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Virtual user mail system with Postfix, Dovecot and Roundcube
This article describes how to set up a complete virtual user mail system on an Arch Linux system in the simplest manner possible. However, since a mail system consists of many complex components, quite a bit of configuration will still be necessary. Roughly, the components used in this article are Postfix, Dovecot, PostfixAdmin and Roundcube.
In the end, the provided solution will allow you to use the best currently available security mechanisms, you will be able to send mails using SMTP and SMTPS and receive mails using POP3, POP3S, IMAP and IMAPS. Additionally, configuration will be easy thanks to PostfixAdmin and users will be able to login using Roundcube. What a deal!
This article assumes that you have a working LAMP setup as we will need a working Apache2 as well as MYSQL database. Of course, with a few changes to these instructions you could easily use another httpd and database. For the purposes of this tutorial, however, the choice made above will be used. Additionally, the article assumes all-default settings for every package installed below. No changes except for those mentioned will be required.
Should any unforeseen problems occur, feel free to use the discussion page to voice your problems and I will try to answer.
- 1 Installation
- 2 Configuration
- 3 Fire it up
- 4 Optional Items
- 5 Troubleshooting
- 6 Tips and Tricks
- 7 See also
# pacman -S dovecot postfix
For security reasons, a new user should be created to store the mails:
groupadd -g 5000 vmail useradd -u 5000 -g vmail -s /sbin/nologin -d /home/vmail -m vmail
A gid and uid of 5000 is used in both cases so that we do not run into conflicts with regular users. All your mail will then be stored in /home/vmail. You could change the home dir to something like /var/mail/vmail but careful to change this in any configuration below as well.
You will need to create an empty database and corresponding user. We will be using PostfixAdmin's tables to fill the database later on. In this article, postfix_user will have read/write access to postfix_db using hunter2 for a password. You are expected to create your database and user yourself as shown in the following code. Make sure to assign proper permissions.
$> mysql -u root -p
CREATE SCHEMA `postfix_db` DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci ; CREATE USER 'postfix_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'hunter2'; GRANT ALL ON `postfix_db`.* TO `postfix_user`@`localhost`;
There are basically 2 ways for of doing SMTPS.
One is using the wrapper mode which enables even old/odd clients like Outlook to use TLS. The wrapper mode uses the system service "smtps" which is a non-standard service and runs on port 465.
The other, more proper method is to use a port that simply enforces TLS without any wrapping. The system service for this is "submission" which is standard and uses port 587.
For the improper variant uncomment this in
smtps inet n - n - - smtpd -o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
And verify that these lines are in
smtps 465/tcp # Secure SMTP smtps 465/udp # Secure SMTP
otherwise posfix won't start :
postfix/master[5309]: fatal: 0.0.0.0:smtps: Servname not supported for ai_socktype
For the proper variant uncomment this in
smtp inet n - n - - smtpd submission inet n - n - - smtpd -o smtpd_tls_security_level=encrypt -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
/etc/postfix/main.cf append:
relay_domains = * virtual_alias_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/virtual_alias_maps.cf virtual_mailbox_domains = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/virtual_domains_maps.cf virtual_mailbox_maps = proxy:mysql:/etc/postfix/virtual_mailbox_maps.cf virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail virtual_mailbox_limit = 512000000 virtual_minimum_uid = 5000 virtual_transport = virtual virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 local_transport = virtual local_recipient_maps = $virtual_mailbox_maps transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination smtpd_relay_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sasl_tls_security_options = $smtpd_sasl_security_options smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/private/server.crt smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/server.key smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $mydomain broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
This references a lot of files that do not even exist yet. Let's create them.
/etc/postfix/virtual_alias_maps.cf as new and add:
user = postfix_user password = hunter2 hosts = localhost dbname = postfix_db query = SELECT goto FROM alias WHERE address='%s' AND active = true
/etc/postfix/virtual_domains_maps.cf as new and add:
user = postfix_user password = hunter2 hosts = localhost dbname = postfix_db query = SELECT domain FROM domain WHERE domain='%s' AND backupmx = false AND active = true
/etc/postfix/virtual_mailbox_limits.cf as new and add:
user = postfix_user password = hunter2 hosts = localhost dbname = postfix_db query = SELECT quota FROM mailbox WHERE username='%s'
/etc/postfix/virtual_mailbox_maps.cf as new and add:
user = postfix_user password = hunter2 hosts = localhost dbname = postfix_db query = SELECT maildir FROM mailbox WHERE username='%s' AND active = true
Run postmap on transport to generate its db:
postmap /etc/postfix/transport
We still need the SSL cert and private key:
cd /etc/ssl/certs openssl req -new -x509 -newkey rsa:1024 -days 365 -keyout server.key -out server.crt openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.key chown nobody:nobody server.key server.crt chmod 400 server.key chmod 444 server.crt mv server.key /etc/ssl/private/ mv server.crt /etc/ssl/private/
Start by getting a fresh config file from the pre-existing sample config:
cp /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf.sample /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf we'll need to do quite some configuration:
protocols = imap pop3 auth_mechanisms = plain passdb { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } userdb sql { driver = sql args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf } service auth { unix_listener auth-client { group = postfix mode = 0660 user = postfix } user = root } mail_home = /home/vmail/%d/%u mail_location = maildir:~ ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/private/server.crt ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/server.key
See http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Variables for the docevot variables %d and %u.
Now obviously we also need the
/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf we just referenced in the config above. Go ahead and create a
/etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf with these contents:
driver = mysql connect = host=localhost dbname=postfix_db user=postfix_user password=hunter2 # The new name for MD5 is MD5-CRYPT so you might need to change this depending on version default_pass_scheme = MD5-CRYPT # Get the mailbox user_query = SELECT '/home/vmail/%d/%u' as home, 'maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%u' as mail, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid, concat('dirsize:storage=', quota) AS quota FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' # Get the password password_query = SELECT username as user, password, '/home/vmail/%d/%u' as userdb_home, 'maildir:/home/vmail/%d/%u' as userdb_mail, 5000 as userdb_uid, 5000 as userdb_gid FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = '1' # If using client certificates for authentication, comment the above and uncomment the following #password_query = SELECT null AS password, '%u' AS user
To install PostfixAdmin, we can use the postfixadmin package from the official repositories.
Next, PostfixAdmin needs to be configured. First edit the /etc/webapps/postfixadmin/config.inc.php file:
$CONF['configured'] = true; // correspond to dovecot maildir path /home/vmail/%d/%u $CONF['domain_path'] = 'YES'; $CONF['domain_in_mailbox'] = 'YES'; $CONF['database_type'] = 'mysql'; $CONF['database_host'] = 'localhost'; $CONF['database_user'] = 'postfix_user'; $CONF['database_password'] = 'hunter2'; $CONF['database_name'] = 'postfix_db';
Then assuming localhost is the hostname of the machine you are installing this on, navigate to http://localhost/postfixAdmin/setup.php. The setup will guide you through the remaining steps to set up PostfixAdmin.
Roundcube is available in the community repo.
pacman -S roundcubemail
The post install process is similar to any other webapps like PhpMyAdmin or PostFixAdmin. Copy the example configuration file to your webserver configuration directory. If you are using Apache do:
cp /etc/webapps/roundcubemail/apache.conf /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-roundcubemail.conf
Add the include line in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Include conf/extra/httpd-roundcubemail.conf
Make some directories writable by the webserver in /usr/share/webapps/roundcubemail/:
chown -R http:http temp logs
Roundcube now requires the pdo_mysql.so extension, make sure this extension is un-commented in your php.ini file. Also check .htaccess for access restrictions. Assuming that localhost is your current host, navigate a browser to http://localhost/roundcubemail/installer/ and follow the instructions. You could use the same database for Roundcube that you already used for PostfixAdmin though you shouldn't. For a proper setup, create a second database "roundcube_db" and a "roundcube_user" for use with Roundcube. Update this info in db.inc.php.
While running the installer, make sure to address the IMAP host with ssl://localhost/ or tls://localhost/ instead of just localhost. Use port 993. Likewise with SMTP, make sure to provide ssl://localhost/ on port 465 if you used the wrapper mode and tls://localhost/ on port 587 if you used the proper TLS mode. See here for an explanation on that.
Make sure your daemons start on boot:
systemctl enable dovecot postfix
Fire it up
Since now hopefully everything is set up correctly, all necessary daemons should be started for a test run:
systemctl start postfix dovecot
Now for testing purposes, create a domain and mail account in PostfixAdmin. Try to login to this account using Roundcube. Now send yourself a mail.
Optional Items
Although these items are not required, they definitely add more completeness to your setup
Is available in the extra repo. Following steps borrowed from SOHO_Postfix#Spamassassin
pacman -S spamassassin
Go over /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and configure it to your needs. Create Spamassassin user/group and folder.
groupadd -g 5001 spamd useradd -u 5001 -g spamd -s /sbin/nologin -d /var/lib/spamassassin -m spamd chown spamd:spamd /var/lib/spamassassin
Make sure /etc/conf.d/spamd look like following.
SAHOME="/var/lib/spamassassin/" SPAMD_OPTS="--create-prefs --max-children 5 --username spamd --helper-home-dir ${SAHOME} -s ${SAHOME}spamd.log --pidfile /var/run/spamd.pid"
To leave the service ready to run, let's update the spamassassin matching patterns.
Edit /etc/postfix/master.cf and add the content filter under smtp.
smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=spamassassin
Also add the following service entry for spamassassin
spamassassin unix - n n - - pipe user=spamd argv=/usr/bin/vendor_perl/spamc -f -e /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f ${sender} ${recipient}
SpamAssassin combined with Dovecot LDA / Sieve (Mailfiltering)
- Set up LDA and the Sieve-Plugin which is descriped in Dovecot#Sieve. But ignore the last line
- Instead add a pipe in /etc/postfix/master.cf
dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/bin/vendor_perl/spamc -f -u spamd -e /usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -f ${sender} -d ${recipient}
- And activate it in Postfix main.cf
virtual_transport = dovecot
Enable and start the service with systemctl
systemctl enable spamassassin systemctl start spamassassin
If you get errors like your imap/pop3 client failing to receive mails, take a look into your /var/log/mail.log file. It turned out that the maildir /firstname.lastname@example.com is just being created if there is at least one email waiting. Otherwise there wouldn't be any need for the directory.
Tips and Tricks
When sending email with Postfix, how can I hide the sender's IP and username in the Received header
This is a privacy concern mostly, if you use Thunderbird and send an email. The received header will contain your LAN and WAN IP and info about the email client you used. (Original source: AskUbuntu) What we want to do is remove the Received header from outgoing emails. This can be done by applying header_checks exclusively to the submission port. What we need to do is pass the cleanup_service_name option to the submission service so that we can set up a new cleanup service, "subcleanup." The relevant section of /etc/postfix/master.cf might look like this:
submission inet n - - - - smtpd -o smtpd_tls_security_level=encrypt -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes -o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject -o milter_macro_daemon_name=ORIGINATING -o cleanup_service_name=subcleanup
Now we can pass the header_checks option to the new cleanup service. That part of /etc/postfix/master.cf might look like this:
cleanup unix n - - - 0 cleanup subcleanup unix n - - - 0 cleanup -o header_checks=regexp:/etc/postfix/submission_header_checks
Finally, we need to create the file /etc/postfix/submission_header_checks, which will contain the regex that filters offending Received header lines:
/^Received:/ IGNORE /^User-Agent:/ IGNORE


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AFF Developers Guide
This document is a reference guide to the Advanced Forensics Format library. It is intended to be read by software developers seeking to use the library in their own programs. It is not intended for end users.
End users will be better off reading the "AFF Users Guide" that comes with the library. This guide gives an introduction to the AFF format and explains the tools included with the library. The default imager, aimage, is covered in this guide.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Compiling AFF programs
- 3 Your First AFF program
- 4 AFF Concepts
- 5 AFF Function Reference
- 6 Writing AFF Files
- 7 Segment Names
Using the AFF is (hopefully) a rather transparent process. The library can handle plain files, such as those generated by dd, AFF files, and EnCase images. It is not necessary for your program to know which kind of file it is processing, the data is extracted and presented to the program transparently. All you need to do is change the basic file operations to their AFF equivalents. These simple substitutions allow you to use AFF or Encase files just like dd images.
Compiling AFF programs
The library currently supports the following compilers:
- gcc
- g++
- MinGW
- Microsoft Visual C++
When compiling an AFF program you must include the AFF header:
#include <afflib.h>
During linking you must include the AFF library itself and the SSL library. Additionally, if you're using a C compiler, you will need the C++ standard library. Some examples using several compilers are shown below:
Using g++
$ g++ file.c -lafflib -lssl
Using gcc
$ gcc file.c -lafflib -lssl -lstdc++
Using MinGW
C:\> gcc file.c -lafflib RBF??
Using Microsoft Visual C++
c:\> LINK file.obj afflib.lib
Your First AFF program
The first program we will examine the command line arguments to determine if they are valid AFF files. If so, it will attempt to open them and display the size of their uncompressed data. The complete source code is below.
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <inttypes.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <afflib.h>
#define FALSE 0 #define TRUE 1
int process_file(char *fn) { AFFILE *af = af_open(fn,O_RDONLY,0); if (NULL == af) { perror(fn); return TRUE; }
printf ("The uncompressed size of this file is %"PRId64" bytes\n", af_get_imagesize(af));
af_close(af); return FALSE; }
int main(int argc, char **argv) { if (argc < 2) { printf ("Usage: %s [FILES]\n", argv[0]); return EXIT_FAILURE; }
argc++; argv--; while(*argv) { process_file(*argv); ++argv; --argc; } return EXIT_SUCCESS; }
We will go through the important parts of the program.
#include <fcntl.h> #include <afflib.h>
These two lines include the necessary headers to use the AFF. Although fcntl.h is not actually required, it provides several macros that are highly recommended.
AFFILE * af = af_open(fn,O_RDONLY,0); if (NULL == af) { perror(fn); return TRUE; }
This line attempts to open the given file using the af_open command defined on page RBF. The O_RDONLY is one of many macros defined in fcntl.h that can be used when opening files. The final parameter specifies whether or not the file must be created. This normally only applies when writing AFF files, so it's safe to leave it as zero here. The function returns a pointer to an AFFILE structure. There are some public data fields in that structure defined in afflib.h and in Section RBF.
printf ("The uncompressed size of this file is %"PRId64" bytes\n", af_get_imagesize(af));
This line uses one of the miscellaneous functions included with the AFF to display the size of the uncompressed image stored in the file. Compare the value displayed by this line to the size of the AFF image on the disk and you can see how much the library compresses. The example file zeros.aff shows an extreme case!
This final line closes the file handle and destroys the AFFILE structure.
AFF Concepts
AFF files can be viewed as a series of name/value pairs.
AFF Return Values
The following status codes can be returned by AFF functions.
|The end of the AFF file has been reached
|The buffer provided for the requested AFF segment is not large enough to hold the data that would be returned.
|There is no tail or an error occurred trying to read the tail of an AFF segment. This indicates that the file is corrupt (probably truncated).
|There is no head or an error occurred trying to read the head. This indicates that the AFF file is corrupt.
|Invalid segment name
|The argument was invalid
|This version of the library was compiled without AES support and the program is attempting to read an AES-encrypted segment.
|The decrypted AES segment is too small for the amount of data that it was supposed to contain. The segment is probably corrupt.
|A key was previously set (RBF?)
AFF Function Reference
Stream Functions
AFFILE * af_open(const char *filename, int flags, int mode);
The af_open function is used to open a handle to a new or existing file.
The flags
The mode parameter is only used when creating a new file.
See open(2)
AFFILE * af_open_stdin(void);
A special case of af_open, this function an AFF handle on standard input. Note that this function did not appear until AFF version 2.RBF. Also note that if you are working on the Windows platform (or plan to support the Windows platform) you need to explicitly tell the compiler to treat standard input as a stream of binary data. For example, using MinGW you can set:
int _CRT_fmode = _O_BINARY;
somewhere in your code. See http://gnuwin32.sf.net/compile.html for more
AFFILE * af_popen(const char *command, const char *type)
This function is currently on supported on UNIX variants. RBF – Can we have af_popen on Win32? It's in stdio.h on MinGW.
See popen(2)
int af_close(AFFILE *af);
Closes an AFF file handle and frees all resources associated with it. You can use this function regardless if you opened the file with af_open or af_popen.
int af_read(AFFILE *af, unsigned char *buf, size_t count);
RBF – Why isn't the size of data to read uint64_t?
uint64_t af_seek(AFFILE *af, int64 pos, int whence);
Similar to fseeko (a 64-bit version of fseek).
Advances the file pointer into the decompressed data to the offset given by pos depending on whence. SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, or SEEK_END.
uint64 af_tell(AFFILE *af);
Similar to ftello (a 64-bit version of ftell), this function returns the offset into the decompressed data
int af_eof(AFFILE *af);
Returns TRUE if the file pointer into the decompressed data is at the end of the decompressed data. Otherwise, returns FALSE.
Writing AFF Files
void af_enable_writing(AFFILE *af, int flag);
If flag is TRUE, enables the user to write to the file AF.
void af_set_callback(AFFILE *af, void (*wcb)(struct affcallback_info *));
RBF – What does af_set_callback do?
af_enable_compression void af_enable_compression(AFFILE *af, int type, int level); Enables compression on the given AFF file. The type of compression must be an AFF compression algorithm as shown in Table 2. The compression level can be any integer between AF_COMPRESSION_MIN and AF_COMPRESSION_MAX. These values are currently these are one and nine, respectively, but could change in future versions.
For example, to enable maximum LZMA compression: af_enable_compression(af,AF_COMPRESSION_ALG_LZMA,AF_COMPRESSION_MAX); Flag Algorithm AF_COMPRESSION_ALG_NONE No compression AF_COMPRESSION_ALG_ZLIB zlib AF_COMPRESSION_ALG_LZMA LZMA. Although slower than zlib,this algorithm can produce drastically smaller files. Table 2: Compression Algorithms
int af_compression_type(AFFILE *af);
Returns the compression algorithm being used by the file in question. The algorithms are given in Table 2.
int af_write(AFFILE *af, unsigned char *buf, size_t count);
Note that you must call af_enable_writing on af before using this function.
const unsigned char * af_badflag(AFFILE *af);
Returns the pattern used to identify bad sectors in this file.
af_is_badsector(AFFILE *af, unsigned char *buf);
RBF - Returns TRUE if buf is the pattern used to mark a bad sector? Otherwise, returns FALSE.
Segment Functions
af_rewind_seg af_rewind_seg(AFFILE *af); Returns the segment pointer to the beginning the file. This function should be used before any segments are examined.
int af_get_seg(AFFILE *af, const char *name, unsigned long *arg, unsigned char *data, size_t *datalen);
int af_get_next_seg(AFFILE *af, char *segname, size_t segname_len, unsigned long *arg, unsigned char *data, size_t *datalen);
int af_del_seg (AFFILE *af, const char *name);
Deletes the first segment of the given name from the file. Returns zero on success, -1 on error.
Miscellaneous Functions
const char * af_filename(AFFILE *af);
Returns the filename associated with an opened file.
int af_identify(AFFILE *af);
Returns the type of file associated with the given handle. The types are defined in Table 3.
|A raw file, sometimes also called a dd image or flat file
|A standard AFF archive
|A directory of AFD files, or a split AFF file
|An EnCase file read with the original AFF EnCase implementation; now deprecated.
|An EnCase file read with the original AFF EnCase implementation; now deprecated.
|A split raw file
|A raw file with metadata
|An EnCase file read with libewf.
int64 af_get_imagesize(AFFILE *af);
Returns the number of bytes in the decompressed data. On an error, returns -1.
Segment Names
Although segment names and values can be defined by the user at any time, here is a list of the segments that are included in the AFF library. Those values set by aimage are noted.
|Ignore segments with a zero length name
|The size of each page, in bytes
|Data that is inserted into the image file to mark a bad sector.
|The results of the 'dmesg' command are stored in the AFF file.
|The command line used to run the disk imaging program.
|The ISO country code of the computer used to create the image; set manually at imaging time.
|The MD5 hash of the current page
|The number of seconds used to create the image file.


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A slide show depicting gallbladder removal.


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Passage to Dakota: A Man's Viewpoint
"Passage to Dakota: A Man's Viewpoint." Prairies 9, no. 4: October/November/December 1985, 22-27.
PDF Document (PDF 620KB)
I come from Russia. I was born in Neuburg, South Russia on January 3, 1885. My dad, Jacob Neu, was born in Neuburg on January 23, 1828. And my great-grandfather, I can't tell how old. My great-grandfather was born about 1800. My mama was born in Neuburg on October 6, 1856. [Andrew also knew his great-grandmother. She was real old, short, little, humped over, and he thinks she lived to be about 100 years old.]
Dad was a carpenter. He made wine barrels, butter churns, and pails. He had the biggest basement to store it there—100 gallons of wine each. Me and my brother took a hose and stuck it in the barrel, and sucked the wine out. We drink and drink and drink. Sometimes we got a little too much. My brother said, "We don't have to drink so much. Just a little bit."
Mother had ducks and geese. We had a river run right through town. [Andrew had to herd the ducks.] I liked to throw stones at the ducks, and one time I hit a goose in the head and killed it.
I brought the goose to Grandma and said, "This goose is sick."
"No," Grandma replied. "This goose isn't sick. It's dead. You've been throwing rocks again."
"No," I said.
I swam across the river. A man had an orchard over there, and I used to steal apples and plums. The man caught me and said, "Hey! Come back!"
But I jumped in the river and said, "Come and get me!" and swam to the other side.
He stayed on the other side and was mad over there. I could swim like a duck.
My dad had a nice carpenter shop. But me and my cousin took kerosene and put it in our mouths, lit it afire and blew it all over. We got a big fire in the shop. Dad catch me sometimes.
Saturday afternoons a man came from the big town of Odessa. He had a lot of candy for sale. We didn't have no money, and so we took eggs and traded them off on candy.
My great-grandfather died in 1890. My grandfather raised lots of grapes and plums, just like in California. We had a lot to eat. I helped in the garden and made wine.
Grandfather lived in Neuburg until 1892, and then he moved north. The name of the town was Kropapotter. It was a hard life over there. There was nothing to eat, only a little bit of flour mixed with water rolled up without any lard or anything.
When I was 13 years old, I had to go away from home. I worked for nothing, and I worked hard. I had to stay up to 15 years old. One day was cold. They gave me water, and I mixed it up with my feet and mixed it up to cover the building. My feet got so stiff from the cold I could hardly walk.
When I was 16 years old, I was confirmed. I don't remember what kind of suit I wore, but I didn't have any shoes. The man I worked for gave me his wife's shoes to wear. They were three inches too long and curled up at the tips. I gave $5 for the confirmation picture. If I had a picture, I'd give $50 to see how I looked then.
When I was confirmed, I quit working for the guy. I got a good place. Mornings we go out, and we took a good jug of wine along, and we stay out all day in the field and come back in. Man said, "Andrew, you drink too much wine again."
I said, "No, only four or five swallows every round."
I was strong, 16 years old. I was strong. I work like a horse. I work one year for the man.
In October we move away to America. The 11th of November, 1901, we came to New York. Four days later, we come to Menno, South Dakota. We live there till 1915, and then we moved west 30 miles. We didn't know many people there.
Once I heard Peter Lagge lived there, and then in another town. We was good friends together. I drive over Sunday. I drive and drive to get there. I stop and say, "Is Peter Lagge here?"
Man says, "He is in church."
They come home about 12 o'clock, him and his wife and he brought along a nice girl. She was 19 years old. I never thought I had a chance for her. I guess I took her home in the evening. I ask if I can come again and she said, "Ya."
Russia is the best country there is. Nice land. You go out and plow—level ground, no rocks. Not like around here. Up in hills, flat rock. Not like around here. You take a hammer and you can make pieces of the rock to build houses.
Russia was real good living as long as the Kaiser [czar] was there. He was a nice man, Kaiser and his wife. When crazy Lenin came, nobody knows how he killed Kaiser and his wife. With a butcher knife? I don't know. From then on, it got worse.
Before that, farmer in Russia worked for himself. After that, farms were turned over to the government. All farmers worked together and have to give all to the government. Farmers were given just enough to live on.
We worked hard when we lived in Russia. There were no threshing machines, no binders. We had a scythe to cut wheat. Then we got a wooden fork, three-pronged, and raked the wheat into piles.
When we got done harvesting, we made a bed out of black dirt, took six horses with rollers, drove around the grain, and whap! whap! whap!, took the grain out and put another load on, put horses around again, all day up to night.
We sifted the wheat with big fanning wheels, working up to midnight, or one or two o'clock in the morning. Then we put the wheat in sacks and carried hundred pound sacks two or three blocks and upstairs and stored them.
Five o'clock in the morning you go out again and start up again all day long. It was hard work. Short nights. I didn't get much sleep in Russia.
When I was 16 years old, I was a hard worker. We had good corn. When corn was ripe, we went out and picked corn in wagon, brought it home to the shed, all day and evening. The boys were 16 to 18. Sometimes, girls helped too.
We put corn in the shed and cleaned it. We put it in piles and worked till midnight. Early next morning we were back at it again.
We had a knife and cut corn stalks off and hauled them home for feed in the winter for the horses. We had really good horses in Russia. I never seen any better horses. We had them in barns, and never let them out in winter-time. We cleaned those horses every day, and even put their tails in water and washed them. We had real good horses.
On the wagon we had something that made a noise. When Father came home, we could tell by the wagon who it was. Each wagon made a different noise, and so you could tell who was coming by the noise.
It was a nice life in Russia. If I was younger, I'd go back again. I could drink the good wine. It was strong. I'd get strong again.
We had a kitchen—and a stove in it. We'd butcher hogs, and hang them in the chimney above the stove to cure for two or three weeks. [This was an efficient use of the smoke. The ovens, or stoves, were built inside the house. The chimney was built so wide that on the second floor of the house, there was an opening with a door. That is where they hung their hams, sausages, and bacons to smoke while heating the house and cooking.]
But some of the bigger boys would tie a rope around the chest of a smaller boy, put him in the chimney and drop him down—so that they could steal sausages and hams. They were good hams. If there was a high chimney, usually there would be a lot of good hams. Sometimes the boys got caught.
In Russia you can drive two or three miles, all on level ground. And it's black ground. No rocks, good crops. Can't figure out why the Russians have to buy wheat now.
We raised a lot of wheat. You wouldn't believe me. You'd think I was a liar.
In the morning, a guy came with a great whip to take the horses out, ones they didn't use for work, and then they'd drive them away to the pasture. Then came another man to get the cows. He'd crack his whip so that you could hear him coming. He'd bring the cows out, then the little calves, little pigs, and big pigs.
Then another man came. He had a whip, too.
In the evening, you came home and drove them in the street. Every cow and every horse and pig went to their own barn. Always the same place every day. Never, never did they go away. I never seen little pigs run away.
The man who had herded cattle on Easter brought a big basket, full of eggs and peaches. When they returned in the evening with the cows, one of the men was sick. Since there was no doctor around, we had to bring the police, and he said, "Dietrich, you ate 50 eggs and are sick."
"No that's not true," answered Dietrich. "It was only 49."
Grandfather had good workers. He had a big vineyard. We'd go out, some two or three grandsons, and he'd say. "Nay, nay. You go home. You make me no good work."
We had to go home then.
Sometimes we got five cents for candy. Out in Russia, we'd get cold winters. Snow most of the time was three feet. There was no wind. It was good sledding over there.
In spring, around the first of March, we took our shoes off and threw them away. We had good weather. Not like over here. We had no cyclones. Not like over here. It was nice living over there.
The houses were about two to three feet thick. We'd build fires with straw, and in the morning the rooms would still be warm.
Bread was baked in stoves which were round and outside. We used a long stick and shovel on the end. We'd put a big loaf of bread on, about three-fourths of a pound, and put it on sticks. We baked bread that way. It was good bread.
Sometimes the stoves didn't hold together very good. They were maybe made of brick. One time someone said, "Jacob, Jacob, hurry get money! The stove fell down."
The boy ran in the house and got money. And sometimes not, because people knew stove wasn't any good.
We had no doctor in our town. Odessa was a bigger town, but it only had a midwife.
Some of the treatment could be kind of crazy. One man got sick, and a woman put him in a wagon, hitched up the horses, drove him over plowed ground, clop! clop! clop! Then she brought him back and he'd be alright. He'd drink a glass of wine and he was alright.
Catholics were good friends, but never intermarried. And oh! sing! Can those Catholics sing! Jews lived in Odessa, too, since it was a big town, and people borrowed money from them.
One day we came to Rockham, South Dakota. We moved from Menno,
South Dakota. We had a nice living there.
In 1932, when I started farming near Rockham, I got 19 cents for a bushel of wheat, 11 cents a bushel of barley, five cents a bushel of oats. I ran the threshing machine for my neighbors, and for the use of my machinery and labor, I got $5 an hour. I had six wagons and I put paper in the elevator. Anyone who sold grain had to pay the threshing bill first. Some paid. Some didn't. I could still collect from some over there.
In 1943, we got $100 for an acre of wheat, $25 for corn, $66 for oats, and some alfalfa. We couldn't grow much. We didn't have enough to feed one chicken.
My father and mother owned a farm, which my dad sold sometime in the late 1920's, and put all the money from the sale in the bank. In 1930, when the bank closed up, Dad got not a dollar out. He had nothing for living, so they went to my younger sister and lived there a year or so.
My oldest brother said, "I keep them." They stayed with his family for about three or four months, and then my youngest brother came over to take them to his house, but soon his family didn't have anymore room for them.
I tell my wife, Christina: "We go over and get Father and Mother." At the time, we had two boys up here and no crops, but I said: "We believe in God, and He'll help us."
Father had a bed, dresser, and two chairs, and I took Father and Mother and their few belongings to my home and I tell my brother: "I keep them as long as they live." That was in June or July of 1934.
During the cold weather, our house was very cold and there was not much to eat. But mama said, "That's alright."
She was sick, but not too bad. Then, in April 1935, I fixed up and went to town to get a load of wheat for seed. When I came home, Mama was dead.
Father was alright, but not very healthy.
During those years, we were never hungry, but we froze.
Then my dad got sick, and for about three months he was not so good and had to stay two or three weeks in bed. The doctor couldn't help anymore. But Father had a strong heart. My heart is strong, too. He couldn't eat for five or six days. He laid in bed and I couldn't tell if he lived or died. Then he died one night.
We had a little crop next year. Not much. My youngest brother, John, moved to Minnesota in the spring of 1938. We drove out in the fall and came out here to Dent, Minnesota.
In Fergus Falls, corn was good, for 50 cents a bushel, and so I rented a 60-acre farm. When we came out here, Christina said, "How you make your living here?"
We bought a few cows and we had a nice income for the cows. Then we bought 10 or 12 more cows.
In the winter of 1940, there was a farm sale, 161 acres. I went to Fergus to get some money, but couldn't borrow on land. But my son-in-law in North Dakota had some money, and he sent me $1,700. We bought the farm for $2,500, and moved in in 1941.
We had good luck there.
In 1947, my youngest boy went to the Navy. I told my wife, "Christina, we sell the farm and go to town."
We sold the farm for $10,000 and bought a house in town for $6,000. We lived three years in town, and I tell Christina, "We find a 40- or 60-acre farm."
We found a 40-acre farm, and lived on that farm for 17 years.
Out of Russia, we had good-sized towns. The farmers all lived together in towns. If I was younger, I'd go back. Russia is a better country than America when you compare the land. I still got my picture from my church where I was baptized in Russia. We had a great, nice church. Most people were Lutherans, but there was one Baptist church and one Catholic church.
My great-grandmother came from Neuberg, Germany. All came from Germany. My brother Jake's neighbors came from Germany, and he brought an old atlas along. I tell him, "You come from Wittenberg? You find Neuberg, Germany."
And he found it.
When they came from Russia, they used the name Neuberg.
Wine in Russia was not like wine in America. You could drink quite a few before getting drunk. Peaches were better than in California. Apples were better, too.
We lived not too far from Odessa, about 25 miles. Our village had a little store. All you needed was there. If you needed more, you went to Odessa. I went to school till I was 11, and I learned how to write Russian as good as German.
When we left Russia, we had a hard time. We stopped somewhere in Germany on our way to America, and we took a bath there. They said, "In the water, you Dunderweter!"
They pushed us right in the water and threw our clothes in big piles. We had to walk around naked to look for pants and shirts.
From then on, it was better. Then we came to Hamburg, and stayed there for one or two days, before getting our boat passage to America.


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Also asked and answered at the Apple shareholders meeting covered earlier was a question about the oft-rumored Flash player for iPhone. CEO Steve Jobs put a Goldilocks-esque kibosh to the rumor thusly:
- Desktop Flash is too slow on the iPhone to be useful.
- (Mobile) Flash Lite isn't sufficient or advanced enough to iPhone.
- And there just isn't a mid-level version that would be just right.
John Gruber's toldjasos and youmustbejokings were interrupted only by Jobs stressing that Apple and Adobe (who makes and markets the ubiquitous player) maintain good relations, so potential enough remains to feed the rumor-mill for posts to come.
However, it's worth remembering that:
- Flash is a notorious resource hog on OS X and Adobe has never really addressed this for the desktop
- Regardless of its ubiquity Flash remains a proprietary standard and Apple has stressed open standards (like AJaX for MobileSafari)
- And perhaps most importantly, Flash is a competitor to Apple's (admittedly languishing) QuickTime and Apple could very well be preparing to put some of their sudden mobile browsing penetration behind their own product rather than just handing Adobe the space.
Macworld also adds that, with regards to raining on Dieter's iPhone SDK parade tomorrow, "you'll see a lot of applications out there this summer."


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New London's Kente center closing doors after 15 years
New London — The Kente Cultural Center, which promotes the importance of African-American culture and history, particularly through programs for children, is closing after more than 15 years.
The center on Bank Street is scheduled to shut its doors on June 30. The reasons behind the decision are many, according to founder and vice president Shirley J. Gillis.
"It really boils down a lot to funding," she said. "When you get grants, it's usually just for the program, but we need to pay rent, we need to pay for the telephone, lights, things like that."
Figures weren't available Tuesday for the current budget, but Executive Director Jane Bernoudy said Kente is not in debt. (Kente's 2011 tax return lists $91,120 in total revenue and $57,431 in expenses.)
Bernoudy said that increased competition from other programs has had an impact on the number of kids who take part in Kente programs. While no other center does exactly what Kente does, she said, other types of activities have multiplied, especially on Saturdays, which is when Kente offers many of its programs.
Beyond the programming and funding issues, Gillis said, "Our board of directors — we're just tired. We've been doing it for 16 years, and we put a lot of money in it ourselves. We work hard because we are the ones that provide the programs."
Gillis acknowledged that it's been difficult to get new board members and, as for the current ones, she said, "We're getting older."
Closing Kente, Gillis said, "is really sad. We feel really bad because we enjoyed (what Kente did)."
As its website explains, the New London-based "Kente was formed in 1997 to fill a gap in the lack of cultural activities for people of color — specifically for children in our geographical area."
A group of African-American business and community leaders came together to found the organization.
Looking back over the years, Gillis recalled the joy of working with so many students.
"We provided them with so many activities, so many trips. We came up with so many programs, giving kids the idea of looking at their own self, their own culture," she said.
She reminisced about the variety of programming, from book clubs to makeup sessions to trips to see "The Lion King" in New York City. Kente provided etiquette classes and then took the students to a restaurant like Tony D's to practice what they had learned.
Before it closes, Kente will hold two final events. On June 1, it will have a closing sale, featuring everything from art supplies to office furniture.
On June 15, it will host its final Juneteenth event. That will be held at the Williams Street Park and will include games, crafts, vendors, and performances by groups including Shades of Joy, Jim Hunter Group, and Writer's Block Ink.
Bernoudy said the Juneteenth festivities will be a big celebration.
"We're really planning to go out with a bang," she said.
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The Maximum Overdrive concept started at the winter '04 NCRS meet at OldTown in Kissimmee, Florida. Jerry Pitt, during a previous conversationconcerning improvements for the early Corvettes, mentioned the Keislerfive-speed overdrive-equipped Corvette. He had driven the car and feltthe OD transmission was a major improvement over the OE Munciefour-speed.
We heard Keisler was modifying the Tremec transmission for installationinto early Corvettes, and it sounded like a smart move. Tremec suppliesthe transmission for the C5. Shifting is easy and has proven reliablewith high-torque applications. We wanted to drive the car to feel thetransmission and hear the change in noise level from the reduced rpm.
We met Shafi Keisler at the Old Town show and, after a short discussion,were handed the keys to the '65. The road test proved the Tremec was theright choice. It shifted smoothly with positive feel. Highway cruise rpmwas 2,200 at 70 mph and the sound level from the small-blockside-pipe-equipped Corvette was certainly livable.
After the road test, we discussed a possible engine change to complementthe OD transmission. Shafi wanted to bring his '65 Corvette coupe intothe 21st century. We discussed possibilities and other enhancements thatwould be necessary. We wanted good fuel mileage and power with hightorque to eliminate excessive shifting and lugging.
We compiled a list of pieces that would work well together along withpossible options. We met Shafi at the Knoxville Corvette Expo; he likedour plan and thought it would be a good idea to have the new enginefeeding on cold, cowl-inducted air.
We decided on a serpentine-belt accessory drive system with Vintage A/Cfor cockpit cooling. The engine would be the 383ZZ425 unit (383 ci, 425hp) from GM Performance Parts. We also had a lengthy punch list ofunderhood and interior items that required attention. After a call to asome friends at GM and a few conference calls with Shafi, we decided touse the GM 350 Ram Jet electronic-fuel-injection Performance Parts crateengine. Even though the horsepower numbers were lower than the ZZ425engine, the torque number was 400 lb-ft at 3,500 rpm, which would beenjoyable shifting through the gears.
The 350 Ram Jet achieves high torque numbers with the help of the largeintake plenum feeding Vortec cylinder heads and a new MEFI IV enginecontroller (computer) handling fuel and spark delivery.
The MEFI IV engine controller uses a heated oxygen sensor for quickclosed-loop fuel control. All the engine sensors are reliable GM pieceswith weatherproof sealing. The MEFI IV also uses a knock sensor forengine- detonation protection. The controller is small, compact, and athome in the engine compartment.
The GM 350 Ram Jet was the best choice for other reasons. It's acomplete package, including wiring harness and computer, requiring onlyfour wires to connect to the existing mid-year harness. We could use theoriginal ignition shielding and all hardware. Plus, the 350ci Ram Jetwould be easier to cool considering the limited radiator area and addedheat load from the A/C system. Best of all, the engine would look likethe sought-after early Ram Jet mechanical fuelie engine.
The Ram Jet 350 would fit in the early Corvette, but the stocksmall-block hood would require minor surgery to the inner X-frame toclear the throttle body without any external modifications. The stockhood would also allow use of the air filter that came with thePerformance Parts engine.
Since we had decided on the '67 big-block hood for cold air and the lookof the Stinger, it was installed for a trial fit. After installing thehood and engine, the big-block hood had enough clearance for thethrottle body without any modifications. The hood also allowed plenty ofclearance for fresh-air ducting. We decided to use the big-block hoodwith cowl intake air provision.
Next it was time to accessorize. There were a few options for theserpentine-belt drive system. We liked the Vintage Air A/C system fromprevious installations, and it seemed natural to use the Vintage AirFrontrunner accessory drive system and A/C system for a total
package. The Frontrunner pieces were well finished and thought out. Theyuse an OE-style belt tensioner that tightens the belt with engine-rpmtorque load.
Next was an efficient aluminum radiator and electric fan that couldhandle extended idle periods with the A/C on. Be Cool Radiators had adirect-fit module that included an aluminum radiator, a high-flow2,800-cfm electric cooling fan, a wiring kit with temperature switch, aradiator cap, and an overflow reservoir.
We had to consider the 350 Ram Jet fuel system requirements up frontbecause of the electronic fuel injection. We needed an electric fuelpump with a 5/16-inch fuel-return line and additional wiring. We firstthought about modifying the original fuel-sending unit, but with timeconstraints and the original fuel tank's condition, a custom tank withall the latest technology was considered.
We did some research and found Rick's Hot Rod Shop that listed a customfuel tank for the '65 Corvette coupe. Rick and Hector at RHR wereknowledgeable and easy to work with. Hector said they could put togethera stainless steel tank with fuel pump and sending unit in a few weeks.The tank came in on time, and was a work of art. It fit in the originallocation with a few minor modifications, which saved considerable time.
To ensure the new components would be happy and work optimally, weinstalled Lectric Limited wire harnesses from front to rear.Unfortunately, wire harnesses are often overlooked. After 40 years, theinsulation and wire becomes brittle and can cause low voltage to keycomponents, which eventually causes damage. Dash gauges will also beaffected by the high-resistance wiring.
Next was the dash, and we had a problem with the early mechanicaltachometer. It needed electronic movement to work with the Ram Jetengine. Instrument Services in Monteagle, Tennessee, confirmed theconversion could be done without permanent changes. The originaltachometer mechanism could be restored to mechanical operation ifnecessary. Instrument Services converted the fuel gauge to use a0-90-ohm fuel-sending unit, which was in the new fuel tank.
We decided an interior facelift was necessary. The seats, door panels,and quarter-panels were installed at the Knoxville Expo by Al KnochInterior Components. The carpet, dash, and glovebox door were in faircondition, but looked rough with the new components. The paintedinterior trim pieces were fair with scrapes and scratches; but we hadtime--why not finish the interior?
Some pieces required outside restoration. The hood and headlight bucketswould be replaced along with painting the front half of the car, whichadded more aggravation to the equation. But there was no extra time. Toget the car finished by the Hot Rod Power Tour, we had to stay onschedule.
We hauled the '65 back from Knoxville. In retrospect, the projectstopped just short of a major restoration in record time. In futureissues, we'll go into detail about the RHR fuel tank, fuel-systemplumbing, Vintage air A/C, Frontrunner, BeCool radiator module, andinterior harnesses and gauge installation.


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EDC Night 3: 130,000 festivalgoers, another new record of felony arrests
With more than 130,000 attendees at 2016 EDC on Sunday, Metro Police tallied a record number of single-day felony arrests for the second consecutive day at the sixth-annual event, while no fatalities were reported for the three-day festival for the first time since 2013.
Five observations from an EDC first-timer
More than 135,000 daily visitors have filled LVMS for EDC through its first two nights. While many of the participants are return visitors to the festival's sixth consecutive year in Las Vegas, others, including yours truly, are first-time EDC festivalgoers.
EDC Night 2: Another 135,000 attendees; record number of felony arrests; pyrotechnics fire
With more than 135,000 attendees at Night 2 of the Electric Daisy Carnival at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Metro Police tallied a new record for single-day felony arrests at the festival, arresting 39 festivalgoers for drug-related crimes Saturday night.
EDC begins with 135,000 festivalgoers, few arrests at LVMS
An estimated 135,000 festivalgoers attended the first day of the 2016 Electric Daisy Carnival at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Friday, and a very small percentage of them found themselves in trouble with the law. Metro Police recorded a total of 30 arrests.
Traffic jam on I-15? It's EDC kicking off 6th year at LVMS
An estimated 140,000 electronic dance music fans streamed into the festival grounds at LVMS after enduring the bumper-to-bumper commute up I-15 for the annual three-day spectacle of music, multi-megawatt light displays, art installations, neon-glowing rides and more.
Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas: We are all here to have fun
"Save the World" by Swedish House Mafia was the final song I heard before the Electric Daisy Carnival at Las Vegas Motor Speedway ended for me in 2011, the first year EDC was in the Entertainment Capital of the World.
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Cubs-White Sox matchup washed out by rain
Chicago, IL – Tuesday's conclusion of a brief two-game set between the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs at U.S. Cellular Field has been postponed due to a forecast of rain throughout the evening.
No makeup date has been announced, though the teams are scheduled to face off on Wednesday and Thursday at Wrigley Field.
Welington Castillo clubbed a two-run homer in the second inning to give the Cubs a 2-0 lead against White Sox starter Chris Sale, but the heavy rains forced play to be halted with one out in the bottom of the third.
Edwin Jackson started for the Cubs and allowed just one hit over 2 1/3 frames.
No stats count from the contest, as it will be restarted from the beginning when a makeup date is announced.


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Charged with assault
To the editor:
My name is Gerhard Ziemann, an insurance agent and investment representative for the past 20 years since 1992 in southwest Minnesota. I'm faced with getting my licenses revoked by the commerce department of insurance commissioners because of an incident that happened in November 2012 in Lynd.
Two area men filed a complaint I received in the mail the first week in March 2013. The incident occurred the second weekend in November 2012 when I was camping at city wayside rest in Lynd. Went there Wednesday and parked by the shelter and picnic table, slept in my conversion van while deer and pheasant hunting several times in the past 20 years. I am being charged with a misdemeanor of $1,000 or 90 days in jail for spilling some of my lunch pork and beans in a can on their amplifier and speaker system. The incident took place on the sidewalk, the main street between the juice bar/former restaurant and Lyndwood Bar and Grill. About 10 p.m. on Friday, I was awakened with loudspeaker noise across street from city park. After the noise awakened me I made a sandwich and opened a can of beans.
While I was sitting by the picnic table eating my lunch, I watched these two grown men chasing men and women up and down the sidewalk and street with their amplifier, harassing them. There was about 50 percent men and 50 percent women going into the juice bar. The two men were unknown by me; it sounded like they were preaching and judging people's religion.
When the young women would get out of their cars the men followed them down the sidewalk. The women and men were 20 to 50 years old I would guess. The complaint by two men said that I spilled some beans on them and their amplifier. How did that happen? I went to the juice bar for tomato juice and beer which I mix and drink. Found out that they had no tomato juice and beer so I continued down the sidewalk going to the Lyndwood Bar and Grill.
When walking down the sidewalk between the two men, one man raised his arm with a speaker in his hand. We exchanged some words and I raised my arm automatically to protect myself, spilling some pork and beans on his amplifier and clothes. Then I went to the Lyndwood and had beer and tomato juice. When done, I went back to my van to leave town because of the loud sounds – people at the bar complained they could hear the amplifier two blocks away. Then the men yelled at me that they had my license number of my van across the street. I left town that night to find a new place to park at casino parking lot by Granite Falls.
The complaints were kind of amusing – they had me down for a middle-aged man with gray hair and 6 feet, 2 inches tall. I have been totally bald for 40 years, 5 foot 11 inches tall, 66 years old, 365 pounds.
After surviving ruptured appendix and ruptured kidney, cancer, heart surgery and stroke, I feel the good Lord is on my side.
Gerhard Ziemann
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U.S. officials on Sunday called Syria's decision to allow a U.N. team to investigate the site of a purported chemical attack "too late to be credible," signaling that the Obama administration was leaning toward a military intervention in the two-year-old civil war.
Great Britain, meanwhile, issued a statement that left no doubt that it believed the Syrian government was responsible for the alleged chemical attack Aug. 21 that left more than 300 people dead.
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"We are clear in the British Government that it was the Assad regime that carried out this…large- scale chemical attack, last Wednesday that has led to the…agonizing deaths of so many hundreds of people, including, tragically, so many children," British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a statement. "The eyewitness accounts, the fact this area was under bombardment by the regime forces at the time that the chemical attack took place. It all points in that direction to the responsibility of the regime."
But any strike against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime would occur over the misgivings of a majority of Americans, according to a new poll, and with only limited support from Congress. The fallout from such action includes likely retaliation from Iran, Russia and the Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah – Assad's three chief foreign patrons – and could draw the United States deeply into a new Middle East conflict after years of entanglement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
However, many foreign policy analysts argue that after more than two years and a death toll exceeding 100,000, President Barack Obama has a moral imperative to step in now because of the escalation from the regime's apparent use of chemical weapons in defiance of his warning that such warfare was a "red line."
Statements from the administration over the weekend suggests that Obama's extreme reluctance to wade into the bloody crisis was easing, though there were no details yet on a course of action as U.S. officials continued consultations with European and Arab allies.
Obama appeared to be shoring up international support for action, speaking with his second ally in as many days, French President Francois Hollande. The White House said the two discussed "possible responses by the international community" and agreed to stay in touch.
At a news conference Sunday in Malaysia, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel reiterated that he'd prepared "options for all contingencies" at Obama's request.
"We are prepared to exercise whatever option if he decides to employ one of those options," Hagel said.
Pressed on whether there will be a U.S. military response at some point, Hagel responded: "When we have more information, then that answer will become clear."
U.S. officials repeatedly have said that Syria should allow U.N. inspectors into Ghouta, the eastern suburb of Damascus where hundreds were killed last week in a suspected chemical attack, if it didn't have anything to hide.
The Syrian government, via the state news agency SANA, said that it would allow the foreign inspectors into Ghouta after reaching an agreement with the U.N. that takes effect "immediately." The report said that Syria was ready "to cooperate with the U.N. investigators to expose the false allegations of the terrorist groups accusing the Syrian forces of using chemical weapons."
At the U.N., Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said that Syria "affirmed that it will provide the necessary cooperation, including the observance of the cessation of hostilities at the locations related to the incident," according to a U.N. statement.
The U.N. team is preparing to begin on-site inspections Monday.
Even with the green light from the Syrians, the U.N. team could face security problems if they attempt to visit Ghouta, which has seen heavy fighting in recent days as the regime pounds the countryside in an offensive against rebel forces, which includes jihadist fighters.
A senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, dismissed Syria's "belated decision," saying that the regime obfuscated for so long that now "the evidence available has been significantly corrupted as a result of the regime's persistent shelling and other intentional actions over the last five days."
"There is very little doubt at this point that a chemical weapon was used by the Syrian regime in this incident," the official said, citing the high number of casualties, victims' symptoms, eyewitness accounts and the intelligence assessments of the U.S. and its allies.
Rebel commanders in the area around Ghouta have been difficult to reach in the days since the alleged attack because of an ongoing Syrian army offensive in the area. One local activist, Abu Ahmed, said in an online interview that fighting had continued since the attack and each day had seen significant casualties among both rebel fighters and civilians. But the Syrian Military Council, which represents several of the rebel factions operating in the area has already said that it will offer a ceasefire to allow inspectors into the area.
Syria's agreement seems to be aimed at buying time because of stronger signals from the United States and its allies to respond militarily, said Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Doha Center, a research institute in Qatar.
"We've gotten this far because there is a feeling that there is a sense of resolve from the United States that I believe has come only in the last couple of days," Sheikh said.
Chemical weapons policy expert Jean Pascal Zanders warned that any legitimate investigation would not be quick and should be entirely private until finished.
He noted that beyond getting experts on the ground, investigators would have to collect samples from soil, ammunition fragments and even from victims. After collection, the samples would have to be transported and studied in certified laboratories in three different nations.
In considering the nature of the Syrian attacks, he wrote on his website, The Trench, which is dedicated to chemical weapons studies, the investigation could be slow.
"The exact nature of the agent or agents is impossible to determine from the pictures or film footage," Zanders wrote.
If confirmed, the Aug. 21 attack in Ghouta would be the biggest chemical weapons incident so far. The administration previously had assessed that the regime had used such arms only on a much smaller scale, and did not respond forcefully.
The number of dead is still undetermined. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, generally considered the most authoritative chronicler of casualties in the war-torn country, said it had confirmed that at least 322 people had died in the attacks, including at least 90 rebel fighters, 86 women and 54 children.
Director Rami Abdul-Rahman said he was still reviewing hundreds of names and expected the final tally to be much higher.
The images of dead and dying Syrians from the Ghouta attack sparked global outrage, but don't appear to have changed the American public's opposition to a U.S. military intervention, according to the findings released Sunday from a Reuters/Ipsos poll that was conducted Aug. 19-23.
About 60 percent of Americans said that Obama shouldn't intervene in Syria's civil war, while just 9 percent favored action, according to the survey. More Americans would support U.S. intervention if the use of chemical weapons were to be confirmed – with 25 percent in favor, 46 percent opposed – but that's actually a decline in backing since Aug. 13, when a previous Reuters/Ipsos poll asked the same question and got responses of 30.2 percent in support of intervention to 41.6 opposed.
In Congress, an influential Democrat and a prominent Republican sparred over how quickly the United States should respond and whether Obama should be able to order military action without congressional authorization.
Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he believes the Syrian government launched the chemical attacks.
"I think it's very evident that the regime has acted in this way," Corker told Fox News Sunday. "I think there are indications this is real. This was not contrived. And obviously the world is a better place when the United States takes leadership. This is time for us to do this. I hope we will do it soon."
Corker said Obama should wait until Congress returns to Washington in two weeks from its summer break, and then seek lawmakers' authorization for several possible military responses.
"I hope the president, as soon as we get back to Washington, will ask for authorization from Congress to do something in a very surgical and proportional way, something that gets their attention, that causes them to understand that we are not going to put up with this kind of activity," Corker said.
He said U.S. options could range from missile attacks by naval destroyers off Syria's coast to employing the help of American and allied forces in nearby countries.
"You're aware that we have people on the ground in very nearby locations," Corker said. "But obviously not (U.S.) boots on the ground."
Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the United States may not be able to wait until Congress reconvenes, and that the president should be able to act without first obtaining its permission.
"I think we have to act rather quickly," Engel said. "I think the horrific killings of people, murdering his own people he's been doing it for a while now, but obviously the gas that was used to kill his own people, I think we have to respond...in conjunction with our NATO allies."
Engel said Obama does not need congressional authorization for the initial U.S. response.
"I do agree with Sen. Corker that I think Congress needs to be involved, but perhaps not initially…But we cannot sit still," he said. "We've got to move, and we've got to move quickly."
Lesley Clark contributed from Washington, Jonathan Landay from Cairo, Matt Schofield from Berlin, and special correspondent Mitchell Prothero from Beirut.


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According to the Swiss painter Paul Klee, "the artist is like the trunk of a tree, drawing up through its roots in the unknown soil below what will bring life to the branches above: leaves, flowers and fruit, a life of which he or she knows nothing."
That strikes me as a pretty apt description of the priestly calling, as well as the call of every believer, to be deeply in touch with the power of an invisible reality, and to be willing to be a space where that reality is transformed by God into infinite possibilities of leaf, flower and fruit.
But the cost of living this vocation is to be fixed and rooted in the cold winter soil, to stand firm through both storm and drought, to be constant in all weather, to trust that God is with us wherever we may find ourselves, standing alone yet standing for others.
My personal reminder of this call is a baobab tree, or at least a raffia representation of one that I brought back from South Africa. The importance of the baobab first caught my attention when I watched a television documentary filmed in Tanzania. In a remote rural village stood an ancient baobab, already completely hollowed out by the passing of the centuries. Its roots reached deep into the African earth. Its branches stretched out to the brilliant blue skies and the star-laden canopy that have captured the human imagination since Homo sapiens took his first bipedal steps here and told stories around the campfire in the equatorial night.
This was a sacred tree, not only because of its ancient lineage, but because it was the community's birthing tree. Whenever a pregnant woman came to term, she would enter into the hollowed-out sanctuary of the baobab, give birth to her child and remain there with her young until the umbilical cord fell away. Every child in the village had first seen the light of day within the enfolding shelter of that tree. It had literally borne the fruit of the human family in that place, delighted them with its large white flowers and nourished them with its gourd-like fruit.
When I gaze at my miniature baobab, I rejoice in the fruits that 2007 has borne. Epiphany is a good time to celebrate the gifts life has brought to our own messy stables, and especially those people whose personal rootedness in God has borne fruit that has nourished us.
I think of Puleng, a black South African woman, born and raised in the troubled township of Soweto on the margins (in every sense) of Johannesburg. As a small child and a growing, questioning teenager, she lived through the worst and the best of Soweto's history as well as the post-apartheid struggle to build a just and peaceful future for her nation. Her roots have drawn from Africa's earth the knowledge of hunger, fear and anger but also a deep faith and unquenchable hope. She is transforming these raw materials into a powerful ministry for peace and reconciliation.
Puleng's particular gift to the Christ Child-though she would not recognize herself in the role of "wise visitor from the East"-is her work to express the wisdom and spirit of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises in terms of her own native images and stories, so that others might engage with them more fully.
Then comes John. Of Polish descent, his father suffered dreadfully as a prisoner in Siberia when Poland was overrun by the power blocs of wartime Europe, and he became the victim of a brutal Stalinist incarceration. The justice genes live on in John, and the fruit he bears is to be a quiet, insistent, unrelenting investigator and exposer of the human rights violations that lurk undetected beneath the surface of our Western democracies.
And Bridget, whose ancestors suffered the ravages of the Irish famine and subsequent brutalities which must be laid at the door of the British military occupation. Bridget has every reason to be embittered by the memories her life draws up from the soil of history, but she has transformed those memories into the often unregarded service of the "border children," who have grown up in the shadow of tensions in Northern Ireland, teaching them to beat their inherited swords into ploughshares for a different world.
These are three of my Magi today. They are three among many. They are who they are because they are living true to their deepest vocations. They are birth-givers, sturdy and courageous, who draw from the God of transformation abiding within them and give freely of the fruit that grows from that deep rootedness.
What might it take to respond to such a vocation-the call to bring to birth, to make incarnate, the riches that we draw upon when we put down the roots of prayer into the soil of God's mystery? Two things perhaps: first that we really do put down those deep roots, taking the time to be still, in prayer, before the mystery we call God, and then that we allow the fruit to be God's concern and not ours. We may never know how the tree of our life bears fruit, or for whom, but we are asked simply to entrust the fruiting to God.
May the hollows of our own hearts become spaces of transformation where God can come to birth in new ways for planet earth in 2008.


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This has been a busy and rewarding weekend. On Saturday I was a special guest of Rosemarie Hurst's as she received the Phyllis Delaney "Life After Stroke Award in the Achievements in the Arts" I wrote about Rosemarie in a previous post. https://darlenefoster.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/the-heart-of-a-poet/ Rosemarie suffered from a stroke and soon after recovering, had a ruptured brain aneurism. She counts her self lucky not only to be alive, but to have retained 20/20 vision and the ability to continue to create. Rosemarie accepted her award with grace and eloquence. I was pleased to have been invited to watch her be acknowledged in this way.
After being away for most of September and dealing with a broken ankle when I returned, I got behind in reading and responding to blog posts. I must thank the lovely Holly Michael for another award granted to me while I was away. It is the Super Sweet Award. Which is very kind as I think Holly is super sweet herself and has a wonderful blog called writing straight that connects people to inspire and share about life and writing. I suggest you check it out. http://writingstraight.com/about/
I received this wonderful award once before so I am not going to pass it on this time. But it is so great to know that my blogging friends feel I deserve it. Thanks so much Holly and sorry it took me so long to respond.
And why this large bird? This sculpture was outside the building where Rosemarie's award ceremony was held. I just loved it and wanted to share it with all of you. Some of my readers are huge bird fans so I knew it would be appreciated.
I hope everyone else had a great weekend as well and hope you all stay safe and happy in spite of storms on the way.


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Episode Summary from Falling Skies Wiki:
The finale episode begins with Pope , Weaver and some other fighters on a train to Chicago. They talk about needing the Volm weapon to work and apparently, the weapon has already been dug out because we see Dr. Kadar trying to make it work. Tom and Cochise are talking and they comment on the fact that more Volm are on the way. Then Cochise urges Tom to "have faith, my friend." Back on the train, we see that Lourdes is there and she's chained up and Weaver comments that she is "bait" to lure out the Espheni overlord, Karen.
The train encounters a couple Espheni mechs and we see Pope and Weaver begin to attack. But, the train is just a decoy. The Volm weapon is not going to Chicago, it is headed to Boston on a boat. Tom, Cochise, Mattfro, Hal and Maggie watch as Cadar shoots the weapon at the Boston tower and it hits. It takes a minute, but the tower collapses into rubble. Tom and the others celebrate as they see the defense grid begin to crumble. Moments later, a huge Volm ship arrives on the scene.
It is the night after the Volm have arrived and the humans are celebrating, playing drums and dancing around while Tom is in a tent preparing for his meeting with the Volm leaders. Outside, there is a cheer as Weaver and Pope arrive at the camp. They were rescued from their battle with the Espheni by a Volm brigade. Cochise says his people are happy to help the humans. He tells Tom that he will get to meet the Volm leader tomorrow morning, which is faster than Tom wanted.
At the meeting, the Volm commander begins by shaking hands and acting quite nice. It turns out that he is Cochise's father. Tom wants to talk about military plans but the Volm say that will not be necessary. The Volm say they don't need any input or help from the humans. They know how to fight the Espheni and the humans "would just get in the way." Tom and Weaver are not happy. Tom wants to know what the Volm plan to do with the humans. The Volm leader says they will all be relocated to the south to Brazil.
Tom says there is no way he will let that happen. The Volm leader seems to not care what Tom and Weaver think and says human relocation will begin today. Tom says they want to keep on fighting and then the Volm leader turns to walk away and Tom grabs his shoulder to continue talking, this causes the Volm to fling Tom aside and leaves the room.
Weaver comes back to camp. He orders everyone to get their stuff together and move out. He says they will leave in one hour so they can't be rounded up by the Volm. Someone asks about Tom and Weaver says Tom is being held captive by the Volm. Weaver goes into a tent and seems to suffer a mild heart attack. His daughter comes in and he tells her that he has been taking pills to keep his heart from acting up. He asks her to keep his condition secret. Before the humans can pack up and leave, Cochise and a Volm military party arrive and order everyone to prepare for transport. Pope wants to fight them, but Weaver realizes they are badly outgunned. Weaver orders everyone to hand over their weapons. Pope sneers at Weaver as he says, "The Volm have just done what the Espheni never could. They've brought us to our knees."
Meanwhile Tom and the Volm Commander are talking. Tom is angry that Cochise lied to him about the Volm plans. The Volm leader says Cochise was operating under strict orders. The Volm leader explains that every other planet they have liberated has contained people who were glad to be relocated and leave the fight to the Volm. Tom explains that humans are different. "Allow us to fight for our freedom," he pleads. The Volm leader admits that he has never contemplated doing anything but what he always does. He has never had to really consider other options. He tells Tom he will think about it. It is clear that the Volm are not evil, they simply do not understand humanity.
Hal is chatting with the captive Lourdes. She looks terrible and is desperate for the bugs to be out of her brain. Hal vows to help her get better. Maggie says they may have to "put her out of her misery."
Cochise arrives and tells Weaver it is time for the humans to go to Brazil and they join with Tom. Cochise leads them away and takes them over to their weapons and says the humans are free to go, though he asks them to leave the Boston area. Tom says, "we are going to continue to fight." Then Cochise says he hopes they will see each other again and he hands Tom a Volm rifle and the humans leave. The Volm commander and father of Cochise thinks the humans will die if they fight, then Cochise says humans are stronger than the Volm think they are.
The humans are on the road out of town and Ben senses something nearby and Lourdes begins freaking out. An Espheni ship is inbound. Karen comes out with some of her forces. She is carrying a white flag and says she can see that the Volm alliance with the humans has gone sour. She says there will be more unpleasant discoveries about the Volm. She tells them that there may be a day when the two sides need each other. She tells Tom she brought a gift for him. Tom says he has a gift for her too. He puts a bullet in Karen's chest.
The Espheni forces attack but the humans defeat them. Karen is lying on the ground almost dead. She tells Hal she only wanted to be with him and her final words; "I'm sorry". Maggie pulls out a gun and puts two bullets in Karen.
Tom hears Anne in the woods and rushes to her side and Alexis is there too, but she has aged quite a bit because of her alien DNA.
Tom talks to Dr. Kadar about Alexis. The doctor does not know if Alexis will continue aging at a rapid pace. The humans are moving out, then Pope comments that being back on the road feels like old times, to which Weaver agrees. After that, Alexis goes up to Lourdes and touches her face. Suddenly dozens of Eye Worms from inside Lourdes come pouring out of her, and they all gather in Alexi's hands and she crushes them. She is witnessed by Tom and Weaver.
Please use this thread to discuss the series' thirtieth overall and third season tenth and final episode Brazil. Rule: Please keep spoilers limited to those revealed during the series up to this episode only.


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(Reuters) - U.S. Open champion Justin Rose recovered from a back-nine stumble to take a two-stroke lead over Jason Dufner after Thursday's opening round of the four-man PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda.
Following bogeys at the 13th and 14th holes, the Briton steadied his ship with an eight-foot par putt on the 15th before making a two-putt birdie at the par-five 17th to post a four-under-par 67 at the Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton.
The elite 36-hole event is for the winners of the year's four majors. British Open champion Phil Mickelson chose not to play and was replaced by defending champion Padraig Harrington.
PGA Championship winner Dufner bogeyed the 14th and 16th holes as the breeze freshened en route to a two-under 69, while Masters champion Adam Scott, who had a bogey and double-bogey on the same two holes, was a further shot back.
Harrington mixed three birdies with four bogeys and a double-bogey for a three-over 74.
Rose made an ideal start at the par-four first, where he hit a poor drive but then nailed his approach shot from 186 yards for a tap-in birdie.
"My tee shot, I thought it was going to go straight in a bush, but it landed in the cart path just in front of that bush and hopped over, so I caught a good break there," Rose told reporters.
"I didn't really play my best today but I kept the ball out of some really bad spots. I felt like I putted really well (and) read the greens well."
The final round will be played on Wednesday.
Reporting by Andrew Both in Cary, North Carolina; Editing by Frank Pingue


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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tunnock's Caramel Milk Chocolate Wafer
Tunnock's is a Scottish biscuit company located in Uddingston (outside Glasgow), Scotland. They make a wide variety of baked goods but those in North America are probably most familiar with their teacakes (a digestive biscuit with a marshmallow on top, covered in chocolate) and their Tunnock's Caramel Bar. I got this bar from my friend Ernesssa, who went to Scotland a few months ago. I liked it a lot so when I saw a package of four at Cost Plus World Market, I thought I'd buy it again so that I could do a complete review and see if the Scottish & American versions were different. (Turns out both are made in Scotland, though Tunnock's has a factory in Canada.)
The only difference, as far as I could tell, between the American & Scottish was the packaging. The Scottish ones, shown here, are in a simple thick foil wrapper. The package I bought in Cost Plus has a big more substantial wrapper. It was a light mylar sleeve and then the four bars were sealed inside another larger mylar sleeve. The Scottish version was easier to unwrap and reseal, though I don't think it was nearly as airtight as the American one. I was concerned that my Scottish-purchased one was a little stale.
The bars are large and rather ordinary looking. Each is about four inches long and 1 inch square. The chocolate coating is quite thin and light, the waffle pattern of the wafers can be seen.
It's five layers of wafers sandwiching four layers of caramel then a thin coating of milk chocolate.
Beefy and substantial looking, it's an odd mix. The wafers are light and airy, so the bar is much lighter than it looks. But the caramel between the layers is like a glue that keeps it all intact as long as possible, no flakes escape here.
It's sweet and only slightly milk and cocoa-ish. The chocolate coating is creamy but doesn't contribute much flavor. The wafers are basically airy and have a lightly malted flavor, but not much else. The caramel filling is kind of like a penuche or clotted cream fudge. It's not gooey or chewy, but does create a little bit of a softer texture. The wafers aren't exactly stale, but they're not dry/crispy like some other wafer bars. At first I thought that was a bad thing, but I found I liked it quite a bit, it was just a little bit more textured than a wafer ice cream cone.
It reminds me of cereal bar - you know, one of those bar cookies that you make at home, more than a candy bar. For something that's only one ounce, it's satisfying. So for folks watching their calories, at only 130 per bar, they're a good option - only 5 grams of fat, which isn't bad for a chocolate combination bar.
I don't know if I'd go out of my way to get these again, but I understand why they're one of the top ten bars in Scotland. They're different from KitKat, which has more chocolate and less crisp, and the lightly toasted caramel notes add a different dimension from other more caramel-focused bars like Mars (Milky Way). I love the packages and motifs for their whole product design. I don't think I could resist buying all of Tunnock's products at this point, just to see how each is done.
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Microsoft recently published a video on its Windows Phone YouTube channel that featured Misfit Toys and 'Bumble' (The Abominable Snow Monster of the North) for a new Windows Phone 8 commercial. The team is back with another festive themed commercial featuring not only the Snow Monster, but Santa Clause who is enjoying a quick dip before the mad rush to deliver presents to kids around the world.
Using his Windows Phone, Santa is able to keep track of all the missed calls and messages from members of his team, while also keeping tabs on naught / nice kids with an updating Live Tile. A message is then sent to the Head Elf - "Need more toys". It's a jolly, simple advert that is clearly aimed at a slightly younger audience. With the Kid's Corner functionality, Windows Phone is a great solution for children entertainment.
Source: YouTube (Windows Phone)


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Dr. Fred Grine and his research team analyzed a cranium from Hofmeyr, South Africa dating back 36.7 thousand years to enhance our understanding of the evolutionary history of modern humans in sub-Saharan Africa. His research was listed as one of the top ten scientific discoveries of 2007 by Time magazine.
The Foundation is hosting a wine and cheese reception on Friday, November 30 at the American Anthropolgical Association meeting. Please come and meet the Foundation staff as well as toast the incoming and outgoing editors of Current Anthropology. Other Foundation events at the November AAA meetings are a book launch for the latest publications from the Wenner-Gren International Symposium series, a Presidential Panel on "Indigenous Experience Today" and a grant writing workshop to advise people on Foundation programs.
The Foundation is pleased to announce Dr. Mark Aldenderfer (University of Arizona) as the new editor of Current Anthropology, succeeding Dr. Benjamin Orlove in January 2008.
Wenner-Gren Foundation's new Institutional Development Grant is designed to strengthen and support the development of anthropology doctoral programs in educational institutions located in countries where the discipline is underrepresented.
Find out about the latest Wenner-Gren International Symposia Volume Indigenous Experience Today edited by Marisol de la Cadena (University of California, Davis) and Orin Starn (Duke University). This is the third volume of the series published in 2007, previous titles released this year were Anthropology Put to Work (eds. Field and Fox) and Where the Wild Things Are Today: Domestication Reconsidered (eds. Cassidy and Mullin).
An article by Professor Vincenzo Formicola (University of Pisa, Italy) in Current Anthropology provides evidence for ritual human sacrifices from Prehistoric Burial Sites in Europe. This is the first time research has documented this practice taking place during the Upper Paleolithic period in Europe and it was reported in various news outlets worldwide.
"Anthropology Put To Work" edited by Les Field (University of New Mexico) and Richard G. Fox (President Emeritus, Wenner-Gren Foundation) is the ninth volume in the Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series to be published through Berg Publishers. This book follows the recently released volume "Where the Wild Things Are Now: Domestication Reconsidered" edited by Rebecca Cassidy (Goldsmiths College, University of London) and Molly Mullin (Albion College).
Research undertaken by Dr. Glenn Stone (Washington University, St. Louis) with the support of a Post-Ph.D. Research grant, examining the deployment of genetically modified cotton in Western India, contributes to continuing debates around the advantages and impact of these technological innovations for agricultural producers.
The eighth volume in the Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series "Where the Wild Things Are Now: Domestication Reconsidered" edited by Rebecca Cassidy (Goldsmith College, London, UK) and Molly Mullin (Albion College, USA) has just been released by Berg Publishers.
This document is a compilation of abstracts of completed research, as well as a bibliography, sent in by Wenner-Gren grantees in 2006.


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Juswant & Sylvia Rai needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 270 designs submitted by 59 freelance designers.
Currently Berkshire Property Meet (BPM). Want to use BPM as the main brand
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- quality events
- high standard of customer service
- helping people connect / build their 'dream team'
We are the UKs Leading Property Networking Event and also do other property related activities i.e. talks, courses, education. We are known as THE monthly networking meet - as a "must-attend" which sells-out every month.
Now expanding into other Wealth Creation strategies so that we are not just Property.
* New & Experienced Property Investors (all levels)
* Networkers - People looking for business partners/connections
* People interested in wealth creation strategies wider than property eg. internet marketing.
Currently we are niched in 'Berkshire' and 'Property'.
We are expanding our market to cover Wealth Creation strategies to include - property, internet marketing & other ways of making money.
We want a strong logo around the letters BPM. Stay away from property focus and pull in something that reflects:
connections, people, wealth, leaders/entrepreneurs, trust.
Examples of how we want to use BPM Logo:
BPM Berkshire Property Meet
BPM Education, BPM Wealth Seminars, BPM Forum etc.
A clean slick logo that will
# translate onto web, banners, business cards
# reflects our words / values above
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Situated on the Approach Road from National Highway 24 or IGI thru Mahipalpur. This is were one is officially into vasant kunj. The Sheer numbers of Bright Yellow School Buses - 46 Nos Bus Routes as per the Schools websites just shows how success the commercial private enterprise of running schools in India is. Unlike Developed Nations were schooling is a state subject and strong regulations ensures that even if one fully funds the buildup of a school, the administration is autonomous. In India School are mostly "private" and laced with the individualism of the "Head" it comes with. I beg not to be a political commentor but being a keen student of physics i wonder how much recharged the school children gets due to the Hi-Tension Power Line so close to it. Electrifying Schooling one should say..


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MOD DESCRIPTION A military Mod using CryEngine 3 It is inspired by the movie "The Hurt Locker", "Three Kings", and the game "Battlefield 3". The setting and time and background is around 1990 in Iraq. It is called "iRAQi GOLD", not because of oil but the gold left in hidden secret bunkers. Setting and Time Background War time in Iraq March 1990
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