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Age: 27
Height: 5'8"
Hometown: Brisbane, Australia
Ethnicity: Mother, Papua New Guinea, Father: Australian
Occupation: hold two Bachelor degrees in Business with three majors. I specialize in Internet marketing and promotion, but right now taking a break to model for the next few years.
LRG: For the geologically challenged where is Papua New Guinea exactly?
Jerusha: Papua New Guinea is located just north of Australia. You could call it a Melanesian population that is a weird mix of the Philippines and the South Pacific.
LRG: You seem to be quite the mix of brains and beauty in the body of a world traveler? What made you want to stop being a brainiac and step into the world of men's magazines?
Jerusha: I think in some ways modeling has a time stamp on it and I'd like to live that part of my life now.
LRG: Do only smart guys have a chance or do you go for the dumb as rocks ones too?
Jerusha: I don't necessarily think academics or intelligence has much to do with being 'dumb'. I've met a lot of awful people who are very intelligent, and I've met some truly good people who haven't got a qualification to their name. I think it's all about having a good strength of character and not being a jackass.
LRG: What about a shaved head and tattoos. Does that help? So where and when is the best place to approach you?
Jerusha: I never judge a book by its cover. I've learned that much. I love pool and beach parties. It's so much more relaxed than a club, but more social than just sidling up to someone at a bar and enduring an awkward conversation. Water, sand, drinks, sunshine, and friends make an easy place to meet me at!
LRG: So you're sitting beach side, a guy should sweep up next to you and say "Ay Mami' was-sap-pan-ing?" Would that work? Once you're interested in a guy what's the next step? You're a world traveler so he doesn't have a lot of time.
Jerusha: That's it! Travelling and having limited time cuts a lot of the crap out. It either works or it doesn't. I either really like you or I don't.
LRG: So once you're in, where should he take you to fast track the dating process? A seedy bar? A fancy club? Or maybe just a quick ride in his car?
Jerusha: I love food and going out to dinner. So unfortunately you're going to have to pick me up, open the door, pull out the chair for me at dinner, and be a gentleman in general.
LRG: How many dates? Does it count if they back out the driveway and drive back in? So you're not that easy, got it. What about booze? Does it help or hurt the 'dating' process?
Jerusha: Well not too much booze, and it's really just a one-night stand with glitter on it, you know? I think a few glasses with dinner helps a lot. Just know you're limits. Having to help you throw up and hailing you a taxi home isn't my kind of fun!
LRG: Are you a mortician or a magician in the sheets?
Jerusha: Magician! I'm a sexier version of Harry Potter if you will! (Laughs)
LRG: What does that mean? You like using wands? We need details!
Jerusha: Hey! I'm not selling my steak before the sizzle if you know what I mean. (Laughs). But I think creativity, passion and just the right mix between two people goes a long way.
LRG: Threesome?
Jerusha: Nope. Two things I don't share, my money and my men! (Laughs)
LRG: I guess a joint checking account is out of the question then.
LRG: Handcuffs?
Jerusha: Yes officer!
LRG: Cops! Where? Oh you scared me.
LRG: Role play?
Jerusha: Eh… I wouldn't say my acting skills are that up to scratch.
LRG: Costumes?
Jerusha: Yes, but in saying that, I've heard of some weird fetishes, so if your version of costumes is wearing a diaper, then I'm out! (Laughs)
LRG: I have to ask, do you shake what you momma or the surgeon gave you?
Jerusha: Oh my butt is as real as they get! Since I've been in the states my girls have been showing me how to booty pop. I've lifted my game now! (Laughs)


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16 April 2012 | Article
After spending 30 years at IUCN before retiring as Chief Scientist in 2009, I have continued to work on protected areas issues with the Global Environment Facility, the Governments of Japan and Tanzania, the Asian Development Bank, and many others.
Building on my field experience (12 years in Asia), administrative experience in organizing two World Parks Congresses (Bali, 1982 and Caracas, 1992), and publications and conference presentations on protected areas (in over 80 countries), I now hope to draw on my work on other aspects of sustainable development (economics, biodiversity, invasive species, agriculture, law, diplomacy, forestry, energy, water, and climate change, among others) to help make protected areas essential to modern societies.
Recognizing the cultural importance of nature, I support ongoing work on protected areas for urban people and for those living in and around protected areas. I see major challenges for protected areas in a time of rapid changes in economic conditions, climate, and human demographics, all of which will contribute to conflicts over land and resource use. As WCPA Chair, I would work closely with the IUCN Protected Areas Programme, IUCN Members, the other five Commissions, the relevant international agreements (especially CBD) and others to address such challenges.
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Manteca, CA
Serafino Joseph (Joe) Manuse
Feb. 7, 1923 - Aug. 25, 2013
Joe passed away at his home on Sunday surrounded by Family and Friends.
Joe served in the Army and was a WWII Veteran. He married his wife Stella Gaines in 1951 and had three daughters. They moved to Manteca in 1964. He retired from the retail Clerks Union in the 1980's and then began selling Real Estate for the next 15 years. His biggest love was his garden full of every kind of fruit, nuts and vegetables that he would share with everyone. He also loved Ball Room Dancing and Restoring Classic Cars.
Joe is preceded in death by his wife Stella and grandson Bill Grammer. Survived by brother
Richard Manuse, sister Gloria Smith, daughters Stephanie Swan, Patricia Manuse and Annette Lores, sons-in-law Henry Swan & Eloy Lores, 5 grandchildren, and 6 great grandchildren. Special thanks to his good friend and garden buddy Tom McFadden and his loving caretaker Kathy Villegos.
Family & Friends are invited to attend Thrice/Holy Service Thursday 7:00 pm and Funeral Service Friday 10:00 am at St. Basils Church 900 W. March Lane, Stockton CA.


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Video games often are blamed for causing violent crimes. But in the case of a Tennessee kidnap victim, Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) may have saved his life.
On June 21, Gonzales gave Sanchez a hand-held video game that would prove to be Garcia's savior…
"Sanchez played the video game virtually all day that day and much of the night," [according to an FBI report].
And who said the PSP was not useful ?
Most people outside the gaming industry, think PSP is a flop, but us, gamers, have no idea how successful this thing has been. Each new day, a new application is released for the PSP thanks to the homebrew scene.
1.Good news he was saved.
2.Good news that gaming not always ends in murder (In your face Dr Phil and Jack Thompson)
His own family was involved too?
Glad he survived. Must have been a SCAREEEEE Experience I wouldn't want to be in O.o
I would of fought and beat them down. I would of taken out my zanpaktou and slashed them. I always travel with my katana haha
glad he lived.


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I wrote a post on Panelle some time ago, providing the recipe for the typical Sicilian street food fritter made with chickpea flour.
But I had completely forgotten about Cecina! During a recent weekend escape in Lunigiana, I was pleasantly reminded of this local delicacy. And I indulged in the reminder several times a day, to be honest.
Although very similar in its composition to Farinata–from Liguria–and Panelle, Cecina is not fried like its Sicilian counterpart, rather it is traditionally baked in a large copper pan called 'teglia' measuring over 1 meter in diameter (3 feet). Cecina is commonly baked in a wood-burning oven, but you can also make it at home. La cecina is a simple mixture of water, chickpea flour and salt. The rather liquid batter is poured with a jug into the special teglie and baked for a few minutes until crisp and golden, yet remaining incredibly soft and fluffy on the inside!It is best eaten piping hot with only a sprinkling of ground black pepper. Its unique crisp/tender texture melts in your mouth and pleasurably scratches your throat at the same time. You can find Cecina sold as a snack all along the Tuscan riviera, in Lunigiana but also in Pisa, Livorno, Lucca and Massa Carrara.
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This made me think of other Tuscan street food examples.
I ignorantly thought Rome held supremacy over tripe, but I was wrong. Toscana boasts a long tradition of offal dishes, and a long-established custom of selling them in roadside kiosks.
Take the Panino col Lampredotto sandwich, for example. Although widespread throughout the entire Tuscan region, this peasant preparation actually comes from Florence. The fourth and final stomach of common bovines, stewed in a seasoned broth, is shredded and stuffed in a bread roll. When asked if you want your €2,50 sandwich bagnato (wet) you should always say "Sì!" The trippaio preparing it will dunk the top portion of the bread in the lampredotto cooking sauce, and will therefore be served to you juicy, wet and dripping with tasty sauce.
Add on: Thanks to Oriana from Tuscanycious, who reminded me of the mandatory green sauce topping. Here's the recipe. You can also watch their fun video that graphically explains how to make Lampredotto sandwich.
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...Or the Insalata di Trippa, a cold plate made with boiled calf's tripe, sliced oranges, celery and seasoned with olive oil and cracked black pepper. It contends the title for best tripe dish with local Trippa alla Fiorentina, in which the meatier or spongy, honeycomb part of the stomach lining is cut it into very thin strips, stewed with battuto and tomato and then sprinkled with grated Parmigiano cheese before browning it in the oven for five minutes.
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Other trippai specialties (kiosks that sell these snacks) include fried brains–which shortly after the popular cannibal movie saga was aptly renamed "the Hannibal"–nervetti (chopped up tendons and meat from the calf's foot), lingua (tongue), pan co' grifi (a sandwich made with stewed pork muzzle. The chopped meat is ladled into a deep bread pocket called "orcello", used like a soup bowl, and comfortably eaten with a spoon, during your passeggiata. Grifi, or musetto can also be ground into a sausage or used to add flavor to stews and soups); and Animelle, which according to the Italian Culinary Foundation are defined as, "sweetbreads, or the thymus glands of veal and lamb." The testicles (that's what they are, essentially) are skinned and soaked in chilled water for 2-3 hours before being fried and served in paper cones.
Another typically Tuscan snack is Ranocchi Fritti, or fried frogs (this is turning into a post not suited for those with a delicate stomach). This peasant dish is native to the watery lowlands of western Florence, and the best hunters for the main ingredient were notably kids, who took the chore as a game. The skinned amphibians are left to marinate in beaten eggs, lemon and salt, and then deep fried in vegetable oil.
|Mau & Tamara, the trippai in Piazza Mercatale, Prato
A few favorite places in Florence banchini dei "trippai" where you can find the dishes mentioned above:
- Mario in Piazzale di Porta Romana
- Lorenzo in Piazza Artom
- Marco on Via Gioberti (near piazza Beccaria)
- Alessio on Via Aretina (on the corner of Via Casaccia)
- Orazio at the Loggia del Porcellino
- Sergio on Via de' Macci (on the corner of Borgo la Croce)
- Leonardo on Viale Giannotti (corner of Via Paradiso)
- Lupen e Margo (used to be called La Trippaia), on Via dell'Ariento (on the corner of Via Sant'Antonino)
- Simone in Piazza de' Nerli
- Il Trippaio di Firenze on Via Maso Finiguerra (corner of Via Palazzuolo)
- Maurizio, "il Molisano" on Via dei Cimatori
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Amherst couple charged in sale of lost wedding ringStaff Report
August 25. 2014 8:21PM
NASHUA — Police have charged an Amherst couple in connection with the sale of a lost wedding ring to a Nashua pawn shop.
Nicholas Baldasarre, 25, of 27 Mill St., who is accused of picking up the wedding ring — valued at more than $1,500 — outside a north end Nashua business, is charged with felony theft of lost/mislaid property. Emmalyne Castillo, 28, also of 27 Mill St., is accused of selling the ring to a Nashua pawn shop. She is charged with felony receiving stolen property.
The victim had contacted Milford police Aug. 10, saying he wasn't sure if he had lost the ring in Milford or in Nashua. Milford police found, through a pawn slip check, that the ring had been sold to a Nashua pawn shop. Nashua police joined the investigation and discovered that Baldasarre had found the ring.
Both Baldasarre and Castillo were released on $10,000 personal recognizance bail, pending arraignment in Circuit Court-Nashua District Division.
Arrests in 2012 burglary
Martin Sheehan, 22, of 72 Lock St., was charged with burglary and Joshua Higgins, 24, of 37 Lake Ave., was charged with criminal liability to burglary in the Sept. 18, 2012, burglary of a secured garage in the city's north end.
Sheehan and Higgins were arrested Saturday as the result of an investigation by the Criminal Investigative Division.
Sheehan was held on $2,000 cash/surety bail pending arraignment in Circuit Court-Nashua District Division. Higgins was released on $10,000 personal recognizance bail and scheduled for arraignment Sept. 24.
Reckless conduct alleged
Stephen Welch, 25, of 49 A Cross St., was charged with felony reckless conduct and criminal threatening after he allegedly pulled out a gun during a verbal argument.
Police responded to a Lock Street address shortly before 10:50 p.m. Saturday for a report of a disorderly male who was screaming and yelling at another person. Police said the verbal argument escalated and Welch pulled out a firearm, waving it around and pointing it at people.
Police arrested Welch at about 12:21 a.m. Sunday and he was held at the Nashua Police Department on $10,000 cash bail pending arraignment scheduled for Monday in Circuit Court-Nashua District Division.


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Amp Up Your Beauty Look with Vivid Salon's Saving Grace
BY: Megan Elliott | Jan 2, 2014
When one moves to a new city, finding a new stylist is one of the most difficult and daunting tasks for many women. It can take years to find someone who truly understands you hair and shares your same vision in the cut, color and styling department. Lucky for Atlanta ladies (and men!), though, Vivid hair salon is a reliable and safe go-to. Their stylists are educated, up-to-date and trendy. No matter what look you're going for, you're sure to be pleased with the results. I caught up with one of Vivid's talented stylists, Grace, and got the scoop on Vivid, common hair mistakes and more. What is your favorite thing about working at Vivid? My clients! I learn so much from them. My clients have become friends that I cherish. How is Vivid different from other salons? Vivid is a very modern but traditional neighborhood salon. The wooden floors and the brick and stone walls give it a very cozy and inviting feel. What made you want to be a stylist? I was always fascinated with color and shapes. Growing up I did a lot of different things to my hair and thought, why not learn and do it professionally? I wanted to have fun and enjoy my work. What is your favorite thing about being a stylist? I have a lot of fun with it. Being a stylist is exciting and keeps me on my toes for new trends and styles. I love sharing my knowledge and teaching my clients about how to treat their hair. Being given the ability to help find someone's confidence is such an honor! What is your favorite style to cut? What about color? Right now my favorite style to cut is different degrees of angled bobs and adding a lot of texture and layers in my cuts. For color, I'm obsessed with deep and dark roots with bright highlights around the face. What was your proudest moment as a stylist? My proudest moment would have to be when I was invited to be a part of New York Fashion Week Spring 2011. That was an awesome experience. What product line do you recommend? I love Pureology. It's a 100% vegan and sulfate free. It smells great and feels amazing on your hair. I like chi blow dryers and flat irons. They glide so easily on your hair and last a long time. What are the biggest and most common mistakes people make with their hair? Not getting regular trims. Even when growing out your hair you must get your regular trims to keep it healthy. Also, box dying your hair. Color doesn't lift color so once you do it, it becomes a color correction in the salon! So eventually it will cost you more money! Any final tips or tricks? Random trick: When hair is standing up from static, rub a laundry dryer sheet on your hair. It takes the static right out! Grace was my savior when I decided to cut over ten inches off of my hair to donate to Pantene Beautiful Lengths. My 'after' look had me feeling like a celebrity (namely, Olivia Palermo and Ashley Benson, whose photos I brought in as an example – I mean, the cut was literally identical!). I highly recommend booking a spot with this talented lady. Plus, all new customers get a welcome packet complete with money-saving coupons. To book your appointment at Vivid Salon, call (404) 685-3557 or visit them at 1401 N. Highland Avenue NE.
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The Federal Reserve rang out the old year with fireworks, but the New Year could be just as explosive.
There can be little doubt that a majority of the Fed's policymaking Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) member are fully prepared to expand its balance sheet even further than it already is planning to do in an effort to stimulate the still-sluggish economic recovery and reduce unemployment.
The one thing that could change that, of course, is a significant pick-up in growth and a realization of the "substantial" labor market improvement the FOMC has been seeking since it approved $40 billion per month of mortgage backed securities purchases in September.
But few forecasters, inside or outside the Fed, are looking for dramatic improvement on 2012's 2% growth pace or in the jobs picture. Fed officials, in their latest forecast, are projecting the unemployment rate will still be 7.4% to 7.7% at the end of 2012.
A resolution of the budgetary deadlock, as now seems likely, through higher taxes on "the rich," including many small businesses, might end much of the uncertainty that has dampened hiring and investment. But a tax jolt on producers with little meaningful spending restraint hardly seems a prescription for appreciably faster growth. Nucor CEO Dan DiMicco recently remarked that "the focus on higher taxes in the fiscal cliff negotiations almost guarantees another year of tepid growth."
Some Fed officials have grave doubt whether more doses of monetary stimulus can do much to boost real output or employment. "Employers will not deploy the cheap and abundant capital on hand toward job creation while there is so much uncertainty surrounding final demand for the goods and services they sell....," says Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher. "Until they know what their taxes will be or how federal spending patterns that affect them and their customers will change (or, one might add, whether the nation will have a more rational regulatory structure), they will sit on their abundant money rather than spend it on unemployment-reducing expansion."
But that's not the predominant view, and the FOMC's policy statement and the comments of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke at his post-FOMC news conference embody an unmistakable bias toward further easing.
December FOMC meetings have traditionally been rather staid affairs, but not this past one. Not wanting to compound the problems of the "fiscal cliff" with a monetary cliff, the FOMC fully replaced the $45 billion of expiring "Operation Twist" Treasury bond purchases, financed by sales of short-term Treasuries, with outright purchases of the same amount, financed by creation of new bank reserves.


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Department of Labor
Employment Standards Administration Wage and Hour Division Washington, D.C. 20210
July 19, 2002 Dear Name*
Thank you for your letter concerning employees of the Name* located in Name* and the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA). The Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor administers the FMLA for all private, state, and local government employees, and some federal employees. The FMLA entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid, jobprotected leave each year – with continued group health insurance coverage – for specified family and medical reasons. All public agencies are covered employers under FMLA regardless of the number of employees. They are not required to meet the 50-employee threshold test for private employers. "Public agency" means the Government of the United States; the government of a State or political subdivision thereof; any agency of the United States (including the United States Postal Service and the Postal Rate Commission), a State, or a political subdivision of a State or any interstate governmental agency. Employees are eligible under FMLA if they work for a covered employer, and: (1) have worked for their employer for at least 12 months; (2) have worked at least 1,250 hours during the 12 months immediately preceding the start of leave; and, (3) work at a worksite where the employer employs at least 50 employees at the site or within 75 miles of the site. Unpaid leave must be granted to an eligible employee for any of the following reasons: (1) for the birth of a son or daughter, and to care for the newborn child; (2) for placement with the employee of a son or daughter for adoption or foster care, and to care for the newly placed child; (3) to care for the employee's spouse, son or daughter, or parent, who has a serious health condition, and (4) for a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform his/her job. As union steward, you are concerned that the facility requires that FMLA leave run concurrently with worker's compensation leave. Worker's compensation leave may, in fact, run concurrently with unpaid FMLA leave and may count toward an employee's FMLA leave entitlement, provided the reason for the absence is due to a qualifying "serious health condition" as defined in the FMLA and the implementing Regulation 29 CFR 825.114 (copy enclosed). However, an employee's receipt of workers' compensation payments precludes the employee from electing, and prohibits the employer from requiring, substitution of any form of accrued paid leave for any part of the absence covered by such payments. You also express concern that the facility has failed to post a notice of the provisions of the FMLA, has failed to provide general and specific notice of the entitlements of FMLA, and that several employees have been terminated in violation of FMLA. Generally, the FMLA and §825.300 of the Regulations require employers to post on their premises a notice explaining the Act's provisions and providing information concerning the procedures for filing complaints of violations of the Act with the Wage and Hour Division. An FMLA poster (form WH-1420) may be obtained from the Department's web site (http://www.dol.gov/osbp/sbrefa/poster/main.htm) or from the local Wage and Hour Division office. Additionally, pursuant to § 825.301 of the Regulations, employers should provide employees who take FMLA-qualifying leave with both general and specific notification detailing the FMLA entitlements and specific expectations and obligations of employees taking leave, as well as explaining the consequences of failing to meet these obligations. You should be aware, however, that the U.S. Supreme Court recently invalidated the FMLA Regulations at §825.700(a), which provides categorical sanctions against employers who fail to designate FMLAqualifying leave as FMLA leave (Ragsdale v. Wolverine Worldwide, Inc.) This section of the regulations states that employers who fail to designate paid or unpaid FMLA-qualifying leave as FMLA leave can not count the leave toward the employee's FMLA entitlement, and the employee is still entitled to all of FMLA's protections during that leave.
Working to Improve the Lives of America's Workers
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U.S. Department of Labor
Employment Standards Administration Wage and Hour Division Washington, D.C. 20210
In light of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision, the Department believes it is inappropriate, in most cases, to pursue compliance actions in instances where the employee has clearly taken FMLA leave and the employer has failed to designate the leave as such. The Supreme Court's decision in Ragsdale may leave open the possibility that cases may be pursued, based on the principle of equitable estoppel, where the failure to designate the leave as FMLA-qualifying interfered with the employee's exercise of FMLA rights (per §825.220), and the employee could have taken other action had he/she known that the leave would count against his/her FMLA entitlement. Responsibility for enforcing allegations of violations of FMLA has been delegated to the various district offices of the Wage and Hour Division. If you, or the employees you represent at Name* , need further clarification regarding your rights under the FMLA, you may contact the Wage and Hour District Office nearest you at Leo W. O'Brien Federal Building, Room 822, Albany, New York 12207, telephone (518) 431-4278. Sincerely, Rosemary E. Sumner Office of Enforcement Policy Family and Medical Leave Act Team Note: * The actual name(s) was removed to preserve privacy in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552 (b)(7).
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A forefinger of stone, dreamed by a sculptor, points to the sky
A goldwing moth is between the scissors and the ink bottle
A million young workmen straight and strong lay stiff
Among the bumble-bees in red-top hay
A storm of white petals
Baby moon, a canoe, a silver papoose canoe, The
Band concert public square Nebraska city
Bees and a honeycomb in the dried head of a horse
Bilbea, I was in Babylon on Saturday night
Blossoms of babies
Body of Jesus taken down from the cross
Boy heart of Johnny Jonesaching to-day
Brass medallion profile of your face I keep always, The
Bury this old Illinois farmer with respect
Chatter of birds two by two raises a night song
Chick in the egg picks at the shell, The
Child Margaret begins to write numbers, The
Cool your heels on the rail of an observation car
Cover me over
Days of the dead men, Danny
Empty battlefields keep their phantoms
Five circus clowns dying this year
Flanders, the name of a place, a country of people
Flat lands on the end of town where real estate men
For a womans face remembered as a spot of quick light
Gold of a ripe oat straw, gold of a southwest moon
Have I told any man to be a liar for my sake
Have me in the blue and the sun
He lived on the wings of storm
Here in a cage the dollars come down
Here is a face that says half-past seven
How many feet ran with sunlight, water, and air
Huntington sleeps in a house six feet long
I am an ancient reluctant conscript
I am making a Cartoon of a Woman. She is the People
I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts
I dont blame the kettle drumsthey are hungry
If I had a million lives to live
I give the undertakers permission to haul my body
I have kept all, not one is thrown away
In Abraham Lincolns city
In the cool of the night time
In the loam we sleep
In the newspaper officewho are the spooks
In the Shenandoah Valley, one rider gray and one rider blue
Into the blue river hills
Into the gulf and the pit of the dark night
I remember here by the fire
I remember the Chillicothe ball players
I rise out of my depths with my language
I saluted a nobody
I saw a mouth jeering. A smile of melted red iron ran over it
I sit in a chair and read the newspapers
I thought of killing myself because I am only a bricklayer
I too have a garret of old playthings
Its a lean car a long-legged dog of a car
Its going to come out all rightdo you know
I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat
Jabowskys place is on a side street
Jesus emptied the devils of one man into forty hogs
Jimmy Wimbleton listened a first week in June
John Browns body under the morning stars
Last night a January wind was ripping at the shingles
Lay me on an anvil, O God
Leaves of poplars pick Japanese prints against the west
Let me be monosyllabic to-day, O Lord
Let the crows go by hawking their caw and caw
Let us sit by a hissing steam radiator a winters day
Lips half-willing in a doorway
Make war songs out of these
Mare Alix breaks the worlds trotting record one day, The
Mouth of this man is a gaunt strong mouth, The
Nancy Hanks dreams by the fire
Now that a crimson rambler
On the lips of the child Janet float changing dreams
On the one hand the steel works
Out of white lips a question: Shall seven million dead ask
Papa Joffre, the shoulders of him wide as the land of France
Pawn-shop man knows hunger, The
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo
Policeman buys shoes slow and careful, The
Rum tiddy um
Sea is large, The
Sell me a violin, mister, of old mysterious wood
Smoke of autumn is on it all
Summer shirt sale of a downtown haberdasher is glorified, The
There are places I go when I am strong
There is a wolf in me fangs pointed for tearing gashes
There was a high majestic fooling
They are crying salt tears
They have taken the ball of earth
Thin sheets of blue smoke among white slabs
Thirty-two Greeks are dipping their feet in a creek
This is the song I rested with
Three walls around the town of Tela when I came
Two Swede families live downstairs and an Irish policeman upstairs
Wagon Wheel Gap is a place I never saw
Washerwoman is a member of the Salvation Army, The
When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs
When the jury files in to deliver a verdict after weeks
White Moon comes in on a baby face
Your bony head, Jazbo, O dock walloper
Your eyes and the valley are memories
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The Central Valley Business Journal has announced a contest: Suggest ways to make Stockton better. Winner gets a $50 gift certificate.
The Central Valley Business Journal has announced a contest: Suggest ways to make Stockton better. Winner gets a $50 gift certificate.
In the spirit of municipal improvement - and because the gift certificate is for Angelina's Spaghetti House, which has good ravioli and, come to think of it, a bar that would pair nicely with $50 - I'm in.
My suggestion: a downtown houseboat community.
Two model communities spring to mind. The first is in Sausalito. The city's Waldo Point Harbor holds 245 floating homes, some of which are marvelously colorful.
The residents are an eclectic mix of old hippies, Silicon Valley gazillionaires, crusty old salts, swingers, gentry, artists and the occasional visiting sea lion.
The boats are a mix, too: your basic Lake Shasta rentals, but also custom-made curiosities rising atop the hulls of rebuilt vessels. If you ever saw the elephant boat on the Calaveras River out by Darrahville, you get the idea.
The houseboats are part of Sausalito's identity and brand.
Otis Redding wrote "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" in a Sausalito houseboat. Children's author Shel Silverstein lived in one. Whole Earth Catalog creator Steward Brand still does.
Houseboat-dwelling musicians play local clubs. Houseboat-dwelling sculptors decorated the docks with their works. Some people have splurged on eye-catching fantasy boats. The community is such an attraction that the city offers houseboat walking tours.
The second model community is Stockton. Yes, for much of its existence, Stockton had a houseboat community around the channel head.
Because it's a natural.
A houseboat community would offer people the chance to live in the heart of the city. That would help restore the downtown neighborhood.
Experts from the Urban Land Institute earlier this year said homes and private investment are the missing puzzle pieces of downtown revival.
The ULI also said the best way to restart downtown is to repopulate Miner Avenue. Well, what's at the west end of Miner? The water, thank you.
A live-work downtown is the sort of common-sense urban planning Stockton forgot in its addiction to sprawl.
Workers living within walking distance of jobs would comply with the General Plan Settlement Agreement, and various state and federal environmental laws.
Houseboats would provide housing to people too modest of means or too bored to live in the suburbs: river rats, bohemians, young singles, international men of mystery - you, perhaps.
They, in turn, would support downtown cafes, clubs and markets. And help make downtown safer.
Most of all, a houseboat community would rectify the pretzel logic of Stockton planning.
In Stockton, water is so desirable to live by that developers dig lakes with bulldozers to complement their housing projects at great cost and rigmarole. Meanwhile, planners ignore the main waterway flowing free, gratis, into the heart of the city.
A houseboat community makes a statement that Stockton is a water city that accommodates diverse lifestyles. It plays to the city's geographic and demographic strength.
Are there obstacles? Always.
If memory serves, descendants of city founder Charles M. Weber own the channel bottom (!), hence must be compensated for development over it.
Also, the city has a track record of egregious cost overruns in marina construction. Redevelopment agencies have been eliminated anyway. This is a job for a public-private partnership.
The developer, in turn, will have to deal with Kafkaesque state water bureaucracies.
But hey. This is a contest I want to win. Don't expect me to shoot any more holes in my idea.
If you love Stockton - the Delta city it really is, not the poseur city leaders created with the civic marina - then you love the waterfront and the city that sprang up around it. Houseboats are an organic part of that special place.
Contact columnist Michael Fitzgerald at (209) 546-8270 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/fitzgeraldblog.


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Scandyna Minipod Mk II
£550, Scandyna Speakers
Scandyna's wonderfully shaped Minipods have been gracing us with their Sputnik-style chic since the 90s. This beautiful redesigned model brings with it a new midrange/bass driver, joined by a lovely yellow Kevlar cone. Its unique triple sphered form isn't just for show either – according to Scandyna, every characteristic has a "precise acoustical justification". This minimises cabinet vibration, sound radiation and distortion, to pave the way for the kind of sound reproduction any discerning audiophile would be happy to lend their lugholes to.
Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook
£1,000, Acer
While the world drowns in a sea of tablets, a new breed of slim and speedy laptops pushed by Intel is about to take centre stage, known as Ultrabooks. Much like any exclusive club, only a select few have been invited to the party so far, including the Acer Aspire S3. It's clearly taken its design cue from the king of slim – the MacBook Air – and while it's not as classy, you get more bang for your buck thanks to its powerful components, like second-gen Core-i7 processors, a choice of SSD, 4GB of RAM, HDMI-out, two USB ports. Brains as well as brawn. Available as of next month.
£240, Amazon
It's pretty difficult to spice up an iPod dock these days – there are so many of them. Full points to JVC, then, which has crafted a dock capable of handling two iThings at once. The VJ5 also comes with a USB port, a CD player from which you can rip MP3 files, an AM/FM radio, and a pair of 15W speakers. All that's left to decide is which device you want to play music from.
Sony Tablet S
£400 (16GB Wi-Fi), Sony
Even when Sony's new tablet went by the name S1 and was a mere sketch, we were suitably excited about the prospect of Sony dipping its toe into tablet waters for the very first time. At IFA this year, Sony took the wraps off its Tablet S to reveal a beautiful, if oddly shaped, slice of tech. Seemingly taking its design cue from a folded magazine – for ergonomic comfort, of course – the Tablet S boasts its own music and video service, PlayStation certification to get your game on and thanks to an infrared commander, it doubles up as a universal remote.
Loewe SoundVision
£1,200, Loewe
All-in-one music systems don't get much better than this. It can handle CDs, iPod docking (but not iPads) internet and FM radio, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi streaming. So far so awesome. Everything is controlled via its user-customisable 7.5in multitouch screen, accompanied by six speakers, including a couple of subwoofers. A remote control is on hand, too, if being lazy is important. Loewe claims it offers "the best sound and design quality worldwide from an all-in-one audio system". We'll be the judges of that when it launches before Christmas for £1,200.
Bentley multimedia add-on
£100,000, Bentley
If you've got £220,00 to spend on a Mulsanne Bentley, it's more than likely you can cough up another £100,000 to spend on an extravagantly decadent package that involves twin rear tray-mounted iPad's equipped with Bluetooth keyboards and a 32GB Mac Mini stashed in the boot. Its excessive price tag is further justified with an iPod dock, rear console, refrigerator and a drop-down HD LED screen. That's all accompanied by a custom-built app for full control of reading lights, as well as audio and video sources. Just remember to keep your eyes on the road.
Olympus Pen E-P3
£800 w/14-42mm kit lens, Amazon
Olympus' PEN E-P2 earned a well deserved five-star rating from us and its successor looks set to follow in its footsteps. There's an array of shooting options from intelligent auto to fully manual, alongside ten art filters and 24 scene mode options. And with a brand new OLED touchscreen, 12.3MP sensor and what Olympus claims is the fastest autofocus of any interchangeable-lens compact, the Pen E-P3 is a gorgeous first rate option for photography enthusiasts.
Philips L1 headphones
£250, Philips
Philips' Fidelio brand has taken personal audio under its wing with the Fidelio L1 headphones. These semi-backed, on-ear headphones come with 40mm, high-definition neodymium drivers – a signature part of Fidelio products. The band and outer shells are coated in soft leather, but the real luxury is the memory foam cushions designed to mold to your ears in the same way a cosy kingsize memory foam mattress adjusts to your body. They've even been given the official audiophile nod from the Philips Golden Ears panel of audio specialists. We don't know who they are, but suspect they live underground and aren't allowed out very often. Having just been announced at IFA, they're not available right now, but if you can wait till spring, they're yours.
Bang and Olufsen BeoVision 10-46
£7,400, Bang and Olufsen
This ticks all the luxurious gadget boxes – it's shiny, expensive and only 500 units have been made, rendering it a limited edition item. Its colour scheme goes by the name Chantrelle and also adorns its easel stand, designed to replicate the impression of a painting leaning against the wall. If you're feeling really flush, you can throw in the £2,600 BeoLab 6002 speakers to complete the whole set-up.
MacBook Air
From £850, Apple
When the MacBook Air emerged from that manilla envelope back in 2008, the king of slim was lording it about like it was the best thing since sliced bread, despite being underpowered and having a battery that gave way after a only a couple of hours. Fast forward to 2011 and the MBA has been beefed up with Core i5 and i7 processors, a solid state drive as standard and the very awesome gesture-controlled OS X Lion. Oh, and the backlit keyboard has also made a welcome return.


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I am trying to help someone who wants to watch US/UK TV from Australia. eg: (US), ITV (UK). Just needs something reliable for streaming, affordable and easy enough to set up on the VPN Client (i.e. setting up own server hosted overseas is out of the question).
Can anyone give any suggestions as to what they use?


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I used the tutorial on the redblog.
The .rpm's did no download into the working directory. Is there a way to wget these? or other methods?
if all went well, on an i386 target there should be ATI-fglrx-8.29.6-1.fc6.i386.rpm, ATI-fglrx-control-panel-8.29.6-1.fc6.i386.rpm, ATI-fglrx-devel-8.29.6-1.fc6.i386.rpm, and kernel-module-ATI-fglrx-KERNEL-VERSION.fc6-8.29.6-1.fc6.i386.rpm in the working directory. These RPMs can then be installed. During the RPM install process it will run aticonfig --initial, but if this is a fresh FC6 install one more step is needed. Ensure that the below segment is found in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, otherwise Mesa will be used when restarting X. If this portion is not found in your X configuration, add it:


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February 27, 2012
photos by matthew panton
my friend damon and i went out shopping last week, as part of his kickstarter reward. i picked him out some cool stuff, but as an extra thank you, he wanted to get me an item of clothing!
we were near an american apparel, so i chose this skirt. it's a corduroy circle skirt... the shape is so flattering that now i wish i had them in every color.
i also wish i had more of these little vintage button-up shirts... i wear this one so much!
shirt- vintage
skirt- american apparel
tights- hue
dreamcatcher necklace- foxwoods casino
booties- vance c/o blowfish shoes
i hope everyone had a nice weekend.
i've been sort of a shut-in... but the good news is i think i finish the cd artwork! sort of... it still needs some tweaks, and i need to show it to someone who can tell me if i did everything right. but other than that... it's done.
i can't believe i designed cd artwork. this is weird (but cool.)
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Hey! My dress on my WIW today is a circle skirt! Great minds dress alike haha. You look super cute. I love the pairing of the button up with the skirt. And your hair is lookin' pretty fierce too! Work it out girlie! :)ReplyDelete
Congratulations for the cd artwork:D...cant wait to see it!!ReplyDelete
Really like your outfit!! you look effortlessly cool!!!
Oh this is so pretty!ReplyDelete
I love this look on you.
so cute! :)ReplyDelete
Nice pics! Your so pretty :)ReplyDelete
i haven't been to your blog in forever...sorry about that. but, i love the design! it's super fabulous! i'm getting a new one soon, but my designer just had a baby--what am i gonna do?ReplyDelete
i like your style. i don't think i could ever pull off that outfit, but it looks great on you!
I really love the skirt.ReplyDelete
jenna- circle skirt twinsies!! i've been wearing mine for oh... at least every day since i got it.ReplyDelete
gini- thank you, i'm so pumped about it. and at the risk of sounding haughty- quite pleased with myself :)
twisted ruffle- it's cool! it's funny how many people comment on my design... because i did myself, and i'm not a designer. i feel like i'm getting sick of it again, and in need of a change. lol. good luck with yours, though! i'm sure it will come out awesome.
Ohh, that truly is the prettiest skirt! <3 I love love love the shape!ReplyDelete
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I ADORE that skirt on you. It does seriously look amazing on you. That's great that you finished the cd artwork!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for checking out my blog! Love this outfit! The tights definitely make it awesome.ReplyDelete
Last day of my GIVEAWAY!
YOU are so cute! lolReplyDelete
i love the blog girl.
love, rach.
I love cord! That skirt is really cute. Love the shoes too! xxReplyDelete
That is so very cool!! I honestly can't wait to see and hear it:) Corduroy is the best and that skirt certainly was a fantastic little find. You always create the best palettes...purple and tan <3!ReplyDelete
Hope your week is going swell darling gal. On a side note..I will be emailing you probably very late tonight once I get the button for my etsy figured out for the sponsoring spot:) xx Marisa
What a lovely skirt! And so cool about the CD artwork :DReplyDelete
That was so sweet of your friend! You look great in this skirt ;). I think you should totally try to get it in a different color. When an item feels right and looks great, it's worth storing an extra one.ReplyDelete
And congrats on having almost finished the CD artwork! :D Can't wait to see it!
And last but not least, thanks a million for all your support and for being there. I think I am now ready to really focus and work on getting stronger and more confident :). It feels nice to be back here, btw! Missed you!
Hope you're having a great week!
lovin the purple and vintage tint of these pics! :)ReplyDelete
Last one is my fav tho :)
this is super cute and your style is so unique. glad i found your blog :)ReplyDelete
I really like this look! That shirt goes so well with the skirt :)ReplyDelete
xo Jennifer


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|They once planned to clean-up in SC
|Supporters wait anxiously for arrival of misguided pacifist Messiah
|Danger, Will Robinson, DANGER!
|They once planned to clean-up in SC
|Supporters wait anxiously for arrival of misguided pacifist Messiah
|Danger, Will Robinson, DANGER!
Paul's voice drives me nuts. He sounds like a screech owl suffering from acid reflux. The words coming out of Obama's mouth are just as stupid and/or unbelievable, but at least they have a pleasant tone. Sheesh.
Happy Hills Sanitarium is calling you Ron Paul.
I can't stand listen to his whining either
The fiscal ideas/audit the Fed is awesome, though... most of the rest of his bit disqualifies him to the extreme, imho
A handfull of empire-lovers objected to the idea that we should not send assault teams into sovereign allies, and destabalize them, when other means are available.
A very reasonable position.
I'm sure the founding fathers would agree with it.
If you DON'T, your a big-government loving fascist. Look in the mirror.
Yep, you figured me out
Nüht über alles!
btw- why do all you Paulbots post anonymously?
If Newt or Perry (yea I still like the guy) grab Allen West as a VP I think we have team!
The war-mongering clowns who control the GOP STILL THINK that wanting to war on everyone on sight for the least provocation is a "wise" idea.5000 American dead,many more thousands severely wounded and billions of dollars later the people increasingly agree with Paul.But don't tell the future-losers to Obama that....
Oh,and btw,latest polling shows Mitt losing to Obamay including with independents...Paul is winning independents....just saying:)
Dear Multi-Anons
Go away- this is a REAGANITE peace-through-strength blog... Ron Paul scores a ZERO on my most important hot button issue... sorry
No disrespect, Paul is just great on spending, Fed audit, etc... but it's a shame you can't admit the guy took himself out of widespread consideration with bizarre stands on defense and other issues.
I DO NOT WANT endless wars, Reagan mostly avoided them... but I also DO NOT WANT A NUCLEAR IRAN, and am willing to bomb the crap out of them to prevent it.
Paul's naivete on this very key issue makes him a dangerous man... that is, if he ever acutally had a prayer of being president.
Either we go to the known source of the threat to this nation and (as Newt said) "Kill Them" or they come here and kill us. Maybe even you, Anon, and your spouse and children. Hiding behind our boarder and wagging our finger at our known and sworn enemy, brought us 9-11
As Clinton did, lobbing a couple of tomahawk cruise missiles at an empty warehouse got us 3000 dead Americans.
You have to make it a dangerous business to be a self-proclaimed enemy of the United States of America... simple as that
"You have to make it a dangerous business to be a self-proclaimed enemy of the United States of America... simple as that".
...Like stripping My citizenship from me if Obama or Romney considers me An enemy of the United States pursuant to the laws of war?
I am pretty sure the Iranians are not going to kick in the door in the middle of the night and dissapper you. DHSS, not so much.
Neo-cons are so focused on the "enemy" out "there" that you have totally missed the fact you have wandered into a minefield. Then you call those shouting warnings to you "bots".
This primary is going to end, and a whole lot of people are going to be alienated. Good luck trying to get those your mocking to come over to your team for the big win. I know I have had my fill.
Reagan had a big tent. Reagan understood peace through superior firepower was not spead yourself too thin. Or dismantle your heavy warfighting divisions to optimize your military for killing 9th century throwbacks. Russia has rebuilt it's military. The Chinese are flat out creating a conventional warfighting machine and going balls out to create a blue water navy.
This continues to be unanswered by us.
Reagan understood Christian Just War principles.
Reagan knew that Beruit was a no win, hence the pull out of the Marines after the bombing. He pursued revenge by other means.
What seems to be lacking in "conservitive" blogs is consevitism. What I see is Neo-con warmongering. That is not Reaganism. If it was, Reagan would have won the cold war with the evil empire via land war in Europe or by massive nuclear exchange. But that did not happen. A thinking man of princple is what we need in the WhiteHouse. Not a thug or a Bankster.
Remamber also, the establishment Republicans hated reagan also. They feared another Goldwater blowout. Thing is, Goldwater would WIN in a landslide in 2012.
I weep for my country, as those who I thought were my friends are nothing of the sort.
I hate to scold you on this point because we agree on more than we disagree, but feel I must, so here it is:
If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals -- if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.
RONALD REAGAN, Reason Magazine, Jul. 1, 1975
The Reagan era had a radically different defense policy than Ron Paul- and the Iranians were horrified of him.
I stand with Israel against a nuclear Iran, and I doubt greatly anybody could ever come up with a good reason to allow the apocolyptic, 7th century savages in Tehran to posses nuclear weapons... only adults get to play with those
And what's the point of these diatribes, anyway- we are to vote for Ron Paul, I suppose?
The same intellectual cripple that thinks 9/11 was an inside job?
"And what's the point of these diatribes, anyway- we are to vote for Ron Paul, I suppose?"
No, just to remind you that besides who we would like to see as president, we both share the common demo-rat foes. Let's try to keep the friendly fire to just that; friendly. It is a long way to November.
Thank you Toaster, peaceful conflict resolution is always preferrable- there's hope for us yet
Not for Iran though... we already tried that for too long
Where you guys need to realize Paul destroys his viability as a serious leader is something else Reagan said- you NEVER tell the enemy what you will or will not do!!!
When they asked him how he would have won the Vietnam war -and would the Gipper have been willing to nuke them- Reagan said "Oh no, that wasn't necessary... but I'd like them to go to bed each and every night thinking I MIGHT"
Thanks for giving Tehran the green light by telling them what you won't do, Ron Paul
Pure stupidity- and delusion, as he keeps lying to himself and anybody else within earshot about how Iran is 'not a threat'.
Ron Paulists people are *WACKO* !
I love your graphics, LOL
Thanks MJ


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Why are there no wetsuits (at least that i have seen or heard of) with a small zipper in front! I refuse to pee in my wetsuit. It really should not be that hard of a design challenge to add it, and with some thinking it should be possible to make it fairly water proof.
Come on, mystic, oneill, ripcurl, ion and all other brands! How will make it? There is a clear division between ladies and mens suits so the difference in design needed shouldn't be a problem.
Anyone out there solved the problem themselves? Please share! I'm reluctant to cut my suit up, but soon i will try it. Got a guy who knows how to do this stuff and has lots if materials, and it really shouldn't be that hard...


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Catch Up With Friends: Menu for a Casual Dinner Party with Fresh Comfort Food
I love to entertain, but I'll be frank: I'm on a pretty strict budget. And because I try to buy sustainably-raised meat, even supposedly "cheap" cuts like pork shoulder or short ribs are too expensive to be more than an occasional treat, so more often than not, my dinner party menus are mostly vegetarian, fairly healthy and quite budget-friendly. This menu features freshened-up versions of classic comfort food and is perfect for a casual gathering to catch up with a few friends before the bustle of summer begins.
The Menu
- Sparkling Rosemary Limeade (To make this a cocktail, add a shot of gin to each serving)
- Mixed nuts
- Chickpea Casserole with Lemon, Herbs & Shallots
- Grilled Asparagus with Bacon Vinaigrette
- Broccoli Salad with Carrots and Currants
- Lemon-Blueberry Yogurt Cake with Lemon Cream
- Coffee or tea
Grilled Asparagus with Bacon Vinaigrette
The Scene
Lemon-Blueberry Yogurt Cake with Lemon Cream
Keeping It Budget-Friendly
- Use lemons instead of limes in the rosemary limeade
- Freeze the remaining bacon if you won't be using it right away
- Use raisins or dried cranberries instead of currants in the broccoli salad
- Use frozen blueberries for the cake
- Skip the lemon curd topping and serve the cake with regular whipped cream or plain. Or make the topping by mixing lemon curd with creme fraiche, sour cream, or mascarpone, if you happen to have them on hand instead of whipping cream.
Making It Happen
The night before, make the rosemary limeade syrup and refrigerate it. The next morning, strain the syrup and keep it chilled until the party. Bake the cake and make the lemon cream in the morning. Assemble the chickpea casserole and refrigerate it.
A couple hours before the party, make the broccoli salad and refrigerate it to let the flavors come together. About 30 minutes before the party, fry the bacon and make the vinaigrette. Preheat the oven and pop the casserole in about 15 minutes before guests are due to arrive. It bakes for 45 minutes and rests for an additional ten, so this will give you a good 40 minutes of drinking and socializing time with your guests before dinner; adjust accordingly if you would rather serve dinner earlier or later in the evening.
Mix the rosemary limeade syrup with sparkling water just before your guests arrive and set out a bowl or two of nuts for nibbling. You can serve the limeade as-is to teetotaling guests, or add a shot of gin if anyone is looking for something stronger.
When you take the casserole out of the oven, heat up a grill pan on the stove. (Alternatively, you can use a cast-iron skillet; sear the asparagus until cooked through and a little blackened in spots.) Grill the asparagus and dress with the bacon vinaigrette. The chickpea casserole will have cooled sufficiently at this point, so along with the broccoli salad, dinner is served!
After dinner, make a pot of coffee or tea and pass around slices of cake dolloped with lemon cream. It's a relaxing end to a relaxing evening — with a no-fuss menu, no worries about breaking the bank, and plenty of time to catch up with friends, this is exactly what a dinner party should be.
What are your favorite budget-friendly meals to serve to guests?
(Images: See linked posts for full image credits)


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HanesBrands to add 50 jobs in Patrick County expansion
HanesBrands to add 50 jobs in Patrick County expansion
PATRICK COUNTY, Va. —
HanesBrands will expand its operations in Patrick County and create 50 new jobs.
The company will keep the 215 jobs already at the Woolwine facility, as well as add new high-speed fabric manufacturing equipment, Gov. Bob McDonnell's office announced Friday in a news release.
The new equipment and jobs will allow the plant to double its production, the release said.
HanesBrands will invest $1.6 million in return for getting a $305,000 grant from the state tobacco commission. The company is expanding to adjust to market conditions, the release said.
HanesBrands, based in Winston-Salem, makes apparel for popular labels including Hanes, Champion and Playtex. More information can be found at hanesbrands.com.


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Comet coming in 2013 could be brighter than moon
Comet coming in 2013 could be brighter than moon
DES MOINES, Iowa —
A new comet expected in 2013 could be brighter than a full moon, space.com reported.
The new comet is called Comet ISON or officially named C/2012 S1. Right now, it's passing Jupiter.
Russians Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok announced the discovery in September.
Scientists told space.com that the comet could become bright enough to be seen briefly in the daytime sky in November.
The comet will be closest to the sun on Nov. 28, 2013, which may make it even brighter, reported space.com.


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Maker of Reyataz and Sustiva Announces Enhancements to Co-Pay Benefit Program
January 21, 2010
In response to the dire financial climate in the U.S., several HIV/AIDS drug makers have created or expanded their payment assistance programs. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS), the maker of Reyataz (atazanavir) and Sustiva (efavirenz, Stocrin), is one of those companies: It launched a co-pay benefit program in April 2009, and then announced adjustments to that program last month. The changes appear to remove a $50 deductible that had been in the original program, while maintaining a $200 monthly cap on co-pay assistance.
You can read BMS' Dec. 17, 2009, announcement below.
You can find even more information on this topic in TheBody.com's collection of resources on paying for your HIV meds.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co-Pay Program Announcement
From Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
We are enhancing our Bristol-Myers Squibb Co-pay Benefit Program beginning on January 1, 2010, for eligible new and existing REYATAZ® (atazanavir sulfate) and SUSTIVA® (efavirenz) patients who have out-of-pocket costs through their commercial insurance coverage. We recognize that, especially in this economic environment, out-of-pocket costs for HIV medicines may be prohibitive even for patients who have prescription drug benefits. This program reflects Bristol-Myers Squibb's ongoing commitment to helping patients who need our medicines to access them.
The REYATAZ and SUSTIVA Co-pay Benefit Program will allow eligible patients to save up to $200 of co-pay costs monthly, for up to a year. Bristol-Myers Squibb will now cover the first $200 of a patient's monthly co-pay or co-insurance costs; the patient will be responsible for any amount over $200.
To access this benefit, eligible patients need to obtain a Co-pay Benefit Card to take to the pharmacy each time they fill their prescription for REYATAZ or SUSTIVA. Benefit cards are available through their healthcare provider, select pharmacies, or online at www.BMSHIVCoPayProgram.com. Eligible patients who are currently utilizing our Co-pay Benefit Program for REYATAZ or SUSTIVA do not need to obtain new benefit cards. These patients will begin receiving these new benefits, subject to the new program end date, upon their next use of their Co-pay Benefit Card.
The Co-pay Benefit Card is not valid in Massachusetts or for prescriptions purchased under Medicaid, Medicare, or federal or state programs (including state prescription drug programs, or private indemnity or HMO insurance plans, which reimburse patients for the entire cost of the prescription drugs). First use must take place by December 31, 2010.
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by Lee Ann Dalton
The time: ungodly early. The place: 500 metres past the last chance to hit a portapotty, poised on the Jacques Cartier Bridge in Montréal, Québec. The scene: I'm jumping up and down, wringing my hands and trying to release a cramped calf muscle that has plagued me for the past two weeks. Everyone around me does variations on a theme of the same nervous dance, waiting for the countdown to start.
As I turn to look at the huge digital clock that counts down the seconds until the starting gun goes off, I see a woman who looks oddly familiar, wearing a neckwarmer that is clearly handknit. But before I can ask her, "Didja make that?," the raucous countdown to the start begins, and we're off on our 42 kilometre-plus journey to the finish line of the Montréal Marathon.
The chances are excellent that my fellow runner did knit that neckwarmer. In nearly every race I've entered since I started running three years ago, I've either run with or spotted a fellow knitter. To paraphrase a saying we all grew to hate regarding our beloved craft, running is the new knitting.
Common Ground
At first glance, the two pastimes have seemingly little in common: one requires long hours spent sitting and creating; the other requires constant movement, but nets no tangible creation, and is all about resisting the urge to sit on the curb and cry. (Okay, maybe that was just me in the marathon.) But look closer and you'll see that both running and knitting fall into the back-to-basics mentality that is gaining a foothold in our increasingly techno-driven world.
Think about it. Knitting is a relaxing hobby, and a way to put your personal stamp on your own creation. If you want knitwear that fits, in colors that make you happy, pick up the needles and knit it yourself. There is a satisfaction and pride that comes with the act of creating with sticks and string. Knitting is a pastime that is remarkable in its simplicity, but you can go as crazy as you want with the complexity of the finished item itself. Some of us are sock knitters, some of us head straight for the lace shawls—the spinners among us go sheep-to-sweater without blinking an eye.
Running stems from a similar do-it-yourself impulse: If you want to be fit, forget all the machines at the gym, lace up a pair of running shoes and just head out the door. Like knitting, running is simple at the core, requiring no more than a decent pair of sneakers and the ability to put one foot in front of the other. There is an equally compelling satisfaction, elated relaxation, and pride that comes from finishing a run, whether it be a short little jaunt around the block, a brisk tempo run, or a killer long run that you never thought you could accomplish, but just did. As with knitting, it's all about the finishing. Simple scarf, complex cabled cardigan—there's an equal sense of accomplishment in finishing either one.
Both pastimes, simple though they can be, come with the requisite "gear." Knitters have their stash of yarn, and runners have their ten-plus pairs of running shoes they just can't bear to get rid of. Cute tech gear is as addictive as that pretty skein of hand-dyed sock yarn, and running groups are just as tightly wound as knitting circles. If there's a technique to be questioned or obstacle to overcome (be it turning heels or healing shin splints) you can bet there's a discussion group or forum devoted to the topic, eagerly followed and commented upon by devotees who swear theirs is the best method to accomplish the goal.
Why do knitters run? For Jenn Jarvis, a knitwear designer from Brooklyn, New York (who created Stellar for this issue) the payoff is in the results that come with hours of effort. Knitting provides creative satisfaction; running delivers the healthier-feeling body Jarvis was seeking, but not finding, in other activities. As with the finishing of a sweater, the end of a run provided that wonderful feeling of having done all she could do to get where she wanted to be. "I love it," she says. " Run all the steps. It's exciting." Danielle Lightburn Dugan, a knitter and triathlete from Andover, Massachusetts, finds contentment in both the laps she runs and the rows she knits. "Knitting feeds my soul—the colour, the texture, the acts of making and giving, " she explains. "Running feeds my soul, too, but in different ways. It makes me feel strong and capable—both are good for quieting my mind."
Mel Vassey and the author running the Seacoast Half-Marathon.
Photo courtesy Mendy Howell, Red Maple Sportswear.
New to running, but not-so-new to knitting, Dr. Mel Vassey of Kittery Point, Maine, who blogs about yarn and other wooly things at cabezalana.blogspot.com, tackled his first two half-marathons this year (one of them with me in Portsmouth, New Hampshire). He approached his entry into running the same way he tackles his knitting: research, research, and more research. "I find that I'm drawn to the technical aspects of both running and knitting," he explains. "With running, I like to learn more about the biomechanical aspects and what I can do to make myself better. With knitting, I like to study why stitches look the way they do and think about how that affects the fabric and the garment so that I can turn out a nicer product." Both knitting and running have also brought Vassey their share of overuse injuries (tendons complain no matter what you've done to torture them), but he has learned to use the proper gear for each activity to avoid the muscular stresses and strains they both can cause.
British marathoner Susie Hewer takes the running /knitting connection quite literally. In order to raise awareness and money for the Alzheimer's Research Trust (she nursed her mother through the final stages of the disease), she ran the 2007 London Marathon, knitting her way through the entire race. (A feat that set the Guinness World Record for the longest scarf knitted while running a marathon.) It's not a combination she encourages other to try. "It's a very silly thing to do," she says of running with needles. "There are many times when my arms hurt so much I want to sit at the side of the road and sob—I only put myself through it so that people ask me why I do it, and then I can tell them about the horrors of dementia and how research into the disease is underfunded." It's not surprising that Hewer, who blogs her running and knitting adventures at www.extremeknittingredhead.blogspot.com, seeks out challenges in her knitting as well. For example, for the past few years, she has been learning Fair Isle knitting, a technique her mother often used but she had never tried. What gets her to the finish line? "Sheer grit and determination," she says.
While finishing a knitted item, or a run, to the absolute best of one's ability, is certainly the end goal for knitters and runners, often times it's what you learn along the way that matters the most. Runners and knitters come in all shapes and sizes, and all skill levels, but we're all in it for the joy and the knowledge, internal or otherwise, both activities bring. Vassey puts it best, saying, "At the end of the day, I'm as much a 'process' runner as I am a 'process' knitter. I know that there will be good days and bad days with either, so I focus more on the meditative aspects—one foot in front of the other, one stitch after another—which is, in my opinion, a good way to approach life, in general."
As the finish line at the Montréal Marathon finally looms in the distance, the weight of my journey, incredibly, starts to lift. The moments of feeling like I've broken my body into little pieces, just like those awful moments of tearing out whole sweaters' worth of what I thought was progress, disappear. All the steps, all the stitches, come together in that one leap across the finish line.
"Didja make that?" Yes, ma'am, I most certainly did.
At the finish line of the Seacoast Half-Marathon.
Photo courtesy Mendy Howell, Red Maple Sportswear.


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Hack 5th Anniversary Remembrance
Picking Up The Torch
By Eilhys England Hackworth
My valiant, wonderful husband, Colonel David (Hack) Hackworth, one of America's greatest heroes and most valor-decorated soldiers, died in my arms two years ago this May. During the last weeks we shared, he thought not a wit about himself; and his love for me burned so brightly I still feel surrounded by that awesome warmth. But he worried too about the frontline troops he spent his life protecting and particularly about Soldiers For The Truth, the foundation we started together. So I promised Hack I'd pick up the torch and keep Soldiers For The Truth viable – and continue our commitment to get the kids out at the tip of the spear the best leadership, training and equipment.
URGENT Hacks Wife / Partner Eilhys Needs Help With Hack Stories
Hack was working on a book about "Leadership" when he died. To honor his request to finish the book, his widow Eilhys wants to hear from those of you able to share anecdotes about Leadership involving your personal experience with Hackhow his leadership affected you and/or the situation. And how life-lessons you learned from Hack affected and/or changed your life. Eilhys would also welcome any anecdotes about Hack for their archives.
Hacks Leadership - A Model for Others
By Carlos Rivera
This profile of the late Col. David Hackworth appears in the book, Leadership: Past, Present & Future, written by Carlos M. Rivera that was published by Power Publications, Inc. in March 2005, less than two months before Hack's death. Rivera writes that his book "talks about the four values that a true leader has: courage, perseverance, communication skills and teamwork." Other leaders profiled in the book include George Washington, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President John F. Kennedy and the late Pope John Paul II.
Final Honors for Hack at Arlington
Hack's Foundation: Soldiers For The Truth
The U.S. Army on Tuesday, May 31, 2005, honored the late Col. David H. Hackworth USA (Ret.) during a funeral ceremony with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. These are selected photos from the event, with new photographs added.
Hack's Arlington National Cemetery Coordinates
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Soldiers and Friends Remember Hack
Hack's Foundation: Soldiers For The Truth
Im responding here, cause Col. David H. Hackworth's passing caught me by surprise. He had made a big impact on me. I was one of the few soldiers left from the 4/39 Infantry Battalion when Hack came on board in 1969. It was in the dry season in Vietnam, and Charlie likes to get ready for his spring offensive by avoiding contact.
A Real American Hero
Neil Cavuto
Eight Purple Hearts. Ten Silver Stars. Twice awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. And now a virtual shoe-in for the Medal of Honor. You name the honor, Colonel David Hackworth got it. And Monday, his buddies, his soldiers and his admirers gathered in an Arlington Cemetery chapel to pay homage and remember this most decorated of American soldiers. Full Story with Video
A Final Farewell
By Ed Offley
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY It is my privilege to inform you that Hack is back on permanent duty. Col. David Haskell Hackworth USA (Ret.) has joined several hundred thousand of his fellow soldiers guarding the hallowed ground of Arlington after a Memorial Service at nearby Fort Myer this morning. More than 600 former comrades, fellow soldiers and friends gathered in the soaring Fort Myer Memorial Chapel to shed tears of sorrow over his passing, to hear some of his favorite songs and psalms, and to laugh and betimes listen in awed silence as fellow veterans and journalism colleagues recounted his bravery, his audacity, his integrity and his perennial smile. Full Story
David. H. Hackworth, 1930-2005
Washington, D.C., May 5, 2005 Col. David H. Hackworth, the United States Army's legendary, highly decorated guerrilla fighter and lifelong champion of the doughboy and dogface, ground-pounder and grunt, died Wednesday in Mexico. He was 74 years old. The cause of death was a form of cancer now appearing with increasing frequency among Vietnam veterans exposed to the defoliants called Agents Orange and Blue.
Col. Hackworth spent more than half a century on the countrys hottest battlefields, first as a soldier, then as a writer, war correspondent and sharp-eyed critic of the Military-Industrial Complex and ticket-punching generals he dismissed as Perfumed Princes.
He preferred the combat style of World War II and Korean War heroes like James Gavin and Matthew Ridgeway and, during Vietnam, of Hank The Gunfighter Emerson and Hal Moore. General Moore, the co-author of We Were Soldiers Once and Young, called him the Patton of Vietnam, and Gen. Creighton Abrams, the last American commander in that disastrous war, described him as the best battalion commander I ever saw in the United States Army.
Col. Hackworths battlefield exploits put him on the line of American military heroes squarely next to Sgt. Alvin York and Audie Murphy. The novelist Ward Just, who knew him for forty years, described him as the genuine article, a soldiers soldier, a connoisseur of combat. At 14, as World War II was sputtering out, he lied about his age to join the Merchant Marine, and at 15 he enlisted in the U.S. Army. Over the next 26 years he spent fully seven in combat. He was put in for the Medal of Honor three times; the last application is currently under review at the Pentagon. He was twice awarded the Armys second highest honor for valor, the Distinguished Service Cross, along with 10 Silver Stars and eight Bronze Stars. When asked about his many awards, he always said he was proudest of his eight Purple Hearts and his Combat Infantrymans Badge.
A reputation won on the battlefield made it impossible to dismiss him when he went on the attack later as a critic of careerism and incompetence in the military high command. In 1971, he appeared in the field on ABCs Issue and Answers to say Vietnam is a bad war ... it cant be won. We need to get out. He also predicted that Saigon would fall to the North Vietnamese within four years, a prediction that turned out to be far more accurate than anything the Joint Chiefs of Staff were telling President Nixon or that the President was telling the American people.
With almost five years in-country, Col. Hackworth was the only senior officer to sound off about the Vietnam War. After the interview, he retired from the Army and moved to Australia.
He was perhaps the finest soldier of his generation, observed the novelist and war correspondent Nicholas Proffit, who described Col. Hackworths combat autobiography, About Face, a national best-seller, as a passionate cry from the heart of a man who never stopped loving the Army, even when it stopped loving him back.
Having risen from private by way of a battlefield commission in Korea, where he became the Armys youngest captain, to Vietnam, where he served as its youngest bird colonel, he never stood on rank.
From the beginning his life was a soldiers story. He was born on Armistice Day, now Veterans Day, in 1930. His parents both died before he was a year old and the Army ultimately stood in for the family he never had. His grandmother, who rescued him from an orphanage, raised him on tales of the American Revolution and the Old West and the ethos of the Great Depression. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he got his first military training shining shoes at a base in Santa Monica, where the soldiers, adopting him as mascot, had a tailor cut him a pint-sized uniform. At age 10 I knew my destiny, he said. Nothing would be better than to be a soldier.
He always credited his success in battle to the training he received from the tough school of non-coms who won World War II, hard-bitten, hard-drinking, hard-fighting sergeants who drilled into him the basics of an infantrymans life: sweat in training cut down on blood shed in battle; there was nothing wrong with being out all night so long as you were present for roll call at 5 a.m., on your feet and in shape to run five miles before breakfast in combat boots.
In Korea, where he won his first Silver Star and Purple Heart before he was old enough to vote, he started his combat career in what he later called a kill a commie for mommie frame of mind. He was among the first volunteers for Korea and later for Vietnam, where he perfected his skill. He understood the atmosphere of violence, Ward Just observed. That meant he knew how to keep his head, to think in dangers midst. In battle the worst thing is paralysis. He mastered his own fear and learned how to kill. He led by example, and his men followed.
Just met him in the ruins of a base camp in the Central Highlands in 1966, where he was a major commanding a battalion of the 101st Airborne. He was compact, with forearms the size of hams. His uniform was filthy and his use of obscenity was truly inventive. What struck the journalist most forcefully was his enthusiasm, his magnetism, his exuberance, his invincible cheerfulness.
To young officers in Vietnam and long afterwards, he presented an unforgettable profile in courage. "Everyone called him Hack, recalled Dennis Foley, a military historian and novelist who first saw him in action with the 1st Battalion of the 327th Infantry in 1965. He was referred to by his radio call sign of Steel Six. He was tough, demanding and boyish all at the same time, stocky with a slightly leathered complexion. His light hair and deep tan made it hard for us to tell how old he was. He wore jungle fatigue trousers, shower shoes, a green T-shirt and a Rolex watch. In the corner of his mouth was a large and foul smelling cigar. As we entered the tent, he was bent over a field table looking at a map overlay and drinking a bottle of San Miguel beer.
With Gen. S.L.A. Slam Marshall, he surveyed the wars early mayhem and compiled the Armys experience into The Vietnam Primer, a bible on a style of unconventional counter-guerrilla tactics he called out gee-ing the G. His finest moment came when he applied these tactics, taking the hopeless 4/39 Infantry Battalion in the Mekong Delta, turning it into the legendary Hardcore Battalion. The men of the demoralized outfit saw him at first as a crazy lifer out to get them killed. For a time they even put a price on his head and waited for the first grunt to frag him.
Within 10 weeks, the fiery young combat leader had so transformed the 4/39 that it was routing main force enemy units. He led from the front, at one point getting out on the strut of a helicopter, landing on top of an enemy position and hauling to safety the point elements of a company pinned down and facing certain death. Thirty years later, the grateful enlisted men and young officers of the 4/39, now grown old, are still urging the Pentagon to award him the Medal of Honor for this action. So far, the Army has refused.
On leaving the Army, Col. Hackworth retired to a farm on the Australian Gold Coast near Brisbane. He became a business entrepreneur, making a small fortune in real estate, then expanding a highly popular restaurant called Scaramouche. As a leading spokesman for Australias anti-nuclear movement he was presented the United Nations Medal for Peace.
As About Face was becoming a best seller, he returned to the United States to marry Eilhys England, his one great love, who became his business and writing partner. He became a powerful voice for military reform. From 1990 to 1996, as Newsweek magazines Contributing editor for defense, he covered the first Gulf War as well as peacekeeping battles in Somalia, the Balkans, Korea and Haiti. He captured this experience in Hazardous Duty, a volume of war dispatches. Among his many awards as a journalist was the George Washington Honor Medal for excellence in communications. He also wrote a novel, Price of Honor, about the snares of Vietnam, Somalia and the Military-Industrial Complex. His last book, Steel My Soldiers Hearts, was a tribute to the men of the Hardcore Battalion.
He was a regular guest on national radio and TV shows and a regular contributor to magazines including People, Parade, Mens Journal, Self, Playboy, Maxim and Modern Maturity. His column, Defending America, has appeared weekly in newspapers across the country and on the website of Soldiers For The Truth, a rallying point for military reform. He and Ms. England have been the driving force behind the organization, which defends the interests of ordinary soldiers while upholding Hacks conviction that nuke-the-pukes solutions no longer work in an age of terror that demands a streamlined, hard-hitting force for the twenty-first century.
Hack never lost his focus, said Roger Charles, president of Soldiers for the Truth. That focus was on the young kids that our country sends to bleed and die on our behalf. Everything he did in his retirement was to try to give them a better chance to win and to come home. Thats one hell of a legacy.
Over the final years of Col. Hackworths life, his wife Eilhys fought beside him during his gallant battle against bladder cancer, which now appears with sinister regularity among Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Blue. At one point he considered dropping their syndicated column, only to make an abrupt about face, saying, Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive. The last words he said to his doctor were, If I die, tell Eilhys I was grateful for every moment she bought me, every extra moment I got to spend with her. Tell her my greatest achievement is the love the two of us shared.
Col. Hackworth is survived by Ms. England, one step-daughter and two step-grandchildren, and four children and four grandchildren from two earlier marriages. At a date to be announced, he will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.
Soldiers For The Truth is now working on legal action to compel the Pentagon to recognize Agent Blue alongside the better known Agent Orange as a killer and to help veterans exposed to it during the Vietnam War. Memorial contributions can be sent to Soldiers For The Truth by mail to, P.O. Box 54365, Irvine, California, 92619-4365.
David Hackworth:
By Randolph T. Holhut
DUMMERSTON, Vt. - There are two groups of people who "support the troops" in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There are the people who stick the now-ubitquitous ribbon magnets on their SUVs and talk about backing our soldiers while staying a safe distance away from the fight.
And then there are the people who work to make sure that our soldiers are well-trained, well-equipped and well-led - people unafraid to tell the truth, no matter who gets upset about it.
We lost a great man in the latter group with the death of Col. David Hackworth, a champion of the common soldier who died of cancer at age 74 on May 4.
Hackworth was a man who could be mentioned in the same breath as Alvin York and Audie Murphy, except that Hackworth's battlefield exploits took place in dozens of battles in two wars. He was put in for the Medal of Honor three times. In seven years of combat in Korea and Vietnam, he won the Army's second highest honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, twice, along with 10 Silver Stars, eight Bronze Stars and eight Purple Hearts.
In short, he was a warrior of the first order. When he spoke out on shoddy training and equipment in his weekly "Defending America" columns, he had credibility gained from successfully leading units into combat.
When he attacked the "ticket punching" mentality of officers who put career advancement ahead of soldiering, he spoke from the hard personal experience of watching the Army's leadership disintegrate into careerism. In Hackworth's world, there were two types of people - "studs" and "perfumed princes." A stud was someone who knew his job and did it well, someone who was fearless, resourceful and utterly reliable when things got tough. Perfumed princes was Hackworth's epithet for officers who had their eyes on becoming generals and rarely got their hands dirty doing actual soldiering.
When he questioned the strategy of the Bush administration's operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the criticism was coming from a man who literally wrote the books ("The Vietnam Primer" and "Steel My Soldiers Hearts") on guerrilla warfare. In a time when billions of dollars are being shoveled into buying weapons that are unneeded and unworkable on a battlefield, Hackworth knew - again, from years in combat experience - that every battle from Lexington and Concord to the Sunni Triangle is won or lost by the man with the rifle - the infantryman.
That was why, of all the awards bestowed upon Hackworth, he was proudest of his Combat Infantryman Badge. There's only one way to get one: serve in a front-line infantry unit for 90 days under fire and survive.
Hackworth knew the key to surviving in combat was good training. He learned the trade from the World War II sergeants who fought across Europe and stayed in the Army after the war was won. These were the toughest of the tough and they passed on what they had learned to the next generation of soldiers.
Their credo was simple - the harder you trained for combat, the less likely you were to die when the bullets were real. Good, hard training, combined with total discipline and accountability, produced skilled, fearless soldiers.
In the words of Steve Prazenka, the platoon sergeant who trained Hackworth: "If you learn it right, you'll do it right the rest of your life. If you learn it wrong, you'll do it wrong and spend the rest of your life trying to learn to do it right."
Hackworth readily embraced this, and carried it with him for the rest of his career. No unit Hackworth commanded was ever lacking in training and discipline and he did whatever it took to get his troops ready to fight.
Good training is the foundation of good leadership. The rest can be found in the principles of another man who deeply influenced Hackworth, Col. Glover Johns. Hackworth loved to quote Johns' basic philosophy of soldiering:
These are the traits of good leaders in any field. Sadly, the people who live up to them are few and far between. But when you find a person who has these qualities, you will follow them gladly and with pride.
Few things got Hackworth madder than seeing grunts get the short end of the stick. That is why he devoted his energies in the last two decades of his life to making sure soldiers got what they needed and the phonies who sent them off on dubious missions were called out and held accountable.
Hackworth will be buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery on May 31. His legacy is the group "Soldiers For The Truth," , a group devoted to military reform that has become the main conduit for the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to tell people back home the real story of what's happening at the front. His 1989 autobiography, "About Face," will be read for years to come by all who are seeking the nuts and bolts of leadership. And most of all, his example of speaking out in favor of common sense when it comes to defending the nation will be remembered by all who know the difference between saying you support the troops and actually doing so.
Randolph T. Holhut has been a journalist in New England for more than 20 years. He edited "The George Seldes Reader" (Barricade Books). He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
On the Passing of Hack, Eilhys wanted to share this tribute written by one of Hack's dear friends...
An American Hero's Soul Left Its No Longer Useful Body Today
By Kevin Gor
I say this because as Chief Bronson (a friend and fellow warrior) pointed out to me, Col. Hackworth just isn't someone you ever think could die and of course he hasn't. His exploits, deeds, good works and lessons learned will be with us always. He will live in our hearts and minds. His spirit will live in everyone who believes in this country and the men and women who are willing to risk all to defend it and each other. It is said, "Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission." From the time he was 14 years old, David Hackworth knew what his mission was, to protect this country and those who put themselves in harm's way to defend it. For over 60 years he never wavered from his mission. When thinking of Col. Hackworth, it is quite natural for thoughts and comparisons with other great military leaders and warriors to come to mind. As I think of him now, it is a description of Crazy Horse by Black Elk that I think of the most, "He was brave and good and wise. He never wanted anything but to save his people and he fought only when they came to kill us and our country. They could not kill him in battle."
I was fortunate enough to know Hack as both a warrior and a person. His garlic shrimp was something I'm going to miss. When we weren't talking about the business of the country, we talked about his favorite topic, his wife Eilhys, or just E to all of us. She's kind of a cross between a Den Mother, Drill Sergeant, CEO, Inspiration, Spiritual Advisor, Object of Desire and Super Care Giver all wrapped into one. People use words like, "soul-mate", "best friend", "love of my life" all the time, but for the two of them, they weren't words but truths and he loved to talk about her. The story about the guerilla operation he conducted to win her over is a true battlefield classic for covert operations. He heavily depended on her for everything and enjoyed poking fun at himself for being so dependent. I remember a couple of years ago when she was in a car accident and injured her back. He called and told me (as he watched her painfully limp into the house, barely able to walk) all he could think to himself was, "Who's going to take care of me?" But he also depended on her because he could and she never let him down. Between the two of them, they were going to "out G the C!" They were going to out guerilla the cancer and find a way to beat it and damn if E didn't find a way!
Unfortunately, Hack's body, after all it had been through, just couldn't keep up and shut down. As has always been the case, E was with him at the time and he left in peace knowing she was there. Going forward, things will be more difficult than I can imagine for E and hard on all of those whose lives he touched. For them, I close with an old warrior's wish hoping it provides some comfort and guidance because I know it is what Hack would want: "When I am dead, cry for me a little. Think of me sometimes, but not too much. It is not good for you to dwell too long. Think of me now and again as I was in life, at some moment which is pleasant to recall, but not for long. Leave me in peace as I shall leave you, too, in peace."
Man Who Truly Supported Our Troops'
The Independent
Soldiers For The Truth
New York Times
The Seattle Times
Army Times
Daily Inter Lake
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