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Welcome to the podcast. We're talking to military blogger Matthew Currier Burden. He's the author of "The Blog of War," a series of front line dispatches, from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Burden is also a vet of the first Gulf War where he served in northern Iraq. Welcome, Matthew.
Thanks for having me.
We're talking to Matthew about the new regulations the Army has issued, ordering soldiers to stop posting blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without clearing the content with a superior officer. Bloggers have been going on for you know a couple of years now, even with the war in Iraq. So why now?
Well you know during the invasion of Iraq, internet access was offered up to the troops. As sort of a morale boosting feature. Staying in contact with your family and friends. It's much easier to do your job in a war zone when you know everything's okay back home. People back home get to know that you're doing okay.
But it was sort of a Pandora's box. Because you have these internet generation soldiers that are bringing digital cameras, laptop computers, and instant messaging, doing podcasts, video blogging and all of a sudden you've got 120,000 of 'em in the war zone. And so then it becomes sort of a control issue. There's some define concerns about information being leaked to the enemy. You know specifically about damage after an attack.
We don't want to let the enemy know—how effective they've been. So 2005, a new regulation—actually an old regulation on operational security was updated to include blogging. And it went something like this, basically. You needed to tell your chain of command that you were blogging.
And then—your commander was responsible for reviewing the content on a quarterly basis. And if you suspected that you were going to publish something that might be of an operational security concern, for instance a route of a patrol, you know, other things that might give the enemy some indication of what's going on, that you would alert your commander before you publish it.
And you let them review your content. Now you get to 2007, and there's been a—what I would say is a C-change in the regulation. Which means that every single post that you want to publish has to get reviewed by your commander or an operational security officer.
Let me stop you right there, Matthew. Because one of the first questions that I had was, is this realistic? I mean, if you've got the potential of 120,000 bloggers, you know members of the military serving in Iraq, and you're going to spend the time and effort to assign someone to read every single one of them? I mean in—in the middle of a war?
See, this is the crux of the issue. This is why it's going to kill blogging. Because if I want to come back home and tell my mom on my blog that I just had a great meatball sandwich at my mess facility in Iraq, my commander's gotta say, yeah, that's okay. Burden, you can go ahead and publish it. He doesn't have time for that. You know? We're fighting a war.
All right, so do you think Matthew Currier Burden that essentially the military wants to throw cold water on these bloggers to say take it easy here. We're—we're watching you. We're concerned. And don't think that you're just gonna be able to do this without anyone kind of peeking over your shoulder.
: What the military is doing by doing this is basically shooting itself in the foot because they're concerned about operational security issues. They're using that as the crux, to shut down military blogs. But I will tell you that—there's a recent study done on a blog by a Navy Intelligence Analyst who showed that the Pentagon senior staff leaks more information that's operational security—value than any other source.
Well let's just look at this from D.J. Elliott who's a retired Navy Intelligence Analyst. And he basically said, quote, "I get more advanced notice from a Pentagon press briefing of US movements from Kuwait into Iraq than I get from all other sources combined. The Pentagon acts as if it is not at war. And the leaks eliminating from Arlington are enormous."
D.J.'s right on the money. And what—usually what happens when I get into a discussion with a public affairs officer or even an operational security officer, about blogging, I will usually point to the DOD website or Army.Mil. And show them pictures that clearly violate operational security. In—in their definition. And so you know it—it's awfully hard for me to sit there and say, you need to come down on these bloggers.
When they themselves, especially the senior staff at the Pentagon are leaking more information than you know every other source combined. Let alone the—the tiny micro-chasm of military bloggers. That's where I get really frustrated with the military, especially the operational security officers. Are not understanding the consequences of what they're doing. And if they're really doing their job these leaks at the Pentagon that DJ Elliott spells out wouldn't be happening.
So is this a situation where the military is being proactive because they don't want to—they essentially don't want an Abu Ghraib. They don't want—perhaps that was photographs. But when you're talking about blogs you know it's information that essentially could end up damaging the military. Is that what this is about?
You know I don't think so. In terms of worrying about the next Abu Ghraib getting shut down I—you know, I don't know. Abu Ghraib really wasn't busted open by a blogger. You know, you hear a lot of the congressman talking these days about how America is not connected to its military. You hear that a lot. In a lot of different areas. And I—I just submit that military blogging is probably one of the last places where you can actually get a firsthand experience of what it's like to be a soldier in a war zone.
An American soldier. The truth is not coming out of Iraq through the media. The truth is not coming out through the military. And it's not coming out through the Bush administration. You talk to a Corporal or a Lieutenant or a Sergeant or a Captain on the ground, you get a completely different story than you get on CNN or the New York Times. But I would say that—you know the vast, vast majority are positive outlets. And—probably the best PR the military has right now.
But does the military in fact have a point? That you know these blogs, these emails actually really could contain some secretive information that could in fact compromise the safety of the soldiers?
Yeah. And absolutely that is a possibility. And it's something that I think everybody is concerned about. But the—but at the same time you know I think most of bloggers that have been—punished, and there's only been a few I think—over blogging it's—it's been for common sense issues. So I would—I would submit to you that if you blogged about your—your—you know executive news director in a negative light, you would probably be fired or disciplined in some way.
As—as would we all in our civilian jobs. If I blogged negatively about my wife, I would probably hear about it when I came home. I mean, it's just common sense. So you—you do have some of those situations. Where people might have done that.
So I want you to—to respond to what one blogger wrote in reaction to these new regulations. The blogger is Army Lawyer. He identifies himself only as a JAG attorney, but other than that he is anonymous. And he said, "No, the army didn't try to ban blogs. No, the army didn't backtrack. No, the army wasn't gonna be like some communist like organization where only approved information is uttered."
All the histrionic commentary to the contrary looks rather silly and borderline insulting. So when you hear someone saying this, look you know everybody's overreacting. You say?
Well I'd say I think—that comment is ridiculous. When you're a commander, and you have a question about operational security you're going to pull out a regulation that says you have to review every—every blog post before it's published. It's—it's in black and white. Now the army released a fact sheet that says that's not the case. Which is what army lawyers sort of—he—he's sort of joining the spin machine on this. And—army public affairs is doing the same thing.
And the spin, so clarify the spin.
They're saying that it's the same guideline as before. And that nothing's really changed. And this is in fact incorrect. Now I—I also want you to understand, that as a former military officer and as a soldier for 16 years, I have a definite problem bringing this up and fighting with the military on this.
But this is a definite—this is a definite untruth. That this fact sheet is in fact not a regulation. It's from the public affairs office. It is not from the operational security team. And this regulation still stands. And I've just gotta say—that when the army PR people say that you know regulations are for the guidance of the commander and they're not—they're not laws, I would say that's a ridiculous statement. Because anybody who spent any time in the military knows that regulations are—are basically adhered to.
And the one regulation that you do not take a liberal interpretation of is operational security. Because that might get people killed. And so by—by the army, an army lawyer saying that this is histrionics and this is not true it is bunk. It is completely false.
All right. So President Bush—just recently—attended—via—a prepared speech, a conference of military bloggers. He actually thanked the military bloggers for what they're doing. And he didn't mention these regulations. So it seems like there's two messages going out here.
Well the White House has a habit of not getting involved in the business of the Department of Defense. Particularly this administration. I don't know—I mean, you know I don't think he's going to comment on a specific regulation. He's going to let us fight it out in the media maybe. I think every blogger wants to—you know we don't want to get somebody killed over what we're publishing. But you know what we want to do—what I would like to see is have them—have bloggers have the same rules as embed reporters.
All right, well make those rules and regulations for embeds public for us. 'Cause most people who are listening to this have never been an embed.
Okay well that's a good point. But embed reporters are able to get the news out. They're able to tell a story. Embed reporters cannot give away positions. Cannot give away operational security concerns. Geraldo Rivera was bounced out of Iraq.
Because he gave away the position of the 101st Airborne during attack and during the invasion in 2003. And I think the embed reporter rules would fit really nicely with bloggers. We could get unit bloggers. You know? They're still allowed to tell these stories. They're still allowed to follow the unit and write about them. And I don't see why if the embed reporters are allowed to do that, why military bloggers can't do that as well.
All right. I want to ask you about a kind of inside baseball military story that you know well. But for those of us on the outside—it's very interesting. The story that was actually used by one of the—people who wrote the new regulations. In fact the major who wrote the regulation, the new regulations.
And he cited this issue of pizza orders. As an example of something that seems like it's not that important but actually could have huge implications. So what's up with these pizza orders? And what that has to do with security.
Well you know what his point is that late one night in January and 1991 the lights on the Pentagon were on. More than they normally would be at night. And that one parking lot was full of pizza delivery trucks. And that would indicate that perhaps there's some activity going on and during that time we were getting ready to invade Iraq we had probably half a million troops in Iraq.
And with ally forces and air forces and everything else. And war ships and things. And so that would give somebody the idea that hey—something's about to happen. You know that—that's a good point. On the one hand. On the other hand you know, somebody saying that—it's—it's a little too late to stop the—the momentum of what's happening over there as well.
I'd see it as kind of a ridiculous statement. Yeah. It indicates some things. But on the other hand—are you gonna prevent the next time this happens, nobody gets to eat the Pentagon? Everybody's gonna run around with flashlights? Nobody's gonna turn on lights at night to prevent that from happening? Or we're not gonna work at night. So I think in some cases they're taking a—myopic view of this issue.
So the typical blogs, you know perhaps again for our audience that may not necessarily be reading military blogs all the time. But you know let—can you give us like three that our listeners may want to just log on to?
Absolutely. Probably the best writer right now in the war zone is at acutepolitics.blogspot.com ad he's an engineer. His job is basically to go find IED's on the road. And either have them blow up on him so that no civilians are hurt, or disarm them.
Another one is called badger six. And badgersix.blogspot.com is a company commander in Iraq. Right now. You know his take on it is maybe from a little bit higher up than—acutepolitics. And then there's several more. And if you go to milblogging.com you can find them sort of by country. Probably the premier combat blogger and photographer is a guy by the name of Michael Yon.
And his is michaelyon-online.com. He he's got a fantastic blog. Lots of—it's media rich. Probably one of the last most purest voices you will probably get out of Iraq about what's happening. And he's also extremely honest about what's happening over there.
Now that one that you mentioned by Michael Yon essentially his take on all this is that bloggers who express independent views are somehow seen as a threat. While pro-military bloggers he says seem to be viewed as tools. He's quoted as saying "I've been threatened on numerous occasions, two threats in the last two months alone, to be booted out of Iraq."
I would probably disagree with some of that. He may be talking about you know independent bloggers that take a negative view of the war would get escorted out. I gotta say there's plenty of reporters that are taking a negative review that aren't getting escorted out. But I would tell you, whatever Mike says he's probably got some—firsthand experience. That's—that's making him write those kind of things. He's probably accurate.
So I want to ask you about when you know that three senators wrote a letter to defense secretary Robert Gates, basically criticizing the new security requirements. And they're saying, we are concerned, the regulations may also inadvertently weaken what has proven to be a significant asset in our media age. Firsthand accounts of American military men and women. When you've got senators who are kind of raising these kinds of questions, do you think that that—that can have some kind of an impact?
Well I think it does. I think it had an impact in the fact that we had the 2007—military blog conference in Washington, DC last weekend. And it was full of media. CNN, Fox, Washington Post, you know the typical you know the typical folks that would show up for something like that. To discuss these issues. But primarily because all of a sudden we're getting the interests of the President General Petraeus the senators on both sides of the aisle.
All right, so if there are people who are listening to us and they want to kind of get involved or they want to share their views, what do you think regular Americans can or should do about these new regulations?
I think and it's y regulation 530-1, which is operational security I would suggest you write your congressman. And ask them to ensure that military bloggers from the war zone are not censored. That they're not allowed, that they're not blocked.
Registering your blog is one thing. Keeping your commander informed about what you're writing is one thing. But having your commander have to review every single post, will probably kill military blogging as we know it.
And the name of your blog Matthew is?
It's blackfive.net and I was the author of a book called "The Blog of War" which captured about 54 bloggers experiences in and around the war.
Thanks a lot of speaking with us, Matthew.
Thanks for having me on your show.
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The wine match was Fer Servadou 2013 from Vallon Marcillac, a light to medium bodied red from the South-West region of France.
Rose Geranium Pavlova, Yuzu Curd, Muntrie Jam & Dried Strawberries
Dessert was an elegant and perennial favourite Australian/New Zealand dish by Hamish Ingham. The Rose Geranium Pavlova was dressed with a tasty Yuzu Curd, Muntrie Jam and topped with thinly sliced dried strawberries.
A Pinot/Gamay 2011 Domaine Dupasquier accompanied the dessert, a semi dry rosé from the Savoie region.
Luc Dubanchet of Omnivore (right) and the Line up of Chefs
The Omnivore Pop-Up Dinner with Hamish Ingham & Pierre Sang was held on Friday 3 October 2014 at the Australian Maritime Museum.
More in the Omnivore Sydney 2014… Omnivore Masterclasses and Omnivorious Party.
Photography © by Kevin Burke for Gourmantic – Copyright: All rights reserved.
This article is posted on Gourmantic.com - All rights reserved - Copyright © 2018.


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XpressWest Has $1.5 Billion In Private Investors – And A Strong Argument for Victorville
The California high speed rail project closest to completion isn't the San Francisco to Los Angeles route being built by the California High Speed Rail Authority. It's XpressWest, formerly known as DesertXpress, which would connect Las Vegas to Los Angeles via Victorville and Palmdale. The project has sometimes appeared to be more promise than reality, but in 2012 it has taken some big leaps toward getting construction under way. And as a new interview with a key figure shows, the project already has $1.5 billion in private funding commitments. It also has research showing that the initial terminus of Victorville makes a lot of sense, challenging the critics who have often blasted that location.
Epic traffic jam on Interstate 15 near CA-NV border
Tony Marnell is probably best known as the builder of the Bellagio, the Mirage and Wynn Las Vegas or the owner and operater of the Rio before it was sold to what is now Caesars Entertainment.
But he's also a key figure in the development of XpressWest, the high-speed rail system planned between Las Vegas and Southern California. Marnell is chairman and CEO of the Marnell Companies, a partner in the project….
[Quoting Marnell here:] We're putting up $1.5 billion. I can't disclose who they are right now. We're under confidentiality agreements with the U.S. government. They know all of this information, and we have agreed that we are not going to go through the loan process in the public.
If it's decided on, it will become public information. If we're denied the loan, as a private company, we don't think we should have to disclose it.
It's not a public opinion poll. It's a real project and has a real purpose for a real need. It's being presented as a business proposition under existing laws and statutes. There has not been one penny, and there is not one penny intended, of taxpayer or grant money in the application at this point in time. It's private capital and infrastructure financing instruments.
One can speculate as to who these other investors are, but if you guessed "other Vegas casinos" you would probably not be wrong. They can read a gas price chart as well as anyone and know that as gas prices continue to rise, driving to Vegas isn't going to be as affordable an option for Southern Californians as it once was. They can also read a traffic report, and know that Interstate 15 routinely backs up on weekends, further deterring drivers.
So encouraging travelers to get on a train makes a lot of sense. But where would Southern Californians board it? The current plan is that a first phase would be built to Victorville, with an extension across the desert to Palmdale and connecting to LA soon to follow. The interview with Marnell has some good discussion of the LA connection, but I thought his justification of Victorville was worth reading:
Q: Why Victorville?
A: I may have had a bit of an advantage because for 10 years I was the CEO of a public company that owned the Rio. I could look at the slot cards of my customers that list their ZIP codes. That was an ingenious thing.
Steve Wynn (chairman of Wynn Resorts), Jim Murren (CEO of MGM Resorts International) and Sheldon Adelson (chairman of Las Vegas Sands and owner of the Venetian) were doing that – looking at where their driving customers were coming from. And they're not coming from Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Laguna Beach or downtown Los Angeles. They're coming from the Inland Empire.
The Inland Empire is only 40 minutes away from Victorville. That's why it makes sense.
That's a really interesting comment, and not just because I'm a bit surprised he said that publicly. It shows that the Vegas casinos see the Inland Empire as a key source of visitors, and they've got the evidence to back it up. These casino owners are not idiots, as any of you who have left your money with them can attest. If they say that building a bullet train with a terminus at Victorville is good for their bottom line, and if they're willing to show some evidence for it, I don't see the point in trying to argue with them.
The other reason this is interesting is it suggests another reason for building XpressWest – they might be trying to attract visitors from cities like Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and downtown LA. It's a pain in the ass to drive to Vegas from the coastal parts of SoCal on a Friday or Saturday. But taking Metro Rail to Union Station and boarding a bullet train for Vegas is a lot easier – certainly more relaxing. One could start drinking on the train and by the time you get to Vegas be in a perfect, uh, mood to hit the casino floor or a club.
The interview is full of interesting details, including about train speeds, express service, and comparisons to other HSR systems. But the big question everyone asks is how this will be paid for, because the $1.5 billion private investment won't be enough. Marnell has more information about the federal loan they're seeking:
We're in continual Q&A regarding the loan application. Like any large loan, there are tedious, extensive amounts of information that the lender wants to have, which we certainly appreciate. We've been in that mode vigorously for the last 90 days. We're at the point of making sure we have the right backup, the right information….
this loan we're applying for was put into place by Congress in the last year of Bill Clinton's administration. This is not some new thing. It's all Republicans and Democrats.
If we want private industry to get involved in developing our rail system and wean ourselves off Amtrak tax support, why not put an instrument in here that private industry can work with? The single biggest question I get is, if it's such a good idea, why don't you go to the bank and get the money? The last banker that gave me a 30-year loan was when I was 23 years old. There are no 30-year loans for these kinds of projects. The only way people do big infrastructure projects is through the government. Commercial banks won't do it.
Next, this is not a Solyndra situation. The project itself has been administered by the Federal Railroad Administration under two different presidents so far. When we received our environmental impact statement more than a year ago, we had to state our probable sources of funding. We identified the loan program in the document as a probable partial funding source. We applied for the loan 19 months ago, so this is not something where somebody called up and said, "Give this cowboy in Las Vegas a loan." It has had true due diligence, and it's going on right now on this loan. I don't think people understand that.
He's got a strong point here about the need for government support to build infrastructure, and he's absolutely right that it's absurd to expect the private sector do this all on their own. Commercial banks just don't do loans for these kinds of big, costly infrastructure projects. As the Taiwan HSR experience showed, you can't repay the loans quickly enough to satisfy the private lenders. So it has to be government that helps support construction.
The whole thing is worth reading, and makes it very clear that XpressWest is a strong, credible, serious HSR project that is on the verge of construction. It's a key piece of high speed rail in California, and I for one am looking forward to riding it when it opens.


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Indians of Utah
United States > Utah > Indians of Utah
Utah is a Ute word meaning "people of the mountains"
If you believe your family has Indian ancestry, first identify a specific time period and locality for your ancestor by using other Utah and United States records. Knowing and studying the history of a tribe is vital in finding available records. Many tribes have been or are found in Utah.
The State of Utah maintains a web site which provides a summary history of the Indian tribes of Utah.
- 1 Tribes and Bands of Utah
- 2 Reservations
- 3 Agencies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
- 4 Indian Schools
- 5 Indian Farms
- 6 Utah Superintendency (1850 to 1870)
- 7 Tribal Records
- 8 Family History Library
- 9 Other Repositories
- 10 See Also
- 11 Web Sites
- 12 References
Tribes and Bands of Utah
The following list of American Indians who have lived in Utah has been compiled from Hodge's Handbook of American Indians...[1] and from Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America[2]. Some may simply be variant spellings for the same tribe.
Tribes: Bannock, Dieguenos, Fremont, Gosiute, Hopi, Kanosh, Koosharem, Indian Peak, Mojave, Navajo, Paiute (Southern), Quenchans, Shivwits, Shoshoni (Western), Ute (Northern, Southern & Mountain), Uintah and Ouray, White River, Wiminuche, Uncompahgre Band, Yute, Zuni
Bands: Northwest Band of Shoshone, Skull Valley Gosiute, Ibapah Gosiute, White Mesa Ute, Wieminuche Band of Utes, Piute, Cedar Band, Indian Peaks Band, Kanosh Band, Koosharem Band, Shivwits Band, Southern Paiute.
The State of Utah has a web site which describes current tribes in the state.
From the mid-1800s, the official policy of the United States government toward the American Indian was to confine each tribe to a specific parcel of land called a reservation. Agencies were established on or near each reservation. A government representative, usually called an agent (or superintendent) was assigned to each agency. Their duties included maintaining the peace, making payments to the Native Americans based on the stipulations of the treaties with each tribe, and providing a means of communication between the native population and the federal government.
Sometimes, a single agency had jurisdiction over more than one reservation. And sometimes, if the tribal population and land area required it, an agency may have included sub-agencies.
The boundaries of reservations, over time, have changed. Usually, that means the reservations have been reduced in size. Sometimes, especially during the later policy of "termination," the official status of reservations was ended altogether.
The following list of reservations has been compiled from the National Atlas of the United States of America[3], the Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America[4], and other sources. Those reservations named in bold are current federally-recognized reservations, with their associated agency and tribe(s). Others have historically been associated with the state or are not currently recognized by the federal government.
- Corn Creek Reservation 1856-1869:
- Deep Creek Band Reservation 1912:
- Gandy Homestead:
- Gosiute Reservation
- Indian Peak (Paiute) Reservation 1924:
- Ipapah Gosiute:
- Kanosh Reservation 1929-1954:
- Koosharem Reservation 1929-1954:
- Navajo Reservation 1884:-- While portions of this reservation are in Utah, its main part is in Arizona, as is the major portion of its administration. The 1900 federal census included population schedules for the portion of the Navajo Reservation within the State of Utah. They were included in District 217, Navajo Indian Reservation in San Juan County, Utah. They are recorded on Indian Population Schedules.
- Northwestern Band of Shoshone: State, under jurisdiction of the Fort Hall Agency; Tribe: Shohone
- Paiute Reservation:
- San Pete Reservation 1856-1869:
- Shebit Reservation 1916:
- Shivwits Reservation 1903-54:
- Skull Valley Reservation 1912: Federal, under jurisdiction of the Uintah Ouray Agency, Tribe: Goshute
- Spanish Fork reservation 1856-1869:
- Uinta and Ouray Reservation 1861: Federal, under jurisdiction of the Uintah & Ouray Agency, Tribe: Ute
- Uncompahgre (Ute) Reservation 1882:
- Uintah Valley Reservation:
- White Mesa Ute Reservation:
Agencies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Agencies and subagencies were created as administrative offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and its predecessors. Their purpose was (and is) to manage Indian affairs with the tribes, to enforce policies, and to assist in maintaining the peace. The names and location of these agencies may have changed, but their purpose remained basically the same. Many of the records of genealogical value were created by these offices.
The following list of agencies that have operated or now exist in Utah has been compiled from Hill's Office of Indian Affairs...[5], Hill's Guide to Records in the National Archives Relating to American Indians[6], and others.
A brief history of each agency and an explanation of the availability of at least some records for each are listed on the page for the agency.
- Carson Valley Agency
- Fort Bridger Agency
- Goshute Agency
- Kaibab Agency
- Ouray Agency
- Paiute Agency
- Shivwits Agency
- Southern Paiute Field Office
- Southern Utah Agency
- Spanish Fork Agency
- Uintah Valley Agency
- Uintah and Ouray Agency
Indian Schools
The Office of Indian Affairs (now the Bureau of Indian Affairs) established a network of schools throughout the United States, beginning with Carlisle Indian School, established in 1879. Some of these schools were day schools, usually focusing on Indian children of a single tribe or reservation. Some were boarding schools which served Indian children from a number of tribes and reservations.
In addition, other groups such as various church denominations established schools specifically focusing on American Indian children. (read more...)
The following list of Indian Schools in Utah has been compiled from Hill's Office of Indian Affairs...[7], Hill's Guide to Records in the National Archives Relating to American Indians[8], and others.
- Intermountain Indian School (Family History Library has some rec)
- Panquitch School
- San Juan School
- Shivwits School
- Western Navajo School
Indian Farms
Allen Canyon 1887 (San Juan county), Beaver, Corn Creek (Sevier county), Cpromme 1956, Elk Mountain (Emery county), Santa Clara 1854, Skull Valley 1869 (Toole county), Spanish Fork 1856 (Utah county), Thistle Valley 1872 (Carbon county), Warm Springs 1855, Washakie 1880 (Beaver County), Washington 1854
Utah Superintendency (1850 to 1870)
American Indians living in Utah were administered by the Utah Superintendency of the United States Office of Indian Affairs from 1850 to 1870. Copies of records for the Utah Superintendency from 1853 to 1870 are at the National Archives—Denver Branch, and the Family History Library.
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs, Utah Superintendency. Records of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1853–1870. National Archives Microfilm Publication, M0834. Washington, DC: National Archives, 1971. (Family History Library films 1025139–40). The record is arranged chronologically and does not have an index. The second film, "Miscellaneous Records," includes names of American Indians.
Records Created by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) (1870-present)
In 1870, BIA agencies replaced the Utah Superintendency. The largest agency in Utah is as follows:
- Uintah and Ouray Reservation Uintah and Ouray Tribal Business Council P.O. Box 190 Fort Duchesne, UT 84026 Telephone: 801-722-5141 Fax: 801-722-2374 Internet: http://www.onlineutah.com/uintah-ourayreservationhistory.shtml
Other agencies serving Utah's American Indians are the Southern Paiute Field Station in Utah, Western Navajo and Shiprock in Arizona, Fort Hall in Idaho, Elko in Nevada, and Ute Mountain in Colorado. Their addresses are found in:
- Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian. 7th ed. West Nyack, New York: Todd Publications, 1995. This book contains directories for the United States and Canada. In addition to the addresses, there are bibliography and biography sections. The book is indexed.
The local agency and the area office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs usually have records of Indians currently associated with a reservation. Some earlier records have been sent to the National Archives or to the National Archives branch that serves the area. The National Archives—Denver Branch has important collections of BIA records for Utah. The Laguna Niguel, San Bruno, Fort Worth, and Seattle Branches also have some records relating to American Indians in Utah.
The Family History Library has copies of some agency records. Two examples of agency records are:
- United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Uintah and Ouray Agency. Vital Records of the Ute Indians to 1946. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1953. (Family History Library films 01763–69). The record is alphabetically arranged by family name. It gives degree of Indian blood, tribe, birth and death dates, parents' names with their birth and death dates, and siblings' birth, death, and marriage information.
- United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Indian Census Rolls, Fort Hall, Utah 1883–1939. National Archives Microfilm Publications, M0595. Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1965. (Family History Library films 576493–99). This record covers Bannock tribes from 1885 to 1939. It is arranged into family units and gives sex, age, and family relationship information. The Indian and English names are also listed.
Major James McLaughlin was assigned to the American Indians in Utah for many years. His correspondence and documents contain many records about the Navajos and the Utes. The papers are found in the following:
- McLaughlin, James. Major James McLaughlin Papers, 1855–1937. Richardton, North Dakota: Assumption Abbey Archives, 1968. (On 39 Family History Library films beginning with 494467). These records include enrollments, school records, absentee Indians, and censuses. Two rolls of films index the collection. The indexes are on films 541379–80 and contain more than a hundred cards about Utah.
Tribal Records
Tribal organizations have kept statistics, enrollment, and other records since the 1930s. Tribal organizations in Utah are the Ute Indian Tribe, the White Mesa Utes, Goshiute Indian Tribe, Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, Navajo Nation, North West Band of Shoshone Tribe, and the Skull Valley Goshiute Tribe. For current tribal addresses, contact:
Division of Indian Affairs
324 S. State, Suite 500
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Telephone: 801-538-8808
Internet: http://indian.utah.gov/
The Family History Library has some tribal records. You may locate others through the BIA agency or tribe. One tribal record is found in:
- Family Records of Uintah and Whiteriver Utes, 1867–1948. Two Volumes. N.p., 1958. (Family History Library film 1035932 item 3). The family group sheets are arranged alphabetically and also found by an index. The degree of Indian blood and tribe, parents, and spouses are listed.
Church and Cemetery Records
Helpful information about reservation families can often be found in church and cemetery records. Search tribal histories or contact the agency, the tribal office, or the reservation for information about specific religious denominations and local cemeteries.
The Family History Library has a few records of this type. For example, the library has a record of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints baptisms in 1875 entitled:
- Records of the Baptisms of the Indians in Grass Valley in 1875. N.p., 19--? (Family History Library film 982289 item 5). Grass Valley is now known as Koosharem, Sevier County, Utah. The book and film have a typed list and a photocopy of the original baptisms. The names of the American Indians and the person who baptized and confirmed them are listed along with the date of baptism.
Family History Library
The records will be listed in the Family History Library Catalog Subject Search under the name of the tribe, or in the Place Search under the town as follows:
- Office of Indian Affairs-Utah Superintendency M834 (Family History Library films 1025139 and 1025140.)
- Census of St. George 1895-1905 Salt Lake Special___________
- Intermountain Indain School 1950-1951 (Family History Library film1205530 Item 2)
- Doris Duke, Indian Oral History Program (Family History Library film 897217 item 37; fiche 6039422.)
Federal Population Censuses
The 1900 federal census included population schedules for several Indian groups in Utah. Some were associated with reservations and agencies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Most of the information in this census for Indian individuals and families were recorded on Indian Population Schedules. In some cases, information for Indians were filed by the Bureau of Census along with the general population schedules for non-Indian residents. Separate districts exist for the Southern Utah Agency and for the Uintah and Ouray Agency. Schedules for groups not listed as separate districts exist for Shoshone Indians in Portage Precinct, Box Elder County, Utah and for Santa Clara Precinct, Washington County, Utah.
The 1900, 1910, and 1920 U.S. population censuses enumerated American Indians associated with reservations or agencies. These censuses are found in the population schedules of the federal census. The Utah Census page explains these records.
Several sources include genealogies of the American Indians. These genealogies provide information about parents and other ancestors. Individuals and societies have gathered genealogies. One example is:
- Cury, Rex D. Indian Genealogical Records, 1835–1946. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1981. (Family History Library film 1033685 item 6). The names of the families are arranged in alphabetical order. The record includes name, tribe, birth and death information, and degree of Indian blood. The names of parents, spouse, and children are included with their birth and death information.
You may need to begin by learning some history of Utah Indian reservations. Two sources are:
- Indian Reservations of the West. Heart Throbs of the West,1, (1939): 127–145. This brief article outlines the history of eight separate reservations. It provides details of the beginning of the reservation and some history on the tribe. Narrations are quoted from journals of leaders.
- Taylor, Eli F. Indian Reservations in Utah. Utah Historical Quarterly 4, Number 1 (January 1931): 29–32. This article gives a brief history of the different reservations throughout Utah. It give information such as dates established, size, and by whose authority they were established.
Histories of some tribes are available at the Family History Library or through public libraries. Some state and county histories give a background history on the tribes in their area. Check Utah History for general Utah histories. An example of history about the Ute Indians is:
- Dixon, Madoline Cloward. These Were the Utes. Provo, Utah: Press Publishing Limited, 1983. This source discusses lifestyle, wars, and legends. There are historical and biographical stories.
Other Repositories
Libraries and societies have published sources, manuscripts, or collections of materials relating to American Indians. For example, the Marriott Library at the University of Utah at http://www.lib.utah.edu/ is a repository for the Oral History Program of the Doris Duke Grant. This grant is devoted to collecting American Indian oral histories.
The Topic of American Indians under the United State Portal Page provides an overview of major federal records helpful for researching American Indian ancestry. The outline includes step-by-step suggestions for researching the records. The agency records and tribal records are listed in the Family History Library Catalog in the Place Search under:
Also, look under the Subject Search for the name of the tribe, such as:
Additional records may be in the Subject Search under:
See Also
Utah_Military for a list of forts
Web Sites
- ↑ Hodge, Frederick Webb. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Washington D.C.:Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin #30 1907. Available online.
- ↑ Swanton John R. The Indian Tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin #145 Available online.
- ↑ National Atlas of the United States of America -- Federal Lands and Indian Reservations Available online.
- ↑ Isaacs. Katherine M., editor. Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America. U.S. Data Sourcebook, Volume 11 Appendices, Bureau of Indian Affairs List of American Indian Reservations, Appendix E, Indian Reservations. Omnigraphics, Inc., 1991.
- ↑ Hill, Edward E. The Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1880: Historical Sketches, Clearwater Publishing Co., Inc. 1974. (Family History Library book 970.1 H551o.)
- ↑ Hill, Edward E. (comp.). Guide to Records in the National Archives of the United States Relating to American Indians. Washington DC: National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1981. (FHL book 970.1 H551g.)
- ↑ Hill, Edward E. The Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1880: Historical Sketches, Clearwater Publishing Co., Inc. 1974. (Family History Library book 970.1 H551o.)
- ↑ Hill, Edward E. (comp.). Guide to Records in the National Archives of the United States Relating to American Indians. Washington DC: National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1981. (FHL book 970.1 H551g.)
- "Accompanying Pamphlet for Microcopy 1011", National Archives Microfilm Publications, Appendix.
- American Indians: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications. Washington DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board, National Archives and Records Administration, 1998.
- Hill, Edward E. (comp.). Guide to Records in the National Archives of the United States Relating to American Indians. Washington DC: National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1981.
- Hill, Edward E. The Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1880: Historical Sketches. New York, New York: Clearwater Publishing Company, Inc., 1974.
- Historical Sketches for Jurisdictional and Subject Headings Used for the Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1880. National Archives Microcopy T1105.
- Hodge, Frederick Webb. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Washington D.C.:Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin #30 1907. Available online.
- Isaacs. Katherine M., editor. Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America. U.S. Data Sourcebook, Volume 11 Appendices, Bureau of Indian Affairs List of American Indian Reservations, Appendix E, Indian Reservations. Omnigraphics, Inc., 1991.
- National Atlas of the United States of America -- Federal Lands and Indian Reservations Available online.
- Preliminary Inventory No. 163: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Washington DC: National Archives and Records Services. Available online
- Swanton John R. The Indian Tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin #145 Available online.


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To set DMA mode, the following command is used, the command itself can be used but a combination of X is preferred to ensure that the drive itself is programmed. Read the drive documentation before trying this.
hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
hdparm -d1 X mdma2 /dev/hda //setting xfermode (multiword DMA Mode 2)
Note. The X is used to set transfer mode for newer drive (E)IDE use it only when the chipset supports it. Query the setting first before you make changes. New drives may already turn on this PIO modes at power on.
Always query and benchmark the drive after your settings, to ensure that the drive has been programmed the way you want it.
Note. All modifications or setting are not saved permanently. If you reboot the system, the settings are lost. So when you do this make note of the settings, create a file and execute it via bash script, or via /etc/rc.d/ alternatively and probably best, add the line in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local
All CD-ROMs, CD Writers, DVDs and IDE ZIPs drives are treated as SCSI devices under Linux. Most CD-ROMs are detected automatically, especially if you are installing Linux from CD-ROMs, when you finish the installation the Drive should be already working.
Make note that even the CD-ROM is configured properly; it may not be available when you need it. A CD-ROM, in order to be accessible needs to be mounted.
To find out about the real name of your device type this:
To mount the CD-ROM, use these commands:
Where /mnt/cdrom is a directory to temporarily, read the information contained in your physical CD-ROM. /dev/xxx is your physical device.
Some times you need to eject a CD from the CD-ROM drive, but the drive won't open, it is because it is mounted. In order to remove the CD you have to un-mount the drive first. To un-mount the drive, use this:
Note. Mount and umount is executed as root.


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Mickey's Diner
St Paul Hotel.
Downtown St Paul
The Old Loading Docs, St Paul.
St Paul from the High Bridge
Last Spin of the Summer
Ferris wheel at the State Fair.
Swings at the State Fair.
Capital Stones.
Icons of St Paul
The Mighty Mississippi Flowing Through Saint Paul
St Paul Skating Rink
Ok, so it wasn't frozen, but the bulging Mississippi River looked like glass to me. We had huge floods in St Paul this past spring when I took this image, and the water was much higher than usual. That dark line at the water's edge is a train bridge. What happens when the water gets that high?!
St Paul Rails
The Glass Palace Across the Lily Pond
Golden Hour at Como
Downtown St Paul at Dusk
Downtown St Paul.
Reflections on Como
The Glass House
Greg Benz PhotographyMississippi RiverRobert St BridgeSt. Paul Union Pacific Verticallift Rail Bridgedowntown St Paul skyline


text: Billy Woods Dour CandyYall trippin this album is damn solid. So many layers4.002.28.15 Run the Jewels Run the Jewels 24.011.02.14 Real Estate Atlas4.003.10.14 The War on Drugs Lost in the Dream4.503.10.14 Black Knights Medieval Chamber2.503.10.14 Cities Aviv Come To Life4.003.10.14 The Doppelgangaz Peace KehdA nice revisit to G-Funk. A little too silly though.3.503.10.14 Tycho AwakeTycho doesn't sound like Boards of Canada anymore....4.003.04.14


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Reliance Communication Launches Free Website Package for NetConnect Users
Reliance communication today announced the launch of free website building package for its Netconnect users.
The package will include a domain name, website builder and 10 business email accounts on the domain name. With this people can now have their own website and attract newer customers even though they might not have the technical know-how or resources to create and host one.
Reliance communication has entered into an exclusive partnership with BigRock which will enable Reliance Netconnect users to establish and grow their online presence.
To avail the offer, Reliance Netconnect Users need to register their email address while subscribing for the Netconnect service. This can also be done by calling the Reliance Netconnect customer care at 1800 3000 5555, or by registering at the Netconnect website www.reliancenetconnect.co.in.
The users will be sent a coupon code on their registered email address. The process for availing the offer will also be explained in the email. The users can redeem this coupon code and get the website package free of cost. The service is free for the first year of registration. After the first year, the customers will pay the prevailing fee to BigRock if they wish to continue the service.
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This is a very good technique to grab big market share. BigRock is investing by using post paid strategy and will cover all cost gradually after first year.


text: The AYSO Hollidaysburg Soccer league is designed for girls and boys ages 4 to 13 and emphasizes fun while learning the game of soccer and the meaning of sportsmanship. AYSO Hollidaysburg Soccer annually serves more than 300 children in Blair County and is an all volunteer organization with parents coaching and sponsoring the various teams. Our mission is to develop and deliver quality youth soccer where everyone builds positive character through participation in a fun, fair, safe, family environment. We offer soccer teams for boys and girls ages 4 to 13 in Hollidaysburg and surrounding areas.


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Designed as a comfortable occasional chair in its resting state, the Library Chair transforms into a step ladder with a simple hinged movement.
Using a blend of modern manufacturing and hand-crafted techniques, the chair is CNC cut from high grade FSC certified birch plywood, with additional hand routing and finishing to achieve the unique construction details.
Clear lacquer finish with polished chrome hinges and locking handle.
900mm(w) x 366mm(h)
Designed and made in East London.
We strive to combine the highest quality materials with efficient use of form and local manufacturing, to create warm and emotive products with a strong sense of purpose.


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Questions about the LAMP Program which allows nonprofit housing agencies to sell their existing single-family loans to participating lenders so that they can raise additional funds for new housing projects.
The West Virginia Housing Development Fund is the state's affordable mortgage finance agency.
The WVHDF was established to develop and improve the state's housing opportunities for residents.


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Detours is "Blue" Gene Tyranny's first album of new piano works since 2003's Take Your Time. A beautifully recorded collection of tracks composed between 2004 and 2010, Detours belongs to a rarefied class of supremely listenable and beautiful piano albums that are not encumbered by any new-age shabbiness. It possesses the sort of timeless and elegant romanticism so unpretentious and accomplished it seems to at once effortlessly canonize itself.
The four pieces on Detours have their origins in disparate sources of inspiration - a longtime friend in San Francisco, a chance visit to a Quaker meetinghouse, a choreographed dance, philosophical intuition. Harmonic discourses begin at a pre-determined location and wind up at a totally unexpected place. Tyranny is a master pianist, able to follow mood and impulse to uncharted new territory.
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Jewel Box
Color Booklet with art by Philip Makanna
Liner Notes by "Blue" Gene Tyranny
Limited edition of 250 copies
Alternate cover art by Joey Fauerso
Liner Notes by "Blue" Gene Tyranny
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"It's been eight years since an album of his new work, and about half of 'Detours,' his new album on Unseen Worlds, is prime stuff, including two major solo-piano pieces: '13 Detours' and 'George Fox Searches.' He does not stint on beautiful things - major arpeggios, soul-chord progressions, lines that flow and breathe - and his keyboard touch is rounded and gorgeous, a feeling you remember." - The New York Times
"All week, 'George Fox Searches' has had me humming a Baptist hymn, replete with Tyranny's improvisatory embellishments. As recently as 2010 his former bandmate Iggy Pop was still stage diving into his early 60s, and the same time, "Blue" Gene Tyranny was taking his own leaps into the unknown, albeit with far less chance of bodily harm. Fifty years after a San Antonio teen skipped out on Julliard, a veteran continues to thumb his nose at convention, still seeking, still striving." - Dusted


text: Smeller, it is nothing at all like the men's, it's a very sweet powerhouse exotic floral. It was a fave of mine for a while, but one can get tired of the sweetness. It received lots of positive comments though - but I can't imagine it for a guy. Well, who knows??? It can be resold on ebay successfully - some desperately still want to buy it.


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U2 have revealed the animated video for "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight," the third single off of their five-star No Line on the Horizon and the song Bono sings in BlackBerry ads popping up before many of this summer's biggest movies. U2 don't actually appear in the video, but the clip's incredible animation more than makes up for the absence of the Edge.
The video was animated by artist David O'Reilly, who previously worked on the films Son of Rambow and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a collaboration with art collective Shynola (who earlier this week brought us the stunning stop-animation video for Coldplay's "Strawberry Swing").
The clip starts out harrowing like any Disney movie, except instead of the parent of a cartoon animal dying, there are transparent animated characters realizing that they're living meaningless lives. The Robert Altman-esque ensemble of cartoon characters all have the realization that if they go crazy if they don't go crazy tonight, so they all "decide to make a change in their lives," as the U2 official YouTube page explains.
As Rock Daily recently reported, U2 kicked off their 360 Tour — featuring their massive stage setup nicknamed by some "the Claw" (the band refers to it as "the spaceship" — with a concert in Barcelona that included both a Michael Jackson tribute and a live feed to astronauts orbiting Earth in a space station. Bono and Co., who have begun Twittering from behind the scenes, bring their 360 Tour to the States on September 12th when the band visits Chicago's Soldier Field.
Related Stories:
• U2 Launch 360 Tour With Call to Space Station, Jackson Tributes
• U2 Start Posting Backstage Photos From the Road on 360 Tour Twitter
• U2 Reveal Innovative Stage Design as First 360 Tour Gig Kicks Off


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Governors Camp is located in the banks of the Mara River, it's waters teeming with bird-life, hippo and crocodile, in the heart of Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve.
Governors Camp has 37 tents lining the riverbank, enjoy uninterrupted views over the Mara River, others have views across the sweeping plains of the Masai Mara. Created in 1972 Governors Camp set new standards in luxury for a tented camp. Today it's still Africa's best.
Everything is under canvas, all tents have en-suit bathrooms with hot and cold running water and flushing toilets. There is a bar tent with deck overlooking the Mara River and dinning tent with views over the plains.


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The BBB name and logo are being fraudulently used by criminals in an on-going phishing scam. The emails look very much like notice of a complaint from BBB, but contain links to malware that can infect your computer, steal passwords, etc.
BBB is working with law enforcement, as well as with a private deactivation firm (at our own expense), to shut down as many criminal websites as possible. To date, we have shut down well over 100 sites.
If you get an email that looks like it is a BBB complaint, here is what you should do:
1. Do NOT click on any links or attachments.
2. Read the email carefully for signs that it may be fake (for example, misspellings, grammar, generic greetings such as "Dear member" instead of a name, etc.).
3. Be wary of any urgent instructions to take specified action such as "Click on the link or your account will be closed."
4. Hover your mouse over links without clicking to see if the address is truly from bbb.org. The URL in the text should match the URL that your mouse detects. If the two do not match, it is most likely a scam.
5. Send a copy of the email to firstname.lastname@example.com (Note: This address is only for scams that use the BBB name or logo)
6. Delete the email from your computer completely (be sure to empty your "trash can" or "recycling bin," as well).
7. Run anti-virus software updates frequently and do a full system scan.
8. Keep a close eye on your bank statements for any unexpected or unexplained transactions.
If you have a business and are not certain whether the complaint is legitimate, contact your local BBB (www.bbb.org/find).


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General Information
If you are a point-and-click kind of person and have to manage one or more MySQL servers, you may find this web-based utility to be a goldmine.
- Local root access on the box or be able to su to root.
- A SSH client such as puTTy or SecureCRT (if you aren't on the box).
- Your favorite text editor (I prefer nano).
Installation is straight forward. Either download the source from http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ or install it from your favorite package manager. I will be installing it on FreeBSD using the ports tree. If you grabbed the source, just extract it to whichever directory you want it to be accessed from the web. If you install it via ports or packages, it will get installed in /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin.
# cd /usr/ports/databases/phpmyadmin # make install clean
The configuration of the newer versions (2.7.x and above) can be done by pointing your browser to http://mydomain.com/phpMyAdmin/scripts/setup.php or whatever virtualhost you are using. Now, what we effectively want to accomplish is populating /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php with the proper settings that you want. Once you loaded the setup script in your browser, run through all of the setup options configuring what you need. A quick and dirty setup includes adding the server you are connecting to with cookie authentication. Now there are a couple of ways to save this configuration.
Method One
Once you click 'Add' click 'Display' and copy all of the php text, open a ssh connection to your phpMyAdmin server and paste it into /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php.
Method Two
Click 'Add' as above, but this time you want to make the config.inc.php file writable by the web server so you can save your configuration from the web interface.
# cd /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin # chmod g+w config.inc.php
Make your changes in the setup page and then click 'Save' to save to the writable config file.
Now point your browser to your phpMyAdmin site and log in using your MySQL credentials. Enjoy.


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Laurie Anderson tells this story about the day she married her best friend, Lou Reed:
It was spring in 2008 when I was walking down a road in California feeling sorry for myself and talking on my cell with Lou. "There are so many things I've never done that I wanted to do," I said.
"Like what?"
"You know, I never learned German, I never studied physics, I never got married."
"Why don't we get married?" he asked. "I'll meet you halfway. I'll come to Colorado. How about tomorrow?"
"Um – don't you think tomorrow is too soon?"
"No, I don't."
And so the next day, we met in Boulder, Colorado, and got married in a friend's backyard on a Saturday, wearing our old Saturday clothes, and when I had to do a show right after the ceremony, it was OK with Lou."
Like many couples, we each constructed ways to be – strategies, and sometimes compromises, that would enable us to be part of a pair. Sometimes we lost a bit more than we were able to give, or gave up way too much, or felt abandoned. Sometimes we got really angry. But even when I was mad, I was never bored. We learned to forgive each other. And somehow, for 21 years, we tangled our minds and hearts together.
The day Ken married me was like any other. We were not really watching TV when I suggested it. "OK," he said, and he put on his boots and waited for me to put on a dress I knew he liked.
I dug out the yellow pages and found a wedding chapel in an old west Phoenix neighborhood. The preacher reminded me of the old man at the bar in Field of Dreams, the one with the pale blue eyes who tells the story of Moonlight Graham and all the blue hats he never got around to giving his wife, Alicia. Like me, Alicia liked to wear blue.
In our everyday clothes and without a ring, we asked a stranger to officially witness our wedding ceremony. Then we vowed to each other that we would stay together in sickness and health, 'til death us do part. A second time around for both of us, we were unwilling to settle for anything less than the kind of love that makes you leave one life with nothing but whatever you're wearing that day. It was easy to say and to mean to say that only death would tear us apart. Madly in love, we had no reason to suspect that cancer (mine) or aneurysms (his) would move in and turn things upside down more than once and make us resent our bodies and ourselves. Oblivious to any possibility of dark days ahead, we filled up an ordinary November morning with a time-honored stream of extraordinary promises. We couldn't stop smiling, and we didn't tell a soul. Young and wild, we may as well have eloped to Gretna Green, and with our secret, we even went to work afterwards, delighting in the fact that no one else knew what we had done. Like so many of the rituals we performed every day, the act of marrying was as casual as it was important. Without fanfare or hoopla, it was ours – completely ours. Private.
For a long time, we were answerable only to each other and did as we wished without having to worry much about anyone else. There were random road trips north and to the ocean, the first of which on a hot Friday afternoon when I was desperate to smell the sea. He just told me to get in the car, and off we went to California. No map. No GPS. No bottles of water. No phone. No specific destination other than "ocean." By nightfall, we were inhaling the salty air somewhere around Los Angeles and the next evening, we were strolling along a pier in Pismo Beach. As though putting America's never-ending road to the test, I asked him to keep driving until we stopped by a lighthouse, the kind of place I had always thought would make a great home for us. There, we balanced a camera on the hood of his car, set the self-timer, and took a picture of ourselves, windswept, laughing, and clinging to each other, completely unaware that a decade later, we would stand again on that very same spot on the road to Monterey, smiling for a picture that would be taken by the only child we would have together – our daughter. Then, for another decade, San Luis Obispo County – Morro Bay – would be our family's vacation spot.
Between us, for over two decades, we created hundreds of rituals and routines – lovely and easy labors of love that came naturally, in large part because – as my mother still reminds me – I could set my watch by Ken. I always knew where he was, what he was doing, how much he loved me, how much I exasperated him, how proud he was of accomplishments in my professional life and how much he despised the bullshit I brought into our home from that same profession. He told me he loved me every single day and at the end of every single phone call (even on days and at the end of phone calls when I was anything but lovable). Always in my corner, he was my number one fan, my lover, and the wise and best friend who told the young me whose feelings were too easily hurt and who cared too much about what other people thought, that she needed to grow some "hard bark," because she would need it one day.
Well, Ken, I need it today. I know you didn't want me to harden; you just wanted me to toughen up. But where do we find the toughness to fully absorb the blow of your death, the finality of it? What should I say to our daughter when the grief – boundless and unforgiving – renders her as vulnerable as a new-born? What do I tell myself when I look up and find myself surprised – still – that you are not there with another mug of coffee or a glass of wine asking me what I'm blogging about, and wondering aloud – with a wry and worried smile – if the woman I once was would be coming back any time soon, and when she did, would she remember the man you used to be? In hindsight, I know we both had an inkling that maybe she would not. So maybe I should just tell the truth – if only to myself.
Each of us wrestled with the ways in which illness changed us, forcing us at the most inconvenient of times to confront our mortality, and turning us into very good liars and strangers who fought dirty. We lied, I suppose, for self-preservation and out of fear, out of indignation or anger about our respective lots, out of denial and blame, and all the other words that belong in all the self-help books we would never read, all the "psycho-babble." Our marriage had not been perfect, but it had until then been honest. Always. Honesty was one of those non-negotiables that somehow – unbelievably – was blown asunder by illness and our fucked up responses to it. We found ourselves diminished, transformed into weaker versions of ourselves that were unacceptable to us in light of the boldness that defined us at the beginning and for so many years. Ashamed of ourselves, we didn't know what to do, and we turned our backs on the people we used to be.
And we used to be bold. We started out with courage and a chemistry that we were convinced would more than make up for the little we lacked in compatibility. We argued about little things but rarely about the big stuff, and – this is important – we never lied. We fell into a rhythm that included laughing every day and sometimes at the same old stories including the one about the first argument we ever had. It went something like this:
What's wrong?
Are you sure?
So what are you thinking about?
Well, it must be something. I can tell. It's something. Did I do something wrong? Is it about me? (I mean, isn't it always about me?) Can you at least tell me what it begins with? Just the first letter? Does it begin with a "Y"?
No baby. Just private thoughts. Private thoughts, baby.
Private thoughts.
Ken knew this response would fall short of satisfying someone like me, someone hell-bent – hell-bent – on knowing the inner details, the finer points, the "but how are you really feeling?" liner notes, but he never told me, and growing up and older by his side, I figured out that we all have private thoughts, secrets never to be told, things that stay deep within us, desires, differences that will not be aired – private thoughts.
Maybe most people wouldn't admit it aloud, but Ken did. I remember how he made that first argument in the same way he once told a cashier at Pep Boys – after paying in cash for new windshield wipers – that no, she could not have his address. Not that he was a conspiracy theorist, he just resented the notion of his name and address being placed on a list that would perhaps be sold to someone who would profit from it. When he detected her annoyance because he was not cooperating the way a good customer should, Ken looked at her, deadpan, and with a twinkle in his eye, he beckoned her closer so he could whisper to her: "I just can't do it. I can't tell you where I live, man. The cops are after me." And, I had to put on my sunglasses and walk out of the store because I was laughing so hard.
That's how it was, except when it wasn't. There were times when he would insist I had lost my sense of humor, and I would argue that – au contraire – he had lost his ability to be funny. Like storms in the tiniest of teacups, these often passed, and as I sit here, three years after his death, I realize there were no boring days, no days that did not shimmer for at least a moment with what had connected us at the beginning. The wall we had built did its job for just as long as was required.
We had known love.


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Mets top prospect Zack Wheeler is currently making his much anticipated debut for Triple-A Buffalo.
The game will be rebroadcast on SNY with coverage starting at 7:00 PM.
Wheeler dominated Double-A this season to the tune of a 10-6 mark, with a 3.26 ERA. He gave up just 92 hits and struck out 117 batters in 116 innings pitched .
As a bonus you may also get to see Matt Den Dekker in the lineup, although he has struggled in 48 games for the Bisons batting just .191 with 7 home runs and 27 RBI.
It's great to see the Mets give us this glimpse into the future with one of our young phenoms.


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USB II Link Specifications
USB Link II
Extend USB 492 feet over UTP
Magenta's USB Link II kit allows users to power up to four USB 2.0 devices over a distance of 492 feet (150 meters) using a single UTP cable. Only the receiver end requires a power supply.
Unit ships as a kit with a universal power supply and a USB type A/B cable to connect the USB II transmitter to a source. Transmitter and receiver units also feature built in flanges for secure mounting to a flat surface.
The USB Link II complies with USB 2.0 and 1.1 specifications governing the design of full speed USB devices. However, Magenta Research does not guarantee that all full speed USB devices are compatible with the USB Link II.
Downloads for USB Link II
• 492 foot (150m) reach
• Powered only on receiver end
• USB 2.0 compatible
• Works with Cat5/6
• Built-in wall mounting capability
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|USB Link II
USB II Link Specifications
|Range (over Category 5 UTP cable)
|150 meters (492 ft)
|USB device support
|High speed devices (480 Mb/s) Full speed devices (12 Mb/s) Low speed devices (1.5 Mb/s)
|USB hub support
|Any single chain can include four USB hubs and one Link, in any order.
|Power available to USB device at Transmitter
|1 x 500 mA
|Power available to USB device at Receiver
|4 x 550 mA
|USB cable
|2 meters (6.6 ft)
|Transmitter connector (upstream)
|1 x USB Type B
|Transmitter connector (downstream)
|1 x RJ-45
|Receiver connector (upstream)
|1 x RJ-45
|Receiver connector (downstream)
|4 x USB Type A (Hub)
|Transmitter dimensions
110 mm x 88 mm x 30 mm
4.3" x 3.5" x 1.2"
|Transmitter weight
|280 g (0.6 lbs.)
|Receiver dimensions
140 mm x 88 mm x 30 mm
5.5" x 3.5" x 1.2"
|Receiver weight
|330 g (0.73 lbs.)
|Up to 95%
|Temperature range
|Operation: 0°C to 55°C, Storage: -20°C to 85°C


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MS-EDS buddies operations deepen
So now EDS can sell you even more and even bigger MS systems...
EDS has broadened its relationship with Microsoft. The plan is for EDS to "design, deploy, manage and support Microsoft-based server and desktop infrastructure solutions" for NT Server and Exchange with EDS' Distributed Systems Management offering. To achieve this, EDS will train and certify up to 7,000 MCSEs or MCSDs in what is claimed to be the largest MS certification decision to date. EDS has 120,000 staff. EDS will be given preferential ("early") access to MS software. The alliance was announced jointly by Jeff Heller, CEO of EDS and Microsoft President Steve Ballmer. Exchange was not suitable for EDS' requirements initially as the global address list in Exchange was not large enough. Microsoft fixed this for EDS, apparently, although there were still other problems with the product. The relationship raises again serious questions about the impartiality EDS and the wisdom of employing the firm, in view of undisclosed commissions that EDS will doubtless get from the arrangement. There have been many reports of contractual problems between EDS and its UK public sector clients in the UK, and elsewhere. It would appear that in most of these situations, Microsoft software had been deployed. Microsoft is also deploying its consulting services arm, which it admits is biased to only Microsoft products, to increase its take-home pay from joint deals. Internally, EDS has "standardised" on Microsoft software, which calls into question not just its independence but also its ability to advise about Unix, Apple, NetWare or Notes and other non-Microsoft systems. Another aspect of this deal that should interest competition authorities is Microsoft's practice of giving preferential access to beta software to "strategic partners", especially as Microsoft itself refers to Windows and Office as "the standard". This is a good reason for Judge Jackson to declare Windows to be an essential facility and to introduce regulations that do not allow prior access to Microsoft's partners. The EDS-Microsoft relationship has been building for 12 years, and as a result of the recent deal, EDS is perhaps now best viewed as a Microsoft systems integrator, rather than an independent organisation. A strange EDS Web page attempts to set out the advantages of using EDS and Microsoft: "become part of the Internet revolution" it says; "grow your business through more effective communication"; and "turn your employees into knowledge workers" it exhorts. Just how the Microsoft relationship helps the EDS client is not clear, but another Web page that sets out EDS' criteria for strategic partners does provide some insight as to how EDS benefits: the partner must "be willing and able to establish an economic linkage". It is also comforting to read that "EDS invented the electronic services industry" in its "more than 35 years" existence. It probably invented television too. ®
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