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Emile Henry Burgundy Artisan Pie Dish
The rustic charm of kitchen ceramics in an Emile Henry 1850s catalog provided the inspiration for the French company's Artisan series of bakeware. Each pie dish is shaped from Burgundian clay, which absorbs, distributes and retains heat evenly, so pies bake and brown to perfection. The dish's generous proportions and scalloped rim make it ideal for baking deep-dish fruit and savory pies that will be served at the table. Microwave, oven, dishwasher, freezer and broiler safe.
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- 1 1/4-qt. cap., 9" diam.
- Made in France.
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- Microwave, oven, dishwasher, freezer and broiler safe.
- Because its hand-applied glaze won't scratch or craze, you can use sharp utensils for slicing a pie.
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Emile Henry has been crafting artful kitchen ceramics since 1850, when the French company was founded in a small town in Burgundy. Today, it's still proudly owned and operated by members of the Henry family. The mineral-rich soils of Burgundy are known for creating wines with unique terroir, but they also yield the special local clays used to craft each piece of Emile Henry cookware and bakeware. The high-fired clay withstands extremely high temperatures while distributing and retaining heat gently and evenly. Artisans hand apply the glazes to create vivid color that looks beautiful in the kitchen and at the table.
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From what i understood it's just his livingroom or mancave and the glass case was to keep either the dogs or cats from getting it. I'm won't nock anything I don't have be it turkey in a case or gumballs in a case. I just thought i was a nice picture to use for a trial pic.
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A federal judge in New York recently allowed a lawsuit to proceed against General Motors, Ford and IBM for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity committed by the apartheid government in South Africa. And a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell for alleged human-rights abuses in Nigeria is scheduled to begin today in Manhattan. We may be on the verge of a new wave of legal actions against U.S. and foreign corporations in American courts.
The U.S. government can and should be a strong voice for redress of human-rights abuses around the world. But these lawsuits, which are being brought under the 200-year-old Alien Tort Statute, are likely to cause friction between foreign governments and the Obama administration. Congress should step in and clarify the types of human-rights cases that may be heard.
The Alien Tort Statute was part of the first Judiciary Act of 1789, and it gives federal courts jurisdiction to hear suits brought by non-U.S. nationals for offenses "committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States." It was intended to promote diplomacy and international commerce by allowing foreigners to bring suit in federal courts for offenses not recognized by state law in the 18th century.
The statute was virtually unused until 1980, when the Second Circuit permitted a suit by two Paraguayans against a former Paraguayan government official for the torture and murder of a family member in Paraguay. That landmark decision opened the door for international human-rights litigation, and the number of suits under the Alien Tort Statute has grown substantially in the last three decades.
In the 1980s, most of the cases involved suits by foreign nationals against officials of their own government for conduct that occurred in a foreign nation. By the 1990s, however, the focus had shifted, with plaintiffs bringing more suits against U.S. and foreign corporations -- not for direct abuses but primarily for aiding and abetting human-rights abuses by foreign governments.
In recent years, the majority of suits under the statute have been brought against petroleum companies and miners operating in countries with poor human-rights records. These include ExxonMobil in Indonesia, Unocal in Burma, Talisman Energy in Sudan, and Rio Tinto in Papua New Guinea.
In 2004, the Supreme Court attempted to narrow the types of cases that may be brought under the Alien Tort Statute. In Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, Justice David Souter wrote that the law allows federal courts to hear a "modest" class of suits alleging violations of the traditional law of nations -- this would include assaults against ambassadors, violations of safe conduct, and piracy -- or other offenses "on a norm of international character accepted by the civilized world" and defined with a similar "specificity." But the ruling admonished lower courts that recognition of new causes of action based on violations of international law norms "should be undertaken, if at all, with great caution." In Justice Souter's words, the door for further litigation was "still ajar subject to vigilant doorkeeping" by the federal courts.
Nevertheless, plaintiffs have continued to urge federal courts to recognize new causes of action. In recent years, for example, Caterpillar Inc. was sued for selling bulldozers to Israel that were eventually used to demolish Palestinian homes. Dow Chemical Co. was sued for manufacturing the Agent Orange defoliant used during the Vietnam War. And Yahoo Inc. has been sued for sharing user information with the Chinese government, which resulted in the arrest of Chinese dissidents.
In the future, human-rights and environmental groups who have been unable to secure greater protections in free-trade agreements are likely to expand their litigation targets to new industries such as offshore textile manufacturers for denial of labor rights and environmental damage.
Litigation under the Alien Tort Statute may force companies to modify their international activities in some cases, although it rarely produces monetary awards for plaintiffs. But it does give rise to diplomatic friction in U.S. relations with foreign governments. Governments often object to their officials and corporations being subject to U.S. jurisdiction for activities taking place in their countries and having nothing to do with the U.S.
The South African government, for example, has asked that the apartheid case against GM, Ford and IBM be dismissed. It argues that the suit punishes global investment in their country and interferes with South Africa's own resolution of the legacy of apartheid. The State Department in 2003 opposed the apartheid suit, citing "serious adverse consequences" for U.S. interests and relations with South Africa. And the Supreme Court said a year later in Sosa that "serious weight" should be given to the executive's assessment of a case's foreign-policy impact. The federal court of the Southern District of New York let the case go ahead anyway.
Suits under the Alien Tort Statute are arguably inconsistent with international legal rules governing extraterritorial jurisdiction. For all their complaints about U.S. attitudes toward international law, foreign governments and international lawyers do not see this litigation as constructive engagement. Instead, they consider the U.S. a rogue actor that has unilaterally established an international civil court with universal jurisdiction.
Human-rights and labor groups are likely to press the Obama administration to support litigation under the Alien Tort Statute and even to reverse the Bush administration's opposition to the apartheid case. Mr. Obama is right to place greater emphasis on the U.S. commitment to international human rights, and the State Department should be at the forefront of these efforts. Rather than continue to leave it solely to the federal judiciary to determine what violations of international law may be heard in U.S. courts, the Obama administration should ask Congress to revise the Alien Tort Statute to provide greater specificity regarding what actions it covers.
Human rights should be promoted in most cases through direct diplomatic engagement and corporate responsibility, not through litigation that causes diplomatic friction and that may be inconsistent with international law.
Mr. Bellinger, an attorney in Washington, was legal adviser for the U.S. Department of State from April 2005 to January 2009.
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I just posted the letter I wrote to my two Senators and my House Representative in
my Kuro5hin diary.
Another Update
of course I don't support tyrants. I know very well that Iraq would be better off without Saddam. But he's not going to be the one to die if the U.S. invades, it will be a great many innocent Iraqis. And do you harbor any illusions that Iraq would become a democratic country after the U.S. leaves?
I feel it is much more effective to fight tyranny at home. That way I can make more of a difference.
For example, the U.S. has become a place where people disappear without a trace and are held without charge or bail - at the hands of our very own tyrants. Why do you think the
American Civil Liberties Union has been
suing to force the government to reveal the names of those arrested in secret?
Even the Nazis only kept allied prisoners in P.O.W. camps, and did not subject them to punishment for making war against them. But the administration plans unconstitutional "military tribunals" for the Afghani P.O.W.'s. Rather than being returned home when the war ends, many may be subjected to the death penalty! I thought that extrajudicial execution was the hallmark of a repressive dictatorship, not a democracy.
mglazer, please read my essay
Is This the America I Love? and maybe your eyes will be opened as mine have been.
I Called My Representatives, Why Don't You?
President Bush has submitted to Congress his proposal for a resolution that would authorize him to use force in Iraq. Read about it at
Yahoo and
In addition, the Secretary of Defense testified to Congress that they should not wait for a vote on any possible new resolutions by the U.N. Security Council before authorizing force.
Why not? Doesn't the administration want even the pretense of legitimacy?
I called my two Senators and my House Representative just now to urge them to vote against the resolution. If you're a U.S. citizen, I urge you to do the same. You can find your representatives' phone numbers at
www.congress.org - enter your zip code in the search box.
If you're not a U.S. citizen, I urge you to contact your representatives in your own government to ask them to oppose war in Iraq in the U.N.
I am very strongly of the opinion, as are many others (including some in Congress) that Bush is trying to make war in Iraq to deflect the public's attention from the faltering economy - and Bush' duplicity in it.
When George Bush was on the board at a Texas oil company, he took loans from the company under extremely favorable and questionable terms, just like the loans the Rigas family took from Adelphia, which ultimately resulted in Adelphia's bankrupcy and the indictment of several Rigas family members.
He also participated in a scheme to inflate the earnings of the company, and when the Securities and Exchange Commission caught them and forced them to restate their reported profit as a loss, Bush sold his stock just before the resulting plummet in stock price, for which the SEC investigated him for insider trading.
However, Dubya's father was President at the time so no action was taken against him. The White House has forbidden the SEC from releasing its records of the SEC's investigation of his insider trading to Congress.
Vice President Dick Cheney has been sued for similar financial irregularities while he was a senior executive at Halliburton. Try a
Google search for "halliburton cheney lawsuit".
Congress recently passed, and the President signed, a "corporate responsibility act" which makes the kind of behaviour the President and Vice President indulged in illegal. Had this law been passed in 1990, Bush and Cheney wouldn't be sitting in the White House, they'd be sitting in Federal prison.
Ken Lay, the disgraced CEO of Enron, was Bush' best buddy before Enron's bankrupcy, and I believe Bush' most generous contributor.
Bush was elected by a minority of the voters. His approval rating was very low before the September 11th attack, but making war in Afghanistan made him very popular in the U.S. But he's not able to milk Afghanistan for popularity very much anymore, and the mid-term elections are coming up, with Congress very nearly equally divided between the two major parties.
It could take only a small percentage of the voters to install a Congress that will oppose Bush' every move, and he knows he's very unlikely to get re-elected in 2004. That's why Bush needs this war.
My friend Dave Johnson keeps a weblog where he discusses Bush' corporate malfeasance, and has lots of links to other sites that expand on it. Go read it.
There is some hope that Congress will vote down the resolution. In
Bush Sends Iraq Text to Congress, the Associated Press reports:
On Capitol Hill Thursday, a group of House Democrats condemned the move toward military action, with Rep. Dennis Kucinich , D-Ohio, calling it "unjustified, unwarranted and illegal."
Rep. Barbara Lee , D-Calif., said she was introducing a resolution with 20 cosponsors calling on the United States to work with the U.N. to carry out weapons inspections in Iraq. "A preemptive, unilateral first strike would set a terrible international precedent," she said.
If Bush attacks, it's not going to be Saddam who dies. It's going to be tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Iraqi soldiers. Most of these are conscripts. We have no quarrel with them. Also to perish will be many civilians, men, women and children.
Remember, even one Iraqi life is too dear a price to pay to keep Bush in power.
Thank you for your attention.
Now I'm going to follow-up my phone calls with letters to both my Senators and my Representative.


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A Deep Dive into the House's Version of Narrow NSA Reform: The New USA Freedom Act
Update: The US House voted on an updated version of the bill on Thursday, May 22. For EFF's statement on the new bill noting some of the differences click here.
NSA reform is finally moving in Congress. Last year, Senator Patrick Leahy and Representative Jim Sensenbrenner introduced the USA Freedom Act, one of the first comprehensive bills to address multiple aspects of the NSA's spying. The Senate version has languished since October, but last week the House Judiciary Committee (chaired by Rep. Bob Goodlatte) introduced and passed out of committee a heavily rewritten House version. As a result, two versions of the USA Freedom Act exist: the narrowed House version and the more encompassing Senate version. The movement in the House is a good indication that Congress is still engaged with NSA reform, but the House's bill must be strengthened and clarified to ensure that it accomplishes one of its main intentions: ending mass collection.
Here's how the House version of the USA Freedom Act compares to the Senate's version, what the new House version of the USA Freedom Act does, and what it sorely lacks.
The Senate's Version of USA Freedom Act
As we mentioned when the original USA Freedom Act was first introduced, it proposed changes to several NSA activities and limited the bulk collection of all Americans' calling records. It would fix a key problem with Section 702 (.pdf) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act (FISAA), bring more transparency to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court (FISA court), and introduce a special advocate to champion civil liberties in the FISA court.
The House's New Version of the USA Freedom Act:
The new USA Freedom Act concentrates on prohibiting the collection of all Americans' calling records using Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Other sections of the bill would allow the FISA Court to assign amici, or non-parties who can brief issues before the court; create new government reports about the spying powers; and create new company reports detailing how many accounts and customers are affected by FISA Court orders.
First and foremost, the bill introduces a different conceptual approach to prohibiting mass spying under Section 215. Unlike the Senate version, which tries to stop the mass collection of calling records by mandating that the records sought "pertain to" an agent of a foreign power or their activities—an approach that we've worried about because "pertains to" and "relevant" are so similar—the House version mandates that a "specific selection term" (currently defined as uniquely describing a person, entity, or account) be the "basis for the production" of the records. The overall language may be stronger than in the old USA Freedom Act, but "specific selection term" must be further defined as "entity" could be construed expansively. After the order is filed, the government can obtain up to "two hops"—which may be too expansive for many investigations—from the selection term.
The bill also tries to tighten the "minimization procedures" that apply to government collection of records using Section 215 and other spying authorities like national security letters and the FISA Pen Register/Trap and Trace (PR/TT) provision. But the procedures only touch the FBI, not other agencies—like the NSA—that may be obtaining records using Section 215. In addition, the House version uses language we've seen in Section 702's minimization procedures. If you remember, those procedures are horrendous. They allow for the overcollection, overretention, and oversharing of Americans' communications "mistakenly" collected. The House must draft stronger minimization language to completely ensure improper information about untargeted users is not collected. For instance, simply inserting the word "acquisition" or "collection" would help.
Will Providers Be Forced to Decrypt?
Currently, Section 215 of the Patriot Act is intended for the government to obtain records created in the normal course of business. If the records don't exist at the time of the order, then the government uses a different tool. Unfortunately, the House's version of USA Freedom also includes a "provider assistance" clause. This means that a company served with an order must technically assist the government in obtaining the information.
One might think that "assistance" merely means helping to execute the order in a ministerial way, but we worry that it could be used much more broadly—especially when the clause mirrors language in the PR/TT statute that the Department of Justice has used to pressure secure email providers to warrantlessly disclose their encryption keys, potentially revealing private data of all of the service's customers.
Another question the clause raises is whether or not the government could obtain an order for information not collected by the business, but with an assistance mandate that forces the company to collect such data in direct conflict with its ordinary business practice. This situation has already occurred in other contexts: under the bulk Internet metadata collection program, the government forced providers to collect information the providers were not initially collecting. The technological way in which the providers implemented the government's demands ended up collecting the content of communications.
What Does "Basis for the Production" Mean?
While the new USA Freedom appears to strengthen the prohibition on using Section 215 to collect all Americans' calling records, it permits overly expansive searches because the selection term mentioned above must only be used as the "basis for production" of the records sought. The bill does not require that the records belong to or be created by the person or entity identified by the selection term. So as written, the records could merely contain the selection term. Combined with "two hops," the ambiguity presents the government with the ability to cast a potentially overbroad net to search with.
New USA Freedom Must Reform Section 702
The House's version of USA Freedom drops many of the reforms dealing with Section 702 found in the Senate's version. For example, one reform dealt with the "backdoor" loophole that the government uses to retain and search Americans' emails and phone calls collected under the statute. The House version also fails to address other problems with Section 702, like "about" searching, the overbroad targeting procedures and minimization procedures, the definition of "foreign intelligence information," and the rights of innocent users. Rep. Zoe Lofgren introduced amendments to fix many of these problems, but without success. At the minimum, the House must reincorporate the Senate's fixes to Section 702.
The Senate Moves Forward
While the House's USA Freedom Act may do a better job of addressing bulk collection under Section 215 and related statutes, it is much weaker in all other regards. Fortunately, the Senate version of the bill remains unchanged. Senator Leahy noted that he plans to push forward with the Senate's version of USA Freedom over the summer. In the meantime, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will issue a comprehensive report on Section 702.
It's good to see the House move forward on surveillance reform, but we must ensure Congress takes up all of the issues regarding NSA's egregious activities. We urge EFF members to help us advance the stronger version of the USA Freedom Act by telling your Senator now to support the Senate version of the bill.
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On the other hand, once the scope is actually attached to the FPGA, it's pretty neat to see all the electrons dance. "See that piece of rock? Today I made it count to 16." Also, any productive hassle is preferable to the non- productivity of sysadminning.
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Just went up to city hall to pay the extortion for my license to do business in there city. 1064.91 this year. This is the same city that sent a bill for about 600 bucks when we called 911 for one of our employees that cut the tip of his finger off.
This city already gets a cut of property tax, sales tax, utility tax, and I am sure gets other stuff as well.
With all this stimulus spending why is it that I continue to pay more. What makes it even worse is that we are a forced accomplice as we actually collect taxes for these bass turds.
Last night some happy jack leg came by the office and said that with all the stimulus money the state is getting they are having to find ways to spend it and were offering some seminars for companies.
I originally felt as if Obama was pushing socialism and was to redistribute wealth. I take it back I am wrong. I feel that the so called peoples government only wants one thing and that is to increase it own size and power. BTW to all of you that are swooning over BHO its not a dig aimed at him its all of them, right or left the distinction of the 2 is barely distinguishable.


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Guided assistance: Operation and programming have never been so easy and intuitive. The automatic speciality coffee machine guides you through all the menus and programming with text and images. No matter whether you want to customise your latte macchiato or be guided through a maintenance programme, the interactive navigation makes it quick and easy.
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Just like a vending machine! Aside from a long list of standard Jura features the F8 introduces new technologies in the compact class. All functions are centrally located. Adding a new level of convenience, the well-designed and user-friendly rotary dial allows you to override any settings for coffee and steam. Pushing the integrated rotary button allows you to enter an infinite amount of programming options. All functions and settings are clearly communicated and executed via the Color Touch Screen!
Barista Specialities Now you can become a professional barista in a flash. The recipes for 12 tempting and original coffee creations are selected with the Rotary Switch. The F8 uses text and pictures to guide you through the preparation process - so you can treat yourself and your guests to some delicious coffee creations! A truly pleasurable experience for the palate and a treat for the eyes too.
AUTO Cleaning and AUTO Descaling Cycles Automatic cleaning cycle indicator prevents coffee oil build-up in the brew chamber. A short 15 minutes automated tablet cleaning program with clear instructions in the LED display insures clean inner parts and coffee that will never taste oily or rancid. No inner parts need to be removed. The display will remind you automatically after approx. 200 cups of coffee. The built-in program for descaling will remind you when it is time to remove any scale inside your F8. The sophisticated cleaning cycles built-in to all Jura Coffee Centers insure many years of quality enjoyment. The system will commense the maintenance of the machine so that you do not have to.
- 17 individually programmable speciality coffees are pre-programmed to deliver all your hot drinks with a push of a button. -Unique rotary dial: Override strength and cup size while brewing (no affect on pre-programmed settings). - Height and width adjustable dual coffee spouts (Butterfly design)adjusts to 6.3 inches tall for large beverages - Two step pre-infusion for maximum aroma. - Large Dual variable brewing chamber: Automatically adjusts to hold between 5 and 16 grams of ground coffee. Coffee is always tamped (pressed) perfectly. - Makes up to two 8 oz. cups of coffee at a time. - Single 1450 W Stainless steel lined thermoblock water heating system (no purging necessary): Always ready for coffee. No contact with aluminum, no taste transfer. After brewing the thermoblock automatically discharges any bit of hot rest-water into the tray. Every coffee starts with fresh, cold water. - 18 bar power pump: Always high pressure brewed coffee with crema... always perfect! - Two-step pre-infusion cycle moistens and conditions the ground coffee. Maximum flavor extraction with perfect crema topping. - 64 oz. removable water container: Good for 60 espressos at a time. - 11 oz. Bean Container - Concealed storage compartment for Dual Frother Plus and Measuring Scoop. - Unique CLEARYL Water Care System . Removes chlorine, lead, aluminum and copper from your tap water for a better tasting coffee. A special organic additive removes almost all carbon and eliminates decalcifying. - Electronic CLEARYL cartridge change indicator makes sure that you always have the best water possible. - Made in Switzerland
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Someday your life will flash before your eyes. It's your responsibility to make sure it's worth watching!
I watched him play last year at UW.
I'm just not quite ready to build a new wing in Canton just yet.
Let's see what happens on the "frozen tundra" in 2 weeks first.
In fact, Atlanta ain't Washington.
BTW---as a side story, Mr. Rodgers has a chip on his shoulder towards San Fran.
They drafted Smith ahead of him.
He has attitude towrds them.
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First rookie QB to go 8-0 at home
Highest passer rating in Seahawks history (100.02)
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First rookie QB with back to back 50 pt games.
Did I miss any?
And Marvin with all due respect David Graig shouldn't me mentioned in the same sentence as RW. Seattle has had loosers in the QB position since Zorn, yes hassleback was a looser, so it's nice to see Seattle finally get it together. *And I stand my HOF remark, look back I said if he stays healthy......
with the NFL playoffs , its all about match ups, and right now NOBODY wants to play the Seahawks...they are hot and are playing with house money, their defense is blitzing with reckless abandon, and they know they can beat the 49'ers...the Packers can beat all the teams that remain in the NFC and luckily for them the ones they couldnt beat didnt make the playoffs
Lets just hope they beat the Falcons this weekend! I'm all for RW being Offensive Rookie of the Year. Not ready to put him in Canton just yet.
"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
Hasselbeck took the Seahawks to the only Super Bowl they have ever been to where they were jobbed by the refs (who later admitted they screwed up)
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NOBODY is afraid to play the Falcons right now. Their defense is suspect and their QB is not playing at the level he has played at in the past. Seahawks are HOT! Their defense is very good and they will be faster on the turf in Atlanta. The Seahawks can run the ball, remember the run a couple of years ago Franco? Now they have a QB who takes care of the ball and as of yet has seemed to not get rattled. Packers look like the old Packers with Woodson back on defense. Capernac sp? is the Wild Card this week, he plays well could be rough on Packers, as the 49'ers defense is very good. My pick Seahawks in Green Bay and Broncos at home v. Patriots.
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Check out recent play off results when the 2 meet.
I was at the "Snow Bowl."
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To some degree, we're all looking for quality in our lives — quality in our personal relationships, in our work/life balance, in our academic or spiritual studies. We are seeking value in what we do, who we are and in the legacy we leave behind.
ChildFund takes this quest for quality out to the field and into focus group discussions with children, youth, parents, volunteers, community leaders, partner organizations and our own staff.
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We ask a lot of questions in the field because we ask a lot of ourselves as individuals and as an organization.
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Old Economy hosts 'Panic of Pittsburgh' Civil War tributeJune 3, 2013 4:00 AM
News that Gen. Robert E. Lee had invaded Pennsylvania worried the leader of the Harmony Society in Beaver County.
"Should the Rebels get to Pittsburgh, we may be called in, too, to find out the bitterness of the War Cup," head trustee R.L. Baker wrote June 17, 1863.
The story of what happened in southwestern Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863 will be the subject of a two-day commemoration at Old Economy Village in Ambridge on Saturday and Sunday. Billed as "The Panic of Pittsburgh," the event will feature a living-history encampment, period music and first-person talks by Union and Confederate re-enactors.
Visitors also will have a chance to tour historic buildings in Old Economy Village, which was home to the communal Harmony Society from 1824 until 1905.
"Harmonists were strong supporters of the United States, because this country had given them the freedom to worship," re-enactor Scot Buffington said. Members of the sect had fled religious persecution in Germany decades earlier and settled in Pennsylvania and Indiana.
Mr. Buffington, a history teacher at Lincoln High School in Ellwood City, is a member of the 63rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, a re-enactor unit based in Beaver County. His group will be one of several taking part in the event.
Although the Harmonists were pacifists, they backed U.S. efforts to put down the Southern rebellion. They paid substitutes to serve in place of their draft-age men during the Civil War, Old Economy curator Sarah Buffington said. She is the wife of Mr. Buffington. Longtime opponents of slavery, the Harmonists also donated supplies and money to the Union cause, she said.
While the Allegheny Mountains appeared to provide protection from a Rebel invasion of the Pittsburgh area, no one in the North knew where Lee's Confederate army was headed. Many people, including President Abraham Lincoln, believed that Pittsburgh -- with its many factories, mills and a nearby U.S. arsenal -- would be a tempting target.
The Harmony Society also had its own sizable cash assets to protect. "They were afraid that the Confederates would raid and steal their money," Mrs. Buffington said. "So they hid the money down in a well."
Gov. Andrew Curtin sought federal help in preparing local defenses, and the government sent Major Gen. William Brooks to command the "Department of the Monongahela" in early June 1863. As local businesses volunteered their workers to dig entrenchments all around the city, local militias mustered and drilled throughout the region.
Children, and any interested adults, will be able to get a taste of militia training during "The Panic of Pittsburgh."
"Recruits will sign up at the village store, then go for a medical exam at our doctor's office," said Mary DeMars, Old Economy's marketing and development associate. "They will get their training at different stations and then earn their discharge papers."
Other activities include a Civil War fashion show, "Dressed to Kill," that will feature military clothing and equipment. The 6th Regiment United States Colored Troops Drum Corps, sponsored by Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum in Pittsburgh, will perform at 2 p.m. Sunday. A schedule of events are available by calling 724-266-4500 or by visiting the Old Economy website, www.oldeconomyvillage.org.
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One-day passes are $10 for adults (12-64), $9 for seniors (65 and older), and $6 for children (ages 3-11). A two-day adult pass will cost $15. Admission is free for active military, children under 3 and Friends of Old Economy Village members.
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Each adult in the Troop, parent or otherwise, should be working in the position he/she is best suited for and most wants to do. If each person is working where they want to then the Troop benefits. If they are doing something that mostly displeases them, then the Troop does not benefit. It just becomes a battle.If you have 30 committee members and two ASMs and it works then it works. If you have 16 ASMs and 8 committee members and it works, then it works. Trying to set a specific number on something like this is unwise.Good SMs and ASMs are usually a particular kind of person. They generally have certain personality traits and certain motivations. For instance, in general, they don't mind managing their own sanitary disposal operations way out in the woods somewhere. They often have a higher threshold for boy generated noise and activity than others. And a myriad other honorable traits.If you force a "committee member" to be an ASM just to fulfill some numbers game, then trouble will soon follow.I have had 10 to 82 Scouts in my Troops. I generally have 2 to 4 ASMs. However, I have always had a goodly number of committee members to perform committee functions, drive to outings and and camp with us. Sometimes the responsibilities overlap but Scoutmaster Conferences and working with the Scout Leadership falls under the SM/ASM corp and Boards of Review are always held by committee members.


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The importance of trustworthy power structures
Direct harassment and overt sexism are certainly a significant part of why the gender ratios in the Linux community[1] are so skewed, but they're not the whole story. Part of feeling comfortable with a community is the knowledge that those in positions of power can be relied upon to engage in appropriate action when undesirable situations arise - no matter how compelling your code of conduct, no matter how detailed your diversity policy, if someone contravenes them and nothing happens, those documents are worthless and your community is unwelcoming. You can't rely on enforcement unless the community can trust its leadership.
Setting a good example in terms of behaviour is obviously vital, but it's not sufficient. Leaders who engage in sexist behaviour or who harass community members are clearly untrustworthy and undermine any attempts the rest of the community may be making. Failing to step in when they see examples of unacceptable behaviour is as bad. But less obvious is that it's possible to destroy that community trust without clearly contravening those community standards.
An example of this is Todd Akin, a candidate for the upcoming US Senate elections. In August he justified his support for making abortion illegal even in cases of rape, on the basis that women can't become pregnant through being victims of "legitimate rape". Of course, this had little to do with his fiscal or wider social policies, positions that are more directly relevant to most of his potential constituents, and in an election year that's primarily about the economy and healthcare it might be expected that a single issue would have little effect on the election standings. Instead, there was a huge uproar and a previously safe victory has now turned into a real chance of a loss.
Why? A significant part of it is because many people now have difficulty believing that they can trust him to represent them. If he understands women so little that he's willing to make entirely spurious justifications for his positions, how could any woman trust him to consider any other problems they may face? If he's willing to use fake science to back himself up, how could anyone trust him to consider any issue involving science? Through a single statement to a journalist he demonstrated to many that he was unsuited to be their representative in government. Many people who would otherwise have voted for him simply don't feel that they can rely on him to be there for them. Whether he wins his election or not, that distrust is going to remain and it's going to compromise his ability to work with his constituents.
It's the same in technical communities. If a member of a project's technical leadership frequently and loudly expresses their disdain for Python coders, anyone advocating for increased use of Python in that project is unlikely to feel that they can get unbiased opinions from that leader. If the project as a whole is uninterested in adopting Python then that's probably for the best, but if the rest of the project is open to using Python then there's a problem. People working with Python are less likely to join the project, and perhaps the project will lose out as a result.
But it's worth remembering that technical communities are still communities. If a member of a project's technical leadership vociferously argues that slavery benefited minority groups in the long run, members of those minority groups are going to feel that they're not going to be well represented by that leader. If they blog about how homosexuality is a lifestyle choice then homosexuals are unlikely to flock to the project. Likewise, if they downplay the prevalence or impact of rape, women are going to feel marginalised and find something better to do with their time.
It's impossible to separate these things. No matter how technically competent a community leader is, no matter how much code review they perform or how much mentorship they provide, if they're expressing unacceptable social opinions then they're diminishing the community. People I know and respect have left technical communities simply because people in positions of responsibility have engaged in this kind of behaviour without it causing them any problems.
We shouldn't be willing to give people a pass simply because they aren't actually groping anyone or because they're not members of the KKK. Those who drive people away from the community on the basis of race, gender or sexual orientation deserve vocal condemnation, and if they're unwilling to change their behaviour then the community should instead act to drive them away.
We're pretty bad at that in the Linux world at the moment. Too many people have behaved in this way and are left with positions of power or responsibility. There's no easy solution to the problem, but the Ada Initiative is continuing to work to improve awareness and work with communities to reduce the alienation that results from this kind of behaviour. If you want this to be anything other than a straight white male dominated community, you should give them money.
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New Plugin: licensing-maven-plugin
Ever wanted to know what licenses your dependencies (and their dependencies) are using? Maybe you work for a company that wants to sell their source code so you're wanting to avoid the GPL (and AGPL)? I've got the plugin for you!
I mentioned a while back that the build process at my day job had been declared bankrupt. Well, it's doing much better now; what used to be a multi-day process where you were never quite sure if it was working 100% now takes less than an hour (including data population). We're quite happy about that part.
Along the way we started looking at some of the other bits that fit more into release management; one of them was a "licensing report". This report listed most of our dependencies and which open source license they were in. Instead of hacking at the old scripts, we decided to let Maven take over and handle providing licensing and dependency information.
So with a rough idea of what we wanted to do, I put together the Licensing Maven Plugin. It has a few handy features:
- Transitively aggregate licensing information of dependencies of child modules in multi-module reactors (or in English, it works the way you would expect it to on multi-module builds).
- Coalesce license names (so "Apache License, Version 2.0", "Apache 2.0" and "ASLv2.0" can all be reported as "The Apache Software License, Version 2.0").
- Fail builds if a dependency is only available under a disliked license.
- Exempt artifacts under disliked licenses from failing the build.
- Manually declare licenses for dependencies that fail to provide their own.
It's hosted on central, so give it a whirl:
mvn org.linuxstuff.maven:licensing-maven-plugin:1.5:aggregate
You'll see a truckload of warnings go by, and when it stops, you'll have a target/aggregated-third-party-licensing.xml file (yes, I know it's not nicely formatted yet).
If you'd like some more details, checkout the licensing-maven-plugin README.
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The Blades have lived up to expectations since relegation from the Championship while the Dons have maintained the form that saw them reach last season's play-offs, with each side dropping just two points from their opening six games.
This week Sheffield United must make the short trip to winless Scunthorpe after winning 4-0 at home to Bury last Saturday.
MK Dons will not be far from Bramall Lane as they are visiting United's bitter rivals Sheffield Wednesday, and Karl Robinson will be delighted with a repeat of last week, when his side played some superb football in a 3-1 win at Carlisle.
Charlton were also joint leaders going into last weekend's fixtures but are now two points back after Wednesday held them to a 1-1 draw. The Addicks will hope to get back to winning ways at home to Exeter this Saturday.
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Three straight wins have put Preston in between them in the table and they host Yeovil on Friday night.
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After opening with a win, the doubles team of Dan Mann and Kevney Dugan bowed in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III men's tennis championships Saturday in St. Peter, Minn.
The Hope team defeated Andy Campbell and Duncan Howell of Rhodes, Tenn., 6-4, 6-1 to advance to the round of eight.
In the quarterfinals, they were defeated by third-seeded Ron Condiotty and Brian Murphy of Redlands, Calif., 7-6 (4), 6-1
The MIAA champion doubles team posted a 16-4 record this spring. Together, Mann/Dugan were 34-10 the past two seasons.
Coach Steve Gorno's Flying Dutchmen were co-champions of the MIAA this spring for the first time since 1962. Mann/Dugan were the first Hope doubles team to qualify for the nationals since 1990.


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So you've been telling everyone who will listen that interest rates are about to head skyward and it's finally time to abandon ship on Treasuries? Well, either you're a) Bill Gross, circa 12 months ago, in which you're still out of luck, or b) a present-day investor willing to put your money where your mouth is, in which case your luck looks a bit better.
That's because Treasury bears are getting another exchange-traded fund that lets them bet against government debt, in this case on the long end of the yield curve. ETF company ProShares announced the launch of ProShares UltraPro Short 20+ Year Treasury (TTT), which lists on NYSE Arca today. ProShares says TTT seeks to provide -3x the daily performance of the Barclays Capital U.S. 20+ Year Treasury Bond Index, before fees and expenses.
ProShares introduced its first inverse Treasury bond ETFs in April 2008, and now claims nearly $5 billion of assets in inverse ETFs on long-term Treasury bonds. TTT becomes the third ProShares ETF providing inverse exposure to long-term Treasurys, joining the existing -2x and -1x (respectively) long-term Treasury ETFs, ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT) and ProShares Short 20+ Year Treasury (TBF).
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The indoor equivalent to summertime beach reading is the stage melodrama. So 2nd Story Theatre is doing us the service, pitcher of lemonade not included, of letting us hiss and applaud at villains and their betters in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, directed by Mark Peckham (through July 29).
Perhaps you've seen the 1940 film version, Alfred Hitchcock's maiden American voyage into noirish thrills, which puts this production at a bit of a disadvantage: there will be few surprises around the turns of plot. Yet satisfactions abound, as the swirling passions fill flesh and blood characters, not black and white screen facsimiles.
Du Maurier adapted her popular novel of the same name into this play, so we can be assured that the story and its characters have been faithfully represented. With his late wife Rebecca dead 11 months, well-to-do widower Maxim de Winter (Jeff Church) has just returned from Monte Carlo to his estate in Cornwall, England, a fresh new wife meekly in tow. Played by Erin Sheehan, she is so much a non-entity in her own right that we know her throughout only as Mrs. de Winter. She has always been poor and with no family, a 21-year-old orphan who had been serving as a paid companion to a wealthy woman. De Winter makes clear that he selected her for her innocence, a blank slate upon which he can create the wife he desires.
But considering her impact on the story, the main character can be considered to be the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers (Rae Mancini). She was more than devoted to Rebecca; she adored her, admiring that she let nothing stand in her way, which was such contrast a to her own powerless life as a servant. The former mistress of Manderley, the estate, drowned sailing the waters that the house overlooks. Her bedroom with its dramatic view of the sea is now kept by Mrs. Danvers as a shrine to Rebecca, and Mr. de Winter has taken up quarters on the opposite side of the mansion.
If there is any weakness to the lengthy establishing opening scene of this production, it is that the newlywed couple are presented in unmodulated single dimensions. When Maxim isn't furious at his bride for some minor infraction of his directions, he is seething with the potential to explode. When she isn't cowering in fear of making a mistake, she is timorously bleating about having done so. To some extent their heightened feelings are intentional, allowing the mutual anxiety to contrast nicely with the softened atmosphere of the relaxed second scene, when some time has passed and the couple are more comfortable with each other.
As Church and Sheehan nestle into their roles — he maintaining a pilot light of incipient anger and she keeping a wary eye for shifting emotional winds — Mancini keeps Mrs. Danvers pointed in the same direction, a reliable weathervane directed at the memory of Rebecca. Although her attitude toward the new Mrs. de Winter ranges from hostile indifference (not making eye contact when introducing herself) to outright antagonism (causing a rift between the couple by having her dress in a gown that Rebecca wore), Mancini doesn't turn her into a heartless villainess. She makes a monologue describing Mrs. Danvers's affection for her late mistress quite touching, actually.
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Kolab is a pipe dream, it suffers from a lack of documentation, leadership and upgradability. Install it and successfully get it running, with a single domain, then when the time comes to upgrade, you may as well just build a new server. Upgrades break EVERYTHING. Undocumented changes from version to version. Nearly any modern (since about 1996) email server can handle multiple virtual domains...Kolab can't, and there isn't any kind of drive from the project to make it any easier to do. It would cut into the competition for their email service if it were made easy. Stick with iRedmail and get a faster, better email server built from nearly the exact components.


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I've had LR on my desktop where all my photos are stored. I use synctoy to backup my pictures to my ehd. I use this ehd to hold my files while I scrap on my laptop. I just got Lightroom on my laptop, but all the edits I make in Lightroom didn't transfer. Is it possible to transfer the edit history from one computer to another?
Lightroom Edits With 2 Computers
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Posted 30 September 2009 - 10:14 PM
I think that depends on how you have lightroom access your files and your back up catalogues...
I scrap with a MAC
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Posted 01 October 2009 - 04:21 AM
Lightroom doesn't change the info on your photos in your photo folder itself. The changes are saved in your Lightroom Catalog. If you want to work on 2 PCs on your photos you will have to export the catalog from one computer to the other and vice versa and merge them. HTH
Posted 01 October 2009 - 02:25 PM
That does help. I noticed the catalog files. I may just work off the ehd for both computers and see what I can do to merge the catalog.
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text: Been a while since I updated advogato. Oh well, been busy :-) If you use a wireless card on a linux laptop then you'd like a script I wrote recently. Get it from selector.py It tracks the signal strength as reported by iwconfig and on reaching a threshold can trigger a reacquire which for most cards automatically picks the strongest signal base.