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I just found out yesterday afternoon that I was pregnant with number 2. We weren't exactly trying, but we weren't "not" trying either. I didn't have any of the symptoms that I had last time so I was definitely caught off guard when the doctor said I was pregnant. DH was definitely happy, which is nice to know! Now I am scared to death about the increased cost of child care, which will be the biggest expense, but I have time to figure that out. Now I am just trying to let it sink in!


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An 18-year-old Clovis man was sentenced as an adult late Friday to 25 years in prison in connection with the death of his infant son.
Benito Valdez pleaded guilty in April to the intentional child abuse that resulted in the death of his 4-month-old son, Christopher. Valdez was 16 at the time. The baby was found dead Jan. 14, 2006.
District Judge Stephen Quinn ruled he was sentencing Valdez as an adult because he did not believe Valdez was amenable to treatment, according to District Attorney Matt Chandler.
Valdez will not be eligible for parole until he serves 85 percent of his sentence, Chandler said.
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Alternative copper ammo for hunting
November 29, 2012 —
NEW YORK STATE — Gordon Batcheller, New York State's chief wildlife biologist, is an avid deer hunter who decided he wanted to test for himself the effectiveness of the new copper ammunition now available to hunters. Writing in the current issue of "The Conservationist," the online publication of the state's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), Batcheller concluded, based on his own field tests during last year's hunting season, that the advanced copper bullets and shotgun slugs worked very effectively. He advocates that that New York hunters take a hard look at this new technology.
"All hunters strive for one-shot kills," he writes, "and… when [my] first deer dropped in its tracks, I was persuaded." After repeating this scene three more times, he tells how "all four deer were either killed instantly, or in the case of one shot with a .308-caliber copper bullet, the adult doe ran about 60 yards before collapsing."
But for Batcheller, the advanced ammo also has an environmental advantage over traditional lead. With the high velocity of modern, center-fire rifles, he describes how "lead bullets often break up upon impact, even when sheathed in copper. Lead fragments can scatter up to 18 inches along the path of the bullet, even when it passes completely through a deer. In some cases, this lead can ruin a great deal of meat as it fragments."
Copper, a harder metal than lead, typically remains intact on impact. "This means more energy is transferred to the target; in my case, deer. With little or no bullet fragmentation, hunters get more high-quality venison from their deer." This also decreases the chance that not only people, but scavenging wildlife may ingest lead. "Lead poisoning has been documented in scavenging birds in New York State," he reports, "including in bald eagles."
Batcheller also contends that the new copper and other solid non-lead bullets and slugs may be more humane because they are "designed to fold downward from the tip into multiple 'petals' that greatly expand the surface area up to two times the original bullet diameter," resulting in a quick kill.
Although the new ammunition is more expensive than lead, Batcheller concedes, "premium lead ammunition actually costs about the same, [and] as the use of copper and other solid non-lead ammo grows, prices should come down."
While some sporting goods stores will not yet have a large supply of these new products, they are available from specialty shooting supply stores and through online options. "There are endless options for re-loaders, too, since bullet manufacturers make almost every caliber," he reports.


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Bobby Butler has been named the AHL Player of the Week.
Mike Condon blocked all 24 shots aimed at him Saturday night as the Ottawa Senators beat the Florida Panthers 2-0.
Sam Reinhart lifted his career-best point streak up to four games with an assist during Saturday's 2-1 loss to the Bruins.
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September 11, 2012 —
RIVER VALLEY — A number of political leaders who represent the Upper Delaware Valley issued statements on September 11, remembering the day 11 year earlier when terrorists took control of jet airplanes and wreaked havoc in the United States.
From Senator Bob Casey, "From the skies above Shanksville to the streets of New York City to the grounds of the Pentagon, Americans came together and, in some cases, sacrificed their own lives to save countless others. On this anniversary as on those past, we should renew our commitment to bringing terrorists to justice as well as facing our economic challenges with unity and cooperation to honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for the sake of all Americans."
Congressman Maurice Hinchey wrote, "We will never make sense of that tragic day. But out of one of the darkest moments in our history we saw the self-sacrifice and heroism that has defined our nation."
The statement from state Senator John Bonacic said, "More than 3,000 people died on September 11th, and as we pause to reflect on those who were lost, we also must remember that in the difficult days after the attacks, millions of New Yorkers—and indeed all Americans—cast aside their differences and stood as one, united in grief, compassion and resolve."


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1974: Racecar driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., the son of NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Sr., is born in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Earnhardt Jr. has 26 career victories on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, including the Daytona 500 in 2004 and 2014, and a total of 252 top-10 finishes.


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A wireless, also referred to as a radio, is an audio sound broadcasting service and a form of long-distance communication and entertainment in the wizarding world. Exactly how it works is unknown, although it is certain that it is not Muggle technology, but a magical imitation.
In August of 1995, a Surrey radio station hired a man to report on the heat wave the country was suffering from.[1]
Molly Weasley was fond of listening to Celestina Warbeck songs on the Wizarding Wireless Network, although the rest of her family wasn't quite as fond of it.
In 1998, Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, and Hermione Granger would try to use the wireless to find out what was happening in the wizarding world through the renegade programme Potterwatch, which required the listener to tap their wand on the wireless and say a password; this normally would have something to do with the Order of the Phoenix (such as "Albus" which was one of the passwords).
Wizarding use of wireless airwaves has occasionally resulted in Muggles picking up programmes, such as advice on how to prune on a Venomous Tentacula.[2] This has been cited by those in favour of Wizarding use of television in the form of a television corporation, but the British Ministry of Magic feels that British radio listeners are "more tolerant, gullible, or less convinced of their own good sense, than Muggle TV viewers".[2] The details are described in The Philosophy of the Mundane: Why the Muggles Prefer Not to Know.[2]
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Richard E. CrossmanFebruary 11,2014
Richard E. CrossmanRichard E. Crossman
Richard Edward Crossman, 78, of Rutland, died after a long battle with lung cancer on February 9, 2014, surrounded by his loving family. A devoted husband, father, brother, grandfather and great-grandfather, he was a pillar of strength to his entire family. Richard will be remembered as a Jack of All Trades, a true Red Sox fan and loyal friend to all.
Born in Rutland on September 5, 1935, he was the son of Paul J. and Janet (Hebert) Crossman Sr.
He was a 1953 graduate of Rutland High School.
In 1954, he joined the U.S. Navy. He was stationed aboard the USS Elokomin, AO55 for four years, and made lasting friendships with his shipmates. After being discharged in 1958, Richard worked for Randall Company Inc. as a steamfitter. He later joined Local 693 Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Union and retired in 1994.
He married Yvonne Senecal on November 19, 1960, at St. Peter Church in Rutland. They were married for 53 years, and have five children.
Richard was a Lifetime Member of the American Legion Post 31, the Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars; he was also a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, Lodge 1122. He is a member of the USS Elokomin Crewmembers Association, and of St. Bridget Church in West Rutland.
He and Yvonne loved to dance. In his leisure time, he enjoyed doing odd jobs around the house, working in the garden, meeting his buddies for golf in the summer and coffee in the winter, and spending time with his grandkids.
He is survived by his loving wife, Yvonne; their children, Karyn Crossman Colburn of Rutland; Laura and husband, Dr. Robert Kolodzej of Rutland Town; Margaret Eddy and fiancé, David W. Powers of Rutland Town; James R. Crossman and wife, Missy of Rutland Town; and Janette and husband, Eric Poczobut of Clarendon; and his brother, Paul J. Crossman Jr. of Rutland. He was a wonderful Poppy to his sixteen grandchildren, Amanda, Katrina, Jake, Seth, Melissa, Maryesa, Kristen, Bryce, Briann, Jared, Devin, Mariah, Leah, Rob, Keith and Alexa; his great-granddaughter, Carly, and several nieces and nephews.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Thursday, February 13, 2014, at 11 a.m. at St. Bridget Church in West Rutland. Officiating will be the Rev. Vincent Coppola, pastor. A reception will follow. The burial will take place in the spring at the East Clarendon Cemetery. A reception will follow.
Visiting hours will be held Wednesday, February 12, from 3 to 7 p.m. at Clifford Funeral Home in Rutland.
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State: Bennington building contractor owes for delayBy Neal P. Goswami
VERMONT PRESS BUREAU | October 15,2013MONTPELIER A lengthy delay in completing construction on a revamped state office building in Bennington cost Vermont an additional $300,000, according to state officials, who are negotiating with the contractor in an attempt to recoup some of the money.
The dispute is the latest hurdle in a protracted series of events set in motion seven years ago when five state employees said the previous office complex, which was partly torn down and rehabilitated, had made them sick with a rare disease.
Williston-based DEW Construction Corp. won the $12.4 million contract to construct the building in Bennington that hosts various state agencies and the Bennington County criminal court. Although the state made another payment to DEW this month, about $150,000 is still owed under the contract.
State officials believe the remaining balance should not be paid because of the delay.
Currently there is some dispute about our payment and the amount owed to them, said Emily Montgomery, a legal and policy adviser for the Department of Buildings and General Services. We have not made full payment under the contract.
Peter Hack, the project manager for BGS, said talks are ongoing and include BGS Commissioner Michael Obuchowski and DEW owner Don Wells along with lawyers on both sides.
We both have our sides to the story and to the discrepancy, Hack said.
The talks have been amicable and somewhat informal. In fact, DEW has secured new contracts with the state since the issue emerged.
I hate to use the word negotiations. I dont know if that really describes the process here, Hack said. Nobodys taking anybody to court. Theres no threats or anything like that. If it was black and white it would be done by now. Thats not the case.
Wells declined to discuss the issue yet.
Until we settle it, which I think is going to happen any day now, Im not going to discuss it, he said. I think everybody is working in good faith and everything will be resolved in the very near future. I have no reason to believe otherwise.
State employees moved into the new Bennington building in late April 2012, before a certificate of completion was issued. Typically the architect of a project will provide the certificate after inspecting the building and verifying that all systems are functional.
Right after that we found that there were several things that were not really done that were supposed to be done. So its a matter of what do you call finished, Hack said. Its a funny expression, but we say, Are you done done?
The state contends that DEW was not entirely done with the project even though employees moved in and began serving the public. Gov. Peter Shumlin and local lawmakers would hold an event just weeks later to formally open the building.
We moved in without that document just because it was kind of a crazy time, but right after we moved in we realized there were several deficiencies that made us believe that we were not ready to move in, Hack said.
Neither the employees nor the public was affected by the unfinished state of the building, according to Hack. There was nothing that laymen could see or know, he said, but the design team knew.
Chief among the issues were faulty mechanical systems, namely the heating and cooling system. Several entities, including DEW, the state and subcontractors, were involved in addressing the malfunctions, Hack said.
It took about 10 months to finally get through it all until we were satisfied, Hack said. Keeping the architecture team and others on site during that time raised the final cost of the project.
It took a very, very, very long time to get these loose ends wrapped up, Hack added. Thats where our concern is, I guess, and our basis for maybe they might owe us some money for the delay.
State officials have determined the delay resulted in about $300,000 in additional costs. The state has already given some ground on that number, Hack said.
We never hold the contractor or anybody else 110 percent responsible for everything, Hack said. Were good guys. It was a tough job, a very difficult job. There were all kinds of things that came up during construction.
The two sides have traded offers, he said.
In February 2007, then-Gov. James Douglas ordered a phased shutdown of the original office complex in Bennington. About 135 employees were moved out of the building and into temporary locations while more long-term modular office space was being erected on the site for use during the main phase of construction on the new facility.
Douglas decision came after five employees had reported in July 2006 that they had been diagnosed with sarcoidosis, a disease of unknown origin that can affect multiple organs in the human body. They said the illness was caused by the old building.
Six current and former employees at the time were eventually diagnosed with the disease, which typically affects about 1 in 10,000 people. The Vermont State Employees Association launched a public campaign urging Douglas to close the building.
The state first contracted for an in-depth environmental assessment of the former state office building, which found that boiler soot had been circulating through the building by way of the heating and cooling system. Still, no official cause of the worker illnesses was ever determined.
The state then moved forward with replacing the building. The project included demolition and reconstruction of an older section built in 1978. A new section built in 1992 was gutted and the entire inside was rebuilt.
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Rain barrels help conserve water; And you can build one yourself
Building a rain barrel is a worthwhile do-it-yourself project.
Rain barrels help conserve water and have a number of other beneficial purposes. Perhaps their best known use is for watering plants, whether for gardening or landscaping, but don't forget about indoor plants that also thrive on natural rainwater. Rain barrels also can be used to help control flooding in your yard, and water released slowly from rain barrels can help recharge local groundwater resources (rather than the stormwater simply running off in a downpour). But don't stop there; water you collect in a rain barrel is also good for washing your car. Rainwater does have some limitations, however; it's important not to use rain barrel water for drinking, cooking or bathing. Finally, and this is a big plus: if you live in a town with municipal water, using water that doesn't come from the tap can help save on your water bill.
Doing it yourself
So let's say you want to build a rain barrel. Where to start? First ,get the lay of the land. Determine where the runoff from your roof goes now. Overflow from your rain barrel should also be discharged to this same location. Based on where you will use the rainwater you collect and where the current stormwater discharge point is, choose the location of your rain barrel, locating it at the base of a downspout from your roof gutter. Keep in mind that you can move the downspout if necessary to suit conditions.
All rainwater collection systems must have a disposal location for rainwater overflow. While the average rain barrel holds 55 gallons, runoff from a 1,000-square-foot roof yields 623 gallons of water. Depending on roof area, a rain barrel will fill up with as little a 1/10th inch of rain. Even if you have multiple rain barrels, you must have an overflow to a safe discharge location. (Note: If the downspout to be connected to your rain barrel currently drains to an infiltration area in your yard, the overflow from your rain barrel should also discharge to that location.)
Safety Considerations
• Your rain barrel must be secured on a firm, level surface. A full 55-gallon rain barrel weighs over 400 pounds, and tipping is a risk if it's unsecured or on uneven ground.
• The barrel must be structurally sound and should be a food-grade container made to hold liquid. Containers such as trash cans are not designed to withstand the pressure of the water.
• The barrel must have a lid and a sturdy fine mesh covering all openings to prevent mosquitoes and debris from getting inside.


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Officials from Darlington Raceway and the Bojangles fast-food chain announced a new, five-year title rights sponsorship for the Bojangles Southern 500. The deal will see Bojangles replace Showtime as sponsor of NASCAR's toughest 500-mile event, with Bojangles food offered at concession stands at the speedway.
Darlington president Chris Browning called the agreement a natural association between two longtime Southern brands. This year's Bojangles' Southern 500 is set for Saturday night, May 12, with the NASCAR Nationwide Series competing the previous night.
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"There is one jewel for my poor soul, in a life which desires not sin; it is the beads... Suitable are these for a gift; bits of the tree of Him Who redeemed us."
~ Gitto'r Glyn, Welsh poet; opening lines from his "popish" Cywydd y paderau prennau (Ode to the Wooden Beads); secretly circulated among private Catholic homes in Wales during the English persecutions, when possession meant a death sentence.


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About the Author: Judy Buelow serves as Deputy Director of the Office of Peacekeeping, Sanctions, and Counter-terrorism in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs.
Today marks the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, and offers us an opportunity to reflect on the purpose and role of UN peacekeeping missions around the world and the men and women who serve in those missions. It may come as a surprise to many that the first UN peacekeeping mission was established 61 years ago, and that there have been a total of 63 such missions in the years since.
Peacekeeping has evolved a good deal over the last six decades, from maintaining ceasefires and stabilizing conflict situations, to more robust mandates that can include helping to build government institutions, monitoring elections, and disarming, demobilizing, and reintegrating former combatants. What hasn't changed is the fact that it can be a dangerous business.
There are currently more than 92,000 personnel serving in 16 UN peacekeeping operations from Haiti to Cyprus, Darfur to Lebanon. And while UN peacekeeping can't resolve every conflict, the U.S. firmly believes that it can be a valuable tool for helping parties to a conflict restore peace and stability.
The truth of that statement can been seen in places like Sierra Leone, Guatemala, and Mozambique, which are at peace today with the help of successful peacekeeping missions. The U.S. strongly supports the UN's "blue helmets," and in part that support stems from the fact that multilateral peacekeeping allows the U.S. to share the burdens and risks of peacekeeping with the world community.
So, today we salute the brave and dedicated men and women serving in UN peacekeeping missions around the world. The world is a safer, more stable place as a result of their efforts.
Joe in Tennessee writes:
As odd as it may be, my first part, and about only one, in a Play came about in Elementary school. I was President Woodrow Wilson signing the passed legislation of the League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I. Ironic life is, as it was at Francis Scott Key School in Philadelphia of all places and in latter life how my skill set ended up being used for my country.
Today, more than then, it has been always the United States who bore the central burden of diplomacy and peace through negotiation first, not last. Unfortunately, now as then, it is still problematic even though we have developed a much more untied front to solve problems on the international stage. We do still set the standard and much like the Marines, are generally the first in with the UN and NATO troops following. Seldom are they first. Even now, our new programs include building, rebuilding and needed infrastructure as well as security as standards for involvement.
To be centralist is a difficult situation; especially when weapons are needed as they cause an affront to the word peace. Yet, through all these years of vigilance for peace and democracy, many have joined in and hopefully the ideology that such international efforts are productive and not a conjunct to a One World Government, which is feared by many, are now being dissuaded.
We all need to work together for peace and all those involved in this effort, by building, security efforts, intelligence and economics- heck, stability in general, are to honored as much as those at active war, for these efforts may well save lives wasted by a needless or unnecessary military confrontation or genocide.
Our World Society which we refer to as humanity, needs structure to exist. Structure can only exist with stability.
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Neither the U.N. nor its deceptively so called U.N. Peacekeapers ever brought peace to a Country or a region. They did provide the cover for Imperial expansion plots, perpetuating and aiding occupation forces and hide when genocides are committed. The U.N. own records can prove these facts for the past 60 plus years, and this record gets worse by the hour nowdays.
Joe in Tennessee writes:
@ SNP -- Would you please elaborate with actual fact? I see no records of what you state on the UN fact sheets. Only on such exagerated ideology is found on old Socialistic, Communistic, Islamic fundamentalist and other anti-democratic propaganda sites and blogs.
Be specific please as to how people as in Bosnia who were saved by U.S. intervention and latter UN and NATO stability forces were actually hurt as an example.
I do suggest you live in Darfur as an ordinary civilian and see how you feel when UN, U.S., NATO or any Peace keepers leave the area...the same elsewhere.
Many people on this blog seem to sway back and forth about solvency and countries having individual rights to run their countries as they see fit; yet, when stability is brought into an area, the only problems created are by the governing forces which preside or develope, not the UN, NATO, U.S. or any other allies of democracy...
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@ Joe in TN, as you requested, here is the abbreviated list. This covers Civil wars raged under the watch of the U.N. and protection of its institution to members States. And will have to leave the horrific record of Human Rights Abuses for over 150 U.N. Member States to another post.
Civil wars raged since the establishment of the United Nations:
1946-49: Chinese civil war (1.2 million)
1946-49: Greek civil war (50,000)
1946-54: France-Vietnam war (600,000)
1947: Partition of India and Pakistan (1 million)
1947: Taiwan's uprising against the Kuomintang (30,000)
1948-1958: Colombian civil war (250,000)
1948-1973: Arab-Israeli wars (70,000)
1949-: Indian Muslims vs Hindus (20,000)
1949-50: Mainland China vs Tibet (1,200,000)
1950-53: Korean war (3 million)
1952-59: Kenya's Mau Mau insurrection (20,000)
1954-62: French-Algerian war (368,000)
1958-61: Mao's "Great Leap Forward" (38 million)
1960-90: South Africa vs Africa National Congress (?)
1960-96: Guatemala's civil war (200,000)
1961-98: Indonesia vs West Papua/Irian (100,000)
1961-2003: Kurds vs Iraq (180,000)
1962-75: Mozambique Frelimo vs Portugal (?)
1964-73: USA-Vietnam war (3 million)
1965: second India-Pakistan war over Kashmir
1965-66: Indonesian civil war (250,000)
1966-69: Mao's "Cultural Revolution" (11 million)
1966-: Colombia's civil war (31,000)
1967-70: Nigeria-Biafra civil war (800,000)
1968-80: Rhodesia's civil war (?)
1969-: Philippines vs New People's Army (40,000)
1969-79: Idi Amin, Uganda (300,000)
1969-02: IRA - Norther Ireland's civil war (2,000)
1969-79: Francisco Macias Nguema, Equatorial Guinea (50,000)
1971: Pakistan-Bangladesh civil war (500,000)
1972-: Philippines vs Muslim separatists (Moro Islamic Liberation Front, etc) (120,000)
1972: Burundi's civil war (300,000)
1972-79: Rhodesia/Zimbabwe's civil war (30,000)
1974-91: Ethiopian civil war (1,000,000)
1975-78: Menghitsu, Ethiopia (1.5 million)
1975-79: Khmer Rouge, Cambodia (1.7 million)
1975-89: Boat people, Vietnam (250,000)
1975-90: civil war in Lebanon (40,000)
1975-87: Laos' civil war (184,000)
1975-2002: Angolan civil war (500,000)
1976-83: Argentina's military regime (20,000)
1976-93: Mozambique's civil war (900,000)
1976-98: Indonesia-East Timor civil war (600,000)
1976-2005: Indonesia-Aceh (GAM) civil war (12,000)
1977-92: El Salvador's civil war (75,000)
1979: Vietnam-China war (30,000)
1979-88: the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan (1.3 million)
1980-88: Iraq-Iran war (1 million)
1980-92: Sendero Luminoso - Peru's civil war (69,000)
1980-99: Kurds vs Turkey (35,000)
1981-90: Nicaragua vs Contras (60,000)
1982-90: Hissene Habre, Chad (40,000)
1983-: Sri Lanka's civil war (70,000)
1983-2002: Sudanese civil war (2 million)
1986-: Indian Kashmir's civil war (60,000)
1987-: Palestinian Intifada (4,500)
1988-2001: Afghanistan civil war (400,000)
1988-2004: Somalia's civil war (550,000)
1989-: Liberian civil war (220,000)
1989-: Uganda vs Lord's Resistance Army (30,000)
1991: Gulf War - large coalition against Iraq to liberate Kuwait (85,000)
1991-97: Congo's civil war (800,000)
1991-2000: Sierra Leone's civil war (200,000)
1991-: Russia-Chechnya civil war (200,000)
1991-94: Armenia-Azerbaijan war (35,000)
1992-96: Tajikstan's civil war war (50,000)
1992-96: Yugoslavian wars (260,000)
1992-99: Algerian civil war (150,000)
1993-97: Congo Brazzaville's civil war (100,000)
1993-2005: Burundi's civil war (200,000)
1994: Rwanda's civil war (900,000)
1995-: Pakistani Sunnis vs Shiites (1,300)
1995-: Maoist rebellion in Nepal (12,000)
1998-: Congo/Zaire's war - Rwanda and Uganda vs Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia (3.8 million)
1998-2000: Ethiopia-Eritrea war (75,000)
1999: Kosovo's liberation war - NATO vs Serbia (2,000)
2001-: Afghanistan's liberation war - USA & UK vs Taliban (40,000)
2002-: Cote d'Ivoire's civil war (1,000)
2003: Second Iraq-USA war - USA, UK and Australia vs Saddam Hussein (14,000)
2003-: Sudan vs JEM/Darfur (200,000)
2003-: Iraq's civil war (60,000)
2004-: Sudan vs SPLM & Eritrea (?)
2004-: Yemen vs Shiite Muslims (?)
Arab-Israeli wars
* I (1947-49): 6,373 Israeli and 15,000 Arabs die
* II (1956): 231 Israeli and 3,000 Egyptians die
* III (1967): 776 Israeli and 20,000 Arabs die
* IV (1973): 2,688 Israeli and 18,000 Arabs die
* Intifada I (1987-92): 170 Israelis and 1,000 Palestinians
* Intifada II (2000-03): 700 Israelis and 2,000 Palestinians
* Israel-Hamas war (2008): 1,300 Palestinians
Wendy in California writes:
I long for the day when all peacekeeping and international policing can be blue helmet. Since WW2, 9 out of 10 casualties in all the wars small and large have been civilian. As the Dalai Lama says, war is "out-of-date."
SNP in Syria writes:
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@ Joe in TN. This is just short list of U.N. signatory member states atocities committed under the watchful eye of the United Nation since its establishment in the forties. There is no room on this blog to list all, genocides in the last 60 years, but this partial one illustrate the point made in SNP comment below which you found that it merit enumeration of facts.
Mao Ze-Dong(China, 1958-61,1966-69, Tibet 1949-50)78,000,000
Pol Pot - (Cambodia, 1975-79)1,700,000
Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) 1.6 million
Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78) 1,500,000
Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970) 1,000,000
Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982)900,000
Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994)800,000
Suharto (East Timor, West Papua, Communists, 1966-98)800,000
Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88)1,200,000
Tito (Yugoslavia, 1945-1987)570,000
Jonas Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002)400,000
Mullah Omar ? Taliban (Afghanistan, 1986-2001)400,000
Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979)300,000
Yahya Khan (Pakistan, 1970-71)300,000 (Bangladesh)
Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire, 1965-97)300,000
Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1989-1996) 220,000
Foday Sankoh (Sierra Leone, 1991-2000) 200,000
Michel Micombero (Burundi, 1972) 150,000
Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavia, 1992-99)100,000
Hassan Turabi (Sudan, 1989-1999)100,000
Jean-Bedel Bokassa (Centrafrica, 1966-79)85,000
Richard Nixon (Vietnam, 1969-1974)Civilians 70,000
Efrain Rios Montt (Guatemala, 1982-83)70,000
Papa Doc Duvalier (Haiti, 1957-71)60,000
Hissene Habre (Chad, 1982-1990)40,000
Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959-1999)30,000
Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam, 1963-1968)30,000
Hafez Al-Assad (Syria, 1980-2000)25,000
Khomeini(Iran, 1979-89)20,000
Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe, 1982-87, Ndebele minority)20,000
Rafael Videla (Argentina, 1976-83)13,000
Guy Mollet (France, 1956-1957)10,000 (war in Algeria)
Paul Koroma (Sierra Leone, 1997) 6,000
Augusto Pinochet (Chile, 1973) 3,000
SNP in Syria writes:
@ Wendy, You will have planned for better future for youself and family if you take the words of Ezekiel, Daniel and John the revelator than the Lama. The worst wars in human history is yet to come, the seals barely starting to open. Only hopefull fools thinks otherwise.
Peter in Uganda writes:
Peace keeping is one of the most important sacrifice one can make in his or her life time.much as one may look at the Green notes the most important fact is all about sacrificing for others. All in all, peace keeping is nothing to me but a sacrifice.Holding a Blue Helmet for the protection of others is pride.
Dishka in India writes:
i've just got a speech about peacekeepers in Peru.. after reading all this, i can't help be proud and extremely thankful to th people who do so much for us.. who are awake all night just so we can get peaceful sleep! thanks!


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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size ½ of recipe
Calories 381
Total Fat 10 g
Saturated Fat 1 g
Sodium 283 mg
Total Carbohydrate 63 g
Dietary Fiber 7.5 g
Protein 12 g
Ingredients and Preparation
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Asian egg noodles 4 ounces
Sugar snap peas, trimmed 1 cup
Canola oil 1 tablespoon
Eggplant, unpeeled and cut into ½-inch cubes ½ (about 2-3 cups)
Shitake mushrooms, stemmed and coarsely chopped 4 ounces
Scallions, trimmed and sliced 4
Hoisin sauce 2 tablespoons
Juice of 1 lime
Ground ginger ¼ teaspoon
Freshly ground pepper to taste
- Cook noodles according to package directions (but omit fat and salt), adding peas during the last minute of cooking. Drain and set aside.
- Meanwhile, heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add eggplant, mushrooms, and scallions, and sauté 5-7 minutes, until tender.
- Whisk together hoisin sauce, lime juice, ginger, and pepper.
- Toss noodles with eggplant-mushroom mixture and dressing, and serve.


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04 March 2012
And sure, it's unfair; almost as unfair as tossing Wings onto the bonfire of history in response. Because it's a pretty damn good movie - not a very unique, nor an especially artistic production, for sure, but it is one heck of an outstanding picture. It was among the highest-grossing movies of the silent era, for the usual reason something becomes a major blockbuster: jaw-dropping spectacle and very straightforward characters and themes, but mostly spectacle. I cannot think of a better way to sum up just how much spectacle we're talking about than to drag up the figure of my sainted mother, whose response after I showed her the film on its new and hugely impressive Blu-Ray was neither more nor less than: "I didn't know they could do that in 1927! How much did that cost!" A shitload, is the answer. And oh, yes, they could do the hell out of that in 1927, and if you've never seen one of the great mid-'20s silent epics, you owe it to yourself desperately to fix that, soon as possible. This is as good a candidate as any for an entry-level silent film, for even though it is on the long side, at some two hours and twenty minutes, and it feels as long as it is, it isn't chiefly worthwhile for reasons of artistry, but because it is a terrific amount of fun. And not "fun by 1927 standards", I say, not "fun if you put on your Let's Pretend I'm My Great-Grandmother hat" - it is fun to watch right now, every bit as exciting and impressively grand as your average summer blockbuster, that's for damn sure. In fact, it insults the film considerably to say it's only up the average of summer movies, given the dire state of that particular art right now. But I am losing sight of my subject.
Wings is a movie about World War I back when there wasn't a World War II yet, and with that event less than a decade in the past (the film opens ten years exactly before its premiere date), so it was still a national psychic trauma and not the thing that people dimly remember as prefiguring Nazis and involving trenches. It is, naturally enough, about small-town boys heading off to war to fight for America and Mom and Apple Pie and The Cute Girl I Left Behind; as the title almost certainly makes clear, it is specifically about a pair of pilots dogfighting above the French countryside during that one single great war when one-on-one plane battles were prominent and important and romantic. Our heroes are Jack Powell (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) and David Armstrong (Richard Arlen) - Jack is a regular fella, David is the son of a wealthy family, and they're both in love with Sylvia Lewis (Jobyna Ralston), a city girl in town for no apparent reason than to incite young men to lust. She's got her eyes set on David and David alone, though a mistake that she's too kind-hearted to correct leaves Jack thinking he has a chance, and leaves him completely oblivious to the attentions of Mary Preston (Clara Bow, who had earlier that same year turned into one of the all-time great Hot Young Things in the iconic It), the archetypal Girl Next Door. The boys both head to training and the war, hating each other at first and then bonding during a boxing match, and proceed to putter through the fields and skies of Europe, without too very much plot getting in the way, although you would absolutely never notice that until afterward.
First things first: Wings isn't an anti-war film in even the most subdued sense of that phrase, uniquely among the great movies about World War I (which at a glance also includes The Big Parade, All Quiet on the Western Front, Wooden Crosses, and Grand Illusion). It takes the simplistic, even reductive view that the Great War was a fine time for men to test their mettle, to make the ultimate sacrifice and grieve over one another. It is a stunningly male-ish film; so comfortable in its going-ho militarism and amped-up tribute to masculinity that it doesn't even hesitate to present an early example, if not the earliest in cinema, of man-on-man kissing; it's not, like gay (a concept the film does not seem to be aware exists), because that kind of deeply emotional real-ness is just part and parcel of the glory of war. Even at the end, in a handful of impeccable shots that pinpoint the tragedy of losing a loved one to the battlefield, the tone is not in any way, "this is the terrible cost of conflict", as it is, "sometimes good men must lay down their lives for victory."
And yet, it is unmistakably excellent: for starters, very few movies, no matter how technically accomplished or robust in their patriotism, have ever made warfare so thrilling to behold. It's worth pointing out that the only other Oscar Wings won, as well as the only other one it was nominated for, was Best Engineering Effects, another award given out only the once; in practice, it translates to "holy shit, those air battles were amazing!" because they are: a miraculous combination of rear-projection, real planes, and hand-inked fires that create as energetic a ballet of aerial combat as you could ever hope to see with all the powers that eight decades have added to the filmmakers' toolbox - from Howard Hughes's Hell's Angles to Martin Scorsese's making-of-Hell's-Angles scenes in The Aviator, the best anyone has been able to do is to match, and never better, the awe-inspiring dogfighting scenes in Wings.
The ground scenes are just as enthralling, thanks largely to the gusto with which director William A. Wellman throws himself and his cast right into the lustiness of it all. Wellman, to my eyes, is one of the all-time great underrated directors, with masterpieces in at least four distinct genres (this war film, the gangster picture The Public Enemy, the melodrama A Star Is Born, and the Western The Ox-Bow Incident) and at least a couple of other candidates for masterpiece status; his mode is one of unstinting urgency, flying through incidents not because he's already bored with them, but because he literally can't wait to get to the next one and see if it's just as exciting as this last one; he is a director who works almost exclusively in exclamation points. A little bit of that can go a long way if you're not 100% on board, which is maybe why Wellman doesn't seem to get name-dropped much outside of cinephile circles. That's not fair, but we can't right all the wrongs of the world; the point being, Wellman directs Wings with exceptional verve, including a grab bag of arresting visual ideas - Sylvia and David are introduced swinging a garden, with the camera mounted on the swing along with them, so that the whole world seems to bend and fly around; a respite in Paris is introduced with a dumbfounding tracking shot that blasts right through no fewer than four apparently immovable tables - and an equal amount of good old-fashioned solid craftsmanship, the kind that kno9ws exactly how the place cameras to capture the set of a person's face and body to tell us what they're thinking. It's not, of course, artistry on the level of Sunrise, or of fellow Outstanding Picture nominee 7th Heaven; it is, however, irreproachable moviemaking of the best populist sort. Wings isn't looking to be respected, but enjoyed, and that's what ends up making it so respectable.
What it isn't, is subtle or delicate: this isn't much of a character piece. Bow's evocation of ebullient small-town girlishness is pretty fine, anchored by the actress's oddly charming physical flailing and giant anime eyes; but Rogers and Arlen, particularly the latter, don't do much to establish their characters as anything other than types, placeholders whose feelings matter chiefly because they motivate the next scene. To modern viewers, the best performance is the shocking-in-context low key work done by 26-year-old Gary Cooper, playing a sardonic cadet who shows up just long enough to foreshadow his own death half a scene later; the camera adores him to pieces and it's easy to see why he became a star later on, because he's active and commanding even in just a few minutes in a way that Arlen doesn't seem to even try for.
But characterisations are beside the point: most of the film's best moments reduce characters to shapes occupying the front part of moving airplanes, or even less. It is an action film, an adventure, a thriller, a paean to Our Fighting Boys - almost everything it can be other than a character drama, despite a generally well-played series of concluding scenes back in that small town that seem to mostly exist because the screenwriters had to do something to get us back out of the war.
It's all pretty much great, which is not to say it's perfect: the second half begins with a lightly-comic sequence set in Paris that drags on first in spite of, then because of Wellman's gimmicky ideas about using special effects to dramatise Jack's drunkenness (the whole sequence, a deadening 15 minutes right after the intermission that was maybe placed there to accommodate late returners, has no real purpose other than to increase Bow's otherwise negligible impact on the feature and justify her peculiar first-billing). And there's only so much "Gee, war is swell! Too bad about those guys who didn't make it out!" that a modern viewer can take, and at more than two hours, Wings is eager to find what that limit is. But these are not tremendously serious reservations about a film that is too much of a joy to grouse over, and too extraordinary a piece of early popcorn blockbusting to begrudge its singular historical relevance. It's just too damn entertaining to complain about all the things it isn't and better proof than just about anything else that silent cinema is hardly as stuffy and static as popular belief would hold.
5 comments:
- Jordyn said...
Please tell me this is the first in a Best Picture Winners retrospective! Even though you've done a few already, I'm curious to see your take on the well-loved Godfather films, the underrated A Man For All Seasons, the overrated Lawrence of Arabia, the "controversial" Midnight Cowboy, the banal as fuck Cavalcade, the polarizing The English Patient, the laughable The Broadway Melody, the adorable Marty...you get the picture.
I watched them all back in 2004-05. It's daunting but worth it!
- Andrew Testerman said...
I am also in support of a Best Picture retrospective. It'll be fairly grueling, no doubt, but as Jordyn pointed out, there's a whole mess of well-known (and not) movies that would be fun to revisit with your customary eye towards context (e.g., How Green Was My Valley) and craftsmanship (e.g. The Greatest Show on Earth). Plus, we can finally read your full take on Casablanca!
- javi75 said...
I watched this recently on blu-ray too. I agree with most everything you say.
The movie does feel long in some stretches. Especially the first two action sequences once the boys are in the front, they get boring because they have no bearing on the overall plot at all. And in the middle of those two scenes (I believe, or they go just before it) you have the Paris section with Clara Bow, which is the worst part of the movie. I agree it was probably stretched out and played that way to justify her star billing and appease her fans. Her acting there is kind of dated too. But I absolutely loved the bubbles.
I thought the acting was pretty subdued and effective most of the time. It seems to me the best actress in the movie was the girl with Powell in the Paris bubbles scene. I thought she was really good and modern. I wonder why the two leads didn't have much of a career afterwards, after all they were young and had starred in a big hit (I was just introduced to Arlen watching the "Island of lost souls" blu-ray, and I guess he was just an unremarkable guy). I guess the early-talkie era was a really rough and bumpy period for actors.
And then you have the action-driven last third (or longer?) of the movie, when ground action is also featured. I think that's where most of the stuff that's still truly spectacular and awe-inspiring is. After that they neatly, briefly and effectively tie up the character stuff (although the grey hair seemed over the top to me). So overall the movie definitely ends up with a high note and you forget that it was so long.
I liked how Wellman handled the "ordinary" dialogue scenes too, sometimes using some effective, kind of subjective tracking shots when characters move. It never felt like just regular coverage.
I was "shocked" that I didn't mind much about the movie not being "anti-war" the way we're used to. That's how well it works, I think. That makes it more fun and easier to watch (other anti-war classics are too sad and depressing). Although the movie isn't pro-war either. I liked that Cooper's death was such a sombering note so early in the movie.
The movie might not even be aware of male gayness, as you say, but it seems to be aware of lesbians. Check out that bravura shot you point out when the camera flies over several tables at the cafe, and in one of them you have two women who seem to be very much an item.
This movie winning the equivalent of Best Picture Oscar reminds me a little bit of things like "Titanic"(1997) winning it. Both movies are like the big blockbuster of the year, mostly due to its technical achievements and spectacle, with teenage romance thrown in. Although I'm aware that's kind of superficial and the movies have many differences too.
- Tim said...
In fact, I actually had a good long thing with myself on that very subject. And while I appreciate the enthusiasm, I'm pretty certain that a full-on retrospective won't happen, if only because life's too short to sit through Cimarron or The Life of Emile Zola a second time, among others. Even though I kind of would like to have the excuse to re-write a King's Speech review that largely consists in arguing "Wow, isn't it funny that we all thought such a delicate trifle of a movie had a shot at winning Best Picture?"
But there will be more reviews of Best Pictures, I am quite comfortable making that promise. Some of them are already on the calendar. And likely other fun things here and there on the subject. I've also gone ahead and added a tag for Best Picture winners reviewed on this blog, of which there have been twelve.
- Tim said...
Javi- great points, and I want to single out 2 things you said: one is that Wellman doesn't let the camera settle down during dialogue scenes; so true, and so exactly what I love about him. He's such a kinetic director.
2nd is your observation that the film ends on a high note; definitely much as that self-same Titanic would do 70 years later. I think the skill for ending big and then stopping immediately, before the audience has a chance to come off our high, is one that more action-adventure directors need to cultivate, because it absolutely leaves one with the sense that a film is better overall than is necessarily true.


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One of the first things every FreeBSD user wishes to configure on his computer is e-mail access. However, a look in the mail section of the ports collection yields an amazing 148 applications dealing with e-mail. To make matters worse, some claim to be MUAs, MTAs, POP3 clients, or IMAP4 servers. These descriptions are not helpful if you are unfamiliar with these terms and just want to be able to send and receive e-mail.
In this article, I'll give a "readers digest" version of some important e-mail concepts, with references to additional information. Then I'll walk you through the steps of configuring your FreeBSD system to send and retrieve e-mail, as well as configuring Pine.
Ever since networks were invented, people have wanted a method of sending messages to each other. This led to the development of many messaging programs, most of which were proprietary, meaning you could only send a message to someone who used the same messaging system. Early messaging systems allowed you to send a message directly to another person's computer. However, this method doesn't work if the other computer is turned off or there is a problem with the physical connection between the two computers.
Most messaging systems prefer to have all users send their messages to a centralized server for storage; since this server is always available, it can act like a post office. If a user has a mailbox on that server, he can periodically check his mailbox to see if he has received any messages.
As the need for messaging grew, standards were developed to allow users to send messages to any user, regardless of the messaging system they used. One of these standards was X.400; another was SMTP, which became the standard used on the Internet. Two interesting points of views on these standards can be found at X.400 - The Better Internet and X.400 is Dead, Long Live X.400.
Unless you work at a company that uses an internal X.400 messaging system,
you probably use SMTP to send e-mail. The e-mail addresses you are used to
seeing are actually SMTP addresses and look like this:
email@example.com You'll note that an SMTP address looks similar to a web address, except it has a
@ instead of the first period. The Internet already uses DNS (the Domain Name System) to locate a computer's IP address. When an administrator sets up a mail server, he will create an MX (mail exchange) record in his DNS database to indicate which computer in his network is the mail server. The name to the left of the @ indicates the name of a user's mailbox on that mail server.
When the Internet messaging standard was being developed, it was decided to use the centralized server (post office) approach where users would check their mailboxes. The Internet uses TCP/IP, so new TCP/IP protocols needed to be created. Remember from last week that protocols define the rules of communication and that each TCP/IP protocol has an associated port number and at least one RFC which describes its operation.
SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol) describes the communications between mail servers. Its port number is 25, and its behavior is described in RFC 821.
As its name implies, SMTP merely transfers mail from one server to another until it reaches the correct mail server. In order to ensure that the message makes it into the right mailbox on that server, POP3 (post office protocol 3) is used. POP3 uses port number 110 and is defined by RFCs 1734, 1957, 2449, and STD0053 (standard 53).
POP3 is also responsible for the management of the mailboxes on a mail server. POP3 will not let a user retrieve the messages in their mailbox until they have been authenticated.
If you are unfamiliar with the commands used by POP3 and SMTP, try the SMTP with Telnet tutorial.
This tutorial shows how you yourself can issue SMTP and POP3 commands to send and receive e-mail. These are the same commands that are usually issued by messaging systems and e-mail programs.
One other term you may come across is IMAP4 (Internet Message Access Protocol version 4). IMAP4 is similar to POP3, but with extra features. POP3 assumes that a user will download all of the mail in their mailbox so the copy on the mail server can be deleted; the user will then disconnect from the mail server to read his e-mail "offline." With IMAP4, a user can download just the headers of his e-mail so he can decide which messages he wants to retrieve at this time; he can also delete messages directly at the mail server without having to download them first.
Messaging software is usually divided into two separate components: the MTA (message transfer agent) and the MUA (message user agent). The MTA runs on the mail server and understands both SMTP and POP3. Therefore, it is able to send messages to other SMTP mail servers, receive messages from other SMTP mail servers, and store messages in the appropriate user mailboxes. Sendmail is the most common MTA in use on the Internet and comes bundled and ready to go on your FreeBSD system. Exim, Postfix, and Qmail are examples of other MTAs that you can build using FreeBSD's ports collection.
The MUA is used by users to compose and read e-mail messages. Some MUAs have a POP3 client built-in, meaning you can check for new mail using the MUA; some do not, and will only display e-mail you've retrieved using a separate POP3 client. MUAs differ widely in their features; which MUA to use is a matter of personal preference. There are dozens of MUAs in the ports collection; some of the most popular are Mutt, Pine, and Xfmail.
So, how do all these components work together when you send an e-mail message? You use your MUA (for example, Pine) to create an e-mail message; Pine will pass the message to the MTA (Sendmail), who will query DNS to find the address of the SMTP server hosting the mailbox of the user you are sending the message to. Sendmail will then use SMTP commands to transfer the message to that mail server. That mail server will use POP3 to put the message in the correct mailbox. Your recipient will use POP3 commands to retrieve the message and will use their favorite MUA to read the message and possibly compose a reply to it.
Let's look at the configuration of a FreeBSD system that will be using Sendmail (the MTA), fetchmail (the POP3 client), and Pine (the MUA). Let's assume a very quick and dirty scenario in which I have one user on a single FreeBSD computer who wishes to use e-mail.
Related Reading:
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Like any MTA, Sendmail is a highly configurable and complex program capable of providing messaging for large companies and even ISPs. However, you don't want to start messing with the default Sendmail configuration files unless you know what you're doing. If you ever need to get into more complicated Sendmail configurations, you should first read the book sendmail, 2nd Edition by Brian Costales and Eric Allman. You may also wish to investigate other alternatives such as Qmail or Exim.
Fortunately, the default Sendmail configuration on your FreeBSD system will issue SMTP commands so you can send out e-mail to the world. Sendmail is enabled by default; if you want to double-check that you haven't disabled it at some point, issue the following command:
more /etc/defaults/rc.conf | grep sendmail
sendmail_enable="YES" # Run the sendmail daemon (or NO). sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m" # Flags to sendmail (if enabled)
If the
sendmail_enable line is set to
"NO", you'll have to become the superuser to change it to
"YES" using your favorite text editor. Be sure to check your change carefully for typos before saving the file. While you're still the superuser, close all programs running on the computer and issue the following from the Alt-F1 terminal:
shutdown now
When you receive a prompt, press the Enter key, then type:
Watch the messages that appear on the screen; you should see a line similar to this:
starting standard daemons: sendmail.
Now that your MTA is running, you'll want to build the MUA. If you have installed the ports collection on your computer, become the superuser and:
cd /usr/ports/mail/pine4
make && make install
When that is finished, you'll also want to build the POP3 client so:
cd ../fetchmail
make && make install
If you don't use the ports collection, both Pine and Fetchmail have packages that can be downloaded from FreeBSD Ports.
As root:
mkdir /usr/packages
Save the downloaded packages to this directory, then:
cd /usr/packages
pkg_add pine*
pkg_add fetc*
Now that we have the necessary software, we need to create a user account to use when sending and receiving e-mail. You can either create a user with the same name as the mailbox portion of your e-mail address, or you can create an alias to map an existing user to the mailbox name. Since my e-mail address is email@example.com, to keep my life simple on my home FreeBSD box, I create a user called genisis. When I wish to access my e-mail, I log in to my FreeBSD system as the user genisis. This trick is useful on small systems as it saves you editing an alias file.
If you need to create a new user, become the superuser and type
/stand/sysinstall and select Configure | User Management | User. The login ID should be the same as the name of the mailbox, so in my case it is genisis. Input a password you'll remember and tab over to OK. Arrow over to Cancel twice, then arrow over to Exit Install.
Leave the superuser account and log in as the new user. Now type
pine -- you should see the following message:
Creating subdirectory "/home/yourusername/mail" where Pine will store its mail folders.
This will be followed by Pine's greeting text. You'll notice that Pine's commands are always listed at the bottom of your screen. The ^ symbol means use your CTRL key along with the letter next to the ^. Once you've read the greeting, use ^E (Exit This Greeting). This will bring you to Pine's main menu.
Since this is the first time you are running Pine as this user, you'll need to press S to enter Setup, then C to enter Config. The first three items should be edited as follows:
You'll notice that Pine supports a lot of configuration values; if you find one that sounds interesting, highlight it and press the ? key. This will give a short, and usually helpful, description of what this configuration parameter does. I usually change the following on mine:
Under Viewer Preferences -- I use the Enter key to put an [X] in the following values:
This will highlight URLs and e-mail addresses so I can go directly to a web site or add an address to my address book.
Once you've finished your configurations, press E to exit Setup and Y to commit changes. This will return you to the main menu where you can press A to edit the address book. The @ key will let you add an e-mail address; when you're finished, type ^X and the address should now show in your address book.
Highlight a user you've added to your address book and press C to compose an e-mail message to them. Arrow down to Cc and input your e-mail address so you'll be sent a copy of the message. Once you've composed your message, make sure you are connected to your ISP and press ^X to send your message. Type y when Pine asks you if you want to send the message. It should say [Sending Mail], then [Message sent and copied to 'sent-mail'.] Use your < key to return to the main menu, then L to enter the folder list. If you arrow over to sent-mail and press enter, you should be able to view and read the message that you sent.
One last point on Pine: it contains a built-in editor called Pico. Pico is a very easy editor to learn as its commands are always listed on the bottom of the screen. You don't have to run Pine to use Pico; if you want to edit a file with Pico, do this:
pico filename
Now that you've sent your first e-mail with Pine, you'll want to check that you received your copy of the e-mail by using the fetchmail program. Open up another virtual terminal, and log in as your user. I use fetchmail like so:
fetchmail istar.ca
Enter password for email@example.com:
fetchmail: IMAP connection to istar.ca failed: Connection refused
1 message for genisis at istar.ca (868 octets).
reading message 1 of 1 (868 octets) flushed
When you check your e-mail, substitute the value to the right of the @ in your e-mail address for istar.ca. If everything worked, fetchmail will download at least one message. Return to the terminal where you are running Pine and navigate to your inbox to read it.
Note that fetchmail added genisis to my e-mail address for me because I am logged in as genisis. If I happened to be logged in as another user, say biko, it would use the address firstname.lastname@example.com instead.
The fetchmail command would then fail as I don't have a mailbox called biko on Istar's mail server. However, if I'm logged in as biko and invoke fetchmail like so:
fetchmail -u genisis istar.ca
This will tell fetchmail to use the mailbox name of genisis instead of my login name of biko so I can retreive genisis' email.
Fetchmail also has a verbose mode which can be used to view the various
POP3 commands between fetchmail and the mail server. You can invoke
verbose mode with
-v and very verbose mode with
-vv. Here is a portion of a session with fetchmail in verbose mode:
Enter password for email@example.com:
fetchmail -v istar.ca
You should be able to recognize the
PASS, and
LIST commands from the tutorial.
Fetchmail is highly configurable through its use of switches; its manpage is well worth reading.
Hopefully, we've cleared up some of the mystery regarding how e-mail works. Next week, we'll look at setting permissions.
Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and international speaker. She has over a decade of experience administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO, Solaris, Linux, and BSD systems. A prolific author, she pens the popular FreeBSD Basics column for O'Reilly and is author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics.
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he doesnt deserve it.. hopefully he'll make up for it with a healthy and productive next season.. or we trade him for someone worth the money..
Houston has missed about a third of the games and he's making 16 mill. Its not like houston can't play hes just banged up like every other player he's just not used to being hurt and he cant handle it. Houston has been the most dissapointing Knick this year besides Eisley and Mcdyess. Imagine how good the knicks would have been if we had the team now at the begining of the year. If we had Isaih in the begining we would be the 4th seed with homecourt advantage. Next year with a couple small changes and building chemistry we could finish third or fourth or maybe win the atlantic over the nets that would shut them up
he doesnt deserve it.. hopefully he'll make up for it with a healthy and productive next season.. or we trade him for someone worth the money..
hi, new to the forums
does he deserve it? no.
now someone worth the money brings up a good question, is kobe still in the mix? are there any other pure shooters (which the knicks obviously need without houston) that any nba teams are worth giving up? the only decent shooters i can see coming to the knicks are jamison and ginobili, given theyre not pure shooters, they can be, especially if marbury can get into the paint and become an attraction to all defenders. A jamison houston swap woudl obviously not happened, dallas isnt really in the need for a pure shooter. Ginobili is a better option for both teams but SA isnt looking to add on a burden that is houstons contract and injuries just for a shot are they? Back to kobe. Hes a great combination with Marbury, probably the best 1-2s in the nba. They both can move inside with marbury taking those inside shots, kobe taking the mid rangers and both of them have thier 3's, marbury's with a little more range. Now to be realistic, even though the rumors came up a month or so ago, would a houston kobe trade really happen?
IMO, among all the trade talks regarding the knicks the kobe-houston trade would be the most unlikely to happen.. it's hard to trade houston because of his big contract and mediocre play.. if we ever trade him he will be packaged with another player.. NO, he doesn't deserve the money but he still has a chance next season to prove us wrong..
Allen gets paid for what hes given this organization for years;top level shooting,good effort everynight(never see him dogg it),soso d-fense good when it counts,and a chance to win with him on the court.Thats why his name has been mentioned in the Kobe rumor.If Kobe's a 10 Allen's an 8.
allen does not deserve it because 1 reason is he can play he showed it in wizard game wen he banged his knee just 1 lil bang like that and hes out what happen if hes healthy next season but then another lil bump like that comes along hes out for the rest of the season i say get rid of him for draft picks
what other trade rumors have there been?Originally Posted by jayp
houston is a 2nd level all-star. 1st level being players like kobe, garnett, etc. no he doesn't deserve that contract, only 1st level all-stars should get that kind of loot. but if someone offered us that money we would take it too. it's not like he held out for it. stupid layden just gave it to him. if houston was making 8 or 9 million, no one would be saying anything. after the all-star break last year he about about 26.5 points a game. those are great numbers. i just wish he was healthy this year.
personally i luv the guy and he puts up great shooting numbers, but thats about it....
he really doesnt rebound or pass. obviously hes overpaid. anybody know starbury's salary? it should be 2x houston's.
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TRADE HIM!Originally Posted by e_D
trade him for a good player
but if he gets healthy keep him hes a pure shooter


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It's that time of year again, when snow days crop up from time to time, which in turn, gives me a little extra time. Never at a loss, the desire to shovel is pretty low on my list, but there's plenty to do around the house and my desk is piled with work that I've put off for months, waiting for an opportunity such as this. I have a desk at The River Reporter's office as well, and once in a while I even get mail. Ripping into an envelope the other day, I scanned the note inside: "Hi, Jonathan," it read. "Enclosed, please find my latest CD. I'd love to hear your 'humble opinion' on my music… Maybe I could use a quote on my next release? Yours truly, (insert musician here)."
Truth be told, I've been quoted once or twice in what is commonly called the "liner notes" of an album. My online dictionary describes these notes as "containing a mix of factual and anecdotal material of the artist, and on occasion, thoughtful essays on the artist by another party, often a journalist—a custom which has largely died out." Although it's fun to see my name in the liner notes, I've noticed that only the positive reviews seem to make it to print. Makes sense, right? Of course it does, and at the end of the day, what do I know anyway? Nothin'. Elvis Presley once said it best: "I don't know anything about music. In my line, you don't have to." With that in mind, and a heap of CD's awaiting my review, I popped a few in and sat back, prepared for the best, bracing for the worst. With a few days left to fill a Christmas stocking, there's still time to give the gift of music.
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Interested in my humble opinion of your work? Send your CD's and books to Jonathan Fox, C/O The River Reporter, 93 Erie Avenue, Narrowsburg, NY 12764. Maybe I can crush your dreams, too. Or, as Marc Switko so eloquently phrased it, "A crust of bread, a burning bed, I pray I can get it out of my head."


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