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Most companies are reluctant to enter the social media space because the ROI is a tough nut to crack. Unfortunately for most marketing efforts in the social media space, there isn't a direct correlation from click to purchase or click to action like other forms of online marketing.
SEO, PPC, and media buying have very easily measureable ROI. These goals are very simple: be found — get person to click — get person to act.
With social media, it isn't so easy. But new measuring tools like Radian 6 and ClearSaleing are starting to make things a little easier.
There isn't a formula to make sure you're found in the social media space like there is with Google's organic algorithm, or even their PPC algorithm, where everyone can easily see the rules and know how to work within them. With social media, the rules are different for everyone. There are very few rules when it comes to social media, which is why it's hard to gauge ROI on a "standard" basis.
Knowing your audience is vitally important if you plan to venture into social media. When you understand who they are, you can better understand how they function in the social media realm and how to measure your success with your marketing efforts. You can better adjust your marketing strategy and goals by understanding what your audience is doing in the social media communities they're intensely involved in.
Your social media goals will be strikingly different than an SEO or PPC strategy. SEO and PPC strategies are a straightforward "click=action" for success. A person searches for "red shoes" in a search engine, you're listed in organic or paid results for "red shoes" in said search engine, the person clicks on your result, the person sees red shoes on your site, the person buys from your site. That's reaching your goal successfully with SEO and PPC.
If social media were that easy, CEOs and CMOs wouldn't be so hesitant to dump money into strategies. With social media, different goals are defined according to the social media type you're dealing with.
Here are some tips for measurable goals in three areas of social media: forums and message boards, video and image sharing sites, and social networking sites.
Forums and Message Boards
Forums and message boards are the "granddaddy" of all social media types. They've been around since the inception of the Internet (long before the terms social media and user-generated content were coined), they hold a lot of power when it comes to the search engines, and they're home to some of the most influential people who can help brands, products or services develop evangelists.
Some goals to look at for measuring success in these types of social media sites are:
- Number of active members (if you start/own the forum)
- Number of new subscribers (if you start/own the forum)
- Number of posts made
- Number of replies to posts you make
- Number of friends acquired
- Number of private messages you receive and answer
Video and Photo Sharing Sites
Humans are very visual creatures. We love to see and watch things. It's much easier to understand how to fix a toilet if you watch a video of someone doing it, or see pictures of it, rather than just reading a Web page full of text. This is why video and photo sharing sites have become a great place for even the smallest of businesses to work with social media.
Some goals to measure for these types of social media sites are:
- Number of times the photo or video has be viewed
- Number of times the photo or video has been favorited
- Number of friends or subscribers to your account or channel
- Number of links/embeds to photo of video
- Number of comments photo or video has obtained
- Number of video responses
- Rating level of video or photo by users
Social Networking Sites
People love to connect, share, and feel like they belong. This is why social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn have become so popular. Social media is about sharing experiences, and both Facebook and MySpace offer platforms that do that so well.
You can share photos and videos, and tag your friends in them. You can integrate your Twitter account with both Facebook and MySpace and your friends can comment on your tweets. You can build fan pages or groups to promote the brands and activities you really love or advocate.
Here are some goals to look at for social networking sites:
- Number of fans/friends/contacts acquired
- Number of comments/likes to updates on status
- Number of discussions started on groups or pages
- Number of fan videos uploaded and comments on them
- Number of fan photos uploaded and comments on them
- Number of comments left on profiles
- If you create an application — number of downloads/installs
- Number of questions answered
- Number of answers to questions posted
Understanding What Goals to Set
All marketing strategies have to be held accountable for their efforts. A marketing director doesn't want to hear that you can't measure social media efforts. If you can come back with a concrete way to show success with your efforts by setting goals in the social media space you're working with, you're more likely to get greater support moving forward with more social media efforts.
Do you know what your goals should be? Do you have any at all? If you don't or didn't, and you've deemed social media unsuccessful, perhaps you should take another look and set some reasonable goals in place this time.
Submissions are now open for the 2009 Search Engine Watch Awards. Enter your company or campaign before July 17, 2009. Winners will be announced at SES San Jose.
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In today's world we are mostly narrowing in to online leads, thanks to the Internet essentially opening up the entire world for us to peruse. But offline leads should still be a factor we consider moving forward. Here are some clever ideas and tools you can use to combine the two.
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I came, I saw... And I frickin conquered!!!! PharSide is OFFICIALLY! the BEST OVERSEAS SOUTH AFRICAN BLOG!!!! was the slogan for the pic I uploaded to FaceBook on Saturday night during the SA Blog Awards 2010...
I know its taken forever to give you the full scoop, it's pretty much taken that long to get over it ... so here it is 🙂
After taking an over night flight on SAA from London to Cape Town on the Friday night, which mind you turned out to be an awesome flight both ways, why? because how often do you get to sleep for 7hrs each way on a 12hr flight and be ready to quite literally, take on the world when you arrive. Even the food was awesome which reminds me of the fact that I've always heard that the food on SAA is second to none. Even the guy sitting next to me who just happened to be a senior developer for Mixit on his way back from San Francisco, praised the chow on SAA after the mission he'd had on other flights on his journey. Not to mention explaining to me just how the chicken he had on a previous airline quite honestly resembled a blob of pus... nice 🙂 Defininately going to be my flight of choice from now on since with it being direct, you can't go wrong. I think I just proved the fact that you can spend around 25hrs in the air on one weekend, and still get back feeling hundreds.
I got to stay at the luxurious Cape Royale which is literally 2mins from the V&A waterfront and 1km from where the awards were being held at the prestigious One and Only Hotel. The Cape Royale was absolutely pimping, you get a feel for this the second you walk in due to the immaculate decor and of course thanks to a very friendly welcoming from the porters and front desk staff, one in particular that I'd like to mention is the young dude that runs the 1800 Degrees restaurant downstairs who was excellent at making sure that I was sorted. Definitely adds to that 5 Star status that the hotel holds. The room was immaculate which gave a dream home from home feel. They also provide a free shuttle service within 5km of the hotel which I found to be absolutely awesome when you see how costly cabs can be in SA since that's just how I got to the awards. So if you're on holiday in Cape Town, the Cape Royale comes highly recommended from me since they also go a long way to make you feel important, unlike staying at your average hotel where you're quite literally just a number.
So on Saturday evening I made my way down to the One and Only Hotel on the waterfront to attend the SA Blog Awards 2010.
The event showcased what was to be the absolute best of SA Blogs, the event kicked off with speeches by JP Naude and guest of honour, Western Cape Premier, Helen Zille. Both speeches were incredibly inspiring and quite moving to say the least which left me feeling a sense of worth, ambition and the drive to take what I have and make it bigger, and of course as JP said, defend the title! It did also hit home of the magnitude of what I'm dealing with here, which was initially something that I stumbled into as a little hobby to entertain a few mates. JP also thanked those such as myself for making the long journey to Cape Town to attend the event, most notably Che Kershaw of IndieBerries for missioning on 36hrs of flights from where she teaches English in South Korea.
As the awards started getting called out I became increasing nervous as to what the outcome may be considering I was up against someone who had won it four times in a row and quite well established, but when the moment of truth came, as the category for Best Overseas Blog was called, I thought to myself, "shit, here we go" there was a brief pause from MC Mumzy ahead of the result and then I heard it... PharSide.co.uk! As I walked up to the stage with a gleaming smile on my face I thought, OMG! did I really just launch out of my chair, fist in the air and shout a nice loud and proud, "Fuck Yes!" as if I'd just won the frickin lottery?
There was a brief intermission half way through where we got to get social and of course refuel on surprisingly strong Mojitoes... naturally I wasn't complaining 🙂 The ceremony eventually climaxed with the announcement of Best Overall Blog which quite respectably went to WatKykJy.com. We were then invited upstairs for the after-party where I got have a good chinwag to some awesome people, namely Guy McDonald from Good Hope FM aswell as the organisers JP Naude, Chris Rawlinson and Dave Duarte. Eventually myself, Nash, Natalie Roos, Snoddie and Mellon decided to kick it and jol it up in town, but not before Nash took a little dip in the fountain at the One and Only and managed to have his way with the front of an Aston, as seen here... and most probably on CCTV too 🙂
The list of winners contained a few surprises which set it apart from previous years which did spark quite a bit of controversy afterwards. If you thought the amount of cat fighting before the awards amongst bloggers was bad... EISH! you should have taken a look at the huge backlash. Some people had some valid points but the amount of bullshit was quite ridiculous, mostly by "those who didn't get 1st place" of course. To be quite honest, I can't really complain, and not just because I won, but because the experience in itself is something to be remembered. My day started out really shitty, since as I got off the plane I was notified that my gran had passed away that night while I was en route to Cape Town. Now obviously being far away from home and family on your ace at a time like that is not cool, but the course of events that followed from there on really helped get my mind off things. The organisers have taken a lot of stick since the awards and fair enough there probably could be a few things that could have been done in a better way, but I don't think people appreciate the amount of work that these three guys put into the event and process, considering that each of them have full time jobs of their own aswell as their own blogs to run, trust me I know, I work a 10 hour day in the financial capital of the world for a pressure cooker of a brokerage with traders and operations staff virtually holding a gun to my head to get things fixed in 20 seconds flat , it's not easy and certainly not for the faint hearted, so I respectfully take my hat off to JP, Chris and Dave for managing to pull it all off.
It seems some people can be really bad sports though, after tweeting a certain someone to congratulate on still getting a podium finish since I felt quite respectful to be up against someone so well established, not so much anymore, as it seemed to fall on deaf ears since I never even got a one worded "thanks"... although I did read a blog post later which contained a massive bitch about the whole event. Strangely enough you've got to wonder though, if it meant so much then why didn't this person show their support and make the effort to attend?... just saying 🙂
All in all it was an awesome experience that was thoroughly enjoyed and my biggest thanks goes to each and every one of you, my readers, that put the awesome effort in to support PharSide on its journey over the past year, because as it goes without saying... none of this would have been possible without you, so give yourself a pat on the back right now.
Now there is the question of a certain Full Body Wax... and not to mention a massive night at The Slug in Wimbledon.
It would appear that Rocktober certainly does live up to its name where trying to find a gap in the social calendar on any given weekend this month is virtually impossible. I am aiming for Saturday 30th October, to endure the waxing that day before the rugby and then full steam ahead for a massive jol at The Slug later that night, so save the date.... I can't say I'm looking forward to it, but a promise is a promise 🙂
Check out the full list of winners for the 2010 SA Blog Awards
I'll leave you with Nash in a G-String


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I present… the TwitterMatrixTicker! I currently have it configured to watch for any tweets mentioning me (@KWF), and then having it print each tweet line by line on this great piece of printer history, so feel free to send me tweets and enjoy the thought of them interrupting my evening as they print out on this ridiculous loud monstrosity.
The hardware is relatively straight forward; a BeagleBone (Thanks to TI for giving me one for free!) uses Twitter's API to search for @KWF tweets, then parses out the usernames and text and sends it to the Star NP-10 over a USB-to-Centronics adapter.
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The positioning on the shirt makes this design even better!
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Like the placement.
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Messina: Romney 'has run away from his accomplishment in Massachusetts'
Obama campaign manager Jim Messina blasts Romney's response speech to the Supreme Court ruling in a statement from the campaign:
Mitt Romney had an opportunity to rise to the occasion today and tell the American people specifically how he would move the nation forward on health care and ensure people get the care they need. Yet, once again, he squandered that opportunity. Instead of explaining how he would ensure costs don't go up and health benefits are protected, Romney promised to repeal the President's health reform law and take America back to the same old political battles of the past. He is completely unmoved by what that would do to millions of middle-class families, women, seniors and young Americans who are today benefiting from the law. Romney's promise to repeal the law would give insurance companies free rein to exploit Americans through the worst industry abuses, strip 86 million Americans of often life-saving preventive care, cost 3.1 million young Americans of their coverage by kicking them off their parents' plans, allow insurance companies to discriminate against kids with preexisting conditions, and increase prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare.
Just six years ago, before Mitt Romney decided to run for president, he passed a law in Massachusetts that achieved universal coverage for the citizens of that state through an individual mandate and tax penalty. That law became the model for the President's health reform law. Now, as he is running for president, Romney has run away from his accomplishment in Massachusetts, callously promising to repeal national reform and "kill it dead." He owes the American people a clear, non-parsed explanation of why he believes his decisions in Massachusetts are wrong for the country, and exactly what he would do to help the American people get the health care they need.
Obama, too, made reference to Romney's Massachusetts health plan in his speech this afternoon, saying that in the past the mandate "enjoyed support from members of both parties, including the current Republican nominee for president." And as my colleague Lucy McCalmont spotted earlier, Justice Ginsburg's opinion explicitly cites Romney's Massachusetts law as an example. It's certainly not the first time Democrats have sought to capitalize on Romney's health care past, but that renewed focus now isn't likely to stop anytime soon.


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Cabrera to miss Tigers' series in Seattle
Cabrera to miss Tigers' series in Seattle
It leaves a big void for Detroit to fill against the Mariners. But as manager Jim Leyland pointed out, it's a loss the team can completely understand.
"We're going to be playing a little bit short, but for the right reason," Leyland said. "I wish him the best of luck, obviously, with the child and everything."
Cabrera's wife, Rosangel, is scheduled to have labor induced on Tuesday near their home in Miami and give birth to their second daughter. Because the Tigers play Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon in Seattle, it would be just about impossible for Cabrera to return in time for Wednesday's series finale.
Instead, Cabrera will rejoin the team back in Detroit for the start of their upcoming homestand Friday night.
Cabrera hit his 10th home run of the season in Sunday's win over the Dodgers. His 40 RBIs lead the Major Leagues, and his loss will leave the Tigers tinkering the middle of the lineup. With Carlos Guillen on a rehab assignment with Triple-A Toledo, Detroit doesn't have a proven run producer to fill in. They could conceivably give rookie Brennan Boesch a chance in the cleanup spot, or they could move Johnny Damon down in the order.
Both Tigers utility players, Don Kelly and Ryan Raburn, have experience playing first base. So it appears unlikely the Tigers will make a short-term roster move to add a position player.
"I've got plenty of options," Leyland said. "I'm not worried about that. You don't like that bat being out of there for a couple of days, but I've got a couple guys who can play first base. I'm not worried about that part of it. You worry about losing that offense for a couple days -- like I said, all for the right reason.
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We've been hearing a lot of rumors about Apple's upcoming ventures: the iPhone 5S, a low-cost iPhone, the next generation iPad (iPad 5), and Haswell powered iMacs and Retina Macbook Pros. A new report from KGI Securities suggests these devices will be launched in late September, but will face delays similar to last year's iPhone 5.
AppleInsider got ahold of a research note issued to clients by KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo that gives us an insight of what to expect from Apple in the coming months. He believes the new iPhone is facing setbacks in production of numerous components, which will limit the amount of devices available at the time of launch.
According to Ming-Chi Kuo
While shipments forecasts may still grow sharply in 4Q13, we are concerned iPhone 5S may face the same problem as its predecessor, namely that by the time supply matures, demand will already have waned, hurting shipments.
It's not just the iPhone 5S that will face delays, but also the much rumored budget iPhone. However, the device is still expected to be available before the iPhone 5S, and will be available for a price in between $450 and $550 with the shipments limited to 26 million units for 2013.
While we are all talking about Apple, Ming-Chi Kuo also suggests Apple is unlikely to launch a retina version of iPad Mini this year, and expects a launch in March or April next year. Rather, we will see a new version of iPad Mini with hardware improvements by the end of this year, but with no Retina display.
If this prediction pans out, it will definitely shatter the hopes of those who wanted to see a Retina powered iPad mini. We'll have to wait until September to see what Apple has planned for its users.
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- Chase GNU Emacs updates
Rename editors/ patch-xy patches to reflect the files they modify.
Removed unmaintained upstream xemacs ports and dependencies
Fix package installation in a world WITHOUT_INFO
Allow building with newer texinfo
- Properly remove references to deprecated emacs versions, and unbreak INDEX
Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
Fix build on system built WITHOUT_INFO
With hat: portmgr
Support staging.
Replace all @unexec /bin/rmdir with @unexec rmdir
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
GNU Emacs updates
- Update to 24.3
- Update CANNA patchset[1]
- Unbreak ARM support by using the patch from emacs-devel port
- Add missing INSTALLS_ICONS[2]
- Remove a patch which is already integrated upstream
- Fix Makefile header
- Update to bzr revision 112178
- Fix Makefile header
- Add missing INSTALLS_ICONS[2]
Fix build error when WRKDIRPREFIX is set.
PR: ports/173573
Submitted by: Joel Ray Holveck <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Update MASTER_SITES and WWW.
Add lincese information.
Adopt OptionsNG.
Trim makefile header.
Pet portlint.
PR: ports/175280
Submitted by: Yasuhiro KIMURA <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Chase Emacs updates
- Bump PORTREVISION to chase Emacs port updates
- Unbreak INDEX caused by databases/lsdb, editors/flim, and editors/semi
- update png to 1.5.10
- Chase Emacs updates
PR: ports/165082
Backout previous commit to fix build error of slave ports.
Reported by: erwin and pav
- Support WRKDIRPREFIX other then /usr/ports
PR: ports/145700
Submitted by: Walter C. Pelissero <email@example.com>
Approved by: maintainer timeout (nobutaka ; 669 days!)
- Chase editors/emacs update
Chase editors/emacs update
Chase editors/emacs update.
PR: ports/160196
- Get Rid MD5 support
- update to 1.4.1
Reviewed by: exp8 run on pointyhat
Supported by: miwi
- update to jpeg-8
Changes to editors/emacs and Mk/bsd.emacs.mk were taken from
PR/137956 by Ashish SHUKLA (thanks!). [1]
Those ports which define EMACS_PORT_NAME to be "emacs21" were
not touched (this time). They may be converted to the new
world order by removing the above mentioned assignment.
Four ports were marked as BROKEN with EMACS_PORT_NAME=emacs23
(they do not compile):
. lang/bigloo;
. mail/wanderlust;
. mail/wanderlust-devel;
. www/emacs-w3m.
Three ports were marked as IGNORE with EMACS_PORT_NAME=emacs23:
- bump all port that indirectly depends on libjpeg and have not yet been bumped
or updated
Requested by: edwin
Add build support for emacs-devel.
Submitted by: kuriyama
Correct pkg-plist.* for NOPORTDOCS=yes.
Reported by: itetcu (QA Tindy)
Bump portrevision due to upgrade of devel/gettext.
The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency
according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT
in Makefile (29 of them).
PR: ports/124340
Submitted by: edwin@
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
Correct dependency for emacs21 to fix package build.
Reported by: pointyhat via kris
Remove EMACS_PORT_NAME to use default setting in bsd.emacs.mk.
Submitted by: ume
- Welcome X.org 7.2 \o/.
- Set X11BASE to ${LOCALBASE} for recent ${OSVERSION}.
- Bump PORTREVISION for ports intalling files in ${X11BASE}.
Take over maintainership.
- Change MASTER_SITES and remove DEPRECATED.
- Add WWW: to pkg-descr but in Japanese.
- Deprecate
- Set EXPIRATION_DATE
Submitted by: gabor
Make DEPPORT_SUFFIX empty when EMACS_PORT_NAME = emacs22 since
and editors/flim-emacs22 does not exist.
- Enable installation when EMACS_PORT_NAME is emacs22 - for 20-22 gnu
emacsen use the one pkg-plist file. [1]
- Use the one pkg-descr for all master/slave ports.
PR: ports/99916 [1]
Submitted by: Toni Schmidbauer <email@example.com> [1]
Reworked by: anray [1]
Fix plist problem in semi-xemacs21-mule, bump PORTREVISION
Approved by: portmgr
- Fix possibility of "infinite make fork" when "Registering install for ..."
EMACS ports. [1]
- Allow building a port as root using an NFS-mounted /usr/ports if the
server maps root to a UID other than root. [2]
- Make 'BROKEN' and 'IGNORED' ports exit their "make install" with a fail
status rather than success. [3]
- Improve behavior when dealing with versioned dependencies. [4]
- Fix false positives in check-conflicts target. [5]
- Remove obsolete bzip2 code. [6]
- Add SHA256
Remove obsolete mastersites.
Source: distfile survey
Reset MAINTAINER to ports@.
We cannot contact them for a long time.
Discussed with: hrs
Approved by: kiri(blanket), mita(blanket),
shige(blanket), taoka(blanket)
Update to 1.14.6.
Sorry, splitted commit.
PR: ports/66120
Submitted by: shuhei <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Update to 1.14.6.
PR: ports/66120
Submitted by: shuhei <firstname.lastname@example.com>
SIZEify (maintainer timeout)
Destroy pkg-comment for some of the stranger uses in the tree,
pending the final semi-automatic purge.
Approved by: portmgr (implicitly)
Install info(ja version).
Submitted by: Ayumu Kato <email@example.com>
Update to 1.14.5.
Submitted by: Yoichi NAKAYAMA <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Update to 1.14.4.
New master/slave scheme for semi-1.14.x ports. Update master port to emacs21.
Update slave ports to stub port: semi-emacs20, semi-xemacs21-mule. Does not
support semi-emacs(19) and semi-mule for semi-1.14.x or later. Change some
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Maurice D. Garmoe
Maurice D. Garmoe, 78, of Mt. Pleasant, died Friday, July 18, 2014, at Pleasant Manor Care Center in Mt. Pleasant.
A funeral is set for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the at Olson-Powell Memorial Chapel in Mt. Pleasant, with the Rev. Deb Savage officiating. Interment will be in Forest Home Cemetery.
Visitation opened at noon today at the Memorial Chapel, where the family will receive friends from 4-7 p.m. today.
Memorials have been established to the American Parkinson's Disease Association, Alzheimer's Association and Grace Friends Church. On-line condolences can be directed to www.olsonpowell.com.
Mr. Garmoe was born Sept. 2, 1935, in Salem, the son of Otto and Ruth Alter Garmoe. He married Dorothy Leydens Oct. 17, 1955, in Iowa City.
He attended school in Salem.
Prior to his marriage, Mr. Garmoe began his work career in the clinic at the Mental Health Institute in Mt. Pleasant. Throughout his life, he worked construction, was a heavy equipment operator and drove a truck for the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant. He and and his wife were administrators of the Henry County Home for 10 years. He retired in 1996, as a semi driver for Walmart Distribution Center. The couple had been longtime residents of Mt. Pleasant.
Mr. Garmoe's priority was his family, and he liked camping with them. A man of many talents, he built his own sawmill and a motorhome, and he restored his tractor. He was known nationwide for calling square dances and enjoyed RVing as he traveled across the country. His hobbies included working his draft horses, attending farm auctions and motorcycle riding.
He was a member of Grace Friends Church and the Mt. Pleasant Tractor Club.
Survivors include: his wife, Dorothy of Mt. Pleasant; one son, Mike Garmoe and wife Julie of Mt. Pleasant; two daughters, Patti Phillips and husband Jerry of Muscatine and Tami Larsh of Fairfield; one brother, Keith Garmoe of Mt. Pleasant; one sister, Donna Frank of Sperry; 13 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and one sister, Lucille Garmoe.


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Joe Scudda – Catch Up
Good to hear that all the HOJ cats that were involved in an accident last week are doing good and no life threatening injuries were sustained. Joe Scudda dropped his "Not Your Average Joe" mixtape last week as well. Before it dropped though, Joe leaked "Catch Up," produced by Statik Selektah, and it immediately grabbed my attention. Joe brings that "shit talkin'" fun rap, which is always fun. To me, that's what hip hop should be, fun boasting and bragging. Joe's not saying anything mind shattering, but he just goes for his over the dope beat.
NoCanDo – Hurry Up and Wait
For those of you out there that know my tastes in hip hop might be surprised that I'm digging this track, but "Hurry Up and Wait" by LA's NoCanDo has gotten a lot of play from me. Even though it possess a auto-tune sounding chorus, that's actually one of the catchy things about the song. I've caught myself often over the past few weeks singing this song to myself in my head. It's armed with a wicked bass line that just rumble's along through out the course of the song. NoCanDo is a graduate of the famed Project Blowed school, so you know the cat can spit, which he does just that on the track.
RADIx – The Return
I've been a fan of these cats since running into the monSTAPLEx album early last year. I was already a fan of Quite Nyce, so when I first heard "The Return," I was floored. The duo of Nyce and Seek were already talented and released plenty good music, but "The Return" is above and beyond anything they have released in the past. Once again, Statik Selektah is reminding us why we should peek his shit that he drops, with tons of scratching, well placed vocal samples and just a straight gritty and raw hip hop sound.
Intuition feat Slug – Buzzkill
I'm a sucker for a good song about women, the evil that they can be, and drinking. Maybe cause it reminds me so much of my life. Intuition is one of those cats that pleasantly surprised me this year, as his album mirrors things happening to myself, much like some Atmosphere albums. Fittingly enough, Slug makes an appereance on here and drops a classic Slug verse. Call it emo if you want, but as I grow older, I need music that affects my everyday life and that's what "Buzzkill" does, and in perfect fashion.
Crown Nation - Tha Bass Song
I don't hide the fact that I'm a bass head. Give me some bass that shakes the trunk, or in my case these days, shakes the computer speakers off the shelf, and I'm happy. The Detroit duo of Denmark Vessey and Quelle, otherwise known as Crown Nation, brings a bare bones beat with hand claps, snares and of course some speaker damaging bass. Simple and bangin' all at the same time.


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Daily jail bookings for Monday
According to the Washington County Sheriff's Office, the following people were booked into the Washington County Jail between 7 a.m. Friday and 7 a.m. Monday:
Dustin R. Bestler, 24, of St. Paul Park, on fourth-degree DWI charges.
Anders D. Engstrom, 18, of Afton, on fourth-degree DWI charges.
Scott D. Hardy, 21, of Lake Elmo, on assault charges.
Troy A. Pierce, 26, of Cottage Grove, on a traffic charge.
Lina E. Reynolds, 35, of Newport, on public nuisance and falsely reporting a crime charges.
Michael S. Stone, 39, of Woodbury, on a second-degree DWI charge.
Heidi A. WInkelman, 36, of Woodbury, on a traffic charge.
Ross A. Altendorfer, 27, of Woodbury, on a second-degree DWI charge.
Kyle E. Bork-Schmidt, 23, of St. Paul Park, on assault and disorderly conduct charges.
Randall G. Frankum, 46, of Cottage Grove, on traffic charges.
Dennis J. Griesgraber, 33, of Woodbury, on third- and fourth-degree DWI charges.
David C. Keefer, 21, of Stillwater, on fourth-degree DWI charges.
Jeff B. Mansager, 35, of Cottage Grove, on violating no-contact order, assault and interfering with emergency telephone call charges.
Andrew D. Nardini, 22, of Woodbury, on third-degree DWI and traffic charges.
Antionette M. Schotl, 40, of Stillwater, on obstructing the legal process, assault and disorderly conduct charges.
Michael J. Sheak, 48, of Woodbury, on an assault charge.
All are considered innocent until proven guilty.


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State Farm had received 1,415 auto claims and 2,100 for home damage by Friday morning, less than 48 hours after violent tornadoes hit Granbury, Cleburne and surrounding communities.
Insurers are preparing for a flood of insurance claims over the next several days as homeowners continue cleanup and recovery efforts.
State Farm and other insurance companies have mobilized additional adjusters, claims specialists and other staff that specialize in dealing with catastrophes. Allstate has deployed two mobile claims centers near the affected communities.
"We are reaching out to customers to take care of their needs as quickly as possible," said State Farm spokesman Gary Stephenson. "We'll be working seven days a week for the foreseeable future."
Insurance industry officials say it's still too early to estimate the total damage, but it will probably be costly given one of the tornadoes was an EF-4 with sustained winds up to 200 mph.
"Claims are coming in right now and they'll continue to come in for several days, and that's the problem of trying to give you a dollar amount in the first day," said Mark Hanna, a spokesman with the Insurance Council of Texas. "We don't know when the claims will stop."
A storm that hit North Texas in April 2012 caused $750 million in damage, according to the Insurance Council. Damage from a hailstorm on June 13 hit $900 million, Hanna said.
The costliest hailstorm in Texas history was what is commonly referred to as Fort Worth's "Mayfest" storm in May 1995. That storm racked up $1.1 billion in damage costs.
"So throw in inflation, you could see what we're talking about," Hanna said.
Hanna said insurance adjusters were focusing on homeowners hit the hardest, providing living expense checks to those whose homes were too damaged to occupy.
Bill Mellander, a specialist with Allstate's national catastrophe team, advised homeowners to be patient as adjusters sort through claims and assess damage. Agents were swamped with customers filing claims Thursday morning, but activity slowed down as the day progressed, Mellander said.
Allstate covers more than 68,000 homeowner policies in Tarrant and Hood counties.
"Their insurance company will get to them as fast as they can," Mellander said. "They need to be patient, understand that in an event like this, we are to some extent restricted by some of the same things they are. It's important that our employees are safe and the neighborhoods are safe for them."
Mellander, who has responded to hundreds of tornadoes over the last 15 years, characterized the damage near Cleburne as significant.
"Damage here reflects a 200-mile-an-hour windstorm," he said.
Follow Hanah Cho on Twitter at @hanahcho.
Tips for filing
File an insurance claim as soon as you can.
Document your losses or tornado damage with photos, videos, receipts and bills. The effort will help the insurance company process your claim faster.
Keep a log of all conversations with your insurance company in writing. Document the time, date and topics. Ask for contact numbers for the claims specialist.
For more information or complaints, contact the consumer help line at the Texas Department of Insurance at 800-252-3439.


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Jay - You are the first to post and I am the last. We are polar opposites eh?
Long day at work so I managed 5 miles on the treadmill tonight.
Evanflein's frigid weather is moving in fast!.......though it will only get down to about -30 F here.
Erika & Enke - so sorry I confused your handles....wine is evil and I hold it solely responsible . I love you gals!
Holly - Your work week made me laugh so hard! thanks
Tammy, DW calls Tag a Boxadore.
By the time DW and I got home from work, DD#2 had brought dinner over as well as Honey. Tag and Honey got "tear ass around the house" cross training in.


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Until a recent office move, I was connected to a HP P2055 laserjet printer for my heavy duty and black and white printing needs. We have had this printer for about a year (this has caused some office debate with votes coming in for "6-7 months" to "about two years") and at times it has had up to five of us using it on a daily basis, although currently there are just three people. Visually it is a chunky thing - light grey on the top, front and left and dark grey below, to the right side and at the back. It is quite heavy to lift - in fact I can barely lift it - but I don't think you buy laser printers for their portability or aesthetic reasons. Dimensions are approximately 35cm square at the front with a depth of about 27cm.
We are connected to it via a network, and I cannot say how straightforward this was as I didn't do this myself, but it certainly works fine and I can still print to it even though I have moved and am based on a different floor and use a different printer as my default printer now (I like to do this sometimes late on a Friday afternoon when there is only one person in the other office and it makes her jump). As a laserjet it only prints in black but quality is good - I am completely satisfied with any Excel or Word documents I have printed, and certainly my colleagues are happy with printouts of invoices and statements from the database. Occasionally I have accidentally sent coloured images to this printer instead of to the colour inkjet printer and although it comes out in shades of grey, the quality is still good and edges are clear and sharp.
Print speed is good, certainly a single page or short document is printed before you have even got out of your chair usually (sadly no one has worked out a way for the page to land on my desk without me having to move). There is a little plastic 'stopper' that flips up to catch pages but this isn't really necessary. Although it prints fast, printing is steady and controlled; it doesn't throw your pages violently out across the floor like some inkjets do. We only use it sometimes when printing larger print runs, but it seems to be a case of personal preference rather than necessity.
At certain times we can print up to 700 pages a week with this printer and we have had no jams or other problems (although large print runs obviously do take up more time than just a few pages, so occasionally I have to be patient). The printer holds about 250 sheets (half a pack) in its single drawer, but we try not to overfill it. There is an indicator on the outside - a little plastic guide as to how far down the paper is.
The printer is fairly quiet. When it is on standby you wouldn't know it was there, it whirrs when something first gets sent to print but in a busy office this is barely noticeable (unless you are on your own and it is quiet, then it is loud enough to break the silence) and hums quietly to itself during a larger print run. The noisiest part is probably the paper feeder when it gets low. Again this not something you notice unless you are listening for it or it is particularly quiet. A little light flashes when paper is out or the toner gets low.
It can do two-sided printing but this isn't something I need to use personally. The printer is usually used only for A4 paper, but I think smaller paper sizes and envelopes can be used as there are plastic adjusters in the paper-tray but I have never tried this. As there is only one tray you would only be able to have the one size of paper in at any one time, which is a consideration if many people are using it. We do often print labels on it using the Avery system and this is no problem at all.
Overall I recommend this as a good printer for the office environment. If lots of large print runs are done by many people then you may want a higher spec machine which is faster or an additional machine, but for the average office I suspect this would be more than adequate as it has been quick and reliable in my experience and has met our expectations
I can't tell you when we last changed the toner - I wouldn't like to hazard a guess but it must be a long time, as I believe it lasts for 6500-7000 sheets.


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Up for auction is a set of Royal Bayreuth Jack and Jill nursery rhyme plate, cup and saucer. This set has just been unwrapped from a box in our attic with newspaper being dated from 1950, so you know that it hasn't seen the light of day for well over 50 years! This set is in excellent shape, as the pictures will show you. The bottom rim of the cup does have a few flea bites but that is the only blemish in the set. They have the Royal Bayreuth blue mark (on the plate and cup) as well as gold trim around the edges of all three pieces. A nice addition to any collection!Measurements: Plate - 7 5/8 in, Saucer - 4 in, Cup - 2 1/8 in high & 2 7/8 in wide the including handle. Please feel free to contact us with any questions that you may have before bidding. Payment Terms: We pack very carefully but insurance is recommended, if you do not get insurance we cannot be responsible for any damages or losses that may occur. Shipping costs are paid by the buyer.


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I will get a IBM 10000 rpm hard drive, I also have an Asus p3v4x, and pIII 550. Thinking about overclock when put everything together.
I know it will give me a lot of heat.
So I like to find a good ( under$200)computer case.
if it possible give me some ideas about finding a good fan. ( I hate noise)
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The Bartlesville Regional Chamber of Commerce will host a Bartlesville Day at the Capitol from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 15.
The Bartlesville Regional Chamber of Commerce will host a Bartlesville Day at the Capitol from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 15.
The event, sponsored by American Electric Power and Public Service Company of Oklahoma, brings Chamber business members together with local and state legislators and government officials to hear directly from members of the community. Together, local leaders and state officials address issues affecting the local business world.
"This is one of the most popular events the Chamber sponsors because the experience always exceeds people's expectations," said BRCC President Sherri Wilt. "The day provides knowledge and insight that you can only get by being there in person. Participants get a behind the scenes tour of the capitol as well as hear presentations from the state's top leaders. It's crucial that the Bartlesville community continue to demonstrate its keen interest in state issues that impact our local businesses."
Registration is $60 and includes charter bus transportation, meetings with state officials, lunch at the Capitol, tours and a group photo on the grand staircase. Guests will have the opportunity to meet with a variety of state officials, including Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb.
Space is limited, and reservations must be made by April 11. To register, visit bartlesville.com or call the Chamber office at 918-336-8708. Questions about the event may be emailed to Wilt at firstname.lastname@example.com.
For more information, see Examiner-Enterprise's Sunday edition.


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1TTEN sent me this tea and a tea set for free after I answered a questionnaire, so I may be a little biased toward it. I decided to use the new pot and the directions included with the tea. I put three heaping tablespoons of tea into the pot, poured boiling water over it, let it steep for 30 seconds, and poured a serving into one of the new tea cups. I poured the rest into an insulated travel mug. I didn't add any sweetener. The color of the tea was a bit more green than yellow, compared to the genmaicha I've had in the past. The roasted rice flavor wasn't as strong in the first cup as what I've had before, either. Mild to medium, I suppose. It had a nice vegetal aftertaste. I thought it was very good. The rest of the first pot sort of got cooked in the travel mug, so it was more yellow, had a stronger rice taste, and didn't seem to have that vegetal aftertaste anymore, but it was still good. I think I oversteeped the second pot. 1TTEN's website says that the second pot doesn't need to be steeped, but I forgot that and instead steeped it for a minute. It turned out similar to the tea I had left in the travel mug, but a bit milder. It was still pretty good. I'll have to experiment with steeping it in the easy gaiwan and the finum infuser, since I don't often drink two pots of tea by myself. Based on these two pots, I think I might buy more of this tea when the package runs out. If I can get it to taste like the first cup again, I will definitely buy more. Of course, the only genmaicha I've had before is Upton Tea's Gen-Mai Cha Kamakura and some that I bought at Hyundai Oriental Grocery & Gift and finished a few years ago, so I wouldn't say I'm very familiar with genmaicha in general.
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Did IBM Really Cozy Up to Hitler?
By Peter Hayes
IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany
and America's Most Powerful Corporation
By Edwin Black
Crown -- 519pp -- $27.50
The subject of U.S. corporate operations in Nazi Germany, and the contributions they made to the regime's aggressive and murderous power, is intriguing, intricate, and important. It deserves a well-researched and -reasoned book. Edwin Black's IBM and the Holocaust does not come close to meeting the challenge. Illogical, overstated, padded, and sloppy, the work will give readers who recognize the author's name a sad sense of deja vu. In 1984, Black wrote The Transfer Agreement, about an oft-described 1933 deal between the Zionist Organization and Nazi Germany. Historians and most other reviewers savaged that work. Some wondered aloud how a distinguished publisher (in that case, Macmillan) could exercise so little quality control. Black's new offering duplicates the structure and argumentation of his earlier one almost to the letter. Already, it has begun to provoke a similar reaction.
This time, the topic is IBM's (IBM ) allegedly massive role in the Holocaust. As in his earlier book, Black claims to have hit upon an unknown story of enormous and fateful consequence. By laying bare the Third Reich's uses of IBM's Hollerith punch-card tabulating and sorting machines, Black has, he insists repeatedly, answered the central question behind the Nazis' ability to find, fleece, torment, and massacre the Jews: How did they get the names?
Once again, the author invokes at the outset the shock of his Holocaust survivor parents at his discoveries and the powerful interests that are bound to be offended by his brave detective work. In case this does not disarm critics, once again he overwhelms the reader with detail, much of it irrelevant, and statistics, many of them contrived. He not only exaggerates but does so to make two fundamentally implausible charges.
First, he says the growth of IBM's German subsidiary, Dehomag, and the efforts of IBM's chairman, Thomas Watson, to maintain control of that company in the period after Hitler came to power in 1933 represented a "strategic alliance" with Nazism. In fact, these events had a quite different quality. Germany's was the only burgeoning economy in a Europe still wracked by depression, the only one in which the appetite for data-processing equipment was swelling rapidly. But the Reich also capped corporate dividends and required that they be spent in Germany. Virtually the only way to save earnings from confiscatory taxation rates was to reinvest Dehomag's returns and try to hasten the day when Germany abandoned currency controls. Unless Watson was prepared to write off his assets in Germany--in which case his operation would remain there for Hitler to exploit--he had little choice but to put the best face on happenings there, or to bite his tongue, and cultivate good relations with German leaders.
Watson's pacific remarks on international affairs during the 1930s stemmed from this situation, as did his acceptance of a high decoration from the Reich in 1937. When Hitler's aggressions drove Watson to return the medal in June, 1940, the Nazis ousted his representative from Dehomag's board and tried to subsume that company into a network of alternative producers.
Yes, Dehomag processed the Reich's 1933 census. But that posed no new questions of Germans, who had long been asked for religious identification and native languages on such forms. Neither did it do anything like provide Hitler with the number of Germans with Jewish ancestors. The Nazis had no need for elaborate technical equipment to help them identify Jews and their property. Registration, marriage, tax, Chamber of Commerce, and Jewish community records, supplemented by numerous and ready informants, provided those data in abundance, both in Germany and, later, in occupied Europe.
In a second implausible charge, Black says that the mass murder of the Jews owed much to punch-card tabulations. This is untrue as well. The SS Race & Settlement Office did not even acquire a Hollerith machine until 1943. There were no such machines in the ghettos of Poland, in the killing fields of Serbia, or in the baggage trains of the mobile shooting squads, which slaughtered hundreds of thousands in Eastern Europe without the aid of prepared lists. Black's depiction of the "precision" of Hollerith-scheduled trains to Auschwitz would be ludicrous, even if it did not belie the agonies of the thousands repeatedly shunted onto railroad sidings, sometimes for days without food and water, so that higher-priority traffic could pass. When data processors finally appeared at some forced labor camps (although not always at the ones Black alleges) from mid-1944 on, they had little effect on the fates of the inmates.
Black fosters a new myth--the automated Holocaust--to accompany discredited ones of the motorized German army and the synchronized German economy. Just as historians have shown that the bulk of Nazi forces moved by horse, wagon, and foot, and that its economic mobilization was a bumpy affair, historians of the Holocaust have long known it was administered by pen and paper, typewriter, and teletype.
Should the survivors' class action against IBM, filed in U.S. federal court on the same day that this book appeared, resemble the case that Black presents, an exasperated judge may feel tempted to bill court costs to the plaintiffs. The judge's hand will be stayed, of course, by knowledge of how terribly they have been exploited--both in the past and now by this deplorable publication.
To read Edwin Black's response to this review, click here.
Hayes is professor of history and Theodore Z. Weiss Professor of Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University. Among his books is Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era.


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Yes, the ranger and dungeon maps in particular were VERY dicey! Actually, those motivated me to finish since the others were getting too easy / routine. I got very luck with the wizard build at the end - specialized in dark, light, AND summoning magic and got all 3 of the best 5th level spells by the middle of the 2nd map - puppet master, resurrection, and summon phoenix. It almost became too easy!
My issue with towns is that their development became very rote very quickly - you almost always followed the same build order for each faction once you figured out what was most important. Most notably the general build order strategy didn't vary much from faction to faction - so after umpteen maps, that aspect of the gameplay become repetitive quickly and not so interesting for me.
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I have just finished sewing the top of my Rail Fence baby quilt. How should I quilt it?
I have a (stupid?) question. Do I quilt before binding or is it the other way round?
Thank you. :)
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I have just finished sewing the top of my Rail Fence baby quilt. How should I quilt it?
I have a (stupid?) question. Do I quilt before binding or is it the other way round?
Thank you. :)
Quilt first, then bind. No question is stupid! :)
I would quilt it first (starting in the middle working outward) - then add binding. Other people here can tell you about ironing and checking to be sure the size is correct to measure for binding. Look forward to seeing a picture of it!
Thanks. Actually I would also like to know how to quilt it. Do I sew in the ditch around the blocks? I can't do FMQ. :(Originally Posted by Texasjunebug
I would have a better idea if I could see what you've done so far. Depends on the pattern and the fabric you use as to what quilting is best suited. I have to do hand quilting, and you have options for that - it does not have to be done on the machine. Can you post a picture? Hope so, I look forward to seeing it.
Have tried many times to post some pictures but was unsuccessful. Don't know the reason but will keep trying.Originally Posted by Texasjunebug
I usually quilt diagonal lines. I can't stitch in the ditch worth a darn and haven't tried free motion so I do straight lines. If I do them across, sure enough they'll be off enough to tell since the blocks go across, so when I do it diagonally a little off isn't so noticeable.
I have a hard time keeping straight lines when doing SITD so I sew approx 1/4" on each side of specific seams (ie the block or every other rail, I find it really makes everything POP!Originally Posted by juniemoon
I use painter's masking tape and draw a diagonal grid. It stays straight and mistakes aren't noticeable.
When I hand quilt I use a stencil to mark the quilt, but it is much slower going. On the other hand, much more relaxing also.


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In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning uses letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take the reader inside the minds of Civil War soldiers-black and white, Northern and Southern-as they fought and marched across a divided country. With stunning poise and narrative verve, Manning explores how the Union and Confederate soldiers came to identify slavery as the central issue of the war and what that meant for a tumultuous nation. This is a brilliant and eye-opening debut and an invaluable addition to our understanding of the Civil War as it has never been rendered before.
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Chandra Manning graduated summa cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in 1993 and received a M.Phil from the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 1995. She took her Ph.D. at Harvard in 2002. She has lectured in history at Harvard and taught at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:
"The fact that slavery is the sole undeniable cause of this infamous rebellion, that it is a war of, by, and for Slavery, is as plain as the noon-day sun." [1] So claimed the farmers, shopkeepers, and laborers who made up the 13th Wisconsin Infantry in February 1862. The white Southerners who made up Morgan's Confederate Brigade might not have seen eye to eye with the Wisconsin men on much in 1862, but they agreed that "any man who pretends to believe that this is not a war for the emancipation of the blacks . . . is either a fool or a liar." [2] Two years later, black men in the 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery reminded each other, "upon your prowess, discipline, and character; depend the destinies of four millions of people and the triumph of the principles of freedom and self government of this great republic." [3] These soldiers plainly identified slavery as the root of the Civil War. Just as plainly, by "slavery," they did not mean some abstract concept or a detached philosophical metaphor for ideas about freedom, but rather the actual enslavement of human beings in the United States based on race.
Yet to say that soldiers placed slavery at the center of the war is to open rather than solve a mystery. Neither the authors nor intended audiences of these remarks held high office or made policy. Few owned slaves, and few of the white soldiers thought of themselves as abolitionists. They were instead very ordinary men of the type unlikely to figure into historical inquiries into the causes of the Civil War, and often assumed, even by historians from both the North and the South who for decades have acknowledged that without slavery there would have been no Civil War in the United States, to be little more than pawns swept up in events they probably did not understand, let alone consent to or shape. Members of the general public recognize even less of a connection between soldiers, slavery, and the Civil War. My most recent reminder of this sobering truism came at a wedding in September 2005 when a man from Buffalo, New York who had no idea what I do for a living spent more than an hour insisting that slavery had nothing to do with the conflict. And who can blame him? The Confederate ranks consisted primarily of men who owned no slaves, and historians have not convincingly explained why those men would fight a war they knew was waged to prevent the destruction of slavery. At the same time, scant numbers of the white men who filed into the Union Army had ever laid eyes on a slave, though most harbored their own prejudice against black people, so why would they fight to end slavery? And why would more than 180,000 black men fight for a government that had smiled on the enslavement of members of their race for its entire existence? What, in other words, did a "war about slavery" mean to the men who fought the Civil War, and why would it be important enough to fight?
This book is about what ordinary soldiers thought about the relationship between slavery and the Civil War. It is not about soldiers' motivations for enlisting, for individuals chose to do that for widely varied reasons. Seldom did a man enlist for money, since the pay was low and unreliable. Few joined the military because they were forced; both Union and Confederate armies overwhelmingly consisted of volunteers. Many enlisted out of senses of duty or personal honor. Some became soldiers in order to take part in what they assumed would be the biggest adventure of their lives. While some Northerners entered the ranks to eradicate slavery, others enlisted to preserve the Union with small concern for enslaved African Americans. In the South, many took up arms to safeguard their own slave property or their hopes to own slaves one day, while others shouldered rifles out of the belief that doing so protected their homes and families. Yet in spite of these and the countless other reasons that sent individual Northerners and Southerners into the ranks, broad consensus existed within each army as to why a war needing to be fought existed in the first place. Whatever else occupied their minds, ordinary Union and Confederate soldiers recognized slavery as the reason for the war, and the purpose of this book is to figure out why that was, and what it meant for the war and the nation.
Most Confederate soldiers owned no slaves, and more than anything else in the world, they cared about the interests and well-being of their own families. Why, then, would an ordinary, non-slaveholding white southern man readily identify slavery as the reason for the war, and why would he consider it important enough to himself and his family to imperil both in a fight to prevent its abolition? Why would men continue to fight for four desperate years, through military catastrophes like Gettysburg and Atlanta and through political disasters like the re-election of President Abraham Lincoln, and then stop in the spring of 1865?
Why would most white Northerners, who knew no black people, and who may or may not have viewed slavery as vaguely distasteful but certainly would not have sympathized with the antebellum abolitionist movement, care enough about an abstract concept like the "Union" to fight a war that, they, too, knew would never have happened if not for the institution of slavery? And if enlisted Union troops so vigorously opposed emancipation (as many historians and even more members of the general public, including the wedding guest from Buffalo, have long supposed), then why did the mass desertions predicted to occur in the wake of emancipation not happen? Did soldiers possess different attitudes toward slavery and its abolition than we have assumed? How did those attitudes compare to their ideas about racial equality and civil rights for black people? And how did the experiences of war and of interacting with black Americans (for the first time, in the case of many white Union soldiers) influence ordinary men's views?
Black men who joined the Union ranks harbored few delusions about the United States' long and complicated relationship to slavery or about white Northerners' attitudes toward blacks. As the soldiers of the 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery pointed out, by 1860 slavery might have existed only in the southern states, but it still cast its "baleful shadow over the whole land from Maine to Texas." Even after the war began, "the North . . . despised the offer of her most loyal men" and barred blacks from the Army. [4] Why would African American men struggle so determinedly to join an Army that at first refused them, and then once it did accept them, paid them less and prohibited them from becoming officers until the final year of the war? What did black troops expect the war and its aftermath to bring?
This book departs from other books about Civil War soldiers because it places its primary focus on what soldiers thought about slavery. It does so because soldiers themselves did so. Rather than discussing slavery as one among many topics that soldiers addressed during the war, this book moves slavery from the periphery of soldiers' mental worlds, where subsequent generations have tried to relegate it, and returns slavery to its rightful place at the center of soldiers' views of the struggle. In so doing, it alters our view of the Civil War in several ways. It eliminates the need to explain away a war about slavery as either a war about something else or a war imposed on unwitting nonslaveholding soldiers (despite those soldiers' own clear statements to the contrary) and instead helps unravel precisely why nonslaveholding Southerners would fight a war to protect slavery. Trying to understand why slavery mattered to the Confederate rank-and-file, rather than fabricating a view that we find more comforting or appealing, illuminates how and why enlisted Confederates held on as long as they did, and it also modifies our understanding of the timing of the war's end.
Seeking to understand, rather than deny or assume, the centrality of slavery also sheds light on how 19th century Americans, especially Southerners, defined what it meant to be a man. While white Union soldiers did not articulate a clear relationship between slavery and manhood, white Southerners closely linked the two. A true man protected and controlled dependents, which for white Southerners meant that a man competently exercised mastery over blacks (whether or not he owned any) as well as over women and children. It also meant that a man took care of his family and sheltered his loved ones from harm, including the almost unimaginable harm that white Southerners feared emancipation would bring, because they assumed that slaves released from bondage would terrorize, murder, and violate vulnerable white women and children. Ironically, black Southerners (and even northern free blacks) also took for granted a relationship between slavery and manhood. For bondmen, the institution of slavery made true manhood impossible because it robbed a black man of the ability to protect his family from sale or to shelter his loved ones from violence or sexual violation at the hands of white masters. While slavery was necessary to white Southerners' conception of manhood, in other words, it was antithetical to manhood among black men.
Placing slavery at the center of soldiers' ideas about the war also recasts much of what we know about white Union soldiers by providing a new understanding of when Union soldiers began to support emancipation, which in turn reveals a new emphasis on ordinary enlisted Union soldiers as agents of change who shaped the progress and outcome of the war. Few white Northerners initially joined the Union rank-and-file specifically to stamp out slavery, and most shared the anti-black prejudices common to their day, especially when the war began. Yet the shock of war itself and soldiers' interactions with slaves, who in many cases were the first black people northern men had ever met, changed Union troops' minds fast. At first, white Union soldiers had little trouble separating their ideas about slavery from their racist attitudes and saw no contradiction between demanding an end to slavery even while disputing any notion of black equality or opposing any suggestion of increased rights for black people. Yet as the war dragged on, even attitudes as stubborn as white Union troops' anti-black prejudices shifted with the tide of the war, sometimes advancing and other times regressing. By the end of the war, white northern opinions about racial equality and civil rights, intractable though they had seemed in 1861, were far more malleable and vulnerable to intense self-scrutiny among Union troops than anyone could have imagined when the war first began.
Attention to Union soldiers' early shifts on slavery allows this book to enter . . . the conversation about how slavery ended. Some historians chiefly credit slaves themselves, who weakened the institution of slavery by their actions during the war, and who forced a war for Union to become a war against slavery by using their physical presence to make it impossible for Union Army Generals and political leaders like President Lincoln to ignore or shunt aside the question of slavery. [5] Other historians acknowledge individual slaves' actions as instrumental in securing their own individual freedom (a slave who ran away to the Union Army did indeed free himself), but argue that ending the institution of slavery required the exercise of governmental power, and therefore President Abraham Lincoln, who issued and stuck with the Emancipation Proclamation and championed the Thirteenth Amendment (unlike his 1864 presidential opponent, George McClellan, who would have done neither) bears primary responsibility for destroying slavery in the United States. [6] This book argues that the enlisted men in the Union Army provided the crucial link between slaves and policy makers. Slaves themselves did force emancipation onto the Union agenda even when most white Northerners would have preferred to ignore it, but one of the most important and earliest ways they did so was by converting enlisted Union soldiers who, in 1861 and 1862 developed into emancipation advocates who expected their views to influence the prosecution of the war. Slaves convinced enlisted soldiers, who modified both their beliefs and their behavior. In turn, the men of the rank-and-file used letters, camp newspapers, and their own actions to influence the opinions of civilians and leaders who, lacking soldiers' direct contact with slaves, the South, and the experience of living on the front lines in a war that most people wanted over, lagged behind soldiers in their stances on emancipation.
To be sure, [soldiers] did not spend night and day thinking about the slavery issue, and most probably preferred to push it as far from the forefront of their minds as possible, but once the war came, they could not, and more importantly, did not, ignore it. Some historians have criticized (implicitly or explicitly) the study of Civil War soldiers as something of an escape hatch offering authors and readers a way to avoid wrestling with difficult and sometimes painful ideological questions about the war. [7] Even some veterans in their later years did their best to suppress the role of slavery, and even to deny that soldiers possessed any ideological awareness at all. Most famously, an aging Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior sighed three decades after the end of the war, "there is one thing I do not doubt . . . and that is that the faith is true and adorable which sends a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands."[8] But that wistful sentimentalism flies in the face of much harder nosed reality that soldiers confronted during the war itself. If we listen to what soldiers had to say as they fought the Civil War, the men in the ranks do not allow us to duck the uncomfortable issue of human slavery, but rather take us right to the heart of it. They force us to look at it unflinchingly, and what is more, to see it as a national, not simply southern, issue that defined a war and shaped a nation.
[1] The Wisconsin Volunteer, Feb. 6, 1862, Leavenworth, KS, p. 3, KSHS. The Wisconsin Volunteer was the paper of the 13th WI.
[2] The Vidette Nov. 2, 1862, Springfield, TN, p. 3, TSLA. Newspaper of Morgan's Confederate Brigade.
[3] The Black Warrior, May 17, 1864, Camp Parapet, LA, p. 2, SHSW. The Black Warrior was the camp paper of the 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery.
[4] ibid.
[5] See, for example, Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, and Leslie S. Rowland, eds., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 Series I, Volume I, The Destruction of Slavery (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 1-56; Ira Berlin, Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992); Vincent Harding, The Black Struggle for Freedom in America (New York: Vintage Books, 1981).
[6] See, for example, LaWanda Cox, Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1981); James M. McPherson, "Who Freed the Slaves?" in Drawn With the Sword: Reflectio...
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For the last week, I've been watching my family battle this awful flu virus while feeling constantly under the weather myself. I was just so tired and when I was walking the dogs, or climbing the stairs, I felt quite badly out of breath. I figured I was just eternally on the cusp of coming down with the lurgy, but I woke up on Christmas day with full blown 'flu. Achy joints, throat full of razors, sore ears, tight chest, fever and lethargy. Thanks Santa.
Thanks to paracetamol and ibuprofen, I just about got through yesterday. We never have anyone come to us for Christmas lunch, so there were only the 6 of us to feed and DH usually cooks. He wasn't well either but the turkey had to be cooked and the dogs had to be walked, so we stuck to our traditional roles. I felt dreadful though and had to sit in the car for about 10 minutes after the walk was over to recover.
Last night, when I went to bed, I realised I was having some heart palpitations but I was too tired to worry about them. I've had them before and keep meaning to get them checked out but they haven't killed me yet.
When I woke this morning, I was still out of breath and my heart felt like a butterfly in my chest. Having a shower and getting dress just about finished me off. I rang my stepMIL,who is a GP, and asked her advice, she suggested I ring NHS 111. Anyone can call this number when they need medical help or advice but it's not urgent enough to call 999. NHS 111 operates 24/7, 365 days per year and is free to use from a land line and a mobile.
So I gave them a ring. The lady I spoke to was helpful, although some of the questions she asked me seemed a bit irrelevant. Because I had shortness of breath, palpitations and some discomfort in my chest, she told me to make my way to the nearest A&E within the next hour. Now I was getting a bit panicky, I was pretty sure it was 'just' the flu but what if there was something wrong with my heart?
And so it came to pass, that at 10am on boxing day, a taxi (charging fare and a half on boxing day) dropped me off outside our closest A&E. I had abandoned DH to a house in a state of total chaos and 4 kids with a bad case of cabin fever. Oh and MIL and her husband were due for lunch. I was not going to win any awards for Wife of the Year.
A& E was heaving. There were very few spare seats and kids running around everywhere. I was waiting by window 1 and in front of me was a family of four vomiting everywhere' and a man who was telling the receptionist he wanted his son seen because he had had a rash on his face since Saturday. I moved to window 2, where the woman in front of me was describing a week's worth of bowel movements in great detail. Eventually a space opened up at window 4.
After giving my details, I was told to find a seat and noticed that the waiting time was advertised as three hours. Probably because I was presenting with symptom of a heart problem, I was seen much sooner than this- within 20 minutes.
The nurse who saw me first was from the Philippines. Like many of his countrymen and women, he had left his children behind to be cared for by family while he came to the UK to work. He was lovely but obviously busy and explained that the NHS staff had been laid low by the viruses that are going around this winter too. There were only two nurses in the whole A &E department at that point in time! He still managed to take a history, place a catheter and take some of my blood and do an ECG on me. Then he showed me where to sit and wait until they got the results back.
It was a relatively comfy waiting area compared to the big one out front. It was warm and had padded seats and even a TV, showing SKY news. People came and went and I caught snatches of conversation between nurses and doctor, and doctors and doctors and even other patients. I was quite content dozing here for about an hour until someone came and called my name.
This time it was a doctor, with my results. He was from Jorden, so we had a chat about the holiday we had there over Easter. Then he asked me to go over my history again and listened to my chest. It's obviously full of crud, judging by what I'm coughing up, but my bloods and sats say I don't have a bacterial infection yet. He thought the palpitations are to do with the virus I have but if they don't settle down once I've recovered, I need to go back to my GP for further investigation. He went to find a nurse to remove my iv catheter, but there were none available , so he did it himself while telling me he isn't really an A&E doctor but an orthopedic surgeon instead. They were desperately short of doctors and he wasn't doing anything so he stepped in for the afternoon .
Then I was sent home with a clean bill of health. Oh not really, I was told to drink lots of fluids, keep warm and take it easy but at least my heart was okay.
God bless the NHS, they do their best but we sure don't make it easy for them.


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Buck's blast money for Royals
Buck's late blast beats Athletics
His name may not be as familiar as Jorge Posada or Joe Mauer to those outside of Kansas City, but on Monday in a 2-1 victory over the A's, he put a little more bold in his name.
Buck slammed a two-run homer against Justin Duchscherer in the top of the ninth inning to break a scoreless tie at McAfee Coliseum.
"He's got some big hits for us this year," Royals manager Buddy Bell said. "We haven't had many this year."
Buck's sixth homer of the year came on a 3-2 pitch from Duchscherer and barely cleared the green wall in right-center field. The win was not only one of the biggest for the Royals this season, but it meant a little extra for Buck, who grew up about 30 minutes from Oakland in Livermore, Calif.
"That was awesome," Buck said. "My whole family was here in the front row of the first-base side. I was thinking he was going to throw a slider. He left it a little bit up, and I was able to put some good wood on it."
Buck, who went 1-for-4 in the game, is hitting .296 with six doubles and is third on the team with 13 RBIs. Buck entered the game hitting .433 away from Kansas City with an .833 slugging percentage and a .548 on-base percentage. Buck is tied with White Sox backstop A.J. Pierzynski for most homers by a catcher in the Major Leagues.
"He's been huge for us," starter Gil Meche said. "He is sure surprising a lot of people. [Buck] coming through with that last at-bat was huge."
Rookie Joakim Soria closed out the game to earn his seventh save. After giving up an RBI single to pinch-hitter Shannon Stewart, Soria struck out Travis Buck to end the contest.
"We've played in a lot of close ballgames this year," John Buck said. "We've played good enough baseball to win, but some games have slipped away. It's nice to win a game like this."
"Tonight was a big win for us," Bell said. "Probably our biggest win of the year with the way Gil was pitching."
Before Buck had his moment in the ninth, the night belonged to Meche and A's starter Dan Haren, two of the best starters in the American League so far this year.
During their first battle against each other -- when the Royals won, 3-2, on Wednesday -- they received no-decisions after six quality innings. On Monday at McAfee Coliseum with just 12,447 fans at the ballpark, the duo outdid themselves by allowing no runs over 15 innings. Still, two more no-decisions.
Meche allowed a baserunner in every inning, but he managed to leave six runners stranded. He has not allowed an earned run on the road in 27 innings this season.
"Meche has always had good stuff," said Haren, who saw Meche quite often when he pitched in Seattle. "It looks like he has figured it out this year."
Haren wasn't at his best either, walking four, but he had a devastating split-finger fastball for eight strikeouts and retired 18 out of 19 batters at one point.
"That was an interesting game," Meche said. "I've never seen two guys with that much luck in the same start. It would be nice to face another guy besides by the name of Haren."
Meche struggled to start the game, as he gave up a leadoff triple in the first to Travis Buck, but left him stranded after retiring three straight. Meche also walked two straight in the second with one out, but he got Mark Ellis to ground into a double play to end the threat.
The Royals turned two double plays behind Meche on the night, but Meche got his biggest help from Mark Teahen after Teahen made an error in right field.
After retiring Bobby Crosby on a deep fly ball to left, Meche gave up a hit to Ellis that got by Teahen's glove and allowed Ellis to reach third. But Teahen made up for his mistake two pitches later when Jason Kendall flied out and Teahen rifled a strike to John Buck, who was bulled over by Ellis while making the third out.
Ryan Quinn is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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