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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Zinn and the Libertarians
Zinn was an anarchist. He opposed war and imperial violence. He rejected corporate privilege. He highlighted the absurdity and injustice of telling the story of a society from the vantage point of the people atop its pyramid of power.
Libertarians should have no time for the view that history ought to be narrated from the perspective of kings and presidents and generals and their aristocratic and corporate compatriots. One need not agree with every aspect of Zinn's reading of history to agree that those who employ "the political means" of acquiring wealth, those Comte and Dunoyer and Rothbard and Long and Konkin would all, in their different ways, have identified as the members of the power elite, are not history's heroes, and that glorifying the American state with triumphalistic tales of its emergence and prowess is no task for lovers of freedom.
Zinn was not infallible. He seems to have exhibited some of the same naïveté about some political regimes as the great libertarian hero, Karl Hess (who was, for instance, surprisingly sanguine about Mao's China in the mid-'70s). Despite being an anarchist, he seems to have affirmed the New Deal, which represented a dramatic increase in statism and corporatism.
But, whatever his errors, he was right about what mattered most: the destructiveness of war, the injustice of colonialism and conquest.
The threat of violence backs up all of the state's commands. But the organized, large-scale violence of war and conquest is the worst thing the state does, the thing that makes the state far too dangerous to be tolerated.
Anyone who opposes aggression, anyone who claims to sign on to the Non-Aggression Principle, must see opposition to war and violent conquest as absolutely central to her or his political commitments. That point was thoroughly clear to Murray Rothbard, whose opposition to militarism never wavered even as his political alliances changed: to be a libertarian, to be an anarchist, was about this if it was about anything.
So I don't know what to make of libertarians who, disagreeing with Zinn about economic theory or objecting to what they take to be his views of some illiberal regimes, ignore his commitment to the most important, the most central principle of all.
17 comments:
- Stephan Kinsella said...
Gary, I tend to agree. See e.g. Rockwell's post 'Untold Truths About the American Revolution', stating "one of my favorite left-wing historians, is always interesting, and sometimes right."
And see my post The Declaration and Conscription, favorably quoting Zinn, and my post Re 'Untold Truths About the American Revolution'.
This is one reason that some of the attacks from the left on some of us--calling us "paleos" (or attributing false positions to these "paleos")--is unfair and false.
- February 1, 2010 at 2:10 PM
- Gary Chartier said...
Thanks, Stephan.
Here's Zinn on America's "holy wars" (the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II):
This is the kind of piece that clearly differentiates Zinn from the folks who mouth conventional liberal pieties. At a little before 33:00, he begins to talk about the Union's goals during the Civil War. He says bluntly that Lincoln's "purpose in fighting the war was to keep Southern territory within the grasp of the central government. You could almost say it was an imperial aim. . . . It's put in a nice way: 'we fought for the Union'. We don't want anybody to secede. . . . Why not? What if they want to secede. We're not going to let them secede. We want all that territory."
- February 1, 2010 at 2:24 PM
- Stephan Kinsella said...
I'm reading his book now and loving it. He's not perfect but he is a breath of fresh air. As for his views on the Civil War, don't tell the pro-civil war PC types on "our side"--they might speak ill of the dead, call him a "doughboy" and other such tough, macho, pro-war talk. (I have two odious characters in mind but but in the spirit of the Rizzonian Truce will say no more.)
- February 1, 2010 at 2:35 PM
I am unclear from the context whether you mean Karl Hess was bloody-minded or optimistic about Mao's regime in the 1970s.
Optimism about Mao from a liberty enthusiast seems bizarre. WTF?
- February 1, 2010 at 5:15 PM
You guys might like this quote from "Original Zinn" by Howard Zinn and David Barsamian. It's a set of interviews between 2002 and 2006.
You're sometimes described as an anarchist or a democratic socialist. Are you comfortable with those terms? What do they mean to you?
How comfortable I am with those terms depends on who's using them. I'm not uncomfortable when you use them. But if somebody is using them whom I suspect does not really know what those terms mean, then I feel uncomfortable because, after all, the term anarchist to so many people means somebody who throws bombs, somebody who commits terrorist acts, somebody who believes in violence. Oddly enough, the term anarchist does not apply to governments, which use bombs on an enormous scale. The term anarchist has always applied to individuals who have used violence. So the term anarchism very often means that to people. Since I do not believe in throwing bombs, in terrorism or violence, I don't want that definition of anarchism to apply to me.
Anarchism is also misrepresented as being a society in which there is no organization, there is no responsibility, that there is a kind of chaos, again not realizing the irony of a world that is very chaotic, a society that is very chaotic, but to which the word anarchism is not applied.
I've only really, since the 1960s, begun to learn something about anarchism, in reading the autobiography of Emma Goldman, reading Alexander Berkman, Peter Kropotkin, and Michael Bakunin. Anarchism means to me a society in which you have a democratic organization of society, of decision making, of the economy; in which the authority of the capitalist is no longer there -- the authority of the police and the courts and all the instruments of control that we have in a modern society do not operate to control the actions of people. The people would have a say in their own destinies, in which they're not forced to choose between two political parties, neither of which represents their interests. So I see anarchism as meaning both political and economic democracy in the best sense of the term.
I see socialism, which is another term that I would accept comfortably, as meaning not the police state of the Soviet Union. After all, the word socialism has been commandeered by too many people, who, in my opinion, are not socialists bot totalitarians. To me, socialism means a society that is egalitarian and in which the economy is geared to human needs instead of to business profits.
- February 1, 2010 at 5:15 PM
- Gary Chartier said...
Anonymous, here's the Hess quote I had in mind (it's from Dear America, a book of which I'm very fond, on p. 12): "The farthese left you can go,historically at any rate, is anarchism--the total opposition of any institutionalized power, a state of completely voluntary social organization in which people would establish their ways of life in small, consenting groups, and cooperate with others as they see fit. The attitude on that farthese left toward law and order was summed up by . . . Proudhon, who said that 'order is the daughter of and not the mother of liberty.' . . . A bit further along the left line there might be some agreement or at least sympathy with this left libertariniasm but, it would be said, there are practical and immediate reasons for putting off that sort of liberty. People just aren't quite ready for it. Roughly, that's the position of the Communist Party today--except in China, where there still seems to be insistence that people are ready for it, no matter how many bureaucratic ambitions have to suffer in the process. But even there it is obvious that some Chinese do constitute themselves as a ruling class, and so there is the rather divided picture of acountry which seems to be working on being very far to the left out in the countryside while still being much more to the right in the seats of power." I submit that, in 1975, life in the Chinese countryside was not marked by a dedication to total freedom as Hess suggests.
Hess is a favorite thinker of mine, but it seems to me that he simply romanticized rural China here.
- February 1, 2010 at 5:28 PM
- Alex Peak said...
Zinn was not an anarchist, but his opposition to imperialism is nonetheless admirable.
- February 1, 2010 at 5:42 PM
- Gary Chartier said...
Omar, thanks for the Zinn quote.
It seems to me unclear just what Zinn really envisions anarchy and socialism as involving. (When he equates "the authority of the capitalist" with "the authority of the police and the courts and all the instruments of control that we have in a modern society," he provides some support for my contention that many people use "capitalism" to refer to dominance of society, not just the workplace, by "capitalists.") I'm not clear, when he talks about anarchy as radical democracy, whether he's thinking in terms of democratically structured micro-states, so that his position wouldn't, in this regard, really involve the absence of the state, or whether democracy is just a metaphor for self-rule. Certainly his explicit anti-majoritarianism is hard to square with democratic statism.
Similarly, would Hodgskin or Tucker have been uncomfortable with his definition of "socialism"? I'm not sure. Certainly neither wanted to denigrate profit, so they wouldn't have framed things just as he did, though perhaps they would have said that, in a raidcally freed market, while profit would still be pursued, no individual or firm would succeed in pursuing profit while riding rough-shod over workers or communities, so the characteristic accompaniments of the pursuit of profit in contemporary society would be absent. And of course they'd say that this was a way of meeting human needs, rather than an alternative to it. (Presumably Zinn is able to contrast the two because he has in mind a society in which privilege enables people to pursue profits and become wealthy without meeting human needs, as would not, ex hypothesi, be possible in a genuinely freed market.) Clearly, they would have characterized the society they envisioned as egalitarian, not just in the sense that people would have equal legal and moral status, but also in that, without statist privilege, the wealth gap would diminish significantly and social influence would be more equal than at present--even though equality of condition wouldn't be secured using aggressive violence.
- February 1, 2010 at 7:01 PM
- Jesse said...
Hess' views on China were influenced by Stephen Halbrook, who these days is known as a gun rights guy but in that era was prone to writing essays claiming Lenin and Mao for the libertarian tradition. When Halbrook wrote his second pro-Mao article -- titled "Mao, Economy, and State"! -- Hess penned an introduction that ran alongside it. He didn't endorse everything Halbrook said, but he wrote that libertarians should be open-minded about the possibility that some of the experiments going on in China were admirable. (As far as I'm aware, the only other prominent libertarian who reacted positively Halbrook's arguments was Leonard Liggio, who basically endorsed them outright -- see, for example, his review of Daniel Guerin's *Anarchism* in *The Liberated Guardian*.)
As absurd as all this is, a lot of people -- not just a few left-libertarians -- had the impression in the early '70s that Maoism was more like anarcho-communism than Stalinism. At any rate, when Edith Efron wrote in *Reason* that Hess was a Maoist, Hess wrote a letter to the editor that strongly disputed the charge.
- February 2, 2010 at 6:49 AM
- Charles Johnson (Rad Geek) said...
Besides Halbrook, I expect that Hess was also influenced by Rothbard's early statements about China during the Left and Right years. Here's Rothbard, from the original version of "Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty"; Rothbard has been arguing that libertarianism is the most consistent form of radical Leftism, so when he writes "more left-wing," it's also supposed to mean "more libertarian":
In fact, Lenin, almost without knowing it, accomplished more than this. It is common knowledge that "purifying" movements, eager to return to a classic purity shorn of recent corruptions, generally purify further than what had held true among the original classic sources. ... Lenin's camp turned more "left" than had Marx and Engels themselves. Lenin had a decidedly more revolutionary stance toward the State, and consistently defended and supported movements of national liberation against imperialism. The Leninist shift was more "leftist" in other important senses as well. For while Marx had centered his attack on market capitalism per se, the major focus of Lenin's concerns was on what he conceives to be the highest stages of capitalism: imperialism and monopoly. Hence Lenin's focus, centering as it did in practice on State monopoly and imperialism rather than on laissez-faire capitalism, was in that way far more congenial to the libertarian than that of Karl Marx. In recent years, the splits in the Leninist world have brought to the fore a still more left-wing tendency: that of the Chinese. In their almost exclusive stress on revolution in the undeveloped countries, the Chinese have, in addition to scorning Right-wing Marxist compromises with the State, unerringly centered their hostility on feudal and quasi-feudal landholdings, on monopoly concessions which have enmeshed capital with quasi-feudal land, and on Western imperialism. In this virtual abandonment of the classical Marxist emphasis on the working class, the Maoists have concentrated Leninist efforts more closely on the overthrow of the major bulwarks of the Old Order in the modern world.
Which, written in 1965 on the eve of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, is probably kind of embarrassing in retrospect. (Curiously, the part of this passage about Mao's China, from "In recent years..." to the end of the paragraph, has disappeared in the version of the essay reprinted at LewRockwell.com. The Mises.com version is apparently based on the version from Left and Right I.1, and the LewRockwell.com version from the reprint in Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature; if anyone has a copy of the book lying around, maybe you can tell me whether the omission started with that reprint, or whether it started online.)
Anyway, as you note, this kind of thing was weirdly common; and unfortunately, Maosketeering was becoming increasingly popular in the New Left just as Hess was really digging most into it. You ended up with a lot of weird things, as with pacifist feminist Barbara Deming bizarrely writing in praise of Mao's Laogai reeducation camps in the middle of what is otherwise a wonderful essay on prison abolitionism.
- February 2, 2010 at 9:37 PM
- Stephan Kinsella said...
Gary, sadly, you are right--witness this horrible post by Tim Sandefur, One of America's greatest liars is dead, concluding "Good riddance to the worst of garbage. The world is a better place without Howard Zinn."
This is from someone who maligns anyone who thinks Lincoln's war was immoral, illegal, and unconstitutional as being a doughboy, neoconfederate, slavery apologist... The regime "libertarians" are a despicable bunch.
- February 2, 2010 at 9:45 PM
- Jesse said...
I think (though I've never been entirely sure) that Rothbard there was referring to the Leninist/Maoist views of revolution and not to their practices once in power. Rothbard liked that they were targetting feudal and colonial regimes, as opposed to industrial societies whose economies were closer to the Rothbardian ideal of markets and property rights. Halbrook tried to go beyond that, and to claim that Leninism and Maoism in power were libertarian.
(Rothbard's reaction to Halbrook's pro-Mao writing was interesting: He agreed that Maoist China was basically anarcho-communist, but he saw that not as a reason to like Mao but as a springboard for attacking anarcho-communism.)
- February 2, 2010 at 9:52 PM
- Charles Johnson (Rad Geek) said...
Jesse: I think (though I've never been entirely sure) that Rothbard there was referring to the Leninist/Maoist views of revolution and not to their practices once in power. Rothbard liked that they were targetting feudal and colonial regimes, as opposed to industrial societies whose economies were closer to the Rothbardian ideal of markets and property rights.
That's probably part of what he had in mind, yes. (The New Left fascination with Maoism was also somewhat, although not entirely, driven by enthusiasm for his revolutionary theory; especially his writing on People's War and bottom-up revolution. Feminist groups used the practice of "speaking bitterness" as a model for consciousness-raising; third worldist Leftists took a lot of direction from both the Chinese government's and the Cuban government's support for worldwide guerrilla uprisings against empire; etc.)
But on the other hand, it does seem odd that Rothbard would foreground the Sino-Soviet split if his concern were just with Maoist theories of revolution, and not with supposed practical differences in how the USSR and the PRC regimes were operating ca. 1965 (e.g. that the USSR regime had settled into a comfortable statehood as an imperial superpower, while the PRC regime was still somehow furthering "revolutionary" "left-wing" aims while in power). It also seems odd that he would specifically mention their "scorning Right-wing Marxist compromises with the State," which again sounds as much like the 1965 attitude towards domestic revisionism and the bizarre 1960s experiments with mock-decentralism-from-above as anything. In any case, given that this big push in revolutionary theory by official Maoism at the time was so closely and explicitly connected not just with ongoing guerrilla uprisings in the third world, but also with internal Chinese state projects, which were supposedly aimed at reviving the old spirit of the revolution within China and at thoroughly smashing the rotting counterrevolutionary revisionist line, etc. etc., I'm not sure how cleanly the line between 1960s Maoist revolutionary theory and 1960s Maoist practices in power can really be drawn.
When was Halbrook's stuff on Maoism mainly being put out? It may be that Rothbard had simply changed his mind by that point, or had sharpened a distinction which he hadn't yet been ready to clearly draw in '65.
- February 3, 2010 at 12:44 PM
- Jesse said...
When was Halbrook's stuff on Maoism mainly being put out?
Circa 1970-72.
- February 3, 2010 at 1:14 PM
- TGGP said...
I criticized Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek for making assumptions about Zinn here.
- February 3, 2010 at 7:44 PM
- Joel Schlosberg said...
"if anyone has a copy of the book lying around, maybe you can tell me whether the omission started with that reprint, or whether it started online"
I decided to do a little digging around, and here's what I found.
The second edition, from 2000, of Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature is online at Mises.org and Google Books, and indeed it omits the passage; I don't see any online version of the 1974 first edition, so I don't know about that one. Using Google Books, I was able to see that of the print versions of the essay, The Libertarian Alternative (1974) and Left and Right: Selected Essays, 1954-1965 (1972) both include the passage, whereas a standalone publication of the essay by the Cato Institute in 1979 does not. Of the various online versions of the essay, the scan of the original publication in Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought on Mises.org does indeed include the passage, and does another online version on Mises.org from 2002 taken from the journal publication; whereas the online version at murrayrothbard.com (which has no indication of where it was take from) does not.
So it seems that there are two different versions of the essay floating around (I didn't have the chance to check if there are other differences between the two versions), and the edited version dates back to at least 1979.
- February 4, 2010 at 7:57 AM
- Brian Moore said...
Zinn is like a lot of other people: good on criticizing imperialism (with a few factual liberties taken, which it's also fine to criticize him for) but bad on economic ideas.
So it's fine to commend him for the former and criticize him for the latter.
- February 5, 2010 at 7:13 AM


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SAN DIEGO — There is something about the Padres and playing them in San Diego that agrees with Hyun-Jin Ryu and the Dodgers.
Ryu threw six strong innings and the Dodgers beat the Padres 2-1 on Sunday.
Ryu (9-3) had few problems against the light-hitting Padres, as he won for the sixth time in seven starts since missing more than three weeks with shoulder inflammation.
"I try to be aggressive in every ballpark that I pitch in," Ryu said through a translator. "Today, I think the main thing was ball control. I was able to keep the ball down early and that was the story."
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The left-handed Ryu gave up one run and four hits, and he did not allow San Diego to get its first hit until the fourth inning.
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Judge Claire V. Eagan
September 2012: Average Prison Sentence
District Court - Oklahoma North
Referring Agency: Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Program Area: Immigration
For all cases disposed of in the current fiscal year (2012) that were credited to Judge Claire V. Eagan in the Northern District of Oklahoma, the average prison sentence was 15.3 months, when looking only at cases referred by the Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement falling under the broad category of "Immigration". This number is 36.6% lower than the average prison sentence for all the Northern District of Oklahoma matters disposed in the same period. At the same time, the judge's average prison sentence was 11.2% lower than the typical 2012 sentence for the nation as a whole. During the current fiscal year, Judge Claire V. Eagan has sentenced 11 defendants compared with 14 defendants during the twelve months of the previous fiscal year.
Focusing on a five-year period, the average prison sentence imposed on defendants that were credited to Judge Eagan was 16.8 months. This was 24.6% lower than the 22.3 months typical in Oklahoma North and 13.0% lower than the 19.3 months average prison sentence for the nation. Judge Claire V. Eagan sentenced 35 defendants during the past five years.
(CAUTION: The kinds of cases handled by individual judges influences statistical information about their sentences. It therefore is important to consider the breakdown of cases that each has handled, available below, when making judge-by-judge comparisons.)
Figure 1 compares Judge Eagan's numbers to those for judges in this district and in the United States as a whole for cases of this type over the last five years.
During the last five years there were 3 other judges in the Northern District of Oklahoma with information on convictions during that period. Average prison sentence numbers passed down for those judges ranged from 23.9 months to 42.0 months, putting Judge Eagan's average prison sentence of 16.8 months at the lower end of the range. The average prison sentence for the whole Northern District of Oklahoma during that time was 22.3 months.
Professional Biography
Born 1950 in Bronx, NY
Federal Judicial Service
Judge, U. S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma
Nominated by George W. Bush on , to a seat vacated by Thomas Rutherford Brett; Confirmed by the Senate on October 23, 2001, and received commission on October 24, 2001. Served as chief judge, 2005-2012.
Trinity College, Washington, DC, B.A., 1972
Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 1976
Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. Allen E. Barrow, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, 1976-1978
Private practice, Oklahoma, 1978-1998
Lead Charges in Cases Handled
The lead charge with the most cases disposed of by Judge Claire V. Eagan for the past five years was "08 USC 1326 - Reentry of deported alien". It accounted for 94.3% of all cases.
Other lead charges with substantial numbers of cases that were disposed by Judge Claire V. Eagan over the past five years were: "18 USC 911 - False personification - Citizen of the US" (5.7%).
Lead Charge Judge District US 08 USC 1326 - Reentry of deported alien 94.3% 91.8% 79.8% More 18 USC 911 - False personification - Citizen of the US 5.7% 2.4% 0.4%
Table 2: Composition of Cases for the Past Five Years (Top 10)
Number of Defendants in Judge Claire V. Eagan's Cases
Case Def. Sentence (Months) Sentencing Date Program Category 1 1 8.00 07/06/12 Immigration Details 2 1 18.00 05/07/12 Immigration Details 3 1 0.01 04/26/12 Immigration Details 4 1 27.00 04/11/12 Immigration Details 5 1 46.00 03/23/12 Immigration Details 6 1 48.00 01/12/12 Immigration Details 7 1 6.00 12/15/11 Immigration Details 8 1 7.00 12/09/11 Immigration Details 9 1 0.01 12/09/11 Immigration Details 10 1 0.01 12/02/11 Immigration Details 11 1 8.00 12/02/11 Immigration Details
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It\'s now possible to text 911 in more places, although the feds say it\'s still better to call in an emergency.
Text-to-911 service has been available in some areas, but it\'s expected to become even more widespread this week.
That's because the major U.S. carriers, AT&T , Sprint , T-Mobile and Verizon , have agreed to make available by Thursday, May 15 texting to 911 in areas where the local 911 center is capable of receiving the messages, according to the Federal Communications Commission.
However, because not all 911 centers are prepared to take emergency messages, the FCC is urging users to "always contact 911 by making a voice call, if you can."
\"Even where text-to-911 is available, if you are able to make a voice call to 911, and if it is safe to do so, you should always make a voice call to 911 instead,\" the agency said.
Emergency text messages that end up going nowhere has been concern. In fact, in September 2013, the FCC required all wireless phone companies and some text message providers to send an automatic "bounce back" message to consumers who tried to text to 911 in an area where that service is not yet available.
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Rocky disking
The new 1444 disk from Sunflower is designed to work well in rolling, terraced ground and rocky soils. The new four-section disk's linkage system allows each half of the disk to function independently, not only from side to side, but from front to rear. It comes in 30-, 33-, 36- and 40-ft. sizes. The transport width ranges from 18 ft. 2 in. to 19 ft. 9 in. Prices start at $35,000. Contact Sunflower Mfg. Co. Inc., Dept. FIN, Box 566, Beloit, KS 67420-0566, 800/748-8481, www.sunflowermfg.com.
Precise seed metering
Great Plains' two new planter models have a new precision seed-metering system. The 30-ft. planters feature a SingulatorPlusa meter that handles row crops such as soybeans and corn and can switch to volumetrically metering smaller grains such as wheat. An extra-large meter wheel turns slowly, allowing the meter to operate accurately at planting speeds up to 8 mph. Growers may change from planting 7½-in. rows to 15- or 30-in. rows by shutting off certain row units. The planters also may plant two row crops by turning two rows off, two rows on, etc. List prices for the planters range from $55,000 to $90,000. Contact Great Plains Mfg. Inc., Dept. FIN, Box 5060, Salina, KS 67402, 785/823-3276.
New Deere utility line
John Deere just introduced a new line of utility tractors designed to meet your small-horsepower needs. The new 4000 Ten series includes nine tractors with engine power ranging from 18 to 48 hp. The series is loaded with new features, including electronic controls that provide a wide array of options not found in other small tractors. For example, an operator may preset a maximum speed and a rate of deceleration. Another feature prevents engine stalls. Four-wheel drive is standard or optional on all the tractors. Retail prices for the new tractors start at $11,069 for the 4010 and $24,539 for the 4710. Contact John Deere, 800/537-8233, www.johndeere. com.
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AGCO introduces two new hay implements designed for lower-horsepower tractors.
Under the Massey Ferguson brand, a new pull-type swather has a 35-ft. cutting width. The MF 120 PT converts from swathing to transport position in less than two minutes without tools, according to the company. A tractor with 50 PTO hp is needed to handle the implement. Price range: $14,140 to $21,110.
The new Hesston 700 series Rounder balers produce high-density round bales. The bales are 39 to 47 in. wide and up to 52 in. tall. Hesston claims that the 730 and 740 balers are economical and ideal for growers with a limited budget and a lower-horsepower tractor. The 730 requires a 30-PTO-hp tractor, and the 740 needs only a 45-PTO-hp tractor. Both balers feature the open-throat, vertical-bale-chamber design found on other Hesston balers. The 740 model costs $13,200. Contact AGCO Corp., Dept. FIN, 4205 River Green Pkwy., Duluth, GA 30096, 800/767-3221, www.agcocorp.com.
Wide baling, raking
Claas introduces a new round baler and two new rotary rakes.
The Variant 280 round baler is designed for a variety of crops, including silage and dry hay. It features an extra-wide, 83-in. pickup, a roto cut option, and bale sizes from 36 to 72 in. with a width of 48 in. Suggested list price for the baler with the roto cut option is $29,163.
The new 650 liner twin rotary rake with a 20½-ft. swath retails for $14,954. A chassis that swings into different positions with double-acting hydraulic cylinder allows a grower to make one or two windrows.
The larger, 880L liner twin rotary rake clears a swath from 24 to 27 ft. A tandem axle undercarriage allows the unit to smoothly follow the contour of the field. Price: $23,227. Contact Claas of America Inc., Dept. FIN, 3030 Norcross Dr., Columbus, IN 47202, 812/342-4441, www.claasofamerica.com.
Rakes, balers and tedders
A number of new hay products are coming off the production line at Krone. Four new rotary rakes are available. Three of the models (KS345, KS421 and KS461) are rakes with a single rotor. These models offer working widths that range from 11 ft. 2 in. to 15 ft. and cost from $4,500 to $9,700. A new two-rotor, center-delivery rake (model KS-881) has variable raking width of 25 ft. 5 in. to 28 ft. 8 in. and lists for $25,715. This model features hydraulic fold from the tractor cab.
If you want square bales, check out two new models of Krone's Big Square baler line. Both models feature a new pre-chamber crop feeding system with five rakes and one feeder rake to generate consistent bales. The Big Pack 88 sells for $66,950 and produces bales that are 31.5 in. wide, 31.5 in. tall and 39 to 98 in. long. The Big Pack 128 retails for $78,355 and produces bales that are 47.3 in. wide, 31.5 in. tall and 39 to 98 in. long.
Upgrade your rotary tedder with the KWT-880 model that offers a working width of 28 ft. 8 in. The tedder features a hydraulic fold transport chassis, which allows the tedder to be used on smaller tractors. Retail price: $16,995.
The new KW-550T is a smaller, pull-type tedder with an 18-ft. working width. Price: $5,995.
Krone's new 13-ft., center-pivot-tongue disc mower conditioner, model AMT-4013CV, retails for $28,785. The center pivot tongue allows convenient up-and-back cutting in the field.
Contact Krone NA, Dept. FIN, Box 18880, Memphis, TN 38181, 901/842-6011, www.krone-northamerica.com.


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Swarovski's Crystallium Automatic watch for men is a stadium of crystal.
The Crystallium is sporty yet classic and chic.
Watchmaker Eric Giroud designed the Crystallium Automatic.
—ROBERTA NAAS, ATimelyPerspective.com
Unveiled at Baselworld and now making its way to retail stores, the Swarovski Crystallium Automatic watch won the Red Dot Award for Best Product Design 2013. This is no great surprise when you consider that the stadium-style watch was conceived of by renowned watch designer Eric Giroud. This was Giroud's second time designing for Swarovski (the first was a woman's watch known as the D:Light, which also won a Red Dot Award). But this new watch for men was a challenge that he embraced whole-heartedly.
"I talk to the brand when I start a project like this. I ask a lot of questions," said Giroud. "Then I go away and think for a while. In this case it was two or three weeks. Then the idea came to me. Men like sports, a stadium look would be great. So, this project, like most, is the accumulation of many questions, and the product is the single answer."
According to Giroud, Swarovski wanted several materials in the timepiece, including its signature crystals. His response was to turn to steel (and steel with black PVD) and aluminum for the 48mm case and bezel. The dial slopes down from the case to the flat center of the dial in stadium form with four Arabic numerals covered in crystal, and the other eight hour markers are covered in clear or jet crystal.
He adds, "Crystallium is like a crystal arena, a stadium of crystal. Each watch is composed of 12 blocks of faceted crystal, placed in a circle and symbolizing a crystal stadium. Reading the time, its owner will have the impression of looking at an arena with its tiers symbolized by each facet."
The dial is further enhanced with a spider web pattern that adds depth and dimension to the watch, which is water resistant to 100 meters. A sapphire crystal caseback allows for viewing of the automatic Swiss movement.
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Hi again. Thanks to everyone who liked my Kup review! Here is a quick look at Transformers Prime: Decepticon Rumble. That's his full boxed title.
As always thanks to Kapow Toys - http://www.kapowtoys.co.uk in the UK! They are getting these guys from Asia at lightning speeds. Rumble is sold out now but there is a UK case due. http://tinyurl.com/d56xjrj
This came in the smaller multi language box again. The Bio reads:
"Decepticon Rumble's Piledrivers create chaos and destruction."
A lot of my pictures make his blue shade appear a lot lighter than it is. I will put a more natural picture up at the end to compare it. He is a nice blue kinda between that and cyan. Not as light as Hot Spot as it can seem in the pics.
He transforms into a small car. What type I don't know. Bots are my thing not cars.
It has a nice shade of red windows and black grill. There is a Decepticon logo on his grill but it's hard to see as it's dark.
His Piledrivers can be mounted on the sides. The whole car is quite small like most TFP but very plain. I would have preferred a more sporty or better model. This reminds me of the family car you might find Carly driving Daniel down to the local mall in!
If Bumblebee and others can be flashy why is Rumble so boring?
As you can see the rear is empty of paint except for one tiny Con symbol. Rather like Knock Out this guy screams out "Reprolabel me!"
Seriously Hasbro does paint cost that much these days! It's like all the budget went on the robot and they just said "paint it blue".
The robot mode is really very nice. I never had the United version and this is a great way to bring a new style to the figure I think.
He can hold his weapons in his hands as gatling type guns or flush to his wrist as Piledrivers. If you look underneath they are labelled L1 and R2.
Of course he has the giant chest face going on which a few figures have been showing but maybe not as blatantly. It has 2 red shoulder areas that run the light into the chest eyes.
The shoulder pieces can lock into place but can slightly scratch and scuff the sides. So treat it a little carefully.
The back is nicely detailed with the now almost standard hollow leg area.
A really cool feature is built in laser cannons on his back! In my view a real homage to the G1 guns he carried. They could have easily left him with large "wing" things so this was a nice touch. They could use a silver sharpie, which I plan on doing.
By clipping his arms back in you can create this kind of transformed piledriver mode look.
He has a lot of articulation and can make some nice poses. I'm not great at that so I will leave it to the video guys.
Ball joints on the shoulders, swivel biceps, jointed elbows, ball joint hips, ankles and jointed knees.
Tried to show the head well. Red eyes and crest which light up very nicely giving him an evil stare! It's on a ball joint with an extended red neck. Can get a lot of movement from it.
Basically I feel this is another great Decepticon! They seem to be the cooler of the figures so far. He's got a lot of character and I hope he appears in the show.
The only downsides are the car mode being so plain and that it doesn't scale too well with the other cars. Almost more First Edition size than RID scale. Compared to Kup's gaping holes though this is nothing.
I would recommend getting this guy when he comes out to add to the army!
Comparison pics coming up below shortly
He is a lot taller than the other RID cars. Really the sort of thing Kup should have been.
Maybe he's a people carrier car. Lol.
Rumble is a little longer than Knock Out.
A poor picture trying to show how the blue compares with the much lighter new Hot Spot. It's not too light but a darker shade between this and Hot Shot would have been good.
As already shown there is a variant head on the instructions. Getting a Frenzy would be cool but who knows. It could never happen or end up being an Autobot repaint!
Robot mode comparison pics:
He's possibly the shortest figure so far but that's not a bad thing. It's almost like they had to make his kibble large to meet the height of the others.
He is also quite bulky. A lot going on for such a small figure.
A quick glimpse at Dreadwing which I hope to review soon
Rumble and Kup fight it out!
I hope this helps some of you to make up your minds on this figure.
Post any questions and when I can I will try and answer them. Thanks for reading
a Cobra Viper wrote:I don't feel that this is a very good update of the original character.
Azrail wrote:
So I did the backpack lasers silver with my paint pen. So much clearer now!
Also put gold spots on the legs and knee joints.
Added the Con logos but I want to change those yellow shoulders. I will label over them. Any ideas on colours? Maybe red or purple or even gold?
I'm going to do more tweaks to him just trying to decide what colour to do his rims.
Sodan-1 wrote:Those little alterations make a world of difference. Good eye, Azrail.
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Winners and Losers: OfficeMax, Office Depot Deal
A flurry of deals news culminated with the announced deal between OfficeMax and Office Depot, only there was some interesting hijinks along the way. David Benoit joins Markets Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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In addition to the prayer cards, In Memoriam cards, and numerous obituaries my mother kept between the pages of her prayer books, I found this news clipping. It was folded up very small and tucked into the very centre of a prayer book.
When I first found the clipping I had no idea why my mam had kept it. My mother had celebrated her 20th birthday in May of 1951, so I wondered if she was connected to one of the young women in the photograph. When perusing the names, I noticed two from Dublin, and wondered, had my mam known either of these two women, or any of the other women in the picture, and thus kept the clipping as a remembrance of this special time?
Founded in 1877 by the Venerable Mary Potter, whose own mother Mary Martin was Irish born, the Blue Sisters' first community was in Nottingham, England. The vocation of the Blue Sisters is the nursing of the sick and the dying. The name 'Blue Sisters' finds its origins in the fact that the veil of their original traditional habit — tunic, veil and wimple — was blue. The article gives a list of the branches of nursing for which nuns were qualified, as follows:
All the Sisters study for the State Qualification in the various countries in which their hospitals are established, and all branches of nursing are included: General, maternity, mental, public health, infant welfare, mothercraft, etc. The Sisters are also trained in X-ray, pathology, occupational therapy and bookkeeping.
By 1951, when this article was published, the order had five convents in Ireland — Limerick, Fermoy, Abbeyleix, Carlow and Dublin — as well as foundations in Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, South America, the United States, South Africa, Rhodesia, and Malta.
A couple of days after I found the clipping, I did a little research to find the Mother House of the Little Company of Mary in Ireland. After locating their address, I sent an email, along with a copy of the clipping, and asked if it could be passed along to anyone featured in the article who might still be connected to the community. After the passage of so many years, I wondered if seeing the clipping might spark memories in those who viewed it, and in particular any recollections of my mother. Whether or not I could make a connection, I imagined seeing the article might evoke happy memories for someone.
A little while later, I received a lovely email from the Mother House sending me blessings, thanking me for the clipping, and saying they would pass it along. A few days after that I received another message. This message is from one of the nuns in the images. In part it reads:
Dear Jennifer,
Firstly I would like to start by offering you my very sincere sympathy on the death of your beloved mother, may her gentle soul rest in peace.
Unfortunately Jennifer I did not have the pleasure of knowing your dear mother, at least not to my knowledge unless I had dealings with her on the medical field as I was a nurse in my younger days. I feel she must have been a very special Lady and the fact that she kept the pictures in her prayer book she no doubt said the occasional prayer for all of us which I am deeply grateful for, as it would have helped me in my vocation.
I was so excited on receiving the pictures as they brought back many happy memories of the various stages of my noviciate days!
My sincere thanks Jennifer for the trouble you went to and for the pleasure you gave me.
God Bless
Although Sister did not know my mam, her reply completely uplifted me, for which I am very grateful. Perhaps I will never discover exactly why my mam kept this article, but I am very glad she did.
Maybe there is someone else out there for whom these names and images will be meaningful. Perhaps one of your family members is among them. Here are the names and place of origin for those included in the photographs, along with their religious name:
Collette White (Liverpool): Sister Collette White
Mary Butler (Kilcommon, Thurles, [Tipperary]): Sister Agatha Butler
Kathleen Fleming (Edinburgh): Sister Catherine Fleming
Nora Fitzgerald (Killarney): Sister Gabriel Fitzgerald
Noreen Fitzgibbon (incorrectly identified as from Dublin; actually from Limerick): Sister Michael Fitzgibbon
Carmel Kidd (Dublin): Sister de Montfort Kidd
Maria [no surname given] (Rome): Sister Maria Goretti
Two other women are included in the image on the bottom right of the article. They are:
Sister Fidelis Mullins (near Gort [Galway])
Sister Antoinette (Argentina)
Are there any Blue Sisters on your family tree?


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Questions and Answers Relating to Non-Cash Compensation Rules
This Notice to Members addresses questions regarding the application of amendments recently adopted by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD®) to NASD Rules 2820 (Variable Contracts Rule) and 2830 (Investment Company Rule). Generally, the new rules regulate compensation arrangements for the sale and distribution of variable products and investment company securities. To further facilitate member compliance with these rules, this Notice addresses questions that have been raised with respect to particular circumstances covered by the new rules.
Questions regarding this Notice may be directed to Joseph Savage, Counsel, Advertising/Investment Companies Regulation, NASD Regulation, Inc., (NASD Regulation®), at (202) 728-8233; Lawrence N. Kosciulek, Assistant Director, Advertising/Investment Companies Regulation, NASD Regulation, at (202) 728-8329; and Stephanie M. Dumont, Assistant General Counsel, Office of General Counsel, NASD Regulation, at (202) 728-8176.


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Via Crooks & Liars:
Today, at a presser, this exchange happened with Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times:
Bush: You gonna ask your question with shades on?
Wallsten: Yes...
Bush: But there's no sun out here.
Wallsten: It depends on your perspective.
Bush: Touché.
Wallsten is blind...
14 June 2006
Bush and the Sunglasses
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Posted by shadowfax at 12:36 PM
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I got a big chuckle out of this too when I saw it on The Daily Show last night. Susan summed it up well though with something like, "That would be just his luck". Susan is by no means a Bush defender, but it does seem to ring true that he can turn any circumstance into a "foot in mouth" moment. Of course it isn't luck, it has something to do with an incredible lack of charm and common sense.ReplyDelete
In his defense, he did call the reporter to apologize. The man says he was not offended because he had not made the White House aware of his condition.
Here's the link to another blog going over the immediate aftermath, the apology and subsequent conversation. Bush makes it clear he looks for opportunities to poke the reporters, and they apparently aren't too bothered by it. This seems to be not much an incident:ReplyDelete
I agree, chuckle-worthy but of no lasting import.ReplyDelete


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Arch Linux uses a 2-tier mirroring scheme. Tier 1 mirrors sync directly from archlinux.org every hour and all other mirrors sync from one of the tier 1 mirrors. Syncing from archlinux.org is not allowed.
For a guide on how to select and configure mirrors for your pacman installation, see Mirrors.
The arch-mirrors mailing list is used for announcements and mirror-related communications. All mirror-administrators and Arch Linux developers involved in mirroring subscribe to this mailing list.
How to create a official Arch Linux mirror
Anyone who wishes to create a public Arch Linux mirror should:
Conform with requirements
Your mirror must conform with the mirror-requirements for the tier you wish your mirror to belong to.
Tier 2 requirements
- Disk-space >= 35 GB
- Sync all contents of the upstream mirror (i.e. do not sync only some repositories)
- Do not sync more rapidly than every hour
- Use the following rsync options: -rtlvH --delete-after --delay-updates --safe-links --max-delete=1000
- Subscribe to arch-mirrors
- http support
Tier 1 requirements
- Tier 2 requirements
- Bandwidth >= 100Mbit/s
- rsync support
Create a feature-request
Go to http://bugs.archlinux.org and create a feature-request (category: mirrors) with the following information:
- Mirror domain name
- Geographical location of the mirror (country)
- Supported access methods (http, ftp, rsync)
- URLs for the above access methods
- The name of tier 1 mirror you are syncing from (see tier 1 mirrors here: http://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/tier/1/) (tier 2 mirrors)
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Recipes if you're trying to reduce prepackaged foods
It's taken me awhile to compile this and would LOVE to have other Mama's input!
Here are some of our go-to's:
Granola Bars:
This is from Alton Brown (Good Eats guy on Food Network). I've changed it up a little by omitting the sugar (sometimes), adding flax seeds, sesame seeds, different nuts, chocolate chips, and even peanut butter. I don't usually use the same dried fruits as he does. We mostly eat raisins. I've never used the almonds, either. I just never seem to have them on hand. I've even used the organic non-hydrogenated shortening in place of butter. Every time they turn out yummy!
*BE SURE TO REALLY PACK IT DOWN INTO THE PAN* Otherwise, you'll just have granola.
Take care, Mama!! And let me know if you have any questions about the recipe..
8 ounces old-fashioned rolled oats, approximately 2 cups
1 1/2 ounces raw sunflower seeds, approximately 1/2 cup
3 ounces sliced almonds, approximately 1 cup
1 1/2 ounces wheat germ, approximately 1/2 cup
6 ounces honey, approximately 1/2 cup
1 3/4 ounces dark brown sugar, approximately 1/4 cup packed
1-ounce unsalted butter, plus extra for pan
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
6 1/2 ounces chopped dried fruit, any combination of apricots, cherries or blueberries
Butter a 9 by 9-inch glass baking dish and set aside. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Spread the oats, sunflower seeds, almonds, and wheat germ onto a half-sheet pan. Place in the oven and toast for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
In the meantime, combine the honey, brown sugar, butter, extract and salt in a medium saucepan and place over medium heat. Cook until the brown sugar has completely dissolved.
Once the oat mixture is done, remove it from the oven and reduce the heat to 300 degrees F. Immediately add the oat mixture to the liquid mixture, add the dried fruit, and stir to combine. Turn mixture out into the prepared baking dish and press down, evenly distributing the mixture in the dish and place in the oven to bake for 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely. Cut into squares and store in an airtight container for up to a week.
4 roma tomatoes
1 onion (vidalia)
1/3 - 1/2 cracked bulgar wheat
2 juiced lemons
extra virgin olive oil (as much as 1/2, start w/ 1/4 and add)
let set for 30 mins to soften
romane lettuce hearts for serving
Whole Wheat Bread
This makes 2 loaves of bread. I usually increase the recipe by 1/2 on the days I make the bread and make a pizza crust......it makes for an easy dinner night and yummy pizza.
- 2 cups hot water
- 1/2 cup oil
- 1/2 cup honey
- 3 1/2 tsp. instant yeast
- 5 cups freshly milled flour
- 2 tsp. salt
Combine water, oil and honey. Add 3 cups of flour, yeast and salt. Mix thoroughly (I use a hand mixer with dough hooks for this part). Add remaining flour and knead until
smooth and elastic (about 10 minutes). I'll add the remaining flour in the bowl and mix with hand mixer until it gets thick. Then I'll just flour the countertop and knead
and add flour along the way until the sticky is gone while kneeding.
After kneeding, place in bowl and let rise until double (about 1 hour)
Then shape into loaves and place in oiled loaf pans and let rise again (about another hour)
bake at 350 for about 30 minutes.
Homemade Crackers
3 1/2 cups of whole grain flour (I used 1 1/2 cups of millet flour, 2 cups of whole wheat pastry flour for a lighter cracker)
1/4 cup of melted coconut oil
1 cup of water with two tablespoons vinegar (or you could use buttermilk)
Gently mix together the above ingredients, until combined. I used a fork at first, and then kneaded the dough gently in the bowl until it just came together into a ball. Cover and leave out overnight on the counter. The next morning, flatten your ball out on the counter, using a little white flour, if needed to prevent sticking.
Sprinkle over the top:
1 teaspoon of sea salt
1 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
Fold in half and knead gently until salt and baking powder are evenly mixed in (if this intimidates you, you can mix these two ingredients in with the flour the night before. The salt will inhibit some of the soaking process, however. You are now ready to roll it out!
Preheat your oven to 425 degrees, and lightly flour your surface. I liked to roll out a quarter of the dough at a time, for more control. I rolled them to about 1/8 on an inch to make firmer, crisper crackers to serve with spreads and cheese. For baby, I roll them to about 1/4 of an inch, and this produced a lighter, more crumbly cracker that was very easy for her to eat. Cut into desired size with a sharp knife and gently lay out on a greased baking sheet and prick with a fork.
Bake for about 1o minutes and check. They will be done when they are browning slightly around the edges. Cool on cooling sheets and enjoy!
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies:
½ Cup Pumpkin Puree
½ Cup Butter (1 stick)
¾ Cup Sugar (or honey crystals)
¼ Cup Brown Sugar (or molasses crystals)
2 Tablespoons Milk
1 Tablespoon Vanilla
1 Egg
1/2 Cup Soft White winter wheat flour
½ Cup Whole Grain Wheat Flour
2 ½ teaspoons Baking Soda
½ teaspoon Salt
2 tablespoons Cinnamon
½ teaspoon Ground Ginger
½ teaspoon Ground Cloves
½ teaspoon Grated Nutmeg
2 Cups Chocolate Chips
Cream the butter & sugars. Add pumpkin & combine. Add egg & combine. Add milk & vanilla. Add to dry ingredients. Stir in Chocolate chips.
Chill dough.
Scoop onto parchment covered cookie sheet. Bake 12-15mins. Or until cookies are golden.
1-1/4 C. Whole wheat flour
1/4 C. Oatmeal (I've used quick cooking, oldfashioned & steel cut w/ good results)
1/3 C. Brown Sugar (can be omitted, or substituted w/ honey or regular sugar)
1 1/2 tsp. Baking powder
1/4 tsp. Baking soda
1/4 tsp. Salt
1 Tbl. Cinnamon
1/2 tsp. Ground ginger
1/2 tsp. Nutmeg
1/4 tsp. Ground cloves
2 Tbl. Toasted wheat germ
2 Tbl. Toasted flax seeds
1/4 C. Toasted nuts
(I toast these on the same cookie sheet @ 350 until I can smell them)
4 oz melted butter or coconut oil
1 C. Sour cream (can be exchanged for buttermilk or reg. milk with 1 Tbl. vinegar added, or yogurt)
2 eggs
1 Tbl. Vanilla
1/2 C. Shredded carrots (can also use any vegetable puree)
Preheat oven to 400. Lube up muffin tin.
Mix all dry ingredients (first 14 items). Set aside.
Whisk butter, sour cream, eggs, and vanilla.
Add carrots to wet mixture.
Pour wet ingredients into dry and stir just until combined.
Pour evenly among twelve count muffin pan. (Actually, spoon the batter- it's pretty thick).
Bake until golden and a toothpick tester comes out clean. About 20 mins.
You can play around w/ this a lot. You can leave out all the spices and add fruit (or chocolate chips ). Also, you can just use 1 1/2 C. AP flour and exclude the whole grains.
I have more recipes, and will add them as I can. Feel completely free to add any of your recipes, too! I would love a really yummy cheese cracker recipe...
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Hamburger Helper Dupe
1lb ground meat, can be turkey or chicken
onion powder
seasoning of your choice, I like Mrs. Dash table blend
6 tbs all purpose flour
6 tbs butter or other oil
2c. stock, chicken or beef
1lb pasta, bowtie or rotini works well
Put a pot of water on to boil for the pasta.
Brown the meat in a deep skillet or dutch oven along with the seasoning. When it is cooked, stir in the butter or oil, then sprinkle the flour all over the meat and stir in til no white bits show. Pour in the stock and stir til thickened. Allow to simmer while you cook the pasta. When the pasta is done, drain it well and mix it into the meat sauce and you are ready to serve.
Cheeseburger Helper Option: instead of stock, use milk. Once the mixture is thickened, add grated cheese of your choice til it tastes "cheesy" enough to please your crowd then continue on with cooking and adding the pasta.
Tortilla Casserole Helper Option: use half beef stock, half tomato sauce. Add in a tsp of oregano, 1/2 tsp of cumin and a pressed clove of garlic. If desired, add in some chili powder to taste (we like chipotle powder!). Instead of using pasta, cut corn tortillas into 1" squares and add to the meat sauce, simmer til they are limp and serve with sour cream, salsa, avocado or what ever your crew likes!
Pilaf (to replace rice-a-roni)
1 tsp butter
3/4 c. brown rice
1/4 c. quinoa
2 cups of chicken stock
1 tsp. onion powder
1 tsp. italian herb blend
any chopped veggies that you have on hand, can be fresh or leftovers
Put the dry quinoa into a fine mesh strainer and run water over it to rinse well. Set it aside to drain, let it rest on a dishtowel to soak up most of the water.
melt the butter in a med. large skillet and add the brown rice. Toast the rice til most of it has a little color and looks less translucent. Pour in the chicken stock and add the seasonings. Cover, turn to low heat and cook for 30 min.
Add the rinsed, drained quinoa and any veggies you are using. Continue cooking, covered, for another 15 min or til the grains are at the doneness you prefer.
I like to toss in a handful of fresh snipped chives right at the end just before serving, it adds just the right touch. You might also try finely chopped basil and halved cherry tomatoes, very good also.
you can sub in any grain you like as you prefer, adjusting liquid amount and cooking time if necessary.
Alfredo Sauce
1 c. cream
1/4 c. finely grated parmesan
Heat the cream and stir in the cheese. Keep the heat low and stir gently frequently til the cheese is all melted. Add more or less cheese to taste. As it cools the sauce will thicken.
This is great as it is, but you can vary your flavors by tossing in seasonings you enjoy - chopped basil & pressed garlic are two good options.
Stuffing Side Dish (no more boxed stuffing!)
save up leftover slices & ends of stale french bread (or any bread you like, really) til you have enough to more or less fill up a 9X13 baking pan
preheat oven to 400F
1-2c. chicken stock
1 carrot, grated
handful or two of mushrooms, sliced
several celery stalks, chopped
1/2 small onion, chopped
1-2 cloves of garlic, pressed
2 tbs real butter
break up or cut up the bread into chunks (kindergartners come in handy for this) and put it into a large mixing bowl.
Toss in the chopped veggies.
Warm the stock and add the butter and garlic. Drizzle the warm stock mixture over the bread cubes and veggies, stirring them around frequently so that all the bread gets moistened with stock. When the cubes are all moist, but not soggy, put the stuffing into the baking pan and bake - I like to take it out and turn it over once the stuffing on the bottom gets golden brown, because I like the crispy parts.
If you like your stuffing moist and not crispy, you could cover it with foil after it has browned to your liking. At any time if the stuffing seems dry you can drizzle on more stock.
Total cooking time usually runs about 30 min.
An alternative way of cooking this is to pile it on top of meat that you are cooking in the crock pot, but make sure you don't use it in recipes that call for cooking with lots of liquid in the crock or you will end up with mush.
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Re: Recipes if you're trying to reduce prepackaged foods
we make a version of the Cheesy potato hamburger helper.
You can find all ingredients in the bulk and whole foods section of the Regular grocery stores
Deydrated potato sticks
Deydrated onion
1Lb Ground Turkey
Powder cheese Mix
1c Water
1/4c Milk
First thing I do is Brown the meat with the Onions in a pan then
I while the meat is cooking I Soak the Potatoes in Hot Water for about 15 Minutes then drain
add them to a Pan with the Onions and ground turkey
with 1C water
cook on Low until Potatoes are Tender
Mix the Milk and powdered Cheese spread over top let it set for a bit and your done
SAHM of 4 Kids Two boys Two girls All Potty learned for many years.
I AM A COOKIN FOOL, learning to sew, knit, crochet, bead and darn socks
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Re: Recipes if you're trying to reduce prepackaged foods
These are GREAT!
I'm printing the out for my cookbook now!
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Better Than Store Bought http://product.half.ebay.com/Better-...35636QQtgZinfo has excellent recipes for things to make from scratch.
I highly recommend the refried beans (we eat this twice a week with a bit less oil), graham crackers, and baking extracts (we have done vanilla, lemon, orange).
My daughter has a lot of severe food allergies and this book was a life saver for me. I was sad that she developed an orange and lemon allergy just when the extracts were about ready to be used. I used potato vodka for the extracts, any large liquor store carries it.
I use a wok to fry up the refried beans as even with my largest fry pan I would have spillage onto the stove top.
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This is exactly what I came looking for. DH and I cleaned our kitchen out last night. Little to no packaged/processed food now so we need healthy replacements. Hope to see more recipes. Thanks for posting!
SAHM to Liliana 01-13-06 &
Gabriela 10-15-08
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Re: Recipes if you're trying to reduce prepackaged foods
I've done vodka extracts too, but find I get more flavor out of simply freezing the zest & using it directly in my recipes.
Whenever I serve orange slices (nearly every day) I just cut off the white part as if I were filleting a little fish and I put all the zest slices in the freezer in one container. I add four or five slices to the liquid portion of my recipe and puree it in my Magic Bullet (little blender). You only want to use organic fruit for this though, otherwise you are getting pesticides and orange dye #6 in your food.
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There is orange dye on my oranges!? Why cant they leave food alone! Sorry, for the rant...and thanks for teaching me something today. I wonder if there is dye on my lemons?
SAHM to Liliana 01-13-06 &
Gabriela 10-15-08
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They DYE FRUIT?!?!?! Oh, soul... Hey, I wonder why it seems like everyone I know is getting cancer?
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i guess I need to learn to garden and make friends w/ some farmers
SAHM to Liliana 01-13-06 &
Gabriela 10-15-08
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Concept mapping activities at FIE support other initiatives,
especially those involving curriculum design and implementation and
professional learning. Common uses of concept mapping include facilitation of
learning; assessment of connected, meaningful learning; planning instruction
and research; organizing information; collaborative problem solving by means of
spatial thinking; eliciting, capturing, archiving, and using expert knowledge;
and administrative and strategic planning.
Concept maps result from systematically connecting
relationships among concepts, and their use helps individuals visualize the
structure of the mapped knowledge. Educational researchers have long seen
concept mapping as a powerful tool to promote meaningful learning, and have summarized uses of concept
mapping in educational settings as support for learning,1 assessment of
learning, and for the organization and presentation of knowledge.2
Concept mapping has become prevalent in the United States,
particularly in science classes. The National Assessment Governing Board in
Framework for the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
strongly recommended that at least one concept mapping item be included in the
eighth and twelfth grade NAEP science measures.3 Concept mapping has been even more widely embraced as a K-12
educational strategy by the international community. Implemented in 2005,
Connect to Knowledge, the primary component of a Panamanian strategy,
Intelligent Panama, proposed to facilitate a change in focus from rote
memorization of facts to a system in which children construct knowledge through
the use of concept mapping.4
FIE researchers first presented peer-reviewed papers at the
2006 international concept mapping conference (cmc-2006) held in Costa Rica and
continued to build their international reputation for excellence at cmc-2008
jointly held in Estonia and Finland and at cmc-2010 held in Chile. At cmc-2008,
FIE researchers reported on the implementation and evaluation of FIE-designed
preschool/prekindergarten curricula intended to increase young children's
background knowledge thereby increasing the likelihood they will comprehend
what they read. As a result of these presentations, international researchers
now acknowledge the FIE research team's expertise in the concept development of
pre- and emerging readers. At cmc-2010 conference, FIE researchers granted
Latin American doctoral students permission to include the FIE early childhood
research in their dissertations. To continue its tradition of excellence, FIE
researchers will submit four papers for presentation at cmc-2012 to be held in
Valletta, Malta: one involving a middle school project and three involving
early childhood education.
1 (e.g.,
Kinchin, I. M., & Hay, D. B. (2000). How a qualitative approach to concept
map analysis can be used to aid learning by illustrating patterns of conceptual
development. Educational Research 42(1): 43-57.
Novak, J. D., & Cañas, A. J. (2008). The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and
How to Construct and Use Them.
(accessed April 2011).
Novak, J. D., & Gowin, D. B. (1984). Learning How to Learn. New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press.
2 Institute of Human
and Machine Cognition (IHMC: 2003). A Summary of Literature Pertaining to the
Use of Concept mapping Techniques and Technologies for Education and
Performance Support. ttp://www.ihmc.us/users/acanas/Publications/ConceptMapLitReview/IHMC%20Literature%20Review%20on%20Concept%20Mapping.pdf
(accessed April 2011)
3 National
Assessment Governing Board (NAGB. 2008). Science Framework for the 2009
National Assessment of Educational Progress.
http://www.nagb.org/publications/frameworks/science-09.pdf (accessed April
4 (United
Nations Development Program (UNDP: 2010). UNDP Success Story Leads.
(accessed April, 2011).
Click Here for a PDF of the Cmap
2 Wehry, S., Monroe-Ossi, H., Cobb, S., & Fountain, C.
(2012). Concept mapping strategies: Content, tools, and assessment for human
geography. Journal of Geography, 111(3), 83-92.
The cms-2010 presentations in Chile focused the use of concept
mapping on three FIE initiatives.
Click Here for a PDF of Cmap
During summer 2010, five scholarly papers were authored
collaboratively by Florida Institute of Education (FIE) researchers, England,
Fountain, Hunter, McLemore, Monroe-Ossi, and Wehry. In early October 2010,
Hunter, McLemore, Monroe-Ossi, and Wehry presented the five works at CMC2010 –
4th International Conference on Concept Mapping held in Viña del Mar, Chile.
The conference brought together researchers and practitioners interested in the
uses of concept mapping including, but not limited to, the facilitation of
learning; assessment of connected, meaningful learning; planning instruction
and research; eliciting, capturing, archiving, and using expert knowledge; and
administrative and strategic planning. The presentations were organized around
three FIE initiatives; Quality Early Education for Successful Tomorrows
(QuEST); UNF/FIE PreCollegiate Connections: College Reach-Out Program (UNF/FIE
CROP); and DCPS Title I/FIE Success by Design: PreK-3 (Success by Design).
Through QuEST, FIE partners
with preschool centers committed to working with researchers to plan and
implement purposeful activities focused on improving young children's learning
opportunities. Hunter's presentation, Concept Mapping for Planning and Instruction in a Childcare Setting, emerged from this initiative and detailed the processes
and procedures for incorporating concept mapping into instructional planning
and implementation in four classrooms in a Jacksonville childcare setting.
Nonfiction books and hands-on materials were used to build children's
background knowledge and vocabulary in the health domain. Assessments using
concept maps based on interviews with children were collected at three points
during the instructional period. Results provided information that could be
used to focus instruction.
UNF/FIE CROP, an after-school program implemented in
Jacksonville's urban core, incorporates academic and social support for
economically disadvantaged sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. The purpose of
UNF/FIE CROP is to build a community of students who see themselves as
academically able, emotionally ready, and active in their pursuit of positive
futures in middle school, high school, and post-secondary education. UNF/FIE
CROP combines an after-school human geography curriculum with technology-rich activities,
college-student mentors, and learning excursions. Examples of technology
include digital/video cameras, Movie Maker, PowerPoint, IHMC C-map tools,
Google Earth, and Nettreker.
Monroe-Ossi's presentation, Utilizing Concept Mapping as anInstructional Tool in an Afterschool Setting: A Study of At-Risk Students'Conceptual Development in a Complementary Learning Environment, was designed to
determine if meaningful learning occurred in UNF/FIE CROP's complementary
learning settings in two partner middle schools. Concept mapping was utilized
as an instructional tool in weekly, after-school sessions and as an assessment
tool to identify curricular strengths and weaknesses and students'
misconceptions. The results helped identify curriculum revisions that could
improve UNF/FIE CROP instruction, as well as inform researchers about the
usefulness of concept mapping as an instructional strategy and assessment tool
in a non-traditional context.
Wehry's presentation, The Development of a
Select-And-Fill-In Concept Map Assessment of Human Geography Knowledge,
reported the decision-making process involved in choosing a concept mapping
task to assess UNF/FIE CROP students' human geography knowledge. Research was
presented supporting construct-a-map and fill-in concept mapping tasks. The
final map, a select-and-fill-in task, was developed and field-tested with
UNF/FIE CROP students during the first week of May 2010. Analyses indicated
that, across all three grades, the omitted concepts were moderately difficult
and exhibited acceptable reliability.
The FIE/DCPS Success by Design initiative is designed to
develop a well-coordinated early learning and transition system to improve
children's achievement, promote meaningful family engagement, and provide
professional learning opportunities for grade prekindergarten –grade 3
practitioners. As part of their Success by Design research, England and
McLemore developed professional learning workshops for prekindergarten and
kindergarten teachers. England's paper, Concept Mapping Professional Learning:
Making a Difference in Prekindergarten Classrooms, reported on the strategies
used in a six-session professional learning series that introduced teachers to
concept mapping and its uses in educational settings. Twenty-three
prekindergarten teachers participated and were asked to complete a survey of
their concerns about implementing concept mapping strategies and a survey of
how often they used concept mapping for instruction, planning, and assessment.
Results from the two surveys were conflicting: The implementation concerns
survey indicated that a majority of the respondents were non-users, and the
user survey indicated that all of the teachers used concept mapping at least
once a month in their classrooms.
McLemore's presentation, Professional Development for
Kindergarten Teachers: Concept Mapping, described the professional learning of
kindergarten teachers as they acquired the necessary knowledge and skills to
use concept mapping for instructional planning and as an instructional strategy
to promote children's conceptual development. Teachers completed a survey and
questionnaire at the conclusion of the fifth meeting. Results indicated that
when teachers see the relevance of concept mapping to their daily practice,
they are more likely to implement concept mapping in their classrooms.
This group of FIE researchers has evolved into a concept
mapping team that regularly meets, shares information, and plans future work.
Team interests include concept mapping applications in planning, instruction,
and assessment across a variety of settings. The goal of the team is to expand
and explore the use of concept mapping applications to other internal and
external venues.


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dutchcoug wrote:Blame Marcus Trufant
-The Glove- wrote:dutchcoug wrote:Blame Marcus Trufant
Trufant wasn't as bad as people made him out to be, but his last game was terrible
Wenhawk wrote:Trufant has been a huge problem, BB and Sherm have shut down the outside WR's all year and the middle has been soft. Browner got abused by Marshall's quickness most hs catches were great timing rotues where him and Cutler were just in sync and browner couldn't have done much. a few were jump balls and Marshall just made great catches too. Trufant is still a huge liability and I won't mind at all if he see more time on the bench.
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Bed Bugs Expanding to the UK (and so are we)
As readers in Europe know, the rapid recent spread of bedbugs isn't limited to just North America.
Today we're launching our first sister site, Bedbug Registry UK, to collect and share reports across the United Kingdom.
The site is not searchable yet, but will be soon. In the meantime, I encourage our UK visitors to submit their bedbug reports. As always, the more people use the site, the more useful it will become as a resource for everyone.