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Small retailers in Torrington also bringing out the bargains for Black Friday
Torrington >> The day after Thanksgiving has been the biggest shopping day of the year marking the unofficial start of the Christmas season.
For millions of people, Black Friday means waking up in the middle of the night to head out to major retail stores looking for the greatest deal.
However, when looking at the history of Black Friday, it was the exact opposite of what the day after Thanksgiving means today. According to an article on ABCNews, the name "Black Friday" originated from the Philadelphia Police Department back in the mid sixties. The police hated the day after Thanksgiving because of all the heavy traffic, overcrowded sidewalks, and shoplifters from everyone taking advantage of the first day of the Christmas shopping season. The goal of the name was to make the day after Thanksgiving something shoppers would want to avoid.
Later on, retailers gave another explanation saying the day was when retailers would begin to turn profit or be "in the black," black in referring the positive side of their financial ledgers as opposed to red in the negative. Since then, the name Black Friday has had a positive meaning for shoppers and retailers.
Not only has Black Friday translated into big dollars for the big box stores but it has reportedly improved business for local mom and pop shops -- and small businesses in downtown Torrington are preparing for the biggest shopping day of the year, offering their own incentives to draw people in.
O'Sullivan's Jewelry Store on Water Street is offering 30 percent off of purchases of $75 or more to get some business in and start the holiday off, said owner of the store Patty O'Sullivan. The jewelry store is also offering a "buy one get one free" deal on beads, 25 percent off on pearls and free gift wrapping.
"We offer free gift wrapping which people love, especially men," said O'Sullivan.
Like many of the local businesses, Thanksgiving weekend marks the start of the holiday season and holiday hours. The Jewelry store will be open Monday through Saturday's 10 a.m. to 8 p,m and will be open during the Torrington Christmas Tree Lighting that will take place Friday night.
In addition to O'Sullivan's, Scents and Sensibility located on Main Street, will be offering many specials Thanksgiving weekend to kick start their holiday season.
"I'm doing a whole bunch of specials," said co-owner Holly Coelho. "I have buy one get one free and a whole clearance section. We want to sell the clearance things."
Scents and Sensibility will also have specials on Caswell Massey beauty products and many Christmas items.
"I have Christmas greenery at buy one get one free as well as a special on candles," said Holly Coelho. "I just have throughout, more things on special than you would know just coming through the door," she said. The store will also be offering a special on all WebKinz stuffed animals.
"We want people to come to the smaller stores to get good deals and service, we're offering things here," said co-owner Jorge Coelho.
"You only have one Main Street in Torrington, with a special store like ours, this is the time it really counts," he added.
A frequent customer of Scents and Sensibility said she loves the atmosphere of the store and the unique items it sells.
"It's beautiful" said Eva Santana. "(Jorge) makes you feel like family, he makes you feel wonderful, he's excellent. I love how I can find different things, I love different things," she said.
Scents and Sensibility is still receiving new shipments of merchandise and will continue to stock the shelves with new items for the next couple of weeks, Holly Coelho said.
Scents and Sensibility will begin holiday hours on Friday and will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and Sunday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
"We need people to think about the downtown merchants," said Holly Coelho.
Reach Nikki Treleaven at 860-489-3121, ext. 324.


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Wednesday, June 15, 2016
"El Guero" Palma transferred to Altiplano No. 1 faces murder charges
41 comments:
- AnonymousJune 15, 2016 at 11:51 PM
This guy already paid his dues it reflects in his facial features. Meanwhile the sharks in the pond, the atlacomulco syndicate, is still operating ten fold.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJune 16, 2016 at 9:55 AM
Paid his dues for murdering and torturing countless people? They should have exterminated him long ago. Let him rot in prison. It gives him lots of time to think about the atrocities committed.Delete
- AnonymousJune 16, 2016 at 4:48 PM
9:55 and what makes you think that the 20 years locked up, including his 3 years spent in Supermax, haven't made him look back on all that's happened? And what kind of bullshit CNN article are you reading? "Murdering and torturing countless people?" Well aside from having El Padrinos, Clavels, and the Arellanos family members and associates, who else has he "murdered and tortured?" If you really knew what went down, you'd know that he stuck to the old school code and that was no murdering innocents. He only took out the people that needed to be taken care of. I'm not a Sinaloa nuthugger either, I just hate how so many people talk smack about something they barely know.Delete
- canadianaJune 16, 2016 at 10:28 PM
No he murdered children.Is that old school code?Delete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2016 at 7:09 AM
And you know for sure he stuck to the old school code? No seas pendejo. You say you hate how so many people talk about what they barely know. What makes you an expert on this topic?
- AnonymousJune 19, 2016 at 1:12 AM
At any rate, the newer the gangsters, the more of a cheap ass criminal they are, and most disrespectful mathaphakas you won't find, it is like prison culture has been unleashed on society.Delete
- canadianaJune 19, 2016 at 11:53 AM
Yep sounds like it.Delete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2016 at 5:17 PM
He had Clavels kids killed...Delete
- AnonymousJune 22, 2016 at 10:39 PM
Didnt Clavel throw GP kids off a bridge first?Delete
- canadianaJune 26, 2016 at 9:27 PM
The kids were thrown off the bridge after he killed their mother and he took them out of Mexico[Venezuela] where he knew he would be safe from the dirty deed.Delete
- AnonymousJune 15, 2016 at 11:59 PM
When will Salinas de Gortari do the same perp walk with masked men pinning his neck down?ReplyDeleteReplies
11:59am; excellent question but I don't think that even PAN leadership has the juevos for that. Good thing is PAN won 7 state gobierno and people saying no to PRI corrupcion and Gortari's head puppet EPNDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2016 at 1:57 PM
8:06 it was Morena or el PAN, so, el PRI ALLOWED el PAN, for 2018, el PRI ain't allowing shit, unless Margara la señora de fecal I mean de Calderon el borrachin, gets to look like the statue of liberty by then, pero toda encuerada a birote en Playboy...Delete
--the PRI WILL TRY TO COLLECT, it cooperated with calderon, calderon cooperated with epn, como los putos que son, una y una...the rest of the parties is in the bag, jumping for their orders...
EL PRI has stolen all the last 5 elections through vote fraud, but righteously demands "not to have agendas of revenge about the past", but to look at the bright future of the mexico of the future, you will have to buy your own star wars outfit and light saber (made in china) at your favorite walmart.
TEDx may arrange for you a talk/conference starring Emilio Salinas, he will repeat the speech about "ya es hora!" Where he repeats that "the problem is not the government, or the government's corruption, but the people that allow it"...
--because they do not go to Harvard U and their parents do not get them a job with Lazard Frerés, I guess...
- canadianaJune 22, 2016 at 9:47 PM
Is Emilio Salinas the only son of Presidente Salinas?Would he be in the neighbourhood of maybe 60 years old?I read somewhere he does feel good speeches.I was wondering because in 1989 about a month after arriving in Mexico City some friends were taking me around sightseeing near the Presidential buildings in DF.My friend rear ended a really nice car.They told me it was the son of the then current Presidente Salinas.He was actually a really nice guy and told everyone not to worry.My friend couldn't believe who he rear ended.Was wondering if it might be the same guy?He wasn't angry at all about the inconvenience.Delete
- AnonymousJune 26, 2016 at 2:15 AM
Emiliano Salinas is a nice guy, looks nice, talks nice, he even talks nice about "his dad" because, well that is "his dad", what can he do? (His words)Delete
--Seems like he is about to run for presidente, in spite of his apparent innanity, his daddy dedicated his book to his new son, Carlos Salinas de gortari must have had his monkey gonad injections, and his new bombita working overtime...
But in his public service, nothing will make right all the wrongs he did to mexico to enrich himself and his sicarios.
- canadianaJune 26, 2016 at 9:24 PM
So he only has the 1 son then Salinas.I mean 1 that was legal[not counting affairs]that he raised so it probably was him.I couldn't remember his name at the time.All I know was my buddies were very surprised who they hit and a little scared at 1st since the accident was their fault til he talked to us.Actually it was in 1986 not 89 because the Mundial was going on that year.[World Cup Soccer].Delete
- canadianaJune 16, 2016 at 12:09 AM
He doesn't look too happy to be going back to Mexico where he can have a much better life in prison.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 16, 2016 at 2:36 AM
Now hes gotta pay up. Then he'll be off in about a months time, another month resting and then by September back to work first settling a few scores.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 16, 2016 at 2:36 AM
The bigger they are the harder they fall!ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJune 16, 2016 at 9:56 AM
Another cockroach that should have been crushed decades ago.Delete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2016 at 1:16 AM
9:56 no tenian zapatos "to crush him", ni cargos, ni huevos, but that was no problem for the mata-amigos that sent him to prison.Delete
- AnonymousJune 16, 2016 at 5:26 AM
Dude is broken...just look at the eyes, the old Guero isn't there anymore.ReplyDeleteReplies
C U got it wrong Main... The Old wero is there.. Lol.. AaaaahahahahahaDelete
- AnonymousJune 16, 2016 at 6:56 AM
The boss is backReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 16, 2016 at 9:41 AM
He is back and he wants his spot back..ReplyDelete
Why would Mexico bring charges against him now? They would have dont it before he was extradited right?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 16, 2016 at 10:45 AM
Watch him corrupt the whole prison again. HahahaReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJune 16, 2016 at 11:59 AM
This man has no money left to corrupt with. His shit was stolen by his ex-partner shortly before his ex-partner decapitated his wife and murdered two of his kids.Delete
- AnonymousJune 18, 2016 at 6:32 AM
@ 1159 are you sure that was the last time Guero was arrested? And at that time (early 80's) he was sitting on 7 million that we know of, but u think he is brokeDelete
- AnonymousJune 20, 2016 at 5:18 PM
Him and Chapo ran an empire from Puente Grande...he has plenty of money.Delete
I'm starting to say a pattern w/extradited mex narcos..as soon as the done w/there time in U.S the are rearrested in Mexico...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 16, 2016 at 4:49 PM
Chingao...ya dejenlo ir para que viva en paz...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 16, 2016 at 6:08 PM
The good shits's just beginning. That Jesus Malverde bless his homecoming. Ese Guero Palma Chingon. Thats translated Guero Palma Badass. That's right. Puro linea. The Pass. Tragan se la toda. VenanoReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 18, 2016 at 8:02 AM
wow, Mexico actually has a legitimate murder case on someone, with evidence and a suspect. I wish they would treat the thousands of others that have occurred throughout the years with the same amount of resources as this one. If he's guilty let him do his time, but it actuality its another PR stunt by EPN, he likes his public rating to be good just like his hair.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJune 19, 2016 at 1:20 AM
8:02 apparently the "legitimate murder charges" against el güero palma are one more fabrication of the government, but without televisa help...Delete
- canadianaJune 19, 2016 at 11:52 AM
Why would they be fabricated?You think he murdered no one and is innocent?Quit being naïve if you are a long time reader.It looks like Sinaloa has lost their protection.Power they have yes,protection no and you need complicity to survive or they never would have got as big as they are.These cartels are even bigger than a lot of top 10 companies.Unreal!Delete
- AnonymousJune 18, 2016 at 6:35 PM
El guero palma salazar te espera sonoraReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2016 at 11:38 AM
No uvieras mandado matar a esos niños guero aunque te quitaron los tuyos ese es el único problema mis respetos por que nunca te doblaste y espero Dios te perdone y un dia salgas libre.ReplyDelete
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Johnson eager to prove himself as utility man
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Elliot Johnson has been spotted at a different infield position each day during the first few full-squad workouts for the Indians. Cleveland manager Terry Francona loves that kind of versatility and it is one reason Johnson is in the mix for a bench job.
"He's going to play everywhere, including the outfield," Francona said Wednesday. "What's so nice about Elliot is he has the ability to pinch-run and, whoever he pinch-runs for, he can go into the game and play a very solid Major League defense. That's a very valuable commodity. He can be valuable."
The Indians signed the 29-year-old Johnson to a Minor League contract on Jan. 27 and extended him an invitation to attend Spring Training with the big league club. The switch-hitting utility man split last season with Kansas City and Atlanta and endured plenty of ups and downs in his 111 games in the Majors.
After being traded by the Rays to the Royals last winter, Johnson hit .179 in 79 games with Kansas City. The Braves claimed him off waivers in August and Johnson hit .261 in his new uniform. In September, when Johnson earned regular action at second base, he posted a .277 average and a .712 OPS in the season's final 23 games.
"I had a tough time with the Royals," Johnson said. "It wasn't anybody's fault other than my own. You hit the ball good and they catch it. Of course, I didn't hard it as I should have, as many times as I should have. I think if you look at the BABIP or whatever everybody looks at now, it was significantly lower than it should've been. So obviously I'm a candidate for a bounceback.
"I certainly played a whole lot better with the Braves and I think that was more indicative of what I can do. Maybe not necessarily everyday type of production, but I'm certainly a guy who can fill in at different positions and start here and there, and give a number of different guys a breather. That's why I'm here."
To Johnson's point, his batting average on balls in play (BABIP) was .243 during his time with the Royals, indicating that he ran into some hard luck. Johnson, whose career BABIP sits at .288, posted a .320 mark after joining the Braves.
Johnson said he is looking forward to his new opportunity with Cleveland.
"I just get ready, bring my gloves out and wherever they tell me to go, I go," Johnson said. "Basically, my job here is just to gain [Francona's] trust, more or less, at all the positions, as much as I possibly can, and fill in the gaps. I know I can catch the ball. Over the course of Spring Training, he'll get to move me around and see what I can or can't do with his own eyes."


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Hi everyone, I've just taken on a L'anna from a friend. It's sat idle for the last 6 weeks in his kitchen whilst he's been busy extending it... so it's a bit dusty, but I hoped nothing more.
Could you please have a look at the video I took of the start up and tell me what you think the symptoms are..
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- The reservoir is full of water,
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Monseigneur Donat Robichaud was born in Shippagan on October 6, 1924, the son of Alexandre Robichaud and Élizabeth Boudreau. A very gifted student, his parents sent him to the seminary in Bathurst at the age of ten, when pupils were supposed to be 13 in order to be admitted. That was how he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Université du Sacré-Coeur in Bathurst at the age of 18 in the spring of 1943.
He entered the Holy Heart of Mary Seminary in Halifax in September 1943. By the age of 21 and a half, he had completed his studies at the Seminary and was ready to be ordained, but since the canonical age for becoming a priest was 24, a dispensation from Rome would be needed in order to be admitted. He was ordained a priest in Shippagan on September 20, 1947. He began his religious life as a curate in the following parishes: East Bathurst, Dalhousie, Caraquet, Tracadie, Petit-Rocher, and Atholville. In 1964, he became a professor at the Petit Séminaire Saint-Charles in Bathurst, and in 1968, he accepted the position of superior of that institution. He was the priest of Beresford parish from 1971 to 1987, and he ended his ministry as the parish priest of Paquetville. He retired officially in 2000. On two occasions, he was the Diocesan Administrator, i.e., in 1985 and 1989, following the deaths of Bishops Godin and Richard.
From a young age, Monseigneur Robichaud was passionate about history and genealogy. He published several books on the history and genealogy of the Robichaud family along with a number of community monographs, including ones for Shippagan, Beresford, and Paquetville.
In 1969, he was one of the founding members of Société historique Nicolas-Denys, to which he devoted a great deal of time and energy. He served as its President from 1979 to 1995 and was editor of the Société's Revue d'histoire from 1991 until his death in 2009. A great benefactor of the Société historique, he bequeathed his archives to it when he died. In his honour, the Société named its documentation centre "Le Centre d'archives et de recherche Mgr-Donat-Robichaud." The Beresford public library also bears his name: "La bibliothèque Mgr-Robichaud."
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Aware of the fact that the research instruments in history and genealogy were missing, he pushed for the publication of baptism, marriage, and death registers in the various parishes of northeastern New Brunswick. He proceeded to catalogue information from the Gloucester County Registry Office, which he published in 12 volumes, covering the years from 1827 to 1891. He read many newspapers and summarized the most relevant articles in his publications. The newspapers included The Mercury (1826-1829), Miramichi's The Gleaner (1829-1880), Bathurst's Le Courrier des Provinces Maritimes (1885-1903), and L'Évangéline from 1887 to 1957 in eight volumes. All of the articles are provided in chronological order with an index at the end of each volume. These publications are indispensable research tools and are very useful for anyone wanting to do historical or genealogical research.
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After a long battle with cancer, Mgr. Robichaud died peacefully at the Bathurst Hospital Centre on August 8, 2009, at the age of 84. He is buried in the cemetery of his native parish of Shippagan.
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British and European businesses are sounding increasingly urgent warnings about the economic damage the U.K.'s exit from the European Union could cause, as the U.K.'s two biggest political parties acknowledged Wednesday that they remain deeply divided over post-Brexit trade and customs arrangements.
Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29, 2019, and the bloc is frustrated with what it sees as a lack of firm proposals from the U.K about future relations.
Prime Minister Theresa May declined to say Wednesday when the government would publish a promised document setting out its negotiating position.
May's Conservative government is split between ministers who favor a clean-break "hard Brexit" — leaving Britain freer to strike new trade deals around the world — and those who want to keep closely aligned to the EU, Britain's biggest trading partner.
"We have a Cabinet that is completely and totally divided so there is no plan for what the negotiating position is going to be," pro-EU Conservative lawmaker Anna Soubry said. "You may think that is a pretty shabby and shocking state of affairs. That is the reality."
Labor Party Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer acknowledged that "there are very divided views" among the opposition party's lawmakers over whether Britain should try to remain in the EU's single market.
"I wish I could report complete unity," Starmer told the BBC. "But we are not in that position."
Some Labor lawmakers want Britain to stay in the single market to minimize disruption to the U.K. economy after Brexit.
Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is calling instead for the U.K. to have "full access" to the single market. Critics say that is vague, and EU leaders have repeatedly said Britain can't have the benefits of membership without the responsibilities.
More wrangling is guaranteed when the government's key piece of Brexit legislation returns to the House of Commons next week.Parliament's upper chamber, the House of Lords, has inserted amendments to soften the terms of departure and keep the U.K. economy closely aligned with the bloc's.
The government has vowed to overturn the amendments. But pro-EU legislators from both the Conservative and Labor parties say they will push for the U.K. to remain inside the single market by joining the European Economic Area, a grouping of the EU plus Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein. May and Corbyn have both rejected the idea.
Amid the indecision, British and European businesses say uncertainty is hurting and they urgently need to know what future trade arrangements will be.
The Dutch government is warning businesses that Dutch products made using British parts and exported outside the EU could fall outside free trade agreements Europe has made with other parts of the world, and therefore be subject to tariffs. That's bad news for U.K. companies in the auto industry, where it's common for cars to be assembled in one country using parts from others.
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Transport firms also sought certainty. James Hookham, deputy chief executive of Britain's Freight Transport Association, said "the industry's frustration with the lack of progress is building daily."
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GLEN ELLYN – While some writers struggle for years to get their big break, three Glen Ellyn students can now call themselves published authors, thanks to their own hard work and a little help from the American Reading Company.
As part of their English as a Second Language (ESL) classes last year, the Hadley Junior High School students researched and wrote 15- to 20-page nonfiction books on the topics of their choice.
The books were selected to be published on the American Reading Company website, joining about 20 other student books with the same distinction.
It is rare for a student to be chosen for publication, let alone three from the same school district.
"We were ecstatic when all three of our students were chosen at the middle school level to publish with the company," said Katie McCluskey, director of Glen Ellyn School District 41's ELL (English Language Learner) and bilingual programs.
Adam Ali, Jose Hernandez and Merry Tlue created their books as part of the American Reading Company's Research Labs program, which D-41 implemented for the first time in third-level ESL classes at Hadley last year.
Writing is the focus of ESL classes at that level, and the program taught students how to research a topic and write about it, said the students' teacher, Lisa Marquez.
As an eighth-grader, Adam chose to research and write about Nascar, since the eighth-grade topic for the project was sports and society.
Part of the reason Adam picked Nascar was because he likes cars, he said.
Now a freshman at Glenbard West High School, the Glendale Heights resident grew up in Pakistan, and his native language is Urdu.
His mom, Shazia Ahmed, said it was wonderful to have her son's book chosen to be published.
"I'm very proud of him," Ahmed said. "It was a big thing for us."
Jose wrote about the Revolutionary War, discussing the conflicts among the 13 colonies that initially prevented them from uniting as one country.
"I learned a lot about it in social studies, and I really liked it," Jose said.
The eighth-grader from Glendale Heights speaks both English and Spanish.
Merry, now in seventh grade at Hadley, was born in Burma and also lived in Malaysia before moving to Glen Ellyn.
Her book focused on natural resources and the importance of recycling and received the most points when students reviewed each other's work.
The three books that were submitted by the District to the American Reading Company for consideration and ultimately published received the best peer reviews.
"The three that the kids voted on would have been the three that I voted for," Marquez said.
Although the books from District 41 were written by students whose first language is not English, they were judged according to the same criteria as any other student book that is sent to the company.
The District learned this July that all three books were chosen to be published and used as examples of the quality of work students can achieve in the Research Labs program.
Adam, Jose and Merry were recognized at the Sept. 23 D-41 Board of Education meeting, where they received a plaque and $50 check from the American Reading Company.
Their books can be found online at the American Reading Company website.
"I think it's just an exceptional example of what we want all of our students to achieve," McCluskey said.


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Some people have the mistaken idea that farmers and ranchers are harming our environment. You hear it everywhere: at the coffee shop, church, public forums, even in the grocery store where people buy the food farmers and ranchers produce for us to eat.
Children arrive home from school and tell parents about "harmful" practices farmers use. It's easy to understand why folks think the way they do about today's agriculture.
Few businesses are as open to public scrutiny as a farm or ranch in the United States but the only picture many have of agriculture is what they read in newspapers or see on television. Even fewer people have set foot on a modern farm.
The fondest wish of most farmers and ranchers is to pass their land on to their children. They work years to leave a legacy of good land stewardship. Most farmers learned about conservation and respect for the land from their parents.
Today's farmer and ranchers are doing their part to protect and improve the environment. They use such practices as early planting, pest control, good soil fertility conservation tillage and many other innovations that help grow more food while protecting the land, water and air.
Farmers adjust practices to meet individual cropping conditions. Such practices can vary from farm to farm – even from field to field.
As in any other business, farmers and ranchers must manage their operations on a timely basis and use all the technology available to improve quality and productivity. If they don't they will not be able to stay in business for long.
Today's farmer has drastically cut chemical use during the last couple of decades. Many no longer apply chemicals before planting. Instead, as the crop matures, farmers gauge potential weed growth and apply herbicides only if needed.
Farmers handle chemicals with care and according to instructions on the label. They realize they can be toxic or harmful to people and the environment, and they are the first to come in contact with them.
From planting through harvest, farmers battle weather, weeds, insects and disease. Efficiency is their best defense against unstable world markets, political barriers and fringe groups who may attack their farming methods.
Yes, farmers and ranchers must live in the environment they create. They know all too well the importance of keeping the ground water clean. More often than not, farmers drink from wells on their land. They understand that their family drinks from the water they pump from the ground every day.
Farmers and ranchers can and will do more to improve their environment. They can continue to rely less on herbicides, insecticides and fertilizers. Agricultural producers can also conserve more water, plug abandoned wells, monitor grassland grazing and continue to implement environmentally sound techniques that will ensure preservation of the land.
Production agriculture works, and will continue to work because it is flexible enough to accept and adapt to change. No agricultural system – or any other system for that matter, is perfect. Farmers and ranchers will continue to search for better ways to farm and ranch through research and education.
In the meantime, farmers and ranchers will continue to take their stewardship seriously. They've devoted their lives to safeguarding their farms and families, while providing us with the safest food in the world.
John Schlageck is a leading commentator on agriculture and rural Kansas. Born and raised on a diversified farm in northwestern Kansas, his writing reflects a lifetime of experience, knowledge and passion.
Some people have the mistaken idea that farmers and ranchers are harming our environment. You hear it everywhere: at the coffee shop, church, public forums, even in the grocery store where people buy the food farmers and ranchers produce for us to eat.


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Does anyone know the builder of this "Battle of Helms Deep" creation at the Kentucky Brick Expo?
WHAT??friskywhiskers wrote:I am not that impressed actually.
Justin M wrote:Such a massive layout!
After looking around I found the build on MOCpages here. I'm guessing that this is the person who built it.
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Friday, July 15, 2011
"'Look at you,' he murmured almost to himself. 'You're a baby, nothing but a moment, a heartbeat.'
She took a quivering breath. 'I'm more than that.'" (67)
Pia's mother raised her by one simple rule: fly beneath the radar. There's a codicil or twelve (never let anyone near your blood, always keep your protective spells up, always stay out of the Other Worlds that parallel the human one) but the only law is fly beneath the radar, and keep your secrets. But that's a lonely life, and when Pia meets a man she just might love, she lets her mask slip, ever so slightly. The next thing she knows, she's being blackmailed by her erstwhile lover: fulfill a contract he's been given, he tells her, or he reveals her secrets to the world. That contract? Steal an item from the dragon's hoard.
The dragon, Cuelebre (his friends call him Dragos), is one of the oldest and most powerful creatures in this world or any Other one, and he's, to use the mildest possible term, a collector. He likes his things, and he knows them well. When he finds that someone has, for the first time in the eons he's been hoarding, penetrated his defenses, he's filled with rage. When he finds what's been taken - a single penny - he's puzzled. When he reads the note Pia left (Apologies! I left a replacement penny, so no hard feelings!), he's bemused despite himself.
He sets himself to track her, and, this being an urban paranormal romance, it should surprise no one that he finds her in a tangle of limbs and desperate possessiveness. He's anciently grumpy and self-sufficent, and she's slow to trust, so what we have here is a classic okay-I-want-you-but-what-is-love-anyway plot-extender.
"His head jerked up. He had one of the most startling and unwelcome thoughts of the last century.
Am I a boyfriend?" (203)
Harrison's novel shows its influences - Pia's more than a bit of a Sookie Stackhouse, all plucky sass and strange attraction for creatures of the Other Worlds. She even has a Sam-esque is-it-really-platonic friend for whom she works. (This plot-line troubled me - it's minimal enough that I wondered what its purpose was, if we were never going to be given more than a sketch of Pia's life before love, and sexually charged enough - "She was shocked at how good it felt to have Quentin stroke her hair. Going boneless, she turned her face into his shirt. He smelled like warm, virile male and green growing places" - to make me wonder what exactly Pia was giving up when Dragos tells her abruptly that her old life was over and there was no going back.) And Cuelebre's status as a dictatorial warlord of what amounts to both a tribe and corporation of Wyr shifters smacks of Nalini Singh, to say the least.
So Dragon Bound walks the line between traditional and derivative pretty perilously. Combined with love scenes that are, um, ferociously mechanical and the same chirpy dialogue that finally turned me off of Kresley Cole's urban paranormal series, this kept me in a state of constant preparation to dislike the novel. (Pia calls her house-sized dragon of a boyfriend "big guy" throughout. I cringed every time. By contrast, Dragos, to my delight, often undercut his more treacly comments with affectionate exasperation: "You were dying, you little shit.") I was even prepared to admit, at last, that maybe urban paranormals just weren't for me, with rare exceptions like Carolyn Crane's excellent series.
But I have to be honest with you. I didn't dislike it. Not at all. I found the characters warm and nuanced. The interactions between the two lovers (when they weren't pistoning away in bed like something from the Industrial Revolution) to be an unidealized portrait of what it's like to love with good intentions and minute experience of togetherness, as when (for instance) one of you is an all-powerful reptile used to ruling in perfect unquestioned solitude and the other is a hunted creature in mystical witness protection. And there are moments of real psychological and ideological interest here, as when Pia and a witch sub-contractor negotiate her right to make the despicable ex swear a magically binding oath to keep her secrets:
"'If someone swears and oath of his own free will, the binding falls into the realm of contractual obligation and justice. I can do that. And have as a matter of fact,' the other woman said. She moved toward the back of her shop. 'Follow me.'
Pia's abused conscience twitched. Unlike the polarized white and black magics, gray magic was supposed to be neutral, but the witch's kind of ethical parsing never did sit well with her. Like the relaxation spell in the shop, it felt manipulative, devoid of any real moral substance. A great deal of harm could be done under the guise of neutrality." (15)
This is fascinating, all the more so because this binding spell is a necessary plot device, one that I was glad of as the plot progresses, and one that I admired Pia for initiating. Does this speak to a manipulative streak in the very warp and weft of this genre, or my readerly response to it?
Later I wondered this again when it wasn't clear whether I should admire the vegan, pacifist Pia's descent into bloodthirsty murderousness, or decry it. There is this to be said: Pia - and the next heroine in the series, if I'm reading the excerpt at the end of this volume correctly - are weaker than the Wyr warriors around them, but they have a defensive strength that is substantial and ferocious, equal in deft (even deceptive) ingenuity to anything the brawny warriors bring to the table. Is feeling pleased by this murderous development in Pia's character a variety of warrior feminism (I hope), or is it a narrative seduction into an ethos of ambiguously moral violence? I love a book that makes me wonder, as Harrison does in the passage above.
I'd love to see more paranormal romance that deemphasizes Whedonesque chirp (I love me some Whedon, but prefer his verbal wit to what always seemed to me a weird faux teenage argot) and breathless thriller action in favor of these sorts of moments: true, morally ambiguous, and thoughtful. I hope Harrison's future novels give her the freedom to do exactly that. I'll be reading them.
Dragon Bound
Thea Harrison
A spoilery post-script (be VERY sure you skip this if you haven't yet read the book, and, for that matter, if you've been living under a very large stone encumbrance and don't know the plot of the Twilight series):
Maybe, in the PT (post-traumatic, er, I mean, post-Twilight) era, I'm just hypersensitive to the politics of pregnancy in the romance genre, but I'm really uncomfortable with embryos (not fetuses, even, but wee specks of potential life mere weeks post-conception) that have substantial individual consciousnesses and two-way subjective relationships. Admittedly, I was glad to see that this embryo, unlike the Cullen-to-be, heals its mother rather than, you know, devouring her from within in its desperate hunger to be free (and feast on flesh). But still, these things have a political dimension, and one that has a real effect on how people understand this issue. For me, because of my particular leftist feminist beliefs, that was a slightly uncomfortable plot device.
I also have one more feminist skeptic's question about marriage and the troublesome fated-mate trope. If mates are fated, what purpose does marriage serve as an institution? You're fated to love one another, and only one another, for the rest of your lives. What exactly does marriage add to that, apart from the opportunity to spend a great deal of money on a ring and a kick-ass, stressful party? (Or the opportunity to reinforce the essential place of the marriage proposal in the formula of the HEA? That possibility really irks me.)


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Trophies will be awarded to yachts based on their corrected time unless otherwise described. Corrected times will be adjusted for starting time and time credits or penalties at the decision of the Compliance Committee or Jury. Other prizes may be awarded at the discretion of the Race Committee.
Founders, Big Yacht and Classic Division Trophies
Awarded to yachts in the Marion-Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race:
BWSC Board of Governors Trophy
Commemorative Bulkhead Plaques
Exemplary Performance Trophy
Awarded to any registered yacht at the discretion of the MBCYRA Trustees in recognition of truly outstanding seamanship or sportsmanship, independent of a yacht's finishing position.
The Robert N. Bavier, Jr. Seamanship-Sportmanship Trophy
Founders Division Overall Trophies
Awarded to yachts in the Founders Division regardless of their Starting Class.
Founders Trophy
BYC Polaris Trophy
Navigator's Trophy
Founders Division Class Trophies
Awarded in each starting class.
First, Second and Third Place Trophies
Cook's Trophies
Founders Division Special Trophies
Trophies established to foster competition in other ocean races designed for cruising yachts and between crews, teams, yachts of similar design. These trophies will be awarded if there are three or more such yachts starting the Race or at the discretion of the Race Committee.
L. Bryon Kingery, Jr. Memorial Trophy
Double-Handed Trophy
Beverly Family Trophy
Commodore Faith Paulsen Trophy
Offshore Youth Challenge Trophy
Kingman Yacht Center Marion Bermuda Team Trophy
"Mini-class" Trophies
Bartram Trophy
Ancient Mariners Golden Teapot Trophy
Bermuda Ocean Cruising Yacht Trophy
New England Offshore Racing Trophy
Founders Division Regional and Club Trophies
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Adams Bowl
Deborah Anne Domenie Memorial
Naval Academy Trophy
Corporation of Hamilton Trophy
Town of Marion Trophy
Commodore's Cup
Bermuda Longtail Trophy
Big Yacht Division Trophies
Awarded to yachts in the Big Yacht Division based upon the ORR handicap system unless otherwise noted.
Big Yacht Trophy
Second and Third Place Trophies
Classic Yacht Division Trophies
Awarded to yachts in the Classic Yacht Division based upon the ORR handicap system unless otherwise noted.
Captain Ed Williams Trophy
Second and Third Place Trophies


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Mail and news
This chapter explains how to set up NetBSD to use mail and news. Only a simple but very common setup is described: the configuration of a host connected to the Internet with a modem through a provider. You can think of this chapter as the continuation of Setting up TCP/IP on NetBSD in practice, assuming a similar network configuration. Even this simple setup proves to be difficult if you don't know where to start or if you've only read introductory or technical documentation. A general description of mail and news configuration is beyond the scope of this guide; please read a good Unix Administration book (some very good ones are listed on the NetBSD site).
This chapter also briefly describes the configuration (but not the usage) of two popular applications, mutt for mail and tin for news. The usage is not described because they are easy to use and well documented. Obviously, both mutt and tin are not mandatory choices: many other similar applications exist but I think that they are a good starting point because they are widely used, simple, work well and don't use too much disk space and memory. Both are console mode programs; if you prefer graphics applications there are also many choices for X.
In short, the programs required for the configuration described in this chapter are:
- postfix
- fetchmail
- mutt
- tin
Of these, only postfix is installed with the base system; you can install the other programs from the NetBSD package collection, pkgsrc.
Note: Since NetBSD 4.0, postfix is the default MTA (Mail Transport Agent) and sendmail was removed. Also, because sendmail is widely popular and several programs like fetchmail are designed to be used with it, postfix includes a command line wrapper that accepts sendmail's commands line syntax but works with postfix. See sendmail(1) for more details.
Before continuing, remember that none of the programs presented in this chapter is mandatory: there are other applications performing similar tasks and many users prefer them. You'll find different opinions reading the mailing lists. You can also use different strategies for sending and receiving mail: the one explained here is only a starting point; once you understand how it works you'll probably want to modify it to suit your needs or to adopt a different method altogether.
At the opposite extreme of the example presented here, there is the usage of an application like Mozilla, which does everything and frees you from the need of configuring many components: with Mozilla you can browse the Internet, send and receive mail and read news. Besides, the setup is very simple. There is a price to pay, though: Mozilla is a "closed" program that will not cooperate easily with other standard Unix utilities.
Another possibility is to use emacs to read mail and news. Emacs needs no introduction to Unix users but, in case you don't know, it is an extensible editor (although calling emacs an editor is somewhat reductive) which becomes a complete work environment, and can be used to read mail, news and to perform many operations. For many people emacs is the only environment that they need and they use it for all their work. The configuration of emacs for mail and news is described in the emacs manual.
In the rest of this chapter we will deal with a host connected to the Internet through a PPP connection via serial modem to a provider.
- the local host's name is
apeand the internal network is
insetti.net, which means that the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) is
- the user's login name on ape is
- the provider's name is BigNet.
- the provider's mail server is
- the provider's news server is
- the user's (
carlo) account at the provider is
alanwith the password
First some basic terminology:
MUA (mail user agent) -- a program to read and write mail. For example: mutt, elm and pine but also the simple mail application installed with the base system.
MTA (mail transfer agent) -- a program that transfers mail between two host but also locally (on the same host). The MTA decides the path that the mail will follow to get to the destination. On other BSD systems (but not only) the standard MTA is sendmail, other examples are qmail, exim and Microsoft Exchange.
MDA (mail delivery agent) -- a program, usually used by the MTA, that delivers the mail; for example, it physically puts the messages in the recipient's mailbox. For example, postfix uses one or more MDAs to deliver mail, and procmail is another well-known MDA.
The following figure depicts the mail system that we want to set up. Between the local network (or the single host) and the provider there is a modem PPP connection. The bubbles with the thick border (postfix, fetchmail, mutt) are the programs launched manually by the user; the remaining bubbles are the programs that are launched automatically. The circled numbers refer to the logical steps of the mail cycle:
In step (1) mail is downloaded from the provider's POP server using fetchmail, which hands messages off to postfix's sendmail wrapper to put the messages in the user's mailbox.
In step (2) the user launches mutt (or another MUA) to read mail, reply and write new messages.
In step (3) the user sends the mail from within mutt. Messages are accumulated in the spool area.
In step (4) the user calls postfix's sendmail wrapper to transfer the messages to the provider's SMTP server, that will deliver them to the final destination (possibly through other mail servers). The provider's SMTP server acts as a relay for our mail.
The connection with the provider must be up only during steps (1) and (4); for the remaining steps it is not needed.
When an MTA must deliver a local message, it is delivered directly. If the message is intended for a different domain, the MTA must find out the address of the mail server for that domain. Postfix uses the DNS service (described in The Domain Name System) to find a mail exchanger handling mail for the given domain, and delivers the message to that mail server then.
Postfix is controlled by a set of configuration files and databases, of which
/etc/postfix/main.cf and
/etc/postfix/master.cf are the most important.
Note: Prior to version 1.5 of NetBSD, the mail configuration files were in
/etc instead of
/etc/mail. Since NetBSD 4.0, the
/etc/mail directory is
only used to store the local aliases and the corresponding
The first problem to be solved is that the local network we are dealing with is
an internal network, i.e. not directly accessible from the Internet. This means
that the names used internally have no meaning on the Internet; in short,
ape.insetti.net cannot be reached by an external host: no one will be able to
reply to a mail sent with this return address (many mail systems will even
reject the message as spam prevention as it comes from an unknown host). The
true address, the one visible from everybody, is assigned by the provider and,
therefore, it is necessary to convert the local address
to the real address
email@example.com. Postfix, if correctly configured, will
take care of this when it transfers the messages.
You'll probably also want to configure postfix in order to send the e-mails to the provider's mail server, using it as a relay. In the configuration described in this chapter, postfix does not directly contact the recipient's mail server (as previously described) but relays all its mail to the provider's mail server.
Note: The provider's mail server acts as a relay, which means that it delivers mail which is not destined to its own domain, to another mail server. It acts as an intermediary between two servers.
Since the connection with the provider is not always active, it is not necessary
to start postfix as a daemon in
/etc/rc.conf: you can disable it with the line
postfix=NO. As a consequence it will be necessary to launch postfix manually
when you want to transfer mail to the provider. Local mail is delivered
correctly even if postfix is not active as a daemon.
Let's start configuring postfix.
Configuration of generic mapping
This type of configuration uses a new file
/etc/postfix/generic which contains
the hostname mapping used by postfix to rewrite the internal hostnames.
The first step is therefore to write the mapping file:
email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com
firstname.lastname@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com
email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com
These entries will map the mail sent from the users given on the left side into the globally valid email addresses given on the right, making it appear as if the mail was really sent from that address.
For the sake of efficiency,
generic must be transformed into a binary file
with the following command:
# postmap /etc/postfix/generic
Now it's time to create the prototype configuration file which we'll use to create the postfix configuration file.
# vi /etc/postfix/main.cf
For the sake of simplicity, we'll only show the variables you need to change:
relayhost = mail.bignet.it
smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic
This configuration tells postfix to rewrite the addresses of type
ape.insetti.net using the real names found in the
/etc/postfix/generic file.
It also says that mail should be sent to the
mail.bignet.it server. The
meaning of the options is described in detail in
The last step is to reload the configuration. You can do that easily with:
# /etc/rc.d/postfix reload
postfix/postfix-script: refreshing the Postfix mail system
Now everything is ready to start sending mail.
Testing the configuration
Postfix is finally configured and ready to work, but before sending real mail it is better to do some simple tests. First let's try sending a local e-mail with the following command (postfix's sendmail wrapper):
$ sendmail carlo
Subject: test
Hello world
Please follow exactly the example above: leave a blank line after Subject: and end the message with a line containing only one dot. Now you should be able to read the message with your mail client and verify that the From: field has been correctly rewritten.
From: email@example.com
Using an alternative MTA
Starting from version 1.4 of NetBSD sendmail is not called directly:
$ ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Nov 1 01:14 /usr/sbin/sendmail@ -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper
The purpose of mailwrapper is to allow the usage of an alternative MTA instead of postfix (for example, sendmail). If you plan to use a different mailer I suggest that you read the mailwrapper(8) and the mailer.conf(5) manpages, which are very clear.
If someone sends me mail, it is received and stored by the provider, and not
automatically transferred to the local hosts; therefore it is necessary to
download it. Fetchmail is a very popular program that downloads mail from a
remote mail server (using e.g. the Post Office Protocol, POP) and forwards it to
the local system for delivery (usually using postfix's sendmail wrapper). It is
powerful yet easy to use and configure: after installation, the file
~/.fetchmailrc must be created and the program is ready to run
~/.fetchmailrc contains a password so appropriate permissions on the file are
This is an example
poll mail.bignet.it
protocol POP3
username alan there with password pZY9o is carlo here
mda "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem %T"
The last line (
mda ...) is used only if postfix is not active as daemon on the
system. Please note that the POP-mail server indicated in this file
(mail.bignet.it) is only used to retrieve mails, and that it is not necessary
the same as the mail relay used by postfix to send out mails.
After setting up the
.fetchmailrc file, the following command can be used to
download and deliver mail to the local system:
$ fetchmail
The messages can now be read with mutt.
Reading and writing mail with mutt
Mutt is one of the most popular mail programs: it is lightweight, easy to use
and has lots of features. The man page mutt is very bare bones; the real
documentation is in
/usr/pkg/share/doc/mutt/, in particular
Mutt's configuration is defined by the
~/.muttrc file. The easiest way to
create it is to copy mutt's example muttrc file (usually
/usr/pkg/share/examples/mutt/sample.muttrc) to the home directory and modify
it. The following example shows how to achieve some results:
- Save a copy of sent mail.
- Define a directory and two files for incoming and outgoing mail saved by mutt
(in this example the directory is
- Define some colors.
Define an alias.
set copy=yes set edit_headers set folder="~/Mail" unset force_name set mbox="~/Mail/incoming" set record="~/Mail/outgoing" unset save_name
bind pager previous-page bind pager next-page
color normal white black color hdrdefault blue black color indicator white blue color markers red black color quoted cyan black color status white blue color error red white color underline yellow black
mono quoted standout mono hdrdefault underline mono indicator underline mono status bold
alias pippo Pippo Verdi firstname.lastname@example.com
To start mutt:
$ mutt
Please note that mutt supports color, but this depends on the terminal settings. Under X you can use "xterm-color", for example:
$ env TERM=xterm-color mutt
Strategy for receiving mail
This section describes a simple method for receiving and reading mail. The connection to the provider is activated only for the time required to download the messages; mail is then read offline.
- Activate the connection to the provider.
- Run
- Deactivate the connection.
- Read mail with mutt.
Strategy for sending mail
When mail has been written and sent with mutt, the messages must be
transferred to the provider with postfix. Mail is sent from mutt with the
command, but this does not really send it; the messages are enqueued in the
spool area; if postfix is not active as a daemon it is necessary to start it
manually or the messages will remain on the hard disk. The necessary steps are:
- Write mail with mutt, send it and exit mutt. You can check if and what messages are in the postfix mail queue using the mailq(1) program.
- Activate the connection with the provider.
- If your provider requires you to do "SMTP-after-POP", i.e. it first wants to
make sure to know who you are before you are allowed to send mail (and no
spam), you need to run
fetchmailagain first.
- Write the command
/usr/sbin/postfix flushto transfer the queued messages to the provider.
- Deactivate the connection when the queue is empty.
Advanced mail tools
When you start using mail, you won't probably have very sophisticated requirements and the already described standard configuration will satisfy all your needs. But for many users the number of daily messages will increase with time and a more rational organization of the mail storage will become necessary, for example subdividing mail in different mail boxes organized by topic. If, for example, you subscribe to a mailing list, you will likely receive many messages every day and you will want to keep them separate from the rest of your mail. You will soon find that you are spending too much time every day repeating the same manual operations to organize your mail boxes.
Why repeat the same operations manually when you can have a program perform them automatically for you? There are numerous tools that you can add to your mail system to increase its flexibility and automatically process your messages. Amongst the most known and used there are:
- procmail, an advanced mail delivery agent and general purpose mail filter for local mail, which automatically processes incoming mail using user defined rulesets. It integrates smoothly with sendmail/postfix.
- spamassassin or spamprobe, to help fight spam.
- metamail, a tool to process attachments.
- formail, a mail formatter.
In the remaining part of this section a sample configuration for procmail will be presented for a very common case: delivering automatically to a user defined mailbox all the messages coming from a mailing list. The configuration of postfix will be modified in order to call procmail directly (procmail will be the local mailer used by sendmail). and a custom configuration file for procmail will be created.
First, procmail must be installed using the package system (
pkg_add or
Next, the configuration of postfix must be changed, in order to use procmail as local mailer:
mailbox_command = /usr/pkg/bin/procmail
The line defines the path of the procmail program (you can see where procmail is
installed with the command
which procmail).
The last step is the creation of the procmail configuration file, containing the recipes for mail delivery.
Let's say that, for example, you subscribed to a mailing list on roses whose
address is
email@example.com and that every message from the list contains the
following line in the header:
Delivered-To: email@example.com
Assuming you want to automatically sort all mails going over that list into the
local mail folder
roses_list, the procmail configuration file (
looks like this:
* ^Delivered-To: email@example.com
The previous file contains only one rule, beginning with the line containing
:0. The following line identifies all messages containing the string
Delivered-To: firstname.lastname@example.com and the last line says that the selected
messages must go to the
roses_list mailbox (which you should have created in
$MAILDIR). The remaining messages will be delivered to the default mailbox. Note
that $MAILDIR is the same directory that you have configured with mutt:
set folder="~/Mail"
Of course the mailing list is only an example; procmail is a very versatile tool which can be used to filter mail based on many criteria. As usual, refer to the man pages for more details: procmail(1), procmailrc(5), and procmailex(5) (this last one contains many examples of configuration files).
News with tin
The word news indicates the set of messages posted to the USENET newsgroups, a service available on the Internet. Each newsgroup contains articles related to a specific topic. Reading a newsgroup is different than reading a mailing list: when you subscribe to a mailing list you receive the articles by mail and you read them with a standard mail program like mutt, which you use also to send replies. News, instead, are read directly from a news server with a dedicated program called newsreader like, for example, tin. With tin you can subscribe to the newsgroups that you're interested in and follow the threads. A thread is a sequence of articles which all derive from an article that we could call original. In short, a message is sent to the group, someone answers, other people answer to those who answered in the first place and so on, creating a tree like structure of messages and replies: without a newsreader it is impossible to understand the correct sequence of messages.
After the installation of tin (from the package collection as usual) the only
thing left to do is to write the name of the NNTP server in the file
/usr/pkg/etc/nntp/server, which you may need to create first. For example:
Once this has been done, the program can be started with the command
tin. On
the screen something similar to the following example will be displayed:
$ tin
Connecting to news.bignet.it...
news.bignet.it InterNetNews NNRP server INN 1.7.2 08-Dec-1997 ready (posting ok).
Reading groups from active file...
Checking for new groups...
Reading attributes file...
Reading newsgroups file...
Creating newsrc file...
Autosubscribing groups...
Reading newsrc file...
Be patient when you connect for the first time, because tin downloads an immense
list of newsgroups to which you can subscribe and this takes several minutes.
When the download is finished, the program's main screen is displayed; usually
no groups are displayed; to see the list of groups press
y. To subscribe to a
group, move on the group's name and press
Once that you have subscribed to some newsgroups you can start tin more quickly
with the command
tin -Q. The search for new groups is disabled (
-q), only
active groups are searched (
-n) and newsgroup description are not loaded
-d): it will not be possible to use the
y (yank) command in tin. When tin
is started with this option it can't tell if a newsgroup is moderated or not.
Note that if you are connecting from an internal network (like in our example),
when you send ("post") a message the address at the beginning of the message
will be wrong (because it is the internal address). To solve the problem, use
the option
mail_address in the tin configuration file (
~/.tin/tinrc) or set
REPLYTO environment variable.


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Michael Brewer was 15-years-old when he was allegedly doused in rubbing alcohol in Oct. 2009 and set on fire by three teens. Michael Bent, 18, the alleged ringleader of the burning attack, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Dec. 20, 2012 for an aggravated battery conviction. Two other teenagers, Denver Jarvis and Jesus Mendez, are also serving time in prison after pleading no contest to attempted second-degree murder charges in the attack. Brewer largely recovered physically from his lengthy hospitalization and rehabilitation, but his family said his skin grafts still caused pain and he suffered from frequent nightmares. On March 21, 2013, Brewer was arrested in Palm Beach County, Fla. on drug charges.
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From left to right, Matthew Bent, Denver Jarvis, and Jesus Mendez.
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Undated photo of Michael Brewer during his recovery from a burning attack.
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Undated photo of Michael Brewer.
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Behind the Scenes of Harold Dieterle's All-Sunflower Dish at Perilla
Top Chef Harold Dieterle is serving a seasonal vegetarian entrée at Perilla that we must admit we haven't seen anywhere else: a Tasting of Sunflower.
That's right, a sunflower. He incorporates five distinct parts of the sunflower into the dish: sunchokes (both raw and cooked), sunflower sprouts, seeds, petals, and the flower itself, which tastes like a sweeter artichoke heart.
This dish will only be available while sunflowers remain in season, so be sure to try this dish before the weather turns too cold.
Check out the slideshow to see this beautiful dish come together!
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Morning Gift
The morning was dark and cold when I rolled out of bed.
I got up.
Headed out the door.
Unaware of the beauty yet to come.
I ran with my friend while the sun rose in the east,
birds chirping; hands cold as ice.
Then we were done.
My morning,
ready for new mercies and smiling faces.
As I dashed from her door, her son practiced on the piano.
The simple melody...
"...I once was lost, but now am found; Was blind, but now I see."
The sun brings warmth to the morning.
I'm humming the Truth,
which stirs the embers in my heart.
My eyes are opening to the grace of this day.
"T'was Grace that brought us safe thus far,
And Grace will lead us home."
Amazing grace.
One little boy plays at the piano
and it reminds me of
The gift I could not earn.
Or purchase.
A wonderful present I do not deserve.
Freely given. Freely received.
Praise! Adoration!
Right now.
"When we've been here ten-thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun.
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we first begun."
Posted by Unknown at 8:45 AM
3 comments:
- Gretchen said...
This takes my breath away...
Love you and the amazing Grace which brought us together as friends.
- March 27, 2012 11:16 AM
- Candace said...
Beautiful post and that last picture is a beauty!!! Much love to you today, friend!
- March 27, 2012 1:44 PM
- Megan O. said...
Hi Kellie! Long time, no "talk"! I miss your blog. I need to catch up. You always encourage me with your heartfelt words and your "realness". Plus its just so dang beautiful where you live. Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving a comment--hoping I'm really reentering the blogiverse for real this time. :)
- March 28, 2012 11:20 AM
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Paul Jackson's subject is Joanna Braithwaite, an artist known for her exploration of the interrelationships between animals and humans. She frequently combines objects, animals and humans in unexpected ways in her intriguing, lavishly painted works. She was a finalist in the 2008 Archibald Prize with a self-portrait surrounded by chooks.
The fish, prawns and other animals, which surround her in Paul Jackson's portrait, are all references to Braithwaite's work.
A seven-time finalist in the Archibald Prize, Jackson won the 2009 Packing Room Prize for his portrait of Flacco (the alter ego of comedian Paul Livingston) and the 2006 People's Choice for a portrait of actor Garry McDonald battling depression.
Jackson believes that both works were characterised by their humanity – a quality he hopes this portrait shares.
'In Jo's case her chosen anthropomorphic take on animals carries humanity to another place, a kind of Never Never Land, where all is possible and we are left wondering who we are,' says Jackson. 'I think I have captured that sense in the background and foreground where there is a hint of shoreline and where Jo's head is in the clouds and her boots are on impossibly turquoise ground, or is it water?'
Jackson is a much-commissioned portrait artist but though the main characteristic of his artistic practice is the human head he doesn't consider his work to be portraiture as much as an examination of the human condition.


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Majorities support some new gun laws, not bans
Although public support for "gun control" as a general concept remains well below the levels found in the 1990s, several polls in recent days have shown Americans favor some new laws.
The polling indicates some areas where President Obama's promised push for new measures to combat gun-related violence could prevail. At the same time, the numbers also show deeply entrenched and stark partisan divides on the issue that almost certainly will complicate efforts to gain support from Republicans for new gun measures.
Controlling the sale of high-capacity ammunition clips gets consistent majority support in surveys by the Washington Post/ABC News and YouGov that were conducted after the Newtown, Conn., massacre last week. The ability to fire large numbers of bullets without reloading has factored into several mass shootings.
A ban on bullets that can penetrate bulletproof vests also gets strong public support in recent surveys. Previous polls have shown strong support for requiring background checks of all people trying to buy guns and other steps to close loopholes in the current system.
By contrast, large majorities oppose more far-reaching steps, such as a ban on private ownership of handguns. The public remains closely divided on the issue of banning semiautomatic guns, with poll results varying in part on the wording of the question.
The surveys suggest that the outcome of the coming debate could depend heavily on whether public attention focuses on the specific proposals or on the general issue of "gun control."
Overall, public opinion on regulating guns has shown "only modest change" since last week's killings, according to pollsters at the Pew Research Center based on a new survey of 1,219 Americans conducted Monday through Wednesday. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
Asked whether it is "more important to control gun ownership" or "more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns," Americans divided closely, with 49% putting a priority on gun control and 42% on protecting gun rights. That's a shift from a 47% to 46% division just after the shooting in Aurora, Colo., in July. Neither the Aurora shooting nor the one in Tucson, Ariz., in 2011 produced a significant increase in support for controls as a general proposition.
The difficulty of moving public opinion on the issue reflects the reality that most Americans have strongly held views on the subject. Currently, that intensity leans toward the gun-control side, but only slightly, with 42% saying they feel strongly that a priority should be put on controlling gun ownership, while 37% feel strongly on the side of protecting gun rights.
In the late 1990s, about two-thirds of Americans said that controlling gun ownership was more important than protecting gun rights, but the percentage backing gun control dropped during the George W. Bush presidency, then fell sharply again when Obama was first elected.
That historical pattern reflects the stark partisan divide on the issue. Among Democrats, 72% in the new Pew survey said they put their priority on controlling gun ownership, while only 20% sided with protecting gun rights. Among Republicans, the division was the reverse, 27% to 69%. About one-third of Americans say they have a gun at home. Among Republicans, almost half say so, while among Democrats, only one-quarter do.
That partisan divide is reinforced by strong regional and racial ones. In the Northeast, residents put the priority on gun control by more than 2 to 1. In the rest of the country, the public is equally divided between the gun control and gun rights sides. Urban residents put their priority on gun control by 56% to 35%, while among rural residents the divide is almost the opposite, 39% to 52%; suburbanites are closely split. Blacks by 68% to 24% put a priority on gun control while among whites, the divide goes the other way, 42% to 51%, with support for gun ownership particularly strong among white men.
Although Obama on Wednesday suggested that parents might back gun control measures to protect children, the Pew survey showed that support for gun control is higher among non-parents, reflecting the fact that Americans younger than 30 support gun control considerably more than those ages 30 to 65. Americans older than 65 were the group that has shown the most shift in opinion this year, moving toward greater support for gun controls.
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"Your God gave you the gift of the Gun. The Gun is good. The Penis is Evil." - Zardoz
Sick of honoring Saint Patrick's Day by celebrating your Irishness or affinity for Irish culture by going out to drown your innards with copious amounts of Irish spirits? Stay indoors, save some green money, tuck into your own whiskey stash while marveling at the natural beauty of the Emerald isle as framed by British filmmaker John Boorman in such films as Excalibur (1981) and Zardoz (1974) -- could two films made in the same location, directed, produced and written by the same person be more different? I think not.
Gabriel Byrne and Nichol Williamson as Uther and Merlin in Excalibur
And yet one gets the impression that even in within the context of Boorman's adaptation of Arthurian legends the sword Excalibur represents a goodness not unlike that of Zardoz's "God-given gun" while the "evil" penis serves naught but to wreak havoc upon Camelot's carefully constructed peace what with all that adultery and incest going 'round the round table. But Zardoz is one of those films that I find myself thinking about more than I probably should, perhaps that's because no matter how many times I've seen it it completely freaks me out. It is such a strange film that it's almost impossible to believe it actually exists.
Sean Connery in Zardoz
It does exist, of course, and looking past Sean Connery's adult diaper-looking red short-shorts, matching bandoliers and thigh-high leather boots costume -- not to mention the plenitude of naked women that flesh out the cast -- to digest the core of the penis vs. gun debate in this most extravagant of dystopian science fictions is only half the fun. But I digress, and I really shouldn't attempt to mold Excalibur to its freaky, art house contours. Though both of these films were made in Ireland, largely filmed on Boorman's own estate (must be nice!), Zardoz doesn't pack the same atmospheric punch that Excalibur does, but then Excalibur isn't trying to sell viewers on the concept of giant stone God heads that fly around distributing arsenals of firearms to the people down below by ejecting guns by the dozen from it's gaping mouth-hole. Excalibur's magic is a softer, more subtle stuff. Personally, I think it's the best movie of it's kind ever made.
Nicholas Clay and Cherie Lunghi as Lancelot and Guenevere in Excalibur
There is a seemingly excessive use of green lighting used to fantastic effect throughout Excalibur, highlighting what I've always assumed to be the suggestion of magical elements at work within the story (see the green glint on the sword pictured above), and spotting the use of unnaturally green light throughout the film seems worthy of a drinking game. Unlike Zardoz, Excalibur's more unbelievable moments are enveloped within an oft-told mythological narrative so well known that when when the audience is presented with, say, an awkward, huffy-puffy sex scene between a nude actress (Boorman's own daughter, Katrine as Igrayne of Cornwall) and a fully-armored knight (Corin Redgrave as Cornwall, or is that Gabriel Byrne again?) it's not all that surprising. Shocking? Maybe a little, but plausible. Just about as plausible as the Lady of the Lake (featuring Boorman's other daughter, Telsche), whose scenes not only make an argument for her existence showcase some of the more beautiful of Excalibur's Irish locations.
Nigel Terry as King Arthur approaches the Lady of the Lake
All in all, there are plenty of other fantastic fantasy films made in Ireland (Princess Bride is a standout favorite) so if you're stuck inside the house this St. Paddy's Day, or are just plain loath to go out and mingle with the greenery, get a little Irish film fix with either of these Boorman classics. Also, be on the lookout for the Excalibur documentary, Behind the Sword in the Stone, currently in production and featuring interviews with Boorman himself and many cast, such as Nigel Terry, Patrick Stewart, Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne, Cherie Lunghi and Charley Boorman who played young Mordred in this so-called "Boorman family picture."
Check out the trailers for both Excalibur and Zardoz below:
Check out the trailers for both Excalibur and Zardoz below:


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Dave Ivey asks:-
"We're working with MEP models for the first time, and seem to be having problems viewing their content. The image below shows locations for pipes which are system families (in MEP), and which do not show up any view (2D or 3D) when the model is linked in to RAC 2010. All the obvious stuff has been checked (Worksets, View Range, Object Styles, Visibility Graphics, etc…). We even tried linking to a specific view in the MEP model, and all we see anywhere is Annotation. Hopefully I'm just missing something obvious?"
Lee Miller says:-
"Create a new 3D view, then go to instance properties for the view and set the discipline to Coordination".
"Next go to Visibility/Graphics for the view; then under Revit Links, set the Display setting to "By Linked View".