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In Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius, Niccolò Machiavelli went on at some length about how elders have been complaining about the younger generation and younger people have been complaining about the elders for thousands of years. His thought was that the degeneration was exaggerated, because humanity would have fallen into savagery long ago if the generations were progressively that degenerate. Or I might have made that up to try to make Machiavelli look even better. But even the Ancient Greeks complained about younger generations, and such complaints continue, and probably will continue into the far distant future.
My opinion is that both the younger and older generations should have a little more understanding of the other, and all people should have a better understanding of history. While older generations have had more experience, the youngers have the enthusiasm of youth that has not yet been stifled by stark reality. Those of my generation already decided that we "Won't Get Fooled Again", as The Who put it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q But everyone is fooled by someone in some way. Some of us learn to avoid listening to anyone, while others use careful analysis of data and argument before we will accept anything. And most people just go one being fooled time after time. This is another thing that has been known for thousands of years, and no one has found a cure. In Proverbs it was expressed as: "As a dog will return to its vomit, a fool will return to his folly." (Proverbs 26:11) That same idea is contained in the adage about studying history: Those who do know history are doomed to watch in horror as it is repeated.
Perhaps the most substantial difference between the generations is historical perspective. Most people think that anything that happened before their births is ancient history, irrelevant to today's world. Nothing could be further from the truth. For example, we are still suffering from the Mongol invasions of the thirteenth century, and that is true of China, Russia, the Mideast, Europe and Central Asia. And Charlemagne's empire is still relevant to Europe. And just a short time ago, the French were sending Indians to murder, rape, and kidnap people in the British colonies of North America. Even though you may hate and repudiate the past, the present was shaped by the past; the past that you repudiate is yours. If you follow a religion, then it almost certainly has an ancient origin, but that's because we know that the recently founded religions are all frauds. Today's political and economic ideas also have their origins in ancient philosophy.
Alas, there are people who take advantage of the relative innocence of youth, and that has been going on for a long time, but in the 1960's there were songs about young people who discovered that they had been played for fools. In addition to "Won't Get Fooled Again" by the Who; and there was "My Backpages " by Bob Dylan. But everyone has to learn those lessons for himself, learn that the new boss is the same as the old boss.
Eventually, everyone learns that they were fooled, but for some it takes a lifetime, while others learn a little faster. It is sad that the ones doing the fooling are often the ones who were presented as the ones that you should trust. It makes me happier that I am not claiming to have any new or better ideas; I am simply presenting ideas that have been around for a long time in slightly different words. Humans have not changed greatly for a long time; there have been slow, incremental changes, but the underlying motivations and drives are the same for modern humans as they were for humans in ancient times and probably for the great apes even earlier, and I think that people should become comfortable with those earlier times and with humans having been humans even back then.
Most of the time we are fooled by marketing lies, fluff, puffery. Most of the time and most of the lies are used to sell products and services, but they are also used to sell political candidates and programs. The worst part is that I usually disagree with the candidates and programs they are pushing, but other people think that government should make all their decisions for them.
But one can tell a lot about the quality of goods, services, ideas, or whatever by the marketing given to them. Good quality things don't require much marketing, a good description is usually adequate; for example, most foods sell themselves. But low quality goods require marketing to make them appear good, and truly bad products need heavy-handed marketing to move them off the shelves.
Similarly, completely good political ideas only need description to be supported by most people, as is the case with free speech. Low quality ideas like "progressive" income taxes require some marketing to sell them to most people. And truly bad ideas such as anthropogenic climate change require heavy-handed arm twisting to sell them to most people; things along the lines of: If you don't believe this then you are opposed to science.
As has been known for a long time "There's a sucker born every minute." Some people grow out of that and learn how to avoid being taken, but others don't last that long.


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George, Amarilla and their daughter Grace are featured in the 1895 census for Minnesota. The 1880 U.S. Federal Census was rather vague and the 1885 spelled names wrong so this 1895 census was the only one that showed them together as a family. I have posted about George the census in past posts.
Here is the 1895 Minnesota census:
Line 13, Barclay Geo. A, age 51, born in Conn., occupation [Lumberman], 12, sold, no, no, no. Barclay, Ammarilla, 37 years born in Iowa. Barclay, Grace A., 13 years born in Minn.
Source: Geo. Barclay Family, 1895 Minnesota State Census, Twp. 137 Range 29W, Cass Co., Minnesota, Schedule 13 pg. 1, FHL #0565765.
When I went to source this census, I had a bit of a fright because the actual page looks like Twp. 127 rather than Twp. 137. I therefore went to Family Search and double checked the film number to make sure I was not wrong. I am happy to report that I am now correct with both FHL and Ancestry. When I first started doing genealogy I was not very good at sourcing so a lot of the older research needs updating. I do remember looking at the film for this particular census and probably doing that research at the Minnesota Historical Society at that time using film.
George's brother Alexander Barclay was living in Dakota County. Let's see what was happening with Alex
6th line down: Barklay, Alexander A. 52 years, Male, White, born Conn. 40 years in area, 4 years?, farmer, 12, sold, yes, yes, yes.
Below him is Giles, Fannie B. 73 years old, female, white, born Mass, housekeepr, 12, no, no, no.
Source: 1895 Minnesota State Census, page 3, Lakeville Twp., Dakota Co., Minnesota, P.O. Farmington.
His father John Barclay was still living in Scott County with his wife Ellen/Helen and son Charlie
Family #54: Barclay, John, age 94, male, white, born in Scotland, Resident of state 45 years, 45 years in enumeration district, occupation none, mother and father both of foreign birth. Barclay, Ellen, age 65, female, white, born in Norway, both parents of foreign birth. Barclay Charlie, age 35, male, white, born in Minnesota. In state and enumeration district 35 years, a farmer, employed 12 mos of the year. Both parents of foreign birth.
Source: 1895 Minnesota State Census, Eagle Creek, Scott Co., Minnesota, pg. 2, schedule #5, enumerated on 10 June 1895, FHL#565810.
This will be the last census that George (died 1898), Alexander (died 1905) and John Barclay (died 1897) all appear in. Even though Alexander lives till 1905 I have not been able to find him in the 1900 census nor the Minnesota state census of 1905.


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To start, first download and install the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for DB2. Click here to download. After it is installed I suggest rebooting your machine. In some cases a reboot is not required; however I have encountered problems without rebooting.
Next open an SSIS project and create a new data source. On the Connection Manager screen select Microsoft OLE DB Provider for DB2 from the drop down list labeled Provider. In the text box labeled Server or file name enter the IP address of your server. Then select the radio button labeled Use a specific user name and password. Enter you user name and password and select the checkbox labeled allow saving password if you want to persist those values. Then enter you database name in the drop down list labeled Initial Catalog.
Now you must click the button labeled Data Links. The Data Source, User Name and Initial Catalog textboxes should be populated. You will only need to enter values for the textboxes labeled Package Collection and Default Schema. Enter your database schema in both textboxes.
Then click on the Advanced tab and check the box labeled Process binary as character. To understand why you need to do this please read, How to Retrieve IBM AS 400 /JD Edwards "for bit data" via SSIS, by Alberto Munera.
Now click on the ellipses next to the Network drop down list and enter your IP address in the textbox labeled IP Address.
Click Ok twice and you will be returned to the Connection Manager Screen. Click the button labeled Test Connection to verify that your settings are correct. Now that you have a successful connection to your DB2 database click OK and the data source is ready to use. I have to give credit to my colleagues at TBC for assisting me in putting this document together, thanks Roberto and Chad.
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Persons with sleep apnea are at risk of serious complications when taking certain medications or when under general anesthesia for surgical procedures. Breathing problems are common in a sedated apnea patient lying on his back.
Diagnosed patients should be sure to report the condition to their physicians. Undiagnosed sleep apnea presents a substantial risk during surgery.
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"In this day and age we have a lot of comic book movies being made every day," notes Nicolas Cage. "And most of them are really good boys. It's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too."
To that end, Cage has reprised the role of one of his most favorite comic book anti-heroes, Marvel Comic's motorcycle riding, flaming-skulled Ghost Rider for the sequel "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance," a darker and more action-packed take helmed by "Crank" and "Gamer" co-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. Cage tells PopcornBiz what revved his engines about his second foray as the demonic do-gooder.
U.S. & World
On the difference between the first and second films:
"When I did the first 'Ghost Rider', I wanted it to be like a Grimm's fairytale. Scary but still something that children could enjoy, kind of like that first trip to the principal's office where you've made a mistake and you're in trouble. But don't give up. You can still rise above it and do something good with the experience. Well, this one, if we're really going into the wonderful bliss of the nightmare imagination, I think it will be very entertaining… There's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. I mean, you talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor. And I think Johnny Blaze has that because he's really dealing with the fact that his head goes on fire, for years now. And in the first movie he kept it at bay. It was more like an innocent goofball, whereas in this movie there's been a little fiery tap dance on his head for several years. And I think it should change his personality quite a bit."
On "Ghost Rider's" literally off-kilter take on superheroics:
"'Weirdness' is a really good word, and the old fashioned spelling: W-Y-R-D. When I was trying to think how the Ghost Rider would move, because the directors really wanted me to play Ghost Rider in this, I was thinking about trying to find something really weird, which would be like levitating in circles – we called it "the compass" together – to sort of mess with how he would attack his enemies. And then I looked up in the dictionary that the word weird literally means to turn, to change, to turn around, and so I thought that was an interesting thing. But it was like trying to design a body language from another dimension. We worked in a room together and looked at different animals like cobras and insects and tried to find ways of moving that would hopefully scare you and entertain you…All the wire work was very stimulating, but also very nauseating: literally nauseating, because I was going around in circles upside down and I really was trying not to throw up, because it kept spinning and spinning. But it's one of my favorite things that we all came up with together. So I'm glad it's there. It was well worth it."
On seeing his longtime dream of a world filled with comic book movies come to pass:
"I actually had a vision of it when I was nine, that this we going to happen. And it took awhile because we didn't have the technology to make them come to life so magnificently as we do today. It was always so goofy – those stupid costumes of 'Spider-Man' in the old movies in '60s and '70s ,and 'Captain America'. But now it's become all the rage because there's something in it for everybody. It's kind of like perfect entertainment."
On why Ghost Rider, in his opinion, could defeat any other superhero out there:
"Because he has the Penance Stare, and everybody's done something wrong. And he'll just make you look at it over and over and over again. Kind of like the Internet."


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Imagine a single trailer-mounted device that turns scum into more than 20,000 gallons of pure water a day, stores electricity better than a battery, makes medical-grade oxygen, and runs on the sun.
A trio of inventors on May 20 unveiled the first working model of The HYDRA, a fuel cell-based device they say does all that, at a hydrogen-powered show house in Hopewell, N.J. They are taking orders at $99,500, and targeting the device at medical clinics, schools, remote communities, and disaster relief agencies.
"What we're doing is using the sun to break water into hydrogen and oxygen, saving the oxygen for medical uses and using the hydrogen to power the fuel cell, which provides the energy to run the water purification system," said Brad Carlson, chief operating officer of The Essential Element™, which is commercializing The HYDRA. "So it's fully self-contained, needs no outside sources of power, and can be delivered to any point on the globe."
Dr. Devra Davis, founder of the Environment Health Trust, said that "If The HYDRA specifications play out in the field by cleaning up contaminated surface water, and it provides stable clean water to communities, it would extend and boost the quality of life in many parts of the world."
Carlson said The HYDRA can be flown in by helicopter, dropped by parachute, or delivered on the back of a pickup truck. "It also gives water purification levels that are much purer, much cleaner than any other available," he said, "so one of the beauties of this unit is that it can provide virus-free, bacteria-free drinking water in disaster relief areas."
Peter Wernsdorfer, former director of Public Works for Allentown, Pa., commented that, "As someone who was responsible for providing clean water to communities during emergencies, I consistently faced the logistical challenge of fueling remote equipment. The fact that The HYDRA is a self-contained power and water purification plant changes the game. It will probably save lives the first day it is put into service."
The HYDRA's mobile solar/hydrogen fuel cell uses light-weight, low-power components and very fine water filters.
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The Resurrection Christian volleyball team breathed a sigh of relief Monday when the pools for the state tournament were announced.
The Cougars had lost a heartbreaking five-set match to Yuma during regionals hosted at RCS. That loss gave Yuma an automatic berth to state and left the Cougars hoping they would make it as a wild-card team.
They got their wish, being put in a pool with Telluride and Lutheran. Here is a look at the three teams in the Cougars' bracket that will compete at the Denver Coliseum for a trip to the state semifinals. The semis and final will be played Saturday evening. The final is at 7 p.m.
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The Cougars had a solid season, winning their conference and finishing with an 18-6 record. Their strong play allowed them to earn a wildcard spot despite losing in regionals.
The RCS offense goes through Preston Lienemann. The sophomore has 343 kills. Riliegh Lienemann, a senior, is second on the team with 186 kills.
Abby Skipworth and Madison Webb are the top blockers on the team.
The Miners went 18-6 on the season and used a five-set win over Meeker to secure their trip to state.
Telluride has two players with more than 100 kills in senior Scout Franklin and junior Erin Kean, who also leads the team in total blocks. Telluride is the No. 12 seed, the lowest in the tournament.
The Lions come in as the No. 1 seed and favorites to win state, carrying with them a 24-0 record. Lutheran has dominated its opponents, losing only nine sets over the entire season. The last set the Lions lost was on Oct. 2.
Lutheran has some players with staggering numbers. Connie Olson leads the team with 248 kills, Laura Beach has 235 and Jordyn Sturms has 142.
Olson also leads the team with 59 aces. Beach has 109 total blocks.
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Book News: Author Criticizes S.C. School Funding Cuts Over Gay-Themed Books
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
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- Alison Bechdel, author of the graphic memoir Fun Home, has responded to this week's vote by South Carolina's House of Representatives to cut a combined total of $70,000 in funding to the College of Charleston and the University of South Carolina Upstate because two books with gay and lesbian themes appeared on freshman student reading lists. Bechdel, whose book was assigned at the College of Charleston, said in a statement released to PW, "It's sad and absurd that the College of Charleston is facing a funding cut for teaching my book — a book which is after all about the toll that this sort of small-mindedness takes on people's lives." State Rep. Garry Smith condemned Fun Home, saying it "graphically shows lesbian acts" and "promot[es] the gay and lesbian lifestyle." Bechdel is well known for her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, where she first floated the idea that became known as "the Bechdel Test" — a standard for sexism in movies based on whether a film has two female characters who talk to each other about something other than men. The second book, titled Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio, was assigned at the University of South Carolina.
- More than 120 academic papers published by Springer and IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) turned out to be computer-generated nonsense, according to the journal Nature, which says the papers are being withdrawn. A software called SCIgen "randomly combines strings of words to produce fake computer-science papers," Nature reported, adding that "SCIgen was invented in 2005 by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge to prove that conferences would accept meaningless papers." Computer scientist Cyril Labbé of Joseph Fourier University has been tracking such fake works. Nature says: "Labbé does not know why the papers were submitted — or even if the authors were aware of them. Most of the conferences took place in China, and most of the fake papers have authors with Chinese affiliations. Labbé has emailed editors and authors named in many of the papers and related conferences but received scant replies; one editor said that he did not work as a program chair at a particular conference, even though he was named as doing so, and another author claimed his paper was submitted on purpose to test out a conference, but did not respond on follow-up."
- The New York Times' editorial board offered a sharp assessment of a book deal for the man behind the @GSElevator twitter account, which purported to relay conversations overheard in the elevator at Goldman Sachs: "Mr. Lefevre lives in Texas, never worked for Goldman, lied about it to reporters and presumably his publisher, Simon & Schuster, has just been exposed -- and is getting his book deal anyway."
- The Israeli Embassy in Tokyo donated 300 books on Anne Frank to Tokyo public libraries after hundreds of books on the Holocaust victim were vandalized. At a news conference Thursday, Ryo Tanaka, the mayor of Tokyo's Suginami ward, said, "Through this incident, I believe that people also learned about the horrid facts of history and of racism, and with this knowledge, I hope that our people were given an opportunity to reflect on the preciousness of peace."
- Colson Whitehead talks to The New York Times about writing spaces: "There's always a better apartment, that's the rule. I'm sedentary now, but I keep up the hunt by moving my desk around. Where's the mojo these days? What room, what corner? How about by the window, one story above the street? Pluses: taking in 'the life of the city'; nose-picking deterrent. Minus: overhearing 'Who's that sad man sitting there all day?' A hundred pages in the dining room, 100 pages in the living room while the kid's at school. It adds up. For the first half of a new book, maybe you want your back against the wall. Gunslinger style. Nothing can sneak up on you except your own bad sentences. Try it."


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Northern Rough Green Snake
Scientific name: Opheodrys aestivus aestivus (LINNAEUS 1766)
* Currently accepted name
* scientific names used through time
- Coluber aestivus – LINNAEUS 1766
- Leptophis aestivus – BAIRD & GIRARD 1853
- Leptophis majalis – BAIRD & GIRARD 1853
- Herpetodryas aestivus – DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854
- Cyclophis aestivus – COPE 1872
- Opheodrys aestivus – CONANT 1958
- Opheodrys aestivus aestivus – GROBMAN 1984
- Opheodrys aestivus majalis – GROBMAN 1984
- Opheodrys aestivus conanti – GROBMAN 1984
Description: Adult size is 22-32 inches (56-81 cm). The record is 45.4 inches (115.3 cm). A slender bright green snake with a cream to pale yellow belly. The belly color extends onto the chin and lips. (In death the green coloration changes to blue-gray). There are 17 dorsal scale rows at midbody and the scales are keeled. The pupils are round. Juvenile coloration is similar to adults, but not as brightly colored.
A. Top of the head
B. Underside of the head (chin and throat)
C. Front (face view) of the head
D. Side of the head
E. Keeled scales
F. Elongated scales below the tail (subcaudal scales) are typically divided
Range: In Florida, the Northern Rough Green Snake occurs in the northern half of the peninsula (Orange, Seminole, Volusia, and Flagler counties) north and west throughout the panhandle. Outside the state, it occurs north to southern New Jersey and west to eastern Texas, Nebraska, and Missouri.
Habitat: Found in mixed hardwood and bottomland forest as well as the hardwood hammocks. It is fairly abundant in maritime forest and dunes meadows of Atlantic coast barrier islands. Because of its arboreal behavior, it prefers densely leafed trees and shrubs, often at the edges of fields and around ponds.
Comments: HARMLESS (Non-Venomous). The Northern Rough Green Snake is arboreal and feeds primarily on insects found on the leaves and stems of trees and shrubs. Its bright green color provides excellent camouflage in vegetation. When disturbed it typically ceases all movement and will sometimes sway to mimic the movement of the surrounding wind-blown foliage. Eggs are laid in mid to late summer under objects in damp areas. The 3-12 hatchlings are 6-8.5 inches (15-21.5 cm) long.
Comparison with other species: There are no other (native) bright green snakes in Florida.


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Carlsbad Caverns National Park
We can tell you all kinds of amazing tidbits about Carlsbad Caverns, like how the limestone rock that encases the network of more than 110 caves is teeming with fossils of ocean plants and animals from a time that predates dinosaurs. Or how scientists studying extremophiles—
Valles Caldera National Preserve
The air is fresher here. The colors are more saturated. Eighty-nine thousand acres sweep out like an ocean tide from Redondo Peak. It's incredible that such a pure place, marked by a singular sense of untouched isolation, is just beyond the Jemez on the back road to Los Alamos. Those not content to sit quietly and take it all in can reserve a spot for hunting, fishing, horseback riding or hiking. In the winter, there's snowshoeing, skiing and sleigh rides. However you experience it, you'll feel like you're the only person in the whole place. (Laura Marrich)
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument
Hiking to the top of a mesa on one of the trails here reveals a staggering view, unlike anything else in this world. Humongous teepee-shaped rocks, formed by volcanoes spewing pumice and ash, tower over the valley like skyscrapers. Over the years, hard boulders in some spots protected the soft stuff underneath and, as the elements wore down the landscape, the gigantic cones emerged. Hike through shady, super-narrow gaps in the rock on a short trail, or trek up top to the longer path above. (Summer Olsson)
White Sands National Monument
Two hundred and seventy-five square miles of pure white gypsum. Emerging from the Tularosa Basin like some mythical land, it's the largest gypsum dune field in the world. Much of it belongs to the military, which runs White Sands Missile Range on its sloping hills, but 115 square miles of it is open to the public for beachy frolicking. (Christie Chisholm)
Carrizozo Malpais
The floor is lava! No, really, it is. Also known as the Valley of Fires, there are 125 square miles of hardened basaltic lava flows, which are visible from space. The rugged badlands resulted from an eruption at Little Black Peak at least a thousand years ago, which poured lava into the Tularosa Basin. This harsh field of dark, buckled and jagged rock reveals some of New Mexico's most fascinating facts, the most obvious being our tumultuous volcanic past. Much of the Land of Enchantment's scenery owes its birth to fire. Bursting forth from bare rock is an endless display of life. Mesquite, yucca, prickly pear cactus, sage and brilliantly flowering jimson weed provide food, water and shelter to a multitude of birds, deer, rabbits and reptiles—proving that a desert is so much more than a pile of sand. (Maren Tarro)
Otero Mesa
This sprawling grassland is a slice of the Chihuahuan Desert, southeast of Alamogordo and west of Carlsbad. One of the last and largest grasslands left in the United States, it's a petroglyph-covered ecological epicenter, home to more than 200 kinds of migratory songbirds and more than 1,000 native wildlife species, including bald eagles. It's also perched atop the Salt Basin Aquifer, thought to be the largest unspoiled water source in the state. Most importantly, it's mother-frakking gorgeous. (Christie Chisholm)
Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
Awesomely alien, chalk-white columns surge like monsoon waves in this desolate badlands. While there's not a lot of shade to go around, a majestic tumble of silt, shale, mudstone, coal, sandstone and fossils are an amateur geologist's dream. ("Bisti" is Navajo for "cranes," while "de-na-zin" succinctly translates to "a large area of shale hills.") The natural sculpture gardens, seated about 30 miles south of Farmington, is embedded with primitive campgrounds. (Laura Marrich)


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The poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote:
"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been!"
On this eighth anniversary of the terrible attack on September 11, 2001, we are still feeling the pain. It took just 102 minutes to kill 2,993 people, including the hijackers. And the husbands and wives, the fathers and mothers, the brothers and sisters, the children who revisit this tragedy year after year have to re-live the horror that befell their families when they first learned their loved ones weren't coming home.
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When each family contemplates its loss, it has to think of the life cut short and wonder what that person might have achieved if, somehow, he or she had lived. What might have been is indeed the essence of each individual tragedy. And, while we can sympathize with each family, we can't possibly understand its pain.
The degree of planning that went into this fiendish attack boggles the mind. How American Flight 11, bound from Boston to Los Angeles; United 93, flying from Newark to San Francisco; United 175 Boston to Los Angeles; and American 77, flying from Washington to Los Angeles, were assaulted by suicide hijackers simultaneously can't possibly be fathomed.
The World Trade Center was demolished. So was part of the Pentagon, and after passengers resisted courageously but unsuccessfully, Flight 93 crashed south of Pittsburgh.
To most New Yorkers, the event was surreal. The enormity of the tragedy didn't penetrate immediately. I recall one poignant moment: An African-American soldier had wrapped himself in a huge American flag. He was in full uniform, marching up lower Park Avenue alone, in traffic. "Why are you doing this?" I asked. His reply: "I just want people to know we are here. Ready to help them and protect them."
Yet it's what the bereaved families felt that day that affected us most of all – and still does. As I think about the loved ones lost and what, potentially, these family members could have achieved, they could identity with lines written by the great English poet, Thomas Gray, as he wandered through a country church yard 250 years ago.
He thought about what these poor country people buried under these headstones might have been if they had been born to a different life.
Somehow, I see his wistful words as an epitaph to the people we mourn on 9/11:
"Full many a gem of purest ray serene, the dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear/Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and wasted sweetness on the desert air."


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Paper Company
It's still a long way off, but preparations are being made for the release of Company in paperback in the US. Here's what I know: it'll probably be March 2007, published by Vintage, and sport this nifty cover.
Publishers almost always change book covers from hardcover to paperback; I don't know why. Maybe they hope that people with bad memories for titles will buy it twice. Jennifer Government was an exception, but only because I managed to convince them not to change it to this.
I think the donut cover was great, but I like this new one, too. It's got a nice, dehumanizing note to it, and avoids showing anybody's face (which I really hate). Also—although of course this doesn't influence my feelings in any way—my name is kick-ass big.
There's also talk of sending me on book tour in early April, although exactly where won't be decided for a while yet. (If you are particularly keen to bring me to your city, it is apparently quite effective to visit a local bookstore that hosts author events, and tell them you want me. That is, that you want them to host me. Then the bookstore tells my publisher they're interested in having me, and my publisher considers flying me in. This works for authors besides me, of course, so if you wanted you could probably arrange for all your favorite writers to be practically shipped to your doorstep. Although it helps a lot if they are not too famous.)
I wish I had news about publication outside the US—in Britain and Australia in particular—but… I don't. I really hope we can fix that.


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Blissed Out. That is the title of this post. It is exactly how I feel and I just can't stop thinking about the day without smiling. I feel Blissed Out.
A little Voyageur history: the first Voyageur I ran was in 2002. The course at that time had a 13 hour cut off. I ran with my dear friend Marie and it took us 14:30 to complete. Paul Hasse was our sweep and he took us under his wing, allowing us to finish along with Tom, Marie's husband checking on us at each closed aid station. It was epic. I ate 25 Advil. I've learned much since then. There was hail/thunder/lightening during the whole race..in the powerlines lightening was hitting the wires and we just kept trucking. Crazy rivers of red clay was sweeping us down those powerlines as we tried climbing up. It was nuts. I learned to persevere. Every Voyageur since has seemed easier because of the difficulty of this one!
The next 4 Voyageurs were all finished in 10:47, 10:26, 10:55, 10:43, all exciting and all with great memories of people that I ran with along the way. So many of these people no longer run ultra. I was the new kid on the block, the newbie. They all taught me so much. I miss them all greatly. A dozen plus of them continue to run ultra and I connected with each of them on Saturday. I enjoyed myself so very much.
It had been FIVE years since I had run Voyageur! I met many new people to the ultra scene - they are who will continue to allow our sport to grow. I enjoyed meeting so many young new people to the sport!
Packed up my food and ready for the road.
I had intended to drive up the morning of the race, head home after the race as I did the past two Voyageurs that I have entered, so I didn't look up any hotel accommodations or the like. As race day grew near I thought it would be nice to sleep a bit longer than the 1 AM wakeup I'd have from staying at home. There were no rooms available and sleeping in my car didn't feel like fun again so I posted in the UMTR Facebook page to see if anyone had space. Just my luck Jenny responded to me and told me I could stay with her. She had reserved a room and had acquired two more roomies, Robyn and Harriet. I hadn't yet met Jenny but had met Robyn and Harriet previously. I felt so fortunate to have a place to stay for Friday night! We had many laughs before we turned in for the night-I slept well. We made a great foursome.
Jenny and Harriet chose the early 5 AM start so left before I and Robyn did. We were going to start at 6 AM. I arrived to start with 15 minutes to spare so had time to say hello and drop off a bag for mile 25. I had quickly jotted down the cut off times for the return trip - miles 25 to 50 so I would know if I was in trouble. It's been a long time since I've had to worry about cut offs. I assumed I'd finish in 13 hours, maybe 13.5.
The day was warm-high 80s were forecast, the high turned out to be 96F-I imagine that was the temperature in the sun.
As I headed to the start line the RD told us that a Mud Run was taking place on Spirit Mountain. We'd come across them at about mile 23. We could take part in the Mud Run for extra credit (just kidding!)
I sided up to Jim . We chatted a bit and then we were off! I was so excited. I began in the near back of the pack and thought about the year I began in the front with Jeffrey. For some reason we wanted to try the race from the front. I remembered flying through the first few miles of the rocks and roots to the bridge. I remembered falling down and quickly getting back up for fear of being trampled. That was my PR on the course. 10:26. You just don't know unless you try. I remember Jeffrey stating to me after the race "you were running UP the hills, out of the Zoo".. yup. More memories with good friends.
I had snapshot memories of each Voyaguer, all of my friends, all of the years that I had been running the race, all day long. I am so fortunate to have these experiences.
My plan was to consume a gel every 30 minutes. It has been working for all of my races this year, which have all been successful finishes, so I was sticking to that plan. Again, they worked beautifully. Energy was spot on. I had two pieces of watermelon and one orange slice in addition to the gels. 8 ECAPS. Water. That's it.
I had fun running over the bridge across the river to the first aid station. I don't remember if there was a photographer there, I'll have to look up the photos. I have 5 other photos of me crossing that bridge and each one came back to memory as I was running at that moment. I remember one with Steve Quick , two with Jeffrey, one by myself and one with Scott Wagner. Good times.
I was running with a pack for the first time. I normally use handhelds but after running out of water during a few training runs this summer on the Superior Hiking Trail I decided I better use a pack during the Superior 100 and figured Voyageur would be a good place to practice. It is the Nathan 70 oz that I purchased from TCRC. Thank you, Kurt! I really like it. The weight of the water is dispersed over the back, so much so that it didn't bother me AT ALL. There are more pockets than I needed. I had them filled with 28 (yes) gels, keys, advil, ECAPS, a plastic garbage bag (rain), windbreaker, foot potion, toilet paper. I had plenty of space.
At the first aid station I filled up the bladder so that I could get a grasp on how much I was drinking. It had only been about 4 miles and I drank 25 or so oz. Seemed good. I filled up and moved out.
As I was running along a young guy named Drew introduced himself. This was his first ultra, having just run his first marathon at Grandmas! Wow! He was a swimmer in college and was now trying to find a new sport. I gave him a few tips and told him to enjoy every step. As we were chatting along we came up on Bill. He began to ask Drew if he knew who I was, my history, my bio, etc. Oh my gosh, Bill! Stop! He told Drew what races I had completed, he said I was a 'legend' and went on and on. My face turned beet red and I just didn't know how to react. I felt like a hot menopausal sausage running next to these two. He told Drew that I was one of the most accomplished women runners in the area as I had finished over 15 100 milers and have run over 100 plus races, winning McNaughton 100 a few times and on and on he went. I was stunned and didn't know what to say. I can't imagine that is how anyone else would describe me? I win when there is usually a high rate of attrition and just don't want to quit. I love it so much. I have too much fun to stop. I just enjoy running, being with my friends that run, filling up my soul with the experiences. Wow. I'm flattered .. thanks, Bill.
We ran through the grassy, hilly cross country ski sections. The course is much more traveled that what it was when I was a regular here. The grassy sections used to be filled with holes and longer grass, I recalled moving along slowly and having difficulty seeing the ground because of the long grass. Not anymore. The grass was short, the trails were more covered with dirt than grass. It was easier to run. I enjoyed myself completely.
The aid stations were closer in distance than they have been when I ran previously. At first I was perplexed by this as I was running out, I was almost irritated. Maybe just because I didn't look at the course maps prior so I didn't realize how many there would be. It seemed that they were too close and I would just eat up time on the clock. On the way back I was SO thankful and grateful that they were so close together. It was awesome to have ice stay as ice aid station to aid station. It was so great to hear "JULIE BERG! COME ON IN! YOU ARE HERE!" cheering, over and over. I really enjoyed it so much.
The volunteers are top notch. They couldn't wait to help out. Ice, water, heed, food, whatever anyone could use. They were there to help us. Thank you so much!
There were new sections along the course. With flooding two years ago and mudslides taking out the course, it has been changed in areas. One of the coolest changes was this hill we climbed, a ridge of sorts, with mud slide on either side. It was tall and steep. They had ropes to help us climb up the hill-it reminded me of McNaughton 100. It was very cool!
As I came into the power lines I was anxious. I couldn't wait to see what condition they were in. I was last on this section of the course last year during Eugene Curnow marathon when I fractured my ankle. I was so excited to be running and feeling healthy and strong.
Shane Olson took this photo. Climbing out of a power line hill.
The power lines were in pristine condition. They had dried out, were even DUSTY is places! I've never seen them in such good condition. They were still work-lots of quad busting climbing and descents-but wow, it could have been so much worse. I was just smiling, ear to ear.
All day long, smiling ear to ear. I was so happy to be here again. So happy to be running on two strong legs, reliving the memories of past Voyageurs and looking forward to making new memories today. I felt like I was shining.
As I came into the UMTR aid station Ryan helped pull my pack off my back and began to fill it. This is just perfection. To walk into an aid station, not having to ask for help, to be waited upon. I took full advantage of it! He filled it up and I was on my way. Kudos to the UMTR aid station!
Zach Pierce took this photo
Somewhere along the trail I ran into Wayne and Deb. I ran my first 50 miler at Ice Age in 2002 with Deb. We go back to my beginning of ulta. She goes back to 1991 or so for ultra! That's so awesome. I met Wayne in 2008. It was so great to run with, talk with, reminisce with, Wayne and Deb. We ran from mile 20 to 50 together on and off. Mostly on. It was fabulous.
As we came up to Spirit Mountain we saw the Mud Run taking place. Participants were running up SM, covered in mud, then climbing the cargo net, sliding out of a water filled air contraption, then up the hill again. It was interesting.
The run downhill into the Zoo is steady. As I ran I could feel my side ache come back on. I struggled with it at Savage 100 and Afton 50K earlier this summer. I believe I breathe too shallow as I run downhill, causing the side pain. Ugh. I actually have to hold my side, slow down and try to breath from my lower stomach as I run downhill. I need to practice this all over again. The things that don't come naturally after a hiatus.
I came into the halfway point - the Duluth Zoo - at 5:50 or so. The cutoff was 7 hours so I had plenty of time. I emptied all of my gels wraps, refilled my pack with gels, lubed up my feet, filled my bladder and moved on out. I kept on hearing how radiant my smile was. One man said 'your smile is as radiant as your pack'. I felt radiant. I felt like i was glowing inside. Oh, I was!
The 2 mile climb out of the zoo was brutal. We climbed and climbed and climbed and climbed some more. It was hot as hell and the sweat just poured off of me. This section of the course goes across Spirit Mountain so it is quite exposed. We then hit some pavement for a while. I climbed with Wayne and Deb. We had so much to talk about! We yakked and yakked and yakked. It was so awesome!
Sweet, Beautiful Maranda Lorraine took this photo
After the 2 mile climb we came to the next aid station. I refilled my water, pulled the Afton buff from my pack and placed ice within it to put in my running bra. It stayed there, frozen, until the next aid station. I couldn't believe it! I then refilled it at each aid station with ice.
Every once in a while I'd lose Wayne and Deb, I'd have to slow down to potty, or they would. I usually left the aid stations before them, I just don't like to spend much time there, then we'd reconnect in a few more minutes. It was a great experience, running with both of them.
I found myself thanking God for being able to be on this trail again, for having a healed ankle, for having a strong body..for being able to run 50 miles today without a thought about dropping or any real discomfort. I've had a weak body, a broken body and it has taught me to be grateful. To give thanks. To feel real joy. I find myself sitting here with tears in my eyes as I reflect upon my run. My adventure.
I found myself thinking about the past Voyageur's and the people that I ran them with. I thought often of Pierre Oster, who I miss so much. We ran SO many miles together over the years. My last Voyaguer, we were running together and I was slowing down near the end. He would NOT let me fall in back of him. He demanded I finish in front of him. I told him I was tired, I didn't think we would finish in 11 hours, I swore at him. He laughed at me. He told me he I was strong and I was going to finish in front of him in 11 hours. I didn't think we were EVER going to hit the bike path. We did. He put me in front of him and we finished in 10:55. It isn't the finish time that is important---it is the time spent with Pierre, the friendship, that is important. The memory.
The second pass through the power lines was more difficult. Hot! The sun was blazing, there is no shade. I climbed the best I could, then walked the section to the next hill. Deb and Wayne ran through the section. I walked, steadying myself, coming to terms with the fact than a 15 pound weight gain due to injury and a menopausal body is not the best body I've had to run in. I can adapt to the menopausal body but this 15 pounds is going to hit the road.
As I was running into Forbay I heard this cowbell ring ring ring ring. It was so loud! A woman was there cheering and ringing! I laughed, thanked her profusely and then saw Kelly and John. They filled up my bladder, made me laugh and sent me on my way. It was so good to see them! I left the aid station smiling and feeling like 100 bucks.
The final aid station. I was ahead of the cut off at all check points so wasn't worried about time. It looked as if I'd finish under 13 hours. I was so excited. Nothing hurt, no blisters, my side pains went away once I began to breath deeply and with my lower stomach. I was happy.
At Jay Cooke I had to go to the bathroom. I asked Joe if there was one nearby, he told me Maudie used one at the building on the hill and pointed to it. Ugh. I didn't feel like walking up there. I figured I'd pee off the trail somewhere.
Deb, Wayne and I ran across the swinging bridge, I again thought about all of the swinging bridge memories. Next year I'll add this year's memory to my bank. We took in the beautiful view, were cheered on by the campers and hikers. I told them I was going to pee, would catch up later.
I detoured to the left of the trail, peed and looked up. A Forest Ranger was standing on the trail, looking at me, as I pulled up my skirt. Oops. I'm sorry! I had to pee. You wouldn't have wanted me to pee in my skirt? Oh man. Am I in trouble? Are you going to write me a ticket? Shit. No, I didn't shit. I peed. Can I finish my race? I have like 4 more miles. I couldn't hold it that long.....
He wrote down my race number and I gave him my name. Oops. What bad luck!
As I caught Deb and Wayne I told them what happened. Wayne tried to divert the Forest Ranger from my path by asking him a question but the Forest Ranger didn't break stride. I may have a ticket arriving in the mail. Is it agains the law to pee in a state park?
We ran along, smelling the barn. I have become so slow on technical stuff. Wayne and Deb went on ahead as I scrambled over the rocks and roots. I took the time to reflect on my day. To acknowledge the pure joy that I was feeling. To think about the last few years of injury, how difficult they were. It's made me more thankful, more grateful, more real.
I hit the bike path and began to cry with joy and gratitude. I stopped to wipe my eyes, blow my nose, knowing what would be around the corner. The road to the finish. The school. Maybe some friends would still be around. I looked at my watch. 12:30. Wow. I did it.
As I turned the corner I ran as fast as I could to the finish. I heard Bill yell Julie Berg! A chorus of Julie!! Cheering, clapping, yelling, it's enough to make a person believe in oneself again! A huge hug from Maria. My friends, my runs, me. How good it is to be back.
Monday, July 28, 2014
3 comments:
- Sue said...
Congrats on a great race Julie! You truly were smiling ear to eat when I saw you.
- Robyn said...
I love this report. (And holy cow, did you seriously get busted for peeing by the trail? Yipes!) Congratulations on a great run, a great season, and joy that touches everyone you come in contact with.
- Julie B said...
Thanks, Sue! You, too-congratulations. It was so great to see you, Dallas and Matt running so strongly along the path. Yes, I am still smiling!!
Robyn, Thanks. I have not yet received a ticket in the mail. Maybe he was just joshin' me. I hope so!! Congrats on your race, too. Awesome!!
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text: Pubdate: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 Source: El Paso Times (TX) Copyright: 2012 El Paso Times Contact: http://www.elpasotimes.com/townhall/ci_14227323 Website: http://www.elpasotimes.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/829 Author: Diana Washington Valdez REPORT: ATF GUN PART OF PLAN TO KILL JUAREZ POLICE CHIEF JULIAN LEYZAOLA A weapon tied to "Operation Fast and Furious" was seized in Tijuana in connection with a drug cartel's conspiracy to kill the police chief of Tijuana, Baja California, who later became the Juarez police chief, according to a U.S. government report. The firearm was found Feb. 25, 2010, during an arrest of a criminal cell associated with Teodoro "El Teo" Garcia Simental and Raydel "El Muletas" Lopez Uriarte, allies of the Sinaloa cartel. Tijuana police said they arrested four suspects in March 2010 in connection with a failed attempt to take out Julian Leyzaola, and that the suspects allegedly confessed to conspiring to assassinate the police chief on orders from Tijuana cartel leaders. The suspects had an arsenal of weapons and ammunition, and one of the firearms traced back to the operation that the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives (ATF) was monitoring from its field office in Phoenix. Adrian Sanchez, spokesman for Leyzaola, said Leyzaola was unavailable for comment. Leyzaola, a retired Mexican army officer, reportedly survived several attempts on his life while trying to bring order to Tijuana, a city torn apart by turf battles following the arrests and deaths of Arellano Felix cartel leaders. A native of Sinaloa, Culiacan, Leyzaola became the Juarez police chief in March 2011, where brutal battles by competing cartels have claimed more than 10,000 lives. On July 31, the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a 2,359-page report titled "Fast and Furious: The Anatomy of a Failed Operation," based on numerous interviews from hearings, and reviews of more than 10,000 pages of documents. U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa and U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley led the investigation into the ATF's operation that ended abruptly after Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered in December 2010, and two weapons traced to Fast and Furious were found near Terry's body in the Arizona desert. Officials said bandits preying on immigrant and drug smugglers fired on Terry, who first shot at the bandits with only bean bags. The Department of Justice Office of Inspector General plans to issue a separate report within weeks on Fast and Furious. In addition to Terry and Leyzaola, Fast and Furious-traced weapons also were connected to a drug cartel cell in Chihuahua state that kidnapped and murdered the brother of ex-Chihuahua Attorney General Patricia Gonzalez, as well as to crime scenes in Juarez and other places in Mexico. Under the ATF operation, about 2,000 firearms purchased at U.S. stores by straw buyers were allowed to walk across the border. The ATF's goal was to dismantle an arms-trafficking network by identifying and arresting its leaders. Hundreds of the operation-monitored firearms are unaccounted for, and legislative investigators speculate that more people could be killed on either side of the border with these weapons. According to the U.S. joint report, at one point the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration and ATF were investigating some of the same targets that the ATF was after, but failed to coordinate their efforts so that the ATF could end Fast and Furious before Terry and others were killed. "We know the DEA was actively giving information to the ATF, but the ATF dropped the ball," Grassley and Issa said in a statement. The report said that "Shortly after the (ATF's) case began, in December 2009, DEA supplied ATF with extensive information on what would become the ATF's prime target. At that point, ATF should have shut Fast and Furious down, but it failed to recognize that significance of the information the DEA had shared." A year before Terry was killed, the information the DEA had was sufficient to make arrests of the same targets, the report said. "Both the FBI and DEA had key information," the report said. A key arms-trafficker that the ATF was after was detained three times by law enforcement, and was set free each time, reportedly after promising different U.S. federal agents that he would provide them with useful intelligence about the drug cartels. The same target admitted to U.S. law enforcement later that he was trying to start his own drug-trafficking organization. The U.S. joint report also said that DEA had provided the ATF with information on Dec. 21, 2009, about a shipment of 32 weapons that suspects obtained in Arizona and planned to transport to El Paso and possibly on to Juarez. "(U.S. law enforcement) Group VII could have at least tried to intercept the firearms transfer through El Paso, as well as connect the trafficking with evidence of intent from the DEA wire," the report said. "Yet Group VII apparently failed to act on these more specific (wiretap) intercepts." Last month, "Proceso," Mexico's national investigative magazine, reported that a Mexican lawyer and law experts in the United States are preparing a lawsuit against the ATF over Fast and Furious. Such a lawsuit has not been filed yet. The U.S. Attorney General's Office said it does not plan to disclose any more documents related to the ATF's operation because doing so might jeopardize ongoing investigations. Operation Fast and Furious came into public view after ATF whistleblowers disclosed details about the gunwalking operation. - --- MAP posted-by: Matt


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Boozer leads Bulls past Nets 92-90
Carlos Boozer had 29 points and 18 rebounds and Nate Robinson made the go-ahead basket with 22 seconds left as the Chicago Bulls overcame a 16-point deficit to beat the Brooklyn Nets 92-90 on Thursday.
Carlos Boozer had 29 points and 18 rebounds and Nate Robinson made the go-ahead basket with 22 seconds left as the Chicago Bulls overcame a 16-point deficit to beat the Brooklyn Nets 92-90 on Thursday.
Jimmy Butler had 16 points and 10 rebounds, Luol Deng scored 18 points, and Robinson finished with 12 as the Bulls shook off the absences of five key players to keep the Indiana Pacers from clinching the NBA Central Division title that Chicago has won the last two years.
Deron Williams had 30 points and 10 assists for the Nets, who had a disappointing return home from an eight-game road trip.
Brook Lopez finished with 28 points but had a turnover and two misses in the final minute, including a corner jumper that went in and out that would have forced overtime.
Chicago pulled into a tie for fifth place with Atlanta in the NBA Eastern Conference and climbed within 11/2 games of the Nets for the No. 4 seed in the NBA playoffs and home-court advantage in the first round.
And the Bulls did it without Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah, Taj Gibson, Richard Hamilton and Marco Belinelli, all out with injuries.
The Denver Nuggets edged past the Dallas Mavericks 95-94 for their 19th straight home win, but they may have lost a vital member of their offense heading into the playoffs.
Italian star Danilo Gallinari's left knee buckled inward as he drove to the basket for a layup in the first half. He grabbed his knee and then sat down on the sideline, writhing in pain, before leaving the court in a wheelchair. He was scheduled to have an MRI on Friday.
Gallinari is the Nuggets' second-leading scorer at 16.3 points per game. Their top scorer, Ty Lawson (16.7) is out indefinitely with a tear in his bruised right heel.
Corey Brewer scored 23 points and got a hand on Anthony Morrow's last-second shot to preserve the Nuggets' win.
Brandan Wright scored 16 points to lead Dallas.
Russell Westbrook scored 27 points and Kevin Durant had 25 as the Oklahoma City Thunder seized control of the race for home-court advantage in the Western Conference playoffs with a 100-88 win over the West-leading San Antonio Spurs.
Derek Fisher hit a season-high five 3-pointers and had 17 points, his most since joining the Thunder in late February, while fueling a big first-half run that put Oklahoma City ahead to stay.
Oklahoma City still trails San Antonio by a half-game in the standings, but pulled even in the loss column and would control the tiebreaker if both teams won the rest of their games because of a better record against Western Conference opponents.
Kawhi Leonard and Tim Duncan each scored 24 points for the Spurs. Tony Parker had just two points in 25 minutes and did not play in the final 7 minutes with the game on the line.


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My genealogies project started in 2004 really only for the Aleonar, Barcelo and Alegado families. But as I read the microfilms at the Mormon Family History Center in Lahug, I realized it would be such a waste not to include other families, something that might interest or even benefit the entire town. So I also made notes of as many individuals and families as I could. As of this writing, I have data for 235 families, of course in various stages of completion, many of them containing just three individuals – parents and a child.
But some unkindly people whose sole achievement in life can be summarized on just being unkind as a lifetime undertaking, has been calling to question my project, insinuating that I am making much money out of this. While it's true some people of their opposite kind had handed contributions (more like alms) to me, these were unsolicited and came from their own goodness. Perhaps these people should ask individuals with whom I have collaborated with their family trees if I ever did what things wormed their way to their suggestible minds.
Even if I have been jobless (both by choice and I have no choice) the past almost 7 years, and have to stretch what's left of my savings together with the fund from these kind souls, I simply gave out and even volunteered information I have gathered to Carcaranons who asked for, or who I felt needed, my data. They can witness to my never asking for anything material in return. My only requisite, however, is they also share what they know of their own family trees, so the project is updated –what I call a quid-pro-quo arrangement. That's because I always look on this as a town project, I'm just the secretary/researcher.
My Carcar families files are stored in the house desktop owned by my sister in Cebu City, to which I return regularly every four or five days to encode my notes therein to update the files.
Of course, without the free board from my family (including cousin Mario Aleonar's children in Carcar), and when I am in Carcar, from the convento, I would have gotten so emaciated to have strength to continue this lifetime passion. When in Carcar, my over-riding concerns are to put down as much data from the books as I possibly can, and, shamelessly, where to buy my cheapest meal. Many times, childhood friend and neighbor Sesinio (Jr) and Nieves Villaluz and family, elementary classmate Boboy Abellana and family and Jun and Gigi Tupas, have asked me to stay for lunch or supper. Vivisima Alesna, my father's high school classmate, never fails to provide refreshments (and often lunch or dinner) when I come to consult her — for which reason I try not to do that too often even if, were I asked, she would be the first person I'd go to to ask about Carcar. Many are the times I've hitched a ride going back to Cebu City from Jun and Gigi, too. A lifestyle hardly in keeping to one making mounds of dough from solicitations for the project.
I feel like a Buddhist monk.
Anyway, from the kindest souls:
Bishop Jose R. Manguiran (Dipolog)
– 4,000 (2006, 2008, 2011)
Yap families (AUS and PHI)
– 31,600 (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 equivalent)
Adolfo C. Tigley (CAN)
– 1,500 (2007)
Roselito de los Reyes (USA)
– Hewlett-Packard scanner (CanoScan LIDE 50)
– IBM laptop (R32 ThinkPad 6GB HDD Windows 98)
Leo V. Alegado (USA)
– external hard drive (Verbatim USB120, 120G)
Sonia Aleonar-Lao (Mandaue City)
– 500
Alfredo S. Mancao III (Cebu City)
– 10 GB internal hard disk drive and Windows XP for the ThinkPad and technical consultations (2010-11).
Apple Campañon Botass (MA, USA) 2012
– 4128
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"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth." – Ernest Hemingway


text: I will not camouflage the process in which I discovered Cory Doctorow's books. Unfortunately, it was nothing so romantic as stealing into a used book shop and thumbing through bins of old books only to discover an interesting cover. eReader's initial pre-App Store, Jailbreak-only release got me browsing its online shelves for good science fiction in late 2007 and early 2008 – that is where I discovered Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.


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Over 50 million Apple iPods, and lots of competing digital music players, have been sold by now — as well as over a billion songs and tens of millions of videos, since legal media sales took off a few years ago.
But many folks — even some who own iPods and other players — are still confused over how legal digital music works. So here's a quick-and-dirty guide to the digital music world, in question-and-answer form. We've included the questions we are asked most frequently, plus a few other topics.
What's the difference between the Apple iPod and all the other portable music players? Some of them seem to have more features.
The main difference is that Apple has created an entire end-to-end digital media system around the iPod, and it works. In our view, and those of most other reviewers, the combination of the iPod's design, the iTunes music software, and the iTunes Music Store, provides a superior experience to buying a player separately, using software from Microsoft, and buying music from an unaffiliated store.
As a result, the iPod, and the iTunes store, dominate the legal music world, with shares of more than 70% of the market, depending on how you measure it.
Still, players from companies like iRiver and Creative are attractive and have some features the iPod lacks, such as built-in FM radios. And music services from RealNetworks, Yahoo, Napster and others offer an interesting alternative to iTunes.
If I buy an iPod, must I buy music from Apple's iTunes store? Conversely, can I buy music from Apple, and play it, if I don't have an iPod?
No, and yes. You don't have to buy a single song from Apple. You can fill an iPod entirely with music you convert from your own CDs, or which you get from unauthorized download services, or from friends. The latter two sources are probably illegal, but they are technically easy to use. In fact, most of the song files on most of the world's iPods weren't purchased from Apple, or anyone else. That's because the iPod, and iTunes, can play back files in the open MP3 format, and in other non-copy-protected formats.
Conversely, you can set up an account with the iTunes Music Store and buy as many songs, videos, and other material as you like, without owning an iPod. You would simply play back your purchased media on Windows or Macintosh computers. You can play any one song on as many as five different computers. All you need is the free iTunes software, which can be downloaded from Apple's Web site in either a Windows or Mac version.
Will songs purchased from iTunes play back on non-iPod portable players? Will songs purchased from competing services play back on iPods?
No, and no — unless you use a workaround (see next answer). At the insistence of the record labels, all songs from major label catalogs that are sold as online downloads must be encrypted to limit copying. There are two encryption formats. One is owned by Apple, and the other is owned by Microsoft. The iTunes Store uses the Apple encryption format, and most other legal download services use the Microsoft format.
Any player from any company can theoretically be enabled to use either format, but Apple refuses to license its encryption format to any competing maker of players. And Apple also refuses to incorporate the Microsoft format on iPods. The result is that songs bought from iTunes only work on iPods, while songs bought from most other legal services only work on non-iPod players.
There is one exception. A service called eMusic sells its songs in the open MP3 format, without encryption or copy-protection. Thus, these songs will play on iPods and all other portable music players. But eMusic doesn't carry the catalogs of the major labels. It has a much smaller selection than iTunes does.
Is there any way around this? Can I legally modify or convert encrypted songs so they will work on portable players for which they weren't intended?
Yes, but the method is clumsy, especially if you try to apply it to a large number of converted songs.
To convert songs purchased from iTunes to an open format that will play on, say, a Creative player, or in Windows Media Player software, you first must burn the songs to CD. Then, using iTunes or other music software, you re-import them from CD, turning them into open MP3 files that can be played on any player. This works fine, but it has two big downsides.
First, it can take a long time to convert, say, 500 songs this way. Second, the process strips off all the identifying data from the song files, and home-burned CDs typically aren't recognized by the automatic song-recognition process used by iTunes and other software. So you'll have to manually re-enter info like artist, album and song title.
Independent site iLounge has a free manual on getting the most from your iPod.
This process works the other way as well, with a big "if." You can convert Microsoft-encrypted songs this same way, so they become MP3 files that can be played on an iPod. But the catch is that songs offered by the leading Microsoft-based services often can't be burned to CDs. (See next answer.)
There is some software that claims to efficiently strip the encryption from copy-protected song files, turning them into MP3 files. But these programs are almost certainly illegal under recent copyright laws, and Apple and other companies constantly change the innards of their encryption formats to foil the programs.
What is the difference between Apple's iTunes store, and competing services like Rhapsody and Napster 2.0? Does one carry more music?
Apple's iTunes store claims to have more than three million songs licensed from the major labels and from independents. Rhapsody and Napster claim more than two million songs, and Yahoo Music Unlimited claims more than one million. So, iTunes has by far the most music. In addition, iTunes has a strong selection of videos, including 150 television series, plus tens of thousands of audio books and podcasts. Its competitors are much weaker in these non-music categories. Most have nothing at all besides music.
The main difference lies in how the services work. iTunes works like a physical record store: you buy songs or albums, paying separately for each. Songs are 99 cents each, albums are usually $9.99, and videos are typically $1.99. Apple is reportedly negotiating to sell full-length movies as well.
Rhapsody, Napster and Yahoo work on a subscription model: you pay a monthly fee, and can download an unlimited number of songs. For Rhapsody and Napster, the fee is $10 a month if you want only to store and play music on a computer, or $15 a month if you also want to play your music on a portable player. Yahoo charges less — $6.99 a month for a PC-only plan and $11.99 a month for a portable plan.
The upside of Apple's approach is that, once you buy a song, you own it. It never expires. You can burn it to CD an unlimited number of times, and transfer it to an unlimited number of iPods. The downside is that, to fill an iPod with, say, 5,000 purchased songs, you'd have to spend $5,000.
With the subscription plans, you can fill a portable player for just a monthly fee. But there's a huge downside: you don't own the music, you merely rent it. If you stop making your monthly payments, all the songs you downloaded over the years will suddenly expire and become inert and unplayable on your computer and on your portable player. Also, rental songs usually can't be burned to CD and can only be copied to a limited number of portable players. In order to burn the tunes to CD, you generally must first buy them for an individual price, just as you do on iTunes.
How do I use multiple iPods with one iTunes library on my PC, if I want different music on each iPod?
In the Preferences section of iTunes, you can set up each iPod so it synchronizes only with particular playlists, not your whole library. Just set up a playlist for each iPod, and set it up to sync only with that playlist.
Or, you can set up each iPod so it doesn't automatically synchronize with iTunes at all, and simply works in manual mode. Then, you can manually drag different songs into each iPod.
Can I copy the songs on my iPod to my second or third computer?
At the insistence of the record labels, Apple was forced to cripple the iPod so it can't copy music to a computer, out of the box. Copying only works from a computer to an iPod, not the other way. But there are many third-party utility programs, for both Windows and Mac, that allow copying from an iPod to a computer. One example is PodUtil, which has versions for both Mac and Windows. It's at: www.kennettnet.co.uk/software/podutil.php.
One thing to bear in mind: you can only play any song you buy from iTunes on up to five computers, Windows or Mac. Songs in the open MP3 format can be played on an unlimited number of computers.
Can I share the music in my iTunes software with others?
Yes, within limits. You can set up iTunes on your Windows PC or Mac so that others on your computer network (but not over the Internet) can stream, or listen to, your songs, without actually moving the song file to their computer. The receiving computer must have iTunes installed, and both machines must be enabled for sharing in the Sharing section of the iTunes Preferences panel.
What can I do with an iPod, other than play music on it?
Current iPods can play videos, like TV shows. And most iPods can play audio books and podcasts. Recent models also can play back your photos as slide shows, accompanied by music and fancy transitions. And, with a $20 cable, the iPod can display videos and photos on a TV set.
But there's a lot of other stuff buried in an iPod. The iPod can display, but not edit, your calendar and contacts and notes, synchronized from your computer. This works with Microsoft Outlook on Windows and with the Address Book and Calendar programs that come with every Mac. Current iPods also have a built-in stop watch and multi-city clock.
You can also use your iPod as a portable hard disk. It can be set up to appear as a regular hard disk on both Windows and Macintosh computers. Any space on the iPod that isn't occupied by your music, videos, photos and so forth can be used to store any type of file you want, for backup, or for transfer among computers. You just have to plug your iPod into your computer, go to the iPod preferences tab, and check "Enable Disk Use."
The iPod also has some built-in games. My favorite, Music Quiz, tests your knowledge of your own music. It plays a short clip of a randomly selected song from your collection, then displays five multiple-choice song titles. Your task is to select the right title in the shortest possible time, while a clock counts down the points you can win. It's addictive.
There's a ton more to know about digital music, and specifically, iPods. Apple has a series of iPod and iTunes tutorials at http://www.apple.com/support/ipod101/. The independent Web site iLounge (ilounge.com) is packed with tips and tutorials and even offers a free, downloadable 194-page book about the iPod, at: http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/download-now-the-free-ipod-book-20.
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I'm a complete beginner to Java Programming. I'm having difficulties trying to crack the following piece of code.
What I want the code to do is get the values from a text file which just has 1 number on each line like so :
The problem with the code I made is it is not storing each number in a separate index (eg. results[0] = 20, results [1]= 10 and so on..) . So when I execute the following code "System.out.println( result[0]);", it shows me all the numbers in the file instead of just the first number (eg. 20).
Can anyone help me with a solution?/******* Put Text File into Array************/ try { FileReader in = new FileReader ("highscores.txt"); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new BufferedReader(in)); String line; while ((line = br.readLine()) !=null) { String[] result = line.split("\r\n"); for (int x=0; x<result.length; x++) { System.out.println( result[x]); } } }//try catch (Exception e) { System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage()); //Catch exception if any and show error message }


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By DAVID GREEN
There's only one county among Ohio's 88 that doesn't have an active humane society. If Sondra Metts has her way, that last county—Fulton—will soon join in with the others.
The Fulton County Humane Society existed in the past, Metts said, but the organization folded in the 1990s. In its previous existence, it served primarily as a home for needy cats. She wants the reorganized group to broaden its focus and include dogs and other animals.
"As much as we love cats, we want to open it up to dogs and even livestock," said Metts, a rural Fayette resident.
She knows of someone who has rescued several horses in need of care.
There's one other change that Metts considers essential for a new group to succeed: It must be a grassroots effort that involves citizens from throughout the county.
A board of directors will oversee the major efforts of the agency, but auxiliary boards will serve as the driving force behind various activities, including fund raising. She hopes to attract a couple dozen people to provide a more community-oriented approach.
"We want to make sure we can do what the community wants," Metts said, and that will likely vary from town to town.
She's spoken with Humane Society directors from several other chapters and they all convinced her of the importance of an auxiliary board. That board will be further broken down into committees.
Anyone interested in joining the group should be able to attend a monthly meeting and have a sincere interest in developing programs for the agency. That, Metts said, along with a love of animals.
It will be up to the auxiliary group to decide what projects it would like to tackle.
Metts said she and board members have looked at a few possible locations for a shelter and hope to begin narrowing the search.
Her big fantasy, she said, would be to replicate the effort in Williams County where an unused building was donated and ample financial donations paid for renovation and the initial operation of the agency.
She and others have worked toward the organization of a new Humane Society over the past six months. Metts believes the time is past for Fulton residents to rely on assistance from surrounding communities.
"Every other county does it so I don't think it's undoable," she said.
Fulton County dog warden Pete Skeldon handled about 1,200 dogs in the past year, Metts said, and some neighboring Humane Society organizations tally a total of about 2,400 various animals annually.
Metts said Skeldon strongly endorses a Humane Society group and county sheriff Darrell Merillat also lends support.
The group has obtained 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status for donations and Metts says not to let the words "Fulton County" in the title mislead you. It's not a county agency and all Humane Societies operate independently. The operation will depend entirely on donations and fund-raisers.
The next step is to create the auxiliary board.
"That's where we want to put our growth," Metts said. "That group will direct energy back into each community."
• For more information, write to Fulton County Humane Society, PO Box 532, Archbold, OH 43502, or send e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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To create a public key pair, run ssh-keygen-g3 on
$ ssh-keygen-g3 Generating 2048-bit dsa key pair 9 oOo.oOo.oOo Key generated. 2048-bit dsa, ClientUser@Client, Thu Jan 2 2014 12:09:46 +0200 Passphrase : Again : Private key saved to /home/ClientUser/.ssh2/id_dsa_2048_a Public key saved to /home/ClientUser/.ssh2/id_dsa_2048_a.pub
When run without options, ssh-keygen-g3 asks for a passphrase for the new key. Enter a sufficiently long (20 characters or so) sequence of any characters (spaces are OK).
In FIPS mode, due to a FIPS regulation which forbids exporting unencrypted private keys out of the FIPS module, it is not possible to generate user keys without a passphrase.
The new authentication key pair consists of two separate files. One of the keys is your private key which must never be made available to anyone but yourself. The private key can only be used together with the passphrase.
On Unix, the key pair is by default stored in your
$HOME/.ssh2 directory (created by ssh-keygen-g3 if
it does not exist previously). On Windows, the key pair is by default stored
in your
%APPDATA%\SSH\UserKeys directory.
In the example above, the private key file is
The public key file is
id_dsa_2048_a.pub, and it can be
distributed to other computers.
By default, ssh-keygen-g3 creates a 2048-bit DSA
key pair. RSA keys can be generated by specifying the
option with ssh-keygen-g3. Key length can be specified
with the
-b option. For automated jobs, the key can be
generated without a passphrase with the
-P option, for example:
$ ssh-keygen-g3 -t rsa -b 1536 -P
For more information on the ssh-keygen-g3 options, see ssh-keygen-g3(1).


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Does your CPU support AES extensions? Does your Intel multicore CPU include support for FMA extensions using YMM state? Do all the Intel multicore CPUs that have to execute your software support Intel hardware-assisted virtualization? Is Intel Hyper-Threading enabled? The newest version of CoreInfo provides a detailed summary of all the instructions sets that the CPUs found on the system support. Previous versions of CoreInfo were very useful to discover the NUMA (short for Non-Uniform Memory Access) nodes, groups, sockets, and all the cache levels. However, the newest version provides a lot of extra information compared to the previous versions, and therefore, this simple Windows command-line utility becomes more useful for developers.
I usually find CoreInfo really useful to gather information about the underlying hardware before running benchmarks and performance tests for parallelized algorithms in computers with NUMA architectures. The additional information added in the latest versions provides most of the things you need to know about the hardware in which you are running parallelized code. Because it's a simple command-line utility, you can easily run it with the desired parameter to gather the necessary information and save the results in a text file.
By default, when you run the CoreInfo executable file (coreinfo.exe) in the command-line on any modern Windows version, the utility will run with the new
-f option enabled. This option dumps information about all the instruction sets supported by each CPU that provides one or more hardware threads. However, you can specify the options you want to reduce the information about. It is not necessary to install CoreInfo, and therefore, you can start using it by just running the executable file and accepting the license. You just need to accept the license once.
The following lines provide an example of the results of running
CoreInfo -f in an old Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 mobile CPU. The first column displays the instruction set short name, the second column shows an asterisk (*) to indicate that the CPU supports that instruction set, and the third column provides a clear description for the instruction set. Of course, many modern Intel CPUs will display asterisks on most of the rows. Thus, I've chosen an old dual-core mobile CPU for the example.
Coreinfo v3.03 - Dump information on system CPU and memory topology Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10, GenuineIntel HTT - Hyperthreading enabled HYPERVISOR - Hypervisor is present VMX * Supports Intel hardware-assisted virtualization SVM - Supports AMD hardware-assisted virtualization EM64T * Supports 64-bit mode SMX * Supports Intel trusted execution SKINIT - Supports AMD SKINIT EIST * Supports Enhanced Intel Speedstep NX * Supports no-execute page protection PAGE1GB - Supports 1 GB large pages PAE * Supports > 32-bit physical addresses PAT * Supports Page Attribute Table PSE * Supports 4 MB pages PSE36 * Supports > 32-bit address 4 MB pages PGE * Supports global bit in page tables SS * Supports bus snooping for cache operations VME * Supports Virtual-8086 mode FPU * Implements i387 floating point instructions MMX * Supports MMX instruction set MMXEXT - Implements AMD MMX extensions 3DNOW - Supports 3DNow! instructions 3DNOWEXT - Supports 3DNow! extension instructions SSE * Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions SSE2 * Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 SSE3 * Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 SSSE3 * Supports Supplemental SIMD Extensions 3 SSE4.1 * Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.1 SSE4.2 - Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2 AES - Supports AES extensions AVX - Supports AVX intruction extensions FMA - Supports FMA extensions using YMM state MSR * Implements RDMSR/WRMSR instructions MTTR * Supports Memory Type Range Registers XSAVE * Supports XSAVE/XRSTOR instructions OSXSAVE * Supports XSETBV/XGETBV instructions CMOV * Supports CMOVcc instruction CLFSH * Supports CLFLUSH instruction CX8 * Supports compare and exchange 8-byte instructions CX16 * Supprots CMPXCHG16B instruction DCA - Supports prefetch from memory-mapped device F16C - Supports half-precision instruction FXSR * Supports FXSAVE/FXSTOR instructions FFXSR - Supports optimized FXSAVE/FSRSTOR instruction MONITOR * Supports MONITOR and MWAIT isntructions MOVBE - Supports MOVBE instruction PCLULDQ - Supports PCLMULDQ instruction POPCNT - Supports POPCNT instruction SEP * Supports fast system call instructions DE * Supports I/O breakpoints including CR4.DE DTES64 * Can write history of 64-bit branch addresses DS * Implements memory-resident debug buffer DS-CPL * Supports Debug Store feature with CPL PCID - Supports PCIDs and settable CR4.PCIDE PDCM * Supports Performance Capabilities MSR RDTSCP - Supports RDTSCP instruction TSC * Supports RDTSC instruction TSC-DEADLINE - Local APIC supports one-shot deadline timer TSC-INVARIANT - TSC runs at constant rate xTPR * Supports disabling task priority messages ACPI * Implements MSR for power management TM * Implements thermal monitor circuitry TM2 * Implements Thermal Monitor 2 control APIC * Implements software-accessible local APIC x2APIC - Supports x2APIC CNXT-ID - L1 data cache mode adaptive or BIOS MCE * Supports Machine Check, INT18 and CR4.MCE MCA * Implements Machine Check Architecture PBE * Supports use of FERR#/PBE# pin PSN - Implements 96-bit processor serial number
For example, the following line means that the CPU doesn't support Intel Hyper-Threading because the second column displays a dash (-):
HTT - Hyperthreading enabled
The following line means that the CPU supports Intel SSE4.1 because the second column displays an asterisk (*):
SSE4.1 * Supports Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.1
The information is very useful when you use libraries or your own parallelized code with many optimizations that take different SIMD instruction sets running in multiple cores. When you don't remember whether a CPU supports certain instructions, it is very useful to run the newest CoreInfo version. You don't need to check the CPU specifications or run additional utilities that might require installations.
If you're interested in the additional information that CoreInfo provides about multicore architectures and NUMA, you can read the post I wrote when Mark Russinovich, a member of Windows Sysinternals team, made Coreinfo 2.0 available for download.
You can download the latest version of CoreInfo here.


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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) For everybody who wondered how Texas A&M would do in the SEC, Johnny Football and the Aggies had an emphatic answer.
Led by their Heisman Trophy-winning freshman quarterback, the 10th-ranked Aggies won 11 games, and never even trailed while winning the last six. They capped their SEC debut season with a 41-13 Cotton Bowl victory over No. 12 Oklahoma, a former Big 12 rival that had dominated them so often.
``It's momentum for everything. It's momentum for next year and all the people that are returning,'' Johnny Manziel said. ``We went to the Cotton Bowl this year. A BCS bowl and national championship is the goal next year.
``For people to see what we're in the SEC and what we did this year and with the people that we have coming back it's a big exclamation point,'' he said.
Four weeks after becoming the first freshman to win college football's highest individual award, Manziel was finally back on the field. He responded with a Heisman-worthy performance.
Manziel accounted for four touchdowns and had a Cotton Bowl-record 516 total yards, including an FBS bowl record for quarterbacks with his 229 yards rushing on 17 carries. The redshirt freshman who wasn't named the Aggies starter until two weeks before the season opener finished with 5,116 total yards, the most for a Heisman winner and the first SEC player over 5,000.
The Aggies (11-2), barely a .500 team in their final Big 12 season, were the first SEC team to gain more than 7,000 yards.
Their only losses were by a combined eight points to Florida and LSU, current Top 10 teams. The season-ending winning streak included a win at SEC champion Alabama, which plays Monday night for the league's seventh consecutive national title.
``We never doubted ourselves. Everybody acts like I didn't know what we were getting into when I took the job. We were already in the SEC,'' first year Aggies coach Kevin Sumlin said. ``We weren't coming in the league just trying to play games.''
Texas A&M had lost in its previous six Cotton Bowl appearances, and was 0-4 at Cowboys Stadium.
``I think with the exposure that we've had, answering some questions about being able to not only compete, but win against the co-champion of the Big 12, for us to come out and play the way we did, you've got to figure out what kind of statement that makes,'' Sumlin said.
Oklahoma (10-3) had won 11 of the previous 13 games in the series, including a 77-0 victory in 2003 that is the worst loss in Aggies history.
It is only the Aggies' fourth 11-win season, and the first since 1998 when they won their only Big 12 title. That was the only time in their 16 Big 12 seasons that they won more than nine games and they left that league with a 7-6 record only after beating Northwestern in a bowl game.
``It's been a rough and long ride, but we ended it with a success,'' senior cornerback Dustin Harris said.
The Aggies have scored first in 18 consecutive games, and went ahead to stay in the Cotton Bowl when Manziel tiptoed the sideline on a 23-yard touchdown run to end the game's opening drive. He had already had a 24-yard run.
His other TD run was a 5-yard bootleg when he got into the end zone untouched, two plays after his impressive fake throw before a pitch to a receiver who then threw a 20-yard pass.
Among the other highlights for Manziel was a 44-yard run when he started left, then reversed and ran parallel to the line of scrimmage before finding a seam and not getting tackled until the Oklahoma 11.
Manziel completed 22 of 34 passes for 287 yards with two touchdowns, one a short pass to Ryan Swope on fourth-and-5 that became a 33-yard score and the other hitting Uzoma Nwachukwu in stride for a 34-yard pass.
There was an interception, but that pass deflected off the hands of receiver Malcome Kennedy and was picked off in the end zone.
Texas A&M had 633 total yards in the Cotton Bowl even without offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury, who was hired last month as Texas Tech's new coach.
And there was obviously no Heisman hangover for Manziel, the 20-year-old who did plenty in the aftermath of winning the award. He made late-night show appearances with David Letterman and Jay Leno, played golf with members of the Jonas Brothers and was seen in a suite at a Dallas Cowboys game and sitting courtside at a Dallas Mavericks game.
```They weren't distractions. People tried to make it out to be `He's doing all these things; he's going to games; he's going everywhere.' I just did the same thing before and people just didn't care,'' Manziel said. ``My teammates never changed on me. I never changed on them. It was never any different after I won the Heisman, and it never will be.''