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Back home where we don't need a dome
My trip was a success. I'm home, and all in one piece.
All I can say is you're hardcore if you can live here full time.
I don't care how beautiful it is in the summer.
Chicago is straight up freggin cold.
I don't think it warmed up even once in three days.
It just kept getting colder.
I still don't care for flying, but I can see how it could serve a purpose if your in a hurry and like to gamble with your life.
I had a window seat in row one, which afforded me the ability to periodically peer out and check the engine and wings.
You know, to make sure all was working and good.
Here are a few city pictures I shot while riding the train back to the airport.
Here is a shot of a few freaks I saw on the train ride (just kidding).
This is Spice.
I believe Spice's goal this trip was to eat his way in and out of Chicago.
The group agreed, "He nailed it".
Nice job Spice, the plumbers union of Chicago thanks you
Good times brotha. Spice educated me to the new word of the day "Ring Stingers". Apparently it's a side effect from eating a burger called the "Goblincock" at a restaurant called Kuma's Korner.
Kuma's is a restaurant with food named only after heavy metal bands.
For some reason, the entire train ride I had the tune from the 70's TV show, "Welcome back Kotter" runnng through my head.
The rhythmic swaying of the city's
train had its effects on the team
Here's J Ryan, my boss and roommate for this trip.
J is the lead singer of a band called Six Finger Satellite that originated in Rhode Island.
Here are few covers of their albums. They have a bunch more.
These are the current members:
Jeremiah Ryan (singer, keyboards, lyrics)
Rick Pelletier
Dan St Jaques
Jon Loper
Click above to check out their myspace page to see what you're missing.
They have a new album coming out available for download.
These guys have been jamming and putting out albums since 1990.
To quote J Ryan to me, "It's music for the head".
Here's our group hard at work, making history in our own way.
We pretty much managed to accomplish everything we set out to do in Chicago.
Our hosts were great. Thank you.
Here's a shot of a colorful building across the street from where we were working.
Some sort of Cabaret.
Click on picture to enlarge if you're into that.
Darth Gadar.
I have to retract my statement about not getting any eye contact from the people in Chicago.
On Thursday night I took a cold, short walk looking for a store where I could purchase some Advil.
Believe me, at that time of night, I was getting all kinds of un-welcomed eye contact.
Guess I went full circle this trip, I found myself staring at the ground not wanting to look up.
Funny how things work.
I walked a little faster than usual back to the hotel and called my wife.
The Chicago atmosphere changes a little after 10pm-ish.
That's ok, that's usually when I go to sleep.
A few more pictures….
Chicago finest keeping busy working on their penmanship.
First time I've seen one of these up close. No room to fart in this thing, (Guess there's always Bean-No).
Two of these things take up the same space as one car.
The dilemma, one of them costs the same as two cars?
Denver International Airport.
I'm back home in Colorado Baby !
And yes, every Coloradan drives by this big circus tent looking airport and wonders…..
"What the hell were they thinking when they built this?"
It was above freezing when we landed in Colorado.
Chicago, it's been fun, great City you have there. Might I suggest heated sidewalks or possibly a retractable dome.
You can bet your ash next time I visit will be during the Summer.
Tomorrow Krista, I, Andy and Aimilee will be attending the Denver Broncos game vs the Chiefs.
It's the only Broncos game were going to this year so we're showing up early to tailgate.
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Hmmmm… it took two of Chicago's finest to write the ticket? And how can you not love a pink Darth Vader. Reminds of the night my husband & I were out on the town in Boston having drinks at this "posh" lounge near Fanueil Hall. We were watching people go by the windows and then there he was – Spiderman staring back in the window at us! And I swear – I was only on my first martini! Got to love the City! Glad you made it home in one piece.
Thanks Julia, I don't usually travel too far from home, (I've done my time). So I may have a tendency to have a slightly childish perception of different cities and states. Especially places I've never visited before. I guess the area we were in was called "Boystown". It's funny, because I found myself laughing the entire walk to work every morning…laters…D
It's good to see you had fun and were successful–and apparently stayed warm enough to make it home.
I love DIA–I think it's my favorite airport I've ever been in. However, that big black horse with red eyes that I always see driving out of the rental car places scares the crap out of me. What is that?
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Glad you made it back safe D. Thanks for sharing Chicago with us. Love the picture of you with the Blues Brothers.
On the Rockies message board ALRockies is starting a blog talk radio and is looking for people to call in as reporters. Thought it might be of interest to you. (See "OT-Calling fellow Rockies Fans" thread)
Oh gosh, Chicago must have been cold. I can't even say that I know what cold is… I've only seen snow once. I want to move somewhere really cold though. The subway pics and Darth Gadar made me LOL.


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Having prepared the FreeBSD 5.2 Netboot server, we can begin to configure our diskless workstations. Let's prepare the kernel and add it to the two-part filesystem (accessible for reading only and accessible for reading and writing) and finally create rc-scripts.
As the previous article explained,
pxeboot expects the NFS-resource at
192.168.1.2/diskless_ro to be the root filesystem, so it'll try
to find the kernel there. While booting the diskless client using
pxeboot, we
could use the
GENERIC kernel.
GENERIC has many drivers, but there are no
useful BOOTP options for us. Instead, let's compile the
DISKLESS kernel to put
on the client filesystem.
Compile the new kernel as usual, changing
GENERIC and removing everything
unnecessary. Be sure to keep the following lines, though:
options NFS_ROOT
options NFSCLIENT
It's a very good thing to add the following options; they aren't in the
GENERIC kernel, but you can certainly do without them:
options BOOTP
options BOOTP_NFSROOT
options BOOTP_COMPAT
These options will cause an additional dialogue with the DHCP server to
rediscover the diskless client's IP address. Otherwise, the server cannot send
additional useful information over BOOTP such as the hostname. As the handbook mentions, you can also add the options
BOOTP_NFSV3 and
BOOTP_WIRED_TO if you like.
I've tested this kernel successfully on several diskless stations.
The only difference between the diskless workstation and any other computer is that the diskless client has its filesystems on the NFS resource. That's why when it boots successfully, it's necessary to re-create a similar directory tree with only a few changes. Having chosen the directories /diskless_ro and /diskless_rw on the server for this task, we'll place all the client files there.
First prepare directory_rw and put it aside. It's necessary only at the final stage of diskless client booting.
The directory /diskless_rw holds individual filesystems for all clients. Having set up the NFS server, these directories follow the form /diskless_rw/workstation IP address/rw-file-system. For example, we've created the following directories for the test diskless client:
server# mkdir /diskless_rw/192.168.1.101
server# mkdir /diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/etc
server# mkdir /diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/var
We'll mount the server directories /diskless_rw/workstation IP address/etc and /diskless_rw/workstation IP address/var as /etc and /var on the diskless client. This naming scheme allows us to give each diskless station its individual directories for reading and writing.
It's a good time to create more directories in /var and /etc for later use. Run:
server# mkdir /diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/etc/pam.d
server# mkdir /diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/etc/X11
server# mkdir /diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/var/home
server# mkdir /diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/var/log
server# mkdir /diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/var/run
server# mkdir /diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/var/tmp
The directory trees for /etc and /var on the test diskless workstation will be:
Unfortunately, the code for passing the kernel information about the swapfile through BOOTP no longer exists in FreeBSD. Instead, place each client's swapfile within its filesystem:
dd if=/dev/zero of=diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/swap bs=1k
Repeat this operation on every diskless workstation. We'll speak later about the file contents of all these directories as well as how to ensure that /etc and /var work properly.
The directory diskless_ro will host the diskless station's root filesystem. It will contain the directories bin, boot, dev, etc, lib, libexec, mnt, sbin, usr, and var.
The directories bin, lib, libexec, and sbin contain the main FreeBSD libraries and programs. We'll take them from the server filesystem without modifying them:
server# cp -r /bin /lib /libexec /sbin /diskless_ro
Create the directory usr to mount the directory /usr from the server later:
server# mkdir /diskless_ro/usr
Now we must prepare the diskless station /boot directory and put
the kernel there. We'll make it by copying the boot directory of the
server and there copying the compiled
DISKLESS kernel:
server# cp -r /boot /diskless_ro
server# cp /sys/i386/compile/DISKLESS/kernel /diskless_ro/boot/kernel
When I used this configuration I had problems booting some workstations. I
solved this on some computers by removing
boot4th and creating my
loader.rc. If you are ready to do the same, then use:
server# cd /diskless_ro/boot
server# rm *.4th
boot4th there's no automatic loading of
device.hints. You have two ways to fix the problem:
device.hints into the kernel. See hints
GENERIC.hints in the
GENERIC kernel example.
loader.rc instead of
Old equipment isn't very reliable, and sometimes it takes too long to configure. To be more flexible configuring the kernel, I used the second approach on the test station.
As the values in device hints are common kernel variables, it's possible to
include them as
set variable="value" into the
loader.rc file. An example
loader.rc will look
set hint.fdc.0.at="isa"
boot /boot/kernel/kernel
The last line of
loader.rc specifies which kernel to load.
I think it's more efficient to compile
loader.rc this way and
then remove spare kernel variables:
server# cd /diskless_ro/boot
server# awk '{print "set "$1}' device.hints > loader.rc
server# echo "boot /boot/kernel/kernel" >> loader.rc
I used this
Now we don't need
device.hints on the client filesystem any
more and can safely remove it. The defaults directory containing
loader.conf is no longer useful either, so execute the
server# cd /diskless_ro/boot
server# rm -r defaults device.hints
The ACPI power-management module loads by default, but it may be useful to
disable it; sometimes diskless stations fail to boot with ACPI enabled. It can
also happen the other way around, when diskless clients can't boot without ACPI
acpi(4)). To disable ACPI, set the kernel variable
device.hints, it's:
loader.rc, it's:
set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
That's all for the directory
The dev directory mounts the devfs filesystem, which contains all the device files of the FreeBSD system. Without this directory, the diskless station will hang while loading the init process without giving an error! So:
server# mkdir /diskless_ro/dev
Let's also take care of the free directory var to mount /diskless_rw/var from the server 192.168.1.2:
server# mkdir /diskless_ro/var
In order not to create separate filesystems for the client's directories home and tmp, make soft links from /home to /var/home and /tmp to /var/tmp, which will ensure access to the directories for reading and writing:
server# cd /diskless_ro
server# ln -s /var/tmp .
server# ln -s /var/home .
Then create and populate the etc directory. As it lives in the /diskless_ro and all of the clients share it in read-only mode, it's important to make its contents universal and compact. It will have only a few required files. Let's take some of them (services, netconfig, and login.conf) from the server filesystem:
server# mkdir /diskless_ro/etc
server# cp /etc/services /etc/netconfig /etc/login.conf /diskless_ro/etc
We'll play a trick to give each diskless station its own individual configuration. Considering that the init process runs /etc/rc, we'll mount a filesystem from diskless_rw over diskless_ro/etc. To this effect we'll create our own etc/rc in diskless_ro/etc:
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin; export PATH
boot_ip=`kenv boot.netif.ip`
mount -t nfs 192.168.1.2:/diskless_rw/${boot_ip}/etc /etc
mount -t nfs 192.168.1.2:/diskless_rw/${boot_ip}/var /var
swapon /var/swap
rm -rf /var/tmp/*; rm -rf /var/tmp/.*;
. /etc/rc2
exit 0
This simple script executes the following actions:
PATH to specify the path to the
executable files.
boot_ip variable.
boot_ip (the client IP address) to mount
the NFS filesystems /etc and /var from the server
192.168.1.2. At this point, the directories /etc and /var,
previously accessible in read-only mode, become accessible both for reading and
writing. In this case, though, they have different files for different
rc2), which continues
booting the system. Because the filesystem mounted in the directory
/etc is original for every diskless client, the script
rc2 as well as all the other files of the directory /etc
can differ. At this point we can start configuring each diskless client by
writing different commands in their
rc2 files.
By placing the required files in the /diskless_rw/
address/etc and editing the file
rc2 there, we can
configure each station by its IP address. To continue booting, the station will
need the following files in this directory:
termcap -> /usr/share/misc/termcap
You can copy almost all of these files from the server directory /etc to /diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/etc without changes. There are only a few exceptions:
fstab will need editing, as all the client's filesystems will use
rc is already written and must come from
rc2 will contain commands and daemons particular to each
diskless station.
syslog.conf will configure the system logs.
ttys will need changing if you want to use
internationalization on the system.
Let's begin with
fstab for the station with IP address
The script
/etc/rc is in the root filesystem of the diskless
client, so:
server# cp /diskless_ro/etc/rc /diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/etc
Then edit
mount -a /sbin/ldconfig -elf /usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib
exit 0
This script executes the following actions when booting diskless clients:
syslogd daemon
Now create the configuration for
syslogd. To this effect, edit
/etc/syslog.conf of the diskless client. For example, the test
workstation will use the file
/diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/etc/syslog.conf. There are plenty of
alternatives. In one,
syslogd will send all system logs to the
server 192.168.1.2:
*.* @server
If you do this, make sure to load the daemon with the
-a option
pointing to the server 192.168.1.2. For example:
syslogd -a 192.168.1.0/24
Another option is to have
syslogd send all logs to
/var/log/all.log on its own filesystem:
*.* /var/log/all.log
If you choose this approach, be sure to create the file /var/log/all.log with proper permissions beforehand:
server# touch /diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/var/log/all.log
server# chmod 600 /diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/var/log/all.log
If you need to enable localization on the system, you must add a few lines
rc2 and edit
ttys. To enable the Russian language
(koi8-r), add the following commands to
kbdcontrol < /dev/ttyv0 -l "ru.koi8-r"
vidcontrol < /dev/ttyv0 -l "koi8-r2cp866"
vidcontrol < /dev/ttyv0 -f 8x16 "cp866-8x16"
vidcontrol < /dev/ttyv0 -f 8x14 "cp866-8x14"
vidcontrol < /dev/ttyv0 -f 8x8 "cp866-8x8"
and edit
ttys to change all entries of
cons25 to
cons25r for each virtual terminal. For example, for
ttyv0 the line will become:
ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25r on secure
You must perform this operation on all diskless workstations. Then you can turn on your workstations and they will boot and work. There can be some hidden traps, though.
Authentication files come from the server. Now all the usernames and their
password on the server and stations are identical. If this doesn't suit you,
edit master.passwd for each workstation to remove all the spare users.
Then give
root a new password and home directory. For
root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh
toor:*:0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:
daemon:*:1:1::0:0:Owner of many system processes:/root:/sbin/nologin
operator:*:2:5::0:0:System &:/:/sbin/nologin
bin:*:3:7::0:0:Binaries Commands and Source:/:/sbin/nologin
tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
games:*:7:13::0:0:Games pseudo-user:/usr/games:/sbin/nologin
news:*:8:8::0:0:News Subsystem:/:/sbin/nologin
man:*:9:9::0:0:Mister Man Pages:/usr/share/man:/sbin/nologin
sshd:*:22:22::0:0:Secure Shell Daemon:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin
smmsp:*:25:25::0:0:Sendmail Submission User:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/sbin/nologin
mailnull:*:26:26::0:0:Sendmail Default User:/var/spool/mqueue:/sbin/nologin
bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
uucp:*:66:66::0:0:UUCP pseudo-user:/var/spool/uucppublic:/usr/libexec/uucp/uucico
pop:*:68:6::0:0:Post Office Owner:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
www:*:80:80::0:0:World Wide Web Owner:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
nobody:*:65534:65534::0:0:Unprivileged user:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
Remember to rebuild the password database:
pwd_mkdb -d /diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/etc /diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/etc/master.passwd
Edit the file etc/group (for example, /diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/etc/group), and then create home directories for the rest of the users in the directory var/home (/diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/var/home).
Now, as we have configured our system to keep user home directories in the filesystem of each diskless station (directory /var/home and soft link /home to /var/home), a user who has changed stations can't access his files from his previous computer. To solve the problem, export the server's /home to all the diskless stations. For example, add this line to the server's /etc/exports:
/home -network 192.168.1.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
Thus, add this line to fstab on each station:
192.168.1.2:/home /home nfs rw 0 0
Finally, don't forget to change the link from /home to /var/home for the real directory /home:
server# cd /diskless_ro
server# rm home
server# mkdir home
Remember, though, that exporting the home directories of all users can be dangerous.
If you need the X Window system, you have two options:
startx and run X on the diskless station
xdm and use the server resources.
Both alternatives will require you to load the
moused daemon to
enable the mouse. For a test workstation with a mouse connected to the COM2
port, invoke
moused with:
/usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/cuaa1 -t auto
As mice can connect to different COM ports on different stations, you need to change this command for each diskless client and put it into /etc/rc2 in order to load it at boot time.
startx Approach
The first alternative installs X on the server in a common way. Every
diskless client has its own XF86Config file (in the /etc/X11
directory). Thus the test station with IP address 192.168.1.101 has a file on the
server in /diskless_rw/192.168.1.101/etc/X11. In this case, running
startx on the client starts X.
If you also need access to a Microsoft Windows Terminal Server, install
rdesktop on the server in order to support the RDP protocol:
server# cd /usr/ports/net/rdesktop
server# make install clean
To start
rdesktop automatically when loading the X Window
System, create the file .xsession or .xinitrc in the home
directory of all users on all diskless stations. Add to it this line:
rdesktop -f mswinserver
Here the key
-f specifies the use of full-screen mode.
mswinserver is a hostname or an IP address of the Microsoft Windows
Terminal Server.
xdm Approach
The second way to configure X uses the XDMCP protocol. It's more suitable when many users need access to the Unix server to run graphical programs. This approach also uses the XF86Config file, but it requires additional server configuration.
Create the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config similar to:
DisplayManager.errorLogFile: /var/log/xdm.log
DisplayManager.pidFile: /var/run/xdm.pid
DisplayManager.keyFile: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-keys
DisplayManager.servers: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers
DisplayManager.accessFile: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xaccess
DisplayManager.willing: su -m nobody -c /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xwilling
DisplayManager*authorize: true
DisplayManager*resources: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources
DisplayManager*session: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
DisplayManager*authComplain: true
The Xservers file will be empty; Xaccess will contain only a single
*, which permits all hosts to connect to
xdm to
receive the log-in screen. Finally, load
xdm with the command:
server# xdm
To start
xdm at boot time, place this call in a script named
xdm.sh and place it in the server's /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory.
xdm has successfully started on the server, you can run X
server on the clients. For example:
diskless-101# X -query 192.168.1.2
If you need to load X at boot time, place this command in the
rc2 script for each diskless client:
X -query 192.168.1.2 &
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And if you're like me, you probably had in mind that you'd see a bunch of tattoo artists giving tats or showing off their skills.
Well then, like me, you would've been wrong.
The Ink Slingers' Ball is actually an annual event where printmakers from all over (and I do mean ALL over) get together to drink and be merry.
Oh, and maybe sell some art.
The large group of eclectic artists varied in region as well as ages.
New Yorker Pat Seals, who coincidently is the bassist from the hard rock band Flyleaf, accompanied his sister, Katy Seals, to the art show to sling some of their prints.
Nick Francel from Austin was having a few beers as the crowds admired his mutated Saturday Morning cartoon creations.
But after chatting with many of the artists for a while, they would always ask, "Have you talked to Marc? He's from France."
Marc Brunier-Mestas, as it turns out, is the premier underground printmaker in France. He's had renowned retrospective shows all over Europe, China and here in the States.
Brunier-Mestas was brought over to America by Julia Curran, who visited France for a French-American exchange program. Curran resides in St. Louis, Mo., and the two of them came together and started a traveling art show.
All of Brunier-Mestas artwork was printed on drink coasters, which at first glance may seem like an odd canvas, but he's an artist, so anything can be a canvas. Right?
Curran was on hand to translate for Brunier-Mestas, who said, "I decided to create the series for the first time for a big workplace in France for their the inauguration, and it's a good idea to make these.
"And it's popular with rock 'n' roll."
And what does the printmaker think of Texas?
"It is so nice," he said with a huge grin. "I love Texas."
His artwork was also blown up to larger-than-coaster size and pasted on the walls and ceiling of the art walk tunnel.
But the event wouldn't even exist in Corpus Christi if it wasn't for the professor of printmaking at Texas A&M, Ryan O'Malley, who is both an actual scholar as well as a gentleman.
"I've been here for about three years," O'Malley said, "and one of the first things I realized when I got here is that the city has an amazing amount of potential.
"And being around here and meeting people, I realize that there are actually folks capitalizing on that potential."
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QUOTE (LOWFIELD @ Dec 4 2009, 04:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The self centred hypocrisy surrounding this game and the people that run it has me shaking my head in disbelief. This week i was informed i have been successfull in applying for a grant from sport England for my junior team of Ł8,600, which is fantastic news. The Chief Exec of Sport England is our very own Richard Lewis, on the form there was a question that asked, "does your group exclude or partially exclude any person or persons" if the answer is yes this funding will not be for you.
You couldnt make it up you really couldnt.
You couldnt make it up you really couldnt.
The double standards are unbelievable. Congrats on ya grant mate.


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The Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team has announced that the 2013 MX2 World Champion Jeffrey Herlings will have to sit out the remaining rounds of the current season after fracturing his shoulder blade in a crash during qualifying at the MX GP of Belgium last weekend.
Team boss Stefan Everts said Jeffrey had consulted two different medical specialists, including the renowned expert Dr. Toon Claes and it had been confirmed that in the best situation it will be five to six weeks before he will be unable to ride or train on the bike. "It is disappointing for Jeffrey, the team and certainly for the fans that he will not be able to ride in Matterley Basin and Lierop but occasional injury is an unfortunate part of professional racing. We wish him all the best for a speedy recovery," Everts commented.
Herlings, who secured his second World Championship MX2 title the previous weekend at Loket, Cezch Republic has had a brilliant season winning all 13 GPs before his accident. He will now have the rest of the season and the offseason period to recuperate and prepare for another assault on his third title at the beginning of the 2014 season.


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North Country Throws Support Behind Fort Drum
North country residents turned out in force Thursday night to make the case for Fort Drum.
Dozens of speakers appeared at a "listening session" conducted by 10th Mountain Division commander Maj. Gen. Stephen Townsend at Case Middle School in Watertown.
The session, which was scheduled to run from 5 to 7 p.m., concluded at 8:15 p.m.
The message delivered Thursday night by speaker after speaker: Fort Drum has been critical to the north country, and the north country has done whatever is necessary to help the post and its soldiers.
"I think it's very important that Fort Drum keeps our soldiers and support here," Sarah Loudon said. "It's well-needed."
"The community embraces Fort Drum," she continued. "It's very important, especially to students like me who go to Indian River with such a large military population that we don't have this change."
The listening session is one of 29 taking place across the country.
"I never sat in an auditorium full of local citizens who had three hours to tell the army how much they appreciated the 10th Mountain Division and Fort Drum," Townsend said. "And I heard that for over three hours tonight, and it was pretty powerful."
Sixty-five people signed up to have their say and show the community is passionate about Fort Drum.
"I think you grow up in this passion," Shawn Mead said. "I've been fortunate enough to be in this area my entire life and you grow up around that and you understand the importance and the value of the soldiers and what they do to support our nation."
There was a brief disruption early on, when a man shouted that he hadn't "signed up" to live on a military post, and complained about helicopter traffic from Fort Drum. He left just as officials converged on him to escort him from the room.
The Department of Defense is trying to get an idea of how downsizing the Army will affect military towns.
What was said at the north country listening session is expected to help shape the decision to either grow or shrink Fort Drum.
The active duty force will be cut by 80,000 soldiers in the next few years.
Fort Drum's population will likely change.
An internal Army report suggested it could shrink by as many as 8,000 soldiers or gain up to 3,000 troops.
The Army downsizing is expected to be complete in 2017.
It's unclear when any decision regarding Fort Drum will be made.


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VanSteenburgh featured at the ARTery
October 30, 2013 —
MILFORD, PA — The ARTery November Featured Artist is Ben vanSteenburgh III, whose work will be on display from November 8 to December 9. The public is invited to the artist's reception and Milford's "Art After Dark" celebration on Saturday, November 9 from 6 to 9 p.m.
VanSteenburgh III majored in art as an undergrad and attended New York's School of Visual Arts. His body of work includes book illustrations for nationally known authors, portraits (including one of Bill Clinton and Chelsea, which hangs in Bill's Harlem office) and fine art, much of which centers on the human form.
Newest members Michele Jaffe and Linda Urcioli will also be showcased at the front of the gallery. Jaffe will be exhibiting her still lifes and landscapes. A very active member of Pike County Arts and Crafts (PCAC) for decades, she has helped the group through the years with volunteer work and leadership. From 1999 to 2008 she owned The Gallery at Forest Hall, showcasing American arts and crafts, in Milford. Urcioli has studied many years with master artist John Philip Osborne. She attended the American Woodcarving School in Wayne NJ, the Ridgewood Art Institute in NJ, and the Old Church Cultural Center in Demarest, NJ.
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text: Aliens and Nuclear Weapons 12>Swamptick posted:3/27/2011 7:49:07 AM http://www.theufochronicles.com/2011/03/breaking-ufo-news-numerous-ufo.htmlSwamptick posted:3/27/2011 8:04:56 AM This is interesting stuff.treeofgreen posted:3/27/2011 7:29:50 PM thanks for the link Swamptick that was very interesting. I have heard other stories and seen other articles about similar things. Supposedly these UFO has stopped quite a few planned launches of nukes over the past few decades.Very interestingSwamptick posted:3/28/2011 8:14:16 AM It always makes me wonder what kind of sensing equipment they have.spiritech0 posted:3/28/2011 12:29:11 PM At first, I thought these could be Billy Meier's Nordic buddies, but then again it could be they just need their batteries recharged via wifi like our cell phones. No to nukes. Yes to TeslaTech.gary107 posted:3/28/2011 12:33:54 PM Believe what you will, but I think that Mr. Spock will not be there to save anyone. In the event of the need for a first strike there is a RAPTURE call list, but that is for folks who will be needed in some future world, not for young welfare mothers with babies and kids to support.Swamptick posted:3/28/2011 2:41:22 PM What point are you trying to make Gary? Your ramblings are not entirely clear and to be frank, quite poorly worded. Can you re-form your statements?gary107 posted:3/29/2011 2:40:56 AM There are no aliens that will prevent a third world war where we use atomic weapons. The rich can afford their own bunkers, elected leaders of government have the tax payers to pay for their retreats. For the inner city poor you allow the fake hope of some alien Mr. Spock to come to their relief. There are no longer civil defense bunkers in our cities, so just feed those folks drugs and offer them a "dream." It would be more useful to have bunkers. Let the 95% of the population pay their taxes, but plan to "save" only the useful and well connected 5%. Our only advantage in an Atomic war is a first strike, that is why it was called "plan 1-A," it is the best option. I have heard and been asked about this discussion all my life. Two Air Force officers are used to create false hope for our inner city populations, a cheap trick. Clear enough? Swamptick posted:3/29/2011 7:46:47 AM There are so many flaws with your argument I don't know where to begin. Let's start with the tax issue. You are asserting that 95% of the population pays taxes. This alone is enough to nullify your conspiracy theory. Around half - that's right HALF - of Americans pay taxes. The rest are getting a free ride. As for the inner city poor: You are aware they are the ones CHOOSING to do drugs. Typically the suppliers of these drugs are also other inner city poor. Do some research and your consipracy theories might dissolve in the face of unmittigatable facts.spiritech0 posted:3/29/2011 10:11:13 AM Yeah. Plus, Mr Spock wouldn't mess with the Prime Directive of "leave the poor savages to their own doom". LOLzgary107 posted:3/29/2011 10:56:09 AM Taxes are not just on property or profits. What little the rich pay in taxes are just added to the cost of the product their companies sell. People also pay sales tax without passing the cost on. Adam Smith would turn in his grave upon hearing of your lack of understanding of how an economy works. Follow the 95% around and see how many times a day they pay taxes. The state governments are brook and they need the cost of gas to go way up in order to collect more sales tax. You do not agree that we have Plan 1-A ? You are not related to Bill Gulley or Canadian Lt. Gen. Howard Douglas Graham? Mr. Spock is as much a fictiion as the reported testimony of those two Air Force officers. Drugs or religion are simple ways of having the poor or working poor bear their daily lives. Conspiracy is just another term for good planning. There is a need for it and profit can be made from it. Look at the BioTech industry, I recall my maternal grandmother talking about what was to be done with the Black folks and male homosexuals after the Watt riots of 1965. In the year leading up to her death on July 27th 1978 [ anniversary of the battle of Killiecrankie ] she repeatly said she was glad she was not going to live to see it. She had old ideas on what society was all about. Believe what you will, besides the study of ghosts is due to be an expanding field, eh? It is just a matter of using Atomic bombs or germs.Swamptick posted:3/29/2011 11:33:52 AM Lol. Ok Gary. You do NOT have your facts right. 5% of Americans are paying over half the taxes. The rich pay WELL more than their fare share. Get it right.Swamptick posted:3/29/2011 11:34:26 AM There is nothing worse than people who make stuff up based on emotion.gary107 posted:3/31/2011 6:49:02 AM Child, you need to summon up the ghost of Lona Helmsley. The 5 % you assert are likely the ones who can not afford a staff of company lawyers and accounts. I have no need to "make up" anything. I have a tested IQ of 145. I am over 60 years old. I have Asperger Syndrome, I do not feel your pain or "emotions." Sometimes I do tell people "death knowledge," or things that drive them to suicide. I can not understand what determines their behaviour. It is not a matter of my concern. Be careful of what you ask for I will tell you the truth. Swamptick posted:3/31/2011 8:06:52 AM Whatever you have to tell yourself. For someone with such a hight IQ you sure don't have very god grammar. You have ZERO influence over me lol. Take care nancy. Swamptick posted:3/31/2011 8:07:04 AM Good* 0x6a656666 posted:3/31/2011 8:38:09 AM In Reply To:Swamptick posted:3/31/2011 8:07:04 AM Good* LOLgary107 posted:3/31/2011 12:54:20 PM I do not use contractions for the sake of clearity. The script writers for Star Trak: the next generation copy this behaviour into the character DATA in the mid-1980's. Be happy I do not express myself like the Yoda character for "German syntax difficult is." The script writers took my discovery that "others" had developed a "collective mind" and used it as "the Borg" in their script plots. I did not approve of that. Hint: The dry Clark Lake bed and the kind of radio telescope that used to run across it and was operated by the University of Maryland in the 1970's. So now "the Mother Church" has decided that aliens can have "souls" and should also be "saved." Such is pure hubris on their part. Read "A New Number for An Old Beast" by Gary Brumwell and you will get an understanding of how I view religion and spiritual matters. Have a good day. Swamptick posted:4/1/2011 7:43:08 AM If you say so.spiritech0 posted:4/1/2011 10:16:17 AM Wowzers. I suggest the MIB check out their missing Kaminoan... 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I read about Amanuensis Monday in Heather Rojo's blog "Nutfield Genealogy," who read about it in Randy Seaver's blog "GeneaMusings" and he read about it on John Newmark's genealogy blog "TransylvanianDutch". That said, for me this is a great way to transcribe and post my Uncle Ralph's letters.
Mondays are my days to enter transcriptions of the letters my Uncle Ralph wrote to his sisters. The following letter was written to his sister Olive Lorraine. He mentions her husband, and his sisters, Bertha, Helen and Verna, as well as a bit of family history from Minnesota and Wisconsin. This letter is also one of his shorter missives - just a four-page letter to keep in touch with his sister. To the left is a picture of Ralph taken in the mid 1940's.
Received your letter the day after I had mailed you one so to keep the record straight I'll write again today & besides I got more idle time than you have,
Norman thinks I have a good memory. Well I have & I also think that the times of life also have something to do wit it. Everything was so much slower and relaxed 50 or 60 years ago that think the impresions get imprinted on your memory like years ago when the roads were so bad & we were driving trucks with poor brakes after about the 2nd trip we knew every bump in or where to slow or speed up. To show you an example Bertha & I both started school at the 5th Ward schoool in Madison wis & the 1st grade teacher there also taught our mother when she started to school when she was 6y yrs old.
Our Dad drove a wholesale delivery wagon for Gold-Wells&Blackburn wholesale grocers & his section of town to deliver in was called little Italy. For all of this he received $1 a day 5 1/2 days a week which at that time were considered good wages, he quit them & went to work as a marble setter when they were finishing bldg the Capitol at Madison.
The problem I have now & have had for years bringing something to mind like I"ll introducetwo people & I'll know their names as well as my own but at the time can't think of them.
You know as I look back I know a lot of Grandfather's (James Burns McPherson) brothers and sisters & also some of his aunts and uncles & no where has there been much illness. They either had to get killed or die of old age & I mean old in the nintys, of course generations ago when people never got 50 mi away from home in their life time there was some pretty close relationship along the line although none of them were deformed like the royalty in Europe altho there were some like one of Dad's cousins with two thumbs on each hand and a few more like that
No you dont get much impressions in todays world you drive along the highway you don't actualy see it or anything else
Our weather is still nice but the nights are getting a little chill to them but I can cut down on the electricity which is good
Had a letter from Bertha this last week but she doesn't say much
Write to Verna this a.m. & should drop Helen a line. Guess she is in a vile mood if she's quit smoking it bothers me too.
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Last year, Beaver River made the Class C championship but came up short in a game against Cooperstown.
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Using an annotation processor to enforce Java-like access rules
By jglick on Feb 17, 2010
Sometimes you need to expose a method from one class to another class, but do not wish to make this method public for anyone to call (because you are not prepared to maintain it compatibly forever). If they happen to be in the same package, you can just use package-private access. But this does not work if they are not in the same package.
Some module systems - NetBeans, OSGi - let you declare that some packages or classes are not to be accessed outside of the declaring module, even if marked public. The FriendPackages pattern can be useful in case you want to expose your method to a class in another package so long as that other package is private and is in the same module. But there are many cases where you want to make a method accessible to a particular caller in another module.
Ideally you could just use something like Java's
public keyword - i.e., an annotation. But what would pay attention to that annotation? Well, an annotation processor. (At least at compile time; runtime access checks are another matter, but anyone using reflection probably knows how to call
setAccessible anyway, so runtime checks would only be useful in security sandboxes.)
If you are compiling using JDK 7, the new
AbstractTypeProcessor class in the Tree API lets you write annotation processors which not only can examine the full source tree, but get access to type information - such as what the receiver type of a method call is. This is critical.
I have started to prototype an annotation
@Public which can be placed on a nominally public member to declare that it should be visible only to the enumerated classes; and an accompanying annotation processor:
PublicProcessor By placing the JAR containing the annotation and its processor in your classpath, and compiling with JDK 7+ javac, you can have a new access modifier intermediate between package-private and public!


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"Cabin in the Woods" director Drew Goddard knows how to have fun with an audience. He got his start as a writer for "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and spent a few seasons writing for "Lost."
We sat down with Goddard and "Cabin" star Kristen Connolly to talk about his wonderfully twisty horror-comedy. (No spoilers ahead: "Cabin" is way more fun without them.)
Drew, your past work was evident in this film. Can you take me back to how the idea was born?
Goddard: You know, I started my career working for Joss (Whedon) on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel." And a couple of years after that, we were just talking to each other, and we just missed each other. We just wanted to write something again together.
So we were kicking ideas around, and he was like, "I got this idea. What if we did the cabin movie? We call it 'Cabin in the Woods." And he had sort of the basic, broad strokes of the movie in his head. And as soon as I heard the phrase "cabin in the woods," I was like, yeah, I'm in. I love that genre of the horror film.
So it really just came from that. The two of us sitting down and saying, alright, if we could write anything we wanted to, what would we write and how would we pack as much as we love about horror films into one movie?
And some of the things you hate about them too?
Goddard: Yeah, I can see why people see that, but it all comes from a place of love. Even the stuff we're poking and prodding at, I still love. I understand why things become cliché. You know, clichés become clichés because they work … once upon a time. So it's all about execution. It is definitely done with love.
What was the screenwriting process like, collaborating with someone that you're close with already versus just writing along?
Goddard: Because we've done it so much in "Buffy," we had really honed it. We have a distinct way of looking at things, and we just spent months talking about the story and making it not feel like work. Just sitting around and trying to entertain each other, really.
And then once we feel like we have a good outline in place we try to write it as fast as we can. And in this case, we just locked ourselves in a hotel room, and said we're not allowed to leave this hotel room until we write this script. And that's what we did. We just cranked it out as fast as we could … Three days. And, you know, we rewrote it after that, but the first draft was three day.
So did you leave the room at all for three days?
Goddard: I would sometimes pace outside when I got stuck. But we wouldn't leave the hotel itself. I'd pace in the hall. And sometimes we would send down to get room service.
Kristen, what was your first take on the script?
Connolly: Well, I didn't read the script until actually after I'd already gotten the part … because all of the audition scenes that we had were fake. I had one scene where I was crying a lot, and then there was another scene with Kurt (Chris Hemsworth) where we were being chased by pterodactyls, and we're screaming, "We have to get to the tunnels!" And I don't know what the tunnels were, so I was doing my actor homework and I was like, "Yeah, these tunnels." And then it was, like, wait a second, I don't think this is a real scene in the movie. …
After we'd all been cast and were in Vancouver, we found out everybody had these crazy scenes. Like Jesse (Williams) had one with Kurt and a monster in a locker room, and Fran (Kranz) had a different monster, and Anna (Hutchinson) had the angry, molesting tree that pulled her out of a hot tub … Fran and I actually did a scene that's in the actual movie for our audition, but I didn't know where it fit in, because I hadn't actually read the (full) script, so I didn't really have the context for it.
But then I read it and I was just totally blown away. It's amazing watching the movie, because I can sort of hear people having the same experience that I had reading it … except that it's in front of you, and you can see it.
But I just couldn't believe it. I was, like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa! We're going here?! I thought we were going that way. And now we're somewhere else."
What's it like as a young actress reading a horror script? Do you turn every page wondering, "Am I going to be dismembered?"
Connolly: A lot of the time I feel like when I read scripts, there are things that you kind of "clock," like, what's this going to be like to shoot it? But I really got lost in the story reading this.
And I didn't even do the thing of, you know, "bullshit … bullshit … my line," you know? I read the other scenes even that I wasn't in … which is kind of amazing. It sucked me in that much that I got lost in it, which is extraordinary.
What was the shooting like? Obviously you had two worlds that sort of came together in the film.
Goddard: There are two worlds to the film, so we shot Kristen's world first entirely. It's almost like we went and shot this other movie, which was fun, as a director. It keeps it exciting because it's like I get to stretch and do different things.
Look, it's an ambitious movie, certainly for a first-time director. I tried to pull off a lot of stuff, so it was challenging. But that's what made it rewarding.
But we had a lot of long nights in the woods in the middle of the night where you're, like, I was cursing the writer … I will never write night scenes again, now that I've directed! Nights are hard.
Two characters in a room talking from now on. (laughs)
You've got a lot of writing experience. What was the first time being behind the camera like?
Goddard: Luckily I started in TV writing and producing for Joss Whedon and J.J. Abrams ("Lost"), because they're very empowering to writers. So I had a lot of experience talking to actors and managing the set and editing — a lot of the stuff that the director does.
That being said, there's really nothing like that first day when you say "Action!" and you realize, oh, everyone is looking at you. If something goes wrong, it's my fault now. I can't blame it on the director anymore.
It took a little while to get your sea legs under you, but then once you do you realize, oh, this is the most fun job in the world.
Kristen, pretend Drew isn't here, how was this first-time director from an actor's perspective?
Connolly: I would never think, "Oh, this is a first-time director." I always felt like Drew knew exactly what he wanted but would let us play within that, which really is an amazing thing. You feel really secure that there's a person at the head of the ship who knows where we're going, but also that you could feel the freedom to do something differently on a certain take.
It was really fun and really playful. Fran and I would be doing a scene, and it would be really intense, and Drew would come out and we would think we were going to get a note that we were doing something wrong. And then he'd be like (whispers), "This is so much fun. Let's just do it again. This is awesome." And then walk away.
It was a ball. It was like the kind of job that nobody gets to have.
What was the period of limbo like when you have this really great film in the can … were you wondering if it would ever see the light of day?
Goddard: No, I knew it would, but I just didn't know when, and so that was a little frustrating. But once you saw "The Hobbit" and "James Bond" also getting delayed you knew, this is not about us. When you're dealing with billion-dollar bankruptcies, nothing moves quickly. It was just so above my pay-grade.
All I cared about was just protecting the film, because when there's a change of management, there's that worry that the new boss is gonna come in and make you change the movie. Once they started showing the movie, a couple of different studios started bidding on it. And Lionsgate outbid them all and said, "We love this film. Don't change a frame." Then I was just relieved.
One thing you do really well is the balance of horror and comedy — sometimes the laughs kind of play off the scares. Which do you think is harder: making people laugh or making people scared?
Goddard: The harder part is doing both, because they're very different. And to short of shift tones that quickly … when people ask what the hardest part of directing this move was, it was definitely maintaining tone, because we do go so crazy.
The trick to both — making people laugh and making people scared — is just casting great actors. You look for actors that can shift gears for you, because I can't do it. They have to do it for you.
Connolly: Something that Drew had us all on the same page about pretty early on which factors into that is we weren't playing it for a laugh. I think we were all just trying to play it as truthfully as we could — about the friendship between the kids and this crazy situation they get thrown into.
Drew, what of what you've worked on do you think was most influential in "Cabin"?
Goddard: That's a good question. I've been very lucky in that all the things I've worked on, I felt like I've been able to work my own voice into those things. So "Cabin" feels like the natural progression of "me," I suppose.
The thing that I learned from all of the shows that I got to work on is all of them were fearless. All of them didn't feel like they just had to do the same episode. It's a credit to Joss and to J.J. and to Damon Lindelof. They never felt comfortable doing the same thing.
It was like, let's take risks and be OK being different, and trust that the audience will come with us, even when we're taking chances. And I feel like "Cabin" is very much the culmination of those lessons.


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Kid's Fashion Center
Long gone are the days of throwing on a pair of flip flops and running out the door. Leaving the house in the winter takes a bit more preparation, and if you aren't careful, your kids may walk out the door looking a bit, shall we say, homeless. My own children are absolutely famous for leaving the house in 30 degree weather wearing a sleeveless shirt, a tutu and flowery sandals. When they are called on it, the protestations of "But this is what I want to wear - and I'm not cold!" seem to fill my ears forever.
How to get the kids to dress appropriately for the weather is a constant discussion in my house - and I'd venture to say, in yours as well. Short of holding them down and forcing the correct weather apparel on their bodies, how do you do it?
- Make it fun - there's a reason that there is a proliferation of character gear available - kids are more apt to wear a Hello, Kitty hat than a plain black hone - so take advantage of it. Maybe your boy loves MInecraft; there are a ton of Minecraft winter apparel opportunities. Maybe your daughter goes gaga for Barbie - buy some Barbie gloves and watch her refuse to take them off.
- Make some of it non negotiable - In our house, a hat is an absolute after a certain temperature drop, and because my children are asthmatics, scarves are also required (on the recommendation of their allergist). I allow more wiggle room on gloves. Pick what your battle area is and let the rest go. For my own mom, we always had to have a coat that covered our bottoms.
- Let them pick out their gear - Especially as your child gets a bit older, giving her a bit of money and some guidelines to buy winter gear may work in your favor. It's less work for you, she gets to feel like a big shot, and the odds are better that she will wear it.
- Model good behavior - Um, how good are you at wearing your winter hat? Kids aren't dummies, and no matter how important you say it is to wear a hat - if you don't do so, you don't have much credibility.
How do you get your kids to dress appropriately for the winter weather?
by lillucky8December 24, 2012 at 8:44 AMMy dd hates being cold so she loves bundling up. She wears a nice thick sweatshirt or fleece, then her jacket, hat, mittens :)
December 24, 2012 at 8:45 AM
My girls don't mind bundling up when it's cold out.
by momma-flynnDecember 26, 2012 at 7:33 AMWe don't have to bundle often, but dd loves to wear hats, scarves & gloves.
December 26, 2012 at 8:41 AM
It is not really a struggle for us.
Pretty much anything is negotiable - I think below 20 degrees, I do insist on a coat on the 4 yo - he is the balky one. 30 degrees isn't that cold (to this Minnesotan anyway). If they are cold, they will dress better next time! Getting cold doesn't make you sick - that's an old wives tale.
I just model appropriate dressing for the weather & make sure that what they "should" be wearing is available. I do cringe at my 4 yo refusing to wear his coat & sometimes wonder what other people think. But until its in the 20s or colder, I don't force it. Luckily, by that point it isn't hard to get his coat on him.
by ceciliamDecember 26, 2012 at 10:06 AM
Luckily, my son likes gloves, hats and scarves.
by fraujonesDecember 26, 2012 at 10:19 AM
It can be a battle some mornings. We've bought things she really likes which helps. I need to work on modeling good behavior. I often go out without a hat or gloves when I'm rushed (which is pretty much all of the time ;)


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text: My dd is now 71/2 mo old and over the past two weeks my milk supply seems to have suddenly diminished. For example, I normally pump 3x a day and nurse 3-4 times a day in addition. When I pump I usually get about 9-10 oz per day, around 3oz a session. The last two weeks I've suddenly dropped to about 6-7 oz pumping a day and I feel "empty" all the time. On the weekends I nurse on demand. LO doesn't seem to be as satisfied while nursing and doesn't nurse as long either and will pull off the breast and cry like she's wanting more, but there's not much coming. She eats solids very well and loves them! I usually feed her cereal or some fruit in the morning after she nurses and then some more cereal or pureed vegies in the afternoon after nursing again. She also eats more veggies or cereal in the evening around our dinner time. I am very concerned about my supply and I make sure I drink tons of water. I've been trying to take goat's rue, which tastes horrid, but that doesn't seem to be making much difference. I called the LC and they said that there wasn't anything that could be done. I felt like they were kind of like, oh well, too bad for you. It was very discouraging. Any suggestions as to why I might be loosing my supply and what to do about it? Also I have PCOS so I do not normally have periods so I don't know if that hormonal imbalance is having any effect.


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It is time for House Speaker John Boehner to walk away from negotiating with Barack Obama.
Boehner appears to not understand that in order to be able to successfully negotiate a deal, one must be willing to stop negotiating and simply walk away. Boehner needs to have a Reykjavik Summit moment.
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Meteor Smoke Makes Strange Clouds
Aug. 7, 2012
A key ingredient of Earth's strangest clouds does not come from Earth. New data from NASA's AIM spacecraft proves that "meteor smoke" is essential to the formation of noctilucent clouds.
NASA's Curiosity Rover Caught in the Act of Landing
Aug. 6, 2012
With split-second timing, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured an amazing snapshot of Curiosity parachuting to the surface of Mars.
NASA Lands Car-Size Rover Beside Martian Mountain
Aug. 6, 2012
NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation.
The Summer of 2012 -- Too Hot to Handle?
Aug. 3, 2012
Are the heat waves of summer 2012 a sign of climate change, ordinary weather, or some mixture? Earth scientists discuss the possibilities in today's story from Science@NASA.
Curiosity's First Daredevil Stunt
Aug. 2, 2012
When Curiosity enters the Martian atmosphere on August 6th, setting in motion "the seven minutes of terror" that people are buzzing about, the rover will actually be performing the mission's second daredevil stunt. The first was completed in July.
Strange but True: Curiosity's Sky Crane
July 30, 2012
How do you gently lower a massive SUV-sized nuclear-powered rover to the surface of Mars without making an SUV-sized crater? NASA's solution for Curiosity will be attempted for the first time on August 5/6 when they lower the rover to the red sands of Mars using a Sky Crane.
Mars Landing Sky Show
July 29, 2012
On the same night Curiosity lands on Mars, a "Martian Triangle" will appear in sunset skies of Earth. The first-magnitude apparition on August 5th gives space fans something to do while they wait for news from the Red Planet.
Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt
July 24, 2012
For several days this month, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland experienced some degree of melting, according to measurements from three independent satellites.
A Taste of Solar Maximum
July 20, 2012
Forecasters say solar maximum is still a year away. Earlier this month sky watchers got a taste of things to come when a powerful flare sparked Northern Lights over the United States as far south as Arkansas, Colorado and California.
Opportunity Runs the First Martian Marathon
July 18, 2012
More than 8 years after landing on the Red Planet, Mars rover Opportunity is still running. Indeed, mission planners say the tireless robot is poised to complete a full marathon--the first ever long-distance race on an alien planet.


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Mr. Cantu was born in Beeville on Feb. 25, 1948, to Juan and Gertrudes (Maldonado) Cantu. He married Ruth Lopez on Aug. 9, 2012, and worked many years as an auto body technician with Dave Moore Ford and Diamond Finish Auto Clinic. He was also a lifelong musician and had played drums with the former band called Los Reales.
He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Henry Cantu.
Survivors include his wife, Ruth Lopez Cantu of Beeville; two daughters, Linda Cantu of Victoria and Shirley Cantu Garcia of Palacios; two stepdaughters, Caricia (Robert) Blanco of Corpus Christi and Maribel Gonzales of El Campo; two sisters, Mary Cantu (Toby) Castillo of Belen, New Mexico, and Lucy (Dallas) McCollough of Nashville, Tennessee; 13 grandchildren; one great-grandson; and several nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be held at Oak Park Memorial Funeral Chapel Friday, Aug. 1, from 4 to 8 p.m. A prayer service is scheduled for 7 o'clock that evening.
The funeral service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, at Oak Park Memorial Funeral Chapel.
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Based on more than 30 years of psychological counseling and pastoral care, Howard Clinebell believes that humans have seven spiritual hungers in common:
Clinebell feels that everybody must pay attention to these needs to feel whole and fulfilled, making spirituality central to human well-being (Clinebell, 1992).
Readers who feel uncomfortable with the words spiritual or spirituality can substitute their own words - perhaps words like connection or love or meaning.
Do you recognize any of these spiritual needs in yourself?
[1] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/enhance-your-wellbeing/purpose/life-purpose/what-life-purpose
[2] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/create-healthy-lifestyle/life-purpose-and-spirituality/why-life-purpose-and-spirituality-are-import-0


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In July 2011, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) staff and the Department of Energy (DOE) jointly submitted to Congress a required "Implementation Proposal for the National Action Plan on Demand Response." The Implementation Proposal was for FERC's June 2010 National Action Plan for Demand Response.
Part of the July 2011 Implementation Proposal called for a "National Forum" on demand response to be conducted by DOE and FERC. Given the rapid development of the demand response industry, DOE and FERC decided that a "virtual" project, in which state officials, industry representatives, members of a National Action Plan Coalition, and experts from research organizations would work together over a short, defined period to share ideas, examine barriers, and explore solutions for demand response would be more effective than an in-person conference. To help answer what remains to be done with demand response, working groups were formed in the following four areas:
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Recalled Circo girls' fleece pajamas
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Girls Circo Fleece Blanket Sleepers
The pajamas fail to meet the federal flammability standards for children's sleepwear, posing a risk of burn injuries to children.
Target at (800) 440-0680 from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, or online at www.target.com and click on the Product Recalls at the bottom of the page and then Children's and Baby Products.
The recalled one-piece feet pajamas are fleece and were sold in sizes 12 months, 18 months, 2T, 3T, 4T, XS, S, M, L and XL. They come in three prints: purple owl, pink leopard, and blue doodle. There are several tags sewn into the neckline. "Circo Sleepwear" is printed on the top tag. "Target" and an identification number appear on a third tag. The below identification numbers are included:
Purple Owl:
Pink Leopard:
Blue Doodle:
None reported
Consumers should immediately stop using the pajamas and return them to any Target store to receive a full refund.
Target and Target.com nationwide from August 2012 to October 2012 for about $13.
Target Corp., of Minneapolis, Minn.
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While attending art school in the 1980s, cartoonist Daniel Clowes was often berated for his love of comics. One teacher even suggested that if his style were "more sophisticated and not this 'Betty and Veronica' kind of thing, [he] might really go places."
Perhaps, to be fair, what the professor had in mind wasn't, say, Hollywood, New Yorker covers and art exhibits.
Since starting as an underground comic artist in the 1980s, Clowes has published several works that have been adapted into movies ("Art School Confidential," "Ghost World," and, inauspiciously, the Shia LaBeouf-plagiarized "Justin M. Damiano").
Art exhibits, however, were not always of interest to Clowes. When independent curator Susan Miller first approached him years ago about doing an exhibit of his work, he turned her down.
"I thought, 'You are totally out of your mind that you think that will ever happen,'" Clowes recalled during a late April phone interview. "I wasn't really interested in doing it in venues that only did comics. I thought, 'If you can get it in an actual art museum that would be a really interesting experience to go through.'"
When Clowes finally relented to Miller's requests, it was also partly out of a desire to catalog and archive his growing body of work. When "Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes" debuted at the Oakland Museum of California in 2012, it did so with some 90 different pieces on display ("If you're familiar with my work it's sort of all the greatest hits," he said).
The next year the "Modern Cartoonist" moved on to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago before making its final stop at The Wexner Center for the Arts this weekend, where it will remain on display through Aug. 3.
Accompanying Clowes' career retrospective will be an exhibit curated by the Chicago native that pulls from the OSU's Billy Ireland Library and Museum archives. Since that exhibit features many of Clowes' direct influences, we thought it'd be enlightening to hear from the artist about some of those selections and his first thoughts upon entering the Billy Ireland.
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
I had no idea really what to expect. I had seen comics archives before and they're generally very small — a small part of a much bigger archive of something else. I'd been to the Smithsonian and to several university archives, and it's always really interesting stuff, but it's also only a couple boxes. To walk in [the Billy Ireland] and see this, it seemed like one of those underground bunkers where the Mormons were trying to keep all their papers so it'll survive the nuclear holocaust. It really had a feel that I wasn't expecting. It seemed like it was out of a spy movie from the '60s where they show IBM's headquarters or something.
I was sort of glad that in advance they had asked me who were some daily comic cartooning artists I'd be interested in looking at because honestly I would have been so overwhelmed I would have just picked the first drawer and picked them all out of that first drawer.
Ernie Bushmiller's "Nancy" and Chester Gould's "Dick Tracy"
[Bushmiller] had such an odd imagination. You don't even need to read the jokes, you can just sort of see, visually, the crazy ideas he was coming up with. To flip through originals is kind of the perfect way to get a sense of the overall imagination of Bushmiller. It was the same way looking through stacks of Chester Gould's "Dick Tracy" comics.
When [Gould] was in his prime almost every single Sunday comic had at least one panel that'd make your head explode, it was so weird. It's the kind of thing where if a cartoonist came up with two or three of these panels in their lifetime they'd be worth studying in a university, and it's the kind of thing that's pure inspiration. You can't possibly manufacture that, and he was doing it twice a week, often with stuff that's just mindboggling that the American public read [it] and just thought it was a normal comic strip and not the work of a lunatic.
Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland"
I asked if [The Billy Ireland] had any "Little Nemo" pages and curator Jenny Robb just took me to a drawer and said, "Oh I think there's a few in here." I opened this drawer and saw a couple pages that I had spent my entire adolescence and adulthood staring at thousands of times. There are a few that I must have looked at for hundreds of hours, and to see them at full size was an entirely different experience. The printed pages always look very tight, controlled and machine-like, and then when you see the originals you can see the shaky human hand at work, and that's always kind of amazing to me.
Charles Schulz's "Peanuts"
Editor's note: Clowes was then asked about seeing latter-day "Peanut" strips where creator Charles Schulz's shaky linework is clearly visible.
All those guys of [Schulz's] generation, the minute they got successful [they] were hiring guys to draw their backgrounds and ink their panels and do all the work that is not fun for people who don't really like to do comics. [Schulz] obviously just loved every bit of it. The thought of him farming out work to somebody else was just inconceivable. I can very much relate to that.
Milton Caniff's "Terry and the Pirates"
[Comic strips used to be] a much bigger part of the culture. People knew that other people were reading it, and you could talk about what was going on in "Terry and the Pirates" and sort of assume that neighbors were also following that. Nowadays if you were to ask somebody if they read today's "Pearls Before Swine," they'd have to be over 70 and get the daily paper to know what you were talking about. It seems unrealistic to ever hope comics are going to be at the front of the culture discourse in this day and age. The fact that we have our old little niche and that they haven't been completely wiped out by all the alternatives is much more encouraging than I would have imagined.
Photos by Terry Lorant, courtesy of the artist and Oakland Museum of California
Photo by Jenny WrayTerry and the Pirates
CREDIT: From the Milton Caniff Collection, The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
CAPTION: A "Peanuts" strip from Dec. 16, 1953.
CREDIT: International Museum of Cartoon Art Collection, The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Dick Tracy
CAPTION: A "Dick Tracy" strip from May 29, 1960.
CREDIT: Chester Gould Collection, The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
CAPTION: A "Nancy" strip from June 10, 1975.
CREDIT: Robert Roy Metz Collection, The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
The Death-Ray
CAPTION: The Death-Ray black and white cover from the collection of Daniel Clowes.
CREDIT: Image courtesy of the artist and Oakland Museum of California
Ghost World
CAPTION: A gouache "Ghost World" on white board from the collection of Daniel Clowes.
CREDIT: Image courtesy of the artist and Oakland Museum of California
The New Yorker (cover), 2009
CAPTION: A 2009 New Yorker cover by Daniel Clowes
CREDIT: Image courtesy of the artist and Oakland Museum of California


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After being nominated by fellow producers in Texas and appointed by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Looney took the oath of office on Feb. 2 and was officially seated to the board during the 2012 Cattle Industry Convention in Nashville on Feb. 4, becoming one of 103 producers and importers representing the U.S. beef industry in making recommendations about how to invest national beef checkoff dollars.
During a two-day orientation session March 15-16 in Denver, Looney joined other new Beef Board members in learning about his volunteer checkoff role during the next three years. That included education and discussion about board policies, procedures and responsibilities – including work on checkoff committees to prioritize strategies aimed at leveraging beef producers' checkoff dollars on the research, educational and promotional efforts that they believe offer the biggest return on producers' investments.
Looney is a lifelong cow-calf producer, and also raises seedstock for sale. He was nominated to the Beef Board by the Independent Cattlemen's Association (ICA) of Texas and also has been active as a local director of the Texas Farm Bureau, an Executive Committee member of ICA-Texas, and a member of the U.S. Cattlemen's Association and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. In his community, he serves as an elder in the First Presbyterian Church, is a member of the Beeville Rotary, serves on the board for the Bee County Tax Appraisal District, and is a past board member for American Red Brangus.
The mission of the Cattlemen's Beef Board is to build demand for beef through promotion, research and information programs of the national Beef Checkoff Program.