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Q. David Bowers: The following narrative, with minor editing, is from my "Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia" (Wolfeboro, NH: Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., 1993)
Coinage Context
Into storage: At the time of mintage, the demand for 1900-S dollars was minimal, and many went into government storage.
Numismatic Information
Two reverse hubs: In 1900, both C-3 and C-4 reverses (see description under 1900 Philadelphia dollars) were employed in San Francisco. The varieties are significantly different, but to this day only relatively few collectors have had both varieties in their holdings. The advent of the new third edition of the Van Allen and Mallis book, released in September 1992, will undoubtedly spur interest. This useful volume was out of print for a decade earlier, and virtually a new generation of collectors and investors has come into the market since that time, and have not had the book to use.
Hoard coins: Vast quantities of 1900-S dollars were stored at the San Francisco Mint. These were paid out over a period of years in the late 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Many went to Nevada casinos in the latter decade.
In the 1962-1964 period, many additional bags were released. By the time that the government stocks were exhausted, 1900-S was a plentiful coin in the hands of investors, dealers, and the public.
Circulated grades: In worn grades, the 1900-S is fairly scarce. AU coins turn up with some frequency, however, and are probably coins paid out in the West in the 1940s and 1950s.
Mint State grades: Specimens are readily available from the Treasury release. Most are in lower grades from MS-60 through 62, at which level I estimate 20,000 to 30,000 are known, followed by 10,000 to 18,000 at the MS-63 stage. MS-64 coins are about twice as hard to find and number 5,000 to 10,000, while MS-65 or better pieces, of which 1,250 to 3,500 are estimated to survive, are scarcest of all.
Some coins show parallel striae or lines on the planchet, from the drawing bench step in the planchet preparation process. Strike on 1900-S dollars varies from flat to average to sharp. Most have attractive frosty lustre. Cherrypicking will reward the buyer. As noted, those from the C-4 reverse are not as sharply defined, as the hub was not as detailed as C-3. As such, a "weakly struck" C-4 may be normal C-4; make an inspection to tell the difference.
Prooflike coins: Prooflike coins remain to the extent of several thousand coins, most of which are unattractive in appearance. The Redfield estate (1976) is said to have had several hundred with subdued lustre and/or spotting, possibly from exploding cans of peach juice once stored near the dollar cache. DMPL specimens are about a dozen times harder to find than PLs. Most DMPLs are in lower grades. The "Proofs" offered by the Pukalls (The Numismatist 2/47, 10/53) were probably DMPLs.
Circulation strikes:
1. Narrow S. Breen-5674, VAM-1. Common from hoard coins. Probably most of the 35 pairs of dies were not used; certainly few old reverses were.
2. Wide S. Breen-5676. VAM-2, 4, latter with doubled 00. Much more often seen with new reverse over old reverse (below).
3. Narrow S mintmark over wide S. VAM-3A. A wide S mintmark was punched over a slightly doubled narrow S on a die that had already been used, indicating that the San Francisco Mint must have had its own supply of S punches (alternatively and less likely, the die was returned to Philadelphia for reprocessing, then sent back to San Francisco). Walter H. Breen suggested that all three S mintmarks are of the same size, and the mintmark is simply triple punched. (Thomas K. DeLorey also believes this is a triple-punched mintmark. Letter to the author, November 13, 1992.) Jeff Oxman stated the following: (Letter to the author, November 29, 1992.)
Society of Silver Dollar Collectors members have discussed this variety at length and have concluded it is a dual mintmark variety, that is a narrow S over a wide S. However, we believe that ALL mintmarks were applied in Philadelphia, never at the branch mints. The following scenario is likely:
1899 and 1900 represented transition years for San Francisco mintmarks, since prior to this, a narrow S punch was used exclusively, and beginning in 1901, a wide S punch became the principal mintmark for the rest of the dollar series. It is quite conceivable that an engraver inadvertently used a narrow S punch that had been the standard punch up to this time, and then corrected his mistake by repunching the die with the wide S punch. Although the narrow S may well have been properly effaced from the die, it became visible again when minute pieces of metal which had covered the old mintmark fell out as a result of the pounding incurred while striking coins. In the case of the narrow S mintmark over wide S, two states of the die are known. One features only a repunched narrow S mintmark, whereas the later state shows the remains of the wide S as well.
Circulation strikes:
1. C-4 reverse hub over C-3, "2 Olive Reverse" (VAM nomenclature). Large wide S: VAM-16. Breast feathers not well formed, as on all C-4 dies. Forms a small minority of this date.
Dies prepared: Obverse: 35; Reverse: 35
Circulation strike mintage: 3,540,000; Delivery figures by month: January: none; February: none; March: 500,000; April: none; May: none; June: none; July: none; August: none; September: 1,000,000; Octo-ber: 1,000,000; November: none; December: 1,040,000.
Estimated quantity melted: 1,000,000 or more under the 1918 Pittman Act; additional coins in later melts .
Availability of prooflike coins: Readily available, but demand is low as most have unsatisfactory surfaces. DMPL coins are rare.
Characteristics of striking: Varies widely, from flat to sharp.
Known hoards of Mint State coins: Many bags were distributed by the Treasury from the early 1940s through the early 1960s.
Two distinctly different reverse hubs were employed in making dies this year, called C-3 (old style) and C-4 (new) by Van Allen and Mallis. At least one 1900-S die was made from both punches, C-4/C-3
Additional Information
Distribution of Dollars
Annual Report of the Director of the Mint, 1900, gave details of coinage and distribution during the fiscal year: San Francisco: In mint, July 1, 1899, 51,962,686; coinage fiscal year 1900, 546,000; total, 52,508,686; in mint July 1, 1900, 51,775,509; total, 51,775,509; distributed from mint, 733,177.


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UPDATE: iOS5 update troublesThursday, November 17th, 2011
Apple released iOS 5.0.1 a few days ago that apparently fixes the delete issue. According to ForeFlight, some app development may also be required, and they are working on that now. For more, check out the company's blog. If you've updated to iOS 5.0.1 and are using a different aviation application, let us know in the comments section how it is working.
iPad and other Apple device users should take note of a rather odd quirk that can occur after updating the operating system to iOS5. According to multiple application developers, the operating system could delete data, including charts and approach plates, if certain conditions are present.
Essentially the device senses the memory is full, or almost full, and will delete previously saved data if new data is brought in. So, the operating system will now favor new data, instead of rejecting it to preserve old data. For those running ForeFlight, WingX, or any of the other large multipurpose apps, you could lose charting data by bringing in any other additional pieces of data. What's worse, the device will do this with only a minor indication of what's happening. A small message that says, "Cleaning" will appear under any app that is currently losing data.
To keep this from happening, simply make sure you have extra space on the device. Most of the multipurpose charting apps run around 7 GB, while Jeppesen's charting app is around 1 GB. The problem comes from having either multiple aviation apps, or having the device loaded with other big programs.
This issue brings to light an important consideration in using the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch for aviation. Make sure to preflight the apps. After you have downloaded the data you want to use on the flight, disable Wifi and 3G, and open your app. Then scroll through the charts and airport data to make sure you have everything you need. This way you'll know that what you have actually resides on the device, and that you're not just streaming it off Wifi. Also, each app should have a list of downloaded charts. Check the list for an additional source of confirmation.
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Topic: Why use an IDE?
I'm curious why a lot of developers question Rails specifically because of a lack of IDE?
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I'm curious why a lot of developers question Rails specifically because of a lack of IDE?
Why is an IDE so necessary in their eyes? What does it offer that Textmate doesn't?
There's a few things I've seen in other IDEs that I wouldn't mind having.
- smart auto-completion
- inline documentation
- refactoring tools (rename class, extract method, etc.)
TextMate sort of already has the inline docs and the others could probably be done with bundles. None of these are that high of a priority for me anyway. I'll take textmate's snippets over these any day.
IDE's were created to compensate for complicated languages. The J2EE project I work on at my day job has at least 6 layers of frameworks, depending on what you are doing. This means a few things.
One is a lot of code to manage, which means I have to have separate projects, and dependency management. Also, if I need to change one class name, it could affect hundreds of other files, in which case refactoring can be very useful.
It also means that debugging is very difficult. With rails you can usually get away with what I call the poor man's debugger, logging. In this application, you might have to dig through 10-20 files just to debug one request. Therefore, breakpointing and profiling are helpful.
There are also code generator helpers. For example, a very common idiom in Java is the Java Bean. This is basically a data object with a series of instance variables, and setter and getter encapsulation methods. This can get annoying to maintain, so IDE's provide helpers to generate all this code for you.
There are many other examples, but you get the point.
I can imagine a few good IDE type features that might be nice, but thankfully rails makes most of them unnecessary. I'm so happy now with a command line and a text-editor.
OK, as a developer of the Ruby In Steel IDE (http://www.sapphiresteel.com) I'm biased. But I have to say that fast visual debugging is, in my view, an essential. You can develop apps in Rails without debugging, it's true, but the underlying code is huge and complicated, the Ruby language itself is also very complex (I am not of the opinion that Ruby is less complicated than Java, C#, Delphi etc.) and can produce some very subtle and difficult to diagnose side effects.
Other things an IDE gives you - all the features of a first rate editor, naturally; all the tools you need at the click of a mouse (no need to navigate around disk directories and command prompts), code navigation (GoTo, Class+method location navigation bars etc.), macros to program the editor and the environment, snippets to automate 'code-writing', IntelliSense to provide context-correct code completion lists, online context-sensitive documentation so there's no need to hunt around source code files looking for comments - error location to find and fix syntax errors instantly, and a whole lot more besides (for example, later in this summer we'll be adding visual Rails design tools and some other goodies...)
In short if an IDE gets in the way or slows you down, there's something wrong with the IDE ;-) A good IDE should always help you to develop bug-free, maintainable applications much more rapidly than would be possible if you were using an editor and commandline tools.
I've been using e for a while but only for the tab complete and the colour schemes from Textmate. It lacks so much which I would like to see and its file management (on my machine at least) is slow and inaccurate (double clicking a file can cause it to move to a complete different folder half way down the navigation structure!).
Unfortunatly, without getting a Mac I don't have much choice right now.
To me though, it feels like IDE's are clunky and slow compared to something lightweight like textmate.
What I especially wonder the most though, is that I love having a multi-monitor workflow set up, how would I take advantage of this in an IDE? To me it feels like an IDE is a "one screen deal."
To me though, it feels like IDE's are clunky and slow compared to something lightweight like textmate.
What I especially wonder the most though, is that I love having a multi-monitor workflow set up, how would I take advantage of this in an IDE? To me it feels like an IDE is a "one screen deal."
I can't talk about other IDEs, but in Ruby In Steel you can dock, float or tab windows so that if you are using multiple monitors, you could, for example, float the windows across the monitors - e.g. have a full screen editor in one monitor, the Solution Explorer (project manager) and interactive console in a 2nd monitor, a web browser and error panel in a 3rd (if you are lucky enough to have 3 monitors!) and so on...
Or you can just dock all of the above windows into a single monitor or place them 'behind one another' in tabbed pages and so on...
best wishes
I'd be more likely to use something like Ruby in Steel if there was a way to use Textmate colour schemes. At the moment the colours don't work for me - but thats just me.
Also, I would have liked a way to simply open an existing folder as a project and go from there.
You can create your own colour schemes for Ruby In Steel: Tools->Options->Text Editor->Ruby (or Rails for rhtml).
The free Personal Edition lets you colour most common syntax elements. The commercial Developer Edition also lets you colour a large range of other items (e.g. a method definition such as def myMethod may have a different colour from a method call such as ob.myMethod ) as well as options for colouring the interactive console. Most other windows can be coloured using the standard Visual Studio options. You can also set your preferred fonts (I'm told that TextMate users like the Monaco font which you can download if you Google for it).
You can also save or load named colour schemes: Tools->Import and Export Settings (then make the appropriate selections) - e.g. to save a colour scheme: Export Selected Environment Settings, Next, Uncheck All Settings, now select Options->Environment-Fonts and Colors. Then continue to save your settings to load later or exchange with other users.
As for reading in an existing project folder. In the free edition, you have to import this to a new location (File->Import). The Developer edition also has a 'convert in place' option (File->Open->Convert) which leaves all the files and folders in their original locations (and untouched) then creates a Visual Studio project and Solution from them.
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Well I'll give it another try in a bit. (edit: i better be quick my trial runs out on the 30th - really should have only downloaded it when I actually wanted to use it )
Also, can I suggest making getting hold of trial easier? Its just a bit cumbersome to have to go through a shopping system for it.
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October 24, 2008
Courtesy illustration The First United Methodist Church will resume a youth fundraising program for UNICEF following a meeting with police on Friday.
First United Methodist Church in Portales will resume a youth fundraising program for UNICEF after meeting with police Friday.
"We got it all straightened out," said Toni Kiernan, the church's coordinator for the United Nations Children's Fund program.
Kiernan said she and her two sons were followed home by police officers Tuesday night after a resident complained about them knocking on doors seeking money for UNICEF.
Kiernan said the officers told her and her boys they would be arrested if they continued going door-to-door asking for money without a permit.
The church suspended the program after the incident.
Portales police Capt. Lonnie Berry said Friday officers in the department were made aware that the church group was conducting a legitimate fundraiser and not in violation of any laws.
He said any issues or misunderstandings had "been corrected."
"We definitely want them to be able to do their fundraising," he said.
"We just want to make sure our guys know that they're out there doing it and they do now."
Berry said it's always a good idea for groups to let police know if they are conducting an organized fundraising campaign so there are no misunderstandings.
UNICEF's Web site promotes a campaign called "Trick or Treat for UNICEF," encouraging youth to help children in other countries by going door-to-door and collecting money for donations to the organization.
Church pastor Jeff Symonds said Thursday his congregation has participated in the UNICEF campaign for at least the last three years without issue.
Last year, it raised $800 and set a goal of $900 for this year, he said.
About 30 members of the church's youth group plan to go out this coming week to raise money for the campaign, he said.


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Fairport's Simonetti attracts attention in baseball world
You really don't know who is watching, or what they see.
Ask Conner Simonetti.
The Fairport first baseman, who just finished his junior season, is headed to Cary, N.C. to play in the USA Baseball Tournament of Stars, which begins June 20. Only 144 players 17 or 18 years old received the same invite to what basically is a tryout for the nation's 18 & under team. The USA Baseball roster will be cut down to 40 on Sunday.
Simonetti's invitation came after a recommendation from a college coach, who seen the 6-foot-1, 205-pound left-hander at a showcase camp.
"I had no idea that I'd be considered for this," Simonetti, 17, said. "My parents said be like a sponge.
"Soak everything up, because I'm going to be around some of the best coaches and players in the country."
Major League Baseball and USA Baseball pay for the travel and uniforms for the players, who will stay with host families.
Simonetti hit for a .471 average with 32 RBI and 6 home runs this spring at Fairport. He has 16 home runs after two varsity seasons.
Irondequoit coach Tim Mabb said that he told Fairport coach Ned Amyot that Simonetti should be a legitimate candidate for most valuable player in Monroe County Division I, which includes Victor and it's ace pitcher Matt Portland, the 2011 All-Greater Rochester Player of the Year.
"In my era, he reminds me of Steve Garvey,'' Mabb said. "His build, his mannerisms, his defensive prowess around the first base bag.''
A 2011 AGR team member as a sophomore, Simonetti also pitched as a closer or the team's top reliever this spring. Smaller rosters for summer league teams have also led to playing time for Simonetti as an outfielder since he was about 13 or 14 years old.
"Today's players, it's Joey Votto," Mabb also said when asked who Simonetti stirs up memories of. "He hits the ball all fields, and from what I've seen, with power.
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Girl and the GoatProbably one of the most popular places to eat in Chicago. Very good food, everything is small plates, more tapas style. We tried a bunch of different things but make sure you get their bread, and my favorite was the ceviche. The ceviche was a shrimp ceviche but very unique. The used pine nuts and for the "chips" they had an indian crepe type thing that I hadn't heard of or had before.
he asked about my background and I told him I how had read good things about his place on pizza forums, and he said mentioned pete-zza by name and said he had remembered talking to him a few years back.
Jeff,That is a very nice trip report. However, I'd like to correct a statement. Jonathan at Spacca Napoli spoke with Peter Taylor, not with me. Peter and I spoke a couple of times about Spacca Napoli and what they were doing but he visited Spacca Napoli and met with Jonathan. Peter wrote about his visit at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3522.0.html. Peter
Part 3Just some miscellaneous stuff I thought I'd throw in in case anyone is in Chicago. I don't know if anyone will even read any of these posts, but at least I will have them for my reference and history.
Nice report Jeff! Glad you enjoyed the trip, and it looks like you ate well.
http://www.arunsthai.com/aruns.htmlThis one is perhaps my favorite restaurant ever.It's a 12 course Thai meal, located deep in a Chicago neighborhood that is completely forgetful, except for this restaurant.If you call Charlie Trotter's and can't get in, and ask where Charlie would eat..this is where they recommend.It's listed in the 1,000 things to do before you die...and the answer to "Where would you eat if you only had one meal left"...Each course is as beautifully crafted as it is delicious, and we ate every bite, leaving neither hungry or stuffed....it was perfect.
I was last there in 2009, and a very good friend was there last week.If by "research", you are relying on the local yelpers and such...oh, well.....
I'd be surprised if deep dish were greater than 5% of the market share. No kidding. Yes, people eat it. But for many/most folks, it's an every-now-and-then thing. For me, it was once or twice a year, especially if we had out-of-towners with us. But thin crust was every single week, every party, every odd occasion, every spur of the moment pie, etc. Hands down.Deep dish is kinda like the what the French Quarter is to New Orleanians.Of course, there are folks who eat deep dish more often or exclusively. But I didn't personally grow up knowing anyone like that. There are relatively few pizza joints that even attempt that style. It's a shame, really, that more people don't know the reality behind the myth.
If you're talking about the sales ratio within a single restaurant, then you may be correct about 3:1 or 2:1--although certain places would certainly sell more DD, like Malnati's. But overall market share for deep dish in the Chicagoland area is nowhere near that high. I would truly be surprised if it commanded more than 5% of the overall market. I would even be surprised if it were more than 2 or 3%. It is an oddity--yes, a delicious, indigenous-to-Chicago oddity--but an oddity nonetheless.As for price, all good pizza in the Chicago area is "expensive." I put that in quotes because I think it is appropriately priced. A 15" thin crust with two toppings should be $20. Pizza is not fast food. You're not supposed to get a pizza for $11.99. Anything less than approaching twenty bucks should be suspect.
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PAULSBORO, N.J. — A temporary order asking residents here to remain indoors because of heightened vinyl chloride fumes was lifted Monday.
But residents of about 50 homes, evacuated after a freight-train derailment Friday, may not return to their houses until the end of this week, authorities say.
A tanker ruptured in the derailment had been leaking vinyl chloride, a toxic chemical used in the production of plastics that often is transported as a liquid.
STORY: Investigators probe signal problem
STORY: Derailment sends chemical cars into creek
Workers spent much of the past three days cleaning out the rail car, and officials issued a new shelter-in-place order Monday morning when they detected increased levels of the chemical in the air. It had dissipated by mid-morning.
People are being kept away from a 13-block section of Paulsboro, a town of about 6,000 southwest of Philadelphia, as a precaution against the accidental release of any chemicals from derailed cars, Coast Guard officials said.
The order covers 48 homes near the derailment site, a bridge across Mantua Creek between Paulsboro and West Deptford, N.J. The creek flows into the Delaware River about 17 miles downriver from Philadelphia.
Workers are preparing to remove hazardous materials from around the damaged bridge, where four tanker cars remain in the stream.
"There is still a potential for releases," Coast Guard Capt. Todd Wiemers said. "We are taking all the necessary precautions so everyone can remain safe."
Meanwhile, an official said the bridge had undergone two inspections just last month, and a crew aboard a train passing over the bridge days before the derailment discovered the swing bridge over the creek was about 4 inches from being totally closed.
Track inspectors then spent about two hours Thursday making adjustments to the bridge to ensure it locked and opened properly. A swing bridge can pivot horizontally to allow boats too tall to go under the bridge to pass.
The accident occurred shortly after 7 a.m. Friday, when seven cars of a southbound freight train left the rails. Four of the cars were carrying vinyl chloride, and a leak from one sent more than 60 people to the hospital with respiratory complaints and other symptoms.
Displaced residents are expected to stay at hotels until at least Saturday, officials said.
"We don't want anyone in harm's way," Paulsboro Mayor Jeffery Hamilton said. "It is for the safety of the community."
A quarterly hardware inspection of the bridge was last performed in June, said Deborah Hersman, chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board that is investigating the crash. One should have been performed in September, but records relating to it have not been located.
Initial reports indicated the crew of the train that crashed Friday received a red signal early Friday. They walked the track for a visual inspection and radioed for permission to proceed. When it was granted, they continued to head south and the crash occurred.
The train's two-person crew had said "they looked back and they saw the bridge collapse," she said earlier.
The CSX train's engineer was a 10-year employee who had been on the route for a little more than a year, she said. The conductor was a four-year employee in his first week on the route.
A train safely passed over the span at 11:15 p.m. the night before but was sent an automated message that the bridge had malfunctioned after it crossed.
It remains unclear on whether a malfunctioning bridge caused the train to derail or if the derailed train caused the bridge to fail.
"Nothing has been ruled out," Hersman said.
Investigators also are reviewing track and bridge inspection records, she said. The most recent track inspection occurred Nov. 20. Structural inspections of the bridge were completed last month and in May. The line does not carry passenger rail.
The next inspection of the span's underwater components, which occurs every five years, was scheduled for September 2014.
"We are working with the U.S. Coast Guard to get access to the scene," Hersman said. "Once the site is deemed safe, we will document our findings from the rails, bridge and tankers."
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Gail Collins puts a human face on the NSA data-mining program, reminding us of Brandon Mayfield, the Oregon man bugged, harassed, arrested and exonerated because a fingerprint showed up at the scene of the Madrid subway bombings that kinda, if-you-squinted looked a little like his.� Mayfield had never been to Spain, but on the plus side, he had married an Egyptian and converted to Islam.
So the secret FISA court issued a secret warrant allowing agents to secretly invade his home – rifling through his daughter's computer along the way.� Eventually, saner heads – in Spain – prevailed, Mayfield got an apology and a $2 million settlement.
It's just one case, as Collins says, and the program is slightly more legal than it was back then. But since the feds insist on everything being secret, we have no way of knowing either how many successes the NSA has had or how many innocent people have been hurt by it.
Meanwhile, I'm starting to wonder what it takes to shield my emails and web-browsing from the data miners at Google as well as the data-miners at the NSA.� Not that I have anything to hide – though as a journalist, the thought that using keywords or visiting a website on some secret watch list might flag me for special scrutiny does have a chilling effect – but I find the idea of being micro-targeted, whether by advertisers or the state, just creepy.
Anyone know of a secure web-browser or an email program that will keep all my keystrokes from going into Google's massive database?


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Topic: new Rails app; early adopters wanted
Hi folks,
I am launching a new rails app called l8r [later]. It will allow you to send emails later; i.e.. schedule them in the future instead of sending them right away. It works from your normal email address.
At this time I would like to invite anyone reading this to test stuff out and get a feel for the app. It's not open for new users yet, but if you leave your details you will receive a personal registration code.
As a thank you all testers will be upgraded to a free paid account.
Not to mention that your user id will be less than 100; which is ultra-elite and will be worth tons of money in the future
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After threatening a professor with disorderly conduct charges for Firefly and anti-fascism posters on his office door, administrators at the University of Wisconsin at Stout have backed down, reports FIRE. Free speech is an important value, said the administrators in an e-mail.
It is important to note that the posters were not removed to censor the professor in question. Rather, they were removed out of legitimate concern for the violent messages contained in each poster and the belief that the posters ran counter to our primary mission to provide a campus that is welcoming, safe and secure.
In retrospect, however, it is clear that the removal of the posters – although done with the best intent – did have the effect of casting doubt on UW-Stout's dedication to the principles embodied in the First Amendment, especially the ability to express oneself freely.
UW-Stout will let Professor James Miller display his posters and will review procedures for "handling these kinds of cases."
Among those protesting the decision was actor Adam Baldwin, one of the stars of Firefly, who'd asked Miller if he knew of other "violent" posters on campus. UW-Stout tolerated numerous "Kill the Bill" posters — a take-off on the movie Kill Bill — as part of a campus-wide protest held in February against Republican Gov. Scott Walker's budget bill.


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Stocks Slammed by Rocky Start to Earnings Season
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The major U.S. equity averages finished sharply lower on Wednesday as the early results for third-quarter reporting season exacerbated investor worries about a slowing global economy.
Energy stocks were especially weak after oil giant Chevron (CVX) gave a gloomy financial update, and Alcoa (AA) was a significant drag as well after the company delivered a surprise quarterly profit but moderated its global aluminum demand forecast.
"Today has been pretty emblematic of what we've been seeing in the marketplace where we're dealing with two forces that are pushing against each other," said Leo Kelly, managing director at Hightower. "On one side we have really a questionable earnings period ... and Europe's still not out of the woods, Spain's pushing back on the ECB in terms of the timing of their bailout. On the other side you have QE3 and just an astounding amount of liquidity washing through the market that was already awash in liquidity."
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 129 points, or 0.95%, to close at 13,345, its lowest finish since Sept. 12, the day before the Federal Reserve announced a third round of quantitative easing.
Breadth was negative with losers far outpacing winners, 25 to 4, with Bank of America (BAC) finishing flat. Aside from Alcoa and Chevron, the biggest Dow decliners were Caterpillar (CAT) , Cisco (CSCO) , and Hewlett-Packard(HPQ) .
The top gainers were Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) , McDonald's (MCD) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM) .
Chevron shares slumped 4.2% after the company said third-quarter earnings would be "substantially lower" than in the second quarter as oil production declined in the first two months of the quarter and it received a lower price from the sale of oil.
The oil giant said production took a hit from a fire at its refinery in Richmond, Calif., and disruptions from Hurricane Isaac.
Aluminum producer Alcoa -- the first Dow component to report each quarter -- kicked off the unofficial start of the third-quarter earnings season Tuesday with a surprise profit , helped by productivity improvements and strong sales.
At the same time the company moderated its 2012 global aluminum demand forecast to 6%, down from 7%, as a slowdown in China slightly impacted its second half outlook. The stock closed down 4.6%.
Home Depot (HD) was weak after Oppenheimer downgraded the stock on valuation concerns. Shares dropped 2%.
Wal-Mart shares got a 1.7% boost after the world's largest retailer said it's testing same-day delivery for goods purchased online, presenting a threat Amazon's(AMZN) online business model. Amazon's stock fell 2.4%.


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Mexican Chicken
- Vegetable oil cooking spray
- 1 (10 3/4-ounce) can cream of chicken soup
- 1 (10 3/4-ounce) can cheddar cheese soup
- 1 (10 3/4-ounce) can cream of mushroom soup
- 1 (10-ounce) can tomatoes
- 1 whole chicken, cooked, boned, and chopped or 4 cups leftover cooked chicken
- Unsalted butter, for greasing pan
- 1 (11 1/2-ounce) package flour tortillas
- 2 cups shredded Cheddar
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 13 by-9-inch pan with the cooking spray.
In a large bowl, stir together the 3 kinds of soup and the tomatoes. Stir in the chicken.
Layer the tortillas and the chicken mixture in the pan, beginning and ending with tortillas. Sprinkle the cheese over the casserole and bake for 30 minutes.
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- Open Source Workshop #2 - Voyage Linux Introduction
- Spam protected email address for mailman archive
- Subversion to DVCS - Your mindset has to change as well
- DNMA92, ath9k and hostapd with Voyage Linux
- Slides for Open Source Developer talk at SFD
- Open Source Developer talk at Software Freedom Day 2009 HK
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Open Source Workshop #2 - Voyage Linux IntroductionSubmitted by punkytse on January 31, 2012 - 21:56. Developer
I have given a 5 min lightning talk about Voyage Linux in Open Source Workshop #2 held in Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Jan 14, 2012.
The presentation slides could be found here:
It is a nice gathering for all open source developers in Hong Kong to meet regularly. I decide to join the workshop whenever I have free ti
Spam protected email address for mailman archiveSubmitted by punkytse on May 17, 2010 - 10:42. Developer
As a voyage-linux list administrator, I have recently received a request from a list member for removing his email address from the archive. I have reviewed the archive immediately and the email address is shown as "xxx at yyy.com", which makes intelligent spam-bots easily to find out the email address.
I have prepared the a script called "replace_spam.sh" to replace "xxx at yyy.com" with "(spam-protected)" for all archived messages.
#!/bin/sh for FILE in 20[0-9][0-9]-*/0*.html do echo $FILE #grep "TITLE=.*\>.* at .*$" $FILE sed -e "s/TITLE=\(.*\)>.* at .*$/TITLE\1>\(spam-protected\)/" -i $FILE done
Put the script to the archive root and run it:
# cd /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/voyage-linux # replace_spam.sh
Next, we need to change the achiver program such that it will not generated "xxx at yyy.com" as well. In /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py, change:
- self.email = re.sub('@', _(' at '), self.email) + self.email = "(spam-protected)"
- author = re.sub('@', _(' at '), self.author) + author = "(spam-protected)" - author = re.sub('@', _(' at '), author) + author = "(spam-protected)"
That's it. When new mail comes from the list member, the archiver will now mask xxx at yyy.com email address as "(spam-protected)".
2010-06-08 Update: Two of the above changes in incorrect. Now fixed. I also have found a way to regenerate all the archive by using this command:
# cd /usr/local/mailman # bin/arch voyage-linux archives/private/voyage-linux.mbox/voyage-linux.mbox
Subversion to DVCS - Your mindset has to change as wellSubmitted by punkytse on March 26, 2010 - 15:47. Developer
Joel Spolsky has setup Mercurial Tutorial [1] that help developers understand DVCS and work it works.
Joel shares the same confusion as I have with git and mercurial. Right now, I still don't buy the way how git and mercurial work. Hoping I will accept the novel DVCS concept with a my mindset change.
The key point is: don't assume your subversion knowledge will apply to DVCS, it will just make you more confused. And you need re-education to learn this new version control concept again.
DNMA92, ath9k and hostapd with Voyage LinuxSubmitted by punkytse on February 23, 2010 - 23:48. Developer | Linux | Voyage Linux
After the release of Voyage Linux 0.6.5, I finally have time to explore AP mode with ath9k driver.
DNMA-92 wireless card is donated by PCEngines for ath9k driver and Voyage Linux integration.
First, you will need to install iw package from http://www.voyage.hk/dists/0.6/iw/. Voyage Linux 0.6.5 didn't package it, so you need to install it manually.
Although you won't need iw tool in the instructions further below, you can use it for getting information on your nl80211 based wireless interface instead of iwconfig (See this page for more info). To start with, install iw tool:
# remountrw # wget http://www.voyage.hk/dists/0.6/iw/iw_0.9.14-1_i386.deb # dpkg -i iw_0.9.14-1_i386.debAccording to this link, ath9k will need to use nl80211 driver for hostap functions. So, in /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf, append the following at the end of the file.
driver=nl80211 interface=wlan0 logger_syslog=-1 logger_syslog_level=2 logger_stdout=-1 logger_stdout_level=2 debug=4 dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd ctrl_interface_group=0 macaddr_acl=0 auth_algs=3 eapol_key_index_workaround=0 eap_server=0 wpa=3 ssid=voyage-wpa wpa_passphrase=voyage-wpa wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK wpa_pairwise=TKIP channel=11 hw_mode=g eapol_version=1Please note that Voyage Linux use wlan0 for ath9k interface. From the above configure, I have configured WPA/WPA2, using voyage-wpa as both SSID and pre-shared key, running 802.11g mode on channel 11. eapol_version=1 is set for backward compatibility to my damn old 2001 iBook. Later, I may further explore on setting up 802.11n mode, I won't do it now since I have no client device with 11n.
At last, don't forget to enable wlan0 in /etc/network/interfaces:
auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet static address 10.1.10.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.1.10.255 up nat.sh wlan0 eth0 "10.1.10.0/24"You don't need to set anything with iw tools since hostapd will do it for you. Now, make sure hostapd is enabled in /etc/default/hostapd and restart wlan0 interface and hostapd by:
# ifdown wlan0 # ifup wlan0 # /etc/init.d/hostapd restartThat's it. I can now connecting my iBook and iPhone to Voyage Linux with running ath9k in AP mode!
Slides for Open Source Developer talk at SFDSubmitted by punkytse on September 21, 2009 - 13:50. Developer | Linux | Voyage Linux
Although my session in SFD is a little bit rush, I got a good feeling that my presentation on Voyage Linux project is a successful one. Here is the slides of my session:
DIY Open Source Project (Part 1)Submitted by punkytse on September 15, 2009 - 15:51. Developer | Linux | Voyage Linux
Nowadays, the easiest way to setup an open source project is hosting via sourceforge.net. But did you ever think about hosting a project by yourself so that you will have complete control of the project and not dependent by others? My project, Voyage Linux, is built by me little-by-little, bit-by-bit over 4-year time span. At the time of writing (Sep 2009), the project homepage has over 10,000 pageviews per month, the community mailing list has 430 subscribes, and 13 country mirror sites from sponsors.
This series of articles documents my experiences on setting up open source project totally by yourself. Part 1 of this series covers the preparation before setting up open source project that includes the following topics:
- Setting up dedicate Linux Server
- Selecting ISP
- Domain name registration
Open Source Developer talk at Software Freedom Day 2009 HKSubmitted by punkytse on September 10, 2009 - 12:34. Developer | Linux | Voyage Linux
Invited by Ben Lau, I will present Voyage Linux project at Software Freedom Day 2009 HK on 19 Sept 2009 to share my experiences as an open source developer in Hong Kong.
I have conducted similar talk back in 2007 at Linux the Gathering #3. I am looking forward to meeting up with other open source hackers in Hong Kong, and I am particularly interested in the project related to Linux DMB-T driver.
I am now preparing the slides for the talk, and will probably publish it on punknix.com after the talk. These weeks, I am preparing a series of articles about DIY setting up OSS project. Hopefully, I am able to publish the first article before the talk.
Building compat-wireless drivers for 2.6.30Submitted by punkytse on July 13, 2009 - 18:29. Developer | Linux | Voyage Linux
ath5k driver in 2.6.30 does not support AP mode. After a bit of research, it was found that the latest
First, download bleeding-edge source code and extract it. As describe here, you cannot use wget to automate the download of compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2, which contain all the latest codes of wireless drivers. However, the tarball with a date in the file name (e.g. compat-wireless-2009-07-10.tar.bz2) can. So browse this directory and download the tarball with the current date accordingly:
# cd /usr/src/ # wget http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2009-07-10.tar.bz2 # tar -jxf compat-wireless-2009-07-10.tar.bz2Since I build the drivers for Voyage Linux kernel, I need to specify KLIB and KLIB_BUILD to different directory. Otherwise, "uname -r" will be used to determine your kernel version.
# cd /usr/src/compat-wireless-2009-07-10 # make KLIB=/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.30-voyage/ \ KLIB_BUILD=/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.30-voyage/This will built all modules /usr/src/compat-wireless-2009-07-10. To get all the .ko driver modules, it is more tricky and you need to specify the correct variables accordingly.
# mkdir -p /root/compat-wireless # make -C /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.30-voyage/ \ M=/usr/src/compat-wireless-2009-07-10 \ INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/root/compat-wireless modules_installNow all the latest drivers are now installed to /root/compat-wireless so that I can transfer the driver modules from there to my ALIX board using scp easily.
leds-alix2 module in 2.6.30 kernelSubmitted by punkytse on July 13, 2009 - 16:23. Developer | Linux | Voyage Linux
When reviewing 2.6.30 kernel changes, I have found that leds support for ALIX.2/3 is now added to vanilla kernel. But when I compare the source between the openwrt version, I found they they are written by different authors. Voyage Linux 0.6.2 uses the leds-alix module written by Petr Liebman and leds-alix2 modules in 2.6.30 is written by Constantin Baranov. No matter which one is better, the one in the vanilla kernel is the champion. So the work is to port existing Voyage Linux code to load leds-alix2 instead.
After switching to 2.6.30, the driver cannot recognize my ALIX.3A (early) board. To workaround this, I need to use force parameter to bypass the BIOS check, that is
# modprobe leds-alix2 force
squashfs 4.0 on Debian Lenny and 2.6.30 kernelSubmitted by punkytse on July 13, 2009 - 15:40. Developer | Linux | Voyage Linux
Recently, I started 2.6.30 kernel development on Voyage Linux. When reviewing 2.6.30 changes, I found that squashfs is now included in vanilla kernel. So I am very pleased to use the built-in squashfs module instead of out of tree module.
One notable thing of the in-kernel squashfs module is with a newer version 4.0 than version 3.3 provided in Lenny and/or Voyage Linux 0.6.2. Running re-built Voyage Linux Live CD with a 2.6.30 kernel, squashfs filesystem cannot be mount as the same time I was surprisingly to know that squashfs 4.0 module is incompatible to 3.x squashfs filesystem. That's why the mount failure comes out.
I have no choice but have to rebuilt squashfs-tools package from squeeze/sid. I download and rebuild the package on Lenny by:
# dget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/squashfs/squashfs_4.0-1.dsc # (however, it complains key-ring not found, so use dpkg-source) # dpkg-source -x squashfs_4.0-1.dsc # cd squashfs-4.0 # debuildThen, upload the built package to Voyage Linux experimental repository. Rebuild the Live CD, and everything works again.


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Each year since 2002, the international community has come together on June 12 to mark World Day Against Child Labor. According to estimates of the International Labor Organization (ILO), over 215 million children worldwide are engaged in child labor. This year, we call particular attention to the plight of those children – mostly girls – who are engaged in domestic work.
Globally, domestic workers comprise a significant part of the modern service economy, and all indications are that the number of domestic workers is increasing steadily in both developed and developing countries. Most domestic workers work for private households, usually without contracts or clear terms of employment. Because most domestic work is by informal arrangement, behind closed doors, and with no contracts or clear terms of employment, these workers are often invisible. This hidden crisis requires multiple strategies and forms of engagement.
The United States remains steadfast in our support of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. On the subject of children in particular, Convention 189 requires that children above the minimum age for employment must be given special protection when employed in domestic work. The Convention calls for a minimum age for entry into domestic work and provides that children between the ages of 15 and 18 should not be deprived of compulsory education or opportunities for vocational training because they work.
To fully eradicate the worst forms of child labor, in particular in domestic work, we must deal with the root causes of this devastating problem. Among these are inequality, inadequate access to education, and a lack of decent work for parents. We can help families to break out of the vicious cycle of poverty by providing them with meaningful alternatives to sending their child to work. National governments have a critical role to play in this endeavor through the laws they pass and the job and education programs they create. Engagement at the grassroots level by NGOs and civil society groups is also essential. On this June 12, World Day Against Child Labor, and every day, we join our partners in the international community in standing up for children and declaring "no to child labor in domestic work."
About the Author: Barbara Shailor serves as Special Representative for International Labor Affairs.
"no to child labor in domestic work."
I would understand this to pertain to the civil and commercial sector, but you still need to teach kids to pick up after themselves and develop a sense of responsibility to learn.
If a fellow out in the world is to teach his kids the "family buisiness", say he's a mechanic, works on cars. He's a "home schooling parent" when he has his todlers sorting nuts and bolts out of a pile that's been washed up. They'll know their metric sizes by sight, before they would have ordinarily finished nursery school.
Some kids play with blocks and Legos, I remember pulling and straitening nails from old lumber to help my dad out build something or other.
Some might call that form of child labor an "internship" (chuckle).
As a governmenmt, how are we to convince other governments to convince their people , parents or future parents most of them, that it is up to them to break the bonds of economic slavery that puts their kids at risk, and their government is open to ideas?
I think child labor is an issue pretty much related to poverty in developing countries. Many parents see having children as a guarantee for income in the family. In this respect, the more children you have, better guarantees you have. Children are supposed to help in house chores and also with other responsilities at very early age and many times they never learn how to be a child. Often times they support families and resposibilize for the balance of the economy by providing their labor in exchange of money or other benefits. I this this is the case of Cape Verde, the country where I was born around 40 decades ago.
The situation is pretty much different in other countries where child labour goes beyond families boundaries and is sucject of exploitation from adults.
We do have child labor; it is very associated to poverty in a sense that in most of cases children who practice it come from low income families who sttrugle for survival.
However, msot of the times it is considered part of the growth learning process, meaning that children to learn to work by working. I am thinking about certain responsibilities like feeding animals, fetching water or during the Azagua season (rainy season in CV) when tasks are divided between boys and girls (indispenable) for the success of the operation.


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Meryl Davis and Charlie White won their latest ISU Grand Prix event to earn a shot at another Grand Prix Final title.
Davis and White posted their second win of the season and their 11th consecutive victory in a Grand Prix event by taking the ice dancing gold medal at the NHK Trophy in Miyagi, Japan. Their Grand Prix winning streak dates back to 2009.
The victory clinched a spot in the Dec. 6-9 Grand Prix Final in Sochi, Russia — site of the Olympic Winter Games in 2014 — where Davis and White will try to win their fourth straight Final championship.
Davis and White, silver medalists at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, also won the Hilton HHonors Skate America in October to open this season.
Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani gave the United States two of the top three ice dancing teams with a bronze-medal performance.
Americans also took home three bronze medals: Mirai Nagasu (women's), Ross Miner (men's) and the combination of Marissa Castelli-Simon Shnapir (pairs) earned their first Grand Prix medal. The last time the U.S. medaled in all four disciplines at a Grand Prix event was the 2009 NHK Trophy.
The United States won its first FIS World Cup relay medal in cross country Sunday when the women's 4x5k team finished third in Gaellivare, Sweden.
Holly Brooks, Kikkan Randall, Liz Stephen and Jessie Diggins each produced a career-best in the 5k to produce the medal.
"We've known this was possible for a long time," Randall said. "We just knew it was going to take each of us putting together the right performance on the right day."
Randall was third and Brooks fifth Saturday in the 10k freestyle race.
Elsewhere, defending FIS Ski Jumping World Cup champion Sarah Hendrickson finished second in the season opener in Lillehammer, Norway.
Todd Lodwick was 24th in the FIS World Cup Nordic Combined opener in Lillehammer.
Mikaela Shiffrin finished ninth in the giant slalom Saturday before finishing seventh in the slalom Sunday in the Nature Valley Aspen Winternational to improve to fifth in the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup overall and slalom standings.
Lindsey Vonn, working her way back from an intestinal illness, was 21st Saturday and did not compete Sunday.
Vonn was 10th after the first run, but didn't have anything left in the tank for the second pass through the challenging course.
"I didn't have the energy I needed to really be competitive," Vonn told the Associated Press. "It's been a real fight to even be able to race today. I didn't have it.
"I'm a competitor. This isn't exactly the kind of result I was hoping for. But I have to still keep things in perspective and realize that I was very sick just a few days ago. I'm just happy to be racing again."
Meanwhile, up in Lake Louise, Alberta, Marco Sullivan was third in the downhill and Ted Ligety was fourth in the super G at the FIS Alpine World Cup event there.
Olympic champion Steven Holcomb won for the third time in as many FIBT World Cup two-man bobsled races this season with Saturday's victory at Whistler, BC. Steve Langton pushed. Holcomb is the first driver to win the first three World Cup two-man races in six seasons.
In the four-man bobsled, the "Night Train" team of Holcomb, Langton, Justin Olsen and Curt Tomasevicz finished fourth, just 0.06 seconds from a medal.
Meanwhile, Nick Cunningham and Chris Fogt were ninth while Cory Butner and Johnny Quinn were 10th in the two-man race.
On the women's side, U.S. teams finished ninth, 10th and 11th. Jazmine Fenlator and Katie Eberling led the way in ninth place. Elana Meyers and Olympic track athlete Lolo Jones finished 10th, and Jamie Greubel and Emily Azevedo were 11th.
Jones, a two-time summer Olympian as a hurdler, competed in just her second bobsled World Cup event and was part of the 5.11-second start in the second run that matched the track record set by Canada's Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse on the way to the 2010 Olympic gold medal.
"Our push athletes attacked the track with total reckless abandonment and wanted to win under any circumstances," U.S. women's bobsled coach Todd Hays said. "It was certainly impressive. We know they are great athletes, and they are turning into great bobsledders."
2007 skeleton world champion Noelle Pikus-Pace retired from the sport after finishing fourth at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. This weekend she made her return to the World Cup stage with a sixth-place finish. Katie Uhlaender, who won the Park City World Cup race, was seventh.
"It feels good to get the first World Cup race out of the way so I can settle my nerves and move forward," Pikus-Pace said. "It feels like a different world. I'm the same person on the sled, but the way I handle competition now is so different."
Matt Antoine's 15th-place finish was the best by the United States in men's skeleton.
Elsewhere, the United States had four top-10 finishes in European Cup openers.
Julia Clukey returned to elite international competition with a sixth-place finish at the World Cup opener in Igls, Austria. The 2010 Olympian has missed much of the last two seasons with medical issues, including surgeries on her knee and to address Arnold-Chiari Syndrome.
"My first run, I was a little too tense … a little nervous, I guess," said Clukey, who had the best starts of the women's competition. "It didn't feel very fluid, but I was really happy with my second run and tried to carry speed down the track."
Clukey joined Chris Mazdzer and the doubles combination of Matt Mortensen and Preston Griffall to finish seventh in the relay.
Mazdzer, a 2010 Olympian, had the best men's finish in 16th. He was third in Friday's Nations Cup, which served as a qualifier for the World Cup race. Mortensen and Griffall finished 10th in doubles.
Adeline Gray won the gold medal Friday at the Henri Deglane Challenge in Nice, France. Gray, the 2012 world champion, won her title at 72 kg/158.5 pounds, up 11 pounds from where she won her world title.
All three U.S. competitors medaled in the event: Mark McKnight won a men's freestyle bronze medal at 55 kg/121 pounds and Shaun Scott earned a bronze at 84 kg/185 pounds.
Elsewhere, the United States won three medals at the Arvo Haavisto Cup, a Greco-Roman event, Saturday in Ilmajoki, Finland. Robbie Smith won gold at 120 kg/264.5 pounds. Thrasher Porcher took silver at 66 kg/145.5 pounds. Andy Bisek picked up a bronze at 74 kg/163 pounds.
SPEEDSKATING: Brian Hansen earned his first career Essent ISU World Cup podium finish by taking third in the men's 1,500 meters Sunday in Kolomna, Russia. "I think it was a big step for me in my skating career," Hansen said. Jilleanne Rookard finished fourth in the women's 3,000-meter B race.
CYCLING: Katie Compton won the women's elite race and Logan Owen finished fifth in the junior men's race Saturday at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup event in Koksijde, Belgium.
FENCING: Amanda Sirico, Madeline Kehl, Catherine Nixon and Charlene Liu led the United States to gold at the Grenoble Cadet European Cup in women's epée at Grenoble, France.
RUGBY: Chris Wyles had 19 points Saturday to lead the U.S. men to a 34-3 victory over host Romania. The game was the last in a European tour for the United States.
KARATE: Brian Ramrup and Sakura Kokumai each earned bronze medals at the World Seniors Karate Championships in Paris.
BOWLING: Kent Marshall averaged 226.4 to rank second in men's qualifying at the QubicaAMF World Cup, which will continue through Sunday in Wroclaw, Poland.
Story courtesy Red Line Editorial, Inc. Tom Robinson is a freelance contributor for TeamUSA.org. Material from various news services and press releases from National Governing Bodies was used to compile this report. This story was not subject to the approval of any National Governing Bodies.


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Ambassador Gaddi Vasquezserves as the 8th United States Representative to the United Nations Organizations in Rome. Previous Entry:Talking About Food II
Today our group visited programs that generate hope and income for people in southwestern Bangladesh. In Khulna, we observed an avian influenza outbreak management training workshop for local veterinarians and health workers. As you can tell by the picture, one Bangladeshi reporter and I tested a few chickens ourselves and found out that it is as hot as an oven in the protective gear.
The USAID-sponsored training program shows strong U.S. support for the commitment of the local veterinary and scientific communities to prevent outbreaks from devastating the birds of Bangladesh. This technical approach to teaching professionals how to test chickens and control the spread of the virus should continue in light of the significance of the poultry population to food and economic security in this country.
We took a drive through forests of bamboo, coconut, and banana trees and fish and shrimp ponds in Bagerhat to reach a site where we assisted FAO in distributing seeds, rice, and cattle feed to local farmers and livestock owners. It was a moving experience for me. The sheer volume of people waiting in line signified that the distribution was of vital importance to helping them restore their community economically and resume their farming activities after the cyclone. The assistance is generating opportunity as well as sustainability.
Perhaps the most inspiring of all conversations on this trip so far is the one we had with Rheka Rali Dhali. She is a star poultry producer among dozens of female participants in the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development's livelihood project in Gopalganj. Rheka raises enough chickens to earn more than $500 a month. She started out with a small loan and now employs community members in her homegrown entrepreneurial enterprise. The strength and energy of the women involved in the development of poultry sales and mini hatcheries in her village are the secret behind what looks to be a way to generate long term income. Women are a powerful influence for poverty alleviation in this region.
We head back to Dhaka in the morning and then catch a flight home. I look forward to taking these impressions that I have shared with you back to Rome where our stewardship of U.S. aid to hungry continues during challenging times of rising food and fuel prices.


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