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Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
by T. J. StilesRaised in a
Editorial Reviews
"After reading this biography . . . can doubt that the driving force of Jesse James's career was persistent Confederate ideology and loyalty. . . . [Stiles writes] vigorously, eloquently, persuasively." —James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books
"Intricate, far-reaching. . . . A fascinating revisionist biography." —TheNew York Times
"In this excellent account, T.J. Stiles shows James to be a southerner, not a westerner; a Confederate, not a cowboy. . . . [He] masterfully strips James bare." —The Economist
"Elegantly rendered and compelling." —Jay Winik, Washington Post Book World
"Stiles has combed a wealth of contemporary sources and imbues this story with the drama it deserves." —Eric Foner, Los Angeles Times
"[A] bold, myth-bashing account of the brutal life and times of the outlaw-icon." —Boston Globe
"Carries the reader scrupulously through James's violent, violent life. . . . When Stiles, in his subtitle, calls Jesse James the 'last rebel fo the Civil War; he correctly definies the theme that ruled Jesse's life." —Larry McMurtry, The New Republic
"A fascinating challnge to old legends." —The Dallas Morning News
"A dazzling work of American history. . . . James emerges, stripped of his Robin Hood folk mythology, as a more complex and pivotal figure than earlier histories have allowed." —Sunday Times [London]
"Arresting and powerful." —The Richmond-Times Dispatch
"This gripping biography of one of the most famous American outlaws clarifies the development of modern violence and proves that the simplistic Jesse James of western movies fall far short of the historical mark." —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Perhaps the finest book ever written about this American legend." —Salon.com
"The book is quite simply outstanding. . . . [Stiles is] a writer whose allegiance is not with the easy and obvious but with the subtle and definiantly humane." —Guardian
"As gracefully written as a novel, and convincingly argued throughout, this is biography at its finest." —Bookpage
"Stiles spent four years examining James's deadliest weapon: his politics. . . . James emerges as no mere robber, but as a proslavery 'terrorist' who remains wildly misunderstood." —Time Out
"In hard-eyed, exhilaratingly physcial language . . . T. J. Stiles takes us beyond the usual interpretation of the outlaw's notorious life and into a far more challenging understanding of the man." —The Bloomsbury Review
"Wonderful. . . . An important new biography." —John Mack Faragher, Raleigh News & Observer
Product Details
- 9780307773371
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date:
- 10/27/2010
- Sold by:
- Random House
- Format:
- NOOK Book
- Pages:
- 544
- Sales rank:
- 284,291
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Part One
Walk about Zion, and go round about her; tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces, that ye may tell it to the generation following.
-Psalms 48:12-13
Chapter One - The Preacher
In the blind man's memory, the river ran west. It was in the spring of 1846 when young Francis Parkman had first looked on the Missouri, and he had seen clearly that its wide and silty waters flowed east to the Mississippi. But when he closed his faltering eyes in a clinic on Staten Island in 1847 and began to dictate the story of his adventure of the previous year, he had already begun to think like the great historian he would soon become. As he scanned in his mind the lines of passengers and clots of wagons and piles of goods crowding the St. Louis levee, as he recalled the sound of steamboat paddles slapping and churning against the Missouri's current, he could see the life of the nation pulsing westward up the river like blood cells pouring through an artery. In the most important sense, the river ran west.1
Parkman did not record how he arrived in St. Louis from his home in Boston, but he undoubtedly spent most of his trip on the water. It was virtually his only choice. Most roads amounted to little more than muddy ravines-in Missouri, it was said that roads were worn, not made-and the first, pioneering railways had yet to cover much territory. So, whenever possible, Americans set out in schooners and square-rigged ships, paddlewheel steamboats, or mule-drawn canal barges. He might have taken a ship to New Orleans, then a riverboat north; or he could have sailed up the Hudson, been towed down the Erie Canal, then shipped through the Great Lakes before crossing to descend the Mississippi, or taking another canal to reach the mighty Ohio.2
North and south, east and west, these flowing highways met at the metropolis of St. Louis. One of Parkman's contemporaries, a farm woman named Elizabeth Carter, wrote that merchants swarmed in and out of the place "like bees." The water off the city's tightly packed levee presented a breathtaking spectacle, as dozens of teetering, wedding-cake paddlewheelers pressed in to find a landing. "The steamboats were strung up and down the river for miles as close as they could stand," she wrote to her family in Kentucky.3
Some fifty of those vessels regularly plied the Missouri River, hauling passengers and goods between St. Louis and the state's inner river towns. But the twenty-two-year-old Parkman's imagination was captured by the immense throng of settlers and traders bound for Oregon, California, and Santa Fe. "The hotels were crowded," he wrote, "and the gunsmiths and saddlers were kept constantly at work in providing arms and equipments for the different parties of travellers."4
On April 28, 1846, Parkman left St. Louis on a Missouri steamer named the Radnor. "The boat was loaded until the water broke alternately over the guards," he recalled. "Her upper-deck was covered with large wagons of a peculiar form, for the Santa Fe trade, and her hold was crammed with goods for the same destination. There were also equipments and provisions of a party of Oregon emigrants, a band of mules and horses, piles of saddles and harness."
For the next week, the heavily laden steamboat chugged up the winding river, forcing its way against the swift current. The Missouri ran high in the spring, making the pilot's job simpler-but not simple. The channel constantly shifted back and forth across the soft-soiled floodplain; sandbars swelled into islands and then dissolved; snags of drifting dead trees came and went, threatening to spear the hull of a poorly guided boat. Everything rested on the pilot's knowledge and skill. He had to learn and relearn the river, read the water for shoals and snags, know how to time a burst of steam to carry the boat through a shallow chute. It was a dangerous career. Between boiler explosions and the river's own obstacles, an average of three boats each year sank to the Missouri's muddy bottom, often taking dozens of lives at a time. The pilot, Mark Twain later wrote, ruled over his vessel "in glory," trumping even the captain in pay and authority.5
During that week, the Radnor existed as a floating town, piled high and trailing a cloud of smoke. The average boat was a sidewheeler, some 165 feet long and 28 feet wide-though they often reached 250 feet with a 40-foot beam-and some could hold as many as 400 passengers. "In her cabin were Santa Fe traders, gamblers, speculators, and adventurers of various descriptions," Parkman observed, "and her steerage was crowded with Oregon emigrants, 'mountain men,' negroes, and a party of Kanzas Indians, who had been on a visit to St. Louis." Also on board, unmentioned by the young Bostonian, would have been country lawyers, frontier merchants, and farmers returning home, along with dozens of women, children, and teenagers. "The young people seemed to enjoy themselves very well," Elizabeth Carter noted on a similar trip, "with music and dancing every night."6
"In five or six days we began to see signs of the great western movement that was then taking place," Parkman recalled. Tents and wagons began to appear on the bank as the boat drew near Independence. When the Radnor steamed in to the landing, he gaped at the wild diversity of the scene: dozens of Mexicans, "gazing stupidly out from beneath their broad hats"; clusters of Native Americans, gathered silently around campfires; a few long-haired, buckskin-clad French hunters, fresh from the mountains; and crowds of Anglo-Saxon pioneers.7
There was probably no other place in the country like Missouri's western border. The aptly named town of Westport served as the access point between the settled states and the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific coast. Traders came and went, spending the Spanish silver coins they acquired in Santa Fe; Native Americans of countless nations and cultures visited and passed through; and settlers departed by the thousands in their ox-drawn wagons. The first large group of emigrants had departed for Oregon just three years before, starting a steady flow to that distant territory; and now the Mormons were gathering for a long trek west that would end at Great Salt Lake, deep in Mexican territory. Westport's shops were filled with the sounds of English, Spanish, French, along with the occasional German and various Indian languages.
And yet, as wild as the region might have seemed to the eye, it was hardly a raw, untamed frontier. A full decade before Parkman's arrival, one writer thought that many of the towns "would lead the visitor to believe, were he governed by appearances, that he was in the heart of the best settlements of one of the older states." A few years afterward, another visitor made a telling observation: Missouri's western border, he wrote, "is fenced up all on one side with old and well improved farms as far east as we could see, while on the right . . . it is open, wild prairie."8
Hard against this boundary-next to the vast plains that President Andrew Jackson had set aside as the "permanent Indian frontier"-sat this long-settled, thriving community, bustling with commerce. Hemp and tobacco fields abounded; river towns rang with noise from carriage workshops, tobacco stemmeries, and leaf-prizing houses, as well as ropewalks, where hemp's rough fibers were turned into twine. Both farmers and merchants prospered by selling supplies to the migrants marching by. Passing wagon trains kept cobblers, saddle makers, and blacksmiths busy; they also provided a major market for locally raised food and livestock. In May 1848, for example, outfitter Edward M. Samuel in the town of Liberty announced that he needed at least two thousand pounds of bacon to keep up with demand.9
When Parkman looked over these Missourians, he found them "yellow-visaged," with "lank angular proportions, enveloped in brown homespun, evidently cut and adjusted by the hands of a domestic female tailor." Though his description seems at odds with this general picture of prosperity, it was nonetheless accurate. Almost everything had a handmade look out here, on the far end of the bending limb of the Missouri River. "From all I have seen," Elizabeth Carter wrote from Clay County, "I would judge that the people are very plain." Even residents whose homes dated back to the early 1820s sometimes lived in log cabins, though well-improved ones; many used walnut or butternut oil to die their homespun clothes a distinctive brown, earning these people the nickname "butternuts."10
Butternuts could be found all across Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, where they had moved from the upper South-especially from Kentucky, the great fountain of settlers that flooded the Ohio and Mississippi valleys in the early nineteenth century. They went by other nicknames as well, such as crackers, hoosiers, pukes, and rednecks-terms that originated in Ulster, Scotland, and northern England, where this long movement of peoples began a century earlier. Even the wealthiest among them-those who could afford fine wool and cotton clothes, rather than walnut-stained homespun-shared common cultural traits: a willingness to resort to violence, for example, to resolve private disputes or keep public order.11
Parkman continued on into the vast expanse of the Great Plains, where he joined a wandering Oglala band of the Lakota people; but when he turned in his saddle to glance over his shoulder, settled Missouri itself looked like an alien land to his Harvard-bred, Bostonian eyes. How different it must have seemed to another passenger who stepped off a steamboat that spring; to him, Missouri's western reaches would have been little less than Zion.
This man had also spent a slow week in early 1846 on a paddlewheeler from St. Louis, as it churned toward the setting sun. If he had been aboard the Radnor, Parkman would have noticed him: he was a commanding figure, a tall man with a long, thin face, his hair parted on one side and combed across to leave his high forehead bare. Perhaps he carried a Bible when he appeared in the dining room for his meals; though his name was Robert Sallee James, this twenty-eight-year-old was better known to his Baptist neighbors as brother or Preacher James.12
He probably disembarked at Liberty landing, in Clay County, across the river from Independence. There he would have hired a horse or a wagon for the long ride home along those rutted tracks that Missourians called roads, across a landscape that resembled a rug pushed into a corner: rumpled, wrinkled, rippled with ravines and dusted with timber. His route would have carried him through the town of Liberty, the prosperous but modest county seat, and a dozen miles farther into the northern reaches of Clay. There he would have ridden over a low rise and caught sight of a humble three-room house with a narrow porch stretching across its single story, perched with a barn and a few outbuildings above a deep streambed. It was home.13
James had clearly given careful thought to the timing of the extended trip he had just completed. The month of January, though the deepest trough of winter, overflowed with labor for the typical Missouri farmer, but eight to twelve weeks into the year the demands temporarily lightened. The river, too, would finally be free of ice, as the first paddlewheelers puffed into the landings along Clay County's long waterfront. After selling his annual harvest of hemp, he would have had several weeks free before new seed had to go into the ground. So church member Jane W. Gill expressed little surprise when she noted in a letter that "Preacher James" had departed in late March to visit his native Kentucky.14
But there was something odd about that journey. He apparently went alone, leaving behind his wife of five years, Zerelda Cole James, and their two-year-old son. Robert looked uncertain and uneasy when he left, a condition that his neighbors kept in mind as they welcomed him home. "Preacher James," Gill wrote on June 15, 1846, "was here with his wife a few days after his return, and seems better contented to live in Mo."15
Better contented. These modest words suggest a disquiet not quite dispelled. But the cause of his discontent is unclear. By any measure, he had already come far from his humble beginnings. Born on July 7, 1818, he became an orphan at the age of nine and went to live with his sister Mary Mimms (eighteen years old and already married). In 1838, he enrolled at Georgetown College, Kentucky, a rare distinction at a time when primary education was haphazard, secondary education rare, and illiteracy all too common. There he met Zerelda E. Cole, a strikingly tall girl who attended a Roman Catholic school in town. And she was indeed a girl. Born on January 29, 1825, she was only sixteen when she engaged to marry the devout college student.16
Zerelda, too, was a native of Kentucky, and she, too, had lost a parent at an early age. Her father had died when she was just two, and she was left by her mother with her grandfather, Robert Cole. After he died, her mother married Robert Thomason-reportedly ignoring Zerelda's disapproval-and moved to distant Clay County, Missouri. Once again, the girl found herself packed off to live with relatives, this time with her uncle James M. Lindsay in Scott County, Kentucky. Though a Protestant, she entered the Catholic school in Georgetown, the community where she met her future husband. On December 20, 1841, they said their vows at Lindsay's home. The wedding of such a young girl was not an ordinary event in antebellum Kentucky: Lindsay had to give county officials his written permission for the minor to marry. Once Robert James received his diploma, in the spring of 1842, the pair packed their things and traveled to Clay County, where they moved in with Zerelda's mother and Thomason. The child bride soon showed signs of pregnancy. Nine days before her eighteenth birthday, on January 10, 1843, she delivered a boy. They named him Alexander Franklin James, or Frank, for short.17
All in all, Robert James found himself in a seemingly blissful domestic setting, with a young, attractive wife and a newborn son. But he was a restless, driven man. In short order, he found a forum for his ambition at the New Hope Baptist Church. Founded in 1828, it was a humble affair: a log structure twenty feet square, with a haphazard stone chimney that opened into a gaping fireplace. Even in this cramped space, worshippers had plenty of room during Sunday meetings. Their recently departed preacher had driven away most members with heated doctrinal disputes over communion. When James first arrived, a mere fifteen people gathered for services.18
In that dim, gritty church, James discovered his own inner light; and in him, the tiny church found its salvation, in both the spiritual and the worldly sense. Baptist congregations ordained their own preachers from among their membership; nothing more was required than a mutual agreement that a man had received a divine calling to speak the word of God. And the pious, charismatic, well-educated young fellow from Kentucky inspired immediate consensus among these "very plain" people. One neighbor recalled how he had attended the ordination service as a boy.
From the Hardcover edition.
Meet the Author
A native of rural Benton County, Minnesota, T.J. Stiles studied history at Carleton College and Columbia University, where he received two graduate degrees. His writings about American history include articles in Smithsonian, essays in the Los Angeles Times and the Denver Post, and a five-volume series of primary-source anthologies. He lives in New York. For more information on T. J. Stiles and Jesse James see www.tjstiles.com.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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As a historian of the Civil War period, with a particular interest in the border states, I found this to be a superb work of scholarship and tremendous storytelling at the same time. To my knowledge, that is the universal opinion of every historian and professional book reviewer who has examined Mr. Stiles's work. Indeed, the only fair-minded appraisal one can make is that it is simply outstanding. Unfortunately, the deserved praise this book has received has also made it a target of abuse by a handful of patently dishonest customer reviewers. For example, Tom Spencer writes here on Barnes and Noble that this is simply a work of popular history, with no scholarship. This claim is so absurd it is apparently calculated to undercut this fine book, for reasons unknown. In my opinion, if an assistant professor of history made simply one of the many new interpretations Stiles offers, he or she would make tenure--such as the role of the border ruffians in polarizing politics within Missouri before the Civil War, the emergence of the Radical party in the state, the political nature of both bushwhacker and militia operations against civilian targets, the transition of the bushwhackers into bandits amid the turmoil of 1866, the political rather than economic nature of support for the James-Younger gang, and the definitive assessment Stiles offers of the historical theory of social banditry. Customer Spencer would have you believe that Stiles is creating a work of historical fiction. My knowledge of the period and sources, and my review of the endnotes of this book, allow me to state that it is an extraordinarily well-reasoned work of history. Stiles focuses on Jesse James over Frank (as the title indicates he will do from the beginning) because it was Jesse who was central to the outlaws' public, political role. He addresses all the things his critics claim he doesn't, including the role of bushwhacker victims Bond and Dagley in the hanging of Reuben Samuel (he simply puts a different light on it, saying, "they had long since left the militia, and had been tending their fields and livestock in peace," p. 104), and the possibility that the outlaws wanted to rob the Mankato bank in 1876 (Stiles shows why this is unlikely). As Larry McMurtry noted in a review in The New Republic, this is an extremely careful biography that never goes out on a limb--it is dishonest to accuse it of being fiction. As Stiles himself notes, the leading buff book on the subject, Ted Yeatman's "Frank and Jesse James," is a very useful resource, one that (again, as Stiles notes) covers things that Stiles simply doesn't cover in an already-sweeping account; but I have to say, as a historian, that Yeatman's book is far shallower in its research and its judgments. Stiles has written the definitive book, one that forces us to rethink both Jesse James and his times in a wonderfully fast-reading manner.
If you are interested in reading ONLY about the derring-do of Jesse James and his gang, Bill Anderson and the bushwackers, this is not the book for you. Mr. Stiles has packed his book with the history of the War between the States, the causes, the impact of Reconstruction, and Missour's plight during this entire period of American history. It is intense reading, but well worth the effort.
Jesse James by T. J. Stiles attempts what others have tried and failed: an accurate portrait of one of Americas largest legends. In doing so he greatly succeeds as no other author has quite done before him. The book is riveting. A good storyteller with an academician's research ability, Stiles seemingly has found the core of this elusive man, his brother,cousins and the times that tore Missouri and Kansas apart. His ability to set the stage in the proper historical context is one of the things that has eluded most biographers. They either succumb to the legend or wanted to debunk the legend; both lead an author astray. Interestingly, most previous attempts have betrayed either pro Northern or pro Southern biases and ignorances that Stiles has been able to avoid. As one who comes from "this neck of the woods" and whose family friends knew and lived next to Frank James at the end of his life, I am aware of all the views pro and con. This biography lays out the story from both viewpoints. He is able to explain without justifying or making excuses. Stiles sets the historical stage so one can understand the vicousness and hatred on both sides. The most interesting and revealing truth is Siles's discovery and understanding that Jesse James was, in fact, larger and more politically relevant than the legend he became; how he was, in fact, the prototype of what has come upon us today. For any student of western history this book is a MUST.
I feel like I have the facts now. So many movies and stories "almost" factual. The addition of the full context of the times that describes what was happening nationally, statewide, and in the specific counties and cities puts the readers final judgment in the correct context. We cannot judge by current ideas and standards, this illustrates that expertly.
Outstanding book about this Legend !
I am half way done with this book and only about 2% of it is about Jesse James the other 98% is about Missouri history. I am from Missouri so i don't mind the history about my home state. However if i wanted a book about Missouri history i would of bought one. I bought a book about Jesse James.
Nearly half of the book deals with the general history of Missouri. As a native of the state, I found this informative and fascinating. Others might feel this was a digression and wandered from the topic of the book. The book ends rather abruptly with Jessee's death. I would like to have read more about the influence of his life and the legacy of the outlaws.
This book gave me a greater feel for the western area of conflict leading up to and beyond the American Civil War than any Civil War book that I've previously read. Stiles book is factual and certainly no dime store account of James life. I previously read The Devil Knows How to Ride about the life of William Quantrill but this book is by far an easier read and far more interesting. I can recommend Ron Hansen's novel, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, as a companion to this fine work of nonfiction. The Assassination book has far more detail than the movie. Sure, Hansen's book is fiction but as to events involving robberies and ongoings in James life he is amazingly factual.
The one thing that usually comes to mind when the name Jesse James comes up is; ruthless outlaw who murdered and robbed banks out of shere boardom. We dont really like to see him as someone who was truely a troubled person to begin w/ but one who did the kinds of things that he did in his lifetime as a way of protest through terror. When we think of Jesse James we don't think of him as someone who was on the same ranks w/ Osama Bin Ladin back in his day. For Jesse James, the Civil War never ended. If he were to be still alive today he would continue to fight his Civil War by useing terrorist tactics. You get a very different perspective of the South that Jesse James was born in through this book. Lots of history.
TJ Stiles did a wonderful job researching this biography. This book depicts what James' life was like growing up in Missouri during the Civil War and what made him the man he was. It is a history lesson on the real Jesse James, not the glorified version. Highly Recommended
I read the one star review here and was skeptical when it was hard going for the first 80 pages or so BUT THIS BOOK IS SENSATIONAL. It is not about the Jesse James I thought I knew but about the real James. At the same time fascinating, pitiable, crazed and reprehensible. He is no heroic figure. If you have any interest in either James or AMerican History read this book now.
T.J. Stiles¿s excellent new biography on Jesse James--gripping from beginning to end--makes a compelling case that James, no Robin Hood, was a publicity-hungry terrorist who embarked on a killing spree to avenge the lost Confederate cause. The book is packed with fascinating accounts not just of James, his family, and his gang, but of the times that shaped him. Especially interesting are Stiles¿s accounts of slave life and the fratricidal struggles that characterized Missouri¿s politics leading up to and during the Civil War. Though it is clear Stiles spent a great deal of time researching his subject, he wears his scholarship lightly. The book reads very well, almost like a novel, and is not larded down with mundane details that seem to diminish the power of so many biographies written today. Highly recommended!
I've read just about everything published on Jesse James, and this is easily the best book ever written about him. It is easily the definitive biography. The usual books about Jesse read like a report to a committee of buffs, focusing on pointless minor details, and giving "Uncle Ned" stories, as Allen Barra calls them in his praise of this book on Salon.com. They're old family stories or childhood recollections, and Stiles never relies that kind of thing. Instead, this is a biography the way it should be written. The author gives us his version of events, then leaves it to his long, detailed footnotes to tell us how he came to that conclusion. It's rock-solid, but vivid and entertaining, too. He's not content to simply do another run-through of the famous robberies. Instead, he really explains Jesse James by taking a fresh look at the world he lived in. Stiles doesn't just take for granted the conventional wisdom about the Civil War and the James-Younger gang. He offers new insights that really make sense out of what happened to Missouri during the war and afterward, which completely changes the way Jesse himself looked. He shows that the guerrilla war in Missouri was a lot more complicated than simply Missourians vs. Kansans, the way it's usually explained. This book explains why Jesse stood out from Frank and the Youngers, because he was so political, and wanted to take part in the politics of the Reconstruction period. This is not a writer who simply wants to tell the same old stories again. He has really thought about it from every angle, bringing in politics and economic analysis and military history, but he's never dull for a moment. In the acknowledgments, Stiles says that the manuscript was reviewed by William Parrish, who wrote all the main histories of Missouri during the Civil War period and after, along with other historians. It shows, because this is amazing stuff. A good read and good, thought-provoking history don't often come along in one package.
"Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War" is an excellent example of what revisionist history should and can be. James and his cohorts have been portrayed by some historians as Robin-Hood type figures, misunderstood men who were unable to readjust to civilian life after the Civil War. Stiles uses excellent research to not only expose a truer portait of the James-Younger Gang, but also the times and places that shaped them. The Jesse James that stands revealed at the end of this superb book is still an enigma of sorts, but he is an enigma that is better defined. This shadowy figure's edges are sharper. Jesse James was not a Confederate hero but a thief and murderer who stole because he wanted the money. He did not fight to preserve a way of life, but to line his own pockets. This book will shake the cages of neo-confederates who would like to lionize figures like Jesse James. It is just this sort of book that is a tonic for the lies these people perpetuate.


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Fugitive 'Skull Cracker' in custody
7 May 2014 Last updated at 23:19 BST
A fugitive armed robber nicknamed the "Skull Cracker" is in custody in London.
Kent Police said they had arrested two men, aged 55 and 53, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit armed robbery.
The force added: "The 55 year-old man was also arrested on suspicion of being unlawfully at large."
Officers have said they were no longer looking for Michael Wheatley, who absconded from HMP Standford Hill in Kent on Saturday.
Duncan Kennedy reports.

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Dear Readers,
I am so inspired by the absolutely stunning photos on other food blogs. For example, there's 101 Cookbooks. Sure, Heidi Swanson is a professional, but I can't help but drool at the photos on her site, thinking one day, maybe, just maybe, I can take photos that look that good.
She's not the only one: Chubby Hubby turned me on to Delicious Days, Kuidaore, Nordljus, and The Traveler's Lunchbox to name just a few. Some are professional; some are just good at taking pictures. But I also suspect they have the right gear.
The question is: what are the best digital cameras for shooting food? Often this means low-light situations, and also shooting very close to the subject. It seems most use digital SLRs and we've heard the Nikon D70, it's cousin, the Nikon D50, and the Cannon EOS Digital Rebel XT are favored among the food and photo blogger glitterati.
Can anyone speak to the point-and-shoot category? Or are we crazy not to spring for an SLR?
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Protect kids online by empowering them to explore on their own, not by restrictive rules
(Read article summary)Protecting kids online is no easy job, especially since the best way to keep them safe is to lessen the protectionist urge and empower them to explore at will.
Readers, this post (like a few others, recently) is inspired by my participation on the Aspen Institute Task Force on Learning and the Internet that got started last month. The task force would love to have you join us in what we hope will become a nationwide conversation about safe, successful and connected learning. Please sign up to join the conversation here, and you'll get more information shortly. [Thanks to Renee Hobbs for inspiring this particular post.]
It probably comes as no surprise that, where the Internet's concerned, parents are more protectionist than they are empowering or skill-oriented. The latest confirmation comes from research by University of Rhode Island student Kelly Mendoza for her PhD dissertation. The subjects of her research don't necessarily represent all parents – "it was a non-representative sample of relatively affluent and well-educated mothers (with a few exceptions)," reports media professor Renee Hobbs in URI's Media Education Lab blog – but there are lots of insights to mine from that sample, including a better picture of what "over-parenting" might look like (see also the 3rd study I link to here in the University of California, Davis, Law Review).
"Although a majority of parents use a combination of protectionist and empowerment strategies," Dr. Hobbs writes, "most rely on protectionist Internet mediation overall. Even though parents report having confidence in empowerment strategies, they are less likely to use them. Parents rated protectionist strategies as simply more effective than empowerment strategies."
To control, or to engage & explore?
Take a look at Hobbs's examples of (bulleted) protectionist and empowerment approaches, but the former category might be summed up as controlling (rules, restrictions, parental control tools, etc.) and the latter one as engaging with our kids in digital spaces – basically, controlling vs. exploring. As we put it in our 2009 "Online Safety 3.0″ doc, one can approach it as safety from negative stuff or as safety for enriching, effective participation.
Hobbs reflects on why parents lean to the protectionist approach. If they have confidence in empowerment, as Mendoza found, what are the downsides – why don't they adopt an enabling approach? She offers two possible reasons: the considerable time that productive engagement requires when parents are trying to reduce, not increase, their children's "screen time" and the perception that increased Net use can increase risk (of "spam, malware, and porn").
My own observations since the late '90s have turned up other reasons, including this underlying one: the nearly 20-year development of a public discourse that has long associated children's use of technology with negative, often worst-case, outcomes shaping the policy agenda (e.g., see this confused press release), news coverage, and to some extent the research agenda (see this from EU Kids Online about the public policy agenda). Through the years a number of studies – the headline-grabbing kind, not the academic kind – have even polled parents about their concerns, creating concerns about concerns (see this). Then there's sociologist David Finkelhor's very plausible hypothesis about the cause of what I'd call this digital siege mentality (see this about a possible antidote for parents). It could be argued that fear has hijacked the national discourse about children in digital media and 21st-century learning.
So I have a hypothesis…
Parents' continuous exposure, over a decade and a half, to negative political messaging and news reporting and lack of exposure to social media research (exposing the positive and neutral impacts of digital media) has biased them toward controlling rather than exploring new media with their children. Whether or not you agree, shouldn't we at least be asking about the effects of overexposure to fear on parenting and education as much as we've been asking about the effects of overexposure to digital screens on growing up? (See these posts referencing moral panics.)
Several years ago, researchers exploring digital ethics at the Harvard School of Education talked with a lot of young people who felt a lack of efficacy online and a lack of any consequence to their media use. Not a big surprise with social media being consistently represented as, at best, a waste of time and young people as time-wasters, media addicts, and potential victims of pornographers, predators, and cyberbullies. In my own experience asking a group of 7th-graders what they thought the No. 1 Internet risk was, they reflexively answered "predators," but then not one could think of any brush they'd had with a predator, nor did they know anybody who had. So how effective is it to spread misinformation and instill in our children exaggerated fears, powerlessness, and a reflexive deprecation of the very media they need to master?
It's not a binary
Hobbs suggests that maybe it doesn't have to be an either/or, protectionist vs. empowering binary. She writes that both are needed. I agree, but what I also yearn to see in the public discussion about youth safety is more signs of a growing understanding that empowerment itself is protective.
In the area of inappropriate content, for example, Ofsted, Britain's education regulatory body, published a study of 37 schools' Internet safety practices in 2010. It found that what characterized the best schools for Net safety was that they didn't take a "locked down" approach to the Internet but rather a "managed" one. They helped students take responsibility for safe use themselves. In the area of safe social media use, learning the emotion detection and management skills of social-emotional literacy (SEL) reduces bullying and increases safety, academic performance, and social efficacy.
So certainly it's not that we need less protection; it's that we need a clearer understanding of how essential empowerment is to young users' protection in user-driven media and participatory culture. Can you have mastery in anything without some trial and error in/with it? Even the online-risk research shows that young people can't have opportunity – or develop the internal protection of resilience – without exposure to risk online. That's true of life too, isn't it? Trial-and-error develops life literacy. This is not new to parenting.
So as Kelly Mendoza found in her research, "parents rated protectionist strategies as simply more effective than empowerment strategies," Hobbs wrote. More effective for what? For keeping kids offline as much as possible, rather than for helping them develop the skills and literacies of safe, successful participation in today's networked world.


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I love love love Kate Bush and I was so happy to discover this extremely rare book of childhood photos of the singer, taken by her older brother John Carder Bush. Kate was around 8 years old when these photos were taken. She was so scrappy and cute and obviously destined to be cool.
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Oh my lord...love love LOVE Kate Bush and those images are so beautiful!
- January 29, 2008 at 4:55 PM
ah great, just great!
- March 3, 2008 at 4:21 PM
i have this extremely rare book of childhood photos of the singer as well, got though her fan club many years ago
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great photography.
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Sweating copper water piping. Save money, look like a hero... (self.everymanshouldknow)
submitted 4 years ago by popplex
I believe, every man should know how to repair his own plumbing...one of the least known aspects of plumbing is how to properly sweat copper. You'll need a propane torch, solder, a quality tubing cuter, acid (ask at the hardware store), don't forget your protective equipment (gloves, goggles, and heat resistant clothing), and any sections of pipe, unions, collars, reducers, and elbows that your project requires. Drain the line on the section you are working on, ensure the area is free of flammable materials, make sure the area is well ventilated. Begin by etching the pipe with the acid paste, a light, thin coating is enough; connect your union (one at a time) apply heat as evenly as possible, push the solder gently into the ridge of the union, if it does not melt easily apply more heat and try again, the solder will wick right into the joint (it doesn't take much solder to accomplish a good seal (an inch or so of solder is plenty)) a good guideline to making sure your joint is sealed is by making sure there is a nice even silvery ring around the joint. All of the equipment you'll need will be less expensive than calling your plumber, and you'll have the satisfaction of telling your friends what an incredible badass you are.
[–]some_douche 9 points10 points11 points 4 years ago (4 children)
A propane torch? If I want to wait all damn day maybe. Get a damn mapp torch. (Check Lowes or Home Depot for a better price and it includes a bottle of fuel.)
[–]XiamenGuy 5 points6 points7 points 4 years ago (1 child)
yup, will heat up the pipe in a few minutes. You also are missing the flux. Flux is a great item to have as it will suck in the solder to the areas and make a better bond. Remember, clean the pipes, add some flux, repeat with the other piece, connect, heat, add solder (Plumbers solder with no lead) just an inch and a half at most will whick in, and then you are done.
[–]cheerupcharlie 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (0 children)
Came here to say this. You have to clean the pipe first (a roll of sand cloth works fine) and then flux the shit out of it (actually - no, don't go crazy with the flux - that shit's like lava when it gets hot and drips on you!)
Also +1 for the mapp gas, but propane will work too. Just takes a bit longer.
[–]popplex[S] 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (0 children)
Mapp is a better choice, but not as easily available in a pinch...at two am when a line breaks I'd like to know for certain i can get a can of propane at walmart
[–]pattiobear 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children)
I use propane because I also have a propane camping stove.
[–]hbfreekwan 4 points5 points6 points 4 years ago (2 children)
or if your not plumbing a whole house and dont want to buy a lot of stuff, just get the sharkbite fittings. They are expensive but for a small job work fine.
[–]popplex[S] 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children)
I can attest to this, shark bite fittings are the best push lock fittings I've ever seen...go from literally any tubing or pipe to any other material tubing or pipe in seconds...
[–]ramblingnonsense 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children)
I'd never heard of those things before. That's pretty cool stuff.
[–]mnorri 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (0 children)
A solder joint needs two things to flow - to be hot and clean.
If you're doing a few, or just like being prepared - buy the wire brushes, male and female, for the pipe sizes you'll be facing. Sandpaper works well, but the proper tools are a lot quicker. They wear out fairly quickly, you'll need a few sets if you're repiping a house. Sandpaper is a good thing to have handy, just in case. When it looks clean, you're halfway clean - clean it again. It seems like a lot of work, but it's easier than fixing a leak.
Flux - absolutely. It's hard to have too much on. Don't let it drip on you when it's hot. It's a little messy to clean up, but for craftsmanship sake, do it.
Solder - use 1 1/2 times the diameter of the pipe you're soldering. Ballpark that much out, and then bend the solder at a 90 degree angle so you'll know when you've put enough in the joint.
Torch - Mapp gas works awesome, push button start works even better. Fast and furious. One sweat, one joint, no leaks.
Apply heat, keeping in mind that heat conducts, so pipes need more heat than single fittings. After you settle down with the torch, apply heat to one side of the joint and as the flux melts on far side of the joint from where you're applying the heat, touch the solder to the joint. When the heat has gotten to that point of the joint and it's hot enough to melt solder, it will go pretty quick and the joint will fill nicely. Stop when you've added your pre-measured amount. Let it cool before you touch it or the pipes it's attached to. When it's hot, messing with it will cause it to leak. Once it's cool, clean up the flux. If you're into it, hit the solder blobs with the sandpaper. Practice, practice.
If you're into it, McMaster Carr sells sweep elbows, which have less drag in them than a 90 degree elbow. 2 45 elbows work pretty well too. Expensive, but, what the hell. You're not doing this to turn a profit, are you?
[–]Tallyhawk 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children)
my dad taught me if sodering a horizontal pipe to finish with a small dab of soder on the bottom of the inside of the pipe if you're able. is this right or no?
[–]CaffeinatedGuy 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (1 child)
I think a series of photos would help explain this better.
[–]chad_sechsington 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (0 children)
particularly if they're shown in rapid succession to create the illusion of movement.
[–]woodowl 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children)
You might also want some sand paper or emory cloth to remove any spurs and roughen the outside of the male end.
[–]halogrand 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (1 child)
The title is confusing for me. If you find your cold water pipes are sweating, especially around the main valve, it usually means there is a slow leak somewhere in the house causing the outside of the pipe to condensate. This is worth exploring, especially if that slow leak ends up being in a wall or something.
Well, that may be so...but the scope here is to enlighten folks on how to sweat (solder) copper lines...
[–]rondaddydo 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children)
Gentlemen, I've been sweating pipes for years and I have two words of wisdom for you, shark bite. As in, http://www.sharkbiteplumbing.com/; no more flux-n-flames! It's remarkable how quickly, easily, and effectively this invention has revolutionized weekend plumbing.
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In Grade 7 and 8 we introduce students to a range of literary and linguistic genres and text types. Students of both years study Poetry that will allow them to engage with different cultural experiences. They also study a Media unit that introduces them to the world of mass communication. Appreciation of the Novel is a primary focus, as is the study of extracts from the plays of William Shakespeare. The skills developed lead to the Cambridge IGCSE English Language and English Literature curriculum in Grade 9 and 10. Students are awarded two grades: one for Literature and one for Language.
The culmination of the English programme is the study of the IB Diploma in Grades 11 and 12, where native speakers of English choose a Language 'A' course in either English Literature, or English Language and Literature. Both Higher and Standard levels are offered. As well as the Language 'A' option, there is a Language 'B' alternative which is designed specifically for students for whom English is a second language. This curriculum is also available for study at both Higher and Standard levels.
In Grade 7 and 8, we focus on skill building, including study skills, in order to equip students with the tools needed to be successful in the examined courses. Across all grades, close reading, analysis and evaluation are embedded into the teaching of each unit. Drafting, editing and proofreading are instilled as part of the writing process. Our students are encouraged to read widely in order to develop the skill of reading for understanding, and to develop their appreciation of language and its ability to convey a range of meanings. Speaking and listening activities are an integral part of the teaching. Students work in pairs, groups and individually as part of a process which will develop deeper levels of insight, while encouraging collaboration as well as independent thought. We also teach research skills throughout the Grades, culminating in students' ability to produce independent coursework in Grade 11 and 12.
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Of Private Devotion
2011 – discarded paintings, frames, picture lights, high gloss paint
This installation was created by taking 7 discarded, framed, works of art and painting the walls around them, while they remained hung in their place. The paintings were removed from the walls and there "footprints" (dimensions) were left visible, along with their accompanying picture lights. Once the pieces were removed from the walls their frames were re-purposed and made into a usable replica of a museum bench. Visitors were allowed to use the bench to gaze upon the absence of each painting.


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TL;DR: Gerry Thompson is good at Magic.
Everything else is just minutia.
Yes, the Star of Star City himself, Gerry Thompson (@G3RRYT), was the big winner of the weekend, defeating all comers with his own special brand of Justice: U/W/R Flash and Shardless BUG. After all of the buildup leading up to the event for G/B/W Reanimator, Naya Blitz, and Esper Control, it was quite surprising to some to see Boros Reckoner return to the forefront, not only in the hands of Gerry but also in The Aristocrats: Act 2, a deck played by many of #TeamSCG in the Invitational itself…such as Brad Nelson (@fffreakmtg), who earned his first career Open Top 8 appearance in the Standard Open in Atlanta.
After defeating top seed Phillip Lorren in the quarterfinals and fellow Versus video star Brian Braun-Duin (@BraunDuinIt) in the semis, Gerry's crosshairs found fellow SCG writer and top pick in #SCGINVI fantasy draft Shaheen Soorani (@shaheenmtg) in the finals. Gerry swiftly took out his Lingering Souls opponent in three games and took his second career StarCityGames.com Invitational trophy. He became the first ever to earn two SCG Invitational wins and added to his pretty good year so far after making Top 8 of #PTGTC.
But those aren't the only highlights from a full weekend of gaming. From the inaugural Ascension Immortals tournament to the spectacular commentary work done by the @SCGLive team to the lengthy back-to-back turned in by Max Tietze, the Invitational in Atlanta will be long remembered. And to help you catch up, here's a few select cuts from this past weekend:
On my way to the ATL and the @starcitygames invitational #SCGINVI twitter.com/RedVelvetMTG/s…
— Ryan Clark (@RedVelvetMTG) April 4, 2013
All I have to say about the #SCGInvi is we better have @jkyu06 or @adam_prosak tokens by the end of it.
— Eric Klug (@klug_alters) April 4, 2013
Leaving for ATL now. I'll be there in almost 7 hours. I don't feel very confident about my decks at the moment. #SCGINVI
— Michael Hetrick (@theshipitholla) April 4, 2013
who has a decklist for Aristocrats Act 2??
— Will Price (@sloppystack) April 6, 2013
For those of you wanting to see my deck, the tech should go up soon and Primer will be up Friday on Starcitygames.com. #videos!
— Brad Nelson (@fffreakmtg) April 6, 2013
Congrats to Phillip Lorren for his undefeated Day 1 of the @starcitygames Invitational. Good luck tomorrow everyone! twitter.com/Gaming_Pit/sta…
— The Gaming Pit (@Gaming_Pit) April 6, 2013
As per @moxreuby request I am 49-12-4 over the last 4 invitationals. Need to win this one!!
— Shaheen Soorani (@shaheenmtg) April 6, 2013
When people give me thumbs up at tournaments i always give them thumbs up back altho they might be asking whether i won or lost
— Travis Woo (@travisdwoo) April 6, 2013
10-4 time to rally #scginvi
— Gerry Thompson (@G3RRYT) April 6, 2013
For those of you wondering, @cedricaphillips is listening to the Pitch Perfect soundtrack in between rounds #scginvi @annakendrick47
— Osyp Lebedowicz (@OsypL) April 6, 2013
Hope everyone is enjoying the coverage so far. Trying to learn to talk slower but it is a challenge! #scginvi @scglive
— Tom Martell (@tommartell) April 7, 2013
@scglive Commentary is exceptional this weekend, A++ would watch again.
— Matthew Boccio (@RalphBacchio) April 6, 2013
I'm really enjoying @osypl's commentary this weekend. #scginvi #MTG
— Jonathan Medina (@mtgmedina) April 6, 2013
The #SCGINVI coverage team of @osypl @cedricaphillips and @tommartell is the best rotation in Atlanta since Maddux, Glavine, and Smoltz.
— Zaiem Beg (@zbeg) April 7, 2013
"I think these two are going to be having a rap battle after this." -@osypl twitter.com/feb31st/status…
— jon corpora (@feb31st) April 6, 2013
Congrats to @fffreakmtg and @wildestnacatl for top 8ing the #scginvi standard open.
— Kevin Sellers (@kevinforbattle) April 7, 2013
@fffreakmtg woooooow
— Gerry Thompson (@G3RRYT) April 7, 2013
Got paired down against Kenny, who scooped to me.Should be top 16 and with a little luck, he makes top 32.
— chris vanmeter (@Chris_VanMeter) April 6, 2013
Great job so far by @cedricaphillips @tommartell and @osypl - gl to @g3rryt tomorrow! @scglive #scginvi
— eric froehlich (@efropoker) April 6, 2013
Locked in t8 of the #SCGINVI making all of @klug_alters dreams come true
— Adam Prosak (@Adam_Prosak) April 6, 2013
Benny Beatdowns with a top 8 berth to salvage the trip!
— mark herberholz (@herberheezy) April 6, 2013
Top 8 of the invitational
— Brian Braun-Duin (@BraunDuinIt) April 6, 2013
Lucky @shaheenmtg in top 8 again! #SCGINVI
— Pat Cox (@wildestnacatl) April 6, 2013
Sweet top 8 at the #scginvi
— Burritoman Mike (@burritoman88) April 6, 2013
Legacy Top 8 is so much more interesting to watch than Standard! #scginvi @scglive
— Jacob Kory (@MTGKoby) April 6, 2013
.@ccalcano That my friend, is an understatement. First words that came out of my mouth is too dirty for the #SCGInvi hashtag
— Blake Leighton (@BLeighton1982) April 6, 2013
I adore these player interviews.Makes coverage have personality. I hope the top 8 is as awesome. <3
— Cedric Phillips (@CedricAPhillips) April 7, 2013
Really disappointed about these video t8 profiles. Everyone played it straight up and no one chose Troll or Fish as their token type :(
— Phil Samms (@psamms) April 8, 2013
Lost in 4 excruciating games in quarters of #SCGINVI this one will sting for awhile
— Adam Prosak (@Adam_Prosak) April 7, 2013
I just can't get over that picture of @shaheenmtg and @theshipitholla from the Indy Invi. Go Hetrick! #SCGINVI
— Noah T Koessel (@NTKoessel) April 7, 2013
So many horses! All we can do now is sit back and enjoy. Congrats to everyone involved! #SCGINVI
— Harry Corvese (@Hcorvese) April 7, 2013
I won G1 and then Shaheen's better board plan beat me the next three. He also drew much better than I did those games. #SCGINVI
— Michael Hetrick (@theshipitholla) April 7, 2013
— Brad Nelson (@fffreakmtg) April 7, 2013
That was probably the most intense game I've ever watched. Well done, @braunduinit! #SCGInvi
— Michael Mills (@MTGMillsy) April 7, 2013
That match was insane #scginvi
— Jason Abong (@MTGTwin1) April 7, 2013
Wow, that game 5 was awesome. #SCGINVI
— Joey Pasco (@AffinityForBlue) April 7, 2013
Also, this top 8 has been chock full of upsets so far! Makes for exciting coverage when the underdog pulls off their 20% match #SCGInvi
— USS Beatdown (@CapnTopDeck) April 7, 2013
@braunduinit Well done :)
— Jason Reedy (@jasonlreedy) April 7, 2013
Lost in the semis but it's ok because I'm ridiculously good looking. twitter.com/RossMBoss/stat…
— Ross TheBoss Merriam (@RossMBoss) April 7, 2013
Made it into the finals of the Invitational! #SCGINVI
— Shaheen Soorani (@shaheenmtg) April 7, 2013
@g3rrytDude you're blond now! Watching you on coverage! Rooting for you :)
— Joel Larsson (@JoelLarsson1991) April 7, 2013
@scglive I don't know who to cheer for. They're both one of my favorites. I'm so confused!
— Mike (@robotlarge) April 7, 2013
heh, a midround deckcheck in the finals on video? #scginvi
— Martin Juza (@Juzam_) April 7, 2013
I'm officially cheering for Shaheen now. Only so we can keep watching these guys playing
— Mike (@robotlarge) April 7, 2013
(Cari) Congratulations to Gerry Thompson, your #SCGINVI Champion!
— SCG Live (@scglive) April 7, 2013
.@g3rryt Yes my apprentice, it is time to reveal our existence to the Jedi ... #mtg #scg #scginvi
— Vader Magic (@VaderMagic) April 8, 2013
GERRY! GERRY! GERRY! @g3rryt #SCGINVI
— Lauren Lee (@mulldrifting) April 7, 2013
Drew pretty poorly all three games but that's magic. Good run at least #esperinallformats
— Shaheen Soorani (@shaheenmtg) April 7, 2013
@misterorange No idea whose idea it was, but Invitational winners getting a token is the absolute best prize possible (aside from the $).
— Ari Lax (@armlx) April 7, 2013
I love that @g3rryt won #SCGINVI but I'm sad that @shaheenmtg lost. Couldn't this have been like Hunger Games so they'd both win?
— Joey Pasco (@AffinityForBlue) April 7, 2013
Walking around with @g3rryt 's trophy like a boss :) #SCGINVI
— Kaitlin Lindburg (@kaitlindburg) April 7, 2013
Lost my last legacy round because I thought ftv dryad arbor was a forest, good design on that one #scginvi
— Orrin Beasley (@ORonHubbard) April 8, 2013
Goblins is always so fun to see on camera. Considering how much I love the deck I'm surprised I havent built it yet.
— Patrick Buckley (@Capinahab) April 8, 2013
#SCGINVI With storm out, I'm rooting for goblins now, & Max Tietze did win the last Atlanta with goblins in sept! Go Max!
— FelineLongmore (@FelineLongmore) April 8, 2013
Four red decks in the Top 4. This format has a come a long way from Brainstorm in the Top 4 every time. #scginvi #JundYou #CannotBeCountered
— Jacob Kory (@MTGKoby) April 8, 2013
Meet Ascension Immortal Tournament winner and 2012 Ascension World Champion Jacob McCarthy: ascensiongame.com/interview-with…
— Ascension (@Ascensiongame) April 10, 2013
Hands down @scglive has provided one of the best coverage weekends I've ever watched. WoTC should take some notes.
— Taylor P (@Taylor_mtg) April 7, 2013
I think what I like best about these @scglive commentators is that they are super good at analyzing gameplay, and also able toentertain
— Zak Turchansky (@zturchan) April 7, 2013
Continued to be impressed by the week over week development of standard. And Dragon's Maze is only a few weeks out!
— samstod (@samstod) April 7, 2013
Phew! That's a lot to take in! But if you've made it this far, you're now caught up. Be sure to join us at the next Invitational in Somerset, New Jersey, July 26-28, where Gerry will defend his trophy, Shaheen will go for five Top 8s in a row, and much, much more! See you there!
And as long as I got my suit and tie, I'ma leave it all on the floor tonight, and you got fixed up to the nines…let me show you a few Tweets!
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Alabama stays at No. 1 while Stanford and Florida State rise.
Greg Schiano's departure to the NFL comes at the worst possible time for Rutgers, with National Signing Day less than a week away.
The East Roster for the 2012 U.S. Semper Fidelis All-American Bowl game.
Shaq Thompson makes the jump to No. 5 overall.
Top recruits across grades are expected to attend the LSU-Alabama game, which could have a major impact on team recruiting rankings.
The Top-50 lineman feels more comfortable with Wisconsin, makes the switch.
MaxPreps reveals the top player who wears each number, 1 through 99.
The standout offensive lineman, No. 36 in the nation, is playing to his size after early-life awkwardness.
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David Cameron has tried to reassure Conservative backbenchers that he is not angling for another coalition with the Liberal Democrats after next year's general election.
Allies of the Prime Minister hinted that, if the Tories are again the largest party in a hung parliament, they would run a minority government in the hope of securing an overall majority in a second election 12 or 18 months later.
However, Cameron aides dismissed a report in the Conservative-supporting Daily Telegraph that the Tories might include a "no coalition" pledge in their election manifesto next year. Downing Street said: "We're going all out for victory – you won't find the PM saying anything else. Our manifesto is about policy. Between now and the election, we're not going to talk about any outcome other than victory."
Mr Cameron is highly unlikely to limit his post-election options by formally ruling out a second coalition – not least because, if the Tories and Labour won a similar number of seats, such a move could open to the door to a Lib-Lab coalition.
He has already promised Tory MPs they would get a vote on a coalition next time, after criticism that they were "bounced" into supporting his 2010 agreement with Nick Clegg.
Many right-wing Tories have never warmed to the Coalition and suspect Mr Cameron would rather depend on the Lib Dems for a Commons majority than the critics on his own backbenches. The signals from some in the Cameron camp may be designed to dispel that idea.
Lynton Crosby, the Tories' Australian election strategist, has urged Mr Cameron to show he is hungry for a Tory victory rather than "playing for a draw". With the electoral arithmetic stacked against the Tories, they are keen to turn next year's contest into a "straight choice" between Mr Cameron and Ed Miliband. Limiting speculation about a coalition would help that cause.
But Tory MPs reacted with scepticism to the smoke signals that Mr Cameron would avoid another coalition. One senior backbencher told The Independent: "This is a pathetic and transparent attempt to reassure the Tory right and pretend that Cameron is 'one of us' after all. It won't convince anyone. We know he would rather be in coalition with the Lib Dems than the Tory right. The difficulties we would cause him would make his troubles with the Lib Dems look like the teddy bears' picnic."
Moderate Tories warned that a "no coalition" manifesto pledge could repel floating voters as it would look like Mr Cameron had abandoned his attempt to "detoxify" his party.
Mr Clegg would press for a second full-scale coalition if the Tories remained the largest party in a hung parliament, rather than a looser "confidence and supply" arrangement in which the Lib Dems would back the Tories in key Commons votes but would not serve as ministers.
"We have shown since 2010 that coalition works," said a senior Lib Dem source. "It is not for the politicians to decide the outcome of the next election but for the British people. In the event of a hung parliament, the Lib Dems would seek to do our duty in again providing the strong and stable government the country needs."
When senior civil servants turn their minds to post-election scenarios, they are expected to devote more time to preparing for a minority government than they did in 2010. Lord Gus O'Donnell, who was Cabinet Secretary at the last election, told MPs this month: " We didn't do much work on minority government, a confidence and supply arrangement; we did a little bit. You can imagine that being a more attractive prospect [in 2015] because last time... we were in a recession and it was clear you were going to have to make some really tough decisions on the deficit. This time round the economy is in a recovery stage."
Lord O'Donnell raised the intriguing prospect of the largest party engineering a Commons vote of no confidence against itself to trigger a second election after 12-18 months. That party would also need the backing of another group of MPs. Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act introduced by the present Government, the votes of two thirds of MPs are needed to cut short a five-year parliament.
There are growing tensions between the Tories and Lib Dems and signs that the Coalition is running out of steam. With tricky policy decisions deferred until after next year's election, some Lib Dem MPs believe it would be difficult to make another Lib-Con coalition work. Private contacts between senior Labour and Lib Dem figures have increased markedly in recent months. But the voters, not the politicians, will decide the most likely combination in a hung parliament.


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Last fall, I was on a kick for making my own homemade condiments. Each recipe I tried was successful. Then, when our move to Mississippi was confirmed, I stopped my new-found love of do-it-yourself concoctions because I knew they would all be wasted as they wouldn't survive a 3-day journey across the country.
Now that we're semi-settled in, I am enthusiastically diving back into the DIY journey. This week, I will supply you with the three condiments recipes I made before the move, starting with my favorite of the three, this ranch dressing. When I made my first batch last September, I doubled the recipe and still used it all up before it went bad. I made Chicken Ranch Pizza, used it as a dip for my Oven "Fried" Pickles, and pretty much slathered it onto every other food that entered my mouth. When ranch dressing is available, it's quite possible I abuse it. Meaning, it goes on everything. Now that I can have it homemade, without preservatives, I feel much better about this habit. 😉 And, having it homemade is a measly 5 minutes away.
- 3/4 cup mayonnaise
- 3/4 cup sour cream
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 small bunch of chives
- 1 small handful of parsley leaves
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper (white pepper, preferred)
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup buttermilk
Dump all ingredients into the blender using 1/4 cup of buttermilk. Mix for 10 seconds. Blend in more buttermilk to achieve desired consistency. Store in an airtight container for 1 week.
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[Upated] House of Representatives Voting on NASA's 2016 Budget Today
Posted by Casey Dreier
Topics: Space Policy, FY2016 NASA Budget
Update: Here is a frequently-updated list of amendments (and if they pass) as the bill is debated on the floor.
The House of Representatives is having a full vote on H.R. 2578, the appropriations bill that would provide funding in 2016 for NASA and a variety of other agencies. It provides a fantastic $1.56 billion for NASA's Planetary Science Division, which would restore the program to its historical levels of funding. The debate will likely last through June 3rd, and you can watch it live here.
The bill is generally very good for NASA, especially considering the strict spending limits imposed by the Budget Control Act of 2011. It would provide $18.5 billion—the same as requested by the President—but shift money around internally. More details are in a previous post, but overall, money was added to the Space Launch System, Planetary Science (and Europa), and Astrophysics. This was offset by reductions to Commercial Crew, Earth Science, and Space Technology development.
The bill will be considered under an "open rule" which means amendments can be submitted with little notice from any Representative in the House. These amendments tend to shift money around between agencies, and there will likely be some attempts to take money from NASA and make additional shifts within the agency:
Propsd amdnts to CJS approps incl: add $380m to NOAA (presumably for Polar Follow On); and cut NASA Sci $103.7m while adding $67m for Orion.
— Marcia Smith (@SpcPlcyOnline) June 2, 2015
For an amendment to pass, it must receive a majority of votes from the entire House of Representatives.
Assuming this bill passes the House (which is likely), it must be combined with its sister bill in the Senate, which has yet to take up this legislation.
Also worth noting is that the White House would likely veto any bill that passes both the Senate and House, not just because of the cuts to Commercial Crew and Earth Science, but because it adheres to the overall spending caps imposed by sequestration. So this is an important step, and a good demonstration of support for planetary exploration, but we're a long way from having a final NASA budget for 2016.
Update 8:35 pm EDT: No amendments were offered for NASA, even the ones that were published in advance.
Reading Clerk is on to NSF now, so no amendments offered to NASA section.
— Marcia Smith (@SpcPlcyOnline) June 3, 2015
From some of the discussion earlier today, it sounds like those in House criticizing NASA funding want to work out deal in conference.
— Jeff Foust (@jeff_foust) June 3, 2015
Conference refers to the conference committee that works out the differences between the Senate and House versions of a bill. That would come later this year, likely in the fall.
Update 2015-06-03 4:30pm EDT:
After voting down an amendment from Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC), which would have applied an additional 2.48% reduction to every federal agency covered in this spending bill, the House passed H.R. 2578. Action now moves on to the Senate, which has yet to publicly reveal details on their spending bill. The White House has threatened to veto this bill.
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Last week one of the hottest topics on ProductReviews was Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption, therefore it is no surprise to hear that it topped the UK software charts after it's release just one week ago.
In second place was EA Sports' 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, followed by Ubisoft's Just Dance and Nintendo's Wii Fit Plus. Ubisoft will probably be frustrated to hear that the release of Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands didn't really do to well in the UK, it managed just 9th place, Alan Wake beat it to 8th place.
This is the first multi-platform game to top the UK charts for Rockstar since GTA IV, this game was released in 2008, at the time GTA IV set a record for having the highest first week sales of any video game in the UK, this has since been surpassed by Modern Warfare 2.
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80% of Officials Use Social Media to Solve Crimes
It's not just prospective customers, partners or employers who are scanning social media glean information about you and your organization. The long arm of the law has joined the party as well, a new survey shows. So if you happen to have criminal intent, this might be a good time to lay low and forgo trolling for "Likes" on Facebook.
A survey of more than 1,200 law enforcement professionals at every level, including federal agencies, found that four out of five use various social media platforms to assist in investigations based in rural localities as well as major metropolitan areas. The survey was conducted by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, an information provider.
Agencies serving smaller populations and with 50 or fewer sworn personnel use social media more, and state agencies tend to use it less (71%) than local (82%) and federal (81%) agencies.
Identifying people and locations, discovering criminal activity and locations and gathering evidence are the top activities, while Facebook and YouTube are the most widely used platforms.
Two-thirds of law enforcement officials believe social media helps them solve crimes more quickly, the survey found. Search warrants obtained using social media to establish probable causeprobable cause held up in court 87% of the time when challenged, the respondents reported. Close to half of them said they use social media at least weekly.
Most law enforcement use of social media is self-taught, the survey found. Only 10% of respondents said they learned how to use social media for investigations through formal training given at their agency. Lack of access and familiarity are the primary reasons for nonuse — 70% of respondents said they are either unable to access social media during the work hours or do not have enough background to use it.
"Investigation and analysis of social media content provides a huge opportunity in terms of crime prevention and offender apprehension," said Samantha Gwinn, a LexisNexis government solutions consultant with 12 years of experience as a crime analyst with local and federal law enforcement agencies. "As law enforcement personnel continue to participate in formal training and gain an increased comfort level with the power and scope of social media, as well as its limitations, the value it provides will continue to rise."
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