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There are happier ways to start a new year than finding out you're unemployed, but the NFL schedule makes no concessions for the regular calender.
The regular season ended on Sunday, which means that NFL teams spent Monday firing underperforming coaches and general managers. They call the day Black Monday and, given the fact that it is New Year's Eve, this one is a little bit blacker than most.
We'll run through all the major changes here so that you can be sure to know which teams have decided to move in a different direction. We'll do it alphabetically, which means we start out in the desert.
Arizona Cardinals: Ken Whisenhunt is the most successful coach the Cardinals have ever known, but that wasn't enough to save him after a season that saw the team start four different quarterbacks who were all guilty of being nowhere near good enough to be starters in the NFL. General manager Rod Graves also got the axe as as a result of being the man who handed Whisenhunt those quarterbacks in the first place.
Buffalo Bills: The Bills gave Chan Gailey his walking papers after a third straight season of double digit losses, a move that's been met with happiness from Bills fans tired of watching Gailey muck around with an offense that needed a lot more C.J. Spiller. Surprisingly, general manager Buddy Nix did not get fired on Monday despite giving Ryan Fitzpatrick one of the worst contract extensions in recent memory.
Chicago Bears: Lovie Smith is done after nine years as the Bears' head coach, a move that seemed inevitable after they missed the playoffs for the fifth time in the last six seasons. Bears players have not reacted well to the move, blaming it on "false fans" and the media instead of their own underachieving.
Cleveland Browns: The writing was on the wall when the team was sold to Jimmy Haslam earlier this year and it came to pass on Sunday. Coach Pat Shurmur and general manager Tom Heckert are looking for new jobs, continuing the disappointing saga that is the Browns franchise since their re-entry to the league in 1999.
Jacksonville Jaguars: General manager Gene Smith was axed after years of diminishing returns, including a bust of a first-round pick in quarterback Blaine Gabbert. Head coach Mike Mularkey hasn't been fired, but could get snipped once they have a new G.M.
Kansas City Chiefs: General manager Scott Pioli somehow survived a 2-14 season while coach Romeo Crennel was told not to bother coming in for the rest of his life. Crennel is one of the best defensive coaches in the game, but he's now failed miserably twice as a head coach.
New York Jets: Rex Ryan survives to bloviate again while general manager Mike Tannenbaum couldn't do the same after a litany of failures that could be boiled down to a three-way quarterback battle between Mark Sanchez, Tim Tebow and Greg McElroy. Whoever gets the job next would be advised to try finding one guy who doesn't stink.
Philadelphia Eagles: Andy Reid's 14-year run as the leader of the Eagles ended as expected on Monday. Reid had a terrific run as the team's coach, something that might get lost in the wake of his miserable final year on the job.
San Diego Chargers: When the season started, it seemed clear that a losing year for the Chargers would cost coach Norv Turner and G.M. A.J. Smith their jobs. The Chargers had a losing year and both guys are now looking for work.
Josh Alper is also a writer for Pro Football Talk. You can follow him on Twitter.


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|Programming C, bash, Python, Perl, PHP, Java, you name it.
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Any interesting snippets?
Do any of you have any snippets or scripts you're working on?
Here's some quickies... fav is the last one, acts as a toggle - launches xorg if not currently running, else exits an xterm.
alias ~ 'cd ~' alias - 'cd -' alias .. 'cd ..' alias x '[ $?DISPLAY -eq 0 ] && xinit || exit'
These are (truly!) in my ~/.bashrc :
alias x=exit alias X='echo "Turn the Caps Lock off, dummy!"'
lol, IdOp's typo reminder alias.
Ahh - spelling & grammar. Me? My work is always error three...
EDIT: Make that 'error free' =)
Here's two ~/.tcshrc keybindings for commandline volume control...
bindkey -c '^[OP' 'mixer vol +10' # key F1 increase volume 10% bindkey -c '^[OQ' 'mixer vol -10' # key F2 decrease volume 10%
These are embedded key sequences which would necessarily require an editor capable of inserting such (I used plain old vi). For instance, to insert the raw keycode for F1, you would type the escape sequence CTRL+V (that's two key strokes - the control key followed by the v key) then press the F1 key.
To create a list of raw keycodes...
. invoke: cat <<end > raw-keys.txt
. type CTRL+V then press a key
. repeat 2nd step to populate your list
. type 'end' to exit & save work to file
Note: The above works great from the physical console, but less so in some terminal emulators.
For quite awhile now I've wanted to backup files on my server -from my local Windows box-
Of course that requires logging into my BSD server, running a backup script, & then logging out. Here, that chore takes about 15mins. during which I'd typically read some news, or maybe play a hand of Golf solitaire. Not unpleasant, but it kept me glued to that spot for the duration... What I needed was a way to automate the process. Make the task totally 'hands-off', 'cuz hey - thats what computers are for no?
To do this I'd need to first run the remote backup script, & then (just to be safe), copy the remote backup to my Win box.
Here then is my strategy...
Putty (a freeware suite of Windows tools including secure shell client, secure copy, secure ftp) is just the ticket. plink allows you to run a remote command from your localhost, while pscp allows you to copy files to/from a remote host.
With these tools ready, I only needed to copy the backup script to the server (first script), & then launch it from the Windows side (2nd script, 'remote-backup.cmd').
At anyrate, comments are always welcome =)
Save this snippet server-side...
#!/bin/sh <<DOC this script creates a dated tar/gzip archive of all directories/files in your home directory in the form of 'user-date.tgz' while leaving older backup archives intact to use... - save script to your home directory as 'backup.sh' - flip on script's exec bit 'chmod +x ~/backup.sh' - run the script '~/backup.sh' DOC TGZ=$1 OLD=$USER-[0-9]*.tgz [ -z $TGZ ] && { echo backup file not specified... exit 1 } cd $HOME tar cvzf $TGZ --exclude=$OLD ./ || { echo backup error exit 1 } cd - # eof
@echo off :: save script on windows as remote-backup.cmd :: :: requires plink & pscp, available in the putty package at: :: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ :: :: :: you'll need to change these 3 items... :: :: - remote host address :: - remote host login name :: - remote host password set HST=192.168.0.8 set USR=warby-parker set PSW=chesseburger :: note: date formats vary between locales... :: this script uses the format: year, month, day :: to determine your local date format invoke: :: :: echo %date% :: :: to parse the date follow this example... :: :: set var=%date:~2,4% :: echo %var% :: :: where 'var' is a substring starting from the 2nd :: character of the main-string, 4 characters wide :: windows us-english date format *but double check* set Y=%date:~10,4% set M=%date:~4,2% set D=%date:~7,2% set TGZ=%USR%-%Y%%M%%D%.tgz :: dont change anything below... cls echo REMOTE BACKUP INITIATED... plink -pw %PSW% %USR%@%HST% backup.sh %TGZ% if not errorlevel 0 ( echo ERROR CREATING REMOTE BACKUP... exit /b 1 ) echo TRANSFERRING BACKUP TO LOCALHOST... pscp -pw %PSW% %USR%@%HST%:%TGZ% c:/%TGZ% if not errorlevel 0 ( echo ERROR TRANSFERRING BACKUP TO LOCALHOST... exit /b 1 ) echo REMOTE BACKUP COMPLETE... :: eof
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With some help from "perl monks",
I made this, for my grandaughter to practice her
first multiplication tables
#!/usr/bin/perl #use strict; #use warnings; print "Por favor escribe tu nuombre:\n"; $name = <>; chomp($name); print "Hola!, ", $name, "!\n"; print " $name, Vamos a hacer tablas ,tecla algunas letras o numeros:\n"; $string = <>; chomp($string); print "Lo que teclado,tiene:\n",length($string)," letras o numeros\n"; $_= <STDIN>; print "[Instrucciones, ctrl-c o \"quit\" para salir]\n"; print "Entra para continuar\n"; $_ = <STDIN>; OUTER: {print "\033[2J"; my ($x, $y) = map { int rand $_ } qw/11 11/; INNER: { print "$x x $y = "; local $_ = <STDIN>; chomp; last OUTER if m/^quit$/; redo INNER unless m/^\d+$/; if ($_ == ($x*$y)) { print "Muy buen es correcto!\n"; redo OUTER } else { print "Oops!No es correcto,haga otra vez\n"; redo INNER } } }
I don't like display managers so instead of xdm(1) I use this line in ~/.profile:
[[ -z $DISPLAY && $(tty) = /dev/ttyC0 ]] && exec startx
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Anticipating Winter - Part Two (The Locals)
Tomato paste is a key ingredient in a lot of Turkish recipes, and the homemade variety is definitely preferred over the store-bought kind. At the end of the summer, women load up on kilos and kilos of tomatoes (either from the pazar or their own fields) and then the tomatoes are chopped, strained, and either dried in the sun for a few days (if you live in the village and have the luxury of a flat roof) or boiled on the stove (if you're a city dweller confined to an apartment) and then stored in glass jars (or sometimes pop bottles) to be used all winter long.
Olives are a must on the Turkish breakfast table. The olive grove behind our house has been picked bare, the olives now being cured in large reused plastic water bottles full of brine, olive oil and thyme which will be kept in the dark through the coming months. Last year I got to help with my first olive harvest. Olives are high on my list of foods I'd love to avoid for the rest of my life, but I sure did enjoy climbing all those trees!
An Anatolian woman's pantry will be bursting with canning jars at this point in the season. Pickled cucumbers, peppers, carrots, onions, tomatoes and cabbage line the shelves. Homemade jam comes in every variety from "familiar" flavours like strawberry and apricot to more "creative" flavours like carrot, rose and, yes, even eggplant. (No joke - it's found on the shelf of any big market.) Turks are also big fans of pekmez, a cousin of molasses made from either grapes or mulberries. A great antidote for anemia, it's known as an "internal heater" that will keep you warm and free of colds during the chilly months. A few years ago I got to witness "pekmez making week" in Cappadocia - I marveled at the arm muscles it took to be able to stir the grapes for seven or eight hours in a massive cauldron over a campfire!
|Pickled everything
|Buckets of boiled grapes for making pekmez
In the warmer months leading up to winter, women here hollow out red and green peppers and eggplant and then string them up like colourful necklaces on the roof or balcony to dry. These will then be stored in a dry place and pulled out during the winter and stuffed with a mixture of rice and spices (and sometimes meat, pine nuts or black currants) to make dolma. (My favourite!)
|Dried peppers and eggplant
|A whole lot of delicious dolma
Most evening meals here begin with a bowl of steaming soup, and tarhana çorbası is a winter must. A variable mix of veggies (usually onions, red peppers, carrots and an assortment of greens) are cooked and pureed. Yogurt is added, then a whole lot of flour, and the mixture is kneaded until it forms a soft dough. The dough is separated into balls and left to dry for several days, then broken down into marble-sized bits and dried some more. When it's dried through, it's crushed into flakes, either by hand or in a blender, and then stored in jars to be made into soup at a later date. I only recently learned how involved the process of making tarhana is, so I shall be more appreciative from here on out when a bowl is placed in front of me.
While most families will buy several loaves of bread (think French bread) a day from the neighbourhood bakery, a homemade flatbread called yufka is also a popular accompaniment to dinner. When the weather is nice, groups of women head outside (in our case, to the olive grove out back) and set up their bread-making assembly line. Dough is mixed in large plastic tubs and then rolled out paper thin on a low wooden table. The large round yufka is then cooked on a saç (a huge concave metal pan) over a fire. After a long day's work, each woman will go home with a stack of flaky yufka that will be covered with a cloth and stored for up to a month. Come dinner time, they just flick it with drops of water until it softens and, voila - bread. (And if I'm lucky enough to happen to pass by on bread making day, the offer always comes for me to go grab some cheese from the house and have them fry me up some fresh gözleme. Yum!)
Last but not least comes the category which I'd call "fruit snacks." (Like Fruit Roll Ups, but way healthier!) People who spend the summer in their hometowns out east often have vineyards and fruit orchards. Those with grapes and mulberries will boil and strain them, then set the juice out to thicken in the sun and use it to make things like pestil (thin fruit leather) and cevizli sucuk (literally "walnut sausage"), a long stick of "fruit snack" with nuts inside. They'll also do up a bunch of strings of nuts, grapes and chunks of the fruit leather to be pulled out, along with dried mulberries, for snacks when guests come over.
|Cevizli sucuk
I have so much respect for the hardworking women around me and definitely love being able to partake of the fruits of their labour. Since moving here, I've learned to do without most packaged food and make pretty much everything from scratch (I've come a long way from the days of importing Bisquick for pancakes, let me tell you...) but I've still got nothing on them!


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A Facebook Inc shareholder has sued the social networking company's Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and others over its troubled IPO, potentially reviving legal claims that a different court dismissed in February.
The lawsuit by Gaye Jones alleges that the company's directors and officers knew that Facebook did not disclose weaker revenue trends as more users accessed the website through mobile devices. The complaint alleges that information had been selectively shared with the company's IPO underwriters and key investors.
Unlike similar lawsuits that were dismissed last month partly because the shareholders did not own the stock when the alleged misconduct took place prior to Facebook's May IPO, Jones has owned Facebook stock since February 2012.
The lawsuit seeks to force the directors and other defendants to disgorge the money they made from selling stock through the IPO which they allegedly knew was overpriced.
"The defendants were unjustly enriched because they realized enormous profits and financial benefits from the IPO, despite knowing that reduced revenue and earnings forecasts for the company had not been publicly disclosed to investors," said the complaint.
Facebook said in a statement that "we believe this lawsuit is without merit and will defend ourselves vigorously."
Shares in Facebook's highly anticipated IPO fell from the initial price of $38 to about $25 within a month. The stock closed on Monday at $27.72 on Nasdaq, down 6 cents.
Soon after the IPO, which was also marked by technical glitches on the Nasdaq exchange, more than 50 investor lawsuits were filed. A proposed class action is being heard in federal court in Manhattan.
Jones' lawsuit is a derivative case, meaning the investor seeks to step into the shoes of the company and any money recovered from Zuckerberg and others through a settlement or judgment would be paid to Facebook, not shareholders.
Four previous and very similar derivative cases were dismissed last month by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet in Manhattan.
In addition to noting that shareholders did not own stock prior to the IPO, Sweet said that although plaintiffs had claimed that Facebook hid facts from investors, the company had "repeatedly made express and extensive" warnings about the increased use of mobile applications.
The lawsuit was filed in the Court of Chancery in Delaware, where Facebook is incorporated, and also named as defendants the IPO underwriters – units of JPMorgan Chase & Co, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
JPMorgan, Goldman and Morgan Stanley declined to comment.
The case is Gaye Jones v Mark Zuckerberg et al, Delaware Court of Chancery, No. 8375
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Opening Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at the press conference
17 June 2011, OECD Headquarters
Good morning and welcome to the release of the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook for the period 2011-2020. I am very pleased to again present this report with my good friend Jacques Diouf, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation.
In two words, our outlook is cautiously optimistic.
A strong supply response to near record high commodity prices this year is expected to put downward pressure on prices in the near and medium term. Of course, it still remains to be seen to what extent the dry conditions in much of Europe affect world markets this year.
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Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD with Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the FAO - 17 June 2011, OECD
As in previous Outlooks, higher production growth from emerging economies is expected – in Latin America and Eastern Europe and to a lesser extent Asia. However, growing food deficits are expected in sub-Saharan Africa as population driven demand outpaces local production.
Global agricultural production is projected to still outpace population growth, with production per capita rising slightly.
Fisheries, which are covered for the first time in this outlook, will see production grow more rapidly due to an expanding aquaculture sector; fish farming is expected to surpass capture fisheries for the first time as the most import source of fish and seafood for human consumption.
This Outlook reinforces the conclusions contained in the report for the G20, Price Volatility in Food and Agriculture Markets: Policy Responses, coordinated by FAO and OECD on behalf of ten International Organizations.
While higher prices are generally good news for farmers, the impact on the poor in developing countries who spend a high proportion of their income on food can be devastating. Action is needed in order to:
I will conclude with this final point. While our market outlook is cautiously optimistic, I am absolutely confident that the global food and agriculture system can thrive in the coming decades. Throughout history, farmers have again and again demonstrated the huge capacity they have to adapt to new circumstances, adopt new methods and technologies, and supply safe and nutritious food for growing populations. Since 1960, cereal production world-wide has doubled, and fruit and vegetable production has tripled. The increases in meat production have been even more dramatic – pork production has more than tripled and poultry has increased sevenfold.
The G20, in no small part due to the efforts of France as G20 President, is putting agriculture at the center of international attention. And acting now – along the lines I have outlined – will position the sector well for a profitable future.
Let me now turn to Jacques Diouf who will provide his comments, in particular perhaps as regards the implications of the Outlook for developing country agriculture and the need for increased investment in the sector.
Thank you.
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Interesting that these Podesta's keep popping up as central figures within subsequent scandals.
The Podestas appear linked to so many areas of corruption and blackmail within power circles - as influencial voices within both main political parties, acting as go-betweens; deeply involved in the art world and it's money-laundering possibilities; ties to Clinton The Pure; a penchant for child-related sex in the form of art; connection to Pizzagate etc.
Can't believe it will amount to much, unfortunately - any criticism of anything to do with the 'left' is met with 'but what about Trump?'
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Specifically, the story focuses on scientists who use KML to describe and share geological data. I mentioned such applications in a blog entry on 12/19. Check out this section of the Mercury News story:
"(In Google Earth) you can track radiation levels at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine, follow the spread of malaria across the planet, see how the Earth's continents have rearranged themselves over millions of years.
The Jane Goodall Institute, known for its pioneering chimpanzee research, has been using Google Earth to illustrate blog entries that follow the daily dramas of the chimps.
The non-profit Amazon Conservation Team has been training Indians to use Google Earth to map and catalog their forest so they can monitor deforestation.
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's Coral Reef Watch program uses it to monitor sea surface temperatures and hot spots."Read the whole story.


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Box-car willies: Modern hobos defy age stereotypes... but little else
Dinner nearing its end, Walter Lundwall smacks his keys down on the table. Managing a quick good-bye, he leaves abruptly, his feet slapping the pavement as he sprints in the direction of the train steadily crossing over University Avenue.
Unfazed, Lundwall's friends continue their conversation.
While they contemplate calling it a night, Lundwall's adventure is just beginning.
Running alongside the train as it slowly winds through the Corner district, he grasps the bottom rung of a ladder affixed to the side of one of the train's coal cars. In one graceful motion, he lifts himself up onto the train, disappearing into the car on a train heading west.
He thinks.
Walter Lundwall is a typical man with a very unusual hobby.
While he was growing up in Ohio, he hopped his first train at age 13. Boyhood dares eventually turned into overnight jaunts with friends between Dayton and Cincinnati. They often hitchhiked back, he says, "pledging never to do it again and then a month later finding the urge to go."
Lundwall says he still acts on those urges.
Now the owner of a contracting service aptly named "Freight Train," Lundwall has sporadically hopped trains for more than 30 years. Those aware of his pastime either "absolutely love the idea," he says, or think he's crazy for enjoying an activity akin to "jumping on a garbage truck."
With his steady employment and 20 years in Charlottesville, Lundwall, now 46, does not fit the image of the stereotypical train-hopper, the hobo.
Hobos have existed as long as the railroads, but they weren't canonized in American folk culture until the Great Depression, when hundreds of thousands of men and women, many of them teenagers, set out to find work by hopping the trains. A slew of movies produced in the 1920s and 1930s, like Buster Keaton's Go West, idealized hobos as loveable, their renegade means of transportation tolerable.
While hopping freight trains is as illegal now as it was then, Lundwall and many others consider it far short of criminal behavior. Lundwall derides the privately hired security officers, "the bulls," whom he describes as "just short of goons."
But in an online chat, one Union Pacific engineer excoriates those who trespass for kicks: "This is an industrial environment, just like an auto plant or a steel mill. Would you go wandering around in them unauthorized? Then don't do it in our place of work, either. Our jobs are potentially dangerous enough."
Despite the risk of death or arrest, Lundwall says train hopping can be "a transcendental feeling." Part of what has him hooked, he says, "is the total surrender of the body to something that you have no control over."
Unfortunately, news accounts indicate that some freight hoppers have been killed when their illegal rides derailed. Neither the government nor major railroads release figures on the number of train hoppers killed each year, according to the website deadtrainbums.com which, nonetheless, contains many stomach-turning color photos of people killed by trains.
Even when there are no fatalities, the joy of such reckless abandon has its limits.
"Riding is fun, but then it can also be torture," Lundwall warns. "The kids actually trying to get somewhere set themselves up for a lot of pain."
Judging from the weathered unwashed looks of four hapless travelers recently spotted panhandling on the Downtown Mall, life on the rails may not be quite the brief pleasure cruise that Lundwall enjoys.
The stereotypical hobo is a middle-age man with a Huck Finn kerchief on the end of a stick– the late Branson-based musician Boxcar Willie comes to mind. But hoboing has never been a lifestyle limited to old men.
"We're troopers," says Rochelle, 19, a striking girl operating the group's Bob Dylan-blaring boombox. "We follow the sun; when it's winter we migrate south."
Despite being the youngest member of the group– they call themselves "the hillbilly ruckus"– she seems to be the spokesperson for this crew made up of "Mutt," 27; "Jeff," 30; and "Holly," 26. They provide no last names.
Are they the new hobos? Is Charlottesville on its way to attracting hoards of rail riders? While Lundwall is knowledgeable in the fine art of hopping trains, these folks are each a walking how-to of not only catching a free ride, but of the more important survival in between. As fun as rail riding might be for a pure hobbyist, it's a way of life for these folks, "the kids" Lundwall refers to.
While the foursome came together as a unit only weeks earlier, all say they've been traveling the country on rails and squatting in strange cities for at least two years. Rochelle and Jeff met up in Colorado a few months back; at the same time she adopted a dog, Chama. Rochelle is adamant that group pictures include both Chama and Mutt's dog, Mira, insisting, "They are our equals– they eat what we eat." Holly and Mutt, who used to date, reunited around St. Patrick's Day in Savannah.
Holly wears an intricate "rock star" get-up that includes multiple steel accessories adorning variations of black mesh and lace. It's difficult to take one's eyes off Mutt. In addition to sporting a tattoo covering his face– he calls it his "warrior paint"– and a stick through his nose, Mutt shakes incessantly, the result, Jeff says, of his friend's "not getting what he needs."
It's difficult to discern which addiction is stronger in this ragtag group– the craving for movement and freedom or the alcohol that seems to make the insecurities of travel bearable.
"I grew into this lifestyle; it wasn't a sudden decision," explains Rochelle, only to abruptly end further conversation because of her need for an alcohol fix.
Not a problem: Thanks to the morning's activities on the Mall, the group is able to secure some Milwaukee's Best. While only a few coins appeared in the collection hat, my donation of 75 cents was enough to enable the group to call it a day. I was confused. It's true that the beer affectionately known as "Beast" is not exactly a premium brew, but surely a six-pack is not so cheap that they could possibly purchase it with a few coins.
No, the quick-witted group had been wisely storing the accumulating donations in a backpack so that the stash would not compete with their "Desperate– please help" sign. While they're neither completely desolate nor excessively comfortable, spirits are high, to say the least, when Jeff heads into CVS to buy the beer.
"Hey guys, doesn't this remind you of the time we got cuffed on the tracks?" Holly says, as the foursome plops down across from me on the track near their hangout under the Ridge Street bridge. I am the tragically unhip outsider, for a moment completely invisible in the shadow of the ceremonial opening of the 12-pack.
"To all my friends," Holly joyously toasts her fellow travelers, and all laugh, not at the absurdity of the moment, but because it's a reference to a similar toast in Barfly, a film tribute to one of their heroes, Charles Bukowski.
That gritty poet described the sordid underbelly of the world from the 1960s until his death in 1994. Covering topics from loneliness to love to sex to alcohol, his poems are uplifting in that they remind readers what great lives they have. If they don't do that, readers at least come away feeling part of a kind of isolating camaraderie, if such a thing is possible.
The poet is definitely good company for this crew, who claim to hold nightly Charles Bukowski meetings. While such devotion seems a little doubtful, it's obvious that Bukowski's storytelling strikes a chord. While Mutt likes Bukowski "because he's a scumbag," the others in the group take to him, according to Rochelle, "because insane minds think alike."
Chatting with Lundwall, I'm convinced that you have to be a little insane to jump on a train– even if the destination is only Staunton.
Lundwall says he has never been seriously hurt, but he concedes that freight-hopping is "extremely" dangerous. For that reason, he prefers traveling solo, which, he says, "is more comfortable because you don't have to worry about the other guy falling."
Just getting on a CSX train is a feat, as the empty coal cars that constitute nearly all the traffic on that line don't usually stop in Charlottesville. Last October, when a suicide was foiled near Rugby Road's Beta Bridge, CSX officials estimated the train speed at eight mph. Lundwall says it's a constant battle to watch two things at once: "the gravel below, and the train above."
If you're lucky to make it safely aboard, enjoy the view, but be prepared for the train to act unforgivingly in accord with basic principles of physics.
"The train has slack," Lundwall explains. "When the train slows down, the cars come together, only to stretch back out." That expansion is capable of delivering a serious jostle to an individual car; it's wise to brace oneself for this huge jerk.
Lundwall's adventures inspire mixed feelings of delightful horror and restrained longing that might just move you to beg to tag along. His first trip over (through, actually) Afton Mountain was particularly memorable.
Crighton Chase, a friend and newbie to freight-train hopping, was lucky enough, he says, to be a part of something akin to a "great Greek metaphor."
Chase describes the outward-bound view of "the backdoor of Charlottesville," the backs of familiar restaurants and shops, as part of the appeal. While the two meant to travel only as far as Ivy, any frequent train-watcher could have told them that coal cars crank up to around 40mph by the time they reach Ivy– with no apparent slowing as they climb Afton Mountain.
The jostling motion of the train, accompanied by its incredible noise, made Chase feel like he was riding an "amazing chariot."
But as they rounded a curve, it was all too obvious that this chariot was not headed over the mountain; instead they found themselves boring into a "gaping black hole" that symbolized for Chase the "inextricable fate" of the situation. Willing or not, they were "riding an express elevator straight to hell."
The two wanderers found hell pretty amazing.
"Halfway through the Afton Mountain tunnel," Lundwall sheepishly admits, "I realized how hot trains get." He remembers turning to Chase and nervously joking, "Man, I'm starting to really smell some diesel fuel." Despite the rising temperatures, Lundwall fondly remembers the experience of nearly a mile in the pitch dark: "I couldn't even see my hands in front of my face."
Even though the trip shored up Chase's adventure quota, hopping trains, he says, "is definitely not a good idea" because of the basic danger of falling under the train combined with its "highly illegal" nature. He would definitely never recommend trying it– at least not without a guide like Lundwall.
While Lundwall's self-guided tours are mostly planned, he admits that it is fairly easy to get stuck on a "mystery train." Sometimes these trains mean mystery tunnels, sometimes mystery fields or cities. Trains stop in some random places; it's not out of the ordinary for some cars to be unlinked, left sitting on a siding for a few days.
Not surprisingly, mystery trains are only a part of the experience of rail riding for Holly and her friends. When asked about their frequency, she merely shrugs, "I've been stuck in the desert, in Nebraska, and other places in the middle of nowhere; it's all really the same."
Amid all the alleged excitement of traveling and new destinations, no one seems to notice when an older Charlottesville man, cradling a bottle covered by a paper bag, randomly vomits clear fluid a few feet away.
Despite my doubts at the group's ability to amuse themselves sitting on a track, Mutt and Jeff are scruffier rail world versions of the title characters in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Mutt: So Jeff, what are you doing today?
Jeff: Well Mutt, I'm waiting to get hit by a train, what about you?
Rochelle smirks as she catches me throwing a quick glance towards the closest bend in the rail; I have always been a wimp when it comes to rapidly approaching objects.
An hour into the conversation, they finally venture into the reasons they have chosen this lifestyle. Questions of "Why did you leave?" are quickly answered as if I have asked the more positive question, "Why do you ride?"
The girls are more eager to echo many of Lundwall's affirmations of rail riding.
"I love the way the train sounds– the mumbling, the metal," says Holly. "You also see parts of the country that nobody else gets to see." While Holly refuses to ride alone, Rochelle brags that her favorite way to ride is all by herself, "with my dog and a good book."
"Traveling is good for diversity," she asserts, stressing her newfound appreciation for different kinds of music other than the rap and hip-hop she heard growing up in New York City.
Jeff and Mutt, both from Louisiana, are a tad edgier. They seem to consider rail riding and squatting to be political statements. The men offer no romanticized accounts of the rails, but instead only conflicting reports told for shock value.
"I was born in a boxcar, with a needle in my arm," declares Mutt, glaring across at me. It sounds like a manifesto; he attempts to expose my assumption that some of them are indeed on drugs. I never get a straight answer related to possible drug use except for Rochelle's ambiguous, "Just like in the outside world, some people do drugs and some people don't– to each his own."
While the reluctance of professional trespassers to give last names is understandable, their responses to several questions sometimes sound as believable as the famous 1970s TV commercial that claimed that Boxcar Willie sold "more records than Elvis and the Beatles." Mutt does, however, give a brief autobiography.
"Born and bred in the dirty South," Mutt says he's been traveling for over three years, admitting that he rarely speaks to his adoptive mother who lives in Santa Fe. He plans on traveling the rest of his life, avowing that he, as well as others like him, will eventually come out on top. "We will," he says, "win the class war."
"What family?" Jeff asks, after I mention his home in Louisiana. "This is my family."
Unlike Mutt, Jeff admits that spending this past Christmas with his family back home was a great time "to kick back, drink a little, and go fishing." While none of the four speak elaborately about family life, all say that they keep in touch with loved ones through email accounts they access mostly at public libraries.
They carry a stack of photos detailing an already rich tapestry of experiences, and there's no end in sight to the group's travels. While Holly is unsure exactly how long she plans on traveling, she hopes to settle down in the next few years. Jeff and Rochelle want to head north to Canada and make their way hopping trains all the way to Alaska where they think they can get work in the fishing industry.
According to Jeff, "You end up where you end up."
Sometimes that's in a McIntire Road median near Market Street.
"We average anywhere from a dollar a minute to a dollar an hour," Holly informs me, while Jeff jumps up to gather a passing motorist's donation of a couple of bananas.
"Potassium!" shouts Holly, as she carefully stores the fruit in her army green knapsack adorned with two buttons that read "Hail to the Thief" and "I spent all day in a f***ing pub."
Despite their sign's forlorn message, "Traveling– Broke and Hungry," the group's financial situation is looking up. With $45 to their name and a free ride to Richmond the following day, both Holly and Jeff are in good spirits when I stop to talk with them days after our first encounter. The foursome is unexpectedly still in town; it is Holly and Jeff's turn to work the median.
"This is why Charlottesville has been so great– people really watch out for each other," Holly beams as another driver slows down to hand Jeff a five-dollar bill. "That's why I can see myself settling down here when I'm done with this scene," sighs Holly. "That or somewhere in Texas."
They are content with panhandling; Holly views it as almost giving back to the community. "I consider panhandling spreading good karma," Holly tells me while she slips a new can of beer into an oversized McDonald's cup. She fumbles with the top of the beer, trying to stick a fat milkshake straw through the hole.
Jeff almost leaps out of his unhooked overalls because someone has just slowed down to sneer, "Hippie!" In a moment of generational warfare, Jeff half-heartedly yells after the car, "We're not that bad!"
They certainly do not want to be thought of as mere "gutterpunks" either. While this modern slang term for street kids refers to a variety of different groups, gutterpunks– although they might also depend on the rails– are typically defined as young squatters.
"Gutterpunks are just stupid young kids," explains Jeff, "They don't travel as much because they're scared to ride the rail." While the group doesn't identify with them, both defiantly share a reliance on panhandling.
While Holly seems utterly unfazed by their panhandling, Jeff would rather be "working odd jobs here and there." According to him, to work these under the counter jobs, it's imperative that "you know people who know people." Holly cites a six-month stint washing dishes in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as her most stable work experience.
That's partly why Holly is so eager to head back to her old stomping grounds, Richmond, where she's confident there will be plenty of "good work, good panhandling, and good partying."
Today's "new" hobos are just as much of a dilemma as their predecessors. They are infectiously optimistic while also seemingly incredibly irresponsible, with no real obligations except to each other. The borders of family and physical space are totally flexible, continually renegotiated by the foursome. They increased their "family" while they were here, finding acceptance and community from some kids in town who made them feel welcome.
Despite the dangers that face this group on the rails and in the places in between, it might be the buoyancy of youthful optimism, like Rochelle's, that sees them through.
"We go through a lot and we survive," she insists. "We believe life works."


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Best ever macaroni cheese with crunch crumb
Need cheering up? This pasta bake features bacon and parmesan with a cheddar white sauce – a comfort food classic
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal1011
- fat50g
- saturates29g
- carbs97g
- sugars14g
- fibre5g
- protein43g
- salt2.5g
- 2 bay leaves - fresh if you have them
- 1 large leek, washed and roughly chopped
Like garlic and onion, leeks are a member of the allium family, but have their own distinct…
- 1.2l semi-skimmed milk
- 100g salted butter
- 100g plain flour
- 1 tsp English mustard powder
- 280g extra mature cheddar, grated
Once cheddar was 'Cheddar', a large, hard-pressed barrel of cheese made by a particular…
- 50g parmesan, finely grated
Parmesan is a straw-coloured hard cheese with a natural yellow rind and rich, fruity flavour. It…
- 450g macaroni
- 6 spring onions, finely chopped
Spring onionsp-ring un-yun
Also known as scallions or green onions, spring onions are in fact very young onions, harvested…
- 70g pack pancetta slices
Pancetta is Italian cured pork belly - the equivalent of streaky bacon. It has a deep, strong,…
- 2 hand-cut thick slices of bread (about 2cm) from a white loaf, cubed
- olive oil, for drizzling
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
Put the bay leaves, leek and milk in a pan, and gently heat until steaming but just below boiling point. Take off the heat and set aside to infuse for 1 hr.
Drain the milk and discard the leek and bay. Wipe out the pan, then add the butter, flour and mustard powder. Heat, stirring, until the butter has melted, then cook to a paste for 1 min. Splash in some milk gradually and stir until smooth and completely incorporated. Add the rest of the milk, a little at a time at first, then gradually add more as the mixture gets saucy. (If you get any lumps, give it a vigorous whisk to remove them.) Heat, stirring all the time and scraping the bottom of the pan so it doesn't catch, until the sauce is bubbling and nicely thickened. Remove from the heat and stir in 200g of the cheddar and 25g of the parmesan. Season really well – keep tasting, as it will need a generous amount of salt.
Cook the macaroni following pack instructions, until it is almost tender but still has a bit of chew to it. Drain well, then stir into the cheese sauce with three-quarters of the spring onions. Scrape into a large ovenproof dish or several individual ones.
Scatter the remaining cheddar over the macaroni, then alternate between draping over pancetta slices (bunching them up a bit) and scattering with the bread cubes and remaining spring onions. (If you keep swapping between ingredients you'll get a nice mix of everything on the top.) Sprinkle with the remaining parmesan and add a very little drizzle of oil – holding your thumb over the bottle so just a trickle comes out. Can now be cooled, covered and chilled for up to 1 day, or frozen for up to 1 month.
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Bake for 40 mins until bubbling, and crunchy and golden on top (if using individual dishes, check after 30 mins).
Recipe Tip
Vegetarian?Use vegetarian cheeses, and try a small pinch of sweet paprika over the top – this will give a smoky hit similar to the pancetta.


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America is not simply a democracy. Nor is it simply a republic. It is both. It is meant to balance both. Too much republic, and the leaders become tyrannical. Too much democracy, and you've only really got an ochlocracy. That's why it was originally a House of Representatives elected by popular vote, and a Senate elected by state legislatures. That's why there is an Electoral College.
It's definitely true that you can't put too much power in the hands of the general masses. Anendotal example: In English class we were supposed to give a "present" to a character in the novel The Grapes of Wrath. After everyone presented, we were to vote on the best one. Now, some people had some well-thought out gifts, but ones that weren't too appealing to the general masses. What did appeal to the general masses were breast pumps. People voted, and that's what won.
Not everyone is a politician, not everyone is informed enough to make important decisions. That's why we elect representatives. Many people aren't willing to sacrifice in the short-term to achieve a long-term goal.
Would you rather have a well-educated or an uneducated person lead you? Or, let me put it this way, would you rather have an informed person lead you, or an uninformed person lead you? Not everyone can be trusted to lead. Not everyone is fit to lead. It does make a difference who leads us.
Now, this doesn't mean that there's an elite class to rule us, it just means that some people are better leaders than others. And those that are better should be leading. There are less people who can lead than those who can't. That's why we can't just let the general public decide everything.
I'm not going to go into the dangers of lending to much power to the republic side. We all know about the dangers of dictatorship. I just wanted to explain that an ochlocracy is also dangerous.
Let me apply this to the recent successful California governor recall. According to what I said, perhaps you'd think I would've been against the recall. Not so. This is because it was at the state level. States are more local and should be influenced more by the general public. The federal government has more distance. States should be able to decide whether a popular vote can recall a state official. California did decide that. The recall was good. As long as the standards are set high enough, it keeps democracy and republic balanced.


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Primeira Liga Wrap: Sporting stay unbeaten
Sporting Lisbon hit two second-half goals to beat Olhanense 2-0 on Sunday and keep the pressure up on Primeira Liga leaders Porto.
Having dropped points for the first time this season in the league last time out with a 1-1 draw against Benfica, Sporting Lisbon returned to winning ways thanks to efforts from Colombian Fredy Montero and Andre Martins in the space of nine minutes.
Montero's goal was his sixth in four league games this term and leaves Sporting two points adrift of Porto.
Olhanense's two-game unbeaten ended as a result, but they will look to get back to winning ways against Gil Vicente next week.
Sporting Braga returned to form after losing to Gil Vicente by beating Estoril 3-2 in the late game on Sunday, although the hosts did have to come back from a goal down after Evandro netted in the 17th minute.
A brace from Alan, including one from the penalty spot, put them ahead and then Custodio made it three 16 minutes from time. Seba scored a consolation goal for the Estoril.
Maritimo also hit form after half-time as they thumped four past Vitoria Setubal to win 4-2 thanks to goals from Heldon, Danilo Dias and a brace from Derley.
The Brazilian has now scored four goals in four matches for Maritimo. Vitoria Setubal did manage to give the home fans something to cheer after Rafael Martins found the net late on.
Elsewhere, Nacional lost 1-0 at home to Arouca, with Pintassilgo getting the only goal of the game four minutes from time. Arouca's win makes it two on the bounce after they started the season with back-to-back defeats.
Academica beat Belenenses 2-1 to move out of the relegation places thanks to second-half goals from Bruno China and Marinho.
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Professional Community for Car Dealers, Marketing, Advertising and Sales Leaders
It is news to no one that your dealership's mission is to Obtain and Retain Customers in every profit center, maximized for every Ad Dollar you spend, by getting the best possible results from every "Customer Contact"... Right?
For many car dealerships the advertising cost to make the phone ring is well over $100 for each sales call… Agreed?
Unless I am missing something, there are only 2 essential reasons behind every Phone Call we field. Sure, we can break them down into dozens of call types, such as "Price", "Trade", "Do You Have", "Service Pricing", etc... But when we really think about incoming calls from people who want to do business, the real deal comes down to two main caller objectives:
Consider the road blocks to answering either of those two questions in the positive for auto dealers right now, and ask yourself where your business is failing the mission.
With the steady increase of web generated phone call/lead form ratios, more than ever before, in today's car dealership the Phone Process and Mechanics, as well as the Phone Skills of those handling incoming calls are the determining factors for Obtaining and Keeping customers, growing market share and driving profitability.
Consider the following summary of actual car dealership phone call handling performance metrics from my team's study of over a Million Incoming Calls to all dealership profit centers...
Of the callers that call to ask "Can I be your customer?" 40% are told "No" because they don't reach the department or person they're calling for! Of 130,183 calls that never made it, here is the breakout for where they went:
Of the callers that call to ask "Can I remain your customer?" 23% don't reach the department/person they're calling for, better than sales, but nearly 1 in 4!. These calls are where we "Retain" not only Service Customers, but Future Sales Customers. Here is the breakout for 126,594 calls that never made it:
These shocking but very real performance metrics beg the question: What are the phone mechanics you could put in place to improve on these numbers that directly impact the financial statements at your dealership?
Before you spend an additional dollar on Marketing, Advertising or Social Media campaigns designed to make your dealership's phone ring, consider measuring and improving what is clearly THE number one contact point for your customers. The effectiveness of your dealership's phone mechanics and the "Caller's Journey" that customers experience will dictate whether or not your profitability is being maximized.
About the Author:
Chip King, owner of CallRevu, LLC, spent his career in automotive retailing from 1977 to 2008. Holding every position in variable operations, including General Manager and Dealer Principal, King has had a special focus on the "customer experience" throughout. CallRevu was born in 2006 to manage the age-old and biggest profit leak in the retail auto business – the phone. CallRevu has since grown to a staff of over 250, and serves dealerships across the U.S.
Chip is a highly sought after subject matter expert for many of the auto industry's biggest and best dealer conferences such as NADA, Digital Dealer, AutoCon, Automotive Leadership Roundtable and others. He is passionate about sharing his expertise with dealers and managers on how to correct the top profit leaks in the auto dealership phone process.
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This is great data. CallRevu is a must for any high volume call center operation. The tool is incredible. The numbers don't lie.
Sad when you think about how much money is being wasted on advertising that results in a botched opportunity because a dealership employee did not do their job on the phone. The time to fix your phone process is now!
Great article as always Chip!
Jerry Thibeau
Phone Ninjas
Good info. Great to read about how dealers can increase profits by better handling the customer contacts they have.
Excellent Data i must agree with Stan . When calling on a dealer i can say this about the last ten i have been in in the last 2 weeks call the service department see what happens and understand why there service revenue is where it is when speaking of Customer Retention that area after the sale must be the focus
During the two months immediately prior to AutoCon, I was calling between 10 to 50 dealership every day of the week... My purpose was to convince dealers, GM's, managers and professionals in each dealership to attend AutoCon. The single biggest eye opener I received during that time period was how consistently horrible dealerships handle inbound phone calls. It really blew me away! I was amazed at the daily mishaps with dealers and their people handling my phone calls... disconnected on transfers, put on hold and never taken off, messages given to employees that never reached the intended recipient, sent to the dealer or GM's voice mail only to be greeted by a service adviser's recorded greeting, calling the dealership's advertised and listed phone numbers only to have the phone ring continuously without being answered, listening to people talk about getting drunk while the person who answered the phone THOUGHT his hand was blocking me from hearing the conversation... I could go on and on, but like I told Chip King while we were at AutoCon, I cannot think of a single business functional area in dealership operations that has a greater widespread need for improvement than incoming phone call handling. Chip and his team at CallRevu provide solutions that include the "emergency room" for broken phone process where management can at least be alerted to all the mishandled customer calls on an immediate "near real-time" basis so they can reach out and salvage a few sales every week.
Excellent article. Ask the tough questions! We must all constantly review our process and people.
Well done Chip! How does this data compare to say 5 or 6 years ago? This comparison may prove eye-brow raising to dealerships not yet abreast to attending properly to this fast changing digital age.
Tom--Great question, I wish we had that data.....On the mechanics side, I would conjecture that connectivity is a bigger challenge now than ever. Most business have remained dedicated to the dreaded "Phone Tree" and "Auto Attendant" concepts to manage the hugely increased call volume...in most cases with dramatic failure to serve the customer. The demand for live voice answers is overwhelming---even being promoted by Banks and Credit Card companies in TV ads...To quote and old movie, "Our customers are Mad as Hell, and they won't take it any more!" There are Dealers that are listening and the differentiation grows market. Period.
Thanks Chip. The "Phone Tree" and "Auto Attendant" proved timely and welcome excuses to avoid conversation unless absolutely necessary. For too many, reverting back is like quitting drinking by one in denial who doesn't hear or refuses to listen to current health hazards and take positive corrective action.
I HATE being the voice of doom and gloom but if you run the report five years from now, you will get the same results. It has been the same way with internet response Matrices.
There is a reason why dealerships fall into the following groups: Market Leaders, Average Performers and Subpar dealerships. Market leaders give their people adequate tools and they use them. They feel responsibility for their people's success and train them.
Honestly, I don't have a dog in the race. I don't represent a call tracking company and I leave the phone training to experts like Jerry Thibeau.
By having a strong call to action, you can increase the number of sales calls. Nothing makes you look more foolish than poor preparation.
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Welcome. And Beware.
That would be a copy of Modern Log Cabin Quilting by Susan Beal.
Now, a little bit about me. I am a self-taught quilter who has been blogging about learning to sew and other equally riveting topics since 2008. I am a humorist by profession, so what I do here is often irreverent, unrepeatable, and frankly, downright dirty. I curse with impunity, so if F-bombs and other delights give you the heebie jeebies, I suggest you look elsewhere for your quilty humor. Or you could go read my Unraveled columns over at Generation Q Magazine, where I never curse at all, yet still manage to offend people because everybody knows that quilting isn't the least bit funny.
Over the years I have built up a great following of like-minded readers, who have seen me through a lot of things, including my big brother's diagnosis of brain cancer back in 2010. So great was their support, they even bullied, badgered, and bribed their significant others into posing for a fundraising project for my brother and his family: The Quilter's Shirtless Man and Spicy Burrito Calendar. (You can go here to read more about it and here to peruse all the pages or even, I daresay, buy one). So, because I know that my readers want to have their men displayed in quilters' homes everywhere (who doesn't, really?), I'm going to give away a calendar as well, along with the book.
To win (and yes, all my dear friends who have been with me forever, you should enter too), just leave a comment telling me your porn star name (that would be the name of your childhood pet combined with the name of the street you lived on— mine is Minnie Bluegrass. No lie.) and I'll announce the winner on December 18.
Good luck!
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- akmingo said...
Snoopy Orpheum.
I'm fairly certain that's not going to be a successful name in that profession, or probably any other.
- December 12, 2011 at 7:37 AM
- Jodi-JoJoMia's Place said...
I love that book and already have that calendar but I would pass it on to one of my quilting buddies. My name would be Lady Dirt Road. We didn't have a street name cause I grew up out in the boonies so I like the way Dirt Road sounds. Thanks for the chance to win. I love your stuff!
- December 12, 2011 at 7:53 AM
- Unknown said...
Err...my only pet was a fish I had in college. So I guess my pornstar name is "Doorstop Hartwell". If we go with today's answers, i'd be "Zucchini Archery Lane".
I'd f*ck me.
- December 12, 2011 at 8:10 AM
- Tricia said...
Love this!!!
Lady Saybrook....not to bad :-)
- December 12, 2011 at 9:07 AM
Not sure if this is where I post but here is the name tramp Morton. Fitting for a porn star name:) love your humor. Roxie
- December 12, 2011 at 9:45 AM
- Karen said...
Love this game...patch 143 is mine :)
- December 12, 2011 at 10:35 AM
- Megan said...
Scarlet Canoe--HA! not very attractive! :)
- December 12, 2011 at 1:41 PM
- Amber said...
Nice to meet you Minnie Bluegrass, I'm Caramel Wanstead :)
- December 12, 2011 at 8:56 PM
- Gail said...
Sister Rural Route 2. Nuns can be porn stars, right? I need a calendar. And a book. I love this blog, thanks!
- December 12, 2011 at 10:26 PM
- mdmaybe said...
Cinder Work - not the most pornstarish...
- December 12, 2011 at 10:59 PM
- Pat V. said...
Fluffy Longview.
- December 12, 2011 at 11:17 PM
- Erin T./Emelote of Calais said...
Mine would be Smokey Maple Grove or maybe Smokey MG for short. That might be more sexy I think! Lol!
- December 13, 2011 at 8:13 AM
I'm Blackie Walnut.
- December 13, 2011 at 4:17 PM
Heather Candy. I named all my pets after myself. :blush:
- December 13, 2011 at 7:47 PM
- Mirlin2u said...
"Howdy Girl Baby Snooks Prefontaine" A bit winded... (thanks to registration regulations) so her nickname was... Baby Snookums Prefontaine. ;D
- December 15, 2011 at 7:58 PM
- The New Mrs. said...
I am intrigued. Seriously.
As for my porn star name, it is (no kidding) Cleo Versailles. God bless my kooky mom.
- December 16, 2011 at 4:28 PM


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One very 80s automotive phenomenon was the two-seater commuter car. Of all of them, only the Honda CRX had real staying power; the others mostly disappeared. Still, junkyard archeologists sometimes turn up some interesting bones.
Last week, we saw this junked Mercury LN7, and one of its competitors from back in the day was located just a few rows away: this '84 Nissan Pulsar NX.
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The Pulsar NX (sold in Europe as the Pulsar EXA) was a two-seater with a great deal of Sentra ancestry. This one managed to survive with just two seats and no cup holders through just about the entire rise and fall of the SUV, yet now it will be joining all those Clunkerized Explorers in the cold steel jaws of The Crusher.


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ROCHESTER — According to the latest figures released by New Hampshire Employment Security (NHES), the Granite State closed 2012 with an unadjusted unemployment rate more than half a percentage point higher than in December 2011, which means that its economy is moving opposite to the national trend, which is one of slight improvement.
The unadjusted December 2012 unemployment rate for New Hampshire was 5.6 percent, an increase of 0.2 percentage points from the November rate, which remained at 5.4 percent after revision. The December 2011 unadjusted rate was 4.9 percent.
The national unadjusted rate for December 2012 was 7.6 percent, an increase of 0.2 percentage points from the November rate, but a decrease of 0.7 percentage points from the December 2011 rate.
Seasonally adjusted estimates (which are an slight variance from unadjusted rates, as a rule) for December 2012 placed the number of employed NH residents at 698,430, an increase of 350 from the previous month and a decrease of 4,470 from December 2011. The number of unemployed residents increased by 430 over-the-month to 42,030. This was 3,520 more unemployed than in December 2011. From November to December 2012, the total labor force increased by 780 to 740,460. This was a decrease of 950 from December 2011.
NHES also published its unadjusted December figures for employment within New Hampshire.
The overall view is that in December 2012, there were an estimated 535,800 private sector jobs in New Hampshire , which is 1,700 more than in December 2011. At first glance, this would seem to be at odds with the estimate, given above, of 3,520 fewer NH residents working than a year previous. Tens of thousands of residents, however, commute outside the state — particularly the Boston area — to work, and the health of NH's internal economy is not always in sync with that of the region as a whole.
In December 2012, there were 22,000 construction jobs in New Hampshire, down 300 over the month and down 200 over the year. In normal times, employment in this sector soars in the summer months, but in July of last year, there were only 23,300 construction jobs, as house building remained stagnant. As the chart shows, in the heady years of 2006 and 2007, there were over 28,000 construction jobs in December — and well over 31,000 jobs in the summers of both those years.
In December 2012, there were 66,200 manufacturing jobs in New Hampshire. This sector is not prone to marked seasonal fluctuation, but is impacted both by companies moving factories overseas, and by domestic demand. The chart indicates that the steady erosion of manufacturing jobs, which became noticeable in the late 1990s, has been halted over the past three years.
This is a sector that has seasonal peaks and valleys, with most hiring occurring in the summer tourist season, and in the lead up to Christmas. In December 2012, there were 95,700 workers in retail, up 800 over the month and up 200 jobs over the year. The chart shows that there has been marginal improvement over the past two Decembers, after the loss of around 9,000 jobs from December 2006 to December 2010.
This is another sector impacted by the seasons, with most activity occurring in the touristy summer months, and with a small spike in ski season. In December 2012, there were 61,300 people employed, which was up 900 over the month, and up 1,000 over December 2011, when there was a lack of snow. The trend in this sector has been one of growth, and this past summer, over 75,000 people were working in its various aspects — recreation, hotels, arts, food establishments and the like.
Health/Social Assistance
In December 2012, there were 84,800 people working in this sector, which has also been one of steady growth, as the chart shows, until this year. The dip was arguably connected to cuts imposed on hospital Medicaid reimbursement rates, which triggered some hospital layoffs. This employment sector is down 200 jobs over the month and 500 jobs over the year.
This sector has several subsectors — federal, state and local government. As the chart shows, government jobs were added year after year, including the recession year of 2009, until the crunch caught up with it. In December, 2012, there were 95,300 government jobs, which was level over the month but down 1,600 over the year, and almost all of this loss (1,500 jobs) coming from local government. Currently there are 7,300 federal jobs, 26,100 state jobs (which include public education positions), and 61,900 local government jobs spread across the state.


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WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) said on Wednesday that it could not explain the huge jump in trading in its stock options last week, hours ahead of the surprising news that its incoming chief executive had resigned after admitting to an ethics breach.
The remarkable spike in trading of bearish positions about two hours before Friday's closing bell - many times the volume typically traded in the defense company's options - is likely to raise red flags with regulators.
"To have such an extremely high day of put volume immediately in front of significant news is unusual and worth a closer look by security regulators," said Henry Schwartz, president of options analytics firm Trade Alert.
Jennifer Whitlow, spokeswoman for Lockheed Martin, said the company had "no knowledge of the reasons for the options trading activity that occurred on Friday, or who made the trades."
Christopher Kubasik, who had been scheduled to take the reins as Lockheed's CEO in January, resigned after admitting to an affair with a subordinate. Marillyn Hewson was named in Kubasik's place.
When the heavy trading took place, at around 2 pm ET on Friday, "Mr. Kubasik's resignation had not been tendered," Whitlow told Reuters in an email.
A total of 58,000 puts and 1,224 calls traded on Lockheed shares on Friday, 20 times the daily average, according to Trade Alert.
It was the highest put volume in the defense contractor in more than two years, data from Livevol, another analytics firm, showed. "This is either a one-in-a-thousand random event or suspicious options trading ahead of the announcement," said Ophir Gottlieb, managing director of Livevol.
Out-of-the-money put options are bearish positions that become profitable if the stock in question falls.
Lockheed's Whitlow said the company was committed to "upholding the highest level of ethical behavior at all times." Its policies prohibit employees from sharing material non public information or trading on the basis or material non public information, she said.
Gail Osten, spokeswoman for the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the largest U.S. equity options mart, declined comment on whether it was looking into the matter.
"CBOE takes its regulatory responsibility very seriously and does investigate unusual trading activity. However, we do not comment on individual investigations," Osten told Reuters.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which looks into unusual stock and options activity, declined to comment.
Heavy trading just before such a significant event for the company highlights the fine line between innocuous speculation that sometimes fuels action in the options market, and trading by sources knowledgeable about coming news.
Lockheed shares closed at $89.98 on that Friday and on Monday, the stock ended at $89.81. It is trading at $89.30 as of Wednesday afternoon, hovering not far from four-month lows.
The stock had fallen sharply in the days following the re-election of President Barack Obama, which caused a bit of a negative reaction in defense-oriented stocks.
Most of the trading in the puts, contracts that allow investors to sell the stock at a fixed price by a certain date, was dominated by a January spread.. The trade was still made in expectation of a fall in shares, but with some apparent hedging.
"The majority of the put flow involved a complex bearish spread in the January 2013 term, which suggests that the trader may not have had such a strong conviction on the timing and severity of the news," Schwartz said.
One trader on Friday bought a January $75-$80-$85 put butterfly on the stock for 57.5 cents, which traded 10,000 times, said WhatsTrading.com options strategist Frederic Ruffy. Combined turnover for those three strikes was 53,000 contracts.
Unusual options trading is often seen ahead of acquisition announcements. For example, large, well-timed bullish bets in the options of Canadian oil producer Nexen were made ahead of a takeover deal announced in July this year, which raised eyebrows among some options market watchers.
In February 2010, U.S. securities regulators probed the unusual activity in Airgas Inc call options before a $5.1 billion offer for the industrial gas company was announced, a person familiar with the probe said.
The SEC, another source said, investigated in November 2009, any potential misconduct and was looking at a big jump in 3Com Corp's shares and call options activity before Hewlett-Packard Co announced a $2.7 billion offer for the network equipment maker.
Reporting By Doris Frankel in Chicago and Andrea Shelal-Esa in Washington; editing by Ros Krasny, David Gaffen and M.D. Golan


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I removed this post because it's irrellivant now...
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Posted: Wed 23 Nov 2005, 22:14
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There are just two tests I can think of:
Can you ping to the windows computer?
Can you see the share through Lineighborhood?
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Posted: Wed 23 Nov 2005, 22:19
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WEARD..... the IP add. of the Win PC didn't work, so just for the heck of it I tried it's name & bingo!
smbmount //192.168.0.102/S /mnt/data _____ didn't work
smbmount //160SEA/S /mnt/data ___________ DID work
I can see the share useing the PCs name, but for NFS usually the IP add. is what works, Samba seems to prefer names.
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Just one quick question - how do you get the ftp server to start automatically on boot? (with a hd install) - probably a cryptic command in /etc/rc.d/local no doubt.
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Posted: Mon 09 Jan 2006, 18:54
Post subject: Remote puppy from win XP or other puppy?
Is it possible to remote puppy from a win XP or my other puppy computer?
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Posted: Tue 10 Jan 2006, 01:06
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See my response in your original thread. There is no need to cross post.
If you cross post I read both and have less time to respond to any.
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Posted: Mon 23 Jan 2006, 15:17
Post subject: Re: How to let puppy see a windows share
rarsa wrote:
12. Set the parameters for the mount or accept the defaults. The "mount point" is the puppy folder under which you will see the contents of the shared folder. (write down that path so you remember where it's mounted)
13. Click "Mount". Rox should open on that folder
I observed that in Puppy 1.0.7 the default is /root/mnt/<Server>/<SharedDir>. And during shutdown, Puppy tries to copy its contents to pup100 file. And it fails usually. Probably, it's a bug.
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Posted: Mon 23 Jan 2006, 21:28
Post subject: Sharing Puppy drivr wth Windows
I am relatively new to this linux stuff. I came across this puppy distro as I was looking for a light linux to run on an old laptop which has been retired to jukebox duties. So far it's great, best i've found so far for this task.
The "jukebox" (HP omnibook xe2) uses a USB 200G NTFS HD as its mp3 file source, i need to share the drive on my hme network with other win boxes. I found the ftp solution great except for some minor details which i am trying to find a solution for.
1- when I connect to the "jukebox share" which i set to "/mnt/sda1/Music" I can access the Music folder but none of the sub-directories where the music is sorted in sub folders (Albums - Various etc.) permission denied. I have tried setting owner to the user created for the share for all directories in the tree, and set permissions to 755 for same - no luck so far - any ideas?
2- When i disconnect the USB drive or re-boot the box I have to mannualy mount the USB drive and reset permission etc. Is there a way to automount the drive and keep the settings??
Thanks muchly
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Posted: Sat 24 Jun 2006, 02:18
Post subject: file transfer too slow
I followed the above instructions to connect my puppy computer to a Windows computer. They are connected via a network hub. I tried both SMB and FTP, as explained above. Both are very slow at transfering files. I'm trying to transfer a 700MB file and apparently it will take over 4 hours to do it using the FTP method. If that is the case, I might as well just pull the hard drive out and carry it over to the other computer, which is in the same house, and plug it in to transfer the file that way. Before I do resort to this, does anyone know of a better way to transfer files quickly through the network hub?
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Posted: Sat 24 Jun 2006, 02:23
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Sounds like you have a 10MB ethernet connection somewhere in the chain. I can do an 11GIG file over 100MB ethernet in 40minutes.
USB2.0 will do the same file in 10minutes. If you have USB2.0 in both machines and a USB drive use that. If USB1.1 is in either, stick with the 10MB Ethernet.
IDE over the board would be faster yet (probably about 1-2minutes).
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Posted: Sat 24 Jun 2006, 23:37
Post subject: Re: file transfer too slow
ApeMan wrote:
I'm trying to transfer a 700MB file and apparently it will take over 4 hours to do it using the FTP method.
Don't blame FTP or puppy. Blame your network.
There is something wrong with your network.
I can download a 700MB From the Internet in a few minutes over a 3 Mbps connection. Over my intranet at 100 Mbps I can do it in a few seconds.
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Posted: Mon 04 Sep 2006, 17:28
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I'm probably doing something wrong here:
I set up the ftp server following your advice.
Than I tried to access it from my Debian machine
first with a browser - I typed the address of ftp into the path and it says that login is incorrect. It didn't ask for a login or anything.
Than I thought I'd try gftp: I connected to my puppy computer and could see the contents of my "share" folder - but I have problems when I try to download anything from it.
It disconnects, says that there's no such file or directory, or that it can't modify some directory, "invalid response from server".
I can see the contents of the "share" folder, when I access the ftp with konqueror. When I use my default nautilus, there's an error, that it can't display the contents of this folder. I still can't copy any files from that computer though - with any browser.
I'm using puppy 2.02
I'm clueless
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Posted: Mon 04 Sep 2006, 17:59
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Betaftp has problems on Puppy >=2.0
Just FYI, to have mozilla prompt for an ftp password use the format: ftp://username@ipaddress-or-servername
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Posted: Tue 26 Sep 2006, 19:47
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GuestToo on 9 Sep 2005 wrote:
if i wanted to copy files from Puppy, i would click
files and folders (and symlinks) in
will now be available on your network and on the internet
pic: http://tinypic.com/dlm9n7.jpg
i find this easier than setting up file sharing
you may have to open a port in your firewall, or shut it down
there's a roxapp that starts/stops the httpd server with the click of a button on my
dotpups page
---- and now time warp over 1 year to 26 SEP 2006
and I've just been using this technique in pup2.02sm and it works fine for transferring windows-shares to puppys (my network has 4 PCs which frugally dual boot to windows or various pup versions - the actual state being the whim of the current user).
Anyway - I've created puppy ghttpd symlinks on each computer to the required windows shared folder- eg
ln -s /mnt/home/junk /root/ghttpd/Shares/c_junk
ln -s /mnt/home/box /root/ghttpd/Shares/c_box
ln -s /mnt/home/audio_files /root/ghttpd/Shares/c_audio
I've set the ghttpd config to home in on the ghttpd/Shares directory and all works perfectly - almost -
All symlinks navigate fine from remote puppy PCs & all target windows folders/subfolders can be navigated & all individual files can be copied by 'save target as ---'
Only problem is - this won't copy folders & contents - trying to save the target folder by 'save target as---' results in the saving of the html address of the folder
This is such a nifty technique to get windows shares from puppies I'm just praying that someone has a solution to this folder problem.
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Posted: Tue 26 Sep 2006, 20:39
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wget -r
will recurse directories. You might want to read the help(wget --help) first. I'm not sure if you also wanted to copy these files from Windows? Wget is also available for Windows.
Of course you could always install and use Samba instead, or an ftpd+ncftp(or similar) client.
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