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NEW YORK (AP) - The Chiefs-Broncos game in Week 11 is moving to prime time.
The NFL said Friday that Kansas City's matchup with Denver on Nov. 17 would be on NBC's "Sunday Night Football."
The Green Bay Packers and New York Giants were originally in that slot, but were moved to 4:25 p.m. EST on Fox. Also, the Chargers-Dolphins game was moved to 4:05 p.m. on CBS.
Starting in Week 11, the league's flexible scheduling policy allows it to move a more appealing game to Sunday night.
"We had originally protected the Kansas City-Denver game for Week 11," CBS Sports said in a statement. "After discussions with the NFL we made a one-time accommodation so that the game can be seen by a national audience, which we could not provide during our regionalized singleheader weekend."
The Chiefs, 8-0 and the NFL's last unbeaten team, visit Buffalo this week. The Broncos (7-1) are off.


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Pipers piping? Geese-a-laying? Five goool-den rings? What in the name of yule logs is this song all about? The short answer, it turns out, is that many people have asked that question, and there are nearly as many answers. Here are twelve to get you going.
1. Lots of people, particularly online, insist the song is Catholic catechism.
The story goes that from the 16th to the 19th century, when being a Catholic was a crime in Protestant England, children would sing this song to profess their forbidden faith. The partridge and the pear tree was Jesus Christ, the four calling birds were the four gospels, the pipers piping were the eleven faithful apostles, and so on.
2. But that's probably not true.
For one thing, it doesn't fit the bill as a catechism song. All 12 things it professes to secretly represent—the books of the Bible, the six days of creation, etc.—would have been acceptable to Protestants as well. For another thing, this rumor seems to have popped up in the last 25 years, and then spread like wildfire, as such things do, on the interwebs, without reference to any original sources.
3. The precise origin of the song is unknown.
But scholars on the subject (and yes, there are scholars on the subject!) agree that it was first published either as a children's song or a Christmas carol in the late 18th or mid-19th century. Edward Phinney, a professor of classics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, put the first publication at 1868, but it also shows up, in slightly altered forms, in Mirth without Mischief, which was published around 1780, and James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England, which was published in 1842.
4. They weren't always "four calling birds."
The "four calling birds" that we sing about today were, at different times, "four canary birds" and "four mockingbirds," and before that they show up as "colly birds" or "collie birds," which is the archaic term for blackbirds. There were however, for some reason, always four of them.
5. And "5 golden rings" probably don't refer to what you think they refer to.
There's pretty good evidence suggesting "five golden rings" is actually a reference to the yellowish rings around a pheasant's neck or to "goldspinks," an old name for a pretty little bird called the Goldfinch—not to the hand jewelry. And that actually makes sense, considering every other lyric in the first seven days of the song references a bird: a partridge, turtle doves, French hens (or "fat ducks," depending on the version), calling birds (or black birds), swans and geese.
6. About that partridge ...
Another rather credible origin story concerns the partridge himself. Some evidence suggests that the lyric, "partridge in a pear tree," is actually an Anglicization of what would have begun as a French word for partridge: perdrix. The original line would have been "a partridge, une perdrix," which, when you say it out loud, sounds a whole heck of a lot like "a partridge in a pear tree."
7. There are more renditions and parodies of the "Twelve Days of Christmas" than probably any other Christmas carol out there.
Over the years, the song has been done and re-done by everyone from the Chipmunks, Winnie the Pooh ("a hunny pot inna hollow tree!") and Ren and Stimpy, to Lucille Ball and Ol' Blue Eyes himself. In Sinatra's version, he replaces the traditional gifts of birds with things he'd like: "Five ivory combs, Four mission lights, Three golf clubs, Two silken scarfs, and a most lovely lavender tie." In a version by Bob Rivers, a Seattle radio personality, he replaces each "gift" with one of the inconveniences of Christmastime: "sending Christmas cards," "facing my in-laws," and, course, "finding a Christmas tree."
8. The song might have started as a kids' game.
Lots of people who've looked into the subject, including Phinney, the Amherst professor, say the song probably arose as a kids' memory and counting game, wherein groups of children would take turns singing each lyric around in a circle. If a kid messed up, he was "out," and the game continued. In some retellings, the game worked a little more like Spin the Bottle: if a kid messed up, he owed someone a kiss (the musical version of mistletoe!). In either case, the goal was to count all the way up to 12 and back down without stumbling, forgetting a lyric, or getting your tongue twisted up on any of the sinuous bits, like "seven swans a-swimming."
9. Speaking of counting, and fowls ...
Every December, a group of birders, amateur and otherwise, venture out in the frigid countryside and count birds in the weeks surrounding Christmas. The so-called "Christmas Bird Count" came about in 1900, when conservationist, bird-lover and early Audubon-ista Frank Chapman convinced a handful of people to stop hunting birds on Christmas, and to start counting them instead. In 1900, 27 groups of "Christmas Bird Counters" traversed the countryside from New England to California. Nowadays, upward of 2000 groups, with tens of thousands of participants total, continue the tradition, making it the longest running and most valuable citizen census of existing bird populations in America today.
10. But back to the song! It's probably a love song.
"If you think of all the things being presented, they're all gifts from a lover to a woman," Phinney told The Southeast Missourian in 1990. "Some of them are rather impossible to give, like eight maids a-milking and nine ladies dancing. All those ladies and dancing and pipers and drums imply this is a wedding." In a 2009 episode of the American version of The Office, Andy Bernard, who is Erin's office Secret Santa, gives her each item on the "Twelve Days of Christmas" list in an attempt to woo her. At some point, Erin, flummoxed by the influx of large fowl at her desk, beseeches her Secret Santa to please stop, due to injuries caused by the wild animals. At the end, Andy admits he has been giving the poorly conceived gifts—just as a cacophonous parade of 12 drummers enters the set.
11. And what's a wedding without consummation?
Phinney says the song is rife with references to fertility (maids a-milking, lords a-leapin', geese a-laying, if you know what I mean). The final gift—the partridge in a pear tree—is the ultimate lover's offer, Phinney says. The pear is heart-shaped, and "the partridge is a famous aphrodisiac."
12. All these gifts would cost a pretty penny.
Every year since 1984, a group of economists at PNC Wealth Management have figured out how much it would cost to actually buy all the things on the "Twelve Days of Christmas" list. The so-called Christmas Price Index indicates inflation and the increasing costs of certain goods. This year, for instance, if you were really going to buy everything on that list—which includes hiring drummers and dancers (per performance) and milking maids (per hour), and, presumably, a group of men who are willing to leap for pay—it would run you 4,651.17. Compare that to 1990, when you could get away with the whole shooting match for a cool ,231.70. At today's prices, a performance of twelve drummers drumming would set you back an average of ,854.50, while seven swans will run you a whopping ,000.
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AP IMPACT: US military giveaways, little oversight
MORVEN, Georgia (AP) — Small-town police departments across the U.S. have been accepting tons of equipment discarded by a downsizing military — regardless of whether the items are needed or will ever be used.
In the tiny farming community of Morven, Georgia, the police chief has taken three boats, scuba gear, rescue rafts and a couple of dozen life preservers. The town's deepest body of water is a creek that's ankle-deep.
An Associated Press investigation of the Defense Department program, originally aimed at helping local law enforcement fight terrorism and drug trafficking, found that a disproportionate share of the $4.2 billion worth of property distributed since 1990 has been obtained by police departments and other law enforcement offices in rural areas with few officers and little crime.
The national giveaway program operates with scant oversight, the AP found.
Using a series of public records requests, the AP obtained thousands of pages of emails and other documents related to the program locally and nationally. The documents, along with interviews of participants and regulators, reveal that staffing shortages and budget constraints have made it difficult for officials to keep track of all of the property and to prevent police forces from obtaining excessive amounts of used military equipment.
Morven Police Chief Lynwood Yates, for example, has acquired a decontamination machine originally worth $200,000 for his community of about 700 residents. The high-tech gadget would need $100,000 worth of repairs.
He also received a shipment of bayonets, which have never made it out of storage.
"That was one of those things in the old days you got it because you thought it was cool," Yates said of his bayonets. "Then, after you get it, you're like, 'What the hell am I going to do with this?' "
Morven isn't the only example of a giveaway program gone wild. Before his firing earlier this year for an unrelated matter, the police chief in Rising Star, Texas — the only full-time officer in the town of 835 residents — acquired more than $3.2 million worth of property within 14 months. According to an inventory obtained by the AP, the hundreds of items included nine televisions, 11 computers, two meat slicers, a pool table, 25 sleeping bags and playground equipment.
Federal officials suspended Rising Star from the program in March after investigators discovered that many items were missing from police department facilities.
The military equipment transfer program has grown drastically in recent years, due in large part to the scaling down of the military from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In fiscal year 2012, a record $546 million worth of property was transferred.
None of the gifted property can be sold or leased without permission, or stockpiled. Personal use is barred.
But the weapons program had serious problems.
A sheriff in Bureau County, Illinois, was accused of lending government-issued M-14 rifles to unauthorized friends. The firearms manager for the program in North Carolina pleaded guilty in April to stealing M-14 and M-16 assault rifles and other weapons, selling some on eBay for more than $30,000.
Critics fear the giveaways are helping to transform many local police departments into paramilitary forces.
"The harm for me is that it further militarizes American law enforcement," said Norm Stamper, a retired Seattle police chief who is now a spokesman for a nonprofit group that supports legalizing and regulating illicit drugs.
The transfer of firearms to police forces was suspended more than a year ago because of concerns that state coordinators weren't keeping adequate inventory records.
Communities can still obtain other types of tactical equipment, such as aircraft, boats, Humvees, body armor, weapon scopes, infrared imaging systems and night-vision goggles.
Morven has been one of the most prolific users of the Defense Department program, getting more than $4 million worth of goods over the past decade.
Yates conceded there isn't much crime and acknowledged that his officers spend most of their time on traffic enforcement.
Still, Yates hasn't been afraid to think big. He says he formed a special police team, arming it with surplus military rifles, a Humvee and an armored personnel carrier.
Gary Randall, manager of Morven's only grocery store, said, "They've got a bunch of damn junk, is what it looks like to me."
Inadequate oversight has been a major shortcoming of the program. Many state program coordinators say they have the staff and funding to conduct only a handful of on-site inspections annually — if at all.
The Defense Department is required to conduct program compliance reviews of each state program every two years, but many states have often gone much longer without one.
Suspension of the firearms distribution is expected to be lifted in October. In the meantime, staffing at the federal office with direct supervision has increased 50 percent, to 18 employees. A new computer system has been installed to improve inventory tracking. And a spokeswoman said new rules limit distribution of most items to one per law enforcement officer, except for consumables like clothing and batteries.
Associated Press writers Holbrook Mohr in Jackson, Mississippi, and Mitch Weiss, in Charlotte, North Carolina, also contributed to this report.
The AP National Investigative Team can be reached at email@example.com


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Bears sign DT Fluellen, DE Moore, C Boggs to 1-year contracts
LAKE FOREST, Ill. – The Chicago Bears have signed defensive tackle Andre Fluellen, defensive end Kyle Moore and center Taylor Boggs to one-year contracts.
The 6-foot-2, 302-pound Fluellen has played in 56 games with six starts over five seasons with Detroit (2008-12) and Miami (2012). He appeared in five games and made six tackles with the Lions and Dolphins last season.
The 6-6, 263-pound Moore spent his first two seasons with Tampa Bay and the past two with Buffalo. He started seven of the 12 games he played in last year and had a career-high 24 tackles and three sacks.
Boogs, a Humboldt State product who entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with the New York Jets in 2011, has not played in a regular-season game.
The moves were announced Tuesday.


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Berkeley Town Hall Meeting Tonight on Banning Drones
Two Berkeley commissions are sponsoring a town hall meeting tonight on a recommendation that would ban drones in Berkeley.
Bob Meola of the Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission, which is sponsoring the meeting along with the city's Police Review Commission, said today that "drone technology is currently way ahead of safeguards for the protection of privacy and civil liberties of people they would affect."
Meola said that on Dec. 18, the Berkeley City Council reviewed a recommendation by the Peace and Justice Commission that would proclaim Berkeley to be a no-drone zone but the council referred the issue back to the Peace and Justice Commission, the Police Review Commission and the city's Disaster and Fire Safety Commission for further review.
He said the meeting tonight will focus on the technical aspects and limitations of drones, whether drones would really improve public safety, civil liberties concerns and the moral and political consequences of drones.
Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern is considering buying a drone to be used in certain emergency situations but his proposal is still being reviewed.
Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. J.D. Nelson has said that the drone wouldn't be used for random surveillance but would instead be reserved for situations such as when authorities are looking for a barricaded suspect.
Meola said he first proposed a no-drone policy for Berkeley before he heard about Ahern's proposal to get one. He said he's concerned about drones in general because there are reports that the federal government plans to purchase thousands of drones in the next several years.
Although some drones are large, some are small as insects and can be hard to see, Meola said.
He said many other cities and 31 states are also considering legislation to regulate the use of drones.
Meola said he hopes the Berkeley City Council will vote soon on the proposal to ban drones in the city.
The town hall meeting will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. tonight at the multi-purpose room at the North Berkeley Senior Center at 1901 Hearst Ave. at the corner of Martin Luther King, Jr. Way in Berkeley.


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1. Re: SBS 2008 installation on S5000PAL boardAryan2411 Feb 22, 2010 3:47 PM (in response to GeekBoyCGY)
Extract the driver below.
Load the F6 raid driver below.
All the best,
Kind Regards,
2. Re: SBS 2008 installation on S5000PAL boardGeekBoyCGY Feb 22, 2010 6:13 PM (in response to Aryan2411)
Thanks for the prompt reply.
The RAID configuration is initialized by the embedded RAID controller without any issues, and have been able to delete and recreate the RAID. Are there specific drive locations that have to be assigned to be the boot drives?
This version of SBS 2008 does not provide an F6 option to load the RAID driver, it requires installation post the SBS boot, and then the SBS install does not see the local drive on the RAID. Did I miss something on the boot of the media?
3. Re: SBS 2008 installation on S5000PAL boardedwardzh Feb 23, 2010 10:05 AM (in response to GeekBoyCGY)
In the step of selecting installation partition, you should have a "Load Driver" link. Click the link and load driver from floppy/usb key/CD-ROM
4. Re: SBS 2008 installation on S5000PAL boardAryan2411 Feb 23, 2010 2:22 PM (in response to GeekBoyCGY)
This is what i was expecting to do, load the driver.
To be honest, it worked fine for me on the Intel (R) S3200SH board.
Why does this happen?
it may ask you for a cd driver, this will be the F6 driver for the controller as the SATA CD drive is part of the hardware on the Array Selection Menu.
Anyway, let us know how it goes.
All the best,
Kind Regards,
5. Re: SBS 2008 installation on S5000PAL boardGeekBoyCGY Feb 24, 2010 2:33 PM (in response to Aryan2411)
Hi Rajiv, Thanks for the suggestion on the driver. I downloaded and expanded the driver onto my USB drive and when prompted by the SBS install to do the driver, I selected the srombsas18e driver from the list and the load seemed to proceed, and then the same message indicating that no further devices were found. only way to exit the driver load screen was to exit the SBS installation.
I appreciate that there 'should' be an <F6> prompt during the windows files load, but on the media I have, there is no prompt for the load driver. after browsing the site, I located one post that suggested that the prompt happens within 2 seconds of the start, but for me, no joy. going to try another installation of an ms server and see if the prompt does appear under a 2003 install and will let you know.
thanks muchly for all the ideas, ross
6. Re: SBS 2008 installation on S5000PAL boardGeekBoyCGY Apr 8, 2010 10:18 PM (in response to GeekBoyCGY)
I have abandoned the SBS2008 installation and fallen back to a basic Windows 2008 R2 installation process to see if it works. Let me go back to the server configuration information. AR1550ALSAS BIOS 1.12.170-0471, SROMBSAS18E with HW RAID battery module AXXRSBBUS, RAID HW Key AXXRAK18E and HW RAID Mini DIMM AXXMINIDIMM installed. have removed the HW key to see if the embedded LSI controller would work with better results to the HW RAID, no luck, the drivers are not recognized by Windows 2008 R2 installation. I am hopeful that I have misconfigured the system and am looking for some help in this setup, both for use of these servers and documentation for anyone else that might have the same issues. Appreciate any feedback and suggestions offered.
I just had to do it to see if this installation was feasible.
Being concerned that I had perhaps an older version of RAID BIOS and firmware, I updated the SROMBSAS18E firmware with ir3_1068SASHWR_Firmware_v1.12.270-0718_pkg-v7.0.1-0074
This was a few versions update from my original1.12.170-0471, and hoping that the Windows 2008 R2 installation was going to proceed, I stuck the 2008 R2 DVD into the drive and booted the server. What was I thinking, give my head a rattle. Same old failure to launch past the prompt:
A required CD\DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD or USB flash drive, please insert it now.
Thinking that the Win2K8r2-x64_Win7-x64 drivers from ir3_Windows_drv_4.23.0.xx would have worked, I then proceeded to copy the files to a floppy, giving a sign of optimism as I browsed to the floppy drive. Same old failure to launch.
Now thinking that perhaps the floppy did not contain all the drivers, I then extracted the full contents of ir3_Windows_drv_4.23.0.xx to a USB memory stick and did a browse to all the directories on the extracted files. No luck.
Bing, perhaps I had forgotten to load the backplane driver first, afterall, isnt the RAID and drives attached to the backplane? Wrong troubleshooting step, and same failure to launch, this Windows 2008 R2 just doesnt like the addition of any additional devices.
I dug out my Windows 2003 Server R2 x64 media, inserted into the DVD drive and booted the server. Yes, sure as Microsoft sells software, the <F6> to install additional drivers prompt appeared. Doing the F6 button quick as a rabbit, I then provided the following drivers:
- Intel SCA Hotswap Backplane (Install_Drv_18.104.22.168_64bits_Certif(XP_2000_2003)-multilanguages)
- Intel RAID Controller SROMBSAS18E (ir3_Windows_drv_4.23.0.xx) (thanks for the suggestion of using the newer drivers)
- Intel RAID Virtual Device
The installation of Windows 2003 R2 x64 proceeded and completed successfully. After doing the appropriate installation of the chipset drivers, and video drivers, the server was functional without networking. Downloading the updated procexpnt network drivers for a Windows 2000 platform was able to get network connectivity.
OK, so the Windows 2003 R2 x64 worked, and now back onto the Windows 2008 R2 x64 setup.
But first, I better get an image of a working server first.
Clearing the RAID configuration and creating a new configuration with RAID 0 over 6 drives, attempted to do the Windows 2008 R2 x64 installation. What was I thinking, give my head a shake. Same old message and same old failure to launch.
Purge this again, and restore the Windows 2003 R2 x64 image to a fresh RAID configuration, and then try to do an in-place Windows 2003 R2 x64 to Windows 2008 R2 x64 upgrade.
Make sure the network cable is attached to the LAN to get the upgrade files from Microsoft.
I'll let you know once the 2.8 GB download from Microsoft finishes.
Message was edited by: GeekBoyCGY
I attempted the Windows 2003 R2 x64 installation, and during install, did the <F6> to install a driver and used the v4.2.3x driver for Windows 2003 x64, failed to recognize the hard drives, only found the USB floppy attached to the REAR USB port of the server
I attempted to install Windows 2003 R2 x64, and added the backplane driver to the mix, then installed the srombsas18e driver, and successfully completed the Windows 2003 R2 x64 installation. once the w2k3r2x64 was up and running, then did an inplace upgrade and all is working, using the LSI driver from w2ker2x64 installation. when attempting to update the RAID controller driver from within w2k8r2x64 using the 4.23.0.xx driver at http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng
no luck guys, this driver is not going to work for you.
Sorry, but this platform has not been good for any of my attempts to do a clean bare metal installation of Windows 2008 R2 x64. Perhaps if any of the Intel people have suggestions, I can attempt to do it again, as feedback is appreciated
7. Re: SBS 2008 installation on S5000PAL boardGeekBoyCGY Apr 8, 2010 10:18 PM (in response to GeekBoyCGY)
ok, I have found the solution at
the S5000PAL-HWRAID with the srombsas18e is NOT a supported platform for Windows 2008 x32 or x64
guess just lucky that this is working on the in-place upgrade
Been a fun experience, hopefully anyone else does not have to spend time trying this until Intel provides an updated driver for this HWRAID platform
have a great time
8. Re: SBS 2008 installation on S5000PAL boardGeekBoyCGY Apr 8, 2010 10:18 PM (in response to Aryan2411)
got the driver from
The ReadMe states
A) Driver Installation Instructions for Windows* 7/2008/Vista OS
a) This procedure installs the Intel RAID device driver on a new Windows* 7/2008/Vista system. Windows 7/2008/Vista automatically adds the driver to the
registry and copies the driver to the appropriate directory.
1. Start the Windows installation by booting from the Windows 7/2008/Vista DVD-ROM.
The system BIOS must support booting from a DVD-ROM. BIOS settings might require changes to allow DVD-ROM booting. See your system documentation.
2. When the screen displays: "Where do you want to install Windows?", select 'Load Driver', then click Next.
3. The system prompts for a Load Driver dialog to ask for the manufacturer-supplied hardware driver disk. Insert the driver diskette containing the Windows
7/2008/Vista device driver, and press <Enter>.
NOTE: You may ask to supply the appropriate INF path if you want to load driver from a USB flash drive.
4. Select the Windows device driver from the menu by highlighting it, then click Next.
5. Follow the Microsoft Windows installation procedure to continue the OS installation.
Step 2 indicates "Where do you want to install Windows" , without the HWRAID being initialized, the OS install cannot see the SAS drives
9. Re: SBS 2008 installation on S5000PAL boardedwardzh Apr 9, 2010 12:12 PM (in response to GeekBoyCGY)
I tried to install Windows Server 2008 R2 on SROMBSAS18E without any issues. Actually Windows 2008 R2 has embedded driver for SROMBSAS18E so that it will recognize RAID volume without loading drivers. And loading updated driver during installation should also work.
I took a look again at the error message "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD or USB flash drive, please insert it now." and realized that it may relate to your DVD-ROM. What kind of DVD-ROM drive are you using? I've seen this error when installing Windows 2008 using drive redirection function of RMM2, which is not supported.
10. Re: SBS 2008 installation on S5000PAL board
I have the same dvd driver error trying to install windows 2008 R2. Its also true I'm trying to install thru the RMM2 virtual drive. Has there ever been a workaround or fix published for this problem? The hardware runs w2k8 fine, would be a shame if I could not use the RMM2 to instal it (or take the long route installing w2003 first and then upgrade to 2008, which I read does work)
11. Re: SBS 2008 installation on S5000PAL boardedwardzh May 10, 2011 9:11 AM (in response to Bart Zuidgeest )
As I mentioned in my previous post installing Windows 2008 R2 thru RMM2 virtual drive is not supported. I suggest you use a USB DVD-ROM, or you can even install thru a USB key. See http://www.jaxidian.org/update/2009/08/28/98/
12. Re: SBS 2008 installation on S5000PAL board
Last post was a year old. I just hoped things had changed since then.


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Mad As Heck Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Mad As Heck Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Italy View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message DaniRomeJoined: 11 Mar 2005Posts: 8Location: Rome Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:29 pm Post subject: Mad As Heck [b][color=blue]Does anyone else teaching in Italy find they're being exploited at a terribly low monthly cost? [/color][/b] Back to top Boy WonderJoined: 29 Mar 2004Posts: 453Location: Clacton on sea Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:51 pm Post subject: Very much so and glad you raised the issue.... I have opted out of being taken for a ride in Italy by schools who should know better but don't because all they can think about is the margin of profit and how much they can rip off and manipulate teachers! I am off to Thailand where i will work from 8am to 4 pm, 5 days a week for precisely the same amount i was being paid in Italy! Back to top JetgirlyJoined: 17 Jul 2004Posts: 741 Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:27 pm Post subject: I get paid per contact hour... I am guaranteed 22.5 in my contract which is fine by me, but lately I have been expected to work over thirty hours each week. The thing that pisses me off most is that in my phone interview I was told that I wouldn't have to teach outside the city center, but the minute I signed a contract with them (I will admit that the contract doesn't say anything about travel time or distance) they started hauling my ass to the EXTREME suburbs of the city five days a week, with no payment for travel time... GRRRRR. Back to top Boy WonderJoined: 29 Mar 2004Posts: 453Location: Clacton on sea Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:55 am Post subject: Hey Jetgirly...you aren't working for the dreaded Inlingua cowboy franchise are you? Cos sounds to me the kind of stunt they would pull and have pulled in the past! More about these people I will write in the future when i have recovered the serenity and peace of mind to forgive them for some of the things they subject their teachers to......although on seconds thoughts.... Back to top DaniRomeJoined: 11 Mar 2005Posts: 8Location: Rome Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:09 am Post subject: Well.. getting paid per hour is ok.. but as you may or may not know, by doing this they don't have to pay anything towards your pension, And for me, having a Canadian/Italian citizenship, this is a rip-off. Sure you may say that in 30 years pensions will be incredibly low or non-existent, but anything is better than nothing. As for Inlingua, the only reason they exist is because no other options are available in most small towns. If however, you go somewhere like Rome, you'll find tons of options and Inlingua is not one of the more popular schools... Anyone teaching in the Castelli Romani area? Back to top Mark a TeacherJoined: 29 Jan 2005Posts: 13Location: Chicago Ill USA Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 7:17 pm Post subject: bE ReAL! Not defending any schools...but come on guys get a grip on reality...First the private schools are A BUSINESS and as such they operate on profit...period! Its no different than any other business. This includes the contracts that you willingly sign! So why gripe about something that is so obvious in any other business as well...Or perhaps you are one of those teachers who thinks to get a GREAT guaranteed salary only to work a few hours a day all the while thinking I sure pulled a fast one on those stupid directors...Think again... it just dont work that way guys...LOL! And pension contributions? hahaha...if they paid your pensions based on what the Italian government charges companies...you would have to work for free! But then you will always get it back later anyway...or will you? Next, its all about supply and demand...can u imagine just how many so-called ESL teachers want to work in ITALY!!! I imagine the numbers are staggering...so, with that being the case, dont expect to have directors drooling to keep you because you are the greatest thing to teaching since the Murphys English Grammar in Use [with answers key]!!!... and especially dont expect to get rich off of teaching in Italy [or anywhere for that matter including ASIA]. If you dont like the salary or work conditions surely someone with more realistic expectations will... During my stay in Italy for over 3 years...I found work conditions to be quite easy compared to my Italian friends who often worked 3 or 4 hours a day past their official contract times without additional pay. The trade off is job security in a country with unemployment as high as 18 percent in some areas. And for some strange reason I found my that English colleagues tended to complain a LOT more about the work conditions than those from other countries...I still havent figured that one out yet...but I imagine its either cultural or employee work protectionism and salaries must be great for teachers in England... Final note...teaching in Italy is not a prison sentence..if you dont like the terms or feel you are being exploited, it is simple...leave... In that way, those of us who do appreciate the quality of life Italy has to offer on an ESL teacher salary can find jobs a lot easier, less competition and perhaps higher salaries in the future! PEACE! 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When Tyler Hagen was in elementary school, he had no idea the Cub Scouts marshmallow gun would eventually lead to new landscaping for the Lions Club....
When Tyler Hagen was in elementary school, he had no idea the Cub Scouts marshmallow gun would eventually lead to new landscaping for the Lions Club.
Actually, no one did.
"We were registering for school, and the Cub Scouts had a table up," said Hagen last week. "They had marshmallow guns that intrigued me, so we signed me up for Cub Scouts."
After a meeting or two, Hagen learned Cub Scouting was about much more than marshmallow guns.
"I liked the camps and all the other various activities. Troop 97 was a really good group of guys," he said.
Now a 16 year old sophomore, Hagen is about to earn his Boy Scout Eagle Scout award.
For his community project Hagen chose to upgrade a local landmark.
"I contacted the parks and rec department at the community center and asked if they had any projects I could do," he said.
As it happened, the department was planning on doing some repairs at the 25-year old band shelter at Perk's Park near Lake Redwood.
Originally built by the Redwood Falls Lions Club, the shelter's back was falling apart, and could use some sprucing up.
"I liked it because it was a project I could relate to," said Hagen. "I used to come to Perk's Park when I was in daycare."
After getting approval from the city council and the Boy Scouts, Hagen got the funding from the Lions Club and set to work in early September.
With help from his parents and another 10 Scouts, Hagen tore off and replaced the back wall, then gave it a new paint job.
Then came the landscaping — several new areas covered with rock, with space for new bushes.
"There was a grill on one side; we were going to put rock around it, but when we showed up we found out the city had tore it out. There was a gaping hole there," he laughed.
The plants for the landscaping had already been chosen by the city, so all Hagen had to do was transplant them to the correct spot.
Now that the shelter is finished, the hard work begins.
"The physical work is done. Now I just need to fill out all the paperwork," he laughed.


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terms oi the wat hinaii r year two dollars w«ble m i ' bu , if not paid in advance two dollars i rged i inserted at 1 forthe first and 25 eta i uent insertion court orders clmrged er than these rates a liberal deduc i ... who advertise by the year the ejimra must be postpaid better from the hon j r poinsett sr.tresbi-hg s c ) dec 12 1--47 u t lh ui sik : iii compliance with yourre ,,.-, ami in conformity with my promise i ., determined to give yen very briefly my zgi oi ibe all-engrossing topic of ie day i tinel latet than 1 expected to be in co .... and have wily i moment seen the indent's message and the report of the • n of war iid am surprised lo per that they persist in recommending a 1 policy whieh will lead to sliil further lenditnre of blood ant treasure and i bave tn be abandoned wilh the j on the subject of the acquisition of ;. i have nothing to do especially as the it seems to think congress pledged lo nquests i can only express my re i and my firm conviction that these tetrito lj acquisitions will nol add to our strength or i;!v commendation that most seriously ne is contained in the paragraph where lent says there can lie no doubt that lists a peace parly in mexico and that ecome expedient for our commanding ingive assurances of protection lo such in short to create a parly make peace md guaranty it in ihe possession of nothing can be more chemical ; no id be more insecure ban ihe execu ijf.ii a project were it practicable — iity would bear no proportion lo the ind ihe members ol it would require to i from public indignation and ven ii long years to come by a force not lidable than lhat now in ihe country lie chance of any indemnity or the levying contributions of any sort if iverument should agree lo pay and heir protoctors they must from the na hings tail to do either pray save us acsol atlempting such an intervention ' e attempl might lead to an intervention of a enl sort lhal would possibly prove more the presidenl is apprehensive ol iei»n interference fir.->l in california and next stablishment of a monarchy in mexico not ihe slightest risk of the former ie mexican people are left to them i chance ofthe latter they were so entirely republican iu l822 thatl did not hesi tale confidently to foretell the downfall of tur rhey are much more so now and no scheme of that sort could have even m ; in-nt.i tary success unless tbe leaders considered it is the only chance of opposing us there ex • i strong monarchical patty strong in wealth i station — the priests tbe former aristocracy ind ibe adherents of spain we may drive ihe numbers under their banners still ihe presi feat is wrong : nor armed intervention might wm<j on us a powerful foreign foe hut could nit prevent he en ; whereas if we hold back ny ii<e or it a monarchy would not exist in mexico three years with fifty thousand foreign c'viniets to sustain it the people are repub in the president says he is convinced lhat the "-'. means of bringing the war lo an honora ble close will be lo prosecute it wilh increased energy and power in the vital parls ofthe ene my country now i am persuaded lhat so limp as we continue lo prosecute the war in the thetior of mexico we shall have no peace villi the nation and all attempts to make peace with a faction will place us in a worse posi tion than open war i speak with the authori ty of a perfect knowledge of the nature of the country and tbe character ofthe people i was glad to find that the secretary rejecls ike plan of overrunning the whole country as inexpensive but 1 was surprised to perceive mt he only estimates ihe number of men it wild require lo do this or to maintain our prf'*nt conquests at seventy thousand men for be first and some ihirty-five or forty thousand cond he says nothing ofihe annual hosumption of men during this prolonged con ;'. limine the most favorable period of the peninsular war carried on in a country friendly them the british forces lost annually six m per cent one fourth of whom died of wads and casualties in mexico we should we at leal twenty percent per annum of re<r es ami at least forty per cent of vol nteers i remarked in tbe isthmus between ian and black sen that ihe russian quired to be recruited entirely in three y^ws lhal is lo say ihey required a renewal ird every year _ the conquest ol lhat country by russia af wdsus lessons we night lo profit by the mssian forces overran the caucasian country ■1796 and received the submsision of the nple they conquered a peace well in '■l1 ~ i passed through the heart ofthe countrv ich had been garrisoned with twenty thou ind men for eleven years atacost of between by and seventy thousand men or six or se fen thousand men a year at that lime ii was fccessary lo wait the departure of a train from post to post as it was unsafe to move with less ban two ;.., c « s i artillery and a full com pany f infantry this state of things confined until lo4 . when ihe caucasians organized a power w opposition to their conquerors and up to the present day have contended against them with klvantage the caucasus dt.es not contain ore than a miilion and a half of inhabitants ; '^ russian empire not less than sixty millions tie caucasians have no regular army ; the emperor six hundred thousand well-disciplined troops ' both the president and ihe secretary build 1 a system of line defence as it is called cb they easily overthrow because no milt ';'} man would suggest such an anomaly — ipose a frontier can only be defended "•' a chain of posts bordering on the line ; wreas it is best secured by strong interior ice rut j di,j |, 0 - intend to intrude my in military matters settle what ter r.v vou intend to claim and toll mexico you nl lo l<,»ep it she will bluster and pro **• bul never attack you her leaders will j 8 l«o much at slake lo venture so far from 4 " ca p"al she will have no means to equip es and maintain them on long marches and j*»l campaigns and i hazard nothing in twoor three strong places in ihe inte |* our line would keep them in check for century and in less lime we might buy a p£bl ght necessar v by adopting ihis m-jit v ace t uld come al iast witl * present in '* and n tead of raising thirty thousand the carolina watchman bruner & james ) editors dr proprietors $ " *"* * r *" * ° v ., s new series do this amd liberty is safe ' < gen-i.harrison ( number 40 of volume 1y salisbury n c thursday february 3 1843 men you would huve iroops enough to keep peaceable possession of our new territory and might dismiss the volunteer force to succeed in levying the military contri butions the president speaks of and provision ing ihe army hy force i h troops mn.-t be very much increased it requires a very large force to procure supplies witbout paying for thorn — they can only lie gathered by formidable de . tachments and our army never has lieen and never will lie sufficient numerous to enable the commanding genera lo separate so many men from the main bodv i have given you my opinions very hurriedly for it appears to me there is little time to lose in settling the course to he pursued we can at this period withdraw our forces without dis honor ; nay such an act wouldfelevale us in the estimation ofthe world the slightest reverse — a threat of foreign intervention — might ren der such an act difficult if not impracticable before our iroops evacuate ihe mexican terri tory thai people ought to be told what we in tend to do it is barely possible that they _ might be disposed lo peace upon witnessing such a movement with regard to ihe details of ihe defence of the line — not the line defence — they can be de termined very easily and i think we might be certain of remaining unmolested for twenty years and forever with such precautions as might lie taken at little cost \\ itli great respect and regard i am my dear sir yours truly j p poinsett hon a p butler u s senate washington a mr badger's speech j in the senate january 18th mr badger said if i believed sir that the duty which i owe to the country and to the state which has sent me here could be performed by yielding to the re i quisitions of the executive of the country j such supplies as he may deem requisite for the prosecution of the war upon plans ! for prosecuting it which have not been made known to congress — if i believed that i had not a high and controlling ob ligation to exercise my own best judg ment for the benefit of those whom i rep resent and for the general welfare ofthe i country upon every question submitted to . ihe consideration of this body i might be | disposed to vote for the bill upon your ta ; ble if sir ihe yeas and nays had not ! been ordered upon the passage of this bill '. i might have been content to permit the measure to pass as far as i am concerned ' | without offering a single word to the se ; • nate upon its intrinsic merits but the ; \ yeas and nays have been ordered upon ! ; this bill i cannot vote for it 1 shall re cord my vote against it : and i think it is ; due to the country — i feel that it is due ; to myself — that the views and principles ' | which will govern my conduct in giving this vote should be plainly and distinctly stated and should accompany to the pub ■' lie the vote itself sir i shall endeavor ! to assign those views and principles in as short a compass as is consistent with a , full exposition of what i believe to be the j truth on this all important subject and which every consideration obliges me to put before those whom i represent with out any unnecessary diminuation without leaving out any thing that may be requir ed in a full and complete expression of the argument which in my mind is con clusive in regard to the measure before you i shall offer my own opinions sir with entire respect and even deferential • consideration to the great minds of this body and throughout the country whom i i know to be arrayed against me with out intending towards them any disre spect 1 shall take the liberty to declare j what are tbe opinions which i entertain with regard to the origin of the war the manner of its prosecution the tendency of i lie measures now proposed and the schemes that are evidently entertained hy the executive of the country in relation to it i shall not go as far back sir as an honorable senator from maryland did a few days ago i mean the honorable senator from that slate who first address ed the senate upon this bill but never theless i shall be under fhe necesssity of going a little back for the purpose of ma king myself fully understood first then 1 will lay it down and en deavor to demonstrate that the war in which we are now engaged with mexico was the immediate result of the unlawful and unconstitutional act of the president of the united states i suppose sir that there is no gentleman on this floor or else where who supposes or believes that the president of the united states is vested with the war power of this country it is a power expressly and in terms con ferred upon the congress of the united states and the president would have no control direct or indirect except from . the incidental circumstance of his limited 1 veto of the action of the two houses and ; except from the fact that in virtue of his r ofiice he is the chief commander the prin ' cipal military officer of the u states 1 maintain then mr president that ! j when ihe president of the united states ■moved the troops under gen taylor to the rio grande and took possession of the " left bank of that stream he commuted a | clear and undoubted act of war whal is war ? what do all the writers on the j law of nations tell us it is ? they all in . ! substance define it to be a contest about i rights which is carried on or maintained ; | not by«argument but by force it can ! therefore admit of no question that when i i a nation claiming certain rights which are disputed by another undertakes to support those rights by force she under takes to support them by war — war as tar as she is concerned it is true if the act of violence or aggression on her part be not resisted by the other that suffers it — if it he patiently and tamely submitted to — no war results to constitute war it is as essential that there should be two parties as it is there should be two par ties to a treaty of peace the act of one nation cannot alone constitute a war ; it is like the act of an individual striking a blow if it be not resented no contest no battle no fight is the result the blow is an act ol aggression ; it is ar act com mencing a contest but it does not amount to a perfect contest whether this act on the part of the president was an act of war of hostility ot aggresion depends not at all upon the question whether we had a right to the territory of which he took forcible possession war between na tions presupposes a contest about rights the publicists who speak of contests be tween nations never suppose them to con tend except about rights war is a contest about rights public war is a contest be tween nations about rights carried on by force and not by argument if therefore it were assumed as clear and unquestiona ble that the title of texas and the united states extended to the rio grande it is still beyond all doubt that mexico pos sessing the left bank of that stream hav ing a settlement there having oliicers there and exercising jurisdiction there — any movement to dispossess mexico to occupy what she thus occupied and what she claimed to be her own is an act ot war it is an act of war just and right ful if territory be ours — just and rightful if the territory be unjustly and improperly withheld — just and rightful if also the act of war be directed by those who repre sent the sovereignty of the nation well sir this act was committed by the presi dent ot the united states he ordered the troops to the rio grande they ad vanced when they came into the mex ican settlement the inhabitants fled be fore them in dismay ; the officers aban doned ihe public buildings and set fire to them and under such circumstances our forces under the command of officers of tin united states look from mexico lhat which she was in possession of and by force kept possession of the territory and placed it under the jurisdiction of the u states now sir on this subject i had the hon or at the last session to bring to the atten tion of the senate the case of the action of mr jefferson during his administra tion of this government under circum stances of a very similar character with this difference that the title of the terri tory withheld from us was truly and clear ly ours in every other respect the case j was like this the territory was with i held by another power and a disposition j manifested by that power to deprive us of j what we held under these circumstan : ces mr jefferson conceived that he j had no right to use the military forces of the country to obtain possession of that which was withheld from us but he j states as a reason for referring the subject to the determination of congress that matters relating to peace and war belong exclusively to congress and as this move ment might change the relation of the two countries from peace to war therefore it belonged to congress to determine whe ther the movement should be made or not but mr president i have other autho rity i certainly shall not say that it is more respectable in itself than the au autbority of mr jefferson i doubt very much whether with a large portion ofthe american people and of the senate it would be thought quite equal to mr jef ferson's but upon this question with re spect to the president of the united stales the authority is conclusive and overpow ering it creates upon him what law yers call an estoppel for ] am able to show that the president of tbe united states has himself recognized that such an act as this is an act of hostility — of aggres sion — of war on the 11th of july 1845 the secretary of the navy writes a confi dential communication to com conner an officer in the u s service then in the gulf of mexico he says : the unanimous vote ofthe texan congress for annexation leaves no doubt of the consummation of that measure — when you ascertain satisfactorily that the texan convention which assembled on the 4th has also acceded to annexation you will regard texas as a part of your country — to be defended like any other part of it " at the same time every honorable ef fort is to be made to preserve peace with all nations the restoration of our bound ary on the southwest by the consent and choice of the people of texas is due to the strong attraction of the principles ot liberty which endear america to every one of its sons and is a tribute before the world to the policy of peace of political freedom and of union on the principles ot freedom it is the president's desire that this great event should be consummated without the effusion of blood and without the exercise of lorce ; believing that free institutions in their own right will achieve all that can be desired i read this part of the communication sir for the purpose of calling distinctly j the attention of the senate to the fact ; that though this paper was written on the ; 11th of july — some months prior to the actual consummation ofthe act of annex , ation — yet the instructions to which i pro pose to call the attention of the senate i are given prospectively — cautiously — and ; with a view to the actual completion of that measere when as appears from the ! instructions themselves the officer to whom they were directed was required to consider texas as a part of this country to secure this end most effectually you are charged to commit no act of ag gression ; and at the same time yoy are , invested with the command of a force suf ficient lo take from others a disposition to hostile acts then after enumerating the forces at the officers command the secretary says : that you may precisely understand what is meant by the aggression which you are instructed to avoid 1 will add that while the annexation of texas ex tends our boundary to the del norte the president reserves the vindication of our boundary if possible to methods of peace . you will therefore not employ force to dislodge mexican troops from any post east of the del norte which was in the actual possession of the mexicans at the time of annexation " should mexico declare war you will at once dislodge her troops from any post she may have east of the mouth of the del norte : take possession of tampico ; and if your force is sufficient will take t the castle of san juan d'ulloa it being ; the determination ofthe president to ire j | serve peace if possible and if war comes | i to recover peace by adopting the most prompt and energetic measures again sir the secretary of war writes \ i to general taylor under date of july 8 i 1845 " sir this department is informed that ' | mexico has some military establishments i on the east side of ihe iiio grande which ! are and for some time have been in the ; actual occupancy of her troops in car rying out the instructions heretolore re j | ceivetl you will be careful to avoid any ! j acts of aggression unless an actual state i of war should exist the mexican forces j at the posts in their possession and which i have been so will not be disturbed as lotiu j as the relations of peace between the u j states and mexico continue now sir here we have from the repre ! j sentatives of the president in the two de ! ! partments war and navy a clear and j distinct recognition of this proposition j that although the president held that our : i true boundary was the del norte yet that it would be an act of aggression a hostile act an act which would not be justifiable except in a state of war to dispossess mex ! ico from any portion of that territory — as { she held the possession at the time ofthe i annexation when therefore orders were i issu«d to general taylor on the 18th of i january 4g which directed him to ad | vance and occupy a position on the left bank of the rio grande the president or i | dered what he then undoubtedly nnder : stood to be an act of war he ordered : what he intended and what he supposed would be regarded on the part of mexico as an act of hostility for sir you will observe that when general taylor in the execution of this order advanced to the rio grande and drove the mexicans from their possessions — when he occupied what had before been occupied by the mexi cans — and the inhabitants were flying be fore him and these facts were reported to the president there was not the slightest intimation that general taylor had ex ceeded the orders which had been given to him and had thus been the means of precipitating the country into a war which : by a prudent regard to those orders might have been avoided on the contrary up to this very moment all that was done in pursuance of that order has been recog nized by tbe president as having been rightfully done as having been done in accordance wilh the purposes which the executive had in view when the orders were given pjut sir if the act was not an act of war it was plainly and manifestly an act which was likely to produce a state of war it was an act the tendency of which was to change the relations of mexico and this country from a state of peace to a state of war can there be any doubt of this sir it is impossible to doubt it when we recollect the unhappy and an gry state of feeling which existed between the two countries when we recollect the position which our army held at cor pus christi for so many months and the disputes existing between the two coun tries — the mutual charges of insincerity and breaches of faith when we recol lect all this it must be manifest that such an act as moving an armed force to the rio grande was in itself if not an act of war al least one which wore ihe appear ance of aggression and one which was calculated to rouse the feelings of the mexicans and to provoke retaliation thus much must he conceded ; and il so sir whence did the president of ibe uni ted staiesderive his power to do this with out the consent of congress according to mr jefferson an act which in its execution may change the relations of a country from peace to war is an act bevond the competency of the executive arid to be passed upon only by congress 1 he constitution has undergone no change the'people have made no amendment to it it stands now as it stood in the time of mr jefferson whence then has mr polk derived his authority to precipitaie measures which must lead directly to war — congress being in session and without even deigning to inform them of what he proposed to do .' but sir at ail events there is not the slightest reason to doubt as 1 apprehend that the movement ofthe troops to the rio grande was the act which produced war there had been previously threatenings on the part of mexico there had been exactly that state of feeling which was likely to result in war but there had been no war and my conviction is sir that if our troops had remained quiet at corpus christi where they had a right to remain on ihe ground so strongly put by the senator from maryland mr pearce that it be longed to texas by virtue of her revolu tion and was then in her possession there would have been no war but at all e vents suppose that war would have been produced by some other cause though our troops had not been moved which is mere matter of speculation yet it cannot be denied that in point of fact — this war was the result of the movements of our troops upon the del norte that move i ment was an act of war it was at all events an act tending to change the rela tions of the two countries from peace to war and an act which the president could not lawfully or constitutionally per form the next proposition which i lay down is that this war thus resulting from an act of the president has been prosecuted by him from the commencement with a i view to the conquest — the permanent con quest—of at least new mexico and up per and lower california i beg the at tention of the senate while i shall at j tempt to demonstrate this proposition from j public documents first sir 1 will call ihe attention of the senate to the instruc tions given by the secretary of war on the 3d of june 4g to gen kearney : should you conquer and take posses sion of new mexico and upper califor nia or considerable places in either you will establish temporary civil governments therein — abolishing all arbitrary restric j tions lhat may exist for so far as it may be done with safety in performing this duty it would be wise and prudent to con ' tinue in their employment all such of the existing officers as are known to be friend ly to ihe united states and will take the oath of allegiance to them the duties at the custom houses ought at once to be reduced to such a rate as may be barely sufficient to maintain the necessary offi cers without yielding any revenue to the j government y'ou may assure the people of those provinces that it is the wish and ■design of the u states to provide for them i a free government with the least possible delay similar to that which exist in our territories they will then be called on 1 to exercise the rights of freemen in elect ing their own representatives to the terri torial legislature it is foreseen that what relates to the civil government will be a difficult and unpleasant part of your duty and much must necessarily be left to your own discretion in further proof of this sir i read the instruction given by the navy depart ment to com sloat 12th july is 1(5 the object of the u states is under its rights as a bvl'igerent nation to pos sess itself entirely ot upper california '• the object of ihe u states has refer ence to ultimate peace with mexico tit 1 . i if at that peace the basis of ihe uti pos sidetis shall be established the govern ment exped through your forces to be found in actual possession of upper cali fornia •• this will bring with it the necessity of a civil administration such a gov ernment should be established under your protection ; and in selecting persons to | hold office due respect should be had to the wishes of the people of california as well as to the actual possessors of autho rity in that province it may be proper to require an oath of allegiance to the ('. s from those wbo are entrusted wilh au thority you will also assure the people of california of the protection of the uni ted states '• after you shall have secured upper california if your force is sufficient you will take possession and keep the har bors on the gulf of california as far down at least as guaymas but this is not to interfere with tbe permanent occupation of upper california then sir on the 13th of august we have instructions from the navy depart ment to commodore stockton or whoever might be the commanding officer in the pacific now sir in order to understand the scope and bearing of these orders still more clearly let us see what was done under themby the officers lo whom they were addressed in a letter ol general kearney to the adjutant general of ibe 24lh august 1310 written from santa fe he says : on the 22d i issued a proclamation claiming the whole of new mexico with its then boundaries as a territory of the u states of america and taking it under our protection j in another part of the same letter be on my return which will be i two or three weeks a civil government shall be organized and the officers appointed for it ; after which i will be ready to start for i pper california which 1 hope may oe by the latter end of next month ; and in such case i shall expect lo have pos session of that department bv the close of november then we have general kearney's pro clamation in which he announced his in tention to"hold new mexico as a part of the united states under the name ofthe lerritory of new mexico " and he requires of those who have left their homes and taken up arms a gainst the troops of the u states to re turn forthwith to them or else they will be considered as enemies and traitors sub jecting their persons to punishment and iheir properly to s : ezure and confiscation for the benefit of the public treasury it is the wish and intention of the u s to provide for new mexico a free gov ernment with the least possible delay similar to those in the united states ; and the people of new mexico will then be calied on to exercise ihe rights of free men in electing their own representatives to the territorial legislature but until this can be dene ihe laws hitherto in ex istence will he contii ued until changed or modified by competent authority ; and those person holding office will continue in ihe same for the pesent provided thev will consider themselves go d citizens and are willing to take the oath of allegiance to the u s " tin i . s hereby absolves all persons residing within fhe boundaries of new mexico from any further allegiance to ihe republic of mexico and hereby claims them as citizens of the u s those who remain quiet and peaceful will be consid ered good citizens and receive protection — those who are found in arms or instig ating others against the u s will be con sidered as traitors and treated accord ingly \\ hat was the action of commodore sloat ? how did he interpret and under stand the orders he had received ? well we have distinct information upon this point communicated in the proclamation of comodore sloat to the people of cali fornia he says : henceforward california will be a portion of the united states and its peace able inhabitants wiil enjoy the same rights and privileges they now enjoy together with the privilege of chosing their own magistrates and other oliicers for admin istration of justice amonti themselves and the same protection will tie extended to i hem as to any other state in the union i'hey will also enjoy a permanent govern ment again commodore stockton says the territory of california now belongs to the l s and will be governed as soon as circumstances will permit by officers and laws similar to those by which the other territories ofthe united states are regulated and protected now sir it i imposible,i think to read what was done — what was reported bv our officers to the president as having been done by them — without seeing lhat they understood and acted on his instruc tions as designed to make a permanent conquest of such portions of mexican ter ritory as they were instructed to take pos session of there is not one word said in the instructions — nothing declared in the actions of the officers obeying those instructions — which referred or appeared to refer to a military occupation of those territories for the purpose of compelling mexico to do us justice for the wrongs we had sustained at her hands these officers clearly understood lhat they were to take possession of and hold those ter ritories as a portion of fhe united states what says commodore s ockton i robert f stockton commander-in chief ofthe u s forces in the pacific o cean and governor ot the territory of california ami commander-in chief of the army of ihe same do hereb make known to all men that having ly right of con quest taken possession of thai territory known by the name ol 1 , • , and lower california do now declare it to be a ter ritory of th u states u name of tlie territory of california i'hey took possession they organized government — and tin •-, acti d in all res pects as if from that time forward these territories ceased ■■> be tie property of mexico and became the property of the ! r nited states well now did they understand their instrnction right .' why sir in the mes sage of the president ol the united states communicating those documents to us there i something said which implies a disavowal <*! whal was done an intima tion that in some respects the instructions had been exceeded " these documents a_\s the president ** contain all fee it appears then upon the statement cf president of the u.s and the roport of the secretary of war that the organic law established by general kearney for the government ofthe territory of new mex ico in consequence of its late arrival-late wilh reference to the then succeeding ses sion — had not been read by him and sub mitted to the president and his orders la ken with respect to it well now that i.s ae only one of the documents of which it is intimated that the contents were not known bv the proper department and com municated to the presidenl and approved and sanctioned by him therefore it is a reasonable just : necessary conclusion that every one of the other documents except the one lbus specified and taken out bv the exception has been admitted sanctioned and approved and further even in reference to general kearney's organic law nothing is excepted to by the president but this : that he has under taken to prescribe the form of a perma nent territorial government no excep
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terms oi the wat hinaii r year two dollars w«ble m i ' bu , if not paid in advance two dollars i rged i inserted at 1 forthe first and 25 eta i uent insertion court orders clmrged er than these rates a liberal deduc i ... who advertise by the year the ejimra must be postpaid better from the hon j r poinsett sr.tresbi-hg s c ) dec 12 1--47 u t lh ui sik : iii compliance with yourre ,,.-, ami in conformity with my promise i ., determined to give yen very briefly my zgi oi ibe all-engrossing topic of ie day i tinel latet than 1 expected to be in co .... and have wily i moment seen the indent's message and the report of the • n of war iid am surprised lo per that they persist in recommending a 1 policy whieh will lead to sliil further lenditnre of blood ant treasure and i bave tn be abandoned wilh the j on the subject of the acquisition of ;. i have nothing to do especially as the it seems to think congress pledged lo nquests i can only express my re i and my firm conviction that these tetrito lj acquisitions will nol add to our strength or i;!v commendation that most seriously ne is contained in the paragraph where lent says there can lie no doubt that lists a peace parly in mexico and that ecome expedient for our commanding ingive assurances of protection lo such in short to create a parly make peace md guaranty it in ihe possession of nothing can be more chemical ; no id be more insecure ban ihe execu ijf.ii a project were it practicable — iity would bear no proportion lo the ind ihe members ol it would require to i from public indignation and ven ii long years to come by a force not lidable than lhat now in ihe country lie chance of any indemnity or the levying contributions of any sort if iverument should agree lo pay and heir protoctors they must from the na hings tail to do either pray save us acsol atlempting such an intervention ' e attempl might lead to an intervention of a enl sort lhal would possibly prove more the presidenl is apprehensive ol iei»n interference fir.->l in california and next stablishment of a monarchy in mexico not ihe slightest risk of the former ie mexican people are left to them i chance ofthe latter they were so entirely republican iu l822 thatl did not hesi tale confidently to foretell the downfall of tur rhey are much more so now and no scheme of that sort could have even m ; in-nt.i tary success unless tbe leaders considered it is the only chance of opposing us there ex • i strong monarchical patty strong in wealth i station — the priests tbe former aristocracy ind ibe adherents of spain we may drive ihe numbers under their banners still ihe presi feat is wrong : nor armed intervention might wm


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Educating Consumers about Peanut Butter
Balance introduces consumers to the concepts of 'good' fats and omega-3 fatty acids.
Peanut butter began as a paste-like substance produced by the Incas in South America. The peanut crop traveled to Africa, Spain and finally to the American colonies. It was George Washington Carver who helped the southern states recovering from the Civil War understand the value of crop rotation and growing crops such as peanuts instead of just cotton and tobacco.
Peanut butter was introduced to the modern world at the Louisiana Purchase Expo of 1904 in St. Louis. Peter Pan Peanut Butter, utilizing the Rosenfield churning process, made a smooth peanut butter in 1928 and enabled a shelf life of up to a year. After a dispute, Rosenfield took the process to Skippy and created the first crunchy style peanut butter by adding chopped peanuts to the mix in 1934. Procter & Gamble's Jif brand enter the market in 1958.
Peanut butter is in 90 percent of households and most families with kids consider it a staple and kid-friendly food. However, 3 million kids have a peanut allergy, so schools have either become nut-free or nut-conscious. The Peanut Institute has worked hard to educated consumers on the nutritional value of peanuts and peanut butter and the products' benefits in snacking. Median usage is low with households using only 1 to 1-1/2 jars per month.
Smart Balance has stepped back and reconsidered peanut butter's standard of identity. What is peanut butter? Is it a protein source with fat or is it a fat source with protein? During World War II, peanut butter was an affordable protein source. But as nutritional research began to understand the value of "good" fats, Smart Balance has reframed the idea of peanut butter (and many other oils) from protein source with fat to fat source with protein. They have focused on the healthy "good" fats and enhanced them with additional healthy oils to enable easy access to omega-3 fatty acids and lower saturated fats.
Understanding the marketplace
Sales of the sweet spread category have increased 11 percent since 2000 with a market size of $1.8 billion in 2004. Year-to-year growth from 2003 onward has been on the order of 0.5 percent, according to a 2005 study by Mintel International. This change in growth is driven by the fact sweet spreads are not stand-alone products. They are typically consumed as a topping on breads or as an ingredient in a recipe.
The emphasis on low-carb diets impacted this category substantially in the past few years. Peanut butter sales are $880 million of this $1.8 billion Sweet Spread category for 2004 and have a growth rate of 2 percent.
Peanut butter is still viewed as too high in calorie content to be considered entirely "healthy." At retail, consumers see Jif, Skippy, Peter Pan and private label as the category leaders. Creamy peanut butter outsells chunky peanut butter by 4 to 1 (in dollar sales) and is reported to be preferred 2 to 1.
Peanut butter-flavored products have increased in new product introductions by 68 percent since 2000 to 619 new products that have peanut butter-flavor notes. This ubiquity of peanut butter flavor enables consumers to get their peanut butter needs met without actually consuming peanut butter itself.
Smart Balance is entering this category and needs to differentiate itself from the category brand leaders. The category is crowded and is growing only in the premium and natural areas.
Consumers are very confused with regard to what is "healthy." Diets that highlight protein have subsided recently. A recent Women's Health Initiative study found low-fat dieting does not help cancer or heart disease in post-menopausal women, contrary to what many people, even researchers, believe. Consumers are questioning what are the basic rules they should use to eat healthy.
Wine and chocolate, once considered "bad" foods, are now being highlighted as high in antioxidants and "good" for you. The messages consumers hear are about the right carbohydrates and the right fats. But finding and understand those carbohydrates and fats may require an advanced degree in nutrition. And even that today may not help. The average consumer just does not have the time. He is looking for easy identifiers of trustworthy healthfulness.
Our Healthy You! research integrates 20 to 30 conjoint studies to generate a database that can be used to understand the experience of foods - from product, situation, emotions and brands/ benefits. It tells us the key attributes for a healthy peanut butter are taste, texture, aroma, price and brand.
Consumers are looking for taste and an inherent value of healthiness from structure-function claims like fiber to reduce your risk of heart disease and diabetes; builds and maintains strong bones; part of a low fat/ low cholesterol diet to reduce the risk of some forms of cancer; just two tablespoons provide important heart healthy nutrients. In short, if the consumer is going to eat peanut butter, he wants good taste and some insurance claim of health.
Key trends that can impact this idea are: convenience and healthfulness.
Convenience: Manufactures are responding to consumers' hectic lifestyles by creating packaging that assists convenience. Peanut butter comes in squeezable packages, with jelly and as a premade sandwich (J.M. Smucker Co.'s Uncrustables).
Healthfulness: Nuts have both the halo of health and reality of health. Nuts are a nutritionally dense whole food. Various health claims for nuts are allowed such as "scientific evidence suggests but does not prove that eating 1.5 ounces per day of most nuts [such as almonds, hazelnuts, peanuts, pecans, pistachios, and walnuts] as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol may reduce the risk of heart disease. See nutrition information for fat content."
However, peanut butter does not have this overall halo of health. In addition to the whole peanut allergy area, peanut butter is perceived as a fatty food. Peanut butter contains on the level of 24 percent fat. Eighty percent of this fat is unsaturated fat - "the good fat" - which may actually help lower LDL cholesterol levels in blood. It has become included in many medically endorsed weight loss and diabetic diets, due to its ability to met consumers' cravings in a healthy way.
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By Lora Koenig
Byrd Station (Antarctica), 11 December — We all got up at 5 AM this morning. I had gone to bed at 2 am because I had been backing up all of the radar data, which took much longer than anticipated. The traverse team went to bed early to be rested for the day.
It was a beautiful morning: warm, no wind, with thin, low, overcast clouds. The sleds were loaded and ready to go, already hooked on to the snowmobiles. Ludo was the first to the sleds and he started the generator, which powers heating pads that are used to warm the radars after being cold soaked all night. After about 15 minutes of warming, the radars can be started. During this time, the GPS is also turned on so it can obtain lock with the satellites and provide accurate positions.
I took the snowmobile covers off and helped Michelle load the final sleep kits on the sleds. The sleep kits are the last things to be loaded and contain a sleeping bag, sleeping bag liner, insolite pad, thermorest, pillow (if you want one, though most of us prefer to just use big red as a pillow), and a pee bottle so you don't have to leave the tent in the middle of a cold night or storm. All of this is stuffed into a duffle bag and goes with you everywhere inAntarctica.
Once the generator was started, the team headed into the galley for a quick breakfast. Most of the camp was still asleep because Sunday is their day off; however, Kaija and Tony, the camp manager and assistant manager, came up to see the team off. After breakfast, the radars were turned on and the snowmobiles started. We took some final pictures and I tried to shoot some video but the small video camera we brought along is not operating well in the cold. The feeling of both excitement and nervousness was in the air. Excitement for finally getting to the traverse portion of the science and nervousness because the team is headed out into the remoteness ofAntarcticaalone. They will no longer have the security of an established camp and will have to rely on each other for everything. The team is strong and I know they will do well. During the traverse they will most certainly cover ground that no human has ever walked on before.
At 6:41 AM, Michelle led the team out of Byrd Camp. She pulled a Siglin sled and a Nansen sled with food, the Scott tent, an HF radio for emergency communication, the radar spare parts, the sleep kits and personal gear. Michelle rides one of the two snowmobiles with mirrors so she can easily watch the team. Jessica followed pulling 2 Siglin sleds with food, the ice core drill and two ice core boxes. Randy was third in line with two Siglin sleds with even more food, the mountain tents, emergency bag, and all of the fuel. Ludo pulled the final snowmobile out and into line pulling the radar sled with Clem on the sled operating the radar. We all screamed and waved as they pulled away.
I continued to watch as they moved further towards the horizon. They became smaller and smaller dots on the horizon above tent city as they moved away from camp. At 7:12 AM their dots blurred into the horizon. The traverse had begun.
They will travel 95 km (59 mi) today, their longest stretch of the entire traverse, to the first camp site. They are moving toward higher snow accumulation and towards WAIS Divide field camp. When they reach the site tonight, they will be95 km(59 mi) from Byrd and85 km(52.8 mi) from WAIS Divide, so if they have any problems they will head to WAIS Divide, not Byrd.
I am feeling very lonely sitting in Byrd camp without the team, but there is still important work to do. Remember, the team still does not have their fuel caches. The pilots are in camp, but today's overcast weather, while great for traversing, is not adequate for flying: The clouds make it difficult to see the snow surface. The pilots call this surface definition. In order to do open field landings (landings not on a ski way), the pilots cannot have overcast clouds at any level. Now I am just waiting for the weather to clear so that the plane can cache the team's fuel and ice core boxes. I am also waiting for an LC-130 to come into Byrd so I can get a ride back to McMurdo and then back to the U.S.
Today I will also check the base station GPS and give a science lecture about our traverse to the Byrd Camp residents.
Everyone at Byrd Camp has helped us so we can complete our science goals and it is much appreciated. Thank you, Byrd Camp! We especially enjoyed the wonderful food made by Chef Rob. The team's send-off dinner was duck with a port sauce, chicken with polenta, pureed carrots, broccoli with hollandaise sauce, and Boston Cream and Lemon Meringue pie for dessert. Yummmmm!
Around 7 PM tonight I expect to get a satellite phone call from Michelle. From this point on, the blog will have less pictures for a while because we will only have voice communication with the team. It should take between 24 and 30 days to complete the traverse, including (bad) weather days. The team will communicate back to me at each camp site and I will update you on their progress. When they return, we will post more posts from them with pictures of the traverse.
The team is truly out in the wilderness. The only communication they have is through the sat phone, which will only be on for a few hours in the evening. They can call their families and their families can send 160 character text messages to the sat phone. The deep field ofAntarcticais a remote place.
Go team, go!!!!!! (The extra exclamation points are for Clem, who loves to use them.)
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Because I know you all are just dying for an update: Jack still doesn't eat. I know! Phillip and I are still not sure how this happened. To produce a child so wholly uninterested in delicious food must have required every recessive gene in our bodies.
You may be pleased to note that I have chosen to deal with this obnoxiousness by Not Caring. Possibly not the best parenting choice, but definitely the best for my mental health. When your every effort to convince your son that French toast is one life's pure pleasures fails and fails miserably, you need to acquire a whole new perspective. One in which there are people in the world who do not instantly devour fried bread. I KNOW.
My husband, on the other hand, considers manipulating Jack's appetite a part of his daily routine. If Jack doesn't eat or doesn't want his lunch, I just throw it out or put it back in the fridge and we go on with our lives. When Jack doesn't eat dinner, Phillip is home and we are treated to a nightly Show Of Force, one in which both parties are so stubborn and so annoying in their overtures that dinner is effectively ruined.
The Parental Differences Showdowns in our house occur nightly as well.
A few nights ago we went out to dinner with Phillip's parents and his uncle, who had never met the kids. It was kind of a big deal and we were going to a nice restaurant and I wanted the kids to be cute and sweet and perfect. Of course Jack didn't nap until he fell asleep in the car, making for an extra super cranky boy at the restaurant. His behavior was already atrocious without the added benefit of coaxing him to eat, but Phillip did so anyway. And Internet, it was mortifying. I mean, Jack was being awful, and then here's Phillip insisting he have a bite of fried rice before he can have a shrimp chip. And then it was a bite of white rice. Like there is a nutritional difference between white rice and a shrimp chip! GAH!
Food is SUCH a big deal in most of the Asian-American families I know. Food is love. Food is joy. And when your grandson won't eat a single thing on the table, perhaps you get sort of desperate and distraught. How can this be? How can his parents let this happen? It wasn't until this last family dinner that I realized maybe Phillip's personal mission to force the boy to eat, especially in front of his parents, has something to do with wanting to prove he's a good dad. Showing his own parents that he can handle this stuff. Take care of his kid. I mean, God knows the daughter-in-law isn't concerned!
In Phillip's family, an evening's success is so often centered around whether or not Jack eats. This hardly happens in my family. Not that we don't want him to eat, but no one thinks making a huge deal out of it will help. We're not nice about it -- he doesn't get dessert, he gets it again for his next meal, all that good stuff -- but no one likes enduring another episode of Talk Jack Into Trying The Spaghetti.
This is hard for me to figure out since I (OBVIOUSLY) have an opinion about how this not-wanting-to-eat thing should be handled. But now I'm feeling like it's not just a not-my-family thing, but a CULTURAL thing and that makes it more sensitive and harder to crack.
Is there anything you feel like you have to just Let Go when dealing with different families?


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Like G-Star apparel, G-Star footwear combines classic craftsmanship with a modern take on design. This season the collection of derbys, boots, brogues and trainers is hallmarked by an unexpected mix of chambray fabrics, rivet details and high-gloss leather.
Colour: Black leather with denim.
Upper: Leather, cotton, polyurethane. / Lining: Leather, cotton. / Footbed: Microfibre. / Outsole: Rubber.
Art. nr.: 11955-098-F40A


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Clydesdale Scot wrote:any chance of linking to a low resolution version of the artwork once completed? I may be interested in a set for my Ricardo frame and happy to share in costs.
Thanks for your help Philip, I've sent Esigns an email so will await their reply. Do you have any idea how much it will cost with them?
I'm happy to post the decal designs for you when they're finished.