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==[[Freelink - Convert the LinkStation into a Full-fledged Debian Linux Server]]==
==[[Freelink - Convert the LinkStation into a Full-fledged Debian Linux Server]]==
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 %h
Change the root password
passwd root
passwd root
Get and update with apt-get
apt-get update
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install samba smbfs
apt-get install samba smbfs
apt-get install webmin webmin-core webmin-cpan webmin-inetd webmin-logrotate webmin-firewall
apt-get install webmin webmin-core webmin-cpan webmin-inetd webmin-logrotate webmin-firewall
apt-get install webmin-samba
apt-get install webmin-samba
rm /etc/rc2.d/S05utelnetd
rm /etc/rc2.d/S05utelnetd
Revision as of 23:29, 9 September 2006
- 1 My Install
- 2 Add Stuff
- 2.1 Correct the system time and setup Network Time Protocol (NTP)
- 2.2 Upgrade to the 2.6-kernel (ppc only)
- 2.3 Install an Encrypted Filespace with EncFS
- 2.4 Troubleshooting Windows shares (samba) - guest access
- 2.5 Macintosh related configuration, netatalk, mt-daapd
- 2.6 Precompiled C development environment, running on the LS
- 2.7 USB Palm OS Device as an LCD Display
- 2.8 Install Ipkg on the Linkstation (for end-users)
- 2.9 XBMC - Using Xbox Media Center with the LinkStation
- 2.10 KAID - XLink Kai online gaming for Xbox, 360, PS2 and PSP
- 2.11 S.M.A.R.T. hard drive monitoring
- 2.12 USB devices including CUPS printing, scanners, and webcams
- 2.13 Album - Photo gallery generator which has theme support
- 2.14 Small and simple console-based bandwidth monitor
- 3 Kernel News
My Install
Get the archive
Flash The The LinkStation firmware flasher
- Disable any firewall(s), including any built-in Windows firewall
- Make sure the LinkStation and your PC are on the same sub-network. This likely requires that you change the IP address (and probably the subnet-mask) of your PC and router to a different IP address (out of the box the LS should start out on 192.168.1.XXX but in EM Mode it will have a static IP address of 192.168.11.150)
- Run the firmware updater executable HD-HGLAN FWUpdate-english.exe
- After finding your LinkStation, press the "Renew Firmware" button, and wait. Have patience, and keep your calm. If you think the Firmware updater is acting strange, do not try to disconnect the LinkStation or abort the update in another way.
- After flashing connect your LinkStation up to the network with subnet 192.168.1.XXX
- Find your LinkStation on the network and Telnet to it with PuTTYtel You will be at the root shell.
Freelink - Convert the LinkStation into a Full-fledged Debian Linux Server
|Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 %h
Change the root password
passwd root
Get and update with apt-get
apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install samba smbfs apt-get install webmin webmin-core webmin-cpan webmin-inetd webmin-logrotate webmin-firewall apt-get install webmin-samba
Install SSH and remove the Telnet Daemon from startup
apt-get install ssh rm /etc/rc2.d/S05utelnetd
Freeing up space on hda1
cp -Rdp /home /mnt rm -R /home ln -s /mnt/home /home cp -Rdp /usr /mnt rm -R /usr ln -s /mnt/usr /usr cp -Rdp /var /mnt rm -R /var ln -s /mnt/var /var
Get access to packages from the Debian unstable branch
1. Edit or create the file /etc/apt/apt.conf and add:
APT::Default-Release "stable";
2. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following lines:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
3. Then update:
apt-get update
Add Stuff
Correct the system time and setup Network Time Protocol (NTP)
tzconfig apt-get install ntp ntp-simple ntp-server ntpdate
Upgrade to the 2.6-kernel (ppc only)
wget http://hvkls.dyndns.org/downloads/latest-webinstaller.tar.gz tar -C / -xvzf latest-webinstaller.tar.gz /usr/local/sbin/webinstaller-kernelinst.sh
Install an Encrypted Filespace with EncFS
wget http://hvkls.dyndns.org/downloads/fuse_2.5.3-binaries-ppc.tar.gz tar -C / -xvzf fuse_2.5.3-binaries-ppc.tar.gz apt-get install encfs
1. Pick a directory you wish to share ie: /mnt/share and change the access permissions to make it readable and writable to everybody.
mkdir /mnt/share chmod 777 /mnt/share
2. Add the [share] section to /etc/samba/smb.conf
[global] security = share workgroup = MSHOME create mode = 777 directory mode = 777 [share] comment = LinkStation Share path = /mnt/share read only = no public = yes
3. Restart Samba on the Linkstation with this command:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart
wget http://hvkls.dyndns.org/downloads/libid3tag_0.15.1b-binaries-ppc.tar.gz wget http://hvkls.dyndns.org/downloads/mtdaapd_0.2.4-binaries-ppc.tar.gz tar -C / -xvzf libid3tag_0.15.1b-binaries-ppc.tar.gz tar -C / -xvzf mtdaapd_0.2.4-binaries-ppc.tar.gz mv /etc/mt-daapd.SAMPLE /etc/mt-daapd
- Then edit /etc/mt-daapd/*. When done,
/etc/init.d/mt-daapd start
Precompiled C development environment, running on the LS
mkdir tmp cd tmp wget http://downloads.linkstationwiki.net/development_tools/ppc-tools-2_1.tgz mkdir devtools cd devtools tar xzvf ../ppc-tools-2_1.tgz ./install.sh wget http://downloads.linkstationwiki.net/kernel_headers/kernel-headers-2.4.20_hglan_htgl-2.0.tar.bz2 tar -C / -xvjf kernel-headers-2.4.20_hglan_htgl-2.0.tar.bz2
USB Palm OS Device as an LCD Display
apt-get install lcdproc apt-get remove lcdproc wget http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/download/lcdproc-0.4.5.tar.gz tar -xvzf lcdproc-0.4.5.tar.gz cd lcdproc-0.4.5 ./configure make make install
Install Ipkg on the Linkstation (for end-users)
wget http://downloads.linkstationwiki.net/powerpc-hdhlan/powerpc-hdhlan-ipkg-0.99.153-1.tgz tar -C / -xvzf powerpc-hdhlan-ipkg-0.99.153-1.tgz
- Add the following lines to the file /etc/ipkg.conf:
src nslu2-cross-stable http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/ds101g/cross/stable/ src nslu2-cross-unstable http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/ds101g/cross/unstable/ src nslu2-native-stable http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/ds101g/native/stable/ src nslu2-native-unstable http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/ds101g/native/unstable/
- then
ipkg update
XBMC - Using Xbox Media Center with the LinkStation
ipkg install ccxstream
- Edit the ccxstream start file and change the username and shared directory for your system
#!/bin/sh if [ -n "`pidof ccxstream`" ] ; then killall ccxstream 2>/dev/null fi # see /opt/doc/ccxstream/README for the full summary on # command-line options, but the terse summary is that # -r is the directory to "share" using ccxstream, and is # probably the option you most want to adjust. # sleep 2 /opt/sbin/ccxstream -r /mnt/share -u username -f -F /var/run/ccxstream.pid
- Start the ccXStream daemon
KAID - XLink Kai online gaming for Xbox, 360, PS2 and PSP
wget http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/binary/kaid-ppc-static-libc-2.3.zip unzip kaid-* mv kaid-static* kaid mv kaid /usr/local/sbin chmod 755 /usr/local/sbin/kaid
- create /etc/init.d/kaid
#! /bin/sh export USER="root" NAME=kaid start() { mkdir /var/misc touch /var/misc/kaiSystemConfig.txt touch /var/misc/kaiEnginePersist.txt chmod ugo+w /var/misc/kaiSystemConfig.txt chmod ugo+w /var/misc/kaiEnginePersist.txt su - $USER -c"kaid" } stop() { su - $USER -c"killall kaid" } case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting Kaid: " start ;; stop) echo -n "Stopping Kaid " stop ;; restart) echo -n "Restarting Kaid " stop start ;; *) echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME {start|stop|restart}" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0
- Create a symbolic link to start kaid at every reboot and kill it at every shutdown automaticly:
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/kaid ln -s /etc/init.d/kaid /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K99kaid ln -s /etc/init.d/kaid /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S99kaid ln -s /etc/init.d/kaid /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K99kaid
- Create /etc/kaid.conf and put in your username/password
################################################################################ # Kai Engine Configuration File (220.127.116.11-a) # # This file contains the configuration options for Kai Engine. # There are some fields which can be modified, the descriptions of these fields # and their default values are listed below # # # Verbosity : Debug output verbosity. Options are as follows: # 0 - Silent apart from starting / stopping messages, and init failures. # 1 - As 1, but shows import events such as UI attach/detach, console detection, # orb connection / loss. # 2 - As 2, but more detailed, showing thread start/stop events, DHCP # events, and other important information. # 3 - Debug - same as 2, but with lots of extra information - useful # for diagnosing segfaults etc. Verbosity = 1 # # User : Specifies which system user to switch to after having # allocated necessary privileged resources. (FreeBSD Only!) User = daemon # # UIBind : Specifies which ip/port kaid will use to listen for controller # UIs. You don't want to change this. UIBind = :34522 # # OrbPort : Specifies which port kaid will use to probe(UDP) and talk to # Orbitals (TCP) . You don't want to change this. OrbPort = 34525 # # OrbDeepPort : Specified which port kaid will use to probe and talk to # deep resolution servers. You don't want to change this. OrbDeepPort = 34523 # # EngineBind : Specifies the IP:port to listen for the engine (UDP socket); # (port should be forwarded in your router if using NAT) # Ex.: 22.214.171.124, 22.214.171.124:37500, :37500 EngineBind = :0 # # EngineDeepBind : Specifies the IP:port to listen for the engine (deep resolution) # Do not enable this unless directed to. # EngineDeepBind must be a different port than EngineBind if # they use the same IP address # Ex.: 126.96.36.199, 126.96.36.199:37501, :37501 EngineDeepBind = :0 # # Engine PAT : Tells the orbital server to use your perceived UDP port, as opposed to the # one specified in EngineBind. Ignored if EngineBind is 0. Please don't turn this # setting to 1, unless directed to do so in a troubleshooting session. EnginePAT = 0 # # SniffDevice : NIC to sniff for console traffic (eth0, ethX, ...). Will be used # for packet injection too. # Ex.: eth0 (default), en0 (Mac OSX), br0 (WRT54G) SniffDevice = eth0 # # LocalDevices : How many consoles to detect before the engine locks the pcap filter. Setting this to 0, # means the engine will never lock - which means you can use any number of consoles, but # you will notice a performance hit, if your network is busy with other traffic. The best # thing to do here is to set the number to the number of consoles you own - that's why it # defaults to 1 - because most people have just 1 console. LocalDevices = 1 # # ConfigURL : URL where orb list is published (and extra stuff) - best not to mess with this. ConfigURL = www.teamxlink.co.uk/connector/clientgetconfig.php # # ConfigCache : Location of cached orb list - this file is used if the ConfigURL is inaccessible # Make sure this file is writable. WRT54G users might want to change it to a non-volatile # location if that feature is available in their firmware # (i.e. /jffs/tmp/ for DD-WRT, /usr/local/ for Sveasoft) ConfigCache = /var/misc/kaiSystemConfig.txt # # CacheFile : Location of Kai engine cache information # Make sure this file is writable. WRT54G users might want to change it to a non-volatile # location if that feature is available in their firmware # (i.e. /jffs/tmp/ for DD-WRT, /usr/local/ for Sveasoft) CacheFile = /var/misc/kaiEnginePersist.txt # #Authentication : Set username and password and AutoLogin=1 for an easy life... Username =XXXXXXXXX Password =XXXXXXXXX AutoLogin = 1 # # Xbox DHCP setting : Please leave alone, unless playing with emulators or DoomX etc. You DO NOT need this set to 1 # to use XBMC as a dashboard - setting it to 1 will *break* your dashboards internet connectivity. XBoxHomebrew = 0
S.M.A.R.T. hard drive monitoring
apt-get install smartmontools
- Edit /etc/default/smartmontools
- Edit the smartd config file /etc/smartd.conf
- comment out: DEVICESCAN
- add: /dev/hda -a -H -m root
This little script generates a small bit of html showing a number of system stats
tc=$(smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep 194 | colrm 1 87) tf=$(echo "scale=2;((9/5) * $tc) + 32" |bc) echo " Used % Share" echo "------ --- -----" df -h | grep /dev/hda | colrm 1 27 | colrm 6 11 df -h| colrm 45 55 | grep /dev/s | grep -v tmpfs | colrm 1 27 | colrm 6 11 echo "
" echo "
Users:	" users echo "
" echo "
Uptime:	 " uptime \ | awk '{ # chops off "up" and everything before it: sub(/.*up[ ]+/,"",$0) # chops off ", # users" and everything after it: sub(/,[ ]+[0-9]+ user.*/,"",$0) # cleans up extra spaces, i think: sub(/,/,"",$0) # obvious enough, prints the results print($0) }' echo "
" echo "
Load:	" uptime | sed 's/^.*average: / /' echo "

Temp:	" echo $tf " F" echo "

" echo "
" date | colrm 20 30" echo "
"
USB devices including CUPS printing, scanners, and webcams
apt-get install hotplug usbview usbutils
Use this perl script to give you a tree of USB devices: http://www.linux-usb.org/usbtree
And use this to convert it to HTML:
#!/bin/bash # usage csv2html.sh (field delimiter) (data file) IFS=$1 echo '
' while read line do echo "
" for word in $line do echo "$word	" done echo "
" done <$2 echo "
"
Album - Photo gallery generator which has theme support
MarginalHacks/Album: A HTML photo album generator that supports themes. It takes directories of images and creates all the thumbnails and HTML that you need.
apt-get install album
- Use wget to get and install this theme
- To use a theme, download the theme .tar or .zip and unpack it.
mkdir /home/httpd/Themes/ cd /home/httpd/Themes/ wget http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/album/Themes/Dominatrix6.tar.gz tar -xvzf Dominatrix6.tar.gz rm Dominatrix6.tar.gz
- Full resolution images are usually too big for a web album, so we'll use medium images on the image pages:
- Then call album with the -theme option, with or without -theme_path:
album -medium 33% -theme Dominatrix6 /home/httpd/test/Photos album -medium 33% -theme Dominatrix6 -theme_path /home/httpd/Themes/ /home/httpd/test/Photos
Small and simple console-based bandwidth monitor
Bandwidth Monitor NG (bwm-ng) is a small and simple console-based live bandwidth monitor. Short list of features:
- Supports /proc/net/dev, netstat, getifaddr, sysctl, kstat and libstatgrab
- Unlimited number of interfaces supported
- Interfaces are added or removed dynamically from list
- White-/blacklist of interfaces
- Output of KB/s, Kb/s, packets, errors, average, max and total sum
- Output in curses, plain console, CSV or HTML
- Configfile
apt-get install bwm-ng bwm-ng -T a -o html
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I did not say, "Joe is a horrible, evil person." In fact, I said nothing specifically about Joe at all. But if you want to know, Joe is a pretty bad listener. Everyone has things they're good at. Everyone has things they need to work at. Joe can fix pretty much anything. He puts Handy Manny to shame. He's a terrible listener. Me? I have problems with procrastination and putting unrealistic expectations on people (among many other things.) So what? I did not say, "Be disrespectful to your husband," or "treat your husband like a child." I said, "It's frustrating when your husband acts like a child and listens to you as well as your children do."
As always, if you don't like a particular post or someone's entire blog, YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ IT. I think some people simply don't understand this. Unless someone is forcing you, at gunpoint (and I've never heard of anyone ever actually forcing a person to read at gunpoint. I mean really, what would be the point? That would be a pretty embarrassing reason to go to jail - because you held a gun to someone's head and made them read.) As I was saying, unless you're being forced to read the blog post, you can just click that little red X in the top right corner of your screen and voila, the page will disappear. It's almost like magic!
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OK? Does everybody understand now? Can we go on with our regularly scheduled blogging? Very good.
So, the other day, I ended up with 10 kids at my house. I'm not sure how this happened, but I had 4 girls and 6 boys at once. I wrote, in my book, about the differences between boys and girls and how I believe them to be absolutely innate. This was proven to me once again the other day. While the girls painted their nails, the boys ran around the yard like hyenas with ADD. When I loaded the kids in the car, the girls sang along to the radio. The boys, on the other hand, complained about having to sit next to icky girls.
One of the boys, John, announced that he wanted to "toughen up" his arms and asked his buddy, Cal to punch him in the arm until we got all the way to Tim's house. For 10 minutes, this is what I heard, "punch, punch, punch, ow, punch, punch, ow, punch, ow, punch, punch, ow." What possesses a person to do this? What??? Can you even imagine a girl asking her friend to punch her in the arm for 10 minutes straight? After I dropped off the boys, one of the girls rolled her eyes and said, "Boys are stupid." After the whole arm-punching incident, I had a hard time


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Sunday, February 3, 2013
Coffee Table Vignette
40 comments:
- Ceekay-THINKIN of HOME/Doublewide Decor said...
Oh it is so pretty. I love the white on the basket.
- February 3, 2013 at 1:25 PM
- Shannon said...
I love the white with the natural elements around it. Very pretty!
- February 3, 2013 at 1:26 PM
- Coastal Cottage Dreams said...
Lovely tureen. I have a wicker tray with a vase right now along with some books and a mason jar filled with Hershey's kisses in red for V-Day.
- February 3, 2013 at 1:31 PM
- Vanessa said...
Hi, Kelly
It's beautiful and I just love the different colors as well. Lovelhy!
- February 3, 2013 at 1:33 PM
- Debbiedoo's said...
We always have room for one more Kelly. Looks pretty!
- February 3, 2013 at 1:40 PM
- Judy said...
i never met a tureen i didn't like! what a pretty vignette kelly...i can see why you had to bring "her" home!
- February 3, 2013 at 1:55 PM
- Susan said...
Your tureen is very pretty Kelley! I love the way you have displayed it on the willow basket ,with the greenery and the candle.
- February 3, 2013 at 2:07 PM
- Pondside said...
A lovely, serene vignette.
- February 3, 2013 at 2:25 PM
- Andrea said...
Great find. I'd love to find a tureen too :)
- February 3, 2013 at 2:33 PM
- Daniela @Frugal Aint Cheap said...
love the natural elements. On my coffee table you can find cheerios...
- February 3, 2013 at 2:37 PM
- chateau chic said...
Love all the different textures you used, Kelly! Your vignette looks perfect setting on the grainsack.
Mary Alice
- February 3, 2013 at 2:40 PM
- Rita said...
Your new tureen looks fabulous on your coffee table. it looks so pretty on your wicker tray.
- February 3, 2013 at 2:58 PM
- Gee Singh Newbanks said...
Wonderful mix of whites and textured naturals.Luv it!!!
On my coffee table tight now.... besides my feet :-) I have a cream metal tray with a bell jar filled with Fuji apples, a coffee luvers book with a heart shaped silver frame of me and the Mr. , a silver salt shaker and next to the tray 2 bronze and sage candle sticks with 2 book page wrapped candles tied with jute.. (and 2 feet w/ black painted toe nails... hahahahah)
(HUGS) Gee
- February 3, 2013 at 2:59 PM
- Katarina said...
I love white dishes! Your tureen is beautiful, Kelly! :-)
- February 3, 2013 at 3:01 PM
- Something Nice and Pretty said...
Hi Kelly, gives me an idea for spring and summer since I picked up two wicker trays for 3.00 at the church sale in November. Love tureens, I just keep mine up on top of the hutch and my kitchen cabinets!
- February 3, 2013 at 3:36 PM
- Kim @ Savvy Southern Style said...
Very pretty and cozy. Makes me want to curl up in that chair under a throw and just relax.
- February 3, 2013 at 3:53 PM
- Ron said...
Kelly, it looks great. Tureens are great to have.
- February 3, 2013 at 4:24 PM
- Blondie's Journal said...
I love this, Kelly! It's so pretty! I have a soup tureen that's only been used for soup!! I'd love to display it somewhere. Thanks for the inspiration!
Happy Sunday!
- February 3, 2013 at 4:48 PM
- ℳartina @ Northern Nesting said...
That looks so pretty Kelly!! I love candles too!
- February 3, 2013 at 5:32 PM
- Stacey said...
Kelly that just so pretty. I love the softness of the fern next to the tureen.
I'm going to start collecting white dishes for my dining room. Where have you found most of yours? I don't care if they are old...I want them inexpensively. :)
- February 3, 2013 at 5:47 PM
- Julie said...
It's so beautiful Kelly. I have a white tureen I never do anything with...but you've got me thinking now.
- February 3, 2013 at 6:10 PM
- Gail said...
That looks so pretty Kelly! We can always find room for one more white can't we. Enjoy your evening, Gail
- February 3, 2013 at 6:14 PM
- Anne said...
Great find Kelly!Beautiful vignette!
- February 3, 2013 at 6:14 PM
- White Weathered Hutch, said...
I'm a sucker for turines as well.
Love how you have yours displayed.
Love all the textures.
- February 3, 2013 at 6:27 PM
- Linda said...
Love you coffee table. Wish I HAD one but the camper is too small. I DO have a little extension shelf attached to the kitchen counter so I am hoping to bring some pretty things from home next week to use there. They will need to be functional things! Perhaps a soup tureen??
- February 3, 2013 at 7:20 PM
- Shelia said...
Hi Kelly! What a pretty look. I love your tureen and I have a little bitty one that looks like that!
Be a sweetie,
Shelia :)
- February 3, 2013 at 7:22 PM
- Lisa @ Fern Creek Cottage said...
What a gorgeous tureen! I can see why you wouldn't want to pass it up! I've been seeing bloggers fill thier tureens with white flowering bulbs lately...so pretty! Makes me want to find one!
- February 3, 2013 at 7:36 PM
- Magazine Your Home said...
Love the white tureen, I've been searching for white pieces lately, they go with everything.
- February 3, 2013 at 7:48 PM
- Carol said...
That one is certainly a beauty -- glad you squeezed it into your collection!
- February 3, 2013 at 8:04 PM
- Christine @ Stonehouse Living said...
Hi Kelly,
What a great addition to your collection! Love the size of your new soup tureen. The wicker tray adds interest and texture! I really like your skirted table in the background, love the brown & white!
All the Best,
- February 3, 2013 at 8:37 PM
- Marissa said...
Wow.. that looks perfect! love the burlap too.. sitting on my coffee table is tray of different type of feathered round balls.. I bought from Ballard. I wish I had your imagination to put things together.. I usually copy magazines that is where I get my inspirations from..
- February 3, 2013 at 11:28 PM
- cynthia lee designs said...
Love the white tureen...so pretty! I have a weakness for white pieces. Love the willow tray too!!
I have a large wood tray on my coffee table with some of my favorite magazines in it...plus a small silver tray with a candle on it.
- February 3, 2013 at 11:57 PM
- Holly Browning said...
Pretty pictures!!! Love all your white dishes. You can always find room for the things you love.
- February 3, 2013 at 11:59 PM
- Tanna at The Brick Street Bungalow said...
Kelly, you are like I am by old silver... I can't leave it behind. LOL! How much can we keep adding to our collections??? LOL! I love this tureen, too. blessings ~ tanna
- February 4, 2013 at 7:25 AM
- Together We Save said...
What a creative idea. I love finding blogs that have good tips. Honestly I don't think I have any decorating sense at all.
- February 4, 2013 at 11:29 AM
- Rosemary@villabarnes said...
Great piece, Kelly. If you have a passion for something, you can always find room.
- February 4, 2013 at 12:07 PM
- Cynthia said...
Great tureen, it is beautiful. This is a lovely vignette. I also noticed the table in the background with the check tablecloth, very cute.
- February 4, 2013 at 1:29 PM
- Christine Vandormolen said...
it makes me want to get out some of my white dishes that I used to find so dull....
- February 4, 2013 at 3:18 PM
- Missy George said...
There's always room for one more..I don't have a coffee table so I don't have to worry about it...
- February 4, 2013 at 3:45 PM
- Jill Flory of Sew a Fine Seam said...
Lovely vignette! I really want some willow trays. Hoping to find some at a thrift store or target or something sometime!
- February 4, 2013 at 7:19 PM


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Everyone has a tale about what the lunch ladies ladled up in the school cafeteria: Chicken nuggets so rubbery you swear they'd bounce if you threw one on the floor. Mystery-meat tacos. The dreaded (in our house, anyway) Brunch for Lunch. And, of course, greasy, tomato-y, oozing-from-the-bun sloppy Joe sandwiches.
Everyone has a tale about what the lunch ladies ladled up in the school cafeteria: Chicken nuggets so rubbery you swear they'd bounce if you threw one on the floor. Mystery-meat tacos. The dreaded (in our house, anyway) Brunch for Lunch. And, of course, greasy, tomato-y, oozing-from-the-bun sloppy Joe sandwiches.
Love 'em or hate 'em, the messy chopped-meat-and-tomato-sauce sandwich — I dare you to try eating one of those babies without staining your fingers or shirt — are for many an iconic lunch food of childhood. For meat eaters of a certain age, they also showed up fairly often on the dinner table at home, too, usually with tater tots and sometimes an iceberg-lettuce salad, if my mom was feeling especially fancy.
I grew up in the Manwich era, so forgive me if I wasn't always a fan of the sloppy Joe. I always found the canned sauce, introduced by Hunt's in 1969, a bit too sweet and soupy — more like an unsuccessful marriage of barbecue sauce and ketchup than the slightly tangy, slightly spicy sauce that the kitchen gods intended. But I could be in the minority: The sandwich is so beloved that it merits its own National Food Holiday (March 18), and somehow, I don't think everyone who celebrates is cooking from scratch: ConAgra sold more than 70 million cans of Manwich last year.
But a homemade Joe? That can be a beautiful thing, not to mention a quick and easy way to get a filling (and inexpensive) dinner on the table.
The origins of the sloppy Joe sandwich is almost as messy as the dish itself, in that nobody knows for sure where or how it arrived on American tables. Some food historians believe the lunchroom staple — typically made with ground meat, tomato sauce or ketchup, onions and spices and served on a toasted hamburger bun — as American as apple pie. Noting that "similar beef concoctions" have graced the pages of cookbooks since the turn of the 12th century, "The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America" reports it may have evolved from a popular dish first served in Muscatine, Iowa, during President Calvin Coolidge's administration. In 1926, a butcher by the name of Floyd Angell opened Maid-Rite, a walk-up eatery that eventually would become a chain of restaurants specializing in loose meat sandwiches. Also known as a Tavern or a Tastee, the Maid-Rite was made from steamed, lightly seasoned ground beef served on a warm bun.
Others, however, insist the sandwich was inspired by two famous restaurants named Sloppy Joe's Bar — one in Havana, Cuba, owned by Jose Garcia, and another in Key West, Fla., that was a favorite haunt of the novelist Ernest Hemingway.
"The Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink" dates the sandwich to about 1935, but can't pinpoint its exact birth. "There is probably no Joe after whom it is named — but its rather messy appearance and tendency to drip off plate or roll makes 'sloppy' an adequate description and Joe is an American name of proletarian character with unassailable genuineness."
Or perhaps the messy-to-eat sandwich was simply named after the type of restaurants that commonly served it. In the 1940s, any inexpensive eatery or lunch counter serving cheap food was known as a "Sloppy Joe."
However the sandwich came to be, by the late 1930s it was a popular dish on dinner tables across the United States because it helped home cooks stretch scant meat supplies during the Great Depression and World War II. So many of our relatives ate so many sloppy Joes that the dish even was mentioned in several 1940s movies, including "Citizen Kane."
The first printed recipe that officially dubbed the hamburger dish "sloppy Joe" was in 1963, in "McCall's Cook Book." It called for saut�ing half pound of ground beef in a skillet until it "loses its red color," and then adding a can of beans in barbecue sauce and � cup catsup. The simmered mixture was served on toasted hamburger buns.
Skillet-cooked, hamburger-based sloppy Joes remain the American standard, though sometimes the dish is known by another name. In Rhode Island, for instance, where the tomato-y meat mixture is served on a torpedo roll, it's called a dynamite sandwich; you'll also find the sandwich described on menus as the yum yum, slush burger, spoonburger or, when it's made with turkey or some sort of vegetable protein, a sloppy Jane or sloppy Tom. The New Jersey Sloppy Joe is something altogether different — a cold, triple-decker deli sandwich made with sliced meat (usually turkey or pastrami), Swiss cheese, coleslaw and Russian dressing.
For people who don't like or think they're too busy to cook, there's always Hunt's Manwich sauces, of course, which now come in Bold and Thick & Chunky flavors in addition to the 1960s original. If you absolutely, positively don't want to lift a finger except to push the microwave "on" button, there's also a pre-mixed, pre-cooked Manwich product that comes in a heatable plastic container. (A lunch lady hairnet to wear while serving it is optional.)
But really, wouldn't that be a mistake when the real deal is so easy to prepare?
You're going to be browning ground beef (or turkey or pork) anyway, so why not give the sandwich a nutritional boost with fresh veggies and seasonings? It's so much better tasting, and not that much harder. Your kids might even enjoy doing the mixing and chopping.
Another plus to cooking your sloppies from scratch: If you're willing to be just a bit adventurous with the meat and seasonings, you'll create a dish that will become legendary in your kids' minds for all the right reasons.
Below, we offer a variety of sloppy Joe recipes that, if they were served in the school cafeteria, would make you think twice about brown-bagging it.
From: Betty Crocker Cookbook, 11th Edition: The Big Red Cookbook (Betty Crocker; April 2, 2013; $21.99)
1 pound lean (at least 80 percent) ground beef
1 medium onion, chopped (� cup)
� cup chopped celery
1 cup ketchup
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon ground mustard
1/8 teaspoon pepper
6 burger buns, split
In 10-inch skillet, cook beef, onions and celery over medium heat 8 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until beef is done. Drain.
Stir in remaining ingredients except buns. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer uncovered 10 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are tender. Spoon into buns.
Makes 6 sandwiches.
Note: How sad your kids won't find this Asian-styled sandwich on their school lunch trays, because this was one of our favorites. Pickles and lettuce add crunch.
From: Foodandwine.com
2 tablespoons canola oil
2 medium red onions, finely chopped
1 cup finely chopped celery
3 tablespoons sambal oelek or other Asian chile sauce
2� tablespoons minced garlic
1 tablespoon peeled, minced fresh ginger
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1 pound ground chicken thighs
1 pound ground pork
1 cup hoisin sauce
1 cup drained canned diced tomatoes
� cup fresh lime juice
20 brioche dinner rolls, split and toasted
Shredded iceberg lettuce and spicy pickles, for serving
In a large, deep skillet, heat canola oil until shimmering. Add onions, celery, chili sauce, garlic, ginger and a generous pinch each of salt and pepper. Cook over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables are softened, about 8 minutes.
Add ground chicken and pork and cook, stirring occasionally to break up the meat, until no pink remains, about 5 minutes. Stir in hoisin, tomatoes and lime juice and bring to a boil. Simmer over moderately low heat, stirring occasionally, until thickened, about 20 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Spoon about � cup of sloppy-Joe filling on the bottom half of each roll. Top with shredded lettuce and pickles and serve.
Sloppy-Joe filling can be refrigerated for up to 3 days; reheat gently before serving.
Makes 20 sliders.
Note: So good! These nacho-like sloppy Joes are perfect for game day.
1 pound ground beef
1 green bell pepper, seeded and diced
� medium onion, diced
1 cup ketchup
2 teaspoons sriracha
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 teaspoons teriyaki sauce
� teaspoon kosher salt
� teaspoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon vinegar
24-ounce package waffle cut fries
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
3 green onions, sliced
Cook ground beef in skillet over medium heat. Drain. Reserve 1 tablespoon pan drippings. Cook bell pepper and onion in reserved pan drippings until softened, about 5 minutes. Return ground beef to pan.
Add remaining ingredients except cheese and green onions. Mix well. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes.
While sauce is simmering, cook fries according to package instructions. You want them crispy so they won't get soggy underneath the sauce.
Turn oven to broil.
Spoon sloppy-Joe mixture over top of cooked french fries. Sprinkle with cheese. Broil just until cheese is melted. Sprinkle green onions on top. Serve with additional sriracha sauce, if desired.
Serves 6 to 8.
Note: Don't eat meat? This vegan Joe substitutes tofu. But no worries — it's just as flavorful and messy, thanks to a rich, delicious tomato-based barbecue sauce. Jalapeno slices add zing.
From: "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Fat Vegan Cooking" by Bo Rinaldi (DK, 2012, $18.95)
1 tablespoon virgin coconut oil (I used vegetable oil)
1 small sweet onion, diced (about � cup)
� medium green bell pepper, ribs and seeds removed, and diced (� cup)
2 small cloves garlic, minced
16 ounces extra-firm tofu, crumbled (2 cups)
� teaspoon sea salt
3 cups Kansas City Barbecue Sauce (recipe follows; you'll need to double it)
8 gluten-free (or regular) burger buns
12 jarred thin sweet pickle slices
16 pickled jalapeno slices
In large skillet over medium heat, heat oil. Add onion and pepper and saut� for about 6 minutes or until tender. Add garlic and cook for 1 minute. Remove vegetables from pan and set aside.
In same skillet, saut� tofu and sea salt for about 8 minutes or until browned.
Add cooked onions, peppers and garlic to pan, and pour in Kansas City barbecue sauce. Stir to combine, reduce heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes.
Divide tofu mixture among buns and top each with 2 slices sweet pickle and 2 slices jalapeno.
Serves 8.
From: "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Fat Vegan Cooking" by Bo Rinaldi (DK, 2012, $18.95)
� cup ketchup
� cup water
1/8 cup apple cider vinegar
3 tablespoons maple syrup
1� teaspoons ground black pepper
� teaspoon celery salt
� teaspoon ground allspice
� teaspoon cayenne
1 teaspoon garlic powder
In high-speed blender, combine ingredients and blend on high until completely smooth. Transfer to an airtight glass container and refrigerate for up to 2 weeks.
Makes about 1� cups.
Note: This flaky, one-skillet savory pie isn't really a pie at all, in that it just has a top crust. But no one will miss the buns, guaranteed.
Adapted from: "The Big Book of Pies & Tarts" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013, $19.99)
1 Pillsbury refrigerated pie crust, softened as directed on box
1� pound bulk turkey or pork sausage
1 medium onion, chopped (� cup)
1 cup frozen corn, thawed
1 cup chunky-style salsa
� cup chili sauce
2 tablespoons packed brown sugar
4� ounce can chopped green chiles
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro, if desired
Heat oven to 450 degrees. Unroll pie crust on ungreased cookie sheet. With sharp knife, cut into a circle to fit the top of the pie pan. Cut out squares for a checkerboard pattern. If desired, place cutouts on crust to decorate, securing each with small amount of water.
Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until crust is light golden brown.
Meanwhile, in 10-inch skillet, cook sausage and onion over medium-high heat 8 to 10 minutes, stirring frequently, until sausage is no longer pink. Stir in remaining ingredients except cilantro. Heat to boiling. Reduce heat to medium-low; simmer uncovered 8 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until corn is cooked and sauce is desired consistency.
Stir cilantro into sausage mixture. Carefully place warm baked crust over turkey mixture in skillet.
Makes 4 servings.
Notes: This is the vegetarian answer to sloppy Joes, made with black beans and mushrooms.
From: "How to Feed a Family" by Laura Keogh & Ceri Marsh (Random House, Sept. 2013, $27.95)
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 medium onion, diced
� cup diced carrots
1 cup trimmed and diced mushrooms
� teaspoon ground cumin
� teaspoon paprika
3 cups canned black beans, drained and rinsed
1 cup prepared tomato sauce
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon maple syrup
Salt and pepper
6 whole-wheat hamburger buns
� cup shredded cheddar or Monterey jack cheese
Heat olive oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Add onion and carrots and saut� until they begin to soften, about 5 minutes. Add mushrooms, cumin, and paprika. Stir everything together and allow mushrooms to soften, 2 to 3 minutes.
Add beans, tomato sauce, vinegar, mustard and syrup, and allow to simmer and thicken for about 15 minutes. Taste and add salt and pepper if you like.
Toast hamburger buns (to make Joes a bit less sloppy). Spoon a generous amount of bean mixture onto the bottom half of each bun and sprinkle with a good pinch of shredded cheese. Put hamburger lid on top and serve.
Serves 6.
Note: This is a fairly traditional recipe that's a little on the sweet side until you add the Crispy Slaw.
From: "Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook" by Sharon Kramis and Jule Kramis Hearne (Sasquatch, 2013, $)19.95
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon salted butter
1 cup chopped yellow onion (about � onion)
� cup chopped red bell pepper (about � pepper)
12 ounces lean ground beef
2 cups tomato sauce
� cup ketchup
1 to 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
4 small hamburger buns, toasted and buttered
Crispy Slaw (recipe follows)
Warm oil and butter in a 10- or 12-inch cast iron skillet over medium heat. Add chopped onions and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Add bell pepper and ground beef, stirring to crumble and brown the meat. Add tomato sauce, ketchup and Worcestershire sauce and simmer for 15 minutes.
Place a toasted bun, open face, buttered side up, on each plate, and spoon the meat mixture over top. Spoon crispy slaw on top or serve alongside the sloppy Joes.
Makes 4 servings.
From: "Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook" by Sharon Kramis and Jule Kramis Hearne
� head green cabbage, finely sliced
� cup white wine vinegar
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 tablespoon sugar
2 large carrots, peeled and grated
� cup red bell pepper, seeds and ribs removed and cut into thin strips
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Place cabbage in a large bowl. Cover with cold water and 8 to 10 ice cubes. Let crisp for 15 minutes. Make dressing by mixing vinegar, mayonnaise and sugar together. Drain cabbage in colander. Transfer to a serving bowl, add carrots and bell pepper and gently toss with dressing to coat. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.
Makes 4 to 6 servings.
Note: This recipe is extremely rich, but a great way to introduce your family to eating game. You can find venison at Strip District Meats ($7.99 and up, depending on the cut) as well as at Giant Eagle Market District stores. I cut up loin chops.
From: "Carnivore: 120 Recipes for Meat Lovers" by Michael Symon (Clarkson Potter, 2012, $35)
3 tablespoons olive oil
4 pounds venison meat from the leg, shoulder, and/or shank, cut into 1-inch cubes
Kosher salt
2 cups small-diced red onion
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon chipotle powder
2 teaspoons cayenne pepper
2 teaspoons smoked paprika
2 teaspoons cumin seeds, toasted and ground
2 teaspoons coriander seeds, toasted and ground
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground allspice
2 tablespoons tomato paste
750-milliliter bottle dry red wine
6 tablespoons sherry vinegar
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons sriracha sauce
� cup packed light brown sugar
24-ounce can crushed San Marzano tomatoes, with their juice
� cup chopped fresh oregano
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
10 to 12 soft buns
Put a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add the olive oil to the pot and let it get hot. Pat the venison meat dry and season liberally with salt. Begin browning the meat, about 2 minutes per side. You may need to do this in batches so as not to crowd the pot. When browned on all sides, remove the meat from the pot with a slotted spoon and set aside.
Reduce the heat to medium-low, add the onion and garlic along with a pinch of salt, and cook for 2 minutes. Add the chipotle powder, cayenne, paprika, cumin, coriander, cinnamon, and allspice and cook for 2 minutes. Add the tomato paste and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes.
Add the red wine, being sure to scrape up the browned bits on the bottom of the pot with a wooden spoon. Once it has reduced by half, about 5 minutes, add the vinegar, Dijon, sriracha, and brown sugar and simmer until the sugar is dissolved, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the tomatoes and their juice and bring to a simmer.
Return the meat to the pot and add the oregano and granulated sugar and simmer until the meat is tender, 3 to 4 hours. If the sauce still is a little loose, continue simmering until it reaches optimum sloppy-Joe consistency! Serve on buns.
Serves 10 to 12.
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~ quote from my friend Julie McCord
I think the second most common cause of divorce is failure to listen. The first reason, of course, is improper loading of the dishwasher, but that's another blog post. I think that 100% of all kids and 99.9% of all men have listening problems. (I want to remain hopeful that perhaps somewhere exists a man or two who know how to listen.) The thing is, we expect this with our kids...
"Don't take food out of the kitchen."
"Don't eat in the family room. Keep it in the kitchen!"
"Oh," said in complete surprise as if the child has never heard this rule before.
"Don't you ever listen to me? I tell you every day not to take food out of the kitchen!"
"Huh? Did you say something, Mom?"
But having to go through this routine with our spouses just does us in. I don't know about anyone else, but I already have 6 kids. I don't need a seventh. I have this wacky notion that my spouse, since he's technically an adult, should be able to listen better than the 5 year old. Call me crazy.
Seriously, I've been trying to pinpoint the exact point in the breakdown of our communication because listening is quite an involved process. One not only has to have the ability to actually hear the words, but they need to be able to comprehend and process the information once it's heard. Then they have to remember said information. And heaven forbid, they have to make a decision based on the given knowledge. There are a lot of places where communication can go awry.
The problem that happens when your spouse doesn't listen to you, aside from the fact that your kid could be left sitting at the baseball diamond because someone didn't realize someone was supposed to pick him up, or (even worse) someone could pick up the wrong flavor ice cream at the store because someone didn't hear you when you said butter pecan, is that you start to feel worthless. When the person who is supposed to love you, can't listen to you and remember what you've said, you start to feel like you're not worth listening to which is not a good thing.
"The first duty of love is to listen."
~ Paul Tillich
But never fear. I'm nothing if not helpful, therefore I've pinpointed some areas where listening breaks down and I've compiled a list of useful ideas you can use to help your spouse with his listening skills.
The Wife's Guide to Effective Listening
1. Too Many Distractions: Make sure there are no distractions around while talking to your spouse. They can't be expected to listen if the game is on tv. Or if an infomercial about some new car-care gadget is on. Or if scantily-clad girls are on. Or if Family Guy is on. Or if a fuzzy screen of just snow is on. Basically, you just want to turn the tv off.
If you have kids, try to find some space away from them for a little while. HA! Ok, after reading that one, I couldn't stop laughing. Oh, that was funny! Let's try that again, shall we? Get a babysitter and go out. I would suggest waiting until the kids have gone to bed, but most men I know hit a kind of vegetative state by the time the kids turn in. I know many men who have perfected the attentive stare even though they're actually, technically asleep. You don't want to try and communicate when they reach this state. If you're unsure if they're awake and attentive or about to start snoring, look for signs of telltale drool at the corner of their mouths.
2. The Message is Too Complex: You want to make sure you're not talking above your spouse. Don't use fancy words with more than 2 syllables. Always have less than 3 points you'd like to make. Don't switch topics on your spouse.
"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"
~Winnie the Pooh
3. Body Language Gets Misinterpreted: For the most part, men do not "get" body language. Hands on your hips, arms folded across your chest means nothing to the menfolk. You would think that was a pretty sure-fire sign of displeasure. You would think. However, imagine this scenario: You use very obvious (to us) body language like, for example, smacking your spouse upside the head. What does he reply with? A dumbfounded, "What was that for???" Don't expect them to get the visual clues. Just skip the body language altogether.
4. Their Mind Wanders Away From Conversation: Sometimes a guy's mind just starts to drift away from the conversation. Unfortunately there's not a whole lot you can do for this one. You could be talking about how you'd like him to take out the trash before it overflows onto the floor or before mice take up residence in the garbage can, but since this is essentially a boring conversation to him, his mind will likely wander to things like how many games the Bears will win this season, or a joke that his coworker told him 15 hours ago and the punchline that's just sinking in, or the fact that he can see a good 2 inches of cleavage thanks to the shirt you're wearing. I would suggest wearing non-revealing clothing, but their minds are still capable of wandering and imagining what color bra you're wearing and if you're wearing a thong...
Still, it's a good idea to raise your volume significantly every couple minutes to make sure he's still listening/reacting to your voice. Maybe even shout out some nonsense just to see if he's paying attention. "...so, please take out the garbage CHICKEN NUGGET! when it starts to get to the top..." Or perhaps, like I do with my attention-challenged children, you might want to say, "Look at me" every few minutes to make sure their focus remains on the conversation.
5. Forgetting the Conversation Minutes Later: Sometimes your spouse is completely focused on you; they're paying attention and they're listening and understanding what you say. And then, an hour later, the conversation flies out of their brain. I suggest you write down important points you've made. Don't expect them to remember to pick up the dry cleaning on the way home tomorrow. Write it down for them. Yes, there's a good chance they'll still forget, but if you've written it down, you'll have more ammunition when you accuse him of not listening later. "I even wrote it down for you!!!"
Oh crap. OK, I might have maybe, slightly, a little bit, not heard Joe while I was writing this. I might possibly have asked him a question he might have conceivably just answered. Now, I'm not admitting to anything here, but I guess, perhaps, just maybe, if you're a guy, you can use these tips to help your wife enhance her listening skills too. You know, if, entirely hypothetically of course, your wife has some of these listening
problems challenges.
That is all.
"If speaking is silver, then listening is gold."
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* Seek to close so-called gun show loophole
* Advocates see best chance in decades
By Susan Cornwell and Tabassum Zakaria
WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The last time the U.S. Congress took a good look at toughening gun laws, in 2010, it was standing room only in a Capitol Hill committee room as Colin Goddard, a survivor of the mass shooting at Virginia Tech, urged lawmakers to act.
They didn't. And Goddard, who was shot four times but survived the 2007 university massacre in which 32 people were killed, says he believes that lawmakers were intimidated by the U.S. gun rights lobby.
"I did a lot of lobbying around town, trying to put as much pressure as I could," Goddard, now 27, an advocate for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said in an interview.
He became disheartened after lawmakers told him, "'don't make me do this now,'" he said. "They were frankly, cowards."
In the wake of another mass shooting, a gunman's rampage that took 26 lives at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school in December, President Barack Obama is pledging to take action to reduce gun violence.
Obama on Wednesday proposed the biggest U.S. gun-control push in decades, including mandatory background checks for all gun buyers - the issue Goddard pressed more than two years ago.
Gun control advocates see the best chance in decades for new regulations. But they are also intimately familiar with failure.
Introduced in 2009, the "Gun Show Loophole Closing Act" sought to change a law that allows Americans to buy guns from unlicensed sellers at gun shows in most states without passing criminal background checks.
A forum on the bill was held in 2010 on Capitol Hill, but no votes were taken despite the fact that Democrats, generally more supportive of gun regulations, controlled Congress and the White House.
The bill's backers said lawmakers from both parties feared the political clout of the principal gun lobby, the National Rifle Association.
"People then and people now, were and still are afraid of the NRA," said U.S. Representative Mike Quigley, a Democratic co-sponsor of that bill.
The legislation "met resistance from the get-go," said former Representative Mike Castle, who was the main Republican sponsor of the bill. "It was just not something that the leadership of Congress wanted to consider at that time."
The decision to expand background checks now rests with a divided Congress. The White House says it is determined to push for change, including via executive orders. But even Obama acknowledged on Wednesday, "The most important changes we can make depend on congressional action."
Part of the equation will be whether Democrats remain as gun-shy about gun control legislation as they have been since the mid-term elections of 1994, when the party lost control of both houses of Congress after an assault weapons ban was passed.
Other factors were at play in the Democrats' 1994 loss: Congress had raised taxes in 1993 and fought over health care reform. But former President Bill Clinton, the Democrat who signed the assault weapons ban into law, blamed the 1994 loss of the House of Representatives on the gun lobby.
"The NRA had a great (election) night," Clinton said in his autobiography.
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said that in recent years, Democrats in competitive congressional districts had feared that if they supported any gun regulations, "the NRA would come after them."
"The reason we have not been able to have any action on reasonable gun policy is because we knew it wasn't passable. If you know something isn't possible - politics is the art of what's passable," she said in an interview.
A Pew Research Center survey released this week found that 85 percent of Americans favor background checks for private and gun show sales, while 12 percent oppose it.
Gun rights advocates argue that restricting those rights, which are protected in the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, does nothing to stop gun violence.
The NRA didn't respond to requests for comment. A spokesman for a smaller gun rights group, the Gun Owners of America, said it had lobbied against the Gun Show Loophole Closing Act in 2009 and 2010 because it opposes all background checks on gun sales.
"They don't stop an Adam Lanza from killing someone and stealing their weapons," said Erich Pratt, director of communications for the Gun Owners of America.
Lanza, the gunman in the Newtown shooting, used his mother's guns, killing her before embarking on the school rampage.
Goddard said lawmakers were so uneasy in 2010 that they would not hold a committee hearing on the gun show loophole bill. He testified at an informal "forum" instead.
Lobbying by the gun rights groups during the period was intense. Three gun-rights groups that opposed the bill dropped more than $10 million on lobbying during 2009 and 2010.
That was 20 times the $470,000 that two gun-control groups supporting the bill spent during the same period. Because of the way lobbying records are kept, it is impossible to know how much of the expenditures were solely for the gun show loophole bill as opposed to other issues.
The big spenders opposing the bill were the NRA ($5.3 million), Gun Owners of America ($3 million) and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms ($1.8 million).
Supporting the bill were Mayors Against Illegal Guns ($390,000) and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence ($80,000).
A decade before the Gun Show Loophole Closing Act was introduced in the House, a 1999 proposal to require background checks at gun shows got through the Senate - barely - in the wake of the mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado that killed 13 people.
But in the end it too failed to become law.
A 2004 proposal by Republican Senator John McCain met a similar fate.
After the Newtown shooting, in which most victims were children aged 6 and 7, some gun control proponents say elected officials' fear of the gun lobby may be dissipating.
"Although the sentiment that we simply can't touch gun reform has held strong in Congress for more than a decade, the Newtown shooting has made an impact that so many others have not, and Americans are saying enough is enough," said Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg, who is re-introducing his 1999 bill.
The Gun Show Loophole Closing Act was re-introduced in the House this month by Representative Carolyn McCarthy, a Democrat, with Quigley again a co-sponsor.
Goddard, who was a student at Virginia Tech at the time of that shooting, said he already has seen signs of change.
"In the past month, we've had (lawmakers') offices that were cold to us before, really wouldn't give us the time of day, now reach out and say, 'Let's talk,'" he said.
"Your initial reaction was dammit, where were you before?" Goddard said. "But you've kind of got to swallow that anger. Now we have the opportunity -- let's make the most of it."


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Mark Dermul is a serious Star Wars fan. He was just 7 years old in 1977 when the original movie hit the theaters. As soon as the huge Star Destroyer flew across the opening scene, he was hooked.
"It hasn't left me," he says. At 42, Dermul now guides tours throughout North Africa, visiting sites that were featured in the blockbuster films.
On one 2010 trip back to planet Tatooine — OK, Tunisia — he and his tour group noticed that Luke Skywalker's boyhood home was decaying. They jumped into hyperspace — OK, the Internet — to save it.
They sent out a call on Facebook to restore the sandy igloo first featured in Episode IV: A New Hope. Fans from around the world responded at light speed with donations, shooting past the goal and raising more than $11,000. Then, war threatened.
The Arab Spring put the project on hold, but by October 2011, Tunisia's newly instated government provided the permits necessary for the renovation to begin.
Though much of the hut was past saving, Dermul's group reinforced, plastered and painted what was left. Luke's old homestead is now back to its original desolate glory.
The renovation may bolster more than just fantasy; when he first started visiting landmarks from the movies, Dermul says, the local Tunisians thought he was crazy. But tourism has received a boost from Star Wars fans in recent years, and now, he says, locals are coming around.
Most of you probably remember that as a young man, Luke Skywalker could not wait to leave the Lars homestead where he grew up on Tatooine.
MARK HAMILL: (as Luke Skywalker) It just isn't fair. Oh, Biggs is right. I'm never going to get out of here.
ANTHONY DANIELS: (as C-3PO) Is there anything I might do to help?
HAMILL: (as Luke Skywalker) Well, not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock.
SULLIVAN: That rock is actually the desert of Tunisia where George Lucas filmed much of "Star Wars" and where he left many of his sets behind. And while Luke Skywalker may have been desperate to leave, "Star Wars" fans trek regularly far out into the dry salt flats to see, among others, the famous igloo of Tatooine. But in 2010, on one of those treks, a Belgian named Mark Dermul couldn't believe what he was seeing.
The Lars homestead where Dermul often led guided tours was crumbling into pieces. So he did what any good "Star Wars" fan would do: He started a Facebook page to save Tatooine, and that is exactly what he has done.
SULLIVAN: So, Mark, you've been taking people on tours to this movie landmark for more than a decade now. When did you first notice that there were problems at Luke Skywalker's home?
MARK DERMUL: When we went back in 2005, that's when we saw the first deterioration. And then five years later, in 2010, I went back. And by then, it was a lot worse. The plaster was completely crumbling.
SULLIVAN: Mm-hmm. So Tunisia is a pretty far away place. What made you think that you would be able to go in there and fix it?
DERMUL: When we went back in 2010 and saw it in such a state of disrepair and kind of as a joke launched a Facebook group saying what would you think if we were going out there to save it, again we were overwhelmed with people saying, you should actually do this. How can I help you? The budget was the easy part, actually. The hard part was negotiating with the Tunisian government, because as you probably are aware, there was the Arabic Spring that erupted in December 2010. And all of a sudden, there's no government in Tunisia to negotiate with.
In October 2011, a new regime in Tunisia is installed. And luckily, they immediately approved the plan and tell us the permits are in order. You can come over and do this.
SULLIVAN: How do the Tunisians feel about this landmark? I mean, do they understand American's obsession with "Star Wars" and Luke Skywalker?
DERMUL: They are starting to. When I went out there in 2000 and 2003, they were flabbergasted. They did not know what we were doing going to these locations that were used in the movie. But now, they begin to understand. They also see an increased tourism for the Mos Espa, the big one that you see in episode one. And that is already being maintained by the Tunisian government.
SULLIVAN: How did you become such a "Star Wars" fan?
DERMUL: When "Star Wars" opened here in Belgium, I was a 7-year-old kid. So like every kid my age, when that huge Star Destroyer starts crawling over the silver screen in the opening sequence, I was blown away. I was hooked.
DERMUL: And it's never left me.
SULLIVAN: Mark Dermul is a "Star Wars" fan and saved Luke Skywalker's home in Tunisia.
Mark, thanks so much for joining us.
DERMUL: Pleasure.
(SOUNDBITE OF THEME MUSIC, "STAR WARS") Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Religions need books because they don't have gods.
Really? Why? What benefit does it have? Why be sad, why be angry, why be indifferent. Why feel anything at all? How does does it make us better? How does does it make is worse? Are we better as humans at feeling and expression emotions? Wouldn't it be easier if we just didn't?
Has anybody every considered that emotions might just be an emergent property of intelligence?
So fie and fiddle to all those arch-rationalists! I'll raise a glass to emotion before reason any night.
Of course we're better off. In fact the only way I have of knowing that is the wonderfully gooey and inscrutable mess of my emotions. Life without emotion (to paraphrase Kant) would be a graveyard. Emotion lies behind every 'ought'; every valuable thing; in fact it is the mechanism by which we can value things. In the great bleaching void of a universe governed by the second law of thermodynamics emotions are the tendons that keep us moored. They are the source of every heroic deed, every great work of art, every first kiss and every last utterance, every friendship and every joy. The question isn't whether we would be better or worse without emotion; without emotion we would not be human, something unutterably alien would exist in our stead. Emotions are integral to humanity as tool-use and a liking for warm, dry, environs. Orwell captures it best at the end of 1984 when Winston and Julia emerge from their torture devoid of emotion. They have ceased to be; they are ghosts inhabiting bodies and awaiting destruction with equanimity. Orwell understood the humanizing need for emotion and lived a great life on that epiphany; from his time living with the homeless in Paris and London to taking a bullet to the neck fighting fascism in Spain. So fie and fiddle to all those arch-rationalists! I'll raise a glass to emotion before reason any night.
I'm yet to be convinced that emotion is a necessity for survival - particularly love. Looking after family, children, parents, is is obviously a means to survive, but love just makes it complicated. Emotions cloud judgement, impair rational thought, and generally just get in the way. Without emotions we wouldn't have theists saying "but it just feels right to believe!".
Quote from: kindred on March 31, 2013, 09:45:28 AMHas anybody every considered that emotions might just be an emergent property of intelligence? Do you notice that on television or in movies highly intelligent characters are often portrayed as being stunted or abnormal emotionally.ie. Spock (although only 1/2 human); Bones; House; Sheldon, Leonard's mom; there are more buried in my faulty brain cells
Television should never be used as evidence for anything other than how ignorant producers are.
Penfold, I understand your poker analogy, but if there were no emotion attached to the possiblity of losing, then perhaps you would take a risk on a possible losing hand, if by doing so you think you may win? Does it necessarily take emotions to be irrational, when to do so might be the way to achieve a certain goal?
But I think that emotions are necessary components for cooperation. Emotions help us create communities, assist each other, protect ourselves, respond to threats, and motivate us to find solutions to problems. And members of strong communities have a better chance of survival than lone individuals. Problem solvers have a better chance of survival. Very interested in hearing feedback from others on this topic!
However imagine you start to behave in a highly emotional manner. Now I am in a difficult situation, if I give you an order, I am not sure that you will obey so I risk my own death. The more emotional you are the less likely I am to give you orders. If I trusted you to be rational I would always be happy to give you orders, because I know you will be rational and avoid death. If however, you are highly emotional then I cannot be certain so in order to avoid my own death I will stop giving you orders. Thus by adopting an emotional (as opposed to a rational) strategy you can escape your slavery.
What? If your captor doesn't want to die, then you can simply disobey your captor. He won't push the button because it'll kill himself as well.
Quote from: Razel on April 16, 2013, 07:14:21 AMWhat? If your captor doesn't want to die, then you can simply disobey your captor. He won't push the button because it'll kill himself as well.As pointed out the situation includes the clause I cannot lie, thus my threat, if made, binds me. You may object that this is unrealistic, and that's fair, but may aim is to give a clear account of a situation where emotional strategy has a better outcome than a rational one. Hence the 'no concealment' clause. In fact this correlates closer to real-world situations than you might expect. For a more a plausible (but hence more difficult to analyse) example see my earlier post on poker strategies.
The rational strategy in that situation would be to inform your captor that you'd rather die then be enslaved. It'll probably end with you being enslaved anyways, or both of your deaths, but it basically has the same outcome as your "acting crazy" strategy.
Quote from: Razel on April 16, 2013, 07:36:56 AMThe rational strategy in that situation would be to inform your captor that you'd rather die then be enslaved. It'll probably end with you being enslaved anyways, or both of your deaths, but it basically has the same outcome as your "acting crazy" strategy.No it doesn't; if the captor believes you to be rational he won't believe your threat and enslave you. If the threat is genuine then you are no longer acting rationally (as no rational system could will self-destruction), and so have adopted the emotional strategy outlined in my post. So either you are genuine in your ultimatum - in which case you are not acting rationally; or you are lying in which case the captor can still enslave you.
couldn't you rationally conclude that your captor will respond emotionally to to your threat and make it from a rational point of view...


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MOXEE, Wash. — Flat-bed trucks with high, wooden sideboards and hauling some 150 hop vines apiece line up outside the picking plant at Roy Farms east of Moxee.
In turn, they pull inside and stop at their appointed spots. Workers help the truck drivers attach vines, one-by-one, to hangers on a conveyor of a Dauenhauer picking machine. Vines quickly shoot high overhead on the hangars. Upside down, their foliage falls open, exposing cones that are stripped by hundreds of high-speed mechanical fingers inside the machine.
The picking machine is just one of five stages of harvest that converts hop cones from the field into bales or pellets for processors and brewers within 48 hours.
During September, hop trucks are almost as common as cars on the roads around Moxee, just east of Yakima. The Yakima Valley — notably Moxee, Toppenish and Prosser — is the heart of U.S. hop production, typically producing 80 percent of the nation's hops. Oregon and Idaho make up the balance.
On the world stage, Germany grows 37 percent of all hops followed by the U.S. at 30 percent, the Czech Republic at 9 percent and China at 6 percent.
In Moxee, harvest runs around the clock from late August through September.
Roy Farms employs about 300 people for harvest. At 3,500 acres, it's one of the largest hop growers in the nation.
A striking aspect of harvest for a visitor is the many aromas. They can differ depending on hop variety and which step in the process the hops are, producing a woodsy smell or a pine smell.
"Sometimes it can be like citrus," said Carman McKinney, the company's manager of food safety and sustainability.
Jim Boyd, director of sales and marketing, has one of the "best noses on the ranch" when it comes to smelling the maturity level of a field, said Michael Roy, hop manager.
"He has the nose that knows," Roy said. "He knows what customers want in aroma profiles. Customers can have unique preferences."
Harvest shut down for two days, he said, when Boyd determined a field wasn't ready. Workers were paid to remain on standby. It's a cost of doing business during harvest that "demands you have your finger on the pulse of everything that's going on," Roy said.
In the field
It all starts in the field, where crews remove 20-foot-tall vines from trellises. Vines, trained by hand in the spring, grow up twine stapled in the ground and extending to trellis wire 20 feet overhead.
A tractor with a low front cutter moves into a row severing the base of the vines and twine.
Lorenzo Gutierrez is one of the workers walking behind the tractor with a machete, cutting vines and twine the tractor missed.
Behind the first tractor, a truck enters the row. The driver puts it in neutral and a tractor behind pushes the truck along as its hydraulic top cutter severs the top of the vines from the trellis wire and the vines fall into the truck bed.
Gutierrez is a third-generation worker on the farm and has worked there 25 years. His father, Narciso, 65, now a field manager, has worked there 49 years and remembers driving wooden pegs to fasten twine, a task now done mechanically.
Others have worked at the farm a long time, including Blas Plazo, tractor driver, who has been there 33 years.
In the plant
Trucks haul vines to the picking plants where the cones are stripped. Stems and leaves of vines are composted and eventually spread back over fields.
Cones go to the drying plant where they are spread 29 inches deep on 32-by-32-foot drying beds. Fourteen large, natural-gas dryers heat air to 125 to 130 degrees that rises through slots in drying-bed floors. In 10 to 12 hours, the heat reduces the hops' moisture content to about 9 percent. This is done for stabilization and storability, McKinney said.
From drying, cones are conveyed to another building for 24 hours of cooling in piles. Cool air is forced up from the floor to stabilize temperature and moisture and preserve the aromas.
Next, hops are compressed into 200-pound bales and shipped or stored.
Roy Farms is the only grower that also directly processes cones into small pellets to save costs and better preserve aromas and oils for storage of 3 to 5 years, McKinney said. Roy Farms' "Harvest Fresh" brand pellets are made within 48 hours of leaving the field, she said.
Other growers also make pellets, but from bales.
Bales and pellets are sold to brewers for making beer and to other processors for refinement into concentrated extract, for greater preservation of flavor, before going to breweries.
Technological improvements
The Dauenhauer picking system has been the industry standard since the 1950s but changes are developing. One of Roy Farms' four processing plants uses a newer Perrault harvester. The high overhead conveyor of hangers is gone. Telescoping forklifts unload trucks and shove the vines up a conveyor belt where machinery chops the vines and separates the cones.
Shorter trellis systems are being tested to reduce overall labor and keep labor needs at a more constant level year-round, Roy said. Experiments include field combines for greater harvest efficiency. Such improvements have to outweigh the loss in yield per acre from shorter trellises, Roy said. Better use of water, fertilizers and pesticides also are being considered.


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This document collaboration tool supports all files types from large binary objects to small image files with merge capabilities for the most common document types, including Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
Commons works by keeping track of the complete history of any file to save time in finding, revising, and collaborating on documents.
Document collaboration issues, such as merging multiple edits into a single document or confusion over the most current version of a file, occur as documents pass through many workers and many versions — these issues occur frequently and take a "sizeable toll" (says Perforce) on productivity.
Is Perforce Really Taking a Stab at Dropbox and Google Docs?
The firm quotes Bruce Painter, a software engineering manager for Amdocs: "With the addition of Commons, we're now extending Perforce across our organization to include our business teams and less technical staff. Commons ensures that everyone has access to the right file when they need it, whether it's our source code or a PowerPoint presentation."
Features include Conflict-free Collaboration so colleagues can work in parallel without writing over each other's contributions; files are easy to find and share, enabling users to always have the most up-to-date version; Commons enables shared and managed team workspaces; and Commons makes it easy for business teams to access and version files alongside the contributions of technical staff.
The firm says that customers now have a "single source of truth" for all files and documents enterprise-wide.
"When employees turn to file sharing and document collaboration systems outside their secure application infrastructure, alarms go off increasingly for IT and operations teams," said Melinda Ballou, program director for application lifecycle management and executive strategies, IDC. "Their concerns for security and compliance grow every time they read about a data leak on a hosted application. Management strategies must evolve commensurate to this flow of information and business and technical risks raised."
But analyst firm Quocirca's Clive Longbottom provides some balancing comment on Computer Weekly. "There are problems for Perforce, though. Where it is known, it is for SCM — and trying to persuade its SCM users to allow Commons to be used across an organization may not be easy, although Perforce itself says that its customers are quite open to the proposition. Where it is not known, it has the problem of messaging — does it want to sell SCM or Commons or both? Each needs different messaging to different groups, but any one sale could cloud the sale of the other. Perforce also has to decide how it works with its channel — the SCM channel will not be well positioned to sell Commons."