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WASHINGTON — Arlen Specter, the irascible senator from Pennsylvania who was at the center of many of the Senate's most divisive legal battles — from the Supreme Court nominations of Robert H. Bork and Clarence Thomas to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton — only to lose his seat in 2010 after quitting the Republican Party to become a Democrat, died Sunday morning at his home in Philadelphia. He was 82.
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The cause was complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, his son Shanin said. Mr. Specter had previously fought Hodgkin's disease and survived a brain tumor and heart bypass surgery.
Hard-edged and tenacious yet ever the centrist, Mr. Specter was a part of American public life for more than four decades. As an ambitious young lawyer for the Warren Commission, he took credit for originating the theory that a single bullet, fired by a lone gunman, struck both President John F. Kennedy and Gov. John B. Connally of Texas. Seconds later, Kennedy was struck by a fatal shot to the head from the same gunman, the commission found.
In the Senate, where he was long regarded as its sharpest legal mind, he led the Judiciary Committee through a tumultuous period that included two Supreme Court confirmations, even while battling Hodgkin's disease in 2005 and losing his hair to chemotherapy.
Yet he may be remembered best for his quixotic party switch in 2009 and the subsequent campaign that cost him the Senate seat he had held for almost 30 years. After 44 years as a Republican, Mr. Specter, who began his career as a Democrat, changed sides because he feared a challenge from the right. He wound up losing in a Democratic primary; the seat stayed in Republican hands.
"Arlen Specter was always a fighter," President Obama said in a statement issued Sunday, calling Mr. Specter "fiercely independent" and citing his "toughness and determination" in dealing with his personal health struggles.
One of the few remaining Republican moderates on Capitol Hill at a time when the party had turned sharply to the right, Mr. Specter confounded fellow Republicans at every turn. He unabashedly supported Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal, and championed biomedical and embryonic stem cell research long before he received his cancer diagnosis.
When he made a bid for the White House in 1995, he denounced the Christian right as an extremist "fringe" — an unorthodox tactic for a candidate trying to win votes in a Republican primary. The campaign was short-lived; Mr. Specter ended it when he ran out of cash. Years later, he said wryly of the other candidates, "I was the only one of nine people in New Hampshire who wanted to keep the Department of Education."
He enjoyed a good martini and a fast game of squash, and he was famous for parsing his words to wiggle out of tight spots. During Mr. Clinton's impeachment on charges of perjury and obstruction, Mr. Specter, objecting to what he called a "sham trial" without witnesses, signaled that he would vote to acquit.
But a simple "not guilty" vote would have put him directly at odds with Republicans; instead, citing Scottish law, Mr. Specter voted "not proven," adding, "therefore not guilty."
He relished the decades he spent on the Judiciary Committee. He enraged conservatives in 1987 by helping to derail Judge Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court and then delighted them four years later by backing Justice Thomas. The Thomas confirmation nearly cost Mr. Specter his Senate seat; even now, millions of American women remain furious with him for his aggressive questioning of Anita F. Hill, a law professor who had accused Justice Thomas of sexual harassment when they worked together at the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
If he had any regrets, Mr. Specter rarely admitted them.
"I've gone back and looked at every frame of the videos on Professor Hill, and I did not ask her one unprofessional question," he said in a 2004 interview with The New York Times. Of the Bork and Thomas confirmations, he said, "I may be wrong, but I'm satisfied with what I did in both those cases."
Brash confidence and outsize ego were characteristic of Mr. Specter, a man so feared by his own aides and so brusque with colleagues that he earned the nickname Snarlin' Arlen on Capitol Hill. In 1992, when Mr. Specter's Senate seat was in danger after the Thomas hearings, Paul Weyrich, a founding father of the modern conservative movement, campaigned for him. His rationale was expressed in a statement he made to fellow conservatives, as quoted by the conservative magazine National Review.
"Arlen Specter is a jerk," he was said to have remarked, "but he's our jerk."
Those close to Mr. Specter say there was a softer side to him, but no one denied that as a lawmaker he was all business, with little patience for the false pleasantries of politics.
G. Terry Madonna, a political scientist at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., who followed Mr. Specter's career, once described how the senator would conduct constituent meetings: "He'll say, 'I'm delighted to be here,' and give his standard 10- or 15-minute opening. Then he'll say, 'I'll take questions now; whoever has a question, put up their hands.' He will count the hands — 1, 2, 3, 4, to 20. And when 20 is over, he's out of there."
Arlen Specter was born on Feb. 12, 1930, in Wichita, Kan., the fourth and youngest child of Harry and Lillian Specter. Harry Specter, a Jewish émigré from the Ukraine, then part of Russia, moved his family back and forth between the East Coast and the Midwest seeking work before settling in Kansas as a peddler. By the time Arlen was 5, he too was peddling, selling cantaloupes door to door by his father's side.
When scrap metal became salable during World War II, the Specters moved to the small Kansas town of Russell, coincidentally the hometown of another person who would become a prominent Republican senator, Bob Dole. There, the elder Specter opened a junkyard; when tornadoes blew through, he sent his son into the oil fields with a torch to cut up the toppled derricks.
Carl Feldbaum, a friend and a former chief of staff to the senator, traced Mr. Specter's gruffness to those days.
"There's a hard-bitten quality that came out of being an immigrant," Mr. Feldbaum said, "of being the only Jewish family in a small Midwestern town and living through the Depression, war era."
The Specters later moved to Philadelphia — "so my sister could meet and marry a nice Jewish boy," Mr. Specter explained — where he enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1951, served in the Air Force and then earned a law degree from Yale in 1956. By 1959, he was an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia, prosecuting union racketeers and attracting the attention of some leaders in Washington.
His parents were Democrats, and so was he, until he tried to run for Philadelphia district attorney in 1965. As Mr. Specter recalled, the local Democratic chairman told him that the party did not want a "young Tom Dewey as D.A.," a reference to the former New York governor and racket-buster Thomas E. Dewey, a Republican. So Mr. Specter ran on the Republican ticket as a Democrat. He switched his party registration after he won.
Thus began what Mr. Specter liked to call "the continuing effort I have made to pull the Republican Party to the center."
He won his first election to the Senate in 1980 and, as he recounted in his 2000 autobiography, "Passion for Truth," immediately began courting Senator Strom Thurmond, the deeply conservative South Carolina Republican who was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, seeking a seat on the panel.
In the Senate, Mr. Specter, putting his prosecutor's skills to use, was a relentless interrogator in judicial confirmations. Tom Korologos, a former ambassador and a lobbyist who was often called upon by Republican presidents to shepherd their nominees through the Senate, said that no matter how much information a nominee provided, Mr. Specter wanted more — "the Ph.D. treatment," in Mr. Korologos's words.
Never was that more true than during the Bork hearings.
"Bork, I have said many times, was the Einstein of the law," Mr. Korologos said, "and Specter was the Einstein of the Senate, and they used to talk past each other like two trains. Specter would ask these long, convoluted questions, and Bork would give these long, convoluted answers."
The Senate rejected the nomination, and conservatives never forgave Mr. Specter. Judge Bork, in an interview with The Times in 2004, called him "generally a bit shifty." Likewise, women's groups, who had considered Mr. Specter an ally, never forgave him for accusing Ms. Hill of perjury. Ultimately, Mr. Specter expressed contrition, saying he had come to understand why Ms. Hill's complaint of sexual harassment had "touched a raw nerve among so many women."
But the remark, coming in 1992 when Mr. Specter was facing a tough re-election campaign, rang hollow with his critics and even some admirers, who said it was another example of how he did whatever it took to save his political career.
But the rabbit-pulling came to an abrupt end in 2010 for Mr. Specter, the longest-serving senator in Pennsylvania history. The year before, as the Tea Party gained strength, Mr. Specter candidly declared his Republican-to-Democrat conversion a matter of political survival.
"I am not prepared to have my 29-year record in the United States Senate decided by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate — not prepared to have that record decided by that jury," he said.
Republicans were knocked off stride; many had no warning from Mr. Specter. At first, it seemed that he might have an easy ride to the Democratic nomination. But even with the endorsement of Mr. Obama, he failed to attract support from Democrats. Many were annoyed by the alliance he had forged years earlier with another Pennsylvania senator, the conservative Republican Rick Santorum.
Mr. Specter lost his primary race with just 46 percent of the vote — an outcome that left him looking drained and shocked. In a memoir published last year, "Life Among the Cannibals," he denounced the partisanship that has enveloped Washington.
"The fringes have displaced tolerance with purity tests," he wrote.
Besides his son Shanin, Mr. Specter is survived by his wife of 59 years, Joan; a sister, Shirley Kety; another son, Stephen; and four grandchildren.
Though Mr. Specter was known mostly for his contributions to domestic policy — along with Senator Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, he successfully fought to double the budget of the National Institutes of Health for medical research during the Clinton years — he dipped into foreign policy as well. Mr. Feldbaum, Mr. Specter's former chief of staff, recalled a trip they made to Baghdad in 1990 to meet Saddam Hussein.
Mr. Specter took a camera along — "out of caution, he wanted us to have our own pictures," Mr. Feldbaum said — but palace guards wrested it out of Mr. Feldbaum's hands. When Mr. Hussein arrived, the senator demanded his camera back.
"It wasn't the camera; it was the principle," Mr. Feldbaum said. "It wasn't only that he was a United States senator and a representative of the United States of America. He was Arlen Specter."


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Cards improve with a pair of under-the-radar moves
Adding Bourjos, Ellis augments defense and creates lineup flexibility for Matheny
Tens of thousands of words have been devoted to evaluating an offseason spree of free agency moves and trades reshaping the Major League landscape.
Somehow, the team that missed reaching three consecutive World Series by one postseason victory in 2012 has managed to remain relatively off the radar. St. Louis created a few ripples with the signing of former Tigers shortstop Jhonny Peralta, but that quickly was buried under an avalanche of bigger news.
Quietly and with financial restraint, in their fashion, the Cards have made two other moves that will have significant impact in the heart of their defense. The imports should improve a pitching staff that figures to be even more dominant with the maturation of the sport's purest collection of young arms.
Peter Bourjos and Mark Ellis, both arriving from Southern California, will have St. Louis faithful recalling the good old days of Willie McGee and Tommy Herr -- or, going back even deeper in the past, Curt Flood and Julian Javier.
In Bourjos, who comes at the cost of popular David Freese, St. Louis has acquired arguably the best defensive centerfielder and fastest player in the sport.
Entering his physical prime at 27, Bourjos will prove how supremely talented he is if he manages to avoid the kinds of freak injuries that effectively wiped out a frustrating 2013 season.
In 2011, his one full season in center for the Angels, he was pure magic with the glove, saving 21 runs and stealing three home runs according to Baseball Info Solutions. He also was a more productive hitter than media and fans seem to recall, ranking third on his team in slugging (11 triples, 26 doubles, 12 homers) while stealing 22 bases and hitting .271.
In 2012, Bourjos got off to a slow start -- along with virtually every other Angels player -- and ceded his position to Mike Trout, merely the game's premier all-around talent. Those who have watched Bourjos play the game freely and confidently know how good he is.
Cards manager Mike Matheny and his new teammates will love Bourjos' dedication and attitude. The man from Scottsdale, Ariz., was made for the heartland and the Runnin' Redbirds.
"I'm really excited and feel fortunate to be going to such a great organization with a tremendous fan base," Bourjos said following a trip to St. Louis in the wake of the Nov. 22 deal. "You always hate to leave the place where you grew up, and I'll miss the Angels. But this is a tremendous opportunity for me -- and I'm planning to take full advantage of it."
The presence of Trout and need for a third baseman motivated the Angels to part with Bourjos along with power-hitting prospect Randal Grichuk, taken one pick ahead of Trout in the memorable 2009 First-Year Player Draft.
Freese, the hometown kid who made his enduring imprint in the 2011 postseason for the champion Cards, can give the Angels leadership along with offensive production in their bid to regain relevance in the intensely competitive American League West. Veteran reliever Fernando Salas also hopes to reclaim his '11 form in Anaheim.
The acquisition of Bourjos, who figures to make a right fielder or fourth outfielder of Jon Jay, has the ripple effect of potentially upgrading the Cards defensively at three positions.
Matt Carpenter, the hit machine, should flourish at third in his transfer from second. St. Louis now has the sure, capable hands and glove of Ellis at second in support of young, athletic Kolten Wong, who figures to get the first crack at the job.
Ellis, in Oakland and Los Angeles, has been among the sport's most underrated players for a full decade. You have to see this guy play every day to fully appreciate everything he brings. The Dodgers will miss him.
Turning 37 in June, he might have lost a half-step, but he is still a magnet at second. Over the past three seasons, only Dustin Pedroia (44) and Darwin Barney (40) -- each playing significantly more games -- have saved more runs than Ellis' 39 at the position.
While he doesn't drive the ball the way he did in 2007 when he produced 19 homers and 257 total bases for the A's in their cavernous Coliseum, Ellis is a smart situational hitter who can give Matheny lineup flexibility.
The first option should be giving Bourjos a shot batting first or second, where he can create runs with his blinding speed. With the Angels, he was a measurably better hitter at the top of the order than at the bottom, batting .271 leading off with a .819 OPS (on base plus slugging) in the No. 2 hole.
Bourjos, a .391 career hitter when he puts the first pitch in play, scores from first in a breeze on Carpenter's MLB-high 55 doubles. In 2011, Bourjos ranked ninth in the AL in manufactured runs with 28 despite spending most of the season batting ninth.
The immediate dissatisfaction of Cardinals Nation with the trade is perfectly understandable given the attachment to Freese. But the faithful will be amazed by Bourjos' athlete's gifts, and they will appreciate Ellis' understated style as the season moves along.
"As we look back over the last six weeks," Cards GM John Mozeliak said, "we feel like we were able to improve this club."
The wonderful Carlos Beltran will be missed, for sure, along with the vibrant presence of Freese. But Allen Craig will be back, healthy, and the defense will be a joy to watch with Bourjos turning extra-base hits into spectacular outs and Ellis making all the plays.
The Redbirds, it says here, will be a better team in 2014 than the one that fell two wins shy of a second World Series championship in three seasons.


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Express Scripts Holdings Co. is seeking a $40 million tax credit for a new pharmaceutical plant in Burlington Township, over the border from the Willingboro facility run by its Medco Health Solutions subsidiary, company and state officials said today.
A spokesman for the St. Louis-based pharmacy benefits manager, which has cut around 900 jobs in New Jersey since last year, said the company is "seeking approvals to build a state-of-the-art pharmacy" in the township. Express Scripts has applied for a subsidy under the Grow New Jersey program, an incentive the state uses to help firms retain and create jobs while making new investments in their operations.
The company spokesman, Brian Henry, said the new facility is "part of what we continually do — we look for ways to grow responsibly and to be more efficient and deliver world-class service, and we feel that this investment would help us get there." But he said it was premature to provide details such as the jobs impact or size of the facility, and he wouldn't say whether it would result in the closure of the Willingboro plant.
"It's the early stages, but I think if all of the stakeholders approve our proposal, we would anticipate that any currently interested employees that are there would have the opportunity to work at the new facility," Henry said. He later added, "We're evaluating a number of different potential sites and it's an initial step in the process here, so we haven't made any decisions about anything yet."
Express Scripts, which acquired Franklin Lakes-based Medco in a controversial takeover last year, has caught the attention of top state officials over the hundreds of layoffs that followed the $29.1 billion merger. Those cuts included about 100 jobs at Willingboro plant that raised questions about the facility's future.
Henry said the company still has more than 800 employees there, and some 2,700 in the state. And it's hired about 120 employees since last year and has open positions here, he said.
Express Scripts reported earlier this year that its profits had surged after shedding charges associated with Medco.
Economic Development Authority spokeswoman Erin Gold confirmed the company had applied to the agency for Grow New Jersey assistance. Henry declined to say whether Express Scripts was considering other locations for its new facility, and a copy of its application to the EDA could not immediately be obtained.
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Almost all summer long, the taster has been requesting a strawberry pie. So I did what any good girlfriend would do and made a strawberry pie. Of sorts.
It wasn't your typical strawberry pie. It required only a few ingredients, no baking and incorporates my favorite part of pie. Homemade whipped cream! I've always loved freshly whipped cream, I remember my mom freezing the bowl and beaters and then getting out that little carton that with the help of some sugar and a few drops of vanilla, turns into something magical.
I don't have a glass bowl (hint, hint taster) and I doubt freezing plastic has the same effect but the result was just as creamy as I remember.
Simple Strawberry Pie
- 1 Graham Cracker Crust (I used Wholly Wholesome Organic)
- 16 oz organic strawberries, cleaned and sliced
- 8 oz Organic Valley Whipping Cream
- 10 drops NuNaturals Vanilla Stevia
Beat whipping cream and stevia together until stiff.
Gently fold in strawberries.
Spread mixture in the crust, garnishing with a few strawberry slices and refrigerate.
If you are like me, you will eat it right out of the pan before the taster even gets home. 😉


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So this is what it's come down to, has it?
Taking the least respectable portion of a demographic and giving them a platform on which to embarrass themselves and everyone they represent? So has been, and continues to be the ongoing trend in reality television. Normally, you'd breathe a sigh of disapproval, change the channel and feel sorry for the city or culture that has just been misrepresented. This time is different, though. This time it's personal.
According to www.oconnorcasting.tv, O'Connor Casting has begun searching for White Sox fans who live on Chicago's South Side, who dislike the Cubs, and who (wait for it….) resemble a ""Jersey Shore" type of reality star." The casting call goes on to describe its criteria: "ARE YOU THE NEXT "Jersey Shore" TYPE OF REALITY STAR? Do you live on Chicago's Southside? Are you the GUY or GIRL who is awesome in oh so many ways? Are you sexy, crazy, fun, outgoing, outrageous, love to make things exciting, always up for an adventure, and a HUGE SOX fan who thinks the CUBS suck? If so, then we want you, your friends, your total awesomeness. CONTACT US NOW!" View the entire casting call here: http://oconnorcasting.tv/castingboard/index.php?q=node/6
In other words — unless I'm mistaken — an excuse to manufacture a Chicago version of what has become one of the most socially protested, insulting, grotesque displays of human behavior in recent television history. Already, I can hear the collective sounds of Chicagoans (myself included) hurling their lunches into their laps. White Sox fans and South Siders don't deserve to be represented by the lowest common denominator of individual. We are one city, despite the connotation a show like this would suggest.
While the website does not disclose when, where or on how grand a scale the reality show will air, one thing is certain: whether you're a Cubs fan, or White Sox fan, or don't care for sports altogether – this is bad for Chicago. Period.
There is no benefit in plucking the most abominable members of any fan base, culture or city and parading them around as if they were the majority. "Jersey Shore" became a television phenomenon for all the wrong reasons. Its success came at the the expense of many who never asked to be associated with the stereotypes the show has created. And yet, it seems companies are tripping over themselves to clone and serve up the next batch of culturally destructive, two-dimensional, well…… "Hiney Birds," as "Hawk" Harrelson might describe them.
Shame on any Chicago-based company that so willingly offers up its own people to be used as embarrassing pawns in the name of a reality television show. The Windy City deserves better.


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My early efforts at identifying uniforms of regular Derbyshire regiments and militia units made it obvious that I first needed a better understanding of how they were made up, and therefore of their history. I was given a great deal of help in my efforts by several kind members of the Victorian Wars Forum, a group devoted the study of British Military Campaigns from 1837 to 1902.
I must point out that I don't claim to be any kind of expert, and this article should in no way be regarded as authoritative. I've merely compiled the information from a number of different sources and, while I hope I've not made too many errors, I'm happy to receive suggestions for improvement, amendment, corrections, etc.
Derbyshire's Infantry Regiments, Rifle Volunteers, Militia & Territorial Forces, 1741-1909
The chart above (GIF/PDF) is a provisional and simplified view that I've compiled to show the evolution of the various infantry regiments, rifle volunteers, militia and territorial units in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire through Victorian and Edward eras, till just before the Great War. I should perhaps also explain that I've included Nottinghamshire as the military history of two counties has been, and still is, inextricably linked, as will become clear.
Officer, 45th Regiment of Foot, 1811
The first regular infantry regiments associated with the counties of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire in the early 19th century were the 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment and the 45th (1st Nottinghamshire) Regiment, formed in 1823 and 1741 respectively. Although they are hardly likely to be found in photographic portraits, by way of an introduction I've included an artistic representation of the typical uniform from the Napoleonic era above.
By the early to mid-1850s, when photographic portraiture became available to the general public, as opposed to to the wealthier classes, through the introduction of the collodion positive, there were two regular regiments of foot and three militia regiments in existence, as follows:
- 45th (1st Nottinghamshire) Regiment
- 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment
- 1st Derby Militia
- 2nd Derby Militia (Chatsworth Rifles)
- 59th Nottinghamshire Regt of Militia (Royal Sherwood Foresters)
Unfortunately I don't have any photographs of uniformed soldiers from these units, but some may be seen in the collection of the Sherwood Foresters Museum.
Unidentified Senior NCO or Instructor
6th (High Peak/Buxton) Corps, Derbyshire Rifle Volunteers
Carte de visite by William Housley of Bakewell, c.1869-1870
Starting in 1859 a series of Rifle Volunteers Corps were formed throughout the two counties, as part of a much wider Volunteer Force, "a citizen army of part-time rifle, artillery and engineer corps, created as a popular movement." The senior non-commissioned officer in the above portrait is wearing the full dress uniform of the Derbyshire Rifle Volunteers, including 1868 pattern scarlet tunics with white facings which identified them as volunteers. The Bakewell man (above) also wears a cap more correctly described as a shako, with a regimental pattern white worsted ball (pom pom) and badge consisting of a French buglehorn surrounding the number 6.
Unidentified Rifleman
5th (Derby Artisan) Corps, Derbyshire Rifle Volunteers
Carte de visite by John Roberts of Derby, c.1869-1870
Image © & courtesy of Michael Jones
The Derby rifleman has a similar tunic, accompanied by a black patent leather cross belt with a pouch at the back and silver fittings comprising regimental badge on the front, whistle and chain and a bugle horn on the pouch, typically worn by Rifle Volunteers. The silver fittings have, however, been erroneously hand coloured gold. The cuff loop is of Trefoil type and indicates an 'other rank', as the cuff adornment of officers was always more elaborate to make the superior rank abundantly clear. His trousers are a very dark grey (virtually black) 'oxford mixture' with a 1/4-inch red seam down the outside of the leg. Instead of a shako, he is wearing his 'undress' pillbox cap - the Rifle Corps were the generally the only infantry unit to wear the pillbox cap - with a simple number badge (no horn). His rifle is either the 3-band 1853 Enfield or possibly the Snider Enfield 'conversion' which was phased in from 1866.
Lt. William Bemrose (1831-1908), Capt. John F. Thirlby (1839-1928) & Lt. Henry Monkhouse (1837-1905)
5th (Derby Artisan) Corps, Derbyshire Rifle Volunteers
Cabinet card by Richard Keene of Derby, August 1874
Image © & courtesy of Derby Local Studies Library
The next two portraits, a cabinet card and a carte de visite taken in the mid-1870s, show officers in full dress uniform. They are from the 1st Administrative Battalion of the Derbyshire Rifle Volunteers, which in 1880 became the 1st Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps. Bemrose, Thirlby and Monkhouse are officers of Field Rank, as marked by the elaborate cuff lacing.
Lt. Edwin Pratt (1836-1913)
19th (Elvaston) Corps, Derbyshire Rifle Volunteers
Carte de visite by Clement Rogers of Derby, c.1874-1875
Image © & courtesy of Derby Local Studies Library
Edwin Pratt served with the 19th (Elvaston) Corps.
Major George H. Gascoyne (1842-1916)
5th (Derby Artisan) Corps, 1st Derbyshire Rifle Volunteers
Carte de visite by J.W. Price of Derby, November 1880
Image © & courtesy of Derby Local Studies Library
George Gascoyne was a major in, and later colonel and commanding officer of, the 1st Derbyshire Rifles. This portrait shows him as Commanding Officer of the 5th (Derby Artisan) Corps, shortly before its amalgamation into the 12 Companies of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment) . The 1855 (modified in 1860) forage cap which he wears was replaced from the mid 1870s on, but continued to be used in parallel until as late as 1880. It has a horizontal leather peak and the "5 inside French buglehorn" badge.
Unidentified Major
1st Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
Carte de visite by J.W. Price of Derby, c. late 1870s
Image © & collection of Brett Payne
Both Gascoyne and the unidentified major in the portrait above are wearing a dark blue "frogged" Military Patrol Jacket (not worn by other ranks) of 1868, a garment that was required by an officer in addition to his full dress tunic and often worn both in the field and in barracks.
Soldier identified only as "Bonzo," probably G Company (Belper)
1st Vol. Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters (Derbys. Regt.)
Carte de visite by Jacob Schmidt of Belper, c.1884-1888
Image © & courtesy of Cynthia Maddock
This soldier is wearing the tunic of a man in a volunteer battalion of an infantry regiment, as evidenced by the Austrian knots on his sleeves, a snake buckle belt and a glengarry cap.
Unidentified soldier, probably A Company (Chesterfield)
2nd Vol. Battalion The Sherwood Foresters (Derbys. Regt.)
Cabinet card by H. Brawn of Chesterfield, c. 1899-1901
This soldier's white collar and cuffs (together known as "facings") indicate that he is from an English/Welsh county regiment, while the Austrian knots on his sleeves tell us that he is a "volunteer". He is wearing a 5-button frock rather than a 7-button full dress tunic, the former being of inferior material, cut more loosely and unlined. It was intended to be used in barracks as a working uniform, and due to cost-cutting measures it was eventually the only uniform issued to volunteers. He is dressed in Review Order (helmet and bayonet) and carrying the swagger cane or stick used when out of barracks in "walking out dress". The swagger cane or stick was carried by all other ranks at that time and was part of attempts to improve the soldiers view of himself and perception of him by wider society.
The blue cloth "Home Service Helmet" was introduced as a replacement for the shako in 1878 by most British line infantry, artillery and engineers, and worn until 1902, when it was replaced as part of the khaki service dress.
L/Cpl Thomas Charles Ison (1884-1938)
5th (Territorial Force) Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters
Real photo postcard by H.P. Hansen of Ashbourne, c. 1911-1913
Image © & collection of Brett Payne
Lance Corporal Ison is clutching a forage cap with peak, first issued in 1906, and has white facings and scarlet piped white shoulder straps on his 7-button full dress tunic, which with only minor alteration was worn until 1914 by the 5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters.
Both the organisational chart and the series of images are incomplete, but they will serve as an introduction to military uniforms used by Derbyshire units, and will hopefully prompt further contributions of images to fill in the gaps. I am most grateful to Victorian Wars Forum members Frogsmile, grumpy, Old Stubborn, Patrick, Isandlwana, Peter and crimea1854, who all contributed to an informative and in-depth discussion of the above images. If you are interested in further details of clothing and insignia, I suggest you browse that discussion and the many others on the forum.
The Victorian Wars Forum
Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), Wikipedia & Wikimedia Commons
Beckett, I.F.W. (1982) Riflemen form: a study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement, 1859-1908, Ogilby Trusts, 368p.
Hay, G.J. (1987) The Constitutional Force, reprint of 1908 original by Ray Westlake Military Books.
Kelly (1881) Directory of Derbyshire.
Schick, I.T. (1978) Battledress: The Uniforms of the World's Great Armies 1700 to the present, illustrated by Wilhelm von Halen, London: Artus Books, 256p.
Wright, C.N. (1874) Directory of South Derbyshire, Derby: Bemrose & Sons.


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This post has been written as part of the 2016 #EdBlogNZ Challenge for February which encourages participants to share a virtual tour of their learning space.
My own learning spaces
As I'm not currently teaching, I don't have a classroom or learning space for my own students, however I do have my own personal learning spaces and this has made me think about what I find suitable for my own learning needs.
In my "office" at home, which is really just a small corner of my bedroom, I have set up my desk, and a ridiculous number of devices and monitors. Okay… I'm sure some others have more, and to be honest I don't always use them all at once. But this works for me. Yes, it's my workspace, but I also do a lot of learning here as a part of my job.
While my job sometimes takes me to work in various locations, I do have another space that I have used for both work and specifically learning. It's a place that I find peaceful, calming and generally relaxing. I sit in my car and work/study with a view across the Wellington harbour. Even on an evening like today's which is overcast, with a slight breeze (not even a Wellington breeze!), I can enjoy it.
What draws me to my learning spaces?
I've always liked my work or learning spaces to be as uncluttered as possible. I think I'm probably a little anal about this actually as I would often procrastinate when I was studying by tidying up my desk (although it honestly did help as I was able to calm down and focus more with the clutter gone)… And… I don't know why I'm sharing this one… When I'm watching TV I can't stand there being any mess around or anything visual that might distract me after a slight glance at it. Again, I tidy up the space and make sure none of the white backing on the curtains are showing (including the ones behind me because once I know…)
Actually I do know why I shared that. I have seen so many classrooms that are just full of clutter, whether it be stuff or colour. For me, this is distracting. I know it's not the case for everyone, but there will definitely be some of our students who also find it distracting or possibly even over-stimulating.
Overall, I like the spaces in which I'm working/learning to be open and peaceful, with not too much noise or distraction.
What do my children like in their learning spaces?
I thought I'd ask my children what they prefer in their learning spaces/classrooms. I've got 5 of them, so I figured this was a reasonable sample size. 😉
Miss14 (Year 11) – prefers to lie on the floor; doesn't like lots of people in one space; prefers an open space but not a big space; likes some things on wall but only if relevant; when lots of posters/student work on wall and/or with lots of colour, it can be distracting.
Mr10 (Year 7) – prefers to learn inside, at home; inside at a desk (at school); quiet space; computers; not lots of stuff like books – take up too much space; doesn't like lots of clutter – too hard to work with and too hard to find stuff (low vision); lots of colour can be distracting.
Mr9 (Year 5) – prefers quiet, not many people around (personal space), likes sitting at a desk.
Mr7 (Year 4) – likes a lot of colour, quiet, sitting on a cushion.
Miss6 (Year 2) – likes lots of stuff around, teacher, not much stuff on the wall (also low vision), quiet, at desk.
Every teacher needs to consider their learning space and the students they have at that moment. Not all people can cope with a lot of stuff around. It can be visually exhausting or distracting. Some like music playing, others can't focus with it. Some like sitting at a desk, others like sitting under desks, on a cushion, lying on the floor. It's exciting to see more and more schools and teachers creating flexible learning spaces for their learners.


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Just throwing this out there.
Just before returning from the dead here on CC I read up on something called Guilds of Historica. Apparently, it's a caslte/medieval themed, group based community thingy that focuses around four guilds, Avalonia, Mitgardia, Nocturnus and Kaliphlin, each with their own respective leaders, hiearchy and backgrounds. also, these Guilds seem to be pretty Megablocks big as far as members go. A few great themed builds showed up on google when I typed in the names of the guilds. Here's a link to the Eurobricks thread about the guilds.
http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.p ... opic=61958
I thought it was a pretty cool concept so I signed up with the Mitgardians. Is there any guild presence here on CC? Since the themes pretty much overlap with the entire concept of CC I thought combining the two would be pretty Megablocks cool. Just throwing this out there.
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Joe Curcio, IBG's president, helped organize the anniversary celebration at Russo's on the Bay in Howard Beach on May 11. He said the group has come a long way since it was founded by a group of prominent Italian-Americans in 1936 at a ceremony at Brooklyn Law School. (Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was the keynote speaker).
Back then, its mission was to help set young Italian-American men on the straight and narrow path. When the size of the borough's Italian-American community began to decline in recent decades, IBG, which is based in Bensonhurst, broadened its focus, Curcio said.
Today the organization provides counseling and supplementary educational services, among other programs, to approximately 3,000 residents of Brooklyn and Queens each year. It's $200,000 annual budget is mostly funded through private donations.
"What we pride ourselves on is adapting our services to the needs of the community," Curcio said.
Curcio, a real estate and construction consultant who lives on Long Island, was born in Greenpoint. He said his childhood was spent surrounded by Italian-American organizations that inspired him to give back through volunteer service.
When he was connected with the IBG he found the group was a perfect fit.
"It thought it was a great thing they were doing, so I decided to pitch in," said Curcio, who's also put in stints as the organization's treasurer and vice president. "I've always been proud of my Italian-American heritage."
To honor that past, IBG launched an inaugural Hall of Fame. The honorees included Victor Anfuso, IBG's founder, several lesser-known figures and, of course, Frank Sinatra.
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Buying a car is never a rational process. When it comes to picking up something old, weird, and kind of terrible, things get extra-irrational.
For instance, my boss Matt recently bought a Merkur XR4Ti with a welded diff because hey, it reminded him of a Ford Sierra Cosworth. I might point out that Sierra Cosworths have working doors and engine cooling systems, but then I own a $1,500 Baja Bug and I'm really not one to talk. It's practically a Porsche, right?
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Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth
Researchers cited this vodka ad from Blender and OK! magazines as an example of ads that reach a disproportionate number of African American youths.
African American youth culture is steeped in alcohol. References to booze have long been rife in rap music, and Jay Z, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and Ludacris are among the hip-hop luminaries who have promoted alcohol.
A new study puts some fresh data behind long-standing concerns about alcohol marketing to black kids. Young African Americans ages 12 to 20 see far more alcohol ads on television and in magazines than youths in general, according to the report published Thursday by the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Researchers said two key factors are at play: Many alcohol ads specifically target African Americans and African American youth consume more media than youth overall. For example, African American youths watched 53 percent more television than youths in general in 2010, according to Nielsen data cited in the study.
Frank Coleman, senior vice president of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, a leading trade group, said he hadn't seen the study and couldn't comment on it. But he said the industry does not target youth. "The beer, wine and spirits industry (is) totally opposed to underage drinking and spends millions of dollars a year fighting it," Coleman said.
Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth
Study found that young African Americans see more alcohol ads in magazines, like this one that appeared in Vibe.
Despite the study findings, young blacks drink less than youths of other racial and ethnic groups. Researchers say this may be linked to factors such as poverty, social norms and religion that temper some of advertising's impacts.
But African Americans who drink seem to suffer more serious consequences, said David Jernigan, director of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth, perhaps because they tend to have less access to health care and substance abuse treatment, live in poorer neighborhoods and are incarcerated more frequently.
Alcohol consumption is linked to three leading causes of death among young African Americans – homicide, suicide and accidental injury. "There's rationale for being extra careful," said Jernigan, whose group receives funds from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has put out dozens of reports on alcohol marketing to youths over the last decade.
Coleman said the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth's research on the topic is flawed. It "has repeatedly issued press releases saying the industry's advertising is increasingly targeting youth," he said, even as statistics show that underage drinking is declining.
He pointed to a recent federal government survey showing that teenage drinking fell to a historic low in 2011, when 25.1 percent of 12 to 20-year olds reported using alcohol in the past month.
David Jernigan, executive director of the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth.
Jernigan's study, however, stops short of claiming that advertisers are targeting black youth. "I can't call it targeting because targeting implies intent and I can't prove intent," Jernigan said.
Marketers' messages are increasingly reinforced by hip-hop culture, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, reported last year. An analysis of rap lyrics showed 64 percent of the most popular songs released from 2002 to 2005 referenced alcohol. This marked a steep rise; an earlier analysis of rap songs from 1994 to 1997 showed 44 percent contained alcohol references.
Booze ads are also common in magazines read by black Americans, said Lorreen Pryor, president of the Black Youth Leadership Project in Sacramento, Calif. "You keep flipping the pages and the (alcohol ads) are back to back."
The study comes amid efforts to ban alcohol advertising on public property in some cities. A Los Angeles coalition has asked the City Council to ban alcohol ads on property such as bus shelters; last year, the company that manages the city's bus benches agreed to not sell alcohol ads. Boston recently stopped advertising booze on public transit and advocates hope to extend the ban in other public areas. Minority youth frequently use public transportation and this would help shield them from alcohol ads, said Bruce Lee Livingston, executive director of Alcohol Justice, an industry watchdog.
The new study suggests marketers are falling short on limiting youth exposure to alcohol ads. Young blacks saw 32 percent more booze ads in magazines and 17 percent more on television than youth overall in 2009, researchers found. While African American youth were exposed 26 percent fewer radio ads for alcohol than youth in general, they heard 32 percent more radio ads for hard liquor.
Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth
This Skyy Vodka ad ran in Blender magazine.
In magazines, African American youth were 92 percent more likely to see ads for "alcopops" -- cheap, sweet, fizzy alcohol drinks that are of particular concern to advocates because they appeal to youth.
Alcohol advertising in magazines, overall, declined by nearly 20 percent between 2003 and 2008, researchers found, likely due to a general decline in magazine advertising.
In contrast, cable television has seen a "major ramp up" in alcohol ads – particularly for hard liquor, Jernigan said. The four largest television networks -- ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC -- do not advertise distilled alcohol. But African American youth saw 20 percent more ads for hard liquor than youth overall. "TV is going in the wrong direction," Jernigan said.
Members of the beer, wine and distilled spirits trade associations have agreed to avoid placing ads during TV programs with audiences made up of 28.4 percent or more people under age 21. Still, advocates say these voluntary standards are poorly enforced. "The self regulation pledge has not worked," said Alcohol Justice's Livingston, who would like to see government regulations.
While advertisers often say they can't keep youth from seeing messages that are intended for adults, Jernigan isn't buying it: "The industry knows quite precisely what they are doing."
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Margoredjo Mennonite Mission (Jawa, Indonesia)
Margoredjo, the first missionary colony of the Mennonite mission on Java, Indonesia, former Dutch East Indies, is situated on the north side of Mt. Muria, 10 miles (16 km) from Taju. The founder of this colony was Pieter Anton Jansz, the son of the first missionary in Java, Pieter Jansz, who had worked for many years without visible results in Japara. His son therefore tried another method, namely, evangelization by means of cultivating the land. He had recognized that the religious life of the Javanese was closely interwoven with their economic life, and that it is almost impossible for a Christian to remain true in a Muslim community. In 1880 he therefore sent a request to the colonial government to have a virgin forest given to his care. On 26 August 1881 he received an area of 400 acres, on which he erected Margoredjo. The mission school at Japara, which his father had taken over from missionary Schuur-mann, was now transferred to Margoredjo. He also built a teachers' seminary here in 1903 to train native teachers. All the native teachers in the Mennonite concession received their training here. After 30 years the seminary was closed for lack of funds.
From 1888 to 1901 Johann Fast worked with P. A. Jansz. In 1895 he built a church here, which was dedicated on 7 November 1897, and a second missionary residence. In 1893 missionary Johann Hubert came to Margoredjo and took charge of the church at Kedungpendjalin. In 1899 Johann Klaassen took charge of the medical work in connection with evangelism. The congregation grew in the faith. Attendance was good. The first missionary doctor was Dr. Bervoets, who operated the hospital with two nurses, H. Goosen and S. Riechert. In 1915 he took charge of the central hospital located at Relet. From 1905 to 1937 N. Thiessen was in charge of the mother church at Margoredjo, also doing evangelistic work in the subsidiary congregations of Tegalamba, Tawangredjo, Kembang, Dukuhseti, Banjutawa, Taju, Puntjel, Bumiardjo, Udjungwatu, and Bandngardjo.
Since 1928 the Margoredjo church has been independent. Its first native preacher was Rubin. After 1931 S. Harsesudirdjo was the elder of the congregation, while Hardjosuwito (after 1939), Armujadi, and Martohadi (both after 1941) were preachers. In 1937 it had a membership of 1,830 souls; in 1953 the membership numbered 970 baptized members and 1,144 children.
During the Japanese occupation 1942-1946 the congregation had to endure many hardships. The beautiful church of Margoredjo was destroyed by a band of nationalistic Muslims. After 1946 a period of new growth began.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 35.
Reports of the Dutch Mennonite Mission Association.
Uit Verleden en Heden der Doopsgezinde lending. N.p., 1947: 26-28.
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January 2006
Bioscience Vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 66-72.
Abstract: To promote higher-order thinking in college students, we undertook an effort to learn how to assess critical-thinking skills in an introductory biology course. Using Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives to define critical thinking, we developed a process by which (a) questions are prepared with both content and critical-thinking skills in mind, and (b) grading rubrics are prepared in advance that specify how to evaluate both the content and critical-thinking aspects of an answer. Using this methodology has clarified the course goals (for us and the students), improved student metacognition, and exposed student misconceptions about course content. We describe the rationale for our process, give detailed examples of the assessment method, and elaborate on the advantages of assessing students in this manner.
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DEAR PEGGY: I have a pie recipe that calls for 1/2 cup whipping cream, whipped. Is it possible to substitute fat-free frozen whipped topping for the cream? If so, what proportions do I use? — B.C., Huntsville, Alabama
Whipping cream doubles its volume when whipped. So in the case of your pie, you would use 1 cup whipped topping in place of 1/2 cup whipping cream that is whipped. Keep in mind, our Test Kitchen has experienced superior results using reduced-fat whipped topping instead of fat-free when it's folded into other ingredients, as you would for pies, cake filling and refrigerated cheesecakes. The reduced-fat version seems to be more stable and retains a thicker consistency than the fat-free variety. We like fat-free whipped topping for dollops and garnishes.
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Situated in the rolling hills of eastern Napa Valley, Hestan Vineyards is a 56-acre tapestry of small, individually farmed blocks, planted to the five principle red Bordeaux varietals: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc, and Malbec.
The vineyard is named for owners Stanley and Helen Cheng, who purchased the property in 1996. Cheng is CEO of Meyer Corporation, the world's second largest cookware company with brands including Anolon, Circulon, KitchenAid and Faberware.
In 2005, the Chengs released their first wines from the property, the 2002 Hestan Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon and 2002 Meyer Cabernet Sauvignon; both made by consulting winemaker Mark Herold. The wines were a critical success and were followed in 2008 by the launch of Stephanie, a line of red Bordeaux blends made by consulting winemaker Jeff Gaffner.
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BOSTON, MA-Tim Wakefield, whose knuckleball flummoxed Red Sox opponents for 17 years and who helped the club win World Championships in 2004 and 2007, returned to the organization today as Honorary Chairman of the Red Sox Foundation and as a Special Assignment Instructor in the club's baseball operations.
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The Melbourne, Florida native first engaged in community service while in the minor leagues. Learning that a center in his hometown that helped children with special needs was down to its last dollars, the right-hander promised that if he ever became in a position to help, he would. As a major leaguer, he honored his promise, and helped the Space Coast Early Intervention Center reach new heights in educational care.
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He pitched 19 seasons in the majors with the Pittsburgh Pirates (1992-1993) and the Red Sox (1995-2011).
With the Red Sox, Wakefield amassed 430 starts and 3,006.0 innings, both all-time records for a Red Sox pitcher, and Boston reached postseason play nine times.
His 17-year tenure with the Red Sox is better than the next-longest for a pitcher by four years. Only Carl Yastrzemski (23 seasons), Dwight Evans (19), and Ted Williams (19) have played more seasons with Boston.
Signed by Boston as a minor league free agent on April 26, 1995, Wakefield went on to win Red Sox Pitcher of the Year honors from the BBWAA in both 1995 and 2005.
An All-Star in 2008, he ranks second in franchise history with 590 pitching appearances and 2,046 strikeouts, behind Bob Stanley (637 appearances) and Roger Clemens (2,590 strikeouts). He is third in club history with 186 wins, trailing Clemens and Cy Young (192 each).
A versatile member of Boston's pitching staff, he is the only hurler ever to make 200 starts and 150 relief appearances for the club. He took over closing duties for the Red Sox in 1999 when Tom Gordon was injured and accumulated 22 saves in his career.
In his 19 major league seasons, the right-hander compiled a 200-180 record with a 4.41 ERA (1,582 ER/3,226.1 IP) and 2,156 strikeouts in 627 career outings, including 463 starts.
In his career, Wakefield pitched in 18 postseason games, including 11 starts, and ranks among Red Sox postseason leaders in starts (T-2nd, 9), strikeouts (3rd, 47), innings (4th, 54.0) wins (T-5th, 3) and games (6th, 16). Each of his three postseason victories with Boston came against the Yankees.
Originally selected by Pittsburgh in the eighth round of the 1988 June Draft as a shortstop, he switched to pitching the next year and reached the majors with the Pirates in 1992 and was the Pirates' Opening Day starter the next April.


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Posted: Thu 05 Dec 2013, 04:35
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Subject description: Free laptop for dev??
I would like to throw an idea into the mix - alongside the current efforts to produce a Community Edition puppy I wonder if it would be worthwhile to find a way to encourage a high quality dev to build a specific type of puppy that was designed to a "community spec" - but using the most recent laptop that we as a group could put up as a 'bounty' and development tool. The laptop would immediately become the possesion of the chosen dev. A reward for effort and skill.
Here are my thoughts:
1) This is not a 'competition' to measure one dev against another - it is a way to reward one specific developer for participating in a 'group' goal
2) In some way (I don't know the method) the group would 'elect' one dev who was willing to accept the challenge. (If more than one dev, then maybe more than one project...?)
3) Willing contributors would pledge some amount of real money to the project. I pledge a minimum of NZ$50. No amount is too small - everything helps. And I would propose that any contributor could withdraw their pledge at any time (some people may feel uncomfortable with the final design proposals, or have changed financial circumstances etc etc...)
4) The group would (after MUCH discussion I imagine) choose the specifications / goals of the project. I think a "fat" puppy running on the recent laptop (complete with usb3 if possible) would be the goal. This group list should cover such things as the types of software to be included (ie which Wordprocessing package, which browser or browsers, etc etc), the type of peripherals to be attached (could we agree on the most Linux friendly printer / multifunctional and include one of those in the reward package??) and a whole variety of other parameters. I imagine there would be a HUGE range of requests. Maybe even stuff like a fully functional CAD package?
My main parameters would be that the puppy would fit on a CD (but that is probably being unnecessarily restrictive) and have a very good chance of running on a wide range of pretty new hardware.
5) Speaking of hardware - I would probably set as my goal a PC that is a common model, still on the shelf, and NOT running UEFI. (I am a little paranoid about UEFI so am very open to hear the feelings of devs like 01micko, pemasu, jb etc about whether avoidance of UEFI has any merit for this project or not)
The overall goal of the project is to produce a well-crafted, fully configured puppy that runs on a specific high-spec recent laptop.
Are there any other puppians who might consider pledging some specific amount? (No amount too small...). Are there any devs who would consider (even remotely) taking up such a challenge (or even helping shape the project)?
What hardware specs?
What software to include?
What distro packages to use as a base? (I'd probably let the dev choose that...)
I would hope this would not detract from CE efforts - it would possibly even assist them - but I do feel that a project targeted at specific new hardware is something many puppians have been asking for (even though my own hardware is pretty bleak and old
I think it would be necessary to ensure the goals of the project - and the specific hardware - were clearly defined before the dev starts work - then we just let them go at their own pace. It would be asking too much to expect the dev to react to every new suggestion AFTER the laptop has been allocated. This would be a different approach to our normal puppy projects where contributors try the new Puppy on many different types of old and new hardware - generating an ongoing stream of unending development. This crowdfunding project would aim to support one common type of new hardware that we might expect to find on Ebay in 4 or 5 years time second hand. That way wealthy Puppians could buy such a laptop and use it now, and the rest of us could try to get one cheaper in a few years (when everyone else is using Android wristwatches for their computing...)
(There could be an opportunity later for a thread dedicated to making the final puppy work on other hardware - but that thread would not be part of the project - just a thread anyone could contribute to)
And of course - if the project gets off the ground - how to collect the money and when?
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Posted: Thu 05 Dec 2013, 04:35
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Software aims:
Good version of Wine
Good wordprocessing package
CAD package
Video editing software
Hardware aims
Ram size
Cpu power
Graphics card
Storage capacity
USB3 ports
BIOS, UEFI or coreboot??
coreboot info here
SD card reader that works out of the box ( "impossible" I hear you say!!)
etc etc
Other features
XDG compliant menu system such as suggested by Mobeus
Choice of window managers
CUPS version?
Base packages
- chosen by dev? Ubuntu, debian, slackware?
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Posted: Thu 05 Dec 2013, 06:17
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5) Speaking of hardware - I would probably set as my goal
a PC that is a common model, still on the shelf, and NOT running UEFI.
(I am a little paranoid about UEFI so am very open to hear the feelings
of devs like 01micko etc about whether avoidance of UEFI has any merit
for this project or not)
I think we need both because in some countries I doubt they still sell
those older laptops with Win XP or without Ms at all.
If they do they will be very expensive compared to those with
Win8.0 or Win 8.1 installed and both using the dreaded UEFI
so we sure need both. I could afford to pay some 300 USD
if the Dev promise to really do their best and not give up at first problem.
That amount of money does not bother me being alone and
not having other expenses to worry about. But I would use VISA
and Electronic VISA not wanting to reveal the real number
only use the time restricted version. E-card or what the name is.
But do we have somebody willing?
We have the team behind FatDog 64 but they have been
rather silent about latest dev of the Certification of UEFI
and if it works on all hardware known to be popular?
Or me have not paid attention to what progress they have done recently.
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Posted: Thu 05 Dec 2013, 13:20
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Wow - Nooby that is a fantastic offer. I never dreamed of such generosity. But it shows how much people love Puppy and want a future for it. My hope is that there would be enough interest for us to get a total pool of maybe $USD2000 or similar? I hope that would be enough to buy a really nice laptop.
Maybe something with good availability and common features (like the Toyota Corolla of laptops) - but with more power than the sort of laptop that is common for first year students at University - maybe something like a new graduate Engineering student would look for? Something that could run a CAD package or have enough power / storage for video processing etc.
Looking for lots and lots of ideas, even if contributors are not ready or able to pledge financial support....
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Posted: Thu 05 Dec 2013, 14:43
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Crowd-funded Puppy
Puppy is and always will be Crowd-funded, just not with money.
Nobody works on Puppy for money. They do it as a hobby, in their spare time. Something fun to do and not a paying job.
I do not help with Puppy for money and would not take any if offered. I do it because it is fun for me and something I want to do. Like fishing, hiking, working on cars, etc...
Anyone that wants to develop a version of Puppy can just do it.
They do not need a a group decision to do it or how to do it. If people want to help them, they do.
That is Puppy Linux
Barry, the original developer of Puppy, was the only real driving force of new versions of Puppy.
He had the time to do it.
He seemed to come up with a new version all the time.
He is now, for the most part gone. Who is really going to take his place?
If you want to do this for money.
Go work for Microsoft, Apple, Red Hat, etc.....
When puppy starts being something you do for money, it will loose my help.
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Posted: Thu 05 Dec 2013, 15:12
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Yes, I understand the sentiment. And the strength of Puppy is in the voluntary nature of the contributors.
I am not a fan of paying devs - all I am suggesting is a method to put a recent laptop into the hands of a dev who has the skill to solve the problems inherent in getting new hardware to work (like USB3 for example) and also the skill to integrate some of the more complex software into a complete well functioning unit that works well on recent hardware.
I personally don't have any recent hardware myself, but it is clear that many Puppians (especially those new to Puppy) DO have such hardware and some have expressed their experience and feelings that Puppy needs more focus on the new stuff as well as the old.
Do all the top devs have adequate hardware already? Am I misguided in my thinking?
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Posted: Thu 05 Dec 2013, 15:24
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Puppy as it is ain`t all that bad...
How about just listing some of the long time faults and fixing them one by one.?
Start a post and gather Puppy faults in a header list so folks can tackle them.?
As an item`s fix is started a new dev. repair post just for it would be started.
I can think of a dozen or more items myself. Most of them would be easy to fix.
As said of code loss, many of these items
been fixed, some several times.
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Posted: Thu 05 Dec 2013, 17:23
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bigpup you are right about why one contribute. It is fun
and not a job.
But like greengeek do point out we can not expect that Devs
buy new hardware for to have fun when they already
have fun with the used hardware that is a few years old.
The latest hardware like CPU has advanced power saving
tools that still is not in the Linux kernel AFAIK. Intel's latest
just one example.
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Posted: Thu 05 Dec 2013, 19:09
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The problem as I see it is that new computer equipment becomes obsolete in a month. By the time you develop a puppy suitable for specific piece of hardware that piece of hardware is already n the thrift store. ( Gotta love windoze users for keeping us supplied) Its like trying to write the Puppy Manual.. We gave up, it changes too fast.
I have proposed an idea in my Puppy Linux Users Group on Facebook
called Puppy from scratch. A puppy that will run on any computer.
The idea is to have puppy give you a choice of what to load in the RAM. A choice of SFS files a choice of initrd's and a choice of kernels.
32 and 64 bit, pae and nonpae, window manager / desktop environment, glx or not via video card, etc.
3 or so .sfs files, and several initrd's and kernels could fit in a cd.
Basically a multipup cd, where the default pup is bare, just enough to boot to vesa and do hardware recognition, copy the files to a directory in ram, and offer to install it or make an iso. Various "upgrades" can reside in the "pets" and "sfs" folders on a multipup cd, to be used after rebooting into the created Puppy.
Using Puppies multisession abilities, the created Pup could even be "installed into a "My Pup" directory on the cd itself, to chose via grub on reboot. A grub menu like "Build my Pup" and reboot to "Try my Pup in Ram" and then if you like it , install it.
Umm.. Sorry.. No intent to highjack your thread..
Maybe I should start a thread for it, when its ready..
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Posted: Fri 06 Dec 2013, 00:48
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puppyluvr that is so true. They change the hardware
all the time.
Latest is advanced power management that allow it to
go to sleep very often and that way they save power
AFAIK the Linux Kernel Devs has not access to that Intel secret code
how they could implement that in the Linux Kernel so that is a big problem.
Those CPU having that features are in the latest computers sold.
Thanks for telling about your FB group. I did find it using the
search Puppy Linux Users Group on Facebook
Okay we should not derail but you do point to a vital aspect as I see it.
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, as you know I love your contributions. The last post seemingly suggest 2 distinct approaches: correct me if I'm getting this wrong. It appears you're suggesting a "boot-time system builder" as well as suggesting a "boot-time system selector".
Boot-time Selector
In the past in Puppyland, I think you and I have referred to how Knoppix allows a user, at boot-time to select whether one wants to boot to a 64bit desktop or a 32bit desktop. When Knopper did this in 2007 or so, I thought the industry would jump to this, but, he is the only one in the whole wide world (www) that has perfected and continues to provide this. And mentioning it here in the forum has not gotten anyone to consider something which seems so obvious to me. Again, what you present is plausible, but it will need to be as simple to do as what Knopper has done with Knoppix.
Boot-time System Builder
I wonder if this could be done in such a way as to NOT be confusing to new/infrequent users. It has merit, but, it brings to mind a 2-step approach to a get a new base system from this builder approach. This is different from a system Remaster in that it appears to bypass the current PUP PPM to stack a bunch of SFSs together for achieving a system for user use. This also differs from what Jeminah presents with her last distro which is a kind of system builder that is done AFTER reaching desktop. And, can it be done so that session saves can (for CD/DVD/ISO/frugal boots) be maintained in each media?
@PuppyLuvr, Am I seeing your ideas proper?
, This is a good thread for community consideration. One of the most interesting appeals is to put hardware in a developers hand so that they can "first-hand" develop and address issues with his work. The most important benefit is that it frees/releases any develop from being stuck with old hardware and using the fact that he/she has old hardware as a reason to keep the rest of the community's attention on just plain old-stuff. With newer technology, they can then address Puppy maturity in the light of industry movement while also maintaining a great level of compatibility with the old.
Great thread @GreenGeek!
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Posted: Fri 06 Dec 2013, 03:21
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Umm.. Sorry.. No intent to highjack your thread..
No problem. Hijack away... the more new ideas that come to the fore the better it is for everyone in the longrun. What I am really hoping for is a project that makes the best of some pretty recent hardware, and gives puppians the type of progress and productivity that they want to get from such new powerful hardware. This could involve all sorts of new ideas such as you have expressed.
If there is any interest in the project it could track in other directions - Maybe this project could morph into a new Pup stored as multiple versions on a Multipup CD? - 32 bit and 64 bit and PAE and nonPAE versions all on the one CD/DVD. (Refresh my memory - does your Multipup create DVDs as well as CDs?)
I'm keen for people to chuck lots of ideas on the table and lets see if anyone feels like going with it...
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Posted: Fri 06 Dec 2013, 04:23
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greengeek if I get you correct you want us
to pool our resources together to buy a rather good computer
Laptop with big screen and DVD and lots of RAM
and a good CPU and in the price class of ??? USD
Look for suggestions here?
Should it be 64bit or 32 bit. 64 bit allow bigger HD?
and is what to aim for? What else to consider?
CPU and Chips Intel or AMD?
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Yes, that is the general idea. So if your old hardware stopped working and you had to buy a new laptop, what hardware could you look for? What new hardware would run properly with puppy? (and not have crippled usb3 ports or non-functional bluetooth etc etc)
I have started adding lists of possible specs and functions to the first two posts. The specifications on new PCs are way better than anything I've got. It is a long time since I bought new hardware, but when i do I want it to run Puppy, and I want it to be powerful enough to run CAD and video processing (things I don't have the power to do on my current hardware). Maybe other puppians have recent hardware and can make some suggestions about what works well or what hardware to avoid because puppy is not up to the task...
I would like this project to identify hardware that is worth buying and put that hardware in the hands of a capable dev who can build a puppy that makes the best use of that machine..
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