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Missouri Passes Gun Nullification Bill
We've seen several states take this route, including Kansas (and other states, such as South Carolina, are looking to block implementation of Obamacare). Missouri is the latest
(Fox News) The Missouri Legislature sent the governor a bill Wednesday that would expand gun rights and declare all federal gun regulations unenforceable, in a response to President Obama's push for gun control legislation.
The Republican-led Legislature passed the measure hoping to shield the state from federal proposals that would ban assault weapons and expand background checks. But the U.S. Senate's defeat of a background check expansion three weeks ago did nothing to assuage the fears of Missouri Republicans who pressed forward with their legislation.
The Missouri House voted 118-36 Wednesday to send the bill to Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon. The Senate passed the measure earlier this month.
Obviously, Democrat gun grabbers are spitting mad (nothing new, that's their normal state)
Opposition came mostly from House Democrats who said the measure would increase access to guns and make schools less safe. They argued the measure doesn't address gun violence in urban areas.
Strangely, those urban areas tend to vote mostly Democrat. One would think that Democrats would be in favor of allowing their constituents to have the ability to defend themselves from the crime that Democrat policies creates. It's not particularly helpful if one's voters are, you know, dead.
The legislation, if it is signed by the governor, would also allow certain designated people to have concealed carry on school grounds, but they would have to pass a special certification program. It would increase open carry ability. It would stop the release of gun permit holder information. And it would stop doctors from asking if a person has a gun.
Top cop Eric Holder, whose department ran guns into Mexico, will surely send a nasty letter and threaten lawsuits. Still waiting for him to send a letter to Colorado over their marijuana law.
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CentOS has updated java-1.6.0-openjdk (C7; C6; C5: multiple vulnerabilities).
Debian has updated eglibc (multiple vulnerabilities), wireshark (denial of service), and xen (multiple vulnerabilities).
Fedora has updated python-django (F20: multiple vulnerabilities) and python-django14 (F20: multiple vulnerabilities).
openSUSE has updated flash-player (13.2, 13.1; 11.4: code execution).
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Red Hat has updated java-1.6.0-openjdk (RHEL5,6,7: multiple vulnerabilities) and java-1.6.0-sun (RHEL5,6,7: multiple vulnerabilities).
Scientific Linux has updated java-1.6.0-openjdk (SL5,6: multiple vulnerabilities).
SUSE has updated flash-player (SLE12: code execution).
Ubuntu has updated oxide-qt (14.10, 14.04: multiple vulnerabilities) and firefox (14.10, 14.04, 12.04: regression in previous update).
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Security advisories for Monday
CentOS has updated jasper (C7: multiple vulnerabilities).
Debian has updated jasper (multiple vulnerabilities), mysql-5.5 (multiple vulnerabilities), polarssl (code execution), squid (denial of service), and websvn (information disclosure).
Debian-LTS has updated libevent (denial of service) and websvn (information disclosure).
Fedora has updated docker-io (F20: multiple vulnerabilities), grep (F21: heap buffer overrun), java-1.7.0-openjdk (F20: multiple vulnerabilities), java-1.8.0-openjdk (F21; F20: multiple vulnerabilities), kde-runtime (F20: misuse of crypto), kernel (F21: restriction bypass), python-django (F21: multiple vulnerabilities), and xdg-utils (F21: command injection).
Mageia has updated aircrack-ng (multiple vulnerabilities), chromium-browser-stable (multiple vulnerabilities), jasper (multiple vulnerabilities), and java-1.7.0-openjdk (multiple vulnerabilities).
openSUSE has updated Firefox (11.4: multiple vulnerabilities), libevent (13.2, 13.1: denial of service), openssl (13.2, 13.1: multiple vulnerabilities), shotwell, vala (13.2: heap buffer overflow), and thunderbird (13.2, 13.1: multiple vulnerabilities).
SUSE has updated flash-player (SLED11 SP3: unspecified vulnerability) and vsftpd (SLES11 SP3: unauthorized access).
Ubuntu has updated ghostscript (10.04: multiple vulnerabilities), jasper (14.10, 14.04, 12.04: multiple vulnerabilities), and unbound (14.10, 14.04: denial of service).
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New open source dependency manager on the scene (Opensource.com)
At Opensource.com, Jordi Mon introduces the biicode project, an open-source dependency-management system for C and C++ applications that is akin to Ruby Gems or the Python Package Index. It is a challenging goal, he says, "because there are approximately 4 million C/C++ developers, and both languages represent up to almost 20% of the world's code." The project was started as a proprietary service, and only recently transitioned into an open-source project.
Friday's security updates
CentOS has updated jasper (C6: multiple vulnerabilities).
openSUSE has updated dbus-1 (13.1, 13.2: multiple vulnerabilities), elfutils (13.1, 13.2: directory traversal), flash-player (13.1, 13.2: memory randomization circumvention), otrs (13.1, 13.2: authentication bypass), roundcubemail (13.2: cross-site request forgery), strongswan (13.1, 13.2: denial of service), and wireshark (13.1, 13.2: multiple vulnerabilities).
Oracle has updated jasper (O6; O7: multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated jasper (RHEL6,7: multiple vulnerabilities), java-1.7.0-oracle (multiple vulnerabilities), and java-1.8.0-oracle (RHEL6: multiple vulnerabilities).
Scientific Linux has updated jasper (SL6,7: multiple vulnerabilities).
SUSE has updated flash-player (memory randomization circumvention) and rpm (SLE12: multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated elfutils (directory traversal), mysql-5.5 (12.04, 14.04, 14.10): multiple vulnerabilities, and samba (14.04, 14.10: privilege escalation).
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Fedora has updated binutils (F21: two vulnerabilities), cross-binutils (F21; F20: multiple vulnerabilities), exiv2 (F21: denial of service), libsndfile (F21: code execution), and python-pillow (F21: denial of service).
Mageia has updated freeciv (code execution).
Oracle has updated java-1.7.0-openjdk (OL5: multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated java-1.7.0-openjdk (RHEL6&7; RHEL5: multiple vulnerabilities), java-1.8.0-openjdk (RHEL6: multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (RHEL6.5: multiple vulnerabilities), and openssl (RHEL6&7: multiple vulnerabilities).
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Security advisories for Wednesday
CentOS has updated java-1.7.0-openjdk (C7; C6; C5: multiple vulnerabilities), java-1.8.0-openjdk (C6: multiple vulnerabilities), and openssl (C7; C6: multiple vulnerabilities).
Debian has updated privoxy (use after free) and sympa (information disclosure).
Fedora has updated elfutils (F20: directory traversal), gd (F20: memory leak), libsndfile (F20: multiple vulnerabilities), and openssl (F20: multiple vulnerabilities).
Oracle has updated java-1.7.0-openjdk (OL7; OL6: multiple vulnerabilities), java-1.8.0-openjdk (OL6: multiple vulnerabilities), and openssl (OL7; OL6: multiple vulnerabilities).
Scientific Linux has updated java-1.7.0-openjdk (SL6,7; SL5: multiple vulnerabilities), java-1.8.0-openjdk (SL6: multiple vulnerabilities), and openssl (SL6,7: multiple vulnerabilities).
Slackware has updated samba (privilege escalation).
SUSE has updated bind (SLE12: denial of service).
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Tuesday's security updates
Debian has updated icedove (multiple vulnerabilities).
Debian-LTS has updated tomcat6 (exception on empty XML attributes).
Mageia has updated binutils (multiple vulnerabilities), coreutils (code execution), elfutils (directory traversal), file (denial of service), iceape (multiple vulnerabilities), moodle (multiple vulnerabilities), and otrs (privilege escalation).
SUSE has updated libpng16 (SLE12: two vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated thunderbird (14.10, 14.04, 12.04: multiple vulnerabilities).
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Security advisories for Monday
Debian has updated lsyncd (command injection) and xdg-utils (command execution).
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Fedora has updated elfutils (F21: directory traversal), gd (F21: denial of service), libhtp (F21; F20: denial of service), thunderbird (F21: multiple vulnerabilities), and xen (F21; F20: denial of service).
Mageia has updated firefox, thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities) and python-django, python-django14 (multiple vulnerabilities).
Mandriva has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).
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Slackware has updated freetype (code execution), firefox (multiple vulnerabilities), thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities), and seamonkey (multiple vulnerabilities).
SUSE has updated firefox (SLE12: multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated libevent (14.10, 14.04, 12.04, 10.04: denial of service), libssh (14.10, 14.04, 12.04: denial of service), and rpm (14.10, 14.04, 12.04: code execution).
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September 7, 2006
SOUTH YARMOUTH, Mass.--The 2005 Cape Cod League all-star game featured North Carolina teammates Daniel Bard and Andrew Miller on the mound to start the game, beginning a scoreless duel that also featured pitchers such as Tim Lincecum and Brandon Morrow who pushed radar gun readings toward the 100 mph mark.
The big pitching name of the 2006 edition of the game was . . . Matt LaPorta?
"Hey," one scout joked while the all-star affair was still ongoing, "he hit 88 (mph)."
LaPorta, the Florida slugger who led the nation in home runs in 2005 and has 54 career homers in three seasons with the Gators, said it was his first time on the mound in a game since he was a freshman at Charlotte High in Punta Gorda, Fla. Yet that was the type of affair the Cape Cod all-star game at Dennis-Yarmouth High's Red Wilson Field devolved into. The East won 7-2 behind three RBIs, including a two-run homer, by Orleans' Josh Satin (California). Satin hit just .222/.311/.299 for the Bears this spring.
About the only thing more surprising than Satin's star turn was the fact he didn't pitch. The losing pitcher for the West was Mitch Moreland (Mississippi State), who was added to the all-star roster after winning the early-afternoon home run derby with a 25-blast display. Moreland and LaPorta were among the four position players used on the mound in the all-star game who don't usually pitch, a situation that vexed the approximately 80 scouts on hand, as well as the quiet crowd of 3,761.
Scouts were headed for the exits by the seventh inning, which would not have been the case if actual pitchers were being used or if all the players were running out every ground ball.
"I've never seen anything like it, and I think I can speak for the other scouts that we're all very disappointed," one veteran scouting director said in sentiments echoed by at least three of his colleagues. "The clubs take scouting the Cape Cod League very seriously, and you can see all the scouts who are here and are leaving early.
"This is about as bad as I've seen it for an all-star game. The league is probably going to hear about this from the clubs."
Cape League officials were girding for such a discussion. A difficult summer weather-wise, with plenty of postponements, led to a compressed schedule and several doubleheaders scheduled for the season's last two weekends. East manager Scott Pickler (Cypress, Calif., CC) of host Yarmouth-Dennis said the integrity of the Cape schedule and pennant races were more important than possibly damaging arms scouts wanted to see, such as closers Josh Fields (Georgia) of Y-D or Falmouth's Eddie Kunz (Oregon State).
"If we had used a pitcher for an inning here who say pitched two days ago, we're changing the rotation for one of the teams going for a pennant, and I don't want to ruin a team's chance to win a pennant because that would damage the integrity of the league," Pickler said. "I don't know if a day off would help either, because the scouts don't just come here for the all-star game--they're here for a week, and if you take a day away with five games the day before, that would seem to be worse."
Commissioner Paul Galop said the league would be happy to discuss possible changes with Major League Baseball and its clubs but added that the later NCAA schedule--as recently as 1998, the College World Series ended June 6; now it ends three weeks later--already has compressed the Cape schedule significantly.
"We need to establish how we handle it in the future," Galop told the Cape Cod Times. "This year . . . is a bit of an aberration (because of the weather). But that's not to say it can't happen again."
The game had its highlights. Falmouth outfielder Brad Chalk (Clemson) continued his solid summer (.310) with a pair of hits and a stolen base, while a pair of high-profile transfers also performed well. Hyannis third baseman Matt Mangini had a hit in two trips; he's moving from North Carolina State to Oklahoma State, rejoining assistant coach Billy Jones, who recruited him to Raleigh but now works in Stillwater.
West starter Charlie Furbush tossed a scoreless frame, retiring highly touted East starters Buster Posey (Florida State) and Matt Wieters (Georgia Tech). Furbush, who pitched for Division III St. Joseph's (Maine) last spring and threw a no-hitter against Bourne this summer for Hyannis, will transfer to Louisiana State.
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WILMINGTON, N.C.--The East Coast Showcase featured a bevy of the top prospects from the Class of 2007. But not even the 94s and 95s that were flashing on radar guns could match the heat at UNC Wilmington's Brooks Stadium.
With temperatures climbing near 99 degrees and heat indices in excess of 105, the four-day showcase wasn't easy to endure for the players or the hundreds of scouts and college coaches in attendance. The event, which was been dubbed the "East Roast Showcase," has never lived up to that moniker better than this year.
"It's always hot, but it's hard to remember all four days being this intense," said UNC Wilmington head coach Mark Scalf, his gray t-shirt drenched with sweat.
Fortunately, the talent lived up to expectations, too. An impressive collection of the nation's best rising seniors from the eastern half of the country largely reinforced the perception that this year's prep class is potentially one of the best the new millennium.
"It seems like there's some good depth in high school and some guys at the top who have a chance to be front-line major league players," said a scout with a National League organization.
The conditions at the East Coast Showcase took a toll on the position players, as well as the pitchers, but at week's end it was the pitching on hand that stood out the most.
Righthander Michael Main (Deland, Fla. High) entered the event as the highest ranked player in the class, and he pitched well in a three-inning outing, but it was clear that he has some company at the top of the list. Matt Harvey (Fitch High, Groton, Conn.), was the first pitcher to toe the rubber at Brooks Field, and he might have been the best. The righty struck out six in two innings, sitting near 90 mph and touching 93 mph. The son of a coach, Harvey's feel for pitching and secondary stuff are advanced and refined. He shows an ability to spot his pitches to all four quadrants of the strike zone, and he overmatched good hitters.
Main was up to 94 mph, and while his athleticism is superior to Harvey's, his delivery isn't as clean or effortless. Harvey's fastball command might be ahead of Main's as well, as indicated when Main was touched up for two runs on four hits. He showed deft feel for a nasty changeup in his second inning and finished stronger than he started, leaving for a compelling debate.
"Main had the best velocity, but is it the best fastball that plays? I wouldn't say that without some hesitation," a scout said. "And Harvey is the same way. I have seen guys get pretty decent cuts off him. Main threw some good changeups, so that is going to help his fastball, obviously, but it's a good argument: Who pitches best with his fastball?"
Rick Porcello, a righthander from Seton Hall Prep (West Orange, N.J.), made his second appearance on a national stage in less than a week and was as efficient as any pitcher in Wilmington. Porcello followed a poor outing at the Cape Cod Classic four days earlier with two impressive innings. He touched 94 mph and flashed a 71 mph curve that was among the best at the event.
Lefthanders Madison Bumgarner (South Caldwell High, Hudson, N.C.) and Jack McGeary (Latin High, Roxbury, Mass.) also impressed, with Bumgarner matching up with righthander Jarrod Parker (Norwell, Ind., High) in a showdown of differing styles.
Parker's velocity was down from the mid-90s he flashed earlier in the summer, and he was touched for seven hits in three innings. He's lean and athletic, with a good delivery and feel for his breaking ball and changeup. Bumgarner, 6-foot-5, 220 pounds, struck out five with one hit allowed in three shutout innings. His delivery and arm action are exquisite, helping make up for the fact he threw just one below-average breaking ball in his stint.
"The one thing he showed us he could do was pitch off his fastball, and he did that effectively," said a crosschecker with a National League club. "And it looked like if he needed to get some more, he could go get it. It's so early that he has got to be one of the top guys in the country, at least the top lefty."
McGeary's feel for pitching could be the best in the class. His fastball sits in the mid-80s, but because of his smooth delivery and athleticism, his upside is apparent.
Commitments to summer league teams precluded three of the top position players from the East Coast from attending the showcase. Noteworthy was the absence of outfielders Michael Burgess (Hillsborough High, Tampa) and Jason Heyward (Henry County High, McDonough, Ga.) and shortstop Justin Jackson (Roberson High, Asheville, N.C.). Without the trio, there was a void of position players with high-round draft potential.
Preps Put On Better Cape Show
WAREHAM--In contrast to the Cape all-star game the next day, the second annual Cape Cod High School Classic, staged by Baseball Factory and Team One Baseball, went off without a hitch. Team One's squad beat Baseball Factory 6-1.
The score of the game was essentially immaterial. The approximately 75 scouts who signed in were there to see some of the top players in what appears to be a strong 2007 high school draft class. The event was clearly planned with the scouts in mind--the home run derby started at 8:30 a.m. and the game began at noon, which gave the scouts and college recruiters on hand time to see the game, then fan out to Cape regular-season games that afternoon and evening.
Middle infielder John Tolisano (Estero, Fla., High) has played in major showcases since he was 14. In the fall of 2003, Tolisano was the lone class of 2007 players at Perfect Game's World Wood Bat tournament in Jupiter, Fla. Now finally coming to his draft year, the home-schooled Tolisano has worked hard to maintain his place near the top of the '07 class. He won the home run derby and showed solid tools both at the plate (with a quick, short stroke) and in the field, though scouts doubt he'll remain a shortstop.
"The summer schedule is really important because there's more continuous playing, more of a professional schedule," Tolisano said. "I love playing so much, it's not really a problem that the schedule gets kind of long. I've been to East Cobb (Ga.), Perfect Game events, then I'll go to Wilmington (East Coast Showcase) and the Aflac game, but I love to play, so I don't think it's a problem that there are so many events.
"This event is as good as any. I've got family from Connecticut that was able to come up here and see me, which was great, and they treated us very well. It was a good group of guys and a fun couple of days."
Tolisano edged lefthanded-hitting Anthony Rizzo in the home run derby, and Rizzo also had an RBI single as part of his impressive day. Team One's Rizzo was one of three players from Florida's Douglas High in Broward County who played in the game, as teammates Joey Hage and Daniel Elorriaga-Matra played for Baseball Factory. Two other impressive performers were Cypress (Calif.) High infielder Josh Vitters, who took home the MVP for Team One with a pair of hits, and Canadian righthander Phillippe Aumont, who flashed an 89-92 mph fastball and one of the most impressive frames at the event at 6-foot-7, 225 pounds.
"This was a great experience because I really like facing this kind of competition," Vitters said. "I think I thrive more against better pitchers, guys who throw harder. These pitchers are consistently throwing harder than what I am used to seeing in high school.
"Playing in the Cape has been something I always wanted to do, and whether or not I play in college, now I can at least say I've done that."


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A good story, and those are the very reasons why I chose a marina north of the New Bedford Hurricane Barrier. While, it may be a bit of an inconvenience at times, being up on the Acushnet river, north of the swing bridge and hurricane barrier means that my boat wasn't exposed to the strong storm surge that the boats in Padanaram faced. Also, the only direction my marina has much exposure to strong winds from is the southwest, which is generally not the direction of the winds found in most storms from my experience. :D
October 28th was so mild, we decided to sleep aboard at the marina that night . . . what a ride! The wind was out of the southwest on Narragansett Bay - being tied to dock on the east side with a high freeboard and exposed on the west with constant 50 mph wind, 60 mph gusts, we were heeled over at least 10-15 degrees all night. At times it felt as if we would be knocked down at dock.
I think you mean October 27th. October 28th had very strong winds, at least in New Bedford and Fairhaven.
We slept aboard the night of highest winds . . . that was Saturday night, the 28th. The temps were unseasonably mild, but not the wind.
Ahh... I thought you meant the winds were mild, which they certainly were on Friday, but the temps were pretty mild throughout.
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A VALE student has been celebrating after winning silver for his college in a prestigious gardening show.
Josh Egan-Wyer's hard efforts were rewarded after his garden design saw Pershore College achieve success at this year's Malvern Spring Gardening Show.
The second-year BSc Horticulture student's 'Humble Bee Garden' attracted much interest at the four-day event held earlier this month.
The garden had a tree as a focal point, supported by four planting areas containing herbaceous plants, herbs, grasses and annuals which are all beneficial to pollinating insects.
It also featured a special 'wine rope' which is a rope covered in wine and sugar to attract adult moths and other insects.
The 20-year-old said he was overwhelmed by the comments made about his garden by visitors to the annual show.
"I'm absolutely delighted that all the hard work has paid off and it makes it all worthwhile, especially with what the public have had to say about the garden," he said. "People said how fantastic it was and that it was almost worth it just coming to see our garden.
"We had an absolutely fantastic time building it. We got a lot of help from people some of whom were up at 4.30am to help and I could not have done it without them. This is a shared medal between everyone who helped."
Julia Page, assistant principal, added: "We are really proud of the gardens we had on display at this year's Spring Gardening Show. Staff and students put in many hours of effort to get them looking as good as they did on the weekend.
"The sun might not have shone throughout the event but I'm sure we brightened up a few people's day with our gardens."
Visitors to Pershore College's Open Day tomorrow (Saturday) will be able to see Josh's garden recreated in the college grounds. The event takes place at 10am until 4pm.
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'Bugs Rule' at ESA Meeting
Bugs do rule, and they'll rule at the 59th annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America (ESA), to take place Nov. 13-16 in the Reno-Sparks Convention Center, Reno.
At the event, the UC Davis Department of Entomology will be one of the most honored departments in its history.
Professor Frank Zalom, in line for the presidency of the 6000-member association, will be installed as vice president-elect and will begin his term Nov. 16. Professor James R. Carey and Diane Ullman, professor and associate dean for undergraduate academic programs in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, will be inducted as ESA fellows, an honor limited to 10 persons per year.
Michael Parrella, professor and chair of the Department of Entomology, will receive the Distinguished Achievement Award in Horticultural Entomology, and professor Walter Leal, the Nan-Yao Su Award for Innovation and Creativity in Entomology.
Harry Kaya, emeritus professor of entomology and nematology, will be honored at a special seminar titled "Entomopathogenic Nematodes: Their Biology, Ecology, and Application. A Tribute to the Dynamic Career of Harry K. Kaya." Ed Lewis, acting chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, is among the coordinators.
Three other faculty members are moderating/organizing or co-conducting symposiums. They are James R. Carey, "Insect Demography: Emerging concepts and Applications"; Neal Williams, "Biodiversity, Global Change and Insect-Mediated Ecosystem Services," and Walter Leal, "Insect Olfaction and Taste: Identifying, Clarifying and Speaking about the Key Issues." Each will also deliver a lecture.
Leal and Parrella are among the most active UC Davis members of ESA. Leal is serving on the Presidential Committee on the International Congress of Entomology (ICE), to be held Aug. 19-25 in Daegu, South Korea. Parrella holds a seat on the ESA Governing Board, representing the Pacific Branch of the ESA.
Graduate students will also be quite involved at the ESA meeting. The UC Davis Linnaean Team will participate in the annual competition. The team includes Matan Shelomi, who studies with major professor Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology; Meredith Cenzer, who studies with Louie Yang; Andrew Merwin, who studies with Michael Parrella; Mohammad-Amir Aghaee, who studies with Larry Godfrey; and Hanayo Arimoto, with studies with Ed Lewis. The team earlier won first place in the Pacific Branch competition.
Another highlight is a student debate: "Identify...Clarify...Speak Out! Land Grant Mission, Organic Agriculture & Host Plant Resistance Programs." UC Davis entomology graduate students will team to argue the pro side: Matan Shelomi, Mohammad-Amir Aghaee; Andrew Merwin; Meredith Cenzer, and Kelly Hamby (she studies with major professor Frank Zalom).
There's also the fun side. A video created by UC Davis undergraduate student Heather Wilson, who works in the Frank Zalom lab, is entered in the open division category of the ESA YouTube Contest. Her entry, "I Wanna Be an Entomologist," is a a parody of the hit song, "I Wanna Be a Billionaire." Wilson filmed the video in the Zalom lab and the Bohart Museum of Entomology. On the serious side, she'll present her research on the Spotted Wing Drosophila: "Seasonal Movements of Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in a Multi-Crop Setting." Watch Heather Wilson's video
In addition, scores of other UC Davis representatives--faculty, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars--will present their work.
Yes, bugs do rule!
This was scrawled on a Briggs Hall blackboard during an annual UC Davis Picnic Day. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Pulitzer Prize in the Bug World
Being named a Fellow of the 6000-member Entomological Society of America (ESA) is like winning the Pulitzer Prize in the bug world.
So many talented entomologists out there. So few awards. And even fewer prestigious awards.
When the ESA today announced its 10 Fellows for 2011, two University of California, Davis professors were on the list: Diane E. Ullman, who doubles as the associate dean for undergraduate academic programs in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and James R. Carey, considered the world's foremost authority on arthropod demography and a world expert on the invasion biology of tephritid fruit flies, particularly the Mediterranean fruit fly.
Ullman's research revolves around insects that transmit plant pathogens, in particular plant viruses. She is best known for advancing international knowledge of interactions between thrips and tospoviruses and aphids and citrus tristeza virus.
With the additions of Ullman and Carey, the number of ESA Fellows in the UC Davis Department of Entomology totals 15 since 1947, quite an accomplishment for one department.
Read about the Ullman/Carey accomplishments on the UC Davis Department of Entomology website.
Three others affiliated with the UC System made the list:
--Anthony A. James, a distinguished professor of microbiology and molecular genetics in the School of Medicine and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences at UC Irvine.
--Brad Mullens, professor of entomology, College of Agricultural Sciences, UC Riverside, and
--Fred Stephen, who began his forest entomology career at UC Berkeley and is now a professor of entomology at the University of Arkansas
Elsewhere throughout the country, the coveted honor went to Susan Brown, professor of biology at Kansas State University; Angela Douglas, professor of insect physiology and toxicology at Cornell University; Frank Gilstrap, former biology control faculty member with Texas A&M and now retired; Naomi Pierce, Hessel professor of biology at Harvard University; and Marlin Rice, former professor at Iowa State University and now a senior research scientist with Pioneer H-Bred International in Johnston, Iowa.
The 10 new Fellows will be inducted at the ESA's 59th Annual Meeting, set Nov. 13-16, 2011 in Reno, Nev.
The Fellow awards are quite prestigious as the ESA Governing Board can select no more than 10 each year. The society, founded in 1889, is the largest organization in the world serving the professional and scientific needs of entomologists and people in related disciplines.
Headquartered in Lanham, MD, the organization is affiliated with educational institutions, health agencies, private industry and government. Members are researchers, teachers, extension service personnel, administrators, marketing representatives, research technicians, consultants, students, and hobbyists.
Some folks toast their accomplishments with a bottle of champagne. We suspect these 10 newly selected Fellows might just tip...an insect net.
Diane Ullman, entomology professor and associate dean at UC Davis, is a newly elected Fellow of the Entomological Society of America. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Professor James R. Carey of UC Davis, considered the world's foremost authority on arthropod demography, is a newly selected ESA Fellow. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
There's Something About Maggots...
There's something about maggots that non-forensic entomologists don't like.
"Those are the larvae of a fly," a mother told her inquiring daughter last Saturday at the Maggot Art table at Briggs Hall, UC Davis campus. The occasion: the 97th annual UC Davis Picnic Day.
Maggot Art? It's been part of the UC Davis Department of Entomology's featured Picnic-Day attractions since 2003.
It started with graduate student Rebecca O'Flaherty, who coined the name, "Maggot Art," and established it as an educational curriculum. She's taught youths and adults alike to dip a maggot in non-toxic, water-based paint and let it crawl (or guide its movements) on white paper. Voila! Maggot Art!
"The beauty of the Maggot Art program," O'Flaherty told us a few years ago, "is its ability to give hands-on, non-threatening experience with an insect that most people fear or loathe."
So last Saturday, scores of children crowded around the table awaiting their turns. Once finished, they literally danced away with their masterpieces.
Can't you just see the result? A favorite aunt or uncle comes to visit and there's a colorful "painting" on the refrigerator.
"What's that?"
"Maggot Art."
That's definitely a conversation piece.
Anyway, one of the Maggot Art artists at UC Davis Picnic Day was entomologist-artist Diane Ullman, associate dean for Undergraduate Academic Programs, UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and professor in the UC Davis Department of Entomology. Ullman and colleague Donna Billick co-founded and co-direct the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program and on occasion invited O'Flaherty into their classrooms to teach Maggot Art.
Last Saturday, when Ullman volunteered to staff the Maggot Art table, she found a little time to create her own insect art--again.
"It's just like old times," she said.
This work, Maggot Art, is by entomologist/artist Diane Ullman. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Entomologist/artist Diane Ullman (left) at work with Maggot Art. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Don't Miss 'Specimens'
The UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program and the Pence Gallery, Davis, are co-sponsoring a "Consilience of Art and Science Exhibit," set Jan. 14-Feb. 27, at the Pence Gallery, 212 D St., Davis.
This will include several special events: a reception on Jan. 14 from 6 to 9 p.m.; a talk by Byron Wolfe, photographer and professor of art at California State University, Chico, who will discuss the work of pioneer photographer Eadweard Muybridge; and a juror's walk-through from 6 to 7 p.m., Feb. 11. All are free and open to the public. (See more information.)
Diane Ullman, co-founder and co-director of the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program, and James Housefield, professor of design at UC Davis, juried the show, which drew artists from California, including Davis and northern California; New Mexico, Oregon, Washington state, and New York.
"The artwork we received from artists across the nation explores the creative nexus where art and science interconnect," said Ullman, associate dean for undergraduate academic programs at the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and professor of entomology. "The exhibit is visually and intellectually exciting and we commend the Pence Gallery for sponsoring it."
Said Housefield: "Artists' investigations of the forms, structures, practices, and philosophies of science have provided long provided ways for the general public to dream about what art and science can become. We are very fortunate that the resources of the University of California, the arts communities of Davis, and a national array of contemporary artists come together in the space where art and science meet. I hope that this version of the 'Consilience' exhibition will spark more conversations about the ways that artists and scientists may inspire one another."
One of the works, by Joanna Kidd of Davis, is titled "Specimens." It is comprised of three wall cases and a floor case. Specimens are small human sculptures (see top photo), all pinned and displayed as they would be in an insect collection.
So very creative!
Housefield's comment about the ways that artists and scientists can inspire one another definitely holds true with "Specimens."
Diane Ullman
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Tribute to the Bees
A gigantic bee sculpture and bee hive columns are major attractions at the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of the California, Davis.
The grand opening of the half-acre bee friendly garden took place Sept. 11 but the garden is open year around at no charge. Located on Bee Biology Road, west of the central campus, it is proving to be a major campus destination.
The key goals of the haven are to provide a year-around food source for the Laidlaw bees and other pollinators; to raise public awareness about the plight of honey bees; to encourage visitors to plant bee-friendly gardens of their own; and to serve as a research site.
Noted artist Donna Billick created the six-foot-long sculpture, "Miss Bee Haven," located beneath an almond tree. The UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program provided the ceramic tiles around the bench and the bee hive columns.
Billick and entomologist Diane Ullman co-founded and co-direct the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program. Ullman, professor and former chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, serves as the associate dean for Undergraduate Academic Programs, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Plans are in the works for more art from the Art/Science Fusion Program to bee-utify this bee friendly garden.
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Ellwood Girls Basketball Brings Home a Victory
The Lady Wolverines returned home victorious from Central Valley yesterday. Ellwood slammed in the first quarter 16-2, continuing this streak into the second quarter, 18-12. Although Central Valley had a second half comeback, Ellwood maintained the lead, winning 53-37. Junior Karington Ketterer led the Lady Wovlerine's offense with 21 points. Other scorers for Ellwood were Bailey McKinney (9), Emily Brown (7), Allie McKelvey (6), Jocelyn Guy (5), Sydney Shurtz (4), and Katelyn Wardman (1). The … Continue reading
Riverside Sports Schedule: Jan. 30 – Feb. 7 (amended due to weather)
The Riverside High School sports schedule for Jan. 30 through Feb. 7 is as follows: Friday, January 30 3:30PM — Boys Freshman Basketball Ellwood City HS Away 6:00PM — Boys Junior Varsity Basketball Lincoln Park Away 7:30PM — Boys Varsity Basketball Lincoln Park Away Postponed from Thursday, January 29 to Friday, January 30 due to weather: 6:00PM — Girls Junior Varsity Basketball Mohawk Home 7:300PM — Girls Varsity Basketball Mohawk Home Saturday, January 31 10:00AM … Continue reading
Freezing Rain, Snow Causes School Delays
Temperatures yesterday bordered at the freezing point, creating a dangerous mix of freezing rain and snow. Lawrence and Beaver counties were under a freezing rain advisory until 4 p.m. At night, when temperatures dropped, snowfall continued, accumulating about 2 inches. As a result, Lincoln High School and Hartman Intermediate School were dismissed 10 minutes early yesterday to give buses extra time. Many after school activities were cancelled in both Ellwood and Riverside school districts. Continued … Continue reading
Local Author Mark Barnes Guest Speaker at Rotary Club
The Rotary Club of Ellwood City met on Thursday Jan 22nd at the Connequenessing Country Club. David Braymer led the singing of God Bless America and Herman Feldman gave a traditional Jewish dinner blessing. Jean Barsotti conducted the 50/50 drawing won by Jim Meehan. She also collected Happy Bucks. Jennifer Tomon was presented a certificate of meritorious service to the Rotary. Guest speaker for the evening was Mark Barnes, accompanied by his wife Jeannie. He … Continue reading
POLICE: Domestic Violence and Theft
Domestic Violence: According to the police report, Chantile Shelby, 28, of Division Ave, called the police around 2:30 a.m. on January 27 to report that her son's father had choked her. Shelby informed police that she did not require EMS. The investigating officers arrived and were told by Shelby and her 7-year old son that the suspect, Andre Harris, 20, had pushed Shelby against the wall and choked her. Police arrested Harris. His bond was … Continue reading
Mayor Honors Christmas in the Park Volunteers
Mayor Anthony J. Court presented the following commendations to Robert Baird and Sam Pawlowski for their volunteer work in the community, specifically during "Christmas in the park." Robert Baird Mayor Anthony J. Court and the Ellwood City community would like to recognize and commend you for the years you have dedicated to volunteering in your community and for the volunteer work you have given to the Ellwood City "Christmas in the Park" for the past … Continue reading
2015 Rumble Party a Smashing Success
Hometown hero Shane Douglas defended Ellwood City in an epic battle inside and outside the ring. The main event of the 2015 Royal Rumble Party saw world champions Douglas, of New Brighton, and Detroit's Rhino battle through the Sons of Italy Hall to prove who was the real champion. In the end, hometown favorite Douglas triumphed. An enthusiastic crowd packed into the Sons of Italy on Sunday, January 25, to watch five matches between locally … Continue reading
2nd Street Detour Announced
The 2nd Street Overpass, long in need of repair, will be demolished the week of Feb. 15. As the bridge is a vital hub from Route 288 into downtown, the Borough will enact measures to decrease traffic congestion. In addition, the detour route will avoid Crescent Ave in front of Hartman Intermediate School. At the Borough Council meeting on Monday, January 19, the members voted in a measure to temporarily restrict parking in affected areas. … Continue reading


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American Civil War
So Atlanta Is Ours, and Fairly Won
In the above dispatch on September 3, 1864 Sherman informed Chief of Staff Halleck of the news that Atlanta had fallen. Hundreds of telegrams, and thousands of letters, of congratulation from the great and humble of the North descended on Sherman's headquarters. In his memoirs Sherman noted the two he cherished above all: →']);" class="more-link">Continue reading
August 31, 1864: Death Comes For Father Emery
Destiny attended Emmeran Bliemel at his birth on the feast day of Saint Michael the Archangel, patron saint of soldiers, in 1831 in Bavaria. From his early boyhood his burning desire was to be a missionary to German Catholics in far off America. Joining a Benedictine Abbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania in 1851, he was ordained a priest in 1856. →']);" class="more-link">Continue reading
August 31, 1864: Battle of Jonesborough
Frustrated by his failures to cut the railroad lines to Atlanta, Sherman at the end of August 1864 decided to use most of his force to accomplish that goal. On August 25, Sherman marched six of his seven corps out of the siege lines of Atlanta and moved them south east to cut both the rail lines into Atlanta. Hood sent out Hardee with two corps to attempt to stop the Union movement.
By the 28th the Union was in control of a section of West Point & Atlanta Railroad and Sherman's men were busy destroying it. On the 30th, the Union corps closed in on Jonesborough, held by Hardee. Hardee launched an attack on the Union force on the morning of August 31, that was beaten back after hard fighting. Fearing a direct attack on Atlanta, Hood withdrew Stephen Lee's corps from Hardee that evening. On September 1, 1864, Sherman attacked the heavily outnumbered Hardee at 4:00 PM. After tenacious fighting by the Confederates, the Union troops took Jonesborough and the last rail line into Atlanta. Atlanta was now untenable for the Confederates to hold.
Here are Sherman's comments on the movement that led to the fall of Atlanta: →']);" class="more-link">Continue reading
August 29, 1864: Democrat Party Platform
The convention of the Democrats in 1864 to nominate a standard bearer for President opened on August 29, 1864 in Chicago. The convention was badly split between War Democrats and Peace Democrats. The Peace Democrats were strong enough to have a platform approved which dealt with one issue, the War, and which was highly critical of a continuation of the War and called for immediate peace negotiations:
Resolved, That in the future, as in the past, we will adhere with unswerving fidelity to the Union under the Constitution as the only solid foundation of our strength, security, and happiness as a people, and as a framework of government equally conducive to the welfare and prosperity of all the States, both Northern and Southern.
Resolved, That this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretense of a military necessity of war-power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view of an ultimate convention of the States, or other peaceable means, to the end that, at the earliest practicable moment, peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States.
Resolved, That the direct interference of the military authorities of the United States in the recent elections held in Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Delaware was a shameful violation of the Constitution, and a repetition of such acts in the approaching election will be held as revolutionary, and resisted with all the means and power under our control.
Resolved, That the aim and object of the Democratic party is to preserve the Federal Union and the rights of the States unimpaired, and they hereby declare that they consider that the administrative usurpation of extraordinary and dangerous powers not granted by the Constitution; the subversion of the civil by military law in States not in insurrection; the arbitrary military arrest, imprisonment, trial, and sentence of American citizens in States where civil law exists in full force; the suppression of freedom of speech and of the press; the denial of the right of asylum; the open and avowed disregard of State rights; the employment of unusual test-oaths; and the interference with and denial of the right of the people to bear arms in their defense is calculated to prevent a restoration of the Union and the perpetuation of a Government deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed.
Resolved, That the shameful disregard of the Administration to its duty in respect to our fellow-citizens who now are and long have been prisoners of war and in a suffering condition, deserves the severest reprobation on the score alike of public policy and common humanity.
Resolved, That the sympathy of the Democratic party is heartily and earnestly extended to the soldiery of our army and sailors of our navy, who are and have been in the field and on the sea under the flag of our country, and, in the events of its attaining power, they will receive all the care, protection, and regard that the brave soldiers and sailors of the republic have so nobly earned. →']);" class="more-link">Continue reading
In Defense of John Bell Hood
Yellow-haired Hood with his wounds and his empty sleeve,
Leading his Texans,
a Viking shape of a man,
With the thrust and lack of craft of a berserk sword,
All lion, none of the fox.
When he supersedes Joe Johnston, he is lost, and his army with him,
But he could lead forlorn hopes with the ghost of Ney.
His big boned Texans follow him into the mist.
Who follows them?
Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown's Body
Few Civil War generals get as bad a historical trouncing as John Bell Hood. A talented regimental, division and corps commander, his tenure as commander of the Army of Tennessee is regarded as a disaster, with Hood being depicted as a reckless head on fighter who threw away any chance of victory by losing Atlanta and then leading his army to near annihilation during the Franklin-Nashville campaign. I have largely accepted that historical verdict, but a new book, John Bell Hood, The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of a Confederate General, gives me pause.
Stephen M. "Sam" Hood, a distant relative of the general, does a masterful job of defending Hood from sloppy historical accounts. For example, the quote from John Brown's Body about Hood being all of the lion and none of the fox has often been falsely attributed to Robert E. Lee. Among many other historical howlers that have made their way into historical accounts is that Hood, due to his injuries, was a laudanum addict. Stephen Hood demonstrates that there is no contemporary evidence to substantiate this. Stephen Hood does a service in this book, not just to General Hood, but also to Civil War scholarship. Too many supposed factoids about the War, firmly ensconced in secondary sources, are mere fables, and John Bell Hood, The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of a Confederate General is an unsettling book length demonstration of how these myths need to be dispelled. →']);" class="more-link">Continue reading
August 25, 1864: Second Battle of Ream's Station
The massive casualties taken by the Army of the Potomac since the beginning of Grant's drive on Richmond had destroyed the combat effectiveness of many units in the Army, with large numbers of veteran troops either killed or in hospital to recover from wounds and the ranks filled up with hastitly trained recruits. This decrease in combat capability was dramatically demonstrated at the Second Battle of Reams Station. On August 24, Grant sent Hancock and his II corps south along the Weldon railroad to destroy as much of the rail line currently in Confederate hands as he could, to increase the difficulties of the Confederates in transporting supplies from the portion of the Weldon railroad they stilled controlled to Petersburg and Richmond.
All went well initially with Hancock's corps destroying three miles of track. However on the afternoon of the 25th a Confederate attack routed the II corps, with Hancock being forced to withdraw to the Union fortified lines. Union casualties were 2,743 to 814 Confederate. 2073 of the Union casualties were prisoners, many of whom surrendered after only brief resistance. Hancock's reaction to all this, no doubt remembering the days when his troops were considered the elite of the Army, was to remark in despair to an aide as he was unable to rally his retreating troops: "I do not care to die, but I pray God I may never leave this field." →']);" class="more-link">Continue reading
August 23, 1864: Secret Cabinet Memo
Something for the weekend. We are Coming Father Abraham, written by Stephen Foster in 1862. Few songs better conveyed Northern determination to win the War. However, by August 1864 that determination seemed to be wearing thin.
With the War stalled both East and West Union morale was faltering. On August 22, 1864 Lincoln received a letter from Republican party chairman Henry J. Raymond suggesting that Lincoln offer peace terms to Jefferson Davis on the sole term of acknowledgement of the supremacy of the Constitution with slavery to be dealt with at a later date. Lincoln's morale remained unshaken, but he was a veteran politician and could read the political tea leaves as well as any political prognosticator. That he read defeat in the tea leaves is demonstrated by what has become known as The Blind Memorandum. Lincoln sealed this document and on August w3, 1864 asked his cabinet officers to sign it unread. They complied. Here is the text:
This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.
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August 22, 1864: Lincoln Addresses the 166th Ohio
Lincoln, six feet one in his stocking feet,
The lank man, knotty and tough as a hickory rail,
Whose hands were always too big for white-kid gloves,
Whose wit was a coonskin sack of dry, tall tales,
Whose weathered face was homely as a plowed field–
Abraham Lincoln, who padded up and down
The sacred White House in nightshirt and carpet-slippers,
And yet could strike young hero-worshipping Hay
As dignified past any neat, balanced, fine
Plutarchan sentences carved in a Latin bronze;
The low clown out of the prairies, the ape-buffoon,
The small-town lawyer, the crude small-time politician,
State-character but comparative failure at forty
In spite of ambition enough for twenty Caesars,
Honesty rare as a man without self-pity,
Kindness as large and plain as a prairie wind,
And a self-confidence like an iron bar:
This Lincoln, President now by the grace of luck,
Disunion, politics, Douglas and a few speeches
Which make the monumental booming of Webster
Sound empty as the belly of a burst drum.
Stephen Vincent Benet
(I originally posted this on February 9, 2012. The comments it contains regarding my late son Larry reminds me that in this Vale of Tears we can never know the ending of our personal history, but we can do our best to make it a tale worth reading when we come to our end, something that I think both Mr. Lincoln and my son accomplished on vastly different scales.)
Today is the 203rd birthday of the Sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. The above video is an interesting and imaginative interview of Lincoln, if the film technology of the Thirties of the last century had been available in 1860.
Lately I have been reading a book on Lincoln with my autistic son. I point at the words and he reads them, an early morning ritual we have carried out for the last 14 years. Young Lincoln's struggles against the poverty of his early years, and his lack of more than one year in total of formal education, strikes a chord with me in regard to my son's struggles against his autism. One of the many reasons why I find Mr. Lincoln's life endlessly fascinating is the theme throughout it of the most extraordinary possibilities in all of us, no matter the cards that Fate dealt to us initially. more
August 18, 1864: Capture of the Weldon Railroad
On August 17, 1864 Grant was heartened when he received a telegram of support from President Lincoln. Go here to read about it. Grant remarked to his staff after reading the telegram: "The President has more nerve than any of his advisors."
Lincoln had advised Grant: Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible. Unbeknownst to the President, Grant already had underway an operation to do just that. Major General Gouverneur K. Warren was ordered by Grant to take his V corps, supported by units of the IX and II corps and a small cavalry division, and move to the left to capture a section of the Weldon railroad, the main supply line for the Confederate forces at Richmond and Petersburg, which led south to Wilmington, the last major port of the Confederacy.
By 9:00 AM on August 18, 1864, Warren had brushed aside Confederate pickets and reached the Weldon railroad at Globe Tavern. He deployed a division of his corps to destroy track, held another division in reserve and set another brigade, deployed in line of battle, north to guard against Confederate attempts to retake the railroad. A.P. Hill, launching his attack at 2:00 PM used two divisions from his corps to retake Globe Tavern, but Warren counterattacked and recovered the ground he lost, his troops entrenching as night fell.
On the 19th, the IX corps reinforced Warrens V corps while the Confederates received three brigades of Major General William Mahones' division along with "Rooney" Lee's cavalry division. Mahone, cementing his reputation, after the part he played in retaking the Crater, as one of the best generals for the Confederacy in 1864, launched a slashing flank attack that captured two Union brigades. A Confederate frontal assault by Major General Henry Heth was easily repulsed, and the fighting ended with a IX corps counterattack leading to hand to hand fighting as nightfall brought a close to the day's fighting.
Torrential rains on the 20th prevented large scale combat. Warren withdrew on the night of the 20-21 to a new fortified line. Confederate attacks failed to dislodge him, and the battle of Globe Tavern ended with the Union in permanent possession of several miles of the Weldon railroad which necessitated the Confederates to bring in supplies to Petersburg and Richmond thirty miles from the nearest section of the Weldon railroad not under Union control. Union casuaties were 4, 296 to 1,620 Confederates but the noose had been tightened around Petersburg and the Confederacy.
Here are the comments of General Grant on this operation in his Personal Memoirs: →']);" class="more-link">Continue reading
August 17, 1864: Lincoln to Grant
The gaunt man, Abraham Lincoln, lives his days.
For a while the sky above him is very dark.
There are fifty thousand dead in these last, bleak months
And Richmond is still untaken.
The papers rail,
Grant is a butcher, the war will never be done.
The gaunt man's term of office draws to an end,
His best friends muse and are doubtful. He thinks himself
For a while that when the time of election comes
He will not be re-elected. He does not flinch.
Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown's Body
In August of 1864 the bottom seemed to be giving out from underneath the Union war effort. Grants's drive against Richmond and Sherman's drive against Atlanta seemed to have stalled, with Confederate armies holding tenaciously to both cities. Casualties, especially in the eastern theater of the War, had been appallingly high since the campaigning season opened in April, and after a massive effusion of blood the War seemed no closer to a Union victory. Northern governors feared draft riots in their cities in the face of a growing conviction that the South could not be conquered. On August 15, Grant wrote to Chief of Staff General Henry Halleck, in response to proposals that troops could be sent from the Army of the Potomac to put down draft riots:
CITY POINT, VA., August 15, 1864-9 p. m.
Major-General HALLECK,
Washington, D. C.
If there is any danger of an uprising in the North to resist the draft or for any other purpose our loyal Governors ought to organize the militia at once to resist it. If we are to draw troops from the field to keep the loyal States in harness it will prove difficult to suppress the rebellion in the disloyal States. My withdrawal now from the James River would insure the defeat of Sherman. Twenty thousand men sent to him at this time would destroy the greater part of Hood's army, and leave us men wherever required. General Heintzelman can get from the Governors of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois a militia organization that will deter the discontented from committing any overt act. I hope the President will call on Governors of States to organize thoroughly to preserve the peace until after the election.
Lincoln responded to Grant, and, if the anachronism may be allowed, his message back had a Churchillian ring to it: →']);" class="more-link">Continue reading
Ye Cavaliers of Dixie
Something for the weekend. Ye Cavaliers of Dixie, sung by Bobby Horton who has fought a one man crusade to bring Civil War music to modern audiences. Written by Benjamin F. Porter, the song was a riff on the popular song Ye Mariners of England.
August 14, 1864: Second Battle of Deep Bottom
In late July Northern newspapers were filled with the raids into the North being staged by Jubal Early and his corps in the Shenandoah Valley. In order to distract Lee from sending reinforcements to Early, Grant decided to make another attempt on Richmond at the sector named Deep Bottom north of the James River. (Grant had just made a similar attempt at Deep Bottom to divert Confederate attention just before the mine explosion of the battle of the Crater. Go here to read about the first battle of Deep Bottom.) As in the first battle of Deep Bottom, Hancock's corps crossed to the north side of the James, with hard fighting on August 14-20. Hancock could not make any substantial headway and withdrew south of the James on the night of the 20th. Union casualties were 2,889 -1500 Confederates.
Here is Grant's account of this operation in his Personal Memoirs: →']);" class="more-link">Continue reading
Battles Around Atlanta
Following the Battle of Atlanta, the Union effort to put Atlanta under siege began. Of course, so long as the Confederates controlled the rail lines out of Atlanta leading to the Atlantic & West railroad and the Macon & Western railroad, the city was not really under siege. Sherman now manuevered to take these rail lines. At the battle of Ezra Church on July 27, 1864, a movement by Howard's Union Army of the Tennessee against the Confederate rail lines was stopped by two corps of the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Stewart and S.D. Lee. Howard, who had the presence of mind to entrench one of his divisions prior to the Confederate attack, inflicted some 3,000 casualties on the Confederates in exchange for 642 of his own. However, his movement against the Confederate rail lines was thwarted. A simultaneous Union cavalry raid on the rail lines came to grief with both Union divisions being smashed by the Confederate cavalry under Major General Joseph Wheeler.
Continuing his effort to extend his right to cut the Confederate rail lines, in early August Sherman moved the small Army of the Ohio, which consisted of the XXIII corps, under Major General James Schofield from his left, and through August 5-7, a division of Schofield's army attempted to break through the Confederate lines south of Utoy creek without success. Total Union casualties were 850 to 35 Confederate, showing yet again the folly of attempting to attack prepared defenses at this stage of the War. Sherman was stymied again.
Here is Sherman's report on these engagements:
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August 3, 1864: Lincoln to Grant
The gaunt man, Abraham Lincoln, lives his days.
For a while the sky above him is very dark.
There are fifty thousand dead in these last, bleak months
And Richmond is still untaken.
The papers rail,
Grant is a butcher, the war will never be done.
The gaunt man's term of office draws to an end,
His best friends muse and are doubtful.
Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown's Body
By the beginning of August 1864 Lincoln began to suspect that he was going to lose re-election and the Union was going to lose the War. Grant, at an immense cost in blood, had pushed Lee back to Richmond and Petersburg, but both cities still were controlled by the Confederates and Lee's army was still a force to be reckoned with. The North was still reeling from Early's victories in the Shenandoah, his daring raid on Washington and his burning of Chambersburg on July 30. In the West the Confederate Army of Tennessee still clung to Atlanta, and the Confederacy still controlled almost all of its heartland. The War seemed to be entering a stalemate, and if it remained so until November, Lincoln would be a one term president and the Union would be permanently sundered. With that on his mind, Lincoln sent a warning telegram to Grant. Lincoln never lost his faith in Grant, but clearly he wanted Grant to understand that unless victories were forthcoming the Union was in peril. Ironically, in this telegram Lincoln approves Sheridan being place in command in the Shenandoah, and it was Sheridan's string of victories in the fall that probably ensured Lincoln's re-election: →']);" class="more-link">Continue reading
July 30, 1864: Debacle at the Crater
When looking at the battle of the Crater, it is a study in contrasts. The digging of the tunnel and the explosion of the mine at dawn on July 30, 1864, go here to read about the tunnel construction, was a tribute to the ingenuity and sheer compentence of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pleasants and his men of the 48th Pennsylvania, who, with almost no help from the rest of the army, gave the Army of the Potomac a golden opportunity to take Petersburg and bring the War to a rapid conclusion. That this opportunity was missed was largely attributable to criminal incompetence on the part of the generals involved.
Here are the generals who contributed to the debacle:
1. Grant and Meade-Burnside, the commander of the IX corps making the assault, had trained a division of United States Colored Troops to lead the advance after the explosion of the mine. The day before the battle Meade, concerned that the attack would fail and that their would be political repercussions if black troops incurred heavy casualties as a result, ordered Burnside to assign a white division to lead the attack. Burnside protested this decision, but Grant backed Meade up.
2. Burnside-Burnside had the white division chosen by lot rather than picking the best division. Burnside made no effort to make certain that his attacking divisions had access ways cleared of debris and fortifications so they could rapidly advance after the explosion. He made no effort to inform the new white division leading the assault that it was to go around any crater created by the explosion instead of going down into it, which is precisely what the attacking divisions did, making themselves sitting ducks at the bottom of a large hole when the Confederate counter-attack began. Rather than calling off the attack after it became obvious that no breakthrough was possible, Burnside kept feeding troops into the Crater with the only effect being to lengthen the list of Union dead and wounded.
3. James H. Ledlie-Brigadier General James H. Ledlie earned a notable distiction during the battle. It was not unusual for Civil War generals to make bad decisions, and to not infrequently show a distinct lack of common sense, however almost all of them were very brave men. Ledlie was not. In addition to being a very bad commander as indicated by his failure to inform his division of what was expected of them after his division was chosen by lot to lead the assault, he spent the battle drunk and well behind the lines, safe and secure as his men went into the meat grinder. He richly earned his dismissal from the Army after the battle.
4. Edward Ferrero-Brigadier General Edward Ferrero was the foremost dance instructor in the country prior to the War. He should have stuck to that trade. The commander of the black division involved in the battle of the Crater, he spent the battle in the same bomb proof dugout behind the line as Ledlie, and he shared Ledlie's bottle with him. Ferrero's behavior is somwhat incomprehensible as he had shown extreme valor in other battles. Astonishingly he was not cashiered from the service, and in December of 1864 he received a brevet promotion to Major General of Volunteers for "bravery and meritorious services".
With this type of leadership it is no wonder that the attack failed. The initial mine explosion killed 278 Confederates and wounded hundreds of others. For 15 minutes the stunned Confederates did not fire at the attacking Union units. Union troops went down into the Crater and within an hour were receiving heavy fire from Confederate troops at the top of the side of the Crater facing Petersburg. Confederate Brigadier General William Mahone, in charge of the Confederate counterattack, called it a turkey shoot. Instead of calling off the attack when it became clear that the Confederates had sealed the breach caused by the explosion, Burnside kept sending divisions, including the black division, down into the Crater where they were quickly slaughtered. Some Confederate troops murdered black troops who were trying to surrender. When General Lee heard of this he supposedly sent a message to General Mahone telling him to put a stop to this or he would be removed from command.
Union casualties were 4000 to 1500 for the Confederates. The whole debacle was the subject of a lengthy investigation by the Congressional Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.
Here is Grant's assessment of the fiasco from his Personal Memoirs: →']);" class="more-link">Continue reading
Digging of The Tunnel at Petersburg
By far the most unusual event during the siege of Petersburg was the attempt by Grant to take Petersburg by a huge mining operation.
The idea of the tunnel was devised by Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pleasants, the 33 year old commanding officer of the 48th Pennsylvania. Pleasants was a mining engineer in civilian life and many of his men were coal miners. He became convinced that his men could dig a tunnel under the Confederate fort known as Elliot's Salient, then fill a mine under the fort sufficient to blow it to kingdom come, along with nearby Confederate trenches. Pleasants took the idea to his corps commander Major General Ambrose Burnside. He and his men had received permission, but he received virtually no assistance from the rest of the Army in the digging of the tunnel, he and his men having to improvise everything they used. Engineering officers told Pleasants that he was crazy and at 511 feet the tunnel would be too long and his men would die of asphyxiation digging the tunnel long before it could be completed.
The tunnel was elevated as it advanced toward the Confederate fort to prevent moisture clogging it up. Fresh air was pumped in by air-exchange mechanism near the entrance. Pleasants had constructed a ventilation shaft located well behind Union lines, and connected it to the mine with canvas. At the shaft's base, a fire was kept continuously burning. A wooden duct ran the entire length of the tunnel which protruded into the outside air. The fire heated stale air inside of the tunnel, forcing it up the ventilation shaft and out of the mine. The resulting vacuum then sucked fresh air in from the mine entrance via the wooden duct which transported the fresh air to the digging miners.
The took took a bit over two weeks to dig and the mine fifty feet under the Confederate fort took almost another two weeks to construct. It was filled with four tons of gunpowder. The Confederates attempted some desultory countermining operations, but the Union tunnel troops went about their work undiscovered. By July 28, 1864 the mine was ready to explode whenever the high command gave the word. That word would be given on July 30, 1864.
Here is a portion of an article on the tunneling operation that led up to the Battle of the Crater, written by Major William H. Powell, United States Army, which appeared in volume 4 of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. →']);" class="more-link">Continue reading
The Past: Through A Contemporary Glass Darkly
When I was down in Springfield last week, go here to read about my family's annual pilgrimage to the Lincoln sites this year, I purchased several books at The Prairie Archives. That bookstore is a treasure trove for those interested in the Civil War and/or Lincoln. Two of the books were written by James G. Randall, the first volume of his four volume study of Lincoln as President and his Constitutional Problems under Lincoln. Randall, who died in 1953, was a history professor at my alma mater, the University of Illinois, for three decades. The foremost Lincoln scholar of his day, his body of work on Lincoln demonstrates how historians are influenced by the contemporary history they live through, and how the march of history after they are dead can make their interpretations obsolete, at least until history shifts again.
The formative event in Randall's life was World War I. He viewed the immense carnage as a huge waste, a war fought over issues that were unimportant compared to the huge loss of life involved. World War II confirmed his belief in the futility of war, as he interpreted that conflict as being brought on by fanatics, this time Fascists, who caused millions of deaths in a completely unnecessary conflict.
In regard to the Civil War, Randall saw it too as an unneccessary conflict brought on by fanatics, fire eating secessionists in the South and, especially, abolitionists in the North. Randall viewed the abolitionists as earning most of the blame for bringing on the War, turning political differences over slavery to be settled by compromise, into a crusade that could only be resolved by rivers of blood.
Randall summed up his argument in a paper entitled The Blundering Generation delivered to the Mississippi Valley Historical Society on May 2, 1940 at a conference in Omaha, Nebraska. Randall's thesis was that the War largely came about over a controversy over slavery that was merely a phantom. There was never a question that the Western territories were going to be free territories due to the greater numbers heading for the West from the North, and the unwillingness of slave holders in the South to risk their slaves in the West on land not suitable for large scale plantation crops such as cotton and where they would be without the legal protections afforded by slave states to slaves as a species of property.
Randall's argument found considerable support during his lifetime, but now is rarely presented as a viewpoint held by contemporary historians. Why? →']);" class="more-link">Continue reading


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Best Indian Restaurant Denver 2008 - Royal Peacock - CLOSED
Readers' Choice: Little India
For more years than we can remember, Royal Peacock has been serving not just the best Indian food in the area, but some of the best Indian food anywhere — the kind you can eat once and dream about for years after, or eat every day and still crave at midnight. There's no gimmickry here, no flash, no bizarre international fusions or misguided attempts at modernization. Instead, the menu is full of brilliant and full-flavored versions of somasa, murgh chaat, boti kebab, Goan masala and more, a humble offering of honest, delicious dishes passed down through generations of a restaurant family who have long been the best at what they do.