar calculations, it allowed coordinating an easily judged lunar calendar with the more demanding measurements of a solar calendar.


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I'm relunctant to defend this dumpster fire of a bill, but I do prefer arguments against it to be honest, and the main one right now isn't.
Immediately after the Congressional Budget Office report on the American Health Care Act came out, headlines coalesced around the finding that 24 million people would lose coverage compared to current projections. Ignoring the fact that the initial CBO estimates about Obamacare itself were hilariously wrong about increased insurance coverage compared to Medicaid expansion, the headlines about the GOP proposal are just wrong.
Yes, the CBO estimates that 24 million fewer people will have insurance or Medicaid coverage in 2026 if Trumpcare replaces Obamacare. However, the bulk of them will not "lose coverage"; they will choose not to purchase it.
Trumpcare replaces the individual mandate that taxes people for not having some form of health coverage with the ability for insurers to charge people more if they haven't had coverage recently.
If you stop forcing people to buy something…get this…fewer people will buy it. This isn't the dystopian crisis that left-leaning media and pundits suggest; it's their own panacea - choice. It's freedom. 24 million people will not be denied coverage, they will decide not to buy it. That is a decision free citizens should be allowed to make.
Freedom is sometimes expensive. In the case of the freedom to forgo health coverage, that expense can take the form of debt, illness, or death. But freedom itself is still an inherent good. Freedom from unconstitutional federal mandates even more so. The fact that some people use that freedom to make poor, costly choices does not negate that. And the fact that more people will be free to make those choices should not be a negative against the bill (there are plenty of those already), it should be a positive.


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I never believed that blog book tours work.
A blog book tour, for the uninitiated, is when an author appears on as many other blogs as possible, promoting their book. Sort of like actors doing a talk show circuit to promote a new movie.
I've never tried it before, but I came by my beliefs fairly. A few years ago, I had a contest with my friend and fellow author (not to mention self-promotional genius) MJ Rose. Our contest, if memory serves, was a virtual vs. physical book tour. She tried to make guest appearances on as many blogs as possible, while I tried to visit as many bookstores as possible.
I won. Not because MJ isn't an amazing marketer. But because this was 2006, and there weren't as many blogs, or blog readers, back then.
Well, now it's 2009, and I want to give it a shot.
As I've said ad nauseum, people don't like ads. They like information and entertainment.
So I'm going to give it to them. And I need your help.
I'm going to be contacting many of the blogs that I've linked to. Check the sidebar to see those blogs.
My blog, A Newbie's Guide to Publishing, gets several hundred thousand unique hits a year. You can see by the FEEDJIT Live Traffic Map (that world map picture in the upper righthand corner) how many people are currently reading me.
Would you like my readers to become your readers? Here's how we can make that happen.
I invite you to invite me on your blog. You can interview me about anything at all, like promotion, or writing, or publishing. You can ask me to guest blog on specific topics. You can have me do a meme list. The sky is the limit.
Then, in March. I'm not going to blog anything new. Instead, every day I'm going to post a link and tell my readers to go to your blog, where I'm appearing.
You know how blogging works. You'll get a lot of new hits from new readers, and if they like you, they'll bookmark you and return.
Besides linking to your blog on my blog (which gets 700 to 1000 hits a day), I'll link to your blog on my Twitter (383 friends), on my Facebook (1641 friends) and on my MySpace (13218 friends.)
Win-win. You get new readers. I reach new demographics.
Will this work? Hell if I know. But in my last newsletter, I asked for fifty people to review my latest novel, and I got well over a hundred responses.
If I can fill up every day in March with guest blog spots, I think it would mean more traffic for everyone involved.
So over the next few days, I'll be contacting bloggers to ask to guest post.
If you'd like me to guest post on your blog, contact me and we'll set a date in March.
I love experiments like this. If it fails, authors will know that it's a big waste of time and effort. But if it works, we could actually be laying down the framework for a way to self-promote that doesn't involve airplanes, hotels, author escorts, or big bucks.
Email me at haknort(at)wowway.com if you want to give this a shot.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
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Conservation project
Giovanni Segantini's 'Girl Knitting in Savognin' was acquired by the Gottfried Keller Foundation in 1909 and is part of the collection at the Kunsthaus Zürich. The picture, probably one of the great Alpine painter's most popular works, is a superb example of Segantini's Divisionist painting, in which each area of colour resolves itself into countless fine flecks of paint and nuances. It shows his favourite model, the Segantinis' maid Barbara 'Baba' Uffer, bent over her knitting.
Problems with the paint layer
Problems with the paint layer were first noted in the restoration file in 1970. At the time, a number of areas where the paint was lifting were consolidated using beeswax. Almost 50 years later, this major work is back in the Kunsthaus's restoration workshop. Poor adhesion of the paint layer has already resulted in numerous tiny areas of flaking.
Conservation measures
To achieve a durable consolidation of the paint layer, a number of binding agents and mixtures were first tested for adhesive strength and penetration to see which was most suited to the work. The best results were obtained with an aqueous solution of gelatin and methyl cellulose. After the completition of the consolidation, areas of paint loss were filled and retouched. The framing will be optimized to drastically reduce vibration of the canvas and thus arrest the ongoing destabilization of the paint layer.
The work is back on show in the collection.
Project period: June–December 2018
Supported by: Ars Rhenia, foundation for the transregional promotion of art and culture


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Pickups Limited Orange County hosted its annual Safety Inspection, and inspectors found a number of must-fix infractions that may exist on your truck!
Rudy Weber serves the Pickups Limited Orange County Chapter as its safety chairman and approaches his duties wearing a velvet glove over an iron fist. This became very apparent during this year's annual Safety Inspection where two dozen club members' F-series trucks were subjected to a 65-point checklist covering all of the truck's mechanical functions, from brakes to lights and every moving or stationary part in between. While having club trucks subjected to an annual safety inspection is mandatory, it is more of a service than an opportunity for fellow club members to be critical when it comes to the fabrication of each truck. Members' trucks are as diverse as their owners, who come from all walks of life. As for the club, the trucks are classic Ford F-1 and F-100 pickups and panels from 1948 through 1956, representing restorations to full-blown show trucks, having been built in home garages and driveways as well as street rod shops. An interesting point to the inspection is that few trucks pass every category, and rate at 100 percent; although, some items are only suggestions to make these trucks perform more efficiently.
Pickups Limited began in April 1968 as the result of a classified ad placed in the Pennysaver. The Orange County Chapter, boasting 40-plus members, is the oldest of seven nonprofit chapters located throughout Southern California. The Safety Inspection is free to all club members and was held this past March at Glenn's Brake & Alignment in Costa Mesa, California. Glenn Kerr's shop features a number of lifts, which made viewing each truck's chassis a much easier process than when the first Inspections were performed in parking lots using handtools and floor jacks. Safety inspections are a great idea—you don't have to belong to a club either, just gather a couple of your truckin' buddies and spend an afternoon going over your trucks. It may well save you some side-of-the-road time in the future or, more importantly, keep someone from getting hurt.
Pickups Limited members are a hands-on bunch, so Weber (aka Bigfoot) quickly organized teams whose duties were to review the operations of lights, wiring, and glass, as well as pulling wheels and brake drums to inspect the condition of the shoes and springs. This assembly line process served to expedite the procedure and get more members involved.
Once on the lift, Weber and Chris Travers manned the shop lights and checklists, looking for each and every defect, from rubbing hard lines to leaks and even potential suspension woes or frame cracks. Larry Lopez ("Spray Can" Larry), the club's former safety inspector, took over in the afternoon as this became a daylong event.
Kerr, shop owner and fellow Pickups Limited member, spent time reviewing several trucks including my ride upon discovering a rear seal leak, but his primary focus of the day was providing lunch. Kerr grilled yellowfin burgers from a recent deep-sea fishing adventure. The food was great!
At the end of the day everyone was presented a copy of their safety inspection form. Once all of the adjustments and corrections have been made, each club member then receives a small windshield sticker verifying his truck has passed inspection. Orange County members are a unique bunch and turn every outing into fun, even though this day's purpose is serious business. After all, the idea is to promote vehicle safety, ensure the club's trucks are roadworthy, and that each truck is safe to be driven in one of many caravans to outings throughout the year. Whether you are a club or just a fun-loving bunch of friends, take a hint and hold your own safety inspection. It is a good way to know that your fellow truckers will be able to safely stop in time and get to the show without breaking down. For more information on Pickups Limited Orange County Chapter, check the website at www.pickupslimited.com. CT


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I've long been fascinated with the Hindu festival Rangwali Holi, which is celebrated in part by wild and joyous color fights in the streets. Random strangers bombard each other with brightly colored dust and water. The festival signifies the victory of good over evil, and for many it is a joyous day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships. It is also celebrated as a Thanksgiving for a good harvest. Many summer music festivals here in the U.S. have also adopted the color throws as part of their shows.
So when I was offered the opportunity to host a party from Just Add Color, I jumped at the chance.
This is a small company which seems to truly believe in the mission of spreading joy and excitement in their wake. They were extremely attentive every step of the way, and the company founder was eager to answer any questions and offer helpful tips.
My party experience did get off to a slightly rocky start. One of the bags of colored dust burst during shipping, so by the time it arrived it was leaking blue dust everywhere. My mail person wasn't pleased, BUT it since has only added to the legend. I am, of course, the only person you know who gets fifteen pounds of exploding color dust in the mail and somehow doesn't get interrogated by the FBI.
The company was again very nice, offering to send a replacement bag if I had needed it.
The kit itself was well-thought-out. It included a party guide with tons of ideas and hints on how to have a successful event. The guide stresses preparation, which I agree with. If you don't set some things up ahead of time and just end up throwing the color around until it's gone, you're going to have a short and unsatisfying party. A little bit of planning goes a long way.
The kit also included three bags of ultra bright color dust: pink, purple and blue; cans of compressed air that also release dust; wristbands for guests with the hashtag #justaddcolor; three plastic bottles with lids; and stockings called color bonkers. The bottles can be filled with dust and have a narrow opening that can be used to write or paint with color. The kids at our party had fun finding clean spaces in the grass to draw their names. The bonkers were kind of genius- they're basically just pantyhose, but when filled with dust the material slowly allows it to filter out. These are soft enough to throw at each other and create dramatic clouds of color all around.
When inviting people to your party, it's important to stress that they should wear old clothes. The dust is non-toxic and actually safe to ingest (though it doesn't taste very good!), but it might stain clothing. You can also offer trash bags for people to sit on as they ride home so their car upholstery won't need to be cleaned. I honestly found clean-up easier than expected. You may have a few moments of, "Dear lord, what have I gotten myself into?," upon seeing a small horde of color-soaked children, but I promise, it isn't that bad.
We decided to start out with some bubble experiments. We had big bubble wands and thought it might be possible to mix the color into the soap to create colored bubbles. This was only semi-successful, but still fun. I think if there had been only older kids, it would have been easier. I still do think if you had enough patience you could capture the haze of smoky dust inside of the bubbles.
The kids were all eager to get dirty, though, so we moved on to pumpkin painting. We had pre-mixed lots of bowls full of color dust, water and lotion. (Notice how all of the stuff we used for mixing, from bubble soap to body lotion actually helps the color come off easier later.) We let the kids just dive in hands first, which is what they really wanted. After concentrating intently on their pumpkin masterpieces, the painting soon began to spread to faces and hair. The only criticism I heard was that they would have liked even MORE colors. I think yellow would be a good one to add, since it could be mixed to create greens and oranges.
I should note that we kept the party treats super simple for this- just some suckers and drinks in disposable cups. If you're planning this for a birthday or want something more substantial like pizza, I would do that part before diving into the color.
We moved on to games like color tag and an "egg race" where we substituted spoonfuls of dust for the eggs. The kid with the most dust in the spoon at the end got to throw it on the losers. The color bonkers were a huge hit, with kids swinging them around and creating dance moves that ended in clouds of dust. Everyone got into it, from the baby who ended up with a blue mohawk down to my dog, The Mighty Thor Thunderpaw, who wanted to be pastel for Halloween anyway.
I really couldn't recommend this party experience highly enough. Everyone had so much fun and I know it will be remembered and talked about for years to come.
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Transfusions and HIV Infection
All blood collected in the U.S. is now screened for six infectious agents: HIV-1, HIV-2, HTLV-1, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and syphilis. All potential donors are interviewed before they are tested and informed that if they have a risk factor for HIV they should not donate. Every unit of donated blood with a positive result from HIV antibody testing is discarded, and future donations are not accepted from those persons.
Historical information shows that, as of the end of June 1992, CDC had received reports of 4,959 AIDS cases (300 of these in children under 13) resulting from receipt of blood transfusions, blood components, or tissue. Most of these cases are due to transfusions received before March 1985, when HIV screening of blood and blood products began; only 21 cases (out of the total 4,959) have resulted from screened blood. In March 1987 CDC recommended that physicians consider offering HIV antibody testing to patients who received transfusions between 1978 and late spring of 1985.
Studies estimating the risk of becoming infected with HIV from a blood transfusion screened as negative for HIV antibody have been conducted. Early estimates ranged from 1 in 38,000 to 1 in 300,000 per unit of transfused blood. A study by the University of California, San Francisco, of blood donations made in San Francisco between November 1987 and December 1989 estimated this risk to be around 1 in every 61,000 units of transfused blood. A study using data from more than 17 million American Red Cross blood donations in 1987 estimated that the odds of contracting HIV infection were roughly 1 in 153,000 units of transfused blood. A recent study by CDC and the American Red Cross of Red Cross blood donors, or approximately half of the U.S. blood supply, estimated that the risk of HIV transmission from screened blood in 1990 was 1 in 225,000 units.
These figures are accurate for the populations studied and the periods in which the studies were conducted. They provide useful information for estimating this risk for the general population. It is important to understand that HIV infections from transfusions of blood screened as negative for HIV antibody have been extremely rare and have become progressively infrequent, even in areas with high HIV prevalence rates.