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It's been quite sometime since I've mentioned anything about the United States Volunteers.
You know… the Confederate POWs who were offered a chance to get out of POW camp and serve in the U.S. Army.
Anyway, recently, I was perusing the records of the USV* and noticed that, in their records of enlistment, the fellows from East Tennessee were making a point of indicating their place of birth… the STATE of EAST TENNESSEE. When I saw this, I wondered… were these guys really putting emphasis on this fact, or were those enrolling them putting the emphasis on it… or, was it something else?
Now, having pointed this out, it's also interesting to see that this was NOT the rule of thumb with ALL those from East Tennessee…
For those who may not be familiar with it, after Lincoln's call for troops, the western and middle portions of Tennessee may have showed support for secession, but East Tennessee (with a more solid Whig background) held a bit more firmly (70% opposing secession). In fact, after a series of meetings, by June, 1861, East Tennessee drafted a memorial, asking that Tennessee allow the pro-Union East Tennessee counties to form their own state, and remain in the Union. It should really come as no surprise… Tennessee rejected this. (For more on the "secession" of East Tennessee, see here).
So, this raises a question… how did these fellows, clearly defining themselves as "East Tennesseeans", find themselves fighting for the Confederacy in the first place?
William E. Bowman was formerly in Co. D, 60th Tennessee (Mounted) Infantry (Crawford's 79th Tennessee Infantry), at Boons Creek, Tennessee. He was captured in May, 1863, at Big Black (the battle of Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi). There is no reference to conscription (which does not necessarily mean he was/was not a conscript, but it is always worth keeping in mind, as well as the fact that what we see in the service records is not always an actual reflection of how one enlisted).
Andrew F. Carr was formerly in Pitts' Regiment (61st) Tennessee Infantry, having enlisted at Henderson's Depot/Mossy Creek, in November, 1862. He was captured at… as above, the battle of Big Black. Again, no note if a conscript or not.
Gaston P. Laws (aka, George P. Laws) was formerly in Co. A, 60th Tennessee (I'm seeing a trend here…), having enlisted in November, 1862, at Jonesboro, Washington Co., Tennessee. As for capture and conscription… no change from the first two. In addition to being shuffled into the rolls of the USC, Laws was later on the rolls of the 1st Virginia Eastern (Loyal) Regiment.
Sydney/Sidney Tallant was also formerly of Co. A, 60th Tennessee; was captured at Big Black; and, yes, that's correct… no mention of being conscripted. What's really interesting is that, in his service record, he is shown as having enlisted in November, 1862, at Haynesville, EAST TENNESSEE. On top of that, he was listed as having enlisted as a substitute.
Oh, before I wrap this up… as for Yunas and White… well, I did a cursory search for Yunas, with no luck. it's likely that his last name may have been mangled a bit. White, on the other hand, appears in Co. C, 3rd (Lillard's) Tennessee Mounted Infantry. He enlisted in February, 1863, in Benton, Tennessee… and was ALSO captured at Big Black.
SO, if "East Tennessee" was being recognized in the enlistment records of men, as they enrolled in Confederate units, then the use of "East Tennessee" in enlistments of Tennesseans with the USV was not (I suggest) necessarily a matter of those men making a statement. More than likely, it was little more than the matter of (and despite Tennessee's rejection of the proposal made by counties in east Tennessee), a larger number of people (in that area) recognizing the counties of east Tennessee as having successfully demonstrated ample evidence of secession, in their own right.
As to whether those who enrolled as USV soldiers were Southern Unionists… that's another topic for another day, but the short answer is… it's to be considered only from a soldier-to-soldier (one person at a time) basis, and… it's not that simple to come up with a definitive answer.
*As opposed to looking directly into the records of a particular regiment of the USV, I found these records in the miscellaneous papers of the U.S.V.


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From this acreage and upward -- An afternoon with poet Verandah Porche
Verandah serves us each a bowl of home-canned peaches from a thick glass jar. She gives me the softened disc of ginger that flavored the syrup. We spoon Greek yogurt over the fruit, and she settles next to the wood stove, her winterberry red pants soft and bright against the fabric of the couch.
"The title poem of my book is about canning peaches," she says. "'Sudden Eden.'" Her voice is droll and musical, with old New Jersey vowels sliding up against 44 Vermont years.
She looks over the top of her reading glasses, then pulls them off. A small laptop computer glows faintly beside her. A pale-blue-green journal, made by a friend, sits on the coffee table, next to a loose crossword of Scrabble tiles, arranged during a game that Verandah and her daughter, Emily, made up. "Quoth" connects to "gout," which leads to "puny" and "panda" and later on to "home."
A painting of two black birds hangs on the wall above Verandah's head. One seems to be singing, the other listening to the first bird's song.
"I was at a writer's conference for young people in Saranac Lake and the kids wanted to write a poem about fruit," she says. "So I said, let's choose one fruit and we can all improvise."
The group chose peaches, and Verandah found herself writing about her first years in Vermont in the late 1960s. She and group of politically active, passionate and idealistic friends, fleeing the disastrous mainstream culture they saw around them, moved en masse to a hillside farm in Guilford and set up a commune of sorts that they eventually called Total Loss Farm.
"We bought the place because it had a peach orchard. It was as if we had come to our own Eden," she says.
Verandah grins. "My joke was that I'd never been outdoors before. And here I was canning peaches. With the first draft I wrote came such a flood of --" she pauses, mentally auditioning the words, "mythic clarity about what that time meant."
She laughs a little. Sometimes Verandah talks in prose poems, as phrases tap and shimmy until a whole story flares out like the hem of a swishy swing dance skirt. Then she changes speed, sees a joke, finds a pattern in a word's sound or spots a weakness in an analogy's link. Her mind never stops looking for the heart of music. She can't help but make poems.
This was true when she was a little girl singing songs in the bathtub, and true when she was a grade school student writing reports in verse doggerel (Lillian Wald was particularly feted).
But poetry, with its demands for honesty, emotional risk and imagination, didn't square with Verandah's parents, especially her mother.
"I grew up in a secular Jewish family," she says. "My grandparents, who came over from Russian Poland, and my parents all experienced real danger and difficulty, real loss and pain. They were idealistic people, but they valued the inconspicuous. Self-expression was dangerous to them. I mean, my parents lived through McCarthyism. Keeping us safe and comfortable was so important."
Verandah both resisted and retreated from her parents' careful lives. Her mother called her heedless. She fell into books and stories, imagining new names for herself based on the heroines she read about.
As she became an adult, she decided she needed a new name altogether. "In 1965, I began to publish my poems and I didn't want my parents to read them. I needed a new personality," she says. "Reading Doris Lessing's 'African Stories,' I took to Verandah as a name, and I was sitting on the porch. And the 'porch' needed an 'e' to go with Verandah's 'h.'"
Ten years later, when Verandah published her first book, "The Body Symmetry," in 1975 with Harper and Row, a major publisher, she did show the poems to her mother.
"She asked, "Why would you publish such a disgusting advertisement for yourself?'" Verandah gives a small shrug. "I knew she would say that. It sat in a drawer for a few years, then she would take it out every once in a while to show it to friends."
The book had come into being on a surge of mainstream interest in the back-to-the-land movement. Then, as now, though, publishers had little enthusiasm or money to promote a volume of poetry. Verandah was given a gas allowance and told she could organize a book tour on her own.
She did -- with her first child, then a toddler, in tow. Brave and desperate, running on nerve and friendships, forsaking a safe life, Verandah traveled the country to read her poems at colleges and underground newspapers.
At the University of Iowa, she read her work to a group of silently skeptical graduate students. "I'm sure they thought my ardor and ingenuousness were some form of satire," she remembers.
The teacher, also a poet, asked Verandah to come to her office after the class.
"She said, "You can tell, me, you didn't write these poems.'" The teacher assumed Verandah was a beard for two well-known male poets who disregarded female poets and said they would mockingly write a book of poems under a woman's name.
Verandah recoiled from this bizarre, demeaning literary culture. She could not follow the typical career path of a poet, submitting her work to magazines and contests and networking with the right people and enrolling in MFA programs to get recognition, prizes, book deals and blurbs. Though her rejection of this path meant her work would likely lack a large audience, it was not how she could be herself in the world.
So Verandah returned to the place she felt most real. She went home to Guilford and the peach orchard on the hill.
"The picture of me on the cover of this new book is from that time. Someone asked me what that young woman is saying."
She looks at it a moment. "There is a quandary in the brow. It was by the back barn, where we had a few cows along with the other animals in the menagerie. She's on her stoop, with much to ponder. But also, she's rooted. Whatever else is going to happen, she's going to draw from this acreage and upward. She is at the source."
Now with two kids, Verandah once again applied nerve to need, this time to invent a livelihood to support her family. She became a poet-in-residence, a poet mentor, a guide to language and rhythm. She created Muse for Hire, writing poems commissioned for special occasions. Poetry, always her calling, became her career, and listening did, too. In schools, prisons, taverns, oncology wards, nursing homes, rural industrial towns and her own hometown, she befriended people, and she helped draw forth poems from their lives.
"It seemed so right for me and my generation to encourage expression, after my parents' generation did not." She considers the wood stove wryly. "The joke is that our kids will want us to take up silent meditation instead."
It was not a safe, predictable or gushingly remunerative career -- no easy Eden here -- but it was rich with meaning and connection. It was a steep and endless path of integrity.
Meanwhile, Verandah's own poems, insisting on existing despite the tremendous work of life, grew into thick piles. There were villanelles and anagrams, couplets and odes, such honed music. Finally, after years, she inched toward another book.
She speaks quietly now. "The poems were lonely. And I felt like, now it's my turn. And a friend took the piles and read through them every day on her vacation and gave them back marked with an 'x', an exclamation point or a check mark."
More friends helped and cheered, reading her work deeply, designing pages, serving as publisher, gathering advance reviews.
Now "Sudden Eden" exists, a galley proof on the coffee table pushing up against the Scrabble tiles so that new words form in the meeting. Masterful, humane and beautiful, the book includes poems about family, the land, "love and un-love," as she puts it, work, politics, crisis and connection.
Second to last is "Song of the Uninsured," and all of Verandah's wit and tenderness, her wisdom and heedlessness, her fear and grit and delight in words fuel the poem to its end: "Risk is the lien on all I own or owe. / Luck is my doctor: touch and go."
Verandah scoops the last slick peach from her now-empty bowl. She rises and fills another with water and lentils to soak for dinner. It's a life's work here. The birds sing on.
To purchase "Sudden Eden" or learn more about the book, contact Verandah at 802-254-2442.
Bartleby's Books in Wilmington will host a launch party for "Sudden Eden" on Sunday, Dec. 9, at 3 p.m. Verandah will give a short reading and songwriter Patty Carpenter will join her for a few songs the two wrote together. For more information, call 802-464-5425 or email email@example.com.
Becky Karush is a regular contributor to the Reformer. Learn more about her writing services at www.lifestorycompany.com. To suggest people for this column, write to her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Laconia – The Laconia Motorcycle Week Association kicked off the 90th Laconia Motorcycle Week® this morning at the Weirs Beach Lobster Pound alongside New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan and 75 state and local officials, business and community leaders. Event organizers welcomed the hundreds of thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts who will travel throughout the state in the coming days and emphasized New Hampshire's spectacular riding, their commitment to ensuring a safe experience for rally attendees and the public, the deep-rooted philanthropic nature of motorcycle riders, and the positive economic impact Laconia Motorcycle Week has on the state. Laconia Motorcycle Week is America's original motorcycle rally with events taking place from June 8 – June 16. More information can be found on the Laconia Motorcycle Week® website at www.laconiamcweek.com.
"Motorcycle enthusiasts come from every corner of the country and around the world to celebrate this rally with us for various reasons. Most significantly they come here to ride," said Jennifer Anderson, director of the Laconia Motorcycle Week Association. "New Hampshire's majestic terrain offers bikers spectacular riding options. In a matter of hours you can explore covered bridges and quaint towns in the Upper Valley, ride along New Hampshire's picturesque seacoast, take a 'Ride to the Sky' up Mt. Washington's famed Auto Road, explore the beautiful Lakes Region and after all that, let loose with your brethren in bustling Weirs Beach."
Beyond the spectacular riding, area business leaders focused on the numerous philanthropic initiatives taking place during the 90th Anniversary of Motorcycle Week. New this year are two campaigns created by Laconia Harley-Davidson that will raise significant funds for the Boys & Girls Clubs of New Hampshire.
Laconia Harley aims to raise $30,000 for the Boys and Girls Club of the Lakes Region through a donation and raffle of a one-of-a-kind, custom-painted 2013 Harley-Davidson Street Glide.
The 2013 Harley-Davidson® Street Glide® features customized artwork by legendary pinstripe artist and Candia, New Hampshire resident Russ Mowry. Mowry has been making his mark on the motorcycle world since 1958 and is renowned for the unique detailing he applies to motorcycles. He has hand-painted hundreds of motorcycles from Sturgis to Daytona and was recently given a lifetime achievement award by Willie G. Davidson, son of former Harley-Davidson president William H. Davidson and head of Harley-Davidson's Willie G. Davidson Product Development Center.
Only 3,000 tickets will be available and can be purchased for $10 a piece at www.laconiaharley.com, at the Boys & Girls Club of the Lakes Region, Laconia Harley-Davidson and White Mountain Harley-Davidson. In the past four years Laconia Harley has raised over $125,000 for New Hampshire nonprofits including the Loon Preservation Society, New Hampshire Food Bank and the Winnipesaukee Playhouse.
Laconia Harley-Davidson and New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) have also teamed up to make the 90th Anniversary of Laconia Motorcycle Week even more historic through an effort to raise over $76,000 for the Boys & Girls Clubs of New Hampshire and set a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® title. Laconia Motorcycle Week attendees and New Hampshire residents will play a key role in this endeavor by purchasing tickets for a Community Appreciation Parade at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on the final Saturday of Bike Week, June 15th. Participants will have the unique opportunity to ride around the New Hampshire Motor Speedway track, continue on a police escorted, scenic 32 mile non-stop ride around the Lakes Region, set a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title and most importantly, raise significant funds for the Boys & Girls Clubs of New Hampshire. Non-riders can also contribute to this effort by making a donation at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on June 15th. Reserve your space for this historic event at www.newhampshire.speedwaycharities.org.
"The 90th Anniversary of Laconia Motorcycle Week is an opportunity to celebrate the rich tradition of motorcycle riding but more importantly, it is the perfect venue to highlight the motorcycle community's deep-rooted philanthropic passion," said Anne Deli, owner of Laconia Harley-Davidson. "Motorcycle Week attendees from around the globe can own a piece of history by purchasing a raffle ticket for the customized 2013 Street-Glide®, make history by taking part in a once-in-a-lifetime riding opportunity in an official GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® attempt, and help support the future of thousands of Boys & Girls Club members throughout the state."
The Laconia Motorcycle Week 90th Anniversary Harley-Davidson was driven into the press conference and displayed alongside eight other Harley-Davidson motorcycles for each of Boys & Girls Clubs participating in the fundraising effort. Following the press conference Boys & Girls Club executive directors took photos on the motorcycles alongside Anne Deli, owner of Laconia Harley-Davidson, Cheryl LaPrade of the New Hampshire Chapter of the Speedway Children's Charities and New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan.
Few businesses have had as much of an impact on the entire community as the NASWA Resort who will host the 7th annual Peter Makris Memorial Ride on June 8th. Over the last 6 years, the ride has raised over $185,000 for the Laconia Fire Department Life Saving Fund and Water Rescue Teams as well as the Easter Seals NH "Veterans Count" program.
"The benefits of motorcycle week can be seen throughout the community," said Cynthia Makris, owner of the NASWA Resort and Laconia Motorcycle Week Association president. "From the iconic Weirs Beach sign, the flowers along the boulevard, the Endicott Rock Park monument, the Laconia Public Library, the Laconia fire and police departments, to the new main stage Theatre at the Winnipesaukee Playhouse. Everywhere you look you can see the generosity and support of Laconia Motorcycle Week patrons and the businesses they frequent while here."
New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan and representatives from U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen's office were also on hand to formally welcome riders on behalf of the State but also to underscore the positive economic impact of Motorcycle Week.
"Summer is our busiest travel season and a motorcycle is a great way to see New Hampshire," said Governor Hassan. "Laconia Motorcycle Week and motorcycle tourism in general are significant contributors to New Hampshire's economy, generating millions of dollars to the state yearly. From hotels and restaurants to local storefronts and convenience stores, the positive economic impact from this 90-year New Hampshire tradition is felt in communities and businesses throughout the entire state."
Throughout the years, Motorcycle Week has evolved from a weekend to a nine day nationally recognized event with activities expanding beyond downtown Laconia and the Lakes Region to the entire state. The enormity of the event requires coordination of multiple groups, particularly first responders.
"We care deeply about the well-being of rally attendees and the year-round residents who call the Lakes Region home," said Major Russell Conte of the New Hampshire State Police. "Several departments and the State Police will be working collaboratively so we can ensure a safe and enjoyable experience for everyone and preserve this wonderful event."
Laconia Motorcycle Week executive director Charlie St. Clair introduced some new additions for the 90th event, including a Laconia Motorcycle Week Mobile Guide application for smart phones that will allow riders to receive and share information about the rally. It also includes a complete events schedule as well as information regarding live music, races, bike shows, contests, rides, and special offers. Laconia Motorcycle Week Association has introduced a new passport program for 2013. The Laconia Passport is a collector's item that is filled with pages for riders to have stamped depending on their Bike Week activity. An exclusive souvenir package will be awarded to bikers who complete the Laconia Passport.
A full list of events and activities can be found at www.laconiamcweek.com.
About Laconia Motorcycle Week Association
Laconia Motorcycle Week Association was founded to help organize and promote Laconia Motorcycle Week. Laconia Motorcycle Week was the nation's first organized motorcycle rally and continues to attract visitors from all over the world. The Association helps to bring over 300,000 visitors to New Hampshire annually for a nine day rally. The Association is headquartered at 1105 Union Ave Laconia, NH. The Laconia Motorcycle Week Association is directed by Jennifer Anderson and Charlie St. Clair. For more information please visit: http://www.laconiamcweek.com/.
Laconia Motorcycle Week®Celebrates 90th Anniversary
Laconia – The Laconia Motorcycle Week Association kicked off the 90th Laconia Motorcycle Week® this morning at the Weirs Beach Lobster Pound alongside New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan and 75 state and local officials, business and community leaders. Event organizers welcomed the hundreds of thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts who will travel throughout the state in the coming days and emphasized New Hampshire's spectacular riding, their commitment to ensuring a safe experience for rally attendees and the public, the deep-rooted philanthropic nature of motorcycle riders, and the positive economic impact Laconia Motorcycle Week has on the state. Laconia Motorcycle Week is America's original motorcycle rally with events taking place from June 8 – June 16. More information can be found on the Laconia Motorcycle Week® website at www.laconiamcweek.com.


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No stats allowed in this thread, so if you want to talk about player A having trouble with left arm spinners who eat coco pops for breakfast, with appropriate graphs to support the most commonly consumed breakfast cereal,as compared to player B who scored 3% less runs over his career whenever he put his right pad on first,
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Wage growth key to retailer outlook
There may be finally some good news for Australia's beleaguered retail sector if Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe is right about a positive outlook for wages growth as a result of a strong labour market.
Dr Lowe told a conference on Wednesday a wage growth rate starting with a three rather than two is both "possible and desirable".
Wage growth is presently close to a two-decade low of 2.1 per cent.
David Rumbens, a partner at Deloitte Access Economics, also expects wage growth to edge higher through the year as the labour market tightens but also concedes there is "still a long road ahead".
"Stronger wages will be excellent news for retail spending, driving a broad-based pick-up in spending power across the workforce," Mr Rumbens says in his latest quarterly Retail Forecasts report released on Thursday.
"Strong population growth also presents good news for the sector but risks remain around slower wealth accumulation, high household debt and increased online disruption."
As such, he expects real or inflation-adjusted retail turnover growth to rise only modestly to 2.6 per cent in 2018/19 from 2.4 per cent in the previous financial year.
Mr Rumbens also welcomed the planned personal income tax cuts in the May federal budget, worth an estimated $13.4 billion over the coming four years, given the weak wage environment.
"For retailers, the sector is likely to be a major beneficiary of the improved household income position," he says.
Still, Australian retailers are under price discounting pressures from overseas competitors and online platforms.
This may be about to change as GST starts to be placed on foreign purchases under $1000 for the first time from July 1.
Global online giant Amazon has already announced it will restrict locals to a smaller range of goods from its recently launched Australian site but Mr Rumbens says other outlets are embracing the change, if reluctantly.
"This may cause some consumer angst in the short-term but overall the policy will support a more level playing field for the retail sector," he says.
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Halo 4: new wave of action figures announced, skin DLC codes inside
Halo 4 developer 343 Industries has announced a new wave of action figures, each including DLC codes for new multiplayer weapon and armour skins.
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McFarlane toys will release a 9″ figure of the Didact, Halo 4's villain, in September. GameInformer reports the oversized-foe comes with a bundled code to unlock exclusive content in the Xbox 360 exclusive, but there's no word on what kind of material it provides. However, if you need something to put the fear into your […]
Assassin's Creed figures inbound from McFarlane Toys
Assassin's Creed is to spawn a line of seven action figures thanks to a licensing deal with McFarlane Toys. Two figures have been announced so far – Haytham Kenway and Connor. Connor's figure will come in two forms – a traditional Assassin's garb and his Ratonhnhaké:ton outfit from the upcoming Tyranny of King George DLC. […]
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Andrew Podner has posted an introduction to a concept in PHP that may not be easy to immediately grasp for someone relatively new to the language - the idea of lambdas and closures.
Beginning with PHP 5.3, the anonymous function, became available to developers as a means of improving flexibility and increasing the number of tools at our fingertips to build powerful PHP applications. What I have been seeing a lot of as I read through documentation is more frequent use of terms like lambda, closure, or anonymous function, and sometime the terms are often used interchangeably, so let's take a deeper look into what all of these things are and what differences, if any, there are between them.
The post looks at lambdas first, defining them as "functions without names" that can be assigned to objects or called inline when needed. Next is closures, and it's noted that, in PHP, there's really not much difference. They both also allow for use of the "use" statement to import values into the function's local scope. He mentions the "$this" update that came in PHP 5.4 and includes some arguments against their use too.


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Check out the Winning Recipes From Our 'My Milk Toof' Book Giveaway
In our recent giveaway for My Milk Toof: The Adventures of ickle and Lardee 2 (which is on sale now) by Inhae Lee, we asked Serious Eats readers to come up with recipes they thought ickle and Lardee (the cute lil' teeth in the photo above) would love to eat for the chance to win a copy of the book, plus a bonus photo of the recipe made by Inhae. We had planned on only picking one winner, but the entries were so good that we chose two.
Congratulations to KariBeth and Tipsykit37 for their winning recipes! Check out the recipes and photos below.
ickle Pickles by KariBeth
Start with cucumbers sliced into a jar. (Oh, we have no cucumbers. But we have lots of zucchini! They look just the same. And cucumbers make Lardie burp anyway) Add some sugar. (Maybe a little more.) Add some salt. (Well, since it looks the same as sugar, just add more sugar) Add mustard seeds, (Do we have any? No? Let's add some mustard instead) Celery seeds, (If seeds are good, a whole celery stalk will be even better!) Peppercorns, (Is that peppers or corn? How about a little of each to be on the safe side.) And garlic (Keeps the vampires away!). Cover with vinegar. (Oh dear, vinegar wears away toofs! Milk is much better for strong, healthy toofs! Let's add a bit of milk instead. Maybe ickle can pour it into the jar.
Carefully, carefully...)
Oh my, the last ingredient seems to be one ickle, fallen into the jar (and looking a little bit "green")!
...and that is how you make "ickle Pickles."
Rainbow Sandwich by Tipsykit37
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Billy Crystal to Honor Robin Williams at the Emmysby Thomas Chau | PopCrush
The world mourned when it was announced on Aug. 11 that Robin Williams had died as a result of committing suicide. While tales of depression, health issues and addiction have surfaced in the days after his death, many who worked with Williams have told stories of warmth and generosity from the Academy Award-winning actor.
Some of Hollywood's best actors will gather Monday, Aug. 25, for this year's Emmy Awards, and The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Williams' friend and 'Fathers' Day' co-star Billy Crystal will introduce a segment remembering the 'Mork & Mindy' star.
Executive producer Don Mischer previously announced on Aug. 13 that they are working on a special tribute dedicated to Williams, saying, "While we are all still coming to terms with this week's tragic news, we are working to give Robin Williams the proper and meaningful remembrance he so well deserves."
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You're all thinking it - Cal Evans finally just put it into words with his list of "lists [he] never wants to see again" in the PHP world.
Lists are all the rave these days for bloggers. The reason is obvious, they require very little thought or research to create. So, in keeping with the current trend, here is my list of three lists never want to see again.
His list of three are posts that contain:
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Blog posts should be about real content, not just spitting back out something anyone could put together in ten minutes with a little copy and paste. As Cal puts it:
If you are using a new PHP class, CMS, framework, or have a new technique you want to share, share it. Write a blog post and tell me how or why it solved your problem; bonus points if you describe the problem that it solved. You are not adding to the conversation is you are just recapping what others have said.


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WASHINGTON � Private employers kept hiring at a solid pace in June, an encouraging sign that the U.S. economy is shrugging off government spending cutbacks and is poised for stronger growth in the second half of this year.
WASHINGTON � Private employers kept hiring at a solid pace in June, an encouraging sign that the U.S. economy is shrugging off government spending cutbacks and is poised for stronger growth in the second half of this year.
Employers in the United States added 195,000 net new jobs in June, and job growth for May and April was revised higher to numbers similar to last month�s gain, the Labor Department said Friday.
The nation�s unemployment rate held steady at 7.6 percent as more workers entered the labor force, an indication that people are feeling more confident about the job market.
The share of the working-age population that have jobs or are unemployed and looking for work had fallen sharply during the recession and recovery, but the so-called participation rate ticked up in June for the second straight month, to 63.5 percent.
The latest monthly payroll gains once again were led by restaurant and drinking businesses, which added a combined 52,000 jobs. The leisure and hospitality industry, as a whole, accounted for 75,000 of all the net job growth in June.
These businesses on average pay lower and offer fewer hours of work, and the strong growth last month may reflect some seasonal effects as well as the fact that some workers are finding little choice but to settle for part-time work.
In fact, the number of involuntary part-time workers who want more hours of work rose sharply in June, to 8.3 million.
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This almost 3000 km route showcases the various half-timbered styles to be found in around 100 romantic medieval towns from Stade to Meersburg on Lake Constance. Half-timbered buildings adorn the route like pearls and are found here in a density and quality that is without compare worldwide.
With their lofty half-timbered façades and small transom windows, half-timbered houses are a charming, living example of a wooden architectural style that is both environmentally friendly and pleasing to the eye. Germany's half-timbered architecture comes in a wealth of different styles, shapes and colours and on the German Half-Timbered Houses Route, all of these are set against an idyllic backdrop of countryside landscape and romantic towns. House are built all over the world but no other country on Earth has as many treasures of half-timbered architecture as Germany, which is home to around 2.5 million such buildings.
Half-timbering here is not the same as half-timbering there
Whilst Dutch half-timbered houses feature complex decorative features such as sun disks, decorated beams (Laubstäbe), figurines and inscriptions, Franconian and Alemannic half-timbered houses feature even more fanciful designs. With striking architectural configurations, bold designs, splendid ornamentation and brightly coloured paintwork, this is a journey through 1,000 years of history, with each region showcasing its own distinctive style of construction.
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There's more to this route than architectural treasures. Romantic Baroque ecclesiastical buildings and treasures of the Weser Renaissance such as the medieval Hexentürme, Germany's most northernly vineyard, the lovingly restored monuments, the home of Äppelwoi (regional cider) or the birthplace of bock beer are just as at home here.
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Festivals, markets and events offer visitors a wealth of variety and excitement all year round. Whether you do the trip by bike, car, camper van or train, here you will discover why the half-timbered buildings of Lower Saxony are so different from those on Lake Constance.
Length: approximately 3000 km
Theme: half-timbered buildings and medieval towns
Bad Urach: castle, Falkenstein Caves (Falkensteiner Höhle), waterfall
Celle: half-timbered buildings, castle, museums
Dornstetten: old quarter, the Bare Foot Park (Barfußpark), visitor mine,
Hanau: Brothers Grimm, museums, Goldsmith's House (Goldschmiedehaus)
Hann.-Münden: historical old quarter, Guelph Palace (Welfenschloss), nature park
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Ali Baba very bad: A week in 'post-conflict' Baghdad
You are listening to IQ4 Radio, live from Baghdad... music is your passport to freedom
Earlier at dinner in the Flowers Land Hotel, an old guy sang– "performed" is a better word– maqam, uttering from his ample gut an unbroken, ordered succession of moans, his breath more than his fingers faintly rattling the strings of his pot-bellied lute, called, I think, a ganoun. Mood-inducing maqam, the improvisational classical music peculiar to Baghdad, has had its problems surviving the inhibitions of Islam and the disinhibitions of pop. Even Saddam was concerned.
Now with the clubs closed and the city looking like the end of the world– or at least the opposite of the world I just came from– maqam's darker moods, and a cold beer, reconciled the mind with horrors, past and present.
Upstairs in the flat I share with my two companions from Charlottesville, I listen in the dark as a new station at 104 FM plays rap-influenced covers of Queen, and feel, rather than hear, the infrasonic rumble of tank movements on the road behind the hotel. The announcer reminds his listeners in lightly accented English that "music is your passport to freedom." (My American passport is my passport to freedom, and I hope I haven't lost it getting here.)
I listen through my noise-buster headphones. My companions' nerves are raw from jet lag, heat, and Round One of their bouts with the Baghdad belly. Me? Right now I'm just bored– but no more so than usual.
Coming here wasn't my idea. I am here as part of the law school's human rights committee– maybe I'm supposed to bring to the task the perspective of the down-and-dirty practitioner of law– this is not really my trip.
It's Rosa's trip, really, Rosa Brooks, an associate professor of law at UVA and a scholar who observes the law first-hand as it re-emerges in post-conflict nations such as Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, and now, Iraq.
It is her colleague Paul's trip, too. Paul Stephan, also a professor of law at Virginia, began taking these kinds of post-conflict trips as the Soviet empire was collapsing.
That's oversimplifying, they would complain, if I woke them up to ask. I would agree that calling this place post-conflict is an oversimplification. But no one cares what I agree with, and right now I'm looking at ways to get some sleep.
In Baghdad in August 2003, it's not easy to sleep at night, and too dangerous to do anything else, even if your hotel has its own generator kicking in as the power fails every couple of minutes.
It's easy enough to tick off the reasons the AC won't work. Saddam starved the south of electricity to punish them, which benefited Baghdad. Now the distribution is fair, and the Baghdadis are suffering. The power plants are out of date. The grid has been damaged by the theft of copper, or sabotage. When customs duties and taxation disappeared along with the government last April, Baghdadis went on a shopping binge for TVs, refrigerators and, of course, air conditioners– all of which are about half their price in the States. When they're plugged in, they impose an even greater load on the grid.
The first and last culprit to blame for the power shortage is the CPA, the Coalition Provisional Authority. This American agency, led by Paul Bremer, runs and is rebuilding the entire country. If something goes wrong, it's either because the CPA wants it that way or can't do anything about it. No one is ever sure which. At a physiological level, it doesn't really matter. Hot is hot.
How hot is it? Ask a private in an MP brigade wearing 40 pounds of body armor, pulling a two-hour shift at a 50-caliber machine gun up on the roof of the local police station, and he'll say it is 147 degrees F, but last week hit 155. He drinks six liters of water a day through his Camelback. Ask an officer inside the air conditioned CPA HQ in the People's Palace, at least a mile behind a security perimeter, and he might laugh and say maybe it was 140 tops.
Ali Baba
Sleep in Baghdad is getting to be a problem on the rare cool nights, too, because of "ali baba."
As nearby as Amman, tell someone you met Ali Baba on the road, and the response is one of polite puzzlement at your bringing up the Thousand and One Nights. Of the several hundred folk tales in that collection, "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," is the best known and least likely to have been part of the original. In that story Ali Baba isn't a thief at all. He's the adversary of the thieves– although it's his slave-girl, Marjana who single-handedly vanquishes the thieves.
So it's a tale from and not from the Thousand and One Nights, in which Ali Baba is and is not the hero. But he's never a thief– unless entering the thieves' cave with that "Open Sesame" and stealing some of their loot makes him a thief.
In Amman, a thief, if there is such a thing, is a thief, not an ali baba. Maybe it was that way not so long ago in Baghdad.
Since the looting began last April, in Baghdad at least, "ali baba" means thief. And ali baba is now breaking into heavily secured residences while its occupants are at home. There are no banks, so the sum of people's wealth is in their home if that's where they are.
At home, everyone has more than one Kalashnikov, as Baghdadis call the Russian assault rifle, elsewhere also known as the AK-47. They picked them up for about $50 each after the fall of Baghdad. Few know how to use them, except for increasingly infrequent moments of celebration. If the universal possession of Kalashnikovs can't stop home invasions, how much good is it to carry a little Tariq 7.65mm pistol, the Iraqi-made knockoff of a Beretta, on the street?
CPA Order No. 3 says it's okay to keep these weapons at home, but don't carry them on the street. Although the CPA could issue carry permits to private citizens, so far it hasn't. The choice is clear to most Baghdadis: Risk being detained or shot by Coalition forces if you pack heat, or get robbed of your life savings (or worse) if you don't. Or stay off the street after sunset.
Take your chances by day, unarmed, and hope for assistance from an armed bystander or a Coalition patrol. The armed bystander might be your better bet. To illustrate this, a driver in his 40s, with a family to support but some time to spare, showed me bullet wounds in his knees and ankles, now healing nicely. He told me how last May he was on the job at one in the afternoon, in an upscale neighborhood, when unmasked men with guns attacked him.
Shot in the knees and ankles and clubbed on the neck, he still managed to stagger out of the car and yell, "ali baba, ali baba." No one helped him, not even the Coalition forces who observed the attack. Not part of their job description, they told him. He lost his ride, his family's savings, and nearly his ability to walk.
He's got a replacement vehicle now with a couple of hundred thousand kilometers on it, rigged with a Mad Max style anti-theft device, which he must deactivate in a secret way every few minutes or all hell breaks loose; some kind of apparatus that allows him to use either gasoline or diesel; and a few other security measures best kept secret.
In August, just a couple of days ago, by contrast, two guys tried to carjack a taxi. The driver jumped out screaming the familiar "ali baba, ali baba." The new Iraqi police, the IPS, exchanged pistol shots with the carjackers– without much effect. The local merchants killed the thieves on the spot and continued about their business.
Opinions about this emerging vigilantism, like those about the exact temperature, differ. An American platoon sergeant inside the stifling, sandbagged bunker that is the local police station thought it was good. A CPA bureaucrat thought it was bad.
Getting around
With nothing better to do, and no reason for being here– not even the usual reasons a tourist musters to reassure himself– I went out to the al Mansour district looking for someone said to be the best maqam artist in all of Iraq. Finding his shop is not easy. Except for the main drags, the maps don't name the streets in Baghdad. The numbered addresses don't seem to help, either. Maybe this is a consequence of Saddam's paranoia, guaranteeing that the enemy– which is to say, everyone– gets lost.
It means stopping at every corner and asking the guy selling cold sodas, or exchanging dollars for Iraqi dinars ($1 buys 1770 Iraqi dinars of wildly varying hues and ink saturations), or renting time on a Thuraya satellite phone, or hawking the ubiquitous perfumed facial tissues, or cigarettes, or sunglasses– and after exchanging ritual greetings– asking directions, again and again.
There's no way anyone– a Ba'athist gangster killing GIs, or a guy from Charlottesville killing time– moves through this city without the street vendors– an exclusive, interactive, living street map of the city– knowing what is going on, and in some measure assisting. They are a dormant network of snitches– or if you prefer, a neighborhood watch– waiting for the right bunch of cops to mobilize them.
The musician's shop, which sells tapes and CDs, is closed, though, and covered with burglar bars, not far from a house leveled after a tip that Saddam was holed up there.
With the phones out (except for those satellite Thurayas), and mail delivery not yet resumed, internet cafés have sprung up all over the city with their own generators and satellite links. Under Saddam, access to the internet was possible only through the phone system. That's not a problem anymore: There is no phone system.
But Baghdadis are just starting to get into the habit of checking their email and surfing the web. On the other hand, NGOs– employees of humanitarian, non-governmental organizations who were at least for a time flooding into Baghdad– can be found in these cafés at any time of day, and in internet cafés in their hotels all night, if only because they are air-conditioned.
The UN compound had a room on the ground floor with pretty good Internet connections available for free to press and NGOs and drifters like me, and in the hall around the corner in poor repair, Western style toilets, a rarity even in the Palace. (But that was before the August 19 terrorist bombing that killed at least 20 people, including Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN envoy in Iraq.)
Upstairs in the UN office, under the best air conditioner in the country (dropping cold air down on your head like a waterfall) is a chic, chain-smoking woman– a passionate opponent of almost everything the Americans do, with particular fury over the injuries and deaths of Iraqis at Coalition checkpoints.
She was (and hopefully still is) the single most outspoken critic of the CPA in the whole country. That someone– presumably to demonstrate his opposition to the American presence– would try to kill her a few days later, and would in fact kill many of her like-minded colleagues, shows just how crazy this place is.
There's another place in town a lot closer, where the NGOs hang out, a hotel with a pool and a hopeful, yet wary, singles-bar atmosphere. Once in a while the Australian embassy staff drops by for a swim. They're accompanied by a security detail consisting of two or three commandos. Are the commandos impressed by the pool? They are not. To the Aussie troops, Iraq, with or without this pool, is "all bitch, no beach."
Seeking justice
Has the UN bombing changed the scene at the pool? Are more NGOs just hanging out, waiting until the situation quiets down, or have they begun to pack up and leave? Or are they indifferent to the danger? I met one of them in the third category in the bar next to the pool.
Listening to her, like listening to maqam, induces a mood– and not a happy one– more than it communicates a message. She never cracks a smile or misplays a somber note. Like the woman in the UN building, breathing and smoking have been aesthetically, or efficiently, combined. I get her an ashtray while her assistant lights her cigarettes.
This woman, working for one of the humanitarian NGOs, is, of course, against the death penalty in the forthcoming war crimes prosecutions, so she wants some international– anti-capital punishment– representation on the tribunal. Iraqis favor capital punishment and rankle at its suspension by the CPA, so a tribunal composed only of Iraqis is sure to impose the death penalty. But she, like the Iraqis, is profoundly in favor of payback.
There's this huge cache of Saddam's execution orders over at the Released Political Prisoners Association. There's documentary evidence over there of maybe two million murders, much of it still unsorted in a haystack-sized pile, or bursting out of bags, boxes, and file cabinets. These guys, these former prisoners, mean well, but they don't have a clue, she thinks, how to build a case or even preserve evidence for those who could build a case.
While I listen, I watch someone doing laps in the pool. I consider the rich man's house full of death warrants, facing the Tigris. I wonder whether the Released Prisoners owe their survival more to their amateur standing and obvious lack of prosecutorial expertise, or to the fact that they're squatting in the luxury villa of a Ba'athist bigwig who didn't make the Coalition's list. He's been released, to the disbelief of every Baghdadi whose opinion I sampled, and is suing to recover his house, ideally in one piece.
This pending litigation may be one more reason the house with its evidence of a holocaust has not yet been bombed.
Listening to her, I can't help but wonder at the world of difference between her and what in this country are called peace activists, who opposed the war– as did she– out of concern for its potential Iraqi victims. Now that the victims of the recent fighting are real, with names and faces– and millions more no less real victims, with names and faces revealed in the files of the Released Prisoners– those anti-war activists, unlike her, appear to have exhausted their efforts, at exactly the moment when they could do the most good.
It wouldn't take much– a couple of dollars, an old laptop, a scanner, some sandbags for the windows, a word of encouragement– to multiply the good done by these amateurs by a factor of 10, or a hundred, or more. A tipping point between civilization and its opposite can be found at this address, if anyone cares to visit it.
But I was just looking around, not looking for a job. If I were, I might not end up on the side of the angels.
I was leaving the next day by car across Saddam's superhighway, headed for Jordan. She was staying on indefinitely. I asked her if she didn't think news of her presence would eventually spread far enough to reach the ears of someone who meant her harm. She shrugged, exhaling smoke, at the same time saying that it would. But it was necessary that she stay. The UN bombing was still a couple of days in the future. I never got a chance to try the pool.
Leaving Baghdad
The plan was to leave the Flowers Land Hotel in a convoy at 5am. At that hour, it's dark, and the doorman reclined on the hood of a car, cradling his Kalashnikov in his arms, in the din and exhaust of the hotel's generator.
The driver of the car hired for the return to Jordan was huge and shambling for a man, but for a djinn (the Arabic word for genie), compact and nimble. Call him the Shaq of Iraq.
Like most of the drivers on this route, he favored a white GMC Suburban. His 1996 model had 600,000 kilometers on the odometer, prayer rugs on every horizontal surface, and the Koran in the tape deck. Every handle or knob was protected by layers of tape. He flew into a rage if you slammed a door, and yet anything short of slamming would not close it. Like all the drivers, he believed that he would save gas if he drove 150 kph with the windows down and the AC off. Like all drivers, he smoked Marlboros incessantly and toyed with prayer beads, often at the same time.
Around 5:30 a convoy formed, composed of three white Suburbans and a yellow Mercedes improbably bearing the Iraqi tag number 911– nine and one being the only numbers that are the same in the West. This convoy began the journey west, traveling sometimes within inches of each other's bumpers, to avoid a rolling roadblock by carjackers or to save on fuel.
The trip east to Baghdad had begun about a week earlier in Amman at 1am, timed to hit the border around sunrise. The times of departure and the use of convoys are as much a secret as the color of the Suburbans, and about as effective a defense against bandits.
Gasoline is more expensive at the border– 125 dinars, or 7 cents, a liter– compared to 20 dinars, a little more than a penny, in Baghdad. But at 5:30 in the morning at the border, there's no waiting. At best at other times, the wait is an hour or so in Baghdad, and you might end up buying your gasoline on the street for as much as 250 dinars a liter, wondering if it's been adulterated.
En route to Baghdad, the car had stopped again just beyond the Iraqi border to allow a check for damage after we blew through a Bedouin's herd of sheep at a sluggish 100 kph, killing three animals and enraging the lame shepherd who chased after the Suburban, brandishing his crutch/crook.
Once, in Baghdad, the Suburban had again proved its worth, driving up on sidewalks and over lawns, on the wrong side of the road, turning into the path of intimidated, oncoming traffic, always moving through the traffic backed up in front of the ruins of the Jordanian embassy. Men in plain clothes– IDs hanging around their necks and Kalashnikovs in their hands were barely able to wade through the traffic.
Most humanitarian workers travel between Amman and Baghdad on UN flights. Others, if luckier than I, can get a seat on Airserv, a small private carrier with headquarters near the UN office in Amman. Royal Jordanian– at least until last week– was planning charter flights. There used to be two theories why it was safe to fly.
The first was that whoever has the SA-7s, the shoulder-fired Russian equivalents of a Stinger, is saving them for the first jumbo jets to fly in. The second theory was that no one would harm humanitarian workers. There are problems with both theories, but there are problems with driving as well, problems with the electricity, problems with the water. All bitch, no beach.
During the week, Tom Friedman's Wednesday column reported that he had been attacked and robbed by bandits on the westward journey to Amman. He worried that the proceeds would fund insurgency. His many readers traveling that road that week, though, had concerns more personal than geopolitical.
By 6am, as the sun was starting to rise quickly, we could start to relax, to the point of being amused to see on the side of the road what looked like some teenagers fooling around with a tow truck, one of them trying to drive it for the first time while the others rode in the back.
Then a dirty white Corolla, poking along in the left-hand lane, slowed and swerved into the path of the Suburban. As it slowed and swerved, its windows sprouted Kalashnikovs with banana clips and cut-off stocks.
Shaq, feigning mild surprise, pulled over and turned the Suburban off, muttering, "Ali baba very bad."
Except for one, the bandits seemed young, in their teens anyway, the bottom of their faces covered with the red-checkered hakh typical of this region. One guy looked to be in his 40s, though, with a more up-to-date mask made of the sleeve of a dirty t-shirt. He seemed to be the boss of the four-man crew.
Their instructions to the occupants of the Suburban were simple: "moneymoney, moneymoney, moneymoney." To the guy tasked to rob me, I handed over a wad of dinars, my flash money, which he immediately began counting and, losing track, recounting.
Iraqis are heirs to a legal tradition dating back 4000 years to the Code of Hammurabi, although in this century it owes something to the French model of justice, with some effects of the later British occupation. The condemnation of robbery, as illustrated by the Code of Hammurabi (section 22 prescribed death as the punishment) or by the story of Ali Baba, is hardwired in Iraqis.
Even while granting that there may be a political motive, and definitely a political consequence, behind the highway robberies, Iraqis still regard the perpetrators as thieves. Whatever the precise relationship of crime to politics in post-Saddam Iraq– and it was never clearly separate before April 9– a thief is still ali baba and not a freedom fighter.
The driver had some kind of alarm on his car that started honking the horn. Or was someone still in the Corolla honking its horn? Whatever its source, this was the signal for the bandits suddenly to leave the Suburban and, bundling like circus clowns into a car which seemed too small for all of them, their guns, and their booty, head down to the road to rob the others. The others must have been waiting for them, because the Corolla couldn't run down anything on that road, except the tow truck. The tow truck, passed again up the road, was participating in some obscure way in another robbery, this time with the kids in the back waving Kalashnikovs
At the border, the GI said the bandits had recently started killing people and that they, the Coalition, just couldn't get a handle on the problem. Waiting to cross the Jordanian border on a business trip, an Iraqi engineer said hello. As an employee of an American contractor, he foresaw a prosperous future, but was losing his patience. He talked about the robbery with the same detachment as about the Baghdad water supply– the latter, despite its antiquated equipment, obviously a source of pride.
This man had been robbed as well, but he seemed to accept it as a kind of gratuity, extracted at the point of a gun. He was more concerned that the Coalition did not recognize the message the fact of the robbery sent to Baghdadis. If the Coalition could not secure 30 miles of superhighway, how could it promise eventual safety for the residents of a city of five million residents?
He proposed providing intense air cover from, say, six to nine every morning, and letting travelers schedule their transit of the stretch between Al Fallujah and al Ramadi accordingly. In this suggestion, he expressed the prevailing Baghdadi view that the Coalition was omnipotent. The Coalition could make anything happen.
The rival hypothesis– to which he gave equal weight– was that these things happened because the Coalition was impotent. It's one or the other, and in either case the fault of the Coalition. All bitch, no beach.
There are about 10,000 practicing attorneys in the Baghdad area and even more female law graduates sitting at home married, or contemplating spinsterhood. But most of them have never been outside the country, and badly need some kind of contact, any contact at all, with the greater world– for example, with Charlottesville– in order to bring their talents to bear on the rebuilding of their society.
The court of appeals at al-Karkh kept working all but two days during the fighting. Today its darkened, low-ceilinged halls are mobbed with Iraqis signing marriage contracts, filing this paper or that, or waiting to see the judges. Judges sit sweating at their desks, in ties and coats in the 150 degree heat, as confident as Hammurabi himself in the unshakable rule of law.
Shut the AC off in Atlanta in August and see if that happens.
Shaq has a bad case of road rage once he reaches Jordan. A long lunch and listening to passages from the Koran don't seem to have helped. Maybe he lost more to the bandits than I thought, or he's worried about his tip, or– and who could blame him? maybe he's just fed up. He's a master at lurching his Suburban at pedestrians, without actually hitting any who get in his way– as though the car were an extension of his djinn-sized body.
Once we're in Jordan, Saddam's four- or six-lane divided, limited access superhighway (complete with picnic pullovers) turns into two-lane blacktop through a flat desert covered with black rocks stacked in cairns by Bedouins or some other force of nature.
For reasons that are never disclosed, Shaq likes to drive in this setting on the left-hand side of the road into oncoming traffic. Maybe he's daydreaming of driving in Scottish highlands.
The road becomes hilly as it nears Amman. Shaq is impatient with the driver of a truck full of tomatoes struggling up a hill, and tries to force it off the road.
Failing that, he tries to start a fight with its driver. Later, calmer, he makes small talk in broken English about car maintenance. Like most Iraqis, he spends the extra money required for American or German motor oil, and he's not too happy about the effect of Iraqi gasoline on his engine, either, especially at speeds in excess of 150 kph.
Shaq's bottom line on Iraq, the beginning and end of his politics: too much ali baba.
Baghdad is the marginalized, repressed chaos of life in Charlottesville, its flipside. The consequences of our need for domestic security are exposed on the streets of Baghdad. The air-conditioned safety of our homes, and our quiet streets, is the stifling heat of their barricaded rooms defended with assault rifles, and trash-filled highways patrolled by foreign tanks, a source of pride to some of us.
But the people are the same. They have as high a percentage of college graduates as we do. They like to stroll over to the neon-lit al Faqma's on Jedirayah Street for an ice cream on a summer night, even now when it means risking their life. They will sit around the table talking over a meal of shwarma, spicy meat on a stick, or the smoke of a clay argilla, trying to make sense of all this. Unlike us, they are not able to tune out the disaster, or export it to a foreign shore.
Up on Saadoun Street there is a traffic circle around a fountain. Everyone calls this Ali Baba Square. Its official name is Kahramana Square. The kahramana, or heroine, in question is Marjana, who killed the thieves. The fountain, designed by Iraq's greatest living sculptor, Mohamed Ghani, now in his 70s, is dry. When the water is flowing again, it will fall from the jar Marjana tips toward the jars below her. In the story, 37 of the thieves hid in these jars, and the water was boiling oil.
Baghdad is the marginalized, repressed chaos of life in Charlottesville, its flipside. The consequences of our need for domestic security are exposed on the streets of Baghdad.
Unlike us, they are not able to tune out the disaster, or export it to a foreign shore.
Shot in the knees and ankles and clubbed on the neck, he still managed to stagger out the car and yell, "ali baba, ali baba." No one helped him, not even the Coalition forces who observed the attack.
Like all the drivers, he believed that he would save gas if he drove 150 kph with the windows down and the AC off.


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A little over 100 years ago, Robert Scott led a privately funded British expedition to become the first people to successfully reach the South Pole.
Scott, who had previously been a senior member on another polar expedition, was chosen to lead a group of 65 men who used the Terra Nova supply ship to guide them on the initial portion of the journey. Because of the name of the ship, Scott's mission has been historically referred to as the Terra Nova Expedition.
Scott was not the only group looking to be the first to reach the South Pole. A Norwegian group with Roald Amundsen at the helm was traveling on the other side of the Antarctica down to the South Pole at the same time.
Scott's crew successfully reached the South Pole on Jan. 12, 1912, but were ultimately beaten by Amundsen's crew by over a month. Supplies were low for the trip back north and temperatures were beyond frigid. Scott and his crew did not make it and a search party found Scott's frozen body in November 1912.
The Terra Nova remained in service until 1943, when it sank off the coast of Greenland. That legendary ship was recently discovered and its wreckage was filmed by the Schmidt Ocean Institute last month.
Here we chronicle Scott's fateful journey.


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Getting more Plastered!
More about plaster repair.
I never did have to buy any plaster of paris. My lime putty and sand mixture did the job just fine and since we are never in a hurry at crackhouse central the extended curing time was not a problem. In most cases the patching in was quite dry in 24 hours but there were shrinkage cracks. I'm sure that using fibers in the mix would have reduced this cracking which could be filled with more lime putty and less sand or finer sand by the way.
This wall is all plaster repair except those "fingers" at the top. They are hairline cracks that have been taped with mesh drywall tape and a fine coat of joint compound applied to get the tape to stay on the wall.
I haven't drywalled over the door yet because I need to establish where the wall mounting faucet will go and do a little jimmy rigging to hold it in place or establish some kind of access panel so that I can deal with the burst pipes after the winter freeze! (Since plumbing is truely my greatest constant with this place.)
This wall was my experiment wall with filling shrinkage cracks and smoothing lime plaster. On the other side, where the laundry room is, it looked like this
There isn't much room to take a good picture of the patch behind the toilet. It was basically a rectangle of green board. In fact it was almost the right size for the area to be patched and rather than cut the dry wall, it was easier to draw a line on the plaster where the edge of the board would go and chisle a little more plaster away from the brick. I then used my lime plaster to fill around the edges and after it had dried, I taped the edge with joint tape and smoothed the surface with joint compound.
I wasn't so particular about perfect plaster in the laundry room. I left shrinkage cracks to be filled with the joint compound as long as the plaster was firm and holding to the wall. I stated in my first post about plaster work that I wasn't trying to impress anyone with my plastering skills though I am impressing myself with my ability to make the walls smooth without having to sand them!
So, after covering the build out and partition wall with drywall and applying two coats of joint compound to the walls and ceiling in some areas, putting in a second ceiling light, moving the location of the original light, installing a switch and GFCI socket and cutting some old wood to use as baseboards, the laundry/powder room looks like this.
Now all I have to do is strip paint from the molding before applying a few more passes with jount compound in some areas and a final pass over the entire room with "Top Coat", put in some baseboards, install some electrical outlets to service the washer and dryer, tile the floor, finish the plumbing to the sink and this room will be ready to paint! For some people living in Chicago, I would like to say that at 8' X 16' this is the smallest room in the house. No, I'm sorry, Elizabeth's closet room, adjoining her bedroom is the smallest room at 5' X 8'. We'll never be able to live in a small house after this place!


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MapBird's eye view of Torrington, Connecticut 1907. Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 98 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus., text, and directory. AACR2
- Contributor: Bailey, O. H. (Oakley Hoopes) - Bailey, O. H. - Hughes & Bailey
- Date: 1907


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It's a common wives' tale that a dog's mouth is nine times cleaner (or some similar number) than a humans. While this has been proven to be false, it should be obvious to those of you that have ever had a whiff of some serious doggie breath! Bad breath is often caused by the bacteria in one's mouth – whether it is human or canine. The Knox News published an article that discusses the many causes of bad breath in dogs. A few of them are causes that humans often doing have to worry about for their own breath. These include the use of one's tongue to clean hard-to-reach body parts and the ingestion of items that people don't consider food. There are, however several causes that can afflict both humans and dogs: metabolic problems, gastrointestinal diseases, cancer, food allergies and gum disease. All in all, dogs often get halitosis for the same reason people do – microbes. Bacteria that thrives in the oral cavity (whether it be dog or human) feed off of remnants of the food we eat. As these bacteria digest sugars and proteins, they give off awful-smelling compounds that our brains register as bad odors. How can you fight bad breath? If you're human, you may want to think about using an oral care probiotic to naturally combat these bad breath bugs. For your four-legged best friend, TheraBreath also has the answer with Dr. Katz for Dogs and Cats Oral Spray or Solution. You can either put a few harmless capfuls of the solution into your dog's water bowl or take the more direct approach and use our spray to directly target the mouth and neutralize any doggie breath. Give them a try – both you and your pet will thank us.
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This subject always gets into trouble every time it's discussed on the net. I suspect the problem is that there is always a notion of a complete circuit to enable current flow, but with coax, which by nature is unbalanced, the problem is current on the outside of the shield. The circuit would normally be on the inside - an important distinction, so one paths is on the outer of the centre conductor, with the return on the inner of the shield. This concept of RF current travelling on the surface rather than the cross sectional area of the conductor (as in DC, and very low frequency AC) is the one that the Hi-Fi brigade use to bolster up their speaker cable claims - when skin effect only happens in HF and above RF systems.
It gets even more confused by VSWR measurements - where everyone accepts the concept of reflected power, as in travelling the other way- which we spend ages reducing. My own viewpoint on common-mode current is that it's what's left after the return within the cable. I don't think that's a very scientific explanation, but in my head , it works for all the usual uses of common mode as a term. We have the usual circular out and back current flow within the feeder coax, but because of the area imbalance, the surplus is carried on the outside - and we need to block it with one of the usual tools - like ferrite chokes.
I've read some of the papers on the subject, but frankly the level of the maths is way above me - so I am left with simplifications that I can live with.
I'm not sure we're really able to discuss this sensibly, as we all have our own simplifications, and this is what clash. The real science doesn't, but I'm not up to understanding it - yet.


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Two types of wool are used for the raw material :One coming from the sheep's fleece, which gives the wool its solidity. the other, short fibres from the spinning which gives it its softness.Once all the impurities have been removed, the wools are mixed together.This is the first step of the transformation of the wool into its bell shape.
The colouring is now over.
First of all he prepares a plaster model which is made up of three elements :A male part made up of a head and a separate body, and a female counterpart made up of one piece.
Between the male and female parts, a space is created for the thickness of the hat. Each element is installed in an under-frame filled with tightly-packed sand. The shaper delicately taps the plaster away without distorting the imprints. He then carefully places the three under-frames one on top of the other in a pre-heated oven for 5 hours so that the aluminium reaches 500°. It is then time to pour it.Ten minutes after the pouring, the pieces are ready to be removed from the mould. Once they have been well-adjusted and whitened, they will be sent to the fitting department.


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Successful Upgrade, New Instrument Scientist and Other News
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This "Hot News" article describes a few GNIRS changes during the second half of 2005 including engineering work, a new Gemini instrument scientist, a GNIRS talk at the Tucson NGO meeting and a data reduction note.
Engineering Upgrade - No More Spots!
GNIRS underwent a major engineering "intervention" in July-Sept 2005. The work had two primary objectives (as well as a number of secondary ones): 1) replacement of the forward lenses in the short cameras with the radio-active coatings to eliminate the radiation events on the detector; and 2) installation of 3 new filters-- a cross-dispersed filter with improved blue sensitivity (replacing the old one), and two narrowband acquisition filters (H_2 at 2.12um and PAH at 3.29 µm). With the expert help of mechanical technician Ron George and GNIRS principal investigator Jay Elias from Tucson, along with the hard work of several Gemini engineers and scientists, the operation was completely successful. Figure 1 illustrates the improvement in long exposures without the bothersome radiation events. More information about the upgrade can be found in the GNIRS talk at the Tucson NGO meeting [9Mb, powerpoint file] in November. Mechanical repair work on the OIWFS gimbal mechanism was also completed during the engineering period, and appears to have been successful, however additional software and integration work remain before the OIWFS will be available for regular use.
Between the engineering work, PWFS2 problems that put it out of service for much of October, and more than our fair share of lousy Spring weather, we got a late start on the GNIRS queue programs in 2005B. However, we've made up for lost time recently and are now happy to report that we have completed all of GNIRS Band 1 observations that have been observable so far, including DD and rollover, and we are making good progress on Band 2, as well as Band 3.
Other News
- Greg Doppmann has taken over the position of GNIRS Instrument Scientist as of November 2005. Greg joined Gemini as a Science Fellow in September 2004 with considerable NIR spectroscopy experience and has been working with GNIRS since his arrival.
- Have a look at Greg's talk on GNIRS at the Tucson NGO meeting [9Mb, powerpoint file] in November 2005. He discusses the recent upgrade results and GNIRS Phase II issues, among other things.
- Due to the change in the cameras, two new database files are needed for reducing GNIRS short camera data with the Gemini/GNIRS IRAF package. More information is available in an email sent to GNIRS PIs. The updated files will be included in the next IRAF release.
Created December 12, 2005; Bernadette Rodgers


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Trolltech Releases Qt 4.0
Trolltech has released Qt 4.0 both under commercial and GPL licenses for X11, Mac OS X and MS Windows. It is the first time that a MS Windows GPL edition is available. To celebrate the release Trolltech employees have created a song and a music video (Bittorrent download, Ogg Theora version). Read the Qt 4 Overview and the online Qt Reference Documentation for more information. You can download Qt from ftp.trolltech.com or from one of its mirrors. Work on KDE 4 has already started with making a development branch of KDE compile and run with Qt 4.
Unlike previous Qt releases, Qt 4 is a collection of smaller libraries which also allowed the restructuring of commercial offers into Qt Console for non-GUI development, Qt Desktop Light replacing the Professional and Qt Desktop comparable to Enterprise editions.
There are five new technologies that are new within Qt 4:
In addition, the following modules have been significantly improved since Qt 3:
The Qt Designer user interface design tool has been rewritten as a collection of interchangeable components. It now features support for MDI and SDI modes and supports custom widgets. The project editor and the code editor have been dropped.
Qt 3 based applications have to be ported to be able to run with Qt 4. A porting guide, a porting tool as well as a Qt3Support library for obsolete classes are provided. Trolltech aims to maintain the Qt3Support Library for the lifetime of the Qt 4 series, and will also support the Qt 3 series for a minimum of two years beyond the release of Qt 4.
Some known issues are listed which are expected to be fixed in upcoming maintenance releases of Qt 4.0. Qt 4.1 will features certain advanced Qt 3 features rewritten for Qt 4 which are now only available in the Qt 3 support library (eg. Qt 3 canvas, Qt 3 syntax highlighter). It is planned be released late in 2005.
Re: PostScript and WYSIWYG
Make that previous post by "Anonymous _Know_Nothing_". :-)
These are not minor "bugs" -- this is really about a lack of features which I don't consider to be a "bugfix" issue. They are serious issues that Trolltec is aware of, and, in the case of WYSIWYG, they specifically promised to fix for Qt 4 in previous posting to their web site.
But, I don't expect to see a mention of a bug fix. I expect to see mention of the new features which eliminate these problems. I see nothing about a new PostScript driver. Nothing that the PS driver will now embed TrueType as scalable Type 42 fonts (a serious missing feature -- OO has this for example). I see nothing about WYSIWYG display of fonts and printing with the actual font metrics.
These are all expected new features NOT bugfixes! The current KOffice applications are seriously crippled by the lack of these features -- what good is a wordprocessor that won't print correctly??
There is also a related bug. Qt doesn't properly parse some Type 1 font names. The TrueType and Type 1 font names for the same font are often not the same and Qt needs to deal with this.
By James Richard Tyrer at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
Re: PostScript and WYSIWYG
dunno for sure, but I believe that in earlier talks about Qt4, the problems with the font kerning were supposed to be solved in the new version of Qt.
By rinse at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
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By ac at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am
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Yes, this is the replacement for:
Compare the two.
It has many changes, but it still (just quickly skimming through it) has some code that concerns me. For example:
It still has the code to: "//try to make a "good" postscript name". This code should be removed because it can't work.
It still depends on a list of common fonts. This is a kludge which should be removed. The only font name specific code that is acceptable is a fix for the TimesRoman problem.
It also depends on the 4 glyph faces (regular, bold, italic, & bolditalic) paradigm. This doesn't work and should be completely redone.
It has been changed so much that the patch:
no longer applies, but that doesn't mean that the problems have been fixed.
But, we shouldn't have to read the code to try to determine what the new features are. I must presume that these issues have not been resolved. If these problems are not fixed, I can only suggest that KDE tries to adapt code from Scribus so that KDE is able to print correctly.
By James Richard Tyrer at Thu, 2005/06/30 - 5:00am


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Tomato 'n' Shrimp Pasta
Diced tomatoes, a little tomato paste and fresh basil combine with onions and mushrooms to make a tasty sauce for sauteed shrimp.
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
Makes6 servings
- 12 ounces uncooked spaghetti
- 1-1/2 pounds uncooked medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1/2 pound sliced fresh mushrooms
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 2 cans (14-1/2 ounces each) diced tomatoes, undrained
- 3 tablespoons tomato paste
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh basil
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- Cook spaghetti according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, saute shrimp and garlic in 1 tablespoon oil until shrimp turn pink. Remove and set aside.
- In the same skillet, saute mushrooms and onion in remaining oil until mushrooms are lightly browned. Stir in the tomatoes and tomato paste. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low. Add the shrimp, basil, sugar, oregano and red pepper flakes.
- Cook, uncovered, for 5-10 minutes or until heated through. Drain spaghetti; top with shrimp mixture.
Nutrition Facts1 cup: 410 calories, 9g fat (1g saturated fat), 168mg cholesterol, 379mg sodium, 54g carbohydrate (10g sugars, 5g fiber), 28g protein.
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I have made this several times and will also add in some scallops for company. Its a hit with everyone who tastes it. It's a definate company recipe.
Jun 30, 2010
So far I have only made this once - but I will make it again. I pretty much stuck to the recipe - but used rice noodles instead of the spaghetti.
Mar 30, 2010
I am not a fan of thick sauce for pastas and this was perfect with the chunks of tomatoes and the shrimp. The juice from the tomatoes was all that was needed to coat the spaghetti.