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2012 Nominations
Andrew Tridgell
- Aside from well known and documented contributions to open source, 'Samba' and 'rsync' – I'd also like to thank Tridge for his indirect contribution towards the development of 'git'. Perhaps his effort of reverse engineering BitKeeper to produce a compatible open source client, provided just the right motivation for the development of git.
- Tridge has already been nominated a couple of times, but no one has brought up his additional global contributions in being involved as an advisor in the 2004 European Commission anti-trust decision and the formation of the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation. http://www.zdnet.com.au/samba-eu-made-microsoft-talk-again-339286654.htm http://www.samba.org/samba/PFIF/ This is a global contribution, but it affects AU/NZ devs as much as anyone.
- Tridge has contributed enormously to the Free Software / Open Source software commons. Most visible, arguably, is Samba, but this forgets rsync, tdb and myriad more modest/invisible but none the less "you'd miss them" works. While his direct technical contribution is formidable, perhaps unequalled among any Australian FOSS developer, we must also acknowledge his passion for teaching others and being able to do so in an engaging and thought provoking way. A regular contributor to linux.conf.au (perhaps has presented at all of them ?) he is so well known and respected in the community that he perhaps needs no further introduction :)
Donna Benjamin
- Donna works tirelessly for the Linux and Open Source communities within Australia. She has been a director of OSIA, president of LUV, ran LCA 2008, and is regularly involved in the Victorian ICT teach association events to encourage the adoption of open source in schools. She has been heavily involved in efforts to increase the numbers of women involved in Open Source and to improve understanding and reduction of barriers that prevent the inclusion of minorities. Much of the work Donna does is behind the scenes, and she deserves recognition for her impressive contributions.
- Tireless organising (parts of) numerous OSS conferences, and introducing OSS into others like the Victorian ICT Teachers confs. OSIA activities Excellent work on the neat&short Code of Conduct.
- Constructive, aspirational, practical, engaged, committed, funny, consistent, great role model.
- Donna has a long standing commitment to the free and open source software community. Evidence of her long standing participation and contribution include spearheading Software Freedom Day, and putting in place measures to help keep it going. She also dedicated herself to LCA Melbourne 2008 and more recently to Drupal Downunder. She initiated LUV Beginners', which has acted as a feeder channel to LUV, and has helped to build networks and outreach with the State Library and education groups.
Mary Gardiner
- Mary has been active in the Australian Linux community for over a decade. At various times she's run AussieChix (recently expanded into OWOOT, the Oceania Women Of Open Technology group), organised the LinuxChix/Haecksen miniconfs at LCA, served on numerous organising and papers committees for open source conferences, and been an invited speaker at conferences including PyCon Australia. I respect Mary enormously, and have always been impressed with the professionalism and dedication with which she has worked to make the open source community more welcoming and supportive, and thus to grow the community overall. In 2011 she co-founded the Ada Initiative, to support and promote women in open technology and culture. The Ada Initiative has provided support/consulting to numerous Australian events who wish to increase the gender diversity of their attendees and speakers. In January 2011, LCA used an anti-harassment policy based on the Ada Initiative's guidelines and with Mary's close involvement. This policy came into use when a keynote speaker presented a talk with inappropriate sexualised content. The conference and the speaker apologised, and the issue was resolved promptly and successfully -- a notable achievement in a field where such incidents are seldom well addressed.
- I don't think Mary needs any introduction to the Australian FOSS community, her work for Linux Australia and the Ada Initiative are more than enough IMO.
- Mary Gardiner is a leading advocate for women in open source, in Australia and overseas.
- All the reasons that are already listed.
- Mary has tirelessly worked for open source while simultaneously avoiding public recognition for the most part. Mary was chair or co-chair for the linux.conf.au program committee for 4 years running, including the year she couldn't attend the conference herself because she was expecting the birth of her son. She has regularly taken on the most unrewarding, painful, and necessary tasks as part of her years of service on the Linux Australia council. Mary's service stretches back to at least 2002, when she was part of the Sydney LUG committee. She founded or co-founded several women in open source groups, including Aussiechix in 2007, OWOOT in 2011, and the Ada Initiative in 2011, and was a major volunteer for LinuxChix for many years. Mary has served long and effectively, and yet relatively few people know her name or are aware of how much open source owes to her, both in and out of Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania.
- For her work supporting and encouraging women in open technology, both as an open source community member and contributor, and through her work with the Ada Initiative.
- Ada Initiative
- For stepping up and tackling the issue of the under representation of women in open technology and culture by forming the Ada Initiative with Valerie Aurora
Sam Varghese
- Over the years, Sam has consistently provided extensive media coverage for linux.conf.au, giving our community and events exposure that is otherwise hard to obtain. He features and acknowledges the work of the volunteers organising these events for everyone.
Steve Walsh
- Steve has been an integral part of the Linux Australia community for many years now. Thanks to his work, the linux.conf.au domain has been grandfathered, making it available for the conference for many years to come and I'd go so far as to say that his work on the LCA network has continually set the bar higher and higher. Outside of the Linux Australia community he has worked for many years with the Canberra Linux User Group.
- Steve deserves recognition for his sysadmin and networking work over a period of many years in support of linux.conf.au. As the "other half" of the networking team in 2009, I saw Steve's dedication to the job first hand. There's no question that without him there things wouldn't have run as smoothly, and we'd have been much less ambitious in what we tried to achieve. With Steve's help and expertise we managed to provide a single conference network spanning multiple sites, multiple communications technologies, and on an infrastructure layer consisting of equipment owned and managed by at least four separate organisations. Being a sysadmin is often a thankless and demanding job, but Steve comes back year after year to make sure that LCA maintains its reputation as a conference with a world class conference network. Yours, John Dalton
Arjen Lentz
- Back in 2008 Arjen Lentz gave a lightning talk at the Open Source Developers conference asking how many people had dealt with (or were dealing with) depression. That very same day, after unearthing the scale of this silent problem, he founded bluehackers.org At every major open source event since, Arjen has made a quiet and concerted effort to raise awareness, and encourage others to acknowledge the issue. As the website states: "The objective of this initiative is to make visible that there are many fellow geeks among us who are intimately familiar with depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder. It helps to know you're not alone. And it's not because we're geeks, but because we're human."
Brenda Wallace
- Untiring involvement and advocacy work. She codes, she organises and she preaches. Contributions as long as your arm: http://www.ohloh.net/people?q=brenda+wallace She is also a strong role model for women in IT, having run Girlgeekdinners in Wellington and generally been good at highlighting some of the issues and biases women face in our community.
Brendan Scott
- One of our own and very active specialised OSS lawyers. Numerous detailed submissions for govt, on new copyright act, US FTA, and other topics. Answering point for many questions from govts at all levels and other organisations. Long-term OSIA director and chairman.
Chris Neugebauer
- 1) For assisting so well in making lca2011 & previous conferences work smoothly. 2) For consistently representing the Australian FOSS community in a creative, innovative & positive light.
John Ferlito
- Quietly and persistently John has been working to improve the situation for FOSS using businesses wanting to interact electronically with the ATO. His commitment and involvement directly led to the ATO supporting linux with AusKey.
Jonathan Corbet
- His longstanding coverage of events and issues dear to the community's hearts has been invaluable, but in particular his worldly and awareness of non-US issues has been underrecognised. The Australian Free Software community would be less without his coverage of events like linux.conf.au, for example.
Kathy Reid
- Kathy has been awesome in assisting with events such various Software Freedom Day events. As well as this she organised Barcamp Geelong was held in Geelong in July this year (2011). She has always been very enthusiatic about open source and I feel is a worthy nominee for the 2012 Rusty Wrench award.
- For being the long time powerhouse behind successful Software Freedom Day and Barcamp events in Victoria. Kathy's excellent documentation skills, attention to detail and commitment to ongoing quality improvement processes have been a critical factor in our success.
Neil Brown
- As the maintainer of the Linux subsystem that provides software RAID services. I nominate Neil for his personal contributions to the development of this subsystem, as well as his tireless support of patch contributors and especially direct support of end-users. He's an inspiration and worthy role model.
Peter Lieverdink
- Peter's long standing hard work in a variety of roles has gone largely unrecognised. As the secretary of LA, he has worked tirelessly behind the scenes to provide administrative support. He has been instrumental in supporting Software Freedom Day and has assisted greatly in his capacity as LCA Ghost.
Sridhar Dhanapalan
- I would like to nominate Sridhar Dhanapalan for the Rusty Wrench. Sridhar has been a past committee member of Linux Australia and a past committee member and president of the Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG). He remains an active current member of SLUG, participating in e-mail group discussions and at SLUG meetings. He is also an active and enthusiastic presenter at SLUG meeting and actively works to support and develop participation in the LUG. Involved in FOSS for more than fourteen years and having been a community member with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Australia project, Sridhar eventually became CTO OLPC Australia two years ago. His current position involves working towards developing a quality of access and competency for the more than 300, 000 primary school children who live in remote areas of Australia. This has included not only organising and arranging professional assistance and online training for teaching staff, but on-site development and installation. Sridhar has given talks on the aims and progress of the OLPC project to a great variety of audiences and has spoken at CeBIT and particpated in and coordinated the OLPC and SLUG presence at Sydney Education Expos. Additionally Sridhar has run training and given talks at various events such as Software Freedom Day, Document Freedom Day and Linux.conf.au amongst others, is a current administrator of the Ubuntu English (United Kingdom) Translators team, founder (and principal documentation writer) of the Ubuntu English Translation initiative, a member of Sugar Labs and the Ubuntu Australia team. Combined with his active involvement and participation, Sridhar has a very clear understanding of the principals of FOSS, the utility of the FOSS approach and the value of this approach in providing equity of access to, use and ownership of software. Sridhar's committment to the principles of FOSS is evident in the content of his presentations, his work within the community and his approach to community development and support. His grasp of the ethical considerations of FOSS makes Sridhar a positive, focused and constructive proponent of FOSS and someone who represents the principles which best represent the FOSS community at a local, national and international level. More information can be obtained at: http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/about/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SridharDhanapalan
- Sridhar has been active in the FOSS community for nearly fifteen years, and has accomplishments in bringing the value of FOSS to business, education and normal users. Sridhar has been the CTO at One Laptop per Child Australia for the past two years, and has been an OLPC community member for longer. This tough mission involves using FOSS to 'close the gap' and bring a sustainable educational programme to the >300,000 primary-school children living in remote Australia. As a section of the population that unfortunately is often forgotten about, his work here may not be very noticeable to the average city-dweller. However, it has already made a big difference for thousands of children. Through the power of open code and open community, it is impacting literally millions of children globally. His work (with the OLPC Australia team) has been recognised as a model for all OLPC deployments around the world to follow: http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/australia/olpc_australia_is_the_countrys_toughest_linux_deployment.html Sridhar served on the Linux Australia Council for one year, and the SLUG Committee for three (two years as President). He's led events on behalf of LA, including at CeBIT and the Education Expo, and has served as a volunteer and speaker at linux.conf.au. He wrote LA's Introduction to Linux, Free Software and Open Source (linux.org.au/linux), including the Education section (linux.org.au/education). He's also been involved with OSIA, including assisting with their stand at CeBIT. In the business sphere, Sridhar has been able to realise the potential of FOSS in fields such as business intelligence, networking and telecommunications, often against strong competition from proprietary technologies. Sridhar's achievements are many, but they've been pretty well summarised online: http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/about/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SridharDhanapalan
Steve Dalton
- Chief un-organiser of almost all BarCamp Queensland (Brisbane) and Gold Coast Events. Starter of Techspace Goldcoast (hackerspace). Podcaster ("coding by numbers"). Several OSS meetups Promoting further OSS use at Suncorp bank. All-round good active guy.


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Shelved Dolls: Lillie Mae Faulk – The Real Holly Golightly
You think Holly Golightly is a big deal now? Oh, sure, sure, every brunette who has ever done anything remotely kooky thinks she's Holly Golightly. We all think that. I think that, too. You try adding some chocolate sauce to a chicken recipe and suddenly you're an Oakie turned call girl who is still attached to the husband she married at 14.
And that is 50 years after the book came out.
You cannot conceive of the kind of big deal Holly Golightly was when Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's originally came out. Everyone thought that they were Holly Golightly. One woman, Bonnie Golightly, sued Truman Capote for $800,000 claiming he had stolen the story of her life. Truman remarked "it's ridiculous for her to claim she is my Holly. I understand she's a large girl, nearly 40 years old. Why, it's sort of like Joan Crawford saying she's Lolita."
Of course, Truman always contended that Holly was based off of someone, but Truman was also the kind of guy who was very, very good at telling people who they want to hear.
Apparently Doris Lilly, the author of How To Marry A Millionaire, telephoned a friend of Truman's, very excited after reading Breakfast at Tiffany's and exclaimed "It's me! It's me! It's me! Me, me, me!" The friend mentioned this to Truman, and Truman replied "Honey, you tell her, her, her, for me, me, me, that it is her. So far it's also Carol Marcus and Oona Chaplin."
There was, however, probably one person Truman really loved and was completely honest with, and that was his longtime partner Jack Dunphy. People forget about Jack, they think Truman is somehow asexual, like Andy Warhol, but Jack was there, in spite of being forgotten about. And Truman told Jack that he was frankly surprised that anyone who knew him well did not immediately recognize the inspiration behind Holly Golightly.
And yet, everyone seems to agree that the true identity of Holly Golightly, nee Lula Mae Barnes, is a great mystery, and that her true inspiration can never be known.
Well, that was yesterday, this is today. I'm here to clear that up. Spoiler: it was Truman's mom. Mystery solved. Let's break this down and find all the parallels between the two, if their virtually identical birth names were not enough.
Lillie Mae Faulk – much like Lula Mae Barnes – was a beautiful Southern orphan (seen here in the headscarf), and God, she hated the country. Unlike Breakfast at Tiffany's readers, she was not charmed by the fact that she was a southern orphan being sort-of, kind-of raised by her Aunt Jennie. Presumably, like Holly, she spent her youth in the South running through briar patches and stealing chicken eggs – but all she wanted to do was move to New York. Andreas Brown, a literary archivist claims:
"Lillie Mae Faulk was said to be a great Southern beauty. Not in the sense that we consider great beauties today [Ed note: I think this is an incredibly bitchy comment on Andreas Brown's part] but at that time she was considered a very attractive and charming woman. By all accounts the prettiest girl thereabouts, just an inch or so about five feet, dark blond hair, barely sixteen, but today what we might refer to as a bubblehead. She certainly was irresponsible, childlike, a case of arrested development in the sense that she pursued adolescent values well into her thirties. She married the first fellow who came along who had any money."
That fellow was Arch Persons. He came from a good family and wooed her with a sports-car, which he said he could use to drive her to every city she wanted to go to. And oh, Lillie Mae was on it. They married after a few weeks – and then Arch ran out of money on their honeymoon. Completely. He was actually broke. They were forced to return to the small town of Monroesville. In many ways, it sounds similar to Holly's marriage at 14 to Doc Golightly, except that Arch turned out to be a con man.
As soon as Lillie Mae realized this she tried to get a divorce – only to find out that she was pregnant. She told everyone she wanted an abortion, but was never able to follow through with it – in large part because Jennie Faulk, the aunt who had raised her convinced her not to. She returned to Arch. He promised he was going to get rich and move to New York.
To that end, he started attempting a series of get-rich-quick schemes which took him around the country. The couple lived in hotel rooms for the next five years. Desperate to find a way to get out her marriage, Lillie began taking a series of lovers. Truman claimed later that his earliest memory as a baby had been his mother having a series of assignations with men in hotel rooms.
And then she left to move to New York.
She promised Truman – as Holly was always saying she promised her brother Fred – that just as soon as she got enough money she was going to send for him. She moved to New York where she told 5 year old Truman she'd support herself "hostessing." It is somewhat up to you to decide what she meant by that.
Truman probably had his own ideas. Later in life, when interviewed, Truman said that Holly was a kind of American Geisha hostess who "was not precisely a call girl. She had no job, but accompanied expense-account men to the best restaurants and night clubs, with the understanding that her escort was obligated to give her some sort of gift, perhaps jewelry or a check … if she felt like it, she might take her escort home for the night."
Truman was left with his southern relatives, the Faulks, who you might remember from stories like A Christmas Memory or Truman's first novel Other Voices, Other Rooms. One upside to this was that he meet his neighbor Harper Lee (she based the character Dill in To Kill A Mockingbird on Truman) – as well as Sonny Boular who later became the inspiration for Boo Radley.
However, unlike Holly, Lillie did send for Truman. In 1931, when Truman was 8, Lillie married a successful South American businessman Joe Capote (Joe, not Jose, the successful South American Holly wanted to marry in Breakfast at Tiffany's). Joe, according to almost everyone who knew him, was lovely. Phoebe Vreeland, who grew up near the Capotes and became a friend of Truman's claimed,
"Joe was a darling guy, wonderful fun. If she was the first divorcee mother I met, he was the first Cuban. He had a wonderful accent, a Cuban accent, which is nothing like Puerto Rican or Spanish. He was funny, humorous and taught me how to rhumba. But Nina was his life. And he didn't really know how to handle the whole thing. Of course, he couldn't handle his financial life. He ended up in Sing Sing for embezzlement. I'll never forget that, I mean, Sing Sing! That's where Jimmy Cagney goes to jail. Not the nice guy who taught you how to do the rhumba."
What day was it that Holly Golightly went to visit her friend at Sing Sing who was there for financial trouble? Thursday? Doesn't matter.
And, of course, all that was later. Long before any difficulties Joe and Lillie moved to a spacious apartment on Riverside Drive, and, after hosting a going away party for himself which was crashed by the Ku Klux Klan (they were upset at the presence of black guests at an 8 year old's party), Truman joined them.
He was surprised to realize that his mother had changed her name from Lillie to "Nina". Desperate to disguise her roots, she had, just like Holly, adopted a bizarre accent. Nina sent Truman to the prestigious Trinity high school, and then, worried that Truman's effeminate eccentricities might damage her rise in society, sent him off to military school.
The military schooling didn't take. Truman returned home much the same – Nina and Joe lived for a while in Connecticut before moving to 1060 Park Avenue – and Nina's friend Eleanor Freide (they met at the races) remembered:
"Truman came through in some kind of outfit, very chic, all dressed up in kind of a strange tie and things, and Nina said, "Where are you going?" He said, "well, I'm only going over to Bennett Cerf's for dinner." She said, "Well, what about that gray suit we just bought at Brook's Brothers, you go back in there and put on the gray suit."… Anyway, he did traipse back into the room. He came back in the gray flannel suit, looking wonderful, but he had on patent pumps. She said, "oh, go ahead." Afterward, Truman said, "oh, my crazy mother!"
Nina became known for her parties. The floors at their apartment at 1060 Park were waxed to a high sheen, and she befriended luminaries – among whom were Doris Lilly, who was so convinced that Holly Golightly was all based on her, her, her! She prepared lavish Southern buffets, which she made entirely by herself (people were continually surprised that she was an excellent cook, but, like Holly, she could only cook certain dishes).
As he grew older, Truman came up with guest lists as well, and introduced his own friends. Phyllis Cerf recalled the parties at 1060 Park and claimed that she saw "everybody from Marlene Deitrich to Walter Winchell."
Truman was also friends with Christopher Isherwood, whose Goodbye to Berlin inspired the musical Cabaret. His description of the bohemian cabaret singer Sally Bowles almost certainly influenced Truman's later depiction of Holly Golightly. For a while, it would seem, they all had a perfectly marvelous time, with no mean reds to speak of.
However one of their friends recall a party that didn't work out so well. On the day Joe – who had been, for some time, having financial difficulties – was accused of embezzlement. Nina was hosting a party. No one showed.
And so, Joe's financial instability was revealed. He had never been able to make enough to really support Nina. He'd begun gambling in the volatile commodities market, and he soon began taking money from the company (Taylor, Pinkham & Co) that employed him. When the company was purchased by J.P. Stevens in 1952, they found close to $100,000 missing.
By that point, Truman had published his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms about growing up in the South, and was working on movie scripts (Beat The Devil). He sent Nina almost all of the money he made so that Nina would not have to move to a "cold water flat in the Bronx."
Nina began drinking heavily.
Truman wrote in a letter to a friend "Odd, I seem to think about money all the time, I used to not ever. But the whole Nina-Joe situation has given me such a jolt; and it goes on and on and on – and I have to pay straight down the line because I don't know what else to do."
Nina began avoiding all her old friends, terrified that they would realize her difficult financial situation.
Eleanor Freide dined with Nina at the Plaza shortly before her death and remarked that she was shocked to see Nina's roots showing. Her hair had always been dyed so expertly that Freide had thought she was a natural blonde (in Breakfast at Tiffany's Paul goes through Holly's trash at one point, and discovers that she "dyes her hair, and receives love letters by the bale."). Towards the end of her life Nina could no longer go to the beauty parlor to have it done.
One night, Nina had a fight with Joe, and he went to stay at the best hotel he could afford, the West Side Y.M.C.A. No one knows precisely what happened, but sometime in the next few hours, Nina swallowed a lethal dose of Seconal sleeping pills. The next morning, when he found her, Joe saw that the phone was off the hook, and wondered if she'd tried to call anyone. The windows were also open – it's possible that she thought the cold air would stop her from passing out. It did not. She was taken to the Knickerbocker hospital where she died, a few weeks before her 49th birthday.
Upon hearing of her death, Truman, who was in Paris with Jack at the time, wept "she didn't have to do it. She didn't have to die. I've got money."
His lover, Jack, describes taking Truman to the bus to fly to Nina funeral, in a way that sounds remarkably similar to Doc's departure in the book. He said, "I put him on the bus to the airport – he was the only one – all the other passengers had driven out, presumably in their own cars. The Driver said "look, Mr. C, you hve the bus to yourself." Truman was holding his dog. He looked at the driver, then at me, and then, to please the driver, he said something he would never say if he'd not been so desolate: "that's because all the other passengers are so rich" he said – making a joke. Then he drove away in that big blue bus. It began to snow. It sounds like a story, but it really did snow – and the wind rose – and it was freezing cold."
At the funeral, which was held at Frank Campbell's funeral parlor on Madison Avenue, because it was commonly agreed to be the best in the city, Joe and Truman told everyone that Nina had died of pneumonia.
Shortly after, the district attorney concluded his investigation of Joe, and Joe was sent away to Sing Sing. Truman visited him consistently while he was there, but vowed never again to loan money to anyone.
I cannot help but feel that this explains so much, afterwards.
Yeats said "I have often had the fancy that there is some one myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought." Truman forever afterwards seemed obsessed with wealthy people, the really, truly rich, and he always seems to betray them. He integrated himself into their lives, and he became their closest confidante – but then, he published all their stories without concern for ostracizing himself in the process.
He did this, even, seemingly, with the people he loved. He almost certainly did love Babe Paley – he died whispering her name – but he published all her most intimate and humiliating secrets.
I think probably Truman's motivation for doing all of that were unclear, even to himself. But I do think that no matter how much he loved it, he might have been gripped by certain impulse to humble the world that so enthralled his mother that it brought about her demise. And he did, even if it meant the he ended life utterly alone.
But there is one nice moment, in all of that, or a moment I always think is nice.
When Truman Capote was throwing the Black and White Ball, which was, well, probably the most majorly publicized party of all time (one critic suggested that the guest list was comprised of everyone who'd be first to the guillotine) one man came to Truman. His wife was a social climber who wasn't really prestigious – and Truman had been almost gleefully turning away major socialites who were begging for invitations – and the man said that his wife was so upset that she hadn't been invited that she'd taken to her bed and had been taking all kinds of sleeping pills. As soon as he heard that, Truman immediately ran to the phone, called her, and apologized for having lost her invitation in the mail, and told her that he expected to see her there early at his party.
That was a nice thing he did.
Long before that, though shortly after Lillie/Nina's death, Truman wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's. The title is borrowed from a story Truman heard about a young marine. The marine spent the night with a middle aged man in New York. The next morning, the man was so grateful he offered to take the marine anyplace he wanted for breakfast. "Pick someplace fancy," he said. The marine had only heard of one fancy place in New York. "Well," he said, "let's have breakfast at Tiffany's." Neither Truman nor his mother were probably ever quite that naive, but, considering where they came from, they might have been close.
Truman said at the beginning that the novel was about a woman who wanted a calm place to go to, amids "that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets."
Breakfast at Tiffany's does not end, as the movie does, with that woman finding that calm place in another person. But one day, the narrator does see Holly's former cat looking well taken care of and contented in a windowsill, and he hopes that, wherever Holly is, she is, too. Perhaps he felt a desire to make her so. But perhaps he also realized that would have been pushing things too far.
Even if she never found that sense of calm, Nina did get to live for a while amid the lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. In doing so, she gave birth to not only one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, but, as far as I can tell, one of the greatest characters. I think even Holly Golightly, always top banana in the shock department, would have been impressed.
Pics via Paramount Pictures Breakfast At Tiffany's.
Capote: A Biography
Party of the Century
Additional Reading:
Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Accquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career, George Plimpton
Capote: A Biography, Gerald Clarke
Party of the Century, Deborah Davis
Fifth Avenue, 5 AM, Sam Wasson
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote


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Give Them Three Points – The United States Defeats Ghana 2-1 in Opening Match of World Cup
Three huge points have been gained by the United States as they opened up World Cup play on Monday night.
Clint Dempsey started the action off just 32 seconds into the contest by putting the United States on the scoreboard. It took 82 minutes before Ghana could counter back with a goal from Andre Ayew.
The United States wouldn't settle for a 1-1 draw in their opening contest. John Brooks, who substituted into the game for the US, scored the deciding goal at the 86 minute mark. With the 2-1 victory, the USA gains three points in the group stage.
In 2006 and 2010, Ghana defeated and knocked out the USA from the FIFA World Cup. The US finally took back their win in 2014.
The USA's next contest will be on June 22 as they take on Portugal.


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Stretching the Field: Rice deserved to be burned by Rutgers
There is nothing more irritating than a fake tough guy.
They're entrenched in all levels of sports, ranging from players to coaches.
Having problems with a bully or an antagonistic person? Confront the agitator or simply pop 'em in the nose.
That is what some of the Rutgers men's basketball players should have done the first time former coach Mike Rice spit an insulting remark or violently tossed a basketball in the their direction.
But cooler heads prevailed since no incident occurred in terms of player retaliation, and wisely so in this day and age with everyone and their grandmother out to make a quick buck in the judicial system.
The Rutgers family rid itself of further headaches Wednesday by giving Rice the boot one day after ESPN released video of the coach's over-the-top coaching style, and then it went viral. Initially, Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti suspended Rice three games back in December and fined him $50,000. Seems like a slap on the wrist for Rice when he was slapping his players around.
And Rice isn't an intimidating guy by any means.
A squirrely man at best, Rice may have believed his military-type approach would sink in with the players. Did he think he was Bobby Knight? If so, Rice is not only out of line but delusional.
Former Rutgers director of player development Eric Murdock was the whistleblower on Rice's irrational practice antics.
"Unbelievable to me that someone would feel that technique can be successful," Murdock told ESPN. "To witness that video and see your coach physically putting his hands on players, physically kicking players, firing balls at players at point-blank range ... the verbal abuse, the belittling. Yeah, I was in total shock that this guy wasn't fired."
Murdock got his wish Wednesday.
The former basketball star put the wheels in motion late in 2012, leading to the suspension and hefty fine of Rice. Murdock should be deemed a hero for his actions and college officials around the country should take note. Raise your hand if a quick response would have curbed Jerry Sandusky's disgusting act early on at Penn State.
Pernetti may have acted quickly in handing down a penalty. What's bothersome is how he felt the original punishment would suffice since Rice was remorseful and confronted the issue by seeking help. That's usually what happens to people convicted of felonies or misdemeanors per order by a lawyer.
"I am responsible for the decision to attempt a rehabilitation of coach Rice," Pernetti said. "Dismissal and corrective action were debated in December and I thought it was in the best interest of everyone to rehabilitate, but I was wrong. Moving forward, I will work to regain the trust of the Rutgers community."
Many believe Pernetti should follow Rice out the door as well. Rice did say he was deeply sorry for his conduct, but it's too little too late to repent.
Imagine a professor at a university tossing a book or chalk at a student. Can you conceive the backlash that would result from that? Did Rice think he was Rip Torn's character Patches O' Houlihan from the movie "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story."
"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."
Coaches usually inherit carte blanche with their respective teams, but when it goes too far, actions must be taken.
It sets a bad example for prospective recruits and puts the university in a poor light. Coaches around the country have come into harsh situations and stemmed the tide, and it will happen again.
Some Rutgers recruits have already jumped ship from the Piscataway, N.J., campus in pursuit of greener, and less abusive, pastures.
As Rutgers begins its search for a new men's basketball coach, more extensive background checks on style and behavior are imperative. If proper hiring tactics are not met, the next man in charge may not be as fortunate player redemption-wise as Rice was on his way out.


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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Get Well Cards and Comments Welcome
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UGH. What IS IT with this time of year and oral surgery!? Even my favorite columnist at the SF Chronicle had oral surgery this week.ReplyDelete
I was mostly disgusted at how I couldn't eat the Pink Lady apples which are just beginning to come into season, but you've got plenty of time for the Sebastopol apples, and eventually you'll get your tastebuds back. Meanwhile, there's peaches and berries and milkshakes. Have one for me!
Good luck and good post surgery drugs!!ReplyDelete
OH and some good ice cream too....
All my very best wishes for wonderful easy and fast recovery that is progressing well now. Ice cream is so good for swelling.ReplyDelete
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Get Well Soon! Sending Best Wishes! Imagine there's a beautiful watercolor painting of flowers on the front of a cream colored card, and that the inside has the above sentiments. Below that, in my handwriting, it says, "We all send love!" and there are several signatures. You can guess the names.ReplyDelete
Thank goodness you have a great imagination!
Love, Natasha
Ouch! I hope all went smoothly and your recovery is quick and painfree.ReplyDelete
Dentists can be frustrating. You wait a month-and-a-half for an appointment, and they say, "I wish you'd come to me sooner."ReplyDelete
I hope it all went well!


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Bioshock Infinite Review
Last year I sat down, played through, and then wrote up a review for Borderlands 2. Since then I have written more reviews, typically of games included in bundles. Therefore, I have not had the luxury of completing the games simply because there was no time to do so for each title. Finally, I once again have the opportunity to finish a playthrough of a game for its review, and that game is Bioshock Infinite; the third in the Bioshock franchise.
In the first Bioshock game, the players were introduced to Rapture, an underwater failed-Utopia filled with guns, plasmids, mutated humans, hulking enemies, and more. Its sequel returned to Rapture but had you play as a 'Big Daddy;' one of the hulking enemies of the first game. Both games captivated fans with their creative stories, immersive world, and crazy abilities for killing stuff. (Ever wanted to shoot a swarm of bees out of your arm to attack your enemies?)
With Bioshock Infinite, many things have changed. Instead of underwater-Rapture you visit Columbia, the city in the clouds. Like Rapture, Columbia is an attempt at Utopia, but it has not failed; at least not yet. Exploring the city will uncover a great deal about it through 'Voxphone' recordings and 'Kinetoscopes.' However, you must be careful about what you believe, as propaganda is almost more common than bullets in this First-Person Shooter-Action game.
For those of you that are curious, I have played both previous titles in the franchise and enjoyed them. They are quality titles and deserve being purchased and played. We are not here to talk about them though. We are here for me to share whether or not I believe Bioshock Infinite also deserves a place in your game library.
With the introduction done, kindly read on to formulate your own verdict.


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I have completed all four of the beginning class bronze challenges and would like to do a kind of post mortem on my experiences with them. They will likely all be posted on my channel either today or tomorrow.
The focus of this write-up will be on what I learned (or felt I was meant to learn) by doing the challenge, and not a focus on the fun factor (I had fun with all of them)
Fighter Bronze: Despite my breezy videoed run through this is actually the first challenge I did, and I did it before I reviewed the game. I lost the first time because I killed everything as I saw it.
I think this challenge is actually a rather genius was of teaching about bonus experience. It is definitely where I learned that I should be killing things at least at my level and hopefully above my level and letting the rest live. A very valuable lesson, and I promise I would have had a much steeper learning curve to deal with if not for doing this challenge early.
I think it was using a bunch of lvl 1 goats that taught the lesson, because on my winning run through my thoughts were "okay just don't kill all the goats right off and you'll be fine"
Wizard Bronze: To anyone who watches me play the difference in before and after I did this challenge should be very obvious. This is the run that taught me all about the value of glyphs, and it did a great job of doing so. Before I did this run I undervalued them and actually put a very high value on the amount of conversion they give you over how much help they are.
It was this challenge that changed that.
Priest Bronze: I played quite awhile before doing this, but it still taught a valuable lesson: pay attention to enemy abilities. I believe it was also supposed to teach potion management, and how valuable potions are to priests, but I already understand this I think. The real lesson that came through was read what abilities enemies have, or it might just kill you. Also it taught me that the writer(s) are evil dead fans
Thief Bronze: My last challenge, and the most novel. Unfortunately also my least favorite. I believe it is meant to teach you the value of first strike, and also paying attention to class abilities. And it does that, unfortunately it teaches something else as well that I am pretty sure is not true. . .it teaches that WEYTWUT get's rid of enemy first strike. I am pretty sure it does not in fact do this except on this dungeon. (I could me wrong) As a result of knowing this I would not have figured out the solution at all if the game hadn't basically told it to me as I unlocked WEYTWUT. However if I had been a new player it would have lead me to believe that was a normal function of the glyph and quite possibly destroyed a future run or two.
That is it, overall I feel that the challenges are great learning experiences, but perhaps the thief challenge needs tweaking.
*edit The thief challenge is great I am just to pigheaded to learn things as they are taught to me :p WEYTWUT does infact get past first strike


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MU FRTI delivers approximately 700 courses annually to over 14,000 public and private responders. Since 1933 an integral part of the MU Extension mission has been to teach "modern methods of fighting fires." For more than 80 years the fire training program has been an authority for, and an unbiased source of information, firefighting and rescue techniques and technology, training and education.
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"A big challenge for OEMs is that they need to sell turbines, and today that means prices have to be lower than ever," says Ed Weston, director of GLWN, a group that advises companies looking to enter the wind sector.
"That puts special pressure on their supply-chain strategies. Supply-chain companies are under incredible pressure to cut their costs so that their customers can remain competitive." Some suppliers are concerned they may not be able to hold on, he adds, due to cost pressures at home and increased competition from overseas suppliers subsidised by their home governments.
These pressures come at a time when the cost of raw materials like steel and copper is rising, adds Matt Kaplan, a senior analyst at IHS Emerging Energy Research.
"Even though commodity prices are going up, a lot of component suppliers have been letting those increases erode their margins instead of passing them on," he says. "That is really showing how competitive this market is. But at the same time that's not long-term viable strategy for a business to continue."
Time for lean thinking
A viable strategy, of course, is what is being sought, and Kaplan sees a growing interest in adopting leaner manufacturing processes to increase efficiency and cut costs. "There's still potential to draw on industries like the automotive sector, where automation has been key, and bring that into the wind business," he says.
Diversification of risk is another part of the solution, and tapping into other wind markets is one way to do that, says Kaplan. For example, US-based bearing manufacturer, Timken, has found some success in the Chinese marketplace, and also has plants in Europe and India. If one region's installations are reduced, being in another region where they are up may be able to offset the challenges, Kaplan says: "It's sort of a balancing act."
It's an approach that is not limited to the component side of the business. Engineering, procurement and construction contractors are increasingly looking north to Canada, a market with thousands of new megawatts of wind set to be built over the next five years.
Broadening product offerings is another way companies are responding to the changing market. LM Wind Power, forced to lay off workers at its North Dakota blade plant earlier this year, acquired Encore Power Services, a generator repair company, in January. Some transportation companies are starting to carve out a niche in the operations and maintenance side of the business, Kaplan says, transporting parts to support projects that are already in operation.
Flexibility is particularly important at a time when turbine OEMs are competing on more than just cost. All the major players, says Kaplan, are introducing new products in an attempt to increase production and lower the cost of energy. Hub heights of 100 metres, up from the standard 80 metres, are increasingly common. Larger rotors are accompanying the move to lower wind-speed sites and there is a growing trend for direct drive and permanent magnet technologies.
But keeping up with those advancements puts extra pressure on supply-chain players, says Kaplan. "It's up to the suppliers to adapt and change quickly," he says. "There's a lot of opportunity for companies to really think about what the OEMs are looking for in their next-generation products and find ways to work with them to help bridge some of the technology gaps."
Long-term view
Giving suppliers the long-term view they need to make the necessary investments is a major issue for the US market. A grant programme paying 30% of project costs, implemented in 2009 to help overcome investment roadblocks in the wake of the financial crisis, ends this year. The federal production tax credit, which pays $0.022/kWh for the first 10 years of a project's life, expires at the end of 2012 with uncertainty about its renewal.
The American Wind Energy Association's (AWEA) attempts to get the government to enact a federal renewable energy standard (RES), which would require a minimum percentage of the nation's electricity to come from wind and other green sources, have borne no fruit. In fact, progress on an energy policy of any kind is subject to the deep political divisions in US legislature.
"AWEA's top priority by far is a long-term stable policy," says Tom Maves, deputy director of manufacturing and supply chain. "Not only will we install more wind if we have that but, as far as I'm concerned, the most important thing is it will allow manufacturing to continue at a stable pace."
Demand for a clear vision
A lot of supply-chain investment in the US to date has been designed to maximise the benefits of localisation, including timely delivery, lower transport costs and the elimination of exchange-rate risk.
"But now you get to that next level where we need some sort of an environment that allows people to make a multi-year business case," says Kevin Hazel, vice-president of supply-chain management for Siemens.
"A lot of the companies that we talk to are ready to do something, but they're a little bit put off by the whole issue of the lack of an energy policy in America."
"Tell us what the future will look like. What will this country support in terms of policy? With that clarity, the supply side will make the right decisions," Hazel says.
Yet, the US is still seeing investment by suppliers of generators and gearboxes, points out Kaplan. Spain's Ingeteam is opening a factory in Wisconsin this year to make generators and converters for the North American market. There are also investments in segments of the supply chain that have traditionally been underserved. Last June, URV USA, a subsidiary of Finnish firm URV Foundry, announce plans to open the US's first wind-dedicated foundry in Michigan to cast bedplates, which form the floor of the nacelle, and hubs for turbines.
"I would remind everyone looking at this industry that while we're projecting more moderate growth in the US market, it's still around the 6GW range, which is a large opportunity in itself," he says.
US manufacturers find themselves competing with entire nations rather than stand-alone companies, says GLWN director Ed Weston, making an already difficult market even tougher.
"Many countries are now competing, like companies, for jobs. In the past, if you were a manufacturer, your competition was another manufacturer. Today," Weston says, "it may be a country behaving like a manufacturer. That makes for a tough competitor."
Access to low-cost components from abroad could have an impact on original equipment manufacturer (OEM) sourcing strategies, agrees Matt Kaplan, a senior analyst at IHS Emerging Energy Research.
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"I think that's a real threat on the industry because pricing is really cut-throat at this point. If OEMs can find components from abroad that are of good quality and that are being offered at a lower landed cost, they might switch."
More manufacturing incentives could help bridge the gap, says Weston. He points to the rules of Michigan's renewable-energy target, which give bonus credits for projects utilising equipment manufactured in the state. "If expanded to a national basis, that concept might be a shot in the arm for US manufacturers."
The market itself should help put a check on how far afield manufacturers are willing to look for parts to supply their US assembly plants, says Kaplan. While a significant number of towers are being imported, particularly in California and the Pacific Northwest, he believes OEMs will be more hesitant to seek out new and less familiar suppliers of more technologically sophisticated components like generators and gearboxes.
"If there's one thing that OEMs do not want in the market right now it is any sort of failure or increased risk of failure in their products," Kaplan says.
"Competition is so cut-throat that if there are serious faults or flaws, customers have plenty of choices and they can switch to another company very quickly."


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Candidate Summary, 2012 Cycle
Former governor of Minnesota
Pawlenty, born in 1960, is the former governor of Minnesota, serving in that capacity from 2003 to January 2011. On May 23, 2011, Pawlenty formally announced he'd run for the Republican presidential nomination, saying, �politicians are often afraid that if they're too honest, they might lose an election. I'm afraid that in 2012, if we're not honest enough, we may lose our country.�
Show More Information About Tim Pawlenty
Pawlenty had for months been poised to formally enter the race, with media outlets reporting he would announce a White House bid on May 23 in Iowa.
In a March 21 video posted on Facebook, said he was "announcing the formation of an exploratory committee to run for president of the United States."
Although considered as a potential vice presidential candidate during 2008, GOP nominee John McCain selected then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Since then, Pawlenty has written a book and made regular visits to key presidential battleground states such as Iowa.
Pawlenty also maintains an active federal political action committee, the Freedom First PAC, which during the 2010 election cycle raised $3.4 million and spent $3.2 million.
Prior to his presidential run and years as Minnesota's governor, Pawlenty also served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003, with those final four years spent working as Republican majority leader.
Read the OpenSecrets Blog money-in-politics profile of Pawlenty here and the Center for Responsive Politics' analysis of 2010 cycle donors to his leadersihp PAC here.
Pawlenty dropped out of the presidential race on Aug. 14, 2011, after finishing third in the Ames Straw Poll.
Leadership PAC:
Total Raised: $5,151,118
Total Spent: $5,151,118
Cash on Hand: $0
Debts: $0
Date of Report: Mar 31, 2012
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$581,322 (11%)
$5,094,090 (99%)
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Personal Finances: 2010
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This is a lovely, well located and contemporary villa ideal for families who wish to be near to La Manga Club's facilities but in a relatively quiet spot. Internally the property has been well maintained and features a lovely kitchen area which is great for get-togethers. Additionally there is a games room downstairs – great for amusing the family. Externally the property is on the edge of the Los Naranjos development, yet only a few paces from one of the shared pools.
Entrance through to lobby area.
Living / Dining Area, a large room with two sofas, coffee table, television, DVD/CD player. Doors to patio area with seating.
Dining Area with table and chairs for up to eight people.
Kitchen - fully equipped with electric oven, hob, dishwasher, microwave, fridge/freezer, washing machine, toaster, kettle, with access to outside patio.
Master Bedroom with double bed, cabinets and wardrobes, plus Ensuite Bathroom with bath, shower, WC and washbasin.
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The community has 2 pools within yards of the villas, one of which is heated, making it an ideal all year round rental villa. Ideal for 2 families as it is split over 3 floors and offers good living space and a games room.
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Opie Gives Voice to His Happiness!
Opie – International Verminator!
Hi fellow Doggers,
My fur brother is going off to Australia for a week. I'm going to miss him horribly.
Worse yet, I think they've made a horrible mistake in not letting me go with him.
I did some internet research and they have some pretty strange animals down there in "Oz". They all seem to be some form of vermin. As you know, as a Snorkie, I hate vermin everywhere, especially international vermin. Obviously, I need to go to "Oz" to guard my hu-brother and whittle down their "squirrelishy" vermin population.
Here are some of the squirrelish creatures that my Gregory may encounter. I hope that he's prepared. This vermin looks quite interesting to chase, bark at and sink my teeth into.
This giant squirrel like thing appears to be some sort of double vermin.
If I got to chase it, I'd catch two for the effort of one.
That large tail looks like it might be quite fun to bite. Mama says it's a Kangaroo. Hmm, I think it would rue the day that it met up with me!
Obviously, this grey thing clinging to the tree is some sort of tailless squirrel. I'm not happy about the size of its claws. However, it is certainly "barkworthy!" Mama says it's a Koala bear, but it looks very "verminish" to me, not bearish at all. That nose looks like it needs my teeth in it. I'm actually pretty sure I saw something like this at the doggy toy store recently.
Undoubtedly, Australians have let their squirrels get completely out of hand. This one is missing his tail and seems to be horribly over fed. I believe there is a seriously low Snorkie population Down Under. More Snorkies equals less fat tailless squirrels. After I get through cleaning up their little continent, they might give me a medal, or at least some neat Australian treats. If it smells like meat, I'll eat it. This is a wombat according to Mama. Well, watch out Mr. Wombat, it's time for your wombat butt wompin' Opie style!
This is some sort of demented looking cat. I have to say the feral cats in my neighborhood are far more handsome. This guy should be a piece of cake to deal with. I'd make short work of it. Mama says that I shouldn't even entertain the idea of tangling with this thing. She says it's a Tasmanian Devil. She obviously hasn't heard what the big dogs call me at the dog park — Opie the Terminator. When I get through with this devil it will be singing with the angels!
Now this thing looks really fun to chase. In fact, it looks kind of like a toy I already have. Those ears look like a lot of fun to chew on. I bet I can make it really, squeak.
Mama says that this is a Greater Bilby. Well, Bilby here has delusions of grandeur. I'd say he was definitely "lesser" and I'll be the greater, probably the greatest Snorkie in the world. I just realized that I could gain International status as a Snorkie Verminator.
I hope Gregory is able to keep himself safe from these weird creatures without me to protect him. I am the official family security expert. I even have a uniform. It seems unwise to send him off to some strange place with strange animals without me his trusty snorkie to protect him.
What is Gregory going to do without me?
Actually, what am I going to do without Gregory?
I heard Daddy say he'll only be gone for a week.
Well, fellow doggers you and I both know this "week" is really a a century in doggy time. ( Sigh)
I think I'll go sit with Mama.
She looks like she needs a lick and I know I could use a pet.
Words to live by… A Snorkie's comment
Hi All,
I'm usually a pretty self centered kind of fellow. I mean, I want my kibble when I want it. I want my belly rubbed … all the time. I like what I like ,and if I don't like it. I bark or growl or hide in my crate. That's life right? But, every once in a while I get it. I get why Mama adopted me, why sometimes she shoves me in the bedroom so I won't interfere with the neighbor who's chasing that crazy Dachshund escape artist. I get why the boys give away their perfectly good books and toys to the little boy next door.
Here it is.
I'll bet you get it too.
Have a Snorkie kind of a day!
Peace out,


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When Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Emmanuel Sanders suddenly dropped to the turf late in the fourth quarter, was helped to the sideline, returned after missing one play, then managed to be the first player down the field on punt coverage, announcers Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth let NBC's audience know their feelings.
``Man,'' Michaels said, his voice dripping with sarcasm, ``I'm sure glad Sanders is OK.''
In a similar tone, Collinsworth chimed in: ``It's a miracle.''
Both chuckled. More guffaws and hearty mocking of Sanders came from ESPN's talking heads on a ``C'mon Man!'' segment a couple of days later.
Safe to say the NFL doesn't consider this a laughing matter: The league told Sanders it wants to chat about what happened in that Sunday night game against the Cincinnati Bengals. When a reporter asked Sanders this week whether he really had a cramp against the Bengals, he didn't answer directly, saying: ``We're going to speak on it when we get to New York.''
At least one of the Bengals, safety Chris Crocker, was hardly bothered by the tactic.
```If you're not cheating, you're not trying,' I guess, is the old saying,'' Crocker said. ``So if you can slow the game down, why not?''
Bengals coach Marvin Lewis didn't really want to touch the topic, other than to say he thinks ``it's generally a rare occasion.''
All 32 teams' general managers and head coaches were sent a memo back in September by Ray Anderson, the NFL's executive vice president of football operations, reminding them, ``The Competition Committee deprecates feigning injuries, with subsequent withdrawal, to obtain a timeout without penalty. Coaches are urged to cooperate in discouraging this practice.''
The league could fine coaches, players or clubs - or it could decide to take away draft picks. No one has been punished yet for faking an injury.
According to the memo, the ``Competition Committee has reviewed this issue several times, but has been reluctant to propose a specific rule, since assessing a charged timeout for every injury timeout would deprive a team of timeouts for strategic purposes. It also could encourage injured players to remain in the game at risk to themselves to avoid incurring a charged team timeout.''
It's a football strategy that's been around for years, in college and the pros: A player fakes an injury, stopping the clock - maybe it saves a timeout; maybe it slows an opponent's no-huddle offense.
As a receiver with the Bengals in the 1980s, Collinsworth grew accustomed to seeing opposing defenses have players pretend to be hurt.
``It would almost get to where you would laugh about it. It was ridiculous,'' he said in a telephone interview. ``Everybody on the field - including the referees - knew what they were doing.''
There have been other such episodes this fall, including when Washington Redskins defensive lineman Kedric Golston mysteriously went down on a play against a no-huddle offense, then came back in the game. In college, Wyoming coach Dave Christensen chewed out Air Force coach Troy Calhoun - earning a suspension and fine - after the Falcons' backup quarterback came in and ran for the winning score in place of a starter who went down on the field, saving a timeout.
Similar situations arise every so often. Last season, for example, the St. Louis Rams thought a New York Giants player faked an injury to slow down their offense. In college, after California limited high-octane Oregon to 15 points in 2010, Cal defensive line coach Tosh Lupoi was suspended for a game after acknowledging he instructed a player to fake an injury.
There doesn't really appear a way to prevent it.
``Referees certainly don't want that burden of having to determine who's healthy and who's not. They're having a hard enough time with the concussion issue right now. And really, on almost any play, when you get right down to it, you could lie on the ground and say you have a concussion, and who the heck is going to say anything to that? So as long as teams are willing to do it, there's nothing really that I know of that can stop them,'' Collinsworth said.
``The only way you're ever going to get around it is in cases that appear to be fairly obvious,'' he said. ``You fine the teams an escalating amount of money and find out just how valuable those timeouts really are. You get a $100,000 fine for faking an injury, you're probably not going to take any more of those fake timeouts.''
Whether or not Sanders really was dealing with debilitating cramps, he caught the league's attention.
``It was fairly obvious what was going on,'' Collinsworth said. ``Every team has a signal: `Time to fake an injury.' And why not?''
The AP spoke to a handful of players around the league who said their team doesn't have such a signal - but players also indicated they didn't think that sort of formal instruction was necessary.
``Some guys are smart and just know when to do it,'' Redskins linebacker Lorenzo Alexander said.
``Everybody does it,'' Alexander added, ``so it's not like, `Aw, they're cheating.'''
AP Sports Writers Will Graves, Joe Kay and Joseph White, AP National Writer Eddie Pells and AP Pro Football Writer Arnie Stapleton contributed to this report.
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I could not have been more than 5 years old when my mother took me with her to vote in our Chicago neighborhood. I can still see the exotic array of curtains to draw and levers to pull towering over my head like the control panel operated by the Wizard of Oz. The image is enshrined in my memory. This was voting, and it was to be treated with reverence.
Over the years, I've voted in Illinois, Washington, D.C., and California. Rarely have I voted by absentee ballot. To me, voting is not only a profound right but a rare opportunity to physically exercise the most important duty of American citizenship.
In my two decades in Los Angeles, I've voted at a Presbyterian church hall, a recreation center and a Persian rug store — all in the same neighborhood. Sometimes I've walked to the polling place, a balmy fall breeze blowing, signed my name on the ledger, then rifled the pages to see if my neighbors had shown up yet. I savor inking in the ballot, fretting that maybe I've marked the wrong circle, then — convinced I've got it right — taking the ballot and sticking it into that big plastic tub. It's so low-tech, so quaint. Yet I trust it.


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Canada, Immigration Resources for Ontario and the Prairie Provinces (National Institute)
The original content for this article was contributed by The National Institute for Genealogical Studies in June 2012. It is an excerpt from their course Canadian:Immigration Records by Patricia McGregor, PLCGS. The Institute offers over 200 comprehensive genealogy courses for a fee ($).
Fight for control of the land that would become Ontario took place between the French and the English as it did in the Maritime provinces and Quebec. French and English trading posts were established in the early 1700s and these existed along with a stream of explorers, missionaries and fur traders in areas occupied by many Indian tribes including Huron, Iroquois, Ojibway and Cree.
After France ceded control of the area to Britain in 1763, the French/English conflict ended. Britain now controlled the old French territory (Quebec) that extended westward past the Great Lakes. After the American War of Independence those loyal to Britain crossed the border and settled in Niagara, along the shores of Lake Ontario and in the areas south and west of Montreal. We need to remember that at this time, the area was still called Quebec although much of this region would later form Upper Canada, then Canada West and later, the province of Ontario.
It was in 1791 that the area was divided into Upper (Ontario) and Lower (Quebec) Canada with the Ottawa River as the dividing line. In 1841 the two were joined, becoming known as Canada East (CE) and Canada West (CW).
Early in the nineteenth century and up until 1822, a Military Settling Department operated at Quebec and provided assistance to both military and civilian settlers. The records, available at Library and Archives Canada, include the following:
- Perth Military Settlement Fonds available on microfilm C-4651. The records include a register of tickets of location granted to military settlers (1816-1822) and there is an alphabetical index at the beginning.
- Settlers (1818-1820), microfilm reels C-3158 to C-3159. This group of records consists of establishments of the settling department, estimates, lists of immigrants, memoranda, petitions, reports, requisitions, returns, and correspondence relating chiefly to the military settlements at Drummonville, Lanark, Perth, and Richmond.
British and Germans formed the majority of the early settlers in Ontario. In 1794, 64 German families were brought to settle near Toronto by William von Moll Berczy. Library and Archives Canada holds the William von Moll Berczy Fonds. These fonds include among other items, some maps and lists of settlers. Consult record group RG 152-0-5E, or seven volumes on microfilm H 2298.
In the early 19th century, (1800-1820), 2,000 Mennonite immigrants moved to Upper Canada settling in three main areas: the Niagara District, the Markham area and on the Grand River. Statistics from the 1871 census indicate that 10% of the population of Ontario (158,000) were Germans. Since WWII, immigration to Ontario has been from almost every country in the world.
Archives and Societies
- Archives of Ontario (genealogical research)
134 Ian Macdonald Blvd
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M7A 2C5
The Prairies
By 1900 there was no more free (or even cheap) land in the American frontier. In the first decade of the 20th century the population of the three prairie provinces more than tripled, growing by almost one million people. About a third of the new Canadians who arrived in the west between 1896 and 1914 were not English speaking Anglo Saxons. For those who have ancestors enumerated in the 1901 census, it is worth noting that two of the questions asked pertained to place of birth and what language was spoken in the home. Answers to these questions will help identify country of origin. Furthermore, if the place of birth is a generic answer like "Russia", the answer of "Latvian" or "Slovak" to the language question would be a major clue to identifying a more specific location.
You can learn more about the experiences of immigrants to Western Canada through a project of the University of Manitoba Archives and their Special Collections. There are over 15,000 digitized archival items (texts, photos, videos) available through their Prairie Immigration Experience website.
French In The West
Many French Canadian voyageurs who went west in the fur trade era remained there when their contracts ended. Some took Indian wives and their children were the first of the Métis population. By the time the province of Manitoba was formed in 1870 almost half the population was Métis.
Following the troubles at Red River, many of the Métis moved further west establishing colonies on the North Saskatchewan River, south of Prince Albert at St Albert, Lac Ste Anne, Lac La Biche and Tail Creek.
A French colonization society was established in St Boniface and in Montreal, but there was not a great deal of response to this. There was more interest from German, Ukranian and Scandinavian immigrants.
French Canadian settlements were established in Southern Manitoba, and in Saskatchewan at Ponteix, Gravelbourg, Lisieux, Lafleche and St Louis and in Alberta at St Albert, Morinville, Lamoureux, Legal, Grouxville, Beaumont and Picardville.
Settlement attempts by Frenchmen from France occurred in Alberta at Whitewood and Trochu in the early 1900s. These settlements attracted more settlers from France, and Trochu in particular was quite prosperous up until the outbreak of WWI. At this time, many of these settlers returned to France to serve in the military.
In Alberta there was some French migration from the St Lawrence to the northern areas of the province. This is an area where the Catholic missionaries had followed the Métis and then French Canadians followed the church resulting over time in communities that became more French than Métis.
Manitoba was part of the grant to the Hudson's Bay Company which received a charter from the British King in 1670. Early settlement was sporadic. Employees of the HBC signed on for 3 to 5 years and usually returned to Britain at the end of their contracts. Although officially frowned upon, there were relationships between the fur traders and native women—and in many cases these relationships resulted in births.
Some initial settlement around the Red River was encouraged in the early 1800s in order to provide a permanent supply base for the Company's operations. Widespread settlement did not begin until Manitoba entered Confederation in 1870 and construction of a railway to the west facilitated the movement of settlers. The government began to encourage emigration to Manitoba in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was particularly interested in attracting farmers from Europe. Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Estonians and Hungarians settled in the area.
- "Agents of railway companies in the states and territories south of the international boundary line have striven to perpetuate the notion that the climate of Canada is against the country's future. Not long ago, the Canadian department of agriculture found that there had been distributed, throughout England, thousands of pamphlets in which it was asserted, with the proper quantum of hypocritical lamentation, that the climate of Manitoba consists of "seven months' Arctic winter and five months' cold weather"; the object being to attract intending settlers from Manitoba to Dakota as possessing a better climate." (Carling 1886, 2)
Three years after the suppression of the first Riel Rebellion, a large settlement of German speaking Mennonites was in southern Manitoba. Six thousand German-speaking settlers originally from Holland and the lower Rhine, left Russia where they had emigrated earlier, to settle in the Red River valley.
In 1874, 375 Icelanders arrived, having settled initially in Kinmount, Ontario. The next year, they moved as a group to the shore of Lake Winnipeg. Originally the settlement was called New Iceland, but was later changed to Gimli. These settlers adjusted well and were quite successful, so much so that the Canadian government decided to encourage more to come. An immigration agent was appointed in 1886 (one of the original group) and he brought over 7,000 Icelanders to Manitoba. Rural Manitoba was basically settled by 1900. In the 1911 Census, over 40 percent of all Manitobans are described as living in urban settings.
Archives and Societies
- Archives of Manitoba (general genealogy site)
130-200 Vaughan Street
Winnipeg, MB R3C 1T5
Early settlers in Saskatchewan in the mid 1700s were French traders. They were followed by Scottish and English traders after 1763. In 1867 the Hudson's Bay Company relinquished its rights to millions of acres of land in exchange for £300,000 from the Canadian government. As the railway moved west, settlement followed. The line was completed as far as Moose Jaw in 1882. Over the next 20 years settlers arrived from the USA, Sweden, Germany, Iceland, Romania, Russia, the Ukraine and Denmark. In the first decade of the 20th century, 400,000 people arrived in the region that became Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan joined Confederation in 1905. The population in 1911 was almost five times higher than it had been in 1901. Three quarters of these new arrivals were settling in rural areas. Mennonite settlements were established in Saskatchewan and Alberta as land became scarcer in Manitoba.
There were two large group settlements of German Catholics in Saskatchewan in the early 1900s—St. Peter's Colony run by the Benedictine order was established north east of Saskatoon and St. Joseph's, west of Saskatoon was run by the Oblates. These colonies were populated by settlers lately from Minnesota, the Dakotas, Wisconsin and Kansas.
An attempt was made by a Canadian born Anglican Minister to settle the west with British colonists in the early 20th century. Rev. Isaac Barr joined forces with a British clergyman, Rev. George Lloyd, to found a colony of about 2,000 in Saskatchewan. The plan was poorly organized from the start. They made the voyage in 1903 aboard the S.S. Lake Manitoba. A rough sea voyage, an overcrowded ship, delays on arrival in Saint John NB, filthy trains which took them to Saskatoon and unscrupulous price gouging merchants made for a very unhappy group by the time they arrived in Battleford. Blaming Barr for the problems, a number of colonists decided to replace their leader Barr with Lloyd who had accompanied them on the trip. Initially they decided to call the colony Britannia—later it was renamed Lloydminster.
Archives and Societies
- Saskatchewan Archives Board - Exploring Family History in Saskatchewan (collections are divided between Saskatoon and Regina)
- Regina
Saskatchewan Archives Board
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 1665 Regina SK S4P 3C6
Street address: 3303 Hillsdale Street Regina SK
Telephone: 306-787-4068
- Saskatoon
Saskatchewan Archives Board
Street and mailing address:
Murray Building
University of Saskatchewan
3 Campus Drive
Saskatoon SK S7N 5A4
Telephone: 306-933-5832
Alberta was also part of the large territory granted to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670. It also joined Confederation in 1905. Like Saskatchewan and Manitoba, early settlement was by those working in the fur trade. With the arrival of the railway in the mid-1880s, the area was accessible to many settlers. As land became scarcer in the American West, many came up to Alberta. Mormons from Utah moved into the Cardston area. Other settlers included immigrants from Denmark, Iceland and the Ukraine as well as migrants from Quebec and Ontario. Over 300,000 people moved into Alberta in the first decade of the 20th century.
Archives and Societies
- Provincial Archives of Alberta
Mailing address:
8555 Roper Road,
Edmonton AB T6E 5W1
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