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Letters To The Editor
From Issue #135
Rabbits and Tularemia
In your Jan/Feb 2012 issue you had a very informative article about raising rabbits for food. This is a very good idea not used by enough people. Rabbit is great tasting and healthier than most meats, at a lower cost, with less space to raise them than bigger animals.
As a young parent of two kids I have raised rabbits for a few years now. This has put food on my table and in some months a little extra money in my pocket. With the economy the way it is now every little bit helps.
One thing not mentioned in your article is a bacterial disease called Tularemia or "Rabbit Fever" most commonly associated with rabbits. Many different animals wild and domestic can get naturally infected by this disease, and thus passing it on to you.
While there is not just one way you can get infected by this disease, some are through the bite of a blood-sucking tick or flea, after they have bitten an infected animal. Another way to get infected is while skinning an infected animal, you cut yourself and the bacteria enters through scratches on the skin.
This causes nasty lesions occurring on the infection, which could even cause loss of fingers or thumbs. Other symptoms include fever, swollen lymph nodes, and flu-like feelings.
With proper antibiotics, few cases of Tularemia are fatal. If not careful the money you've saved or made as profit will have to be spent on high overpriced medical bills and medications. This could be a very costly and painful lesson learned.
There are some easy ways to help prevent Tularemia: Use repellent for ticks and fleas, use rubber latex gloves, wash hands and arms thoroughly with soap after handling animals, clean and disinfect all tools, knives, skinning boards, etc. (anything that the rabbit touches during skinning) with a 1:16 ratio of bleach and water solution, and cook all rabbit meat thoroughly.
Raising rabbits can be fun and profitable, just don't let something happen that can be prevented with a few easy steps.
Brad Engebretson
Homestead burnout article
I just had to write to say thank you for the article, "Homestead burnout — what it is and how to avoid it" by Jackie Clay-Atkinson in the March/April 2012 Issue #134. It was perfect! Exactly what I needed to read as I sit here at my desk at my "real job" feeling overwhelmed by all that needs to be done back at the farm. She is so right — the work will be there when I can get back to it. I also really appreciated her advice to appreciate your kids. Ours do so much to help and lately, as I've been more and more stressed, I know I've taken it out on them. Our Old McDonald-type farm can be a lot of fun IF we don't allow it to overwhelm us. Thanks, again, for the article. I plan to print and re-read several times.
Mary Beth
Potential poultry criminals
There is a new rule, proposed by the Animal/Plant Health Inspection Service, titled: "Traceability for Livestock Moving Interstate." It will require all poultry hatcheries and backyard flock owners to leg band all of their birds. The bands will be required to be on birds from birth to death, and it will cost a fee for each individually numbered band. There will be severe fines and criminal imprisonment for those violating this rule. The proposed regulation specifically cites Article VII, Section 8013 of the U.S. Code, which gives the secretary of Agriculture the power to make criminals out of small-scale family farmers, homesteaders, and backyard poultry keepers. Please do an article on this. People need to write their representatives and the Secretary of Agriculture and tell them that they are against this rule.
An article is in the works. — Annie
Reminds me of old days
Great magazine! It reminds me of the way it was when I was young. I remember no electric, the long path out back, and until the middle 50s I thought vegetables and fruit only came in jars that you had to put there. You help me remember the way I should be living still.
T.E. Springer
Free subscription fund
I want to thank you for all these months you have continued to send me Backwoods Home when I could not afford to continue paying for my subscription. That kind of kindness from individuals is rare — from a business is almost unheard of. I am now able to pay you and hopefully I will be able to send some extra money at some point so you can more easily help out and bless someone else as you have me.
Phyllis Guthery
Thank you for your wonderful magazine. Please find enclosed our check for a 3-year renewal, Veterinary Guide for Animal Owner's, and a 1-year subscription for your free subscription fund. Your magazine is saying things that people need to hear. I mentioned that to Jackie Clay when I met her at the Wisconsin Energy Fair last summer (what an exciting day that was)! I am looking forward to many more years of Backwoods Home and the sage advice of all the writers. Keep up the good work!
Roy and Donna Swedlund
Great office staff
Your office staff must be the envy of many other magazines — they have always served us with exceptional promptness, competence, and courtesy. (Also integrity.) Twice now, they have gone well beyond the call of duty to assist us. I'm sure that they are a big factor in the success of your magazine.
Peggy Wilson
They are. — Annie
When I Was a Kid This Was a Free Country
No sane person could disagree with your editorial in March/April Issue #134 (guess that leaves out congress critters and bureaucrats), but does anyone in their right mind believe Congress or anyone else in a "position of authority" would allow these problems to be mitigated or eliminated? One small example; a huge proportion of the country did not want a debt limit hike this last year. Poll after poll, etc. showed this. Guess what happened? And, if there was ever a more pathetic example of a leader than John Boehner, I'd be hard pressed to even imagine him. Our last, best hope was the Republican majority in the House of Representatives and they have completely and utterly failed us at every turn. Don't even mention my home state senator, McCain, and his authorship of detention under NDAA.
Yes, the problems are easy to enumerate, but I don't see them getting anything but worse. Anyone that thinks a "major event" will be anything but cause to bring out more force is strictly an overactive "rose colored glasses" optimist. Worst part is, I think most of our country could care less.
Enough ranting from an old guy. I remember, with sadness, the title of G. Gordon Liddy's book, "When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country."
Vic Safranek
Cause of food allergies
I have been a reader for many years. My office area has every copy I ever bought along with 4 or 5 competing magazines. I was a subscriber to Organic Gardening from the 1960s until it changed too much. I own a complete set of the Foxfire books and read them more than once. I also own an early edition of Rachael Carson's Silent Spring. I don't agree with everything I have read or do read, but I keep learning! Some ideas I would like to share.
Our food allergies, in my opinion, come about because we have changed the genetic make-up of crops. It took centuries for the natives to culture a corn that could feed them and their livestock — what did not work was not saved for seed. In the last 50 plus years we have altered it and wheat with genes so insects can't or won't eat it. If the bugs can't eat it, should we be surprised that many of us can't either?
I have always had a garden and use natural fertilizer (manure), no chemical weed killer, rotenone for insects. A young neighbor watched my tomatoes grow with their mulch of fresh cut grass — he copied it! It took 3 weeks to kill his whole garden. He had a beautiful, weed-free lawn; but the herbicide killed tomatoes, beans, and zucchini just from the mulch.
People using ovens to can. I remember when I was about 6 or 7. Mom canned a whole oven full of jars with sweet corn. They were done and as my dad removed them, he tightened a lid on a hot jar. Flying glass scattered around the kitchen. As the jar in his hand exploded, flying pieces of glass broke a couple more. Mom used store jars for canning – Miracle Whip, coffee, Spry, among other things came in glass to save metal for the war effort. Anyone remember the old "73" lids? They were made so "small-mouth" jars could be used.
I could go on, but this is enough. Jackie, I read your stuff first! Hard to disagree with any of your advice.
Thaddeus (Ted) Kozicki
No more veggies from the store?
My passion is gardening! After being an avid reader of Backwoods magazine for many years, it has become my quest to lead a self-sufficient lifestyle, and not purchase another vegetable either fresh or canned, from the grocery store ever again. Well, it has taken me two years to reach my goal, and my quest has now been fulfilled. I grow enough of my own organic veggies to can, freeze, dry, and eat fresh for a year or more for a family of four. I also used my own fresh veggies to can and make all of my own soups. I also make my own pickles, relishes, salsa, marinara sauce, and juices, etc. If I grow it, I will find a way to store it for future use or eat it right out of the garden. How good is a salad for dinner that you picked fresh ½ hour ago? It's awesome!
In addition to eating more flavorful and nutritious vegetables, I no longer worry about purchasing vegetables that may be tainted with Listeria, or E-coli and BPA issues that are scaring the canned food industry. I also grow wheat, rye, and barley all within the confines of a small 2500 sq ft garden space in Zone 3.
It can be done! You just have to want to do it. You have to eat daily, right? So, why not eat healthy, delicious, and chemical free? So, thank you Backwoods Home Magazine for providing me with the inspiration to pursue my passion and I hope you inspire many other readers.
Dyan Knittle
Dogs ate my magazine
My dogs love your magazine so much they ate it before I even opened it! Can you please send me a March/April 2012 copy?
Seana Brandon
It is in the mail. You must have one smart dog. — Annie
"Learn to shovel crap" should be required reading
I am writing to inform you of a major oversight on my order for The Whole Sheebang. You failed to include a warning label or note stating "Contents will cause sleep deprivation, loss of work productivity and social withdrawal from the family." From the minute I received the box of anthologies and books, I can't put them down. I read Starting Over by Jackie Clay in one sitting and have not been able to stop from there. My wife stole my Backwoods Home Cooking book before I even had a chance to look at it. My sons each grabbed an anthology and I find them now in every room of the house including the throne. I've issued strict orders, not to be used in place of TP. The articles are educational, thought provoking and inspiring. Last night I read issue #29 (Fifth Year Anthology) and I'm going to ask both my sons to read "You have to learn to shovel crap before you learn to be the boss." This article should be required reading by any individual born after 1990. I don't agree with all the written commentary but I do agree that you are producing the best damn self-reliant living magazine on the market. Keep up the excellent work and please consider my suggestion.
PS. Do BHM paper subscribers have the ability to download the Kindle version for free or are we required to pay the $1.99?
Kurt Carlsen
Glad you like The Whole Sheebang. Only Kindle subscribers can download the Kindle version. Amazon's rules, not ours. — Annie
Best issue ever, again!
I say this every time a new issue comes out, but Issue #134 really is your best ever! Keep up the good work.
Congrats to Claire for the fantastic front cover. Just a thought. How about offering this picture as a screen saver? Charge $5 to download and use the money for Veteran subscriptions.
In closing, my husband and I would love to sit around a campfire and shoot the breeze with Dave, Mac, and John. It's so nice to find people who "get it."
Mark & Lisa Kujawa
We will do that, but for free. I've asked my webmaster, Oliver Del Signore, to make several covers available as screensavers. — Annie
Issue #134
Great issue on all the 2012 Hype. As everyone is well aware, we all have enough real "Apocalyptic Scenarios" to be concerned with…Our shot economy, unsustaining debt, both public and private, tensions in the Middle East, Terrorism, social decay, etc…The very last thing we need is the imagined — which can and does separate itself from the reality and usually towards the worse degree to compound what we all have on our plate already…
Scott K. Donaldson
"Starting Over" book is an inspiration
I recently purchased Jackie Clay's canning book and received as a bonus her book "Starting Over — Chronicles of a Self-Reliant Woman." I have glanced through the canning book and am sure I'm going to love it once I get time to really sit down and read it through, but the "Starting Over" book really intrigued me so I started reading it first. Just finished it this morning. As one who is longing for a place out in the wilderness, I was fascinated with reading about Jackie's efforts to get her new homestead going. I also was filled with admiration for the way Jackie kept plugging away at it in spite of the many difficulties life threw at her. Jackie, you are my new hero and such an inspiration!
Nancy Saucier
From politics to poultry
We adore Jackie & her family and have enjoyed & absorbed all that she shares along with ALL the BHM family. Thank you for making it so easy — from politics to poultry — to understand and partake in what we have also found to be "the good life."
Diane Miller
Jackie's next generation
Been subscribing since the beginning. Thank you! Someday my goal is to have time to submit some stuff. I'm Jackie Clay's well-trained next generation. My teen loves your irreverent joke page. We've learned so much.
Laurie Brooks
News from shortwave
Keep up the great job you all are doing. In my opinion Issue #133 just might be your best…
I study where our country is going, agreeing with the views (especially political ones) put forth in BHM. Recent articles by Patrice Lewis and Claire Wolfe had real information a prepper can use to make some hard life decisions…
One way I gather news is to listen to talk radio from around the USA on my short wave receiver. It's the same am/fm radio I use to listen to my local stations only it has s.w. also to listen on the MHz frequencies. You will never hear the hidden truth of events on mainstream T.V. like you will on s.w. talk radio. Shows like Alex Jones 12.160 MHz, Trunews 4840 MHz or Melody Severstrum 3.195 MHz. Just .com them to get the hours on air. Speaking of .coms, try my two favorites, Armchair Survivalist, also on s.w., and survival blog.
John Galt
First garden in 20 years
Love your website! You encouraged me to plant my first garden in 20 years (I'm 71), then I had heart valve surgery and my kids and grandkids kept it weeded and watered until I was well enough to take over. I canned tomato products, pears, applesauce, squash, and jams. More next year!
Mimi Cook
Understanding history can tell us the future
Over the years I have enjoyed your magazine, and I really live the life, grow the food, hunt the meat. Owe no one!
Living in my 1200 sq. ft. solar passive home being a self-employed painter – wallpaper hanger makes life challenging but very rewarding, even living in liberal Connecticut.
Your articles of you and MacDougal talking have reaffirmed my thinking of the state of the U.S. and our money system. I wish you could tell us the whens and wheres of our future, but just understanding history can tell us the probable outcome.
Dana Macmillen
Zombie apocalypse issue
Backwoods Home Magazine is always interesting and informative, but you topped yourselves with Issue #134 (March/April 2012) — the "Zombie Apocalypse" issue.
Cecily Westermann
Potting peppers for winter
I would like to add a thought or two about "A homesteader's journal, Part 2" (Jan/Feb 2012 Issue #133). In particular, I wanted to comment on the practice of bringing peppers indoors after the growing season. Ms. Payne reports pulling up the plants and hanging them upside down to dry. This is, of course, perfectly fine. However, I wish to report my success at potting the pepper plants in an appropriately sized pot and keeping them alive through the winter. I have had pepper plants live as long as 7 seasons this way. I have tried this with some of the smaller-fruited peppers — bird's eye, pequin, chiltepin. If given sunlight, a little warmth and not too much water, you might even get a winter crop out of them. Once the weather settles into the warmth of late spring, I put the peppers outdoors, either in pots or directly in the ground. It should be noted that the truly wild pepper is a perennial plant in its native range. If a modicum of care is taken, a single plant can live many years, even in the colder regions, such as USDA Zone 6, where I and my peppers live.
Shan Bentz
Like-minded people
I have been getting your magazine for a while now. I really enjoy the fact that you cover such a variety and wide scope of information pertaining to self-reliant and homestead living. This magazine has given me so many good, usable articles. My first reason for purchasing it was because I was interested in emergency preparedness. I did a small volunteer class for our church when I realized how few people in our congregation were prepared for anything.
While I try not to give place to fear, it is a very uneasy time we are living in and I find it very refreshing to have this magazine to read for unwinding my brain at the end of the day and comforting to know that there are other like-minded people out there. I am also very much a family person and it reminds me of home.
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"Shit, fuck, goddamn."
There's this scene in the movie Saved that always makes me cry. I was just struck with why for the first time. Upon learning her boyfriend is a homosexual, Mary (Jenna Malone) tries to "heal his sickness" by losing her virginity with him. The intimate encounter yeilds more confusion for the boyfriend and a bun in the oven for Mary. The scene that always gets me is when she gets off the bus after visiting the pregnancy crisis center. Walking past a church, she stops and looks up at the cross on the steeple. The camera looks down on her from the towering height of the cross. Looking up at us, with anger and brokeness, she begins, "Shit. …" The camera begins a slow descent. Mary continues – a little more desperate now, "Fuck. …" Smoothly, gracefully and seemingly intentionally, we continue down toward her until we are face to face. With quiet desperation she closes the scene with a resolute "God-damn."
The reason this moves me is because the camera movement communicates Christ's movement in the scene. Mary is hurting tremendously. She's mad at God, but his compassion is unwavering. "The Cross" in this scene descends toward her despite her tongue. As an on-looker, the camera movement forces me to set aside judgement and honestly engage in this dialogue. I don't know why I'm posting about this. It's just something that suddenly struck me and made me cry. I felt like sharing that.
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This is my favorite shot in the movie, I think. When Jena Malone's character is on her way back from the pregnancy center, confirming that she is pregnant, realizing that her way of fixing the situation was not working out the way she thought, her boyfriend was still gay. She says these horrible things to the cross. The shot shows God's unending faithfulness to me and reminds me that He is not afraid of my sin but has paid for it.
January 19, 2006 at 12:05 pm
have you guys seen "the passion of joan or arc" yet?
January 21, 2006 at 9:06 am
you will not be disappointed — one of the most moving performances in the history of cinema…
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Felix Deufel
Felix is our sounddesigner and audio engineer specialized in 3D Audio applications and productions.
His passion is recording, composing and designing unique sounds and music for spatialized szenarios. He is planning and operating 3D soundsystems live for concerts and venues and is part of the management of Wisp.
Paul Schengber
Paul is our main programmer and designer for motion graphics, interactive media systems and the connection between audio and video.He is a passionate sound designer. After internships and freelancing for meso in Frankfurt a. Main and strukt in Vienna he focused on programming complex media installations and the connection between immersive real-time motion graphics & 3D audio systems with the hybrid visual/textual programming environment vvvv.
David Simmons
David Simmons is an audio engineer and moviemaker.
As part of the Wisp Kollektiv he engages in the Fields of immersive Audio, sounddesign, project realization and is responsible for the project-documentation.
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Starting with an internship, Emma is working with us now in the fields of design, programming and documentation.
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"Wisp Collective" brings a network, consisting of individual international artists, art collectives, communities, research institutes and universities together in form of collaborations, festivals for digital art, workshops, exhibitions and music label.
"Wisp Lab" was founded by Felix Deufel and Paul Schengber with focus on 3D audio, realtime motion-graphics and the creative interaction between both fields.
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Posts Tagged 'Southside With You'
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #485
One of the reasons YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour can manage to be informational, insightful, irreverent and inspiring all within the same episode is because of the stories your friends in podcasting choose to tell. Here are just some of the stories told and topics explored on this week's show …
The crazy travel itinerary Dean will endure in order to wish his father a Happy Birthday is revealed. The way language evolves to fit cultural needs and the ways changing grammar rules AND the International Olympic Chairman are making Phil feel like a "dinosaur" are detailed. A great jazz musician and a peerless recording engineer are remembered in "Celebrity Deaths." Two of the summer movies previewed months ago – Southside with You and Weiner – are analyzed at length. The issues of trustworthiness, being a credible messenger and the importance of avoiding the appearance of impropriety get discussed. A nervous actor making his film acting debut and the director who turned that nervousness into an important part of a cinema classic is remembered in the shadow of that film's 75th anniversary.
All that PLUS "What We're Reading" (featuring a musical suprise), an update on Dean's graphic novel and even more. Enjoy!
Chillpak Hollywood Hour #470
Many years ago, your friends in podcasting had a very unique Summer Movie Preview episode that proved extremely popular. They've always thought of doing another, but for whatever reason, schedules never allowed. Finally, 7 years later, Dean Haglund and Phil Leirness have done their prep work and are ready to deliver. After all, what is more "summer" in the movie biz than a long-anticipated sequel?! Perhaps, a sequel no one asked for …
Oh, well … On this week's show, Dean and Phil preview all the hopeful blockbusters as well as several of the smaller comedies, documentaries and independent films hoping to make their mark at the box office as "counter-programming". They do this by analyzing these movies' trailers. Is the trailer good or bad? What can be gleaned about whether the film is good or bad? Do they think the film itself is like or unlike the one being advertised? The services AND disservices done to the audience by the way these films are marketed and advertised gets fully discussed. Film distribution nitty gritty, summer movie previews and much hilarity on this week's brand new episode of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour!


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Madisonville baseball became the first team in program history to advanced past the Area round of the postseason with two wins over Taylor on Friday and Saturday in Bryan.
The Mustangs stormed back to take game one 8-6 in comeback fashion and rode another performance for the ages from pitcher Matt Rudis in a 1-0 victory in game two.
"It's a great accomplishment that speaks to the kids we have here," said Coach Keith Sitton after game two. "Regardless of what success we've had I just love being around them. To me, that makes this all more special and I'm just happy to be a part of it."
The series got off to a rocky start. The Ducks exploded out of the gates with 5 runs in the top of the first inning off of starting pitcher Bryce Bennett and reliever Zach Poe, including a three-run homerun.
"We have a senior heavy team that has played a lot of baseball," said Sitton. "They've been in difficult situations like this before. It was the first inning and I think everybody in the dugout knew there was no reason to panic."
The Mustangs wasted no time getting back into the fight. After a leadoff walk to Brad Rudis and a single by Matt Rudis, Bryce Bennett knocked another base hit to right-centerfield for Madisonville's first score of the series. Two more would cross the plate in the second after a Taylor throwing error.
Errors would continue to plague the Ducks throughout game one, particularly in the bottom third. Three infield errors loaded the bases for the Mustangs with just one out and a walk cut the deficit to 1. After Corey Shuck tied the game with a groundout, Kasey Williamson would give Madisonville their first lead of the game with an RBI-single to right-center.
Ben Phillips delivered what would prove to be the most critical knock of the game with two outs and a 1-run lead. He laced a double down the left field line to give the Mustangs an 8-5 advantage early. They would not look back.
"He threw it pretty high, and I'm usually not the best with high pitches," said Phillips. "I ended up getting a good piece of the ball and it found an opening so some guys could come home. As for the deficit, we know what we can do. We just had to stay confident and keep chipping away at it."
All the while, Madisonville pitching settled in nicely. Poe pitched out of key jams throughout his outing and allowed just one more run after the first. This afforded the Mustangs plenty of opportunities to fight their way back offensively and earned him the win in game one.
The 8-6 lead was handed to Brandon Larson to protect in the final three innings. The Ducks put the tying run at second base with two outs in the top of the seventh, but Larson got his man when he needed to and nailed down the extended save.
"Even when we were down big we knew we still had to have a lot of energy in the dugout," said Larson. "At the end, I knew I had to get that man. I had a lot of confidence and was able to strike him out."
Unlike game one, offense was very hard to find on Saturday afternoon. This was especially true for Taylor, who managed just one hit off of Matt Rudis.
Madisonville, who played the road team, scored the lone run of the day in the top of the second inning. Will Hudson started the threat with a sharp single right back up the middle of the infield. Brad Rudis then moved Daniel Young, Hudson's courtesy runner, into scoring position with a sacrifice bunt.
The stage was set for Corey Schuck, who did his job when he lifted a fly ball down the left field line near foul ground. The sacrifice fly brought home a run and gave Madisonville a 1-0 lead. While they had more chances throughout the afternoon to plate another, they could never quite get the big hit. But just like he did in the Bi-district round against Hillsboro, Rudis proved it was all he'd need.
While the dominant result was what fans have grown used to, Rudis had a different approach to his Area outing. In order to keep his pitch count down, he was aggressive and went right after his opponents and counted on the defenders behind him to have his back. They did not disappoint.
"These guys did everything I could've ever asked for, it's a whole different ball game without them" said Rudis of his teammates. "This team is so special to me and I love them. They deserved to make history."
Taylor's best chance came in the bottom of the fifth with runners at second a third with two outs. But the runner from third left early, which allowed Rudis to step off and make the throw home for an anticlimactic finish to their main threat. He allowed another baserunner to reach via walk to leadoff the seventh, but retired the next three to clinch the series in two games.
After the first in game one, the Mustangs outscored Taylor 9-1 through 13 innings.
Madisonville is now into the Regional Quarters and will battle Robinson in a single-elimination game at 7 p.m. in Cameron tonight. The winner will face either Bridge City or Jasper in the Regional Semis.


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I noticed a revealing (and distressing) quote today in the midst of all the coverage regarding the proposed Islamic cultural center site a couple blocks from the New York World Trade Center properties. "All Muslims read the same Quran," this 45-year-old New York resident stated. According to the Oregonian reporter who interviewed her for today's Sunday edition, the woman cannot believe that while some Muslims interpreted the words of their chief religious text in ways that led them to plow passenger jets into the World Trade Center, others might read the Quran and receive a message of peace.
All Muslims read the same Quran.
All Christians read the same Bible. Have done since it was first consolidated into a (mostly) uniform religious text in the first centuries after the time of Jesus.
How would this lady respond to:
* the violence of the Crusades?
* killings of Protestants and Catholics--by each other--in the decades following the start of the Protestant Reformation?
* religiously sanctioned defenses of chattel slavery?
The people who committed these atrocities read the same Bible as the founders of the pacifist Quakers, the abolitionists who decried slavery... and a young Lutheran man, Matt Sky, who has been carrying out a lone vigil for the past 10 days outside the proposed Islamic center site, holding a sign that proclaims "Support Freedom of Religion."
Humans are flawed, and all books, religious or otherwise, are filtered through human brains. One can hope that through careful attention to spiritual guidance, a religious person might gain the most accurate insight possible into his or her religion's text. But there is no escaping the fact that throughout the centuries, people have read the same exact words and come up with wildly, drastically different interpretations--sometimes with tragic results.
This isn't an Islamic problem. This is a human problem. To suggest otherwise is simply, painfully, ludicrous -- and it demonstrates a lack of historical understanding that cripples our ability to move forward as a nation.
Quotations taken from "Vigil brings a message of tolerance of mosque," The Sunday Oregonian (September 5, 2010), page A9.


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By Andrew Krepinevich
A international pandemic unearths thousands swarming around the U.S. border.
Major U.S. towns are leveled through black-market nukes.
China's turning out to be civil unrest ignites an international showdown.
Pakistan's cave in results in a hunt for its nuclear weapons.
What if the worst that may occur truly occurs? How might we reply? Are we ready?
These are the questions that Andrew Krepinevich asks—and answers—in this well timed and infrequently chilling new booklet, which describes the altering face of warfare within the twenty-first century and identifies seven lethal situations that threaten our safety within the an important years forward. As president of the guts for Strategic and Budgetary tests and advisor to secretaries of security, the CIA, the native land safeguard Council and the Joint Forces Command, Krepinevich's activity is to imagine the unthinkable—and arrange a reaction within the occasion our worst nightmares develop into fact.
Basing his research on open intelligence resources, an evaluation of the most recent international and political developments, and his wisdom of latest army heritage, Krepinevich begins all the seven situations within the context of present geopolitical realities and vividly tracks the trail to challenge. From the implosion of Pakistan to a global cyberattack, from the results of a timed withdrawal from Iraq to the possibility of a China at the march, Krepinevich finds the forces—both overt and covert—that are in play; the goals of global powers, terrorist teams, and rogue states; and the activities and counteractions either our enemies and our allies could be anticipated to take.
As riveting as a thriller, 7 lethal eventualities takes you contained in the corridors of strength, friends into the realm of safety making plans, and explores U.S. army and political process some time past, current, and sure destiny. the result's a must-read publication that might set off dialogue, proposal, and—hopefully—action.
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Like rearmament and the Abyssinia Question and gardening, it was simply not a subject, and when, after a long Saturday morning wait, Briony heard at last the sound of wheels on the gravel below her bedroom window, and snatched up her pages and ran down the stairs, across the hallway and out into the blinding light of midday, it was not insensitivity so much as a highly focused artistic ambition that caused her to shout to the dazed young visitors huddled together by the trap with their luggage, "I've got your parts, all written out.
She could not remain here, she knew she should make plans, but she did nothing. There were various possibilities, all equally unpressing. She had a little money in her account, enough to keep her modestly for a year or so. Leon repeatedly invited her to spend time with him in London. University friends were offering to help her find a job—a dull one certainly, but she would have her independence. She had interesting uncles and aunts on her mother's side who were always happy to see her, including wild Hermione, mother of Lola and the boys, who even now was over in Paris with a lover who worked in the wireless.


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There should be a more dignified name than "mudroom" for those unheralded, but widely used and popular places in most homes.
Sure, they're usually the family's main entryway and expected to be largely for kids. The term likely dates to an era when a rural family traipsed in carrying chunks of wet mother earth or, as is likely at this time of year, slush or even packed snow.
Some of that, especially snow, may still happen today in the era of plush lawns and plowed driveways, but the room where that stuff might be deposited usually has several more purposes, the least of which is mud.
A mudroom plan done by Wendy Sorenson, a Dave Fox Design Build Remodelers design consultant, amounted to converting a laundry room into much more in one Dublin home. The owners had built the home, but the laundry room was only that: washer and dryer, an essential tile floor and nothing else.
The family had two growing kids and needed better place for them and their belongings, as well as a better way to handle the family wash.
The upshot was one wall with cubbies – storage lockers – for each child. Each has a bench, a place to hang clothes and shelves to store book bags and boots, along with anything else that needs a home.
On the laundry side of the room, the washer and dryer are built-in under a laminate counter top, as is a sink, all surrounded by a bounty of cabinets.
"If people have room, they want mudrooms," Sorenson says.
She notes that even a space as small as a closet can be converted for traditional mudroom use.
It didn't happen in this project, but Sorenson says she has designed dog washing and drying stations, too.
John Nicholson, architect for Nicholson Builders, agrees with the premise that remodeling projects seldom, if ever, involve just a mudroom, adding "probably the number one requested project," even more than a kitchen improvement.
Mudrooms, he says, usually are part of a laundry room and bundled with a larger remodel, such as adding half-bath or redoing an adjoining kitchen or family room or both.
They're always off the garage or a separate entry and include an open or enclosed cubby – for each child, plus one for adults. The kids' spaces often include plastic baskets to stow wet or dirty garments until they're hauled across the room to be washed.
He discusses one Dublin project that reflects the diversity of the multi-purpose rooms.
Besides the cubbies and laundry, this one has a technology station that allows charging a variety of today's electronic gear. A docking station allows attaching a cell phone to play iTunes on a sound system in the house. Such multi-purpose stations are practically automatically included these days.
Yet, an old fashioned family-oriented amenity is mounted on the wall: a chalk board to post schedules, reminders and whatever else needs to be easily shared.
He notes that "a majority of mudrooms become cluttered" as users overload storage. The solution in one Muirfield home was to raise the cubbies three steps from the walkway and main floor.
Occasionally, Nicholson and his firm build a dog washing station, complete shower base and a hand-held spray, he says, adding that "dogs are a lot of work."
That's generally an adult endeavor, one of several that Sorenson mentions is a reason they, too, rely on a mudroom, mentioning such other things as gardening, including pot washing, and sports activities.
Nicholson explains that mudrooms are designed to consider the "sequence" of its use. The rooms are for arrivals and departures, storing or picking up clothes and other gear. They're the laundry room and are conveniently located next to the kitchen.
Essentially, a mudroom is designed for efficiency, owing to their many purposes.
And seldom is mud the only one.
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Happy new year, everyone! I hope your 2015 turns out to be even better than your 2014. Rather than engage in a Facecrack-style review of 'my' 2014—boy, didn't that one get old quick?—I thought I'd celebrate with a review of the reviews of my book Leaves of Glass. To sum up, despite the fact that 2014 was the first year since 1998 in which I did not have a single poem published, it was nonetheless a great year because five people reviewed my book. And the good news is that they all liked it. Honestly!
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We Will Disappear: the first review!
In somewhat amazing news, Cordite has just published a double review of We Will Disappear and MTC Cronin's book (we recently also published a single review of Barry Hill's book).
I should point out that the review was not commissioned, edited or posted by me but by our reviews editor, Ali Alizadeh. Further, the review itself was written by Ryan Scott, a Czech-Republic based poet whom I have never met or corresponded with. Still, I feel a slight twinge of discomfort and potential embarrasment to see a review of my own book in a journal of which I am the Managing Editor.
While it's not quite in the same league as Walt Whitman writing reviews of his own book, Leaves of Grass, under false names and then using these reviews to create testimonials, it's still, well, a bit strange. What do you think?
Abendland reviewed online
My chapbook Abendland (pictured left, details) has been reviewed by Philly poet Adam Fieled on his excellent blog. Check out the review here. As far as I can tell, this is the first time my work has ever been reviewed, anywhere. I only have a couple of copies of the book left, but I hope to make an announcement soon as to a possible re-release, along the lines of Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted. For those who don't have a clue what I'm talking about, Pavement's debut full length album circulated unofficially as a cassette tape in the early 1990s, with the consequence that it was well known "underground" before being released, erm, "overground". So, if you'd like to possess a copy of the original chapbook, and would like to be able to tell your grandkids that you got in there first, before the Abendland project went mainstream, contact me via email. Like, today.
In other spellbinding news, sure to get Stung seething, I've finally bitten the bullet and re-registered the www.daveydreamnation.com domain, which is now up and running, albeit sans content. Regular (oh come, all ye faithful) readers will recall the jitch-up that occurred about three years ago, when I first registered the domain, and then a year later forgot to renew the registration, with the result that the site was taken over by a cyber-porn-squatter. Luckily for me, the squatter lost interest and didn't renew the registration him or herself. So, here we are again. I'll be slowly migrating this blog, plus a few other ones, to the new domain over the next few weeks.


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Last Term, my marks was not as satisfactory to my liking, but many people's mark were not to their satisfaction. It doesn't mean I or the rest of you should quit. All it means is some need to change their work ethics or *something.* Because, there was once a wise man who said "Your mark depends on the effort and time spend on your work." - Mr. K. Mr. K, I am only para-phasing. Sorry, if it is not your exact working.
For example, when we began doing trigonometry, I did not understand the sine law and cosine law. So, I when over my notes, step-by-step, at my own speed, and I learned how to use the Laws. See, your marks depends on your work ethics.
One more thing, trigonometry is used in very day life. Architects use sine and cosine laws to measure and design their building. They have to know the length and angles of every side and elevation before they building something. If you like working with things of that nature, architect is one option.


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Customer requested a headrest conversion to his Porsche 356B seats. A set of early 911 headrests were sourced and his seats modified to accommodate. Once dismantled they looked a tad sorry for themselves, thus a refurbish to the backs followed
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Nazareth Home receives "Best Practices Award" from Kentucky Initiative for Quality Nursing Home Standards
The KYIQ Best Practices Award is an annual award presented in recognition of exemplary best practices that serve as a model for other nursing homes to adopt in order to enhance the quality of care provided to all residents.
The KYIQ group is a independent advocacy group organized to promote public awareness to the need to preserve the dignity and well being of loved ones in the nursing home. They are working in partnership with the state's Long Term Ombudsman program to provide a way for KY facilities to share their expertise with others so to achieve the KYIQ group's stated goal of fostering collaboration among providers, families, advocates and elected officials to support a level of care for all nursing home residents. This "mentoring project" designed in 2009 creates a way for best practices and effective standards to be shared.
The award is presented to homes who demonstrate sustained success in the criteria areas of Continuity of Care, Training, Family Support, and Innovation in workplace, care and environmental practices. The CMS 5 star rating must be at a 4 with a sustained 4 in staffing.
"We are honored to receive this award and believe the criteria represent the key ingredients to quality in long term care. The process was a great way to recognize residents, families and staff at Nazareth Home and the contribution everyone makes in creating a community that is a great place to live and a great place to work." — Mary Haynes, Administrator
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I've been reading online and I am very confused. Some say you should never recharge your A/C system if everything is operating properly. While others say adding pure 134a refrigerant/coolant will help with your cooling. My Mazda dealer says one shouldn't need to recharge the A/C either.
In particular, my 2005 Mazda3's A/C isn't quite as cool as it used to be. Additionally, in 2006 my A/C was checked at the dealer, discharged and new coolant with a dye was added under warranty for another issue. My understanding is that with the dye or lubricants, the A/C won't run as cool as one with pure coolant.
In Asia, where temperature extremes are normal, people get their A/C unit serviced and flushed too at the dealer.
Can someone shed some clarity whether or not recharging the A/C is necessary? And are specialty A/C shops are thing of the past now that can do the recharging without going to the dealer?


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In my previous post. where I provided some insight into my current explorations of legacy lenses and the M4/3 system (specifically the Olympus EM5 mk2) I mentioned almost in passing that I would be also testing the Sigma 18-35mm f1.8, but at the end of lens testing proceedings. Well as they say, "something funny happened on the way to the forum" and plans in this case got reversed.
I have already ran all the preliminary tests on every lens mentioned in that post and know quite precisely how they all perform, but I have yet to take each one out on an extended variable subject shoot so as I can make some final conclusions and piece together a meaningful review for each lens.
So what upset the apple cart?
Tis like this, when I first tested the Big Sig on my Pansonic GH2 I was actually quite disappointed, it really only seemed to resolve well in the centre of the frame and was quite variable in performance at different focal lengths. In short, I kinda felt well, short changed and I am short enough to start with. So when I got my shiny new EM5 mk 2 I was never super eager to get down and dirty with Big Sig.
But I had a thought, what if the adapter I was using was no good, I really didn't suspect this initially as all was fine with my other Nikon lenses (my Sigma is a Nikon G mount version) but it seemed a waste to have a reasonably expensive lens sitting there unused. Whats more, everyone else was saying it was a marvel of modern optics, could be used as a scalpel, make coffee, elevate you to a higher astral plane and all that, I felt it was worth at least further investigation, anyhow I ordered a nice new adapter.
With some trepidation last week I took Big Sig down to my regular testing ground and shot off a few frames at different focal lengths and then promptly went off for a morning coffee with a mate at my favourite haunt. Once home I popped the files onto my 5K iMac and opened them in Iridient Developer to take a gander, ready for yet more disappointment at the result. God damn, wow, holy cow batman, sh...., those are some sharp files dude! Ah so the adapter was rubbish after all, phew, well that's a relief.
So the thought then struck, these files are so good that really they should be used as the standard against which all my other lenses are measured, which means friends that I had to go back out that afternoon and shoot some more general type shots to prove the point and whilst I was at it, I may as well write the review of Big Sig first and follow up with reviews of the other lenses later.
I also felt a little encouraged to explore this marriage a bit deeper because there are lots of reviews on the net of the Big Sig being used for video work on M4/3 format but very little on its usage for high grade stills and most of those I found really only dealt with JPEGs not RAW files.
On the marriage aspect, the pairing of the Sigma and the EM5 mk 2 is at first a little odd, kinda of like attaching a 4 wheel caravan to a Suzuki Mighty Boy ute, they are just not meant to go together. What we have here is not so much a lens attached to a camera but more like a camera attached to a lens. In the end it actually works fine once you realise the lens not the camera is the primary grip, and it will work far better if you were to purchase one of those add-on alloy base plate grips on eBay that you can get for the EM5 mk2 and Mk 1.
(like this one, http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/New-Quick-Release-L-Plate-Bracket-Vertical-Grip-Holder-for-Olympus-E-M5-II-EM5-2-/361495453330? hash=item542acede92:g:bIIAAOSwx-9WyrUe )
So the ergonomics are not perfect but is it worth the hassle, absolutely it is a superb option for serious shooting, but just so we are all clear this is a manual lens when used on M4/3, there is no auto focus option at all and no recording of the lens parameters either.
For most people the prime question would be "does it work well wide open" after all why go this route if you were only planning to shoot at f5.6, in short, yes it is very good wide open, I don't have the Olympus 17mm f1.8 or 25mm f1.8 for comparison but I feel pretty confident it would be at least as good as they are wide open, albeit with a very considerable weight penalty, it does weight over 800 grams!
There is as you would expect a slight lowering of contrast and little bit of veiling flare wide open but appropriate adjustments to the RAW files easily deals with that, chromatic aberration is a little more pronounced wide open but I have seen raw files from the Olympus 17mm f1.8 and I reckon the Big Sig is way better in this respect.
The over-riding characteristic of this lens is consistency, it is virtually as sharp in the corners as it is in the centre at every focal length, and that is a rare thing indeed. As a point of comparison the well regarded Panasonic 14 to 42mm mark 2 kit lens is not even within shouting distance at any focal length for cross-frame consistency and you can take it from me that is the best kit lens on offer for M4/3 and generally way better than the equivalents from other formats as well.
Distortion characteristics when used on M4/3 are pretty minimal ranging from very mild barrel distortion at 18mm then turning completely distortion free at 26mm and finally going slightly pin cushion from 28 to 35mm. Unless you were shooting architecture at 21mm or less I doubt you would ever really notice any issue at all.
The distortion aspect is a big deal as lenses with low distortion lend themselves very nicely to image stitching tasks, it's not that you can't stitch with most lenses but rather it just works way better if the lens is distortion free.
Basically correcting distortions before stitching is essential if you want the stitch to appear natural, despite the fact that that in theory it should be fine even if you don't correct first, I have never found it worked out that way in practice. The problem is exacerbated because correcting distortion alway causes some small loss of image clarity in the corners and along the edges thus when you stitch the final image together you get resolution holes across the full image frame where the edges/corners where brought together. Long and short of it, the 18 to 35mm Sigma is a very good lens to use to capture the frames for your panorama or matrix stitches.
The excellent cross frame resolution consistency has a rather nice benefit on the EM5 mk2. The EM5s' High Res mode certainly works as advertised but the results can be patchy with many lenses, if a lens has high central sharpness but low or poor edge and corner sharpness you will find the high res images show much better central clarity but gain nothing along the edges or corners from the process. In other words the centre to corner disparity looks worse! Great results can only be obtained if the lens offers pretty even overall resolution to start with, which again makes the 18-35mm Sigma one of the best candidates I can think of for such demanding applications.
I would judge the Big Sig to be a pretty contrasty lens and probably most people would be very happy with that aspect, me, not so much. I actually prefer to shoot with lower contrast lenses as I find the files can be more satisfactorily edited for great highlight and shadow rendering, the lower contrast kinda acts like a handbrake on the contrast extremes and goes some way towards giving me a more analogue/film-like rendering. Anyhow I have some workarounds for this so it's no big deal and as I said most shooters prefer high contrast glass.
The high contrast however has its benefits in terms of colour punch, which the Big Sig seems to have in spades so that's a win, I would describe the colour rendering as quite neutral to perhaps just a little cool but there is no doubt that strong colours show plenty of pop, however it certainly does not display the warmth that say Minolta legacy glass does on the Olympus bodies.
All focal lengths are sharp but if pushed I would say the 28 to 35mm range looks a tad more detailed. The important aspect of the great sharpness performance being that files need very little sharpness boosting, which is always preferable as punching up the sharpness can destroy micro tonality and create otherwise undesirable artefacts, I would describe the lens as displaying an effortless sharpness, it just looks natural and nicely 3D even at quite small degrees of magnification.
The bokeh is good and gives me no cause for concern but it is not as nice as can often be seen from some of the classic legacy glass, especially some of the golden oldies from mother Russia. It suffers from a little bit of green fringing on out of focus highlights (this is fundamentally longitudinal chromatic aberration) and the characteristic high contrast does mean the edges of the out of focus circles are rendered with a little more clarity than a low contrast lens would, on the other hand the out of focus circles are pretty much just that, circles rather than ugly hexagons or misshapen blobs. There is one little characteristic I noticed that I feel is quite unique, at middle distances from the camera the out of focus areas when shot wide open can take on a rather 3D characteristic, it's hard to describe and can only be seen at significant magnifications but nonetheless it is a rather different rendering style.
Mercifully the lens doesn't display any double imaging of lines and details in the out of focus areas, which is rather nice and this helps it avoid looking busy and nervous. Overall I reckon the bokeh is nice enough but if I were after a "short portrait" lens it may not be my first choice, actually it wouldn't be, the lens is just to unforgiving in resolution for most portraits needs, mind you if you threw a classic "softar" style filter on the front of it I imagine it would be rather lovely, I must try that at some time.
I'm generally very sensitive to chromatic aberration, it's one of those things that just disturbs me and I tend to notice its awful presence long before most people do, any lens with a problem in this area will usually not rate with me. The Big Sig is actually pretty special in this respect, yes there is a bit of CA, but it mainly effects the wider settings, 18mm to around 24mm, beyond that you could largely disregard it and there is really no discernible CA at all at the 35mm setting even when viewed at a 200% view. This dear friends is a very good thing as fixing CA when it is significant can cause quite a few artefacts around the edges of your image especially if you try to sharpen the files up and even when well corrected it still decreases the resolution potential of the lens.
Lenses with really bad CA are only useful for monochrome work as far as I am concerned and only if you use only the green channel with a little red channel mixed in. Anyhow the
18-35 Sigma is about as devoid of CA as you could reasonably expect from any lens costing less than $2000, three cheers for that!
On the mechanical side of things I find the focus ring quite lovely, I have a love/hate relationship with focus rings, mostly hate, especially on modern digital age lenses. How hard can it be guys? Most focus rings are either too sloppy, too thin, too tight, too hard to the touch, have too little rotation or too much rotation, or are just plain bloody horrible, the Big Sigs is for my tastes the Goldilocks option, just right!
It is of course a heavy beasty and that is the way things have to be if you want to use the words "fast, zoom and high sharpness" in the one sentence, but frankly this is not lens for walkies in the city shooting street photography or lightweight hiking but as a serious tool for on-tripod use or steadily held in your hand for a limited period of time. For studio work I expect it would be amazing but as of yet I haven't got to that.
Technically the Olympus EM5 mk 2 and other Olympus bodies are a great match in that a lens like this needs to be either held very steady or used with "in body image stabilisation" otherwise much of that high resolution goodness will go begging, additionally the lens shows the benefits of electronic shutter options more so than most of the other lenses I have tested on the Oly. All of which means in a odd and perverse way that maybe the Oly OM series is the right camera for this lens (focal length magnification issues aside), you see mounted on the native Nikon DSLR body it has no image stabilisation to assist when the going gets tough and on APSC Sonys' the situation is the same. Panasonic's do offer IBIS but only on a couple of models and you could use it on say a Sony A7R mk 2 in crop mode, but then that seem kind of a waste of the cameras capability.
So here is my conclusion, this is now my very most favourite M4/3 lens, I will use it regularly when needed a serious tool for paid jobs or landscape and fine art duties and will definitely further explore its very wide envelope of capability, it will certainly be used for Hi Res shots and stitches....but it is definitely nor coming on holidays with me.


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If it's September, then it must be budget time in Congress. This article over at Federal News talks about protecting intelligence community workers from the big, bad sequestration monkey. There's a teeny-weenie bit inside that talks to the decimation of the IC workforce. Doesn't even scratch the surface. What I'd like to see is a quantitative assessment of the past four years. It'll probably take another ten to twenty years before the data can get sorted out. (Aka: the truth sees the light of day)
Does this look like the face that can fix the IC?
The guy in the picture, General Clapper (ret.) is a decent guy in a crappy, political job. His mandate is threefold: keep the system running, improve it, and do it cheaper. Those that believe in reality know it can't be done. Yet, many folk elected to the edifices of Washington, DC (District of Corruption) actually expect him to succeed. Or fall on his sword in the attempt. He's been at it for about eight years. I can only be certain of my belief that he holds a lot of keys to some very secret political closets.
Which gives me a segue into Monkey Jibberish, or to put it in PC terminology: politicianese. (A regal dialect of ancient Sumerian, from which all sorts of strife has promulgated.)
Bill Clinton once asked, 'what the definition of 'is' is. I'll ask what the definition of 'fix' is. To fix something, that something must either not work correctly or be completely broken. To fix something means to repair or replace. Each segment of the IC runs well in its own fiefdom. But history shows us that fiefdoms rarely work out for the best. To repair these fiefdoms would require trusted emissaries in each other's courts. But the emissaries are quickly sidelined, banished to a cubicle of security.
Alternatively, replacement of the whole shebang is equally unattractive – from a fiscal point and including the mental capacties of the worker monkies. it just inst there.
Whats to do? First and foremost, design from scatch. No more 16 agencies, just one happy IC. One vetting service – with one set of simple rules. One re-vetting service to keep tabs on those that make it in. Special services for collection, analysis, dissemination. It is past time to pigeon hole information where one part could supply key insights into another analyst's problem.
Off my soapbox now. None of the above will be taken seriously, because of one rule – follow the money. The economies of scale are actually negligible. The top ranks get decimated through streamlining. Worker bees continue their standing. The end users might contract ever so slightly. But the sharing of Intel will flow, as if from multiple broken water mains.
I'm sure many of you can poke holes in this hornets nest. I encourage you to do so – as long as we get to the starting point to fix the intelligence coruptocracy.


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Title: Hydraulic Fractures: multiscale phenomena, asymptotic and numerical solutions
Abstract: Hydraulic fractures (HF) are a class of tensile fractures that propagate in brittle materials by the injection of a pressurized viscous fluid. In this talk I provide examples of natural HF and situations in which HF are used in industrial problems. Natural examples of HF include the formation of dykes by the intrusion of pressurized magma from deep chambers. They are also used in a multiplicity of engineering applications, including: the deliberate formation of fracture surfaces in granite quarries; waste disposal; remediation of contaminated soils; cave inducement in mining; and fracturing of hydrocarbon bearing rocks in order to enhance production of oil and gas wells. Novel and emerging applications of this technology include CO2 sequestration and the enhancement of fracture networks to capture geothermal energy.I describe the governing equations in 1-2D as well as 2-3D models of HF, which involve a coupled system of degenerate nonlinear integro-partial differential equations as well as a free boundary. I demonstrate, via re-scaling the 1-2D model, how the active physical processes manifest themselves in the HF model and show how a balance between the dominant physical processes leads to special solutions. I discuss the challenges for efficient and robust numerical modeling of the 2-3D HF problem and some techniques recently developed to resolve these problems: including robust iterative techniques to solve the extremely stiff coupled equations and a novel Implicit Level Set Algorithm (ILSA) to resolve the free boundary problem. The efficacy of these techniques is demonstrated with numerical results.
Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010
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- In Blackboard if your class opens to the Course Home Page you will need to add Announcements by clicking on the Announcement link that can be found in the Course Menu column on the left.
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Seeing someone pose for photos next to the body of a dead animal can make people feel really really angry — but not every time.
When images went viral of Tess Thompson Talley sitting with the corpse of an 18-year-old giraffe she had shot in South Africa – outrage erupted online.
She was condemned explosively – described as 'disgusting' – 'vile' and worse and accused of being 'selfish'.
As a vegan I find this anger understandable — I hate any exploitation of animals.
But maybe that's also why I think the outrage is laced with such hypocrisy.
We can scroll through the same social media feeds any day of the week and find other people posting photos of their spaghetti bolognese or smiling with their chicken wings as they have a 'cheeky' Nandos.
In that context photos of people posing next to dead animals are greeted not with hatred but with 'likes'.
In both cases animals were killed for the enjoyment of humans.
Why are the killings of 70,000 animals each year by trophy hunters greeted with outrage and fury but the killings of 70 billion farm animals slaughtered for meat each year not?
To be clear I'm not suggesting that killing animals for meat is the same as killing for sport.
No; in many ways it's actually worse to kill for meat.
Firstly a typical meat eater causes the deaths of over 50 animals each year – far fewer than a typical trophy hunter kills.
Also – animals killed by hunters have usually enjoyed years of freedom before their horrific deaths.
In contrast the animals people usually eat for dinner endure short – painful and unhealthy lives before being slaughtered in bulk.
Source: Don't be angry at the woman who killed a black giraffe for sport if you plan to eat meat for dinner tonight | The Independent


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Producers previously revealed that Romola Garai will star as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough while Emma Cunniffe plays Queen Anne. Jonathan Christie, Michael Fenton Stevens, James Garnon, Richard Hope, Hywel Morgan, Beth Park, and Carl Prekopp were also initially casted for the production.
Joining them are Daisy Ashford as Lady Clarendon, Sheena Bhattessa as Lady Somerset, Gabrielle Brooks, Dave Fishley, Jonny Glynn, Chu Omambala, and Sid Sagar.
RSC Queen Anne follows the story of Queen Anne in 1702. Soon to become a monarch, Anne's advisers contend to gain their influence over her. Meanwhile, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, who is also a close friend of Anne, starts to exert increasing pressure as she chases her own designs on power. With all the deceit and blackmail, Anne must decide where her allegiances lie and whether to sacrifice her closest relationships for the sake of the country.
Meet the cast of Queen Anne
Prior to starring on Queen Anne, Emma Cunniffe has also performed on Tales from Hollywood, Losing Louis, and Women Beware.
Romola Garai is best known for her appearance in films such as Amazing Grace, Atonement, Vanity Fair, and Suffragette. Her other theatre credits include Calico, King Lear, The Seagull, and more.
After training at LAMDA, Daisy Ashford has performed on Love for Love, The Middlemarch Trilogy, and Adam Bede. She has also appeared on various TV series such as Wallander, Spotless, and Bonekickers; as well as on films including Jack Ryan, Captain America, and The Sweeter Side of Life.
Sheena Bhattessa has starred in other theatre productions such as Romeo and Juliet; My Generation; and the Olivier Award-nominated The Great Game: Afghanistan. Her film and TV appearances include Canaries, Love Aoj Kal, Ransom, Midsomer Murders, and EastEnders.


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In the opening pages of his autobiography, An American Life, Ronald Reagan writes, "I was raised to believe that God had a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.
My mother – a small woman with auburn hair and a sense of optimism that ran as deep as the cosmos – told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God's plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best. If something went wrong, she said, you didn't let it get you down: You stepped away from it, stepped over it, and moved on. Later on, she added, something good will happen and you'll find yourself thinking – "If I hadn't had that problem back then, then this better thing that did happen wouldn't have happened to me."
After I lost the job at Montgomery Ward, I left home again in search of work. Although I didn't know it then, I was beginning a journey that would take me a long way from Dixon and fulfill all my dreams and then some. My mother, as usual, was right."
We all face problems in our life. The key to life is how we handle our problems. Let me share a few suggestions for handling problems with you.
First, remember that you are not alone with your problems. Others have had the same, or even worse, problems. We may need to associate with others to get their perspective on their problems and how they handled it.
Second, we must remember that all problems will not be solved. Rather, we will continue on with life and leave the problem behind. I am sure other problems will take their place.
Third, be sure to view the problem as it really is, not as it seems to be. After proper consideration, it may not be as bad as you think.
Fourth, many problems are too big for a one step solution. So, work through the issue one step at a time, trusting God to guide you on your journey.
Fifth, rather than minimizing the problem, maximize the resources to handle the problem. Remember that God is our ultimate Resource!
God has a plan for our life that will be greater than all of our problems. Remember to "cast your cares on Him, for He cares for you" (1 Peter 5:7).
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Location: R347
Instructor: Ellen Carlson (fiddle) & Bennett Hammond (guitar)
Style: Bluegrass Blues Oldtime Swing Western Swing
The great tune "Florida Blues" was written by Fiddlin' Arthur Smith and recorded by him in 1937. Chubby Wise was also known for playing this blues, as was Vassar Clements. While learning the tune, we will explore the 12-bar blues form and blues scales and how this form relates to other styles of music. Wear blue if you like!


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Team Leader- Environmental Health
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- Dacorum Borough Council
- Location
- Hertfordshire
- Salary
- Up to £47,995
- Posted
- 12 Mar 2018
- Closes
- 02 Apr 2018
- Sector
- Corporate Services, Administration
- Job role
- Head of Service
- Contract Type
- Full time
Dacorum Borough Council is committed to working in partnership to create a borough which enables the communities of Dacorum to thrive and prosper.
Since 2012 we have delivered over £6 million of savings while also increasing performance and satisfaction across key services. We have an ambitious regeneration programme and for the first time in over 20 years we have been building our own houses.
We are in an enviable location just outside the M25 and only a 27 minute train journey from Central London. With continued pressure on services and decreasing funding there are still tough challenges ahead. But with those challenges comes a great opportunity for our officers to add real value to our Council by creating services that are innovative, cost-effective, and tailored to the needs of our residents.
The Council is now looking to recruit talented environmental health professionals to join our newly formed Environmental and Community Protection Department.
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, ambitious and driven Environmental Health Manager to lead a busy team covering a wide range of regulatory functions in Food Safety, Health and Safety and Environmental Protections.
As part of the department's management team you will have an opportunity to shape our work in Environmental Health as well contributing to cross cutting corporate initiatives.
This role is based in our brand new building, The Forum which combines a number of services including the Library and a voluntary services hub. The Borough of Dacorum has great transport links and the Council also encourages remote working if it is relevant to the post.
If you feel that you would like to join in our quest to change the way we work and help enable us to meet our customer needs efficiently then please apply for this exciting opportunity to work in Dacorum.
A check will be undertaken with the Criminal Records Bureau to ensure that the successful candidate has no relevant convictions.
For an informal discussion regarding any of these roles contact Emma Walker Group Manager- Environmental and Community Protection. 01442 228455.
For more information and to apply visit; http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/home/jobs-and-careers
Closing Date: Monday 2nd April 2018.


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Apple's missing iPod shuffle 3G ad revealed on iTunes?
Apple has added an iTunes Store promotional graphic and song listing for a third-generation iPod shuffle advertisement that has not appeared. The graphic takes users to an unusually sparse and seemingly unfinished page listing the songs "Happy Up Here" by Röyksopp, "1901" by Phoenix, and "Rich Girls" by The Virgins, all under the heading of "iPod Shuffle Ad Songs," with the "s" in shuffle atypically capitalized. In addition, the promo graphic, three-track album art, and main page header graphic all use a Voice Over talk bubble-like graphic, populated by art similar to that seen on Röyksopp's new album Junior. It is unclear whether the songs were planned for use in an upcoming or cancelled set of shuffle advertisements, and whether Apple intentionally or errantly posted the song listing.
Update: iLounge readers report that the songs come from a web banner ad that appeared earlier this week on ESPN.com; however, the ad does not appear to be visible now.
Update x2: Continue reading to see a screenshot of the web-based advertisement, which was found on allmusic. Thanks to our readers for helping to track this down.
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The web ad was on ESPN.com yesterday.
Posted by Bob on June 3, 2009 at 10:09 AM (CDT)
The ad was a video banner at the top of ESPN.com on Monday. The girl in it danced to those three songs.
Posted by Yo on June 3, 2009 at 10:22 AM (CDT)
Yeah, great ad. I think I'm in love.
Posted by Nat on June 3, 2009 at 10:43 AM (CDT)
I saw it on youtube and allmusic
Posted by Oscar M. on June 3, 2009 at 2:22 PM (CDT)
On Pitchfork as well.
Posted by ele©tro on June 3, 2009 at 8:37 PM (CDT)


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Ribs are one of the most popular foods for the grill or smoker. The problem is that ribs need special care to get them right. These rib recipes help you learn how to keep it low and slow to make great ribs whether you are cooking beef ribs or pork ribs. Once you have the basics of grilling or smoking ribs, you can pick out your own rib rubs, barbecue sauces, and marinades.
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Memphis-Style Ribs
If you're looking for that authentic Memphis-style flavor, look no further. This rib recipe combines a fantastic rub with a delicious sauce to produce the tastiest set of ribs you've ever had.
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Kansas City Ribs
If you're in the mood for a sweet, sticky, delicious pork rib recipe, then Kansas City Ribs are what you're looking for! These pork ribs really are the best BBQ ribs.
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Barbecue Spareribs
This is a good, basic method for making barbecue ribs. If you are just starting out or looking for something simple, this recipe is the one for you.
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Slow-Grilled Beef Ribs
The secret to great beef ribs is to cook them slowly. This makes them tender and flavorful. You should probably use a drip pan to prevent flare-ups.Continue to 5 of 10 below.
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BBQ Beef Ribs
This is an easy way to prepare delicious, sticky beef ribs on your grill. Remember that the secret to indirect grilling is to make sure that the food doesn't get any direct heat at all. You will need to rotate the ribs occasionally to cook them evenly.
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Oh Yeah Sticky Beef Ribs
This sticky beef rib recipe is so delicious it'll make you say "oh yeah" through the whole meal! The sauce is sweet, spicy, and slightly tart from the apple cider vinegar. Try this recipe for your next cookout and watch how your guests come back for more.
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Chicago-Style BBQ Baby Back Ribs
These ribs are mouthwatering good! If you're throwing a huge cookout, this is the recipe to use. It calls for 10 racks of ribs! You can always alter the recipe if you're making a smaller quantity.
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Smoked Beef Ribs
This is the most basic method for producing smoked beef ribs. These hearty bones need time to render their fat but keep the temperature low so the meat will remain tender.Continue to 9 of 10 below.
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Carolina Ribs With Red Pepper Sauce
These ribs are coated with a Carolina-style rub and basted with a tangy red pepper sauce.
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Slow-Cooker Baby Back Ribs
These baby back ribs might not be bathed in smoke, but they still have a lot of flavors. This slow-cooked recipe will give you a great set of ribs when you can't prepare them outdoors.


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It's tempting to take a vacation, or a staycation, or even a long weekend with the family and get out of the habit of "selling." Selling your product, selling your business, selling yourself. Because really, that's what people are buying - they're buying you! Your smile, your attitude, your personality, your charisma, your enthusiasm…if you aren't smiling, they won't be buying.
Don't take the summer off!!! Keep pushing toward that mark, folks.
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Found a good manual here http://www.griffinsoil.com/assets/Manual.htm from Griffin Soil which gives provides and in depth look at the various different stages within the Soil Stabilisation process along with some interesting case studies. The processes looked at include:
- Soil Modification
- Soil Stabilisation
- Determination of Site Conditions
- Depth, Percentage and Type of Treatment
- Economic Considerations
- Cost Comparisons
- Environmental Considerations
- Life Cycle Considerations
- Treatment Products (i.e. Quicklime, Portland Cement, GGBS, FlyAsh)
- Quality Control
- Laboratory Testing of Treated Materials
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