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Pitmasters gather for the love of barbecue
Pitmasters take center stage at second annual gathering
The pitmasters of the Houston Barbecue Festival, which takes over Reliant Park on Sunday, share of a love of barbecue and a pride in the perfection of their product. After that, all paths diverge.
Nearly 20 barbecue masters, mobile cooks and budding businessmen will be represented. Among them are a published poet, a Purple Heart recipient and a Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef.
We asked the pitmasters to tell us something about themselves. Most obliged.
Russell Roegels, Baker's Ribs
2223 S. Voss, 713-977-8725
In business since: 1994. Roegels took it over in July of 2001.
Serving at the festival: "Pulled pork and St. Louis cut pork ribs."
Here's something customers may not know: "Besides barbecue at Baker's Ribs, we also have in our location the Original Fried Pie Shop."
Most proud of: "Being a veteran."
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Houston Barbecue Festival
When: 1-5 p.m. Sunday
Where: Reliant Park's purple lot, 1145 McNee at Kirby
Tickets: $50, includes unlimited sample portions of barbecue; purchase tickets online at houbbq.com.
Don Blake, Blake's BBQ & Burgers
2916 Jeanetta, 713-266-6860
In business since: 1982. Blake opened his Westchase-area barbecue joint on a two-lane dirt road off Westheimer. The pork ribs and chopped beef sandwiches are winners, although Blake's is known today as much for the old-school burgers and homemade cakes as the barbecue.
You may not know: Blake's has been featured on the Travel Channel's "Burger Land."
Wayne Kammerl, The Brisket House
Houston: 5775 Woodway, 281-888-0331
Deer Park: 3217 Center, 281-884-8058
In business since: 2010.
Serving at the festival: "Brisket, jalapeño sausage and St. Louis ribs."
You may not know: "We have a signature special. The Brisket House Special is your pick of meats served on butcher paper along with a chunk of cheddar cheese, a whole pickle, half an onion and bread. If you went to Texas A&M, you might recognize this as the Aggie Special. Oh, and we now serve beef ribs on the weekends."
Most proud of: "The reputation we have established over the past four years for great food and friendly service."
Trent Brooks, Brooks' Place
18020 FM 529 in Cypress, 832-893-1682
In business since: 2009
Serving at the festival: "Brisket, ribs and chicken."
You may not know: "I'm a published poet."
Most proud of: "The fact that God has blessed Brooks' Place in ways we didn't see coming and that someone thought the product we serve was worthy of being recognized."
Will Buckman, CorkScrew BBQ
24930 Budde in The Woodlands, 281-330-2178
In business since: "We started catering in 2010 and opened the trailer in 2011."
Serving at the festival: "Brisket, turkey breast and a surprise entry."
You may not know: "CorkScrew was started in our driveway. And I may have a mudflap-girl tattoo."
Most proud of: "We are most proud of the fact that, through hard work and dedication, we are setting a good example for our two children."
Jamie Fain, Fainmous BBQ
10400 S. Post Oak, 713-728-9663
In business since: "We started catering in 2005. The Post Oak storefront opened in 2011."
Serving at the festival: "Pulled pork, sausage and possibly brisket or ribs."
You may not know: "Tennessee style" means add slaw on top. This is great on pulled pork and works on chopped beef, too."
Most proud of: "The great people of Houston welcoming with open arms Tennessee-style 'cue."
Patrick Feges, Feges BBQ
(in development)
In business since: "I started doing pop-ups toward the end of 2012."
Serving at the festival: "Definitely brisket. And either pulled pork or St. Louis-style ribs. I love making different kinds of barbecue sauces, so I'll have a few."
You may not know: "I was in the Army and spent time in South Korea and Iraq. I earned a Purple Heart while in Iraq. My heart actually stopped twice."
Most proud of: "My time in the military."
Greg Gatlin, Gatlin's BBQ
1221 W. 19th, 281-804-4555
In business since: 2010.
Serving at the festival: "Ribs, brisket and pulled pork."
You may not know: "I love custom-made suits."
Most proud of: "How well people from the city and all the nation have embraced Gatlin's BBQ and Catering."
Ronnie Killen, Killen's Barbecue
3613 E. Broadway in Pearland, 281-485-2272
In business since: Best known for his eponymous steakhouse, Killen introduced his smoked fare at last year's inaugural barbecue festival.
You may not know: The Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef perfected his 'cue in a series of weekend pop-ups and debuted his Pearland barbecue joint in February to long lines. For the record, the lines are still long.
Erik Mrok, Lenox BBQ
5420 Harrisburg, 713-926-2649
In business since: "Lenox BBQ started as a cafe in 1946 at the corner of Lenox and Harrisburg, and this is where the name came from. In 1956, it was moved two blocks over to our present location. A new barbecue restaurant was built. Cooking at that time was in open pits out back. Twenty-plus years ago, we started using two 700-pound and one 1,300-pound Oyler pits (wood-burning rotisseries), and have continued that style of cooking ever since."
Serving at the festival: "Jalapeño/cheese links, brisket, coleslaw, barbecue sauce, pickles, onion and jalapeños."
You may not know: "Legend has it that Lenox was won in a gambling bet in 1946 and changed from a small cafe to barbecue shortly after. The owner at that time, Leonard McNeill, was known to serve large parties - the largest was an Exxon party for 25,000 guests."
Most proud of: "Owning Lenox BBQ for 16 years and keeping the long-standing tradition of cooking great, quality barbecue. We're still smokin' for over 68 years."
Wayne Mueller, Louie Mueller Barbecue
206 W. 2nd in Taylor; 512-352-6206
In business since: "Louie Mueller Barbecue was conceived in 1946 but was officially established in 1949 as a method of minimizing spoilage from my grandfather's (Louie Mueller) fresh meat market. Its beginnings were humble: a screen shack in the alley behind Louie's grocery store where it remained until relocating to our current Taylor, Texas, location in 1959."
Serving at the festival: "I plan to serve three of our signature beef entrees: brisket, beef short ribs and beef jalapeño sausage. All three have been acclaimed and awarded top honors in their respective categories."
You may not know: "After graduate school and prior to rejoining the family business, I was fortunate to work with a number of successful sports organizations accumulating four league champion rings. The first came my first year in professional sports. I had the term 'UNUM' die cast on the ring, which translates as 'the first in a series / the first of many.' Six years later, Les Alexander presented me with championship ring No. 4. I will forever be thankful and indebted to the people and organizations who believed in me and invited me to join their remarkable franchises."
Most proud of: Two things: my father and his James Beard Award and my family heritage, its influence on Texas barbecue and our ability to maintain the highest quality standards over multiple generations. According to Texas Monthly magazine, (since they began writing about and ranking barbecue establishments in Texas in 1974), we are the only establishment to never place lower than No. 2 in any of their published rankings. "
John Avila, Morgan's Texas Barbecue
267 Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Native Texan Avila worked alongside Aaron Franklin at Franklin Barbecue before leaving for New York. Avila is looking to open a business in Houston he's calling El Burro and the Bull. He says the new restaurant will serve a mix of regional cuisines including barbecue, Cajun and Tex-Mex. "We've been doing very well in New York," Avila said. "But it's time to come home. Houston has been calling us."
Brian Lewis and Lisa Kuhfeldt, Oak Leaf Smokehouse
1000 Telephone, 713-487-8987
In business since: February 2013. "We are very young."
Serving at the festival: "Brisket, pulled pork and one of our customer-favorite sides, corn pudding. We will probably do ribs during the VIP session or until we run out."
You may not know: "We are the underdog in the somewhat forgotten east side of Houston, and we are a true mom-and-pop family business. Myself, my wife (Lisa) and her mother (Karen) run the place. I still work a full-time job outside the restaurant, while also serving as pitmaster from afar. We somewhat naively started the restaurant right before my wife gave birth to our only child, Jack. While our learning curve has been huge, we have rapidly improved over a year of bumps and bruises. We will not rest until we are mentioned as one of the great barbecue places in the state, along with Franklin's and Killen's, etc. We have been steadily growing the business based purely on good food and word of mouth without much media buzz."
Most proud of: "Our dedication to the best food anywhere, not just the best meat, but the best everything. We may not be the best in everything right now, but we are working our hardest to reach that goal. We will not rest until we think we have the best of everything, from the brisket all the way to the potato salad. After all, that is why we started the restaurant, to make the best possible barbecue for people."
Wesley Jurena, Pappa Charlie's Barbecue
Caterer, 281-650-1985
In business since: "The building blocks were in 1983 when, at 18, I burned my first brisket. I entered the competition circuit in 2009, which led to catering and the need to form a legal entity. So we were officially established in 2009."
Serving at the festival: "Brisket, of course, and pork ribs and either our house-recipe sausage or pulled pork with a spicy red slaw. Perhaps both."
You may not know: "Pappa Charlie's was named after my dad, who was a true carnivore and loved barbecue."
Most proud of: "Having served this great nation for 10 1/2 years in the U.S. Army, with over six years in the 1st Ranger Battalion."
Jerry Pizzitola, Pizzitola's Bar B Cue
1703 Shepherd, 713-227-2283
In business since: "Shepherd Drive Bar B Cue was started in 1935 by John and Leila Davis. Jerry Pizzitola took over in 1983 and changed the name to Pizzitola's Bar B Cue.
Serving at the festival: "Serving sliced brisket, pork spare ribs and 'pig wings.' "
You may not know: "My dad and stepmother (Joe and Jean Pizzitola) owned Regal Food Service, Regal Ranch and Regal Sandwich Co. for 52 years. They produced over 30,000 sandwiches per day distributed all over Texas and Albuquerque, N.M. They also operated 65 catering trucks and pioneered the taco truck that we now know. I was president of Regal Foods when I chose to assume the lease of Shepherd Drive Bar B Cue as Pizzitola's Bar B Cue. I graduated from Texas A&M in the summer of 1965 with a wife, three children, two letters in baseball (one earned in the 1964 College World Series) and three football letters, I began my food service career by working for my dad at Regal. After 21 years of my dad running the business, sales topped $1 million per year. When my 18-year tenure as president ended, sales exceeded $16 million annually. With those impressive accomplishments, I was 'impeached' as president of Regal Foods and assumed the position of 'Chairman of the Board' of Spareribs Inc. (the legal name of Pizzitola's Bar B Cue) to prevent the possibility of another abrupt impeachment."
Most proud of: "The three original employees who started with me at Pizzitola's Bar B Cue: Christine Lewis, Carlton Gould and Davis Reynoso. Tim Taylor coming on board in 2006 as my operating partner. And C. Josh Scott taking the reigns as head pitmaster. He goes by 'Brisket Man.' "
Ray Busch, Ray's BBQ Shack
4529 Old Spanish Trail, 713-748-4227
In business since: "I began the food truck in 1985, and I serviced the southwest and southeast region of Houston. We opened the brick-and-mortar location in 2011."
Serving at the festival: "Ribs, brisket, sausage, smoked boudin, and our sides will include beans and fried corn."
You may not know: "In my early age, my cousins and I started a band called Overland Distinction in which I played the clarinet and the drums."
Most proud of: "How far along we have come with doing what we love - and that's barbecuing - and bringing people together with great food. Starting from the backyard and then to a trailer and now our brick-and-mortar location, I am and we are just extremely blessed and thankful that we have something that we can be proud of."
Christopher S. Carroll, Spring Creek Barbecue
10 Houston-area locations; find the nearest at springcreekbarbecue.com
In business since: "Spring Creek Barbecue is a family-owned restaurant company founded in 1980 by Chris and Becky Carroll. We remain a Carroll family business to this very day. We opened our first Houston location in 2006 under the direction of Bryan Hargrove, who is now responsible for all 31 locations throughout Texas."
Serving at the festival: "Hickory-smoked brisket, St. Louis-style ribs and our signature cracked black pepper sausage."
You may not know: "Spring Creek Barbecue contributes to the Houston community in excess of $600,000 per year. These monies are focused on youth sports programs, as well as assistance to our teachers. In addition, Spring Creek Barbecue compensates our student employees for the A's and B's they make in school, and we provide tuition reimbursement to our special college students."
Most proud of: "The partnership we have developed with the schools, churches and youth organizations and our many loyal guests in the Houston area. We at Spring Creek have a passion for serving great barbecue."
Ronnie Webber, Tin Roof BBQ
18918 Town Center in Atascocita; 281-852-5577
In business since: 2001.
Serving at the festival: "Brisket, sausage and pulled pork sliders along with pinto beans and, most likely, potato salad. We are also bringing our stuffed jalapeño peppers and Texas chocolate sheet cake."
You may not know: "Ronnie was born in Galveston, and Nancy was born in Houston. We started Tin Roof BBQ after a 31-year career with the Houston Police Department."
Most proud of: "The quality of food we serve and our loyal customers. And we have the best employees anyone could ever want."
Mike Gray, The Wooden Spoke
27405 FM 2978 in Magnolia, 832-701-6453
In business since: 2012 in current location.
Serving at the festival: "Brisket, ribs and pulled pork."
You may not know: "I make prize-winning barbecue. I recently took first place for brisket at the Magnolia Barbecue Cookoff, and we placed 15th overall out of 424 teams at the World Championship Bar-B-Que competition."
Most proud of: "My customer service and my customers' devotion to good barbecue."


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I want to make a concrete pad to park my car on
I want to park my camaro at my parent's cottage for the winter, there is no garage or driveway, just grass so I figure I could make some kind of cement pad on the ground to park on, and maybe next year build a little garage/shack on top of the pad as a shelter. I only want to use this as a winter storage spot for my car, so the pad won't be much bigger than my car. I just want to keep my car off the grass/dirt/mud.
I don't know the first thing about cement or foundations. Do I need to put gravel underneath? How deep does the gravel need to be and big stones or small? Do I need to dig down before I put the gravel or can I just build it on top of the ground? Any specific type of cement I need?
Would it be cheaper to mix my own cement or just have a truck come?
I should mention it gets pretty cold and there is lots of snow.
Anyone have any advice?
Under those conditions my self I would get one of the single car metal carports..Your folks might like that..and lay down about 4" of 3/4 minus drive gravel.I have used that sort of thing for storage and it worked well and was a good solution for me..You can always enclose the carport at some time and have a shed..
I have tried most all of it and now do what is known to work..
You could also get one of them enclosed tarp structures & put rubber horse mats down for a floor then you could move it if you like.
Concrete is [I]hard work [/I] with a time limit on it.
If you do lay concrete check out the local building codes & leave enuf room for a foundation & you might have to spray for termites if you decided put up a building.
Winnipeg has a more extreme climate than Montréal. Here we have a large temperature range. It gets really hot in summer and really cold in winter. I prepped and had my pad poured for my garage. Six years later still not a single crack. I'll sum up how I did it.
First, I went to the city to get a pamphlet on what is code. Here, a garage can take up no more than 19% of total lot space. So I went max (20x26) and I will say I still didn't have enough room. So if you're planning on tinkering later, I suggest you go a little larger than just enough for your car. You might want to consider planning for some room on the side for a bench/work table and a tool box.
Code here required that the pad be one foot thick on the perimeter of the pad, and then six inches in the middle. I considered drainage from my yard and my neighbour's yard. I wanted my pad to be elevated so that it would not get swamped in the spring.
Bobcat came to take away some dirt.
I got some 2x6 forms from my contractor friend who would eventually do the pour. Used a sledgehammer to drive down some 2x4 spikes to which we would hammer the forms.
To make sure the forms were level, I borrowed my friend's laser level. This consists a of tripod with a rotating laser head. This head must be perfectly level. The other part of this tool is a pole to which a laser detector is attached. When the laser hit the detector directly at the proper elevation, it would beep. I did this for the entire perimeter and adjusted the forms until the forms were level all around.
Had a load of 3/4 down delivered.
Spread the gravel with a shovel to end up with the form that would result in the desired thickness of the pad. I should add that the one foot depth on the perimeter was about a foot and a half wide before building it up in the center.
Rented a compacting machine. The one that vibrates. I went ape on this. Overkill even. I compacted for an hour and a half or more. I believe this is why I had no cracks later.
Put down poly, laid the rebar, tied it with wire, supported it with broken pieces of sidewalk pad.
Then it's time for the pour. I suggest you get a pro to do the pour and a few friends with shovels. My contractor friend guided the pour. Cement truck came and we spread the concrete to each corner.
The pro can finish the surface with a smoothing tool. Looks like a rake but at the end of the handle, its a flat piece of wood. I wanted an extra smooth finish so we rented a power trowel. We made a night out of it. Every hour and a half he would trowel the surface, all the way to four in the morning. Everyone sat around the fire and once in a while my friend would fire up the trowel for another polishing. I had really good neighbours.
I hope this gives you and idea of what's involved in this job.
Good luck.
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That would be a bullfloat.
It is also important to control the 'dry time'
If concrete dries (cures) to fast, you will have more problems than just cracking (which ANY concrete is eventually going to do).
It will break off in chunks or sheets, if cured too rapidly.
On a hot day, there is a material that is sprayed onto the wet concrete, that will prevent the moisture from escaping too rapidly.
Try not to pour on days above 80* or below 40*.
It will break off in chunks or sheets, if cured too rapidly.
How can you tell this will happen? what would be a visual, or this is what is and a always will thing
I would not use cement in a unheated area as it will atract mosture and when you want to change things it's a pain to deal with. use pads our 3/4 inch gravel to make your life easy to change if needed. Just my opinion. Eddie.
Would gravel be an adequate surface to park on outdoors for the winter? I want to try and keep the underside of the car dry. Maybe just put down gravel and put a big tile under each tire? Cheap would be nice.
You could even park the car on plastic.
Compaction is critical, nothing I know of compacts better than sand and water. Walk over a beach after the tide goes out, on the wet sand, it's pretty tight. Walk over where someone has driven a vehicle, it's very tight. Same principle for compaction in concrete.
The concrete itself is important. A load that has too much water added will lose strength, this can result in the 'sheets' or finish breaking down. A dry load can crumble after time. Not enough concrete in the mix will also result in crumbling, a mix your own load can do this easily if they think they are saving a bit by cutting back on the concrete as they mix.
The finish? It's easier to finish if it has more water added, too much and you're screwed. Tamping pushes the rock down, making it stronger where it is needed, throughout the concrete. The bowlfloat or bullfloat, as it is called, brings the 'butter' to the surface, the butter being the concrete-sand, this is where too much water or not enough water comes into play. The right combination makes a stronger finish. I like to use 3/8 rock in the mix for light applications, sidewalks, mowing curb, stuff like that. If it has to take quite a bit of weight, use 1 inch rock, it's stronger. 3/8 is a bit easier to tamp and finish.
Also, some finishers will add calcium chloride (CC) to speed curing time, especially if rain is a concern or in damp conditions like fog. I don't like it, have seen most of these crack, some will crack in just a few days. A 'hot' or 'green' load can take off on you also, turn your head for a few minutes in the right conditions and it has almost completely cured before you can finishwork it. A real bummer.
Expansion joints, around here every 10 feet, there's a mess of ways to do those, strips, cuts, etc.
The final finish? Do you want glossy smooth, may be slippery but will be easier to clean. Burn it in with the trowel like pigjam did. Troweling in itself is an art, the wetter the concrete, the flatter you want to keep your trowel to the surface to keep it flat. As it cures, you can use more of the trowel edge to "burn' the surface, you won't be rippling the surface as you trowel. A sidewalk or driveway finish, trowel till it takes quite a bit of pressure to leave a fingerprint, broom finish with a fine bristled push broom, keeping it fairly wet. Pull the broom, don't push. If it's a warm day, mist with water for a day or 2, every 3-4 hours, depending on how hot it may be. Cold? cover with plastic and straw. Hope this helps. Dan
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If you didn't pour concrete yet, you may want to plan for the building. Pour in some 3/8" threaded rod with the end in the concrete bent at 90degrees. Locate the bend so it is about an inch above the sand or gravel base. Put a nut on the rod about an inch down so you can clean the threads after pouring. Use a length of threaded rod long enough to leave enough threads above the concrete to attach a footer for your building (6inches is a safe bet). Also seal it well with epoxy if you don't want it to attract moisture.
First , if it is only a 'winter' storage area , you might want to remove the grass from your desired parking area , and just put down 'pavers' ---- Pre-made concrete squares or round - they come in all shapes and sizes. Available at Lowes or Home Depot , or any number of landscaping places. They can work out to be cheaper than poured concrete , which , if it is done wrong , can be ugly , expensive and time consuming. If you have no experience whatsoever with concrete , I'd go with pavers.
Just make sure you compact your substrate ( the ground under your pavers ) as you would with any pad you put down. Un-compacted substrates will settle over time , leading to cracks.
As far as concrete goes , you got a LOT of misinformation in the previous posts.
Pigjamelectric gave a good ( been there-done that) response , and also showed some wisdom in the compaction process he went through.
As far as curing time/temps - Your local concrete company ( Rinker / Tarmac , etc. ) will answer any questions you may have about strength/ temp , etc. Just know that D.O.T. mud ( 3500psi-6000psi ) dries WAAAY faster and stronger than the 2500psi stuff we use on houses/driveways. Also , they rate the concretes psi's @ 4" thick. Thicker slabs have more strength. Use 'fiber mix' in the concrete to prevent future cracking , and have no worries about temperature. I've replaced floors in industrial ice cream freezers ( -40* F ) and the Concrete companies adjusted the chemical content to make it cure in freezing temps. I also pour houses/driveways in ARIZONA ( 120* in the summer ) and again , the Concrete company {rinker} adjusts the chemical content to slow down the curing time a little bit. Adding water DOES affect the strength , but not to the degree some would have you believe. ALL concrete has water in it , and it evaporates from it as it hardens.
IMO , hire a qualified contractor to do the concrete work , or put down pavers.....
Whatever you do , check the local ordinances to make sure you don't get your parents in trouble with the city.
Best of luck , and if you have any specific questions , send me a PM.
I want to make a concrete pad to park my car on
wait till warmer weather
calcium added will cause fluids to drain out of cars , i know this as it is a factor i deal with every day in my shop .
it burns your back if you lay on it .
the container will protect all till you decide ,and have the funds .
they come in 20 foot lengths to 40 footers .
i have 28 foot pup trailers with axles and dollies removed and they have the side doors on them for walk in convince .
all depends on your codes , but here they allow them and they don't tax you for them .i paid $1800 a piece and sold the under carriage and tires and got back $600 of my spend age .
merry ho ho to all
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How Did Syria Turn Off The Internet... And What Other Countries Can Just Hit The Off Switch Like That?
from the government-cut-off deptAfter the internet was almost entirely cut off in Syria last week, it came back over the weekend, and people are still puzzling through exactly what happened. The government keeps trying to blame others, such as attacks by those fighting against government forces. However, an analysis by Cloudflare has made it clear that it's almost certain that the government was behind the shut down:
To begin, all connectivity to Syria, not just some regions, has been cut. The exclusive provider of Internet access in Syria is the state-run Syrian Telecommunications Establishment. Their network AS number is AS29386. The following network providers typically provide connectivity from Syria to the rest of the Internet: PCCW and Turk Telekom as the primary providers with Telecom Italia and TATA for additional capacity. When the outage happened, the BGP routes to Syrian IP space were all simultaneously withdrawn from all of Syria's upstream providers. The effect of this is that networks were unable to route traffic to Syrian IP space, effectively cutting the country off the Internet.Furthermore, they note that the shutdown was quite systematic, suggesting "this was done through updates in router configurations, not through a physical failure or cable cut."
Syria has 4 physical cables that connect it to the rest of the Internet. Three are undersea cables that land in the city of Tartous, Syria. The fourth is an over-land cable through Turkey. In order for a whole-country outage, all four of these cables would have had to been cut simultaneously. That is unlikely to have happened.
Meanwhile, the folks at Renesys look into just how difficult it is to cut a country off from the internet, and whether other countries are at risk of the same sort of thing. Basically, it comes down to how decentralized the internet is in various countries -- and in many countries there isn't much decentralization. As Renesys notes, some countries have just one or two telcos who handle all internet traffic to and from the world. Those countries are easy to cut off. Renesys helpfully provides a map:
- If you have only 1 or 2 companies at your international frontier, we classify your country as being at severe risk of Internet disconnection. Those 61 countries include places like Syria, Tunisia, Algeria, Turkmenistan, Libya, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, Myanmar, and Yemen.
If you have fewer than 10 service providers at your international frontier, your country is probably exposed to some significant risk of Internet disconnection. Ten providers also seems to be the threshold below which one finds significant additional risks from infrastructure sharing — there may be a single cable, or a single physical-layer provider who actually owns most of the infrastructure on which the various providers offer their services. In this category, we place 72 countries, including Oman, Benin, Botswana, Rwanda, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uganda, Armenia, and Iran. Disconnection wouldn't be trivial, but it wouldn't be all that difficult. Egypt falls into this category as well; it took the Mubarak government several days to hunt down and kill the last connections, but in the end, the blackout succeeded.


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A company needs to make creative, exceptional designs that grab the attention of customers. One of the most effectual ways to develop a commendable brand is to hand out promotional products. Promotional products are items that appeal to different types of customers. Tangible items are used to spread important messages to as many people as possible. A good graphic design service uses the art of visuals to represent your company.
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Oldweather (Oldweather.org) is helping scientists recover worldwide weather observations made by Royal Navy ships around the time of World War I. These transcriptions will contribute to climate model projections and improve a database of weather extremes. Historians will use the work to track past ship movements and the stories of the people on board.
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Dalit Baum Gender Studies University of Haifa. Merav Amir, Cohn Institute Tel Aviv University. (Their bio follow the articles)
Press TV is a 24-hour English language global news network owned by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). Its headquarters are located in Tehran, Iran.
Britain assists Israelis in war crimes
Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:20PM
The three-day international tribunal in London was held to investigate corporate complicity in Israeli regime's violations of international laws and regulations and human rights abuses as far as the Palestinian people are concerned, according to news agencies.
The London tribunal heard evidence about deals major UK-based multinational companies, including British-Danish security firm G4S, have clinched with Tel Aviv to help Israeli authorities to commit war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The tribunal heard that Israeli army has widely used Hermes 450 drones manufactured by the arms company Elbit during its last year's brutal attacks on Gaza, yet the British Army awarded the Israeli firm and its partner, Thales UK, a deal worth more than $1 billion to develop the Watchkeeper, the next generation of drone (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) aircrafts.
John Hilary, executive director of War on Want charity urged the British government to launch a two-way arms embargo on Israel.
He told the jury at the Russell that Israeli company Verint has supplied CCTV cameras for the London Underground.
Hilary went on to say that the British government has conceded that components licensed for export from Britain have "almost certainly" been used by the Israeli army in Gaza last year during its so-called "Operation Cast Lead."
The tribunal, which was the second round of such an event held in Barcelona in March this year, kicked off its work on Saturday.
The Barcelona Tribunal exposed both passive and proactive EU complicity in supporting Israel, particularly by broadening its trade deals with the occupying regime.
Israeli academic, Dalit Baum from the "Who Profits?" research project presented testimony at the London Tribunal on Sunday. He said that the complicity of British-Danish firm involved human rights abuses at the notorious Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank.
Another witness, Saskia Müller testified that the Dutch company PFZW has invested in two Israeli companies complicit in the occupation of the West Bank.
Other evidence came from Josh Reubener, national advocacy director for the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, who told the jury that the Obama administration was shortly due to request a record budget of $3.75 billion from the US congress to be allocated to Tel Aviv.
The jury, which was due to give its verdict on corporate complicity, consists of UK barristers Lord Anthony Gifford, Michael Mansfield QC and John Dugard, former special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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The firm, named G4s, sells the devices to the detention facilities in the occupied West Bank, which provide the necessary means for torture of the Palestinian prisoners, Berlingske Tidende reported on Nov. 23.
Merav Amir, from Who Profits?, an Israeli organization which is dedicated to expose those who stand to benefit from the occupation, said it knew that the firm did not directly engage itself in torture, has created the circumstances required for the abuse.
There are around 9,000 Palestinians in Israeli detention. The families have for long been calling on human rights organizations and groups to intervene in order to secure the release of their loved ones, many of whom have been incarcerated without charge, trial and sentence.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, nearly 200 Palestinian inmates have so far died in Israeli confinement, either due to medical negligence or under torture.
The daily also exposed that the company also cooperates with armed Jewish settlers in Israel and sells tools and devices to the Israeli checkpoints.
The revelation came despite the human rights organizations' insistence that the checkpoints -- which dot the occupied lands -- breach the Palestinians freedom of movement. It also defied the firm's 2002 announcement that it would leave the West Bank in order not to cooperate with armed Israeli guards.
Bio Of Dalit Baum
Dr. Dalit Baum
Dr. Dalit Baum is a professor of gender studies and world economy at Haifa University and Beit Berl College. Dr. Dalit Baum has also taught at the University of California at San Diego, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and at the University of California at Berkeley. Although she is trained in the field of mathematics, she usually teaches in the field of women's studies, the global economy, and activism. We could not find any evidence for the existence of academic books by Dr. Dalit Baum.
Dr. Dalit Baum is active in a series of radical anti-Israel groups. For starters, she is active in the International Solidarity Movement. According to NGO Monitor, the International Solidarity Movement's co-founders support both violent and non-violent acts of "Palestinian resistance" and believe that it is "noble" to carry out suicide bombings. ISM played a prominent role in the Free Gaza flotilla, which attempted to break the Israeli naval blockade on Gaza and engaged in violent confrontation with Israel. ISM has been responsible for endangering the lives of many foreign nationals, amongst them Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall, who were both killed while participating in ISM activities. ISM has been active in violent demonstrations against the Security Barrier in the West Bank and attempted to help terrorists take refuge in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in 2002. In 2003, it was founded that the terrorists who attacked the Mike's Place Bar in Tel Aviv had connections with ISM and utilized links with ISM activists to cover their treks. In March 2003, a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist was arrested while hiding in ISM's Jenin Office and being aided by two ISM activists.
But unfortunately, ISM is not the only extremist group that Dr. Dalit Baum is active in. In fact, Dr. Baum helped create the group Black Laundry, which calls for "Israeli apartheid" to be eliminated. Black Laundry describes itself as "a direct action group of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender, and others against the occupation." Its slogan is "transgender, not transfer." Interestingly, CLAF, the main lesbian feminist organization in Israel, refuses to have any thing to do with them. Black Laundry, while constantly condemning Israel for mistreating homosexuals and protesting Israel's supposed mistreatment of Palestinians, has never bothered to go to the PA to protest the mistreatment of homosexuals there, where the oppression of homosexuals is far more severe than any thing that happens inside Israel or thanks to Israel.
Black Laundry's main contributor is Coalition of Women for Peace, where Dr. Baum is the project coordinator of "who profits from the occupation." According to NGO Monitor, Coalition of Women for Peace is committed to the "struggle to end the occupation," refers to the Security Barrier as an "apartheid wall," celebrated Nakba Day on Israel's Independence Day, supports the BDS movement, supports Refusniks, and has lobbied the British government to "prosecute Israeli war criminals." As part of her work with Coalition of Women for Peace, Dr. Baum spoke at the London School of Economics at a seminar entitled "the occupation of Palestine: who profits and who doesn't" in 2009. The talk was hosted by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Dr. Baum is also active in Anarchists against the Wall, "a direct action group" that was established in response to Israel's construction of the security barrier on "Palestinian land occupied in the West Bank." The Anarchists "works in cooperation with Palestinians in a joint popular struggle against the occupation." Since its formation, Anarchists against the Wall has "participated in hundreds of demonstrations and direct actions against the wall specifically, and the occupation generally, all over the West Bank."
In November 2010, Dr. Dalit Baum presented to the Russell Tribunal on Palestine that G4S is aiding her country in "war crimes" by providing equipment for "checkpoints, prisons, and illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank." Also in November 2010, she gave a lecture that promoted flotillas, boycotts, demonstrations, and other direct actions to support the Palestinian "struggle." On February 11, 2010, Dr. Baum gave a lecture at the University of California at Berkeley entitled "who profits from the occupation? Holding cooperation's accountable." And right in the middle of the Gaza War, Dr. Dalit Baum tried to illegally enter Gaza to show solidarity to the people there with a group from Physicians for Human Rights-Israel.
Schools where she works, who profits from the occupation, Black Laundry, Coalition of Women for Peace
Mentions Women in Black and Anarchists against Fences, which is another name for Anarchists against the Wall
Co-founder of Black Laundry
Taught at the University of California at Berkeley and University of California at Santa Cruz
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Teaches women's studies
Taught at the University of California at San Diego in math
Dalit Baum trained in the field of math
Dalit Baum teaches women's studies, the global economy, and activism
Articles by Dalit Baum, but no books
Black Laundry calls for Israeli apartheid to be destroyed
Black Laundry calls for transgender, not transfer
CLAF refuses to have any thing to do with Black Laundry
Black Laundry connected with Coalition of Women for Peace
Dalit Baum at London School of Economics for Coalition of Women for Peace
Dalit Baum and ISM
Anarchists against the Wall
Dalit Baum on flotillas, boycotts, demonstrations, and other actions to support the Palestinian struggle
Dalit Baum at the University of California at Berkeley
Dalit Baum trying to illegally enter Gaza
Merav Amir is a PhD candidate at Tel Aviv University, a fellow at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, and the research coordinator of "who profits from the occupation," which is a project run by the Coalition of Women for Peace. According to NGO Monitor, Coalition of Women for Peace is committed to the "struggle to end the occupation," refers to the Security Barrier as an "apartheid wall," celebrated Nakba Day on Israel's Independence Day, supports the BDS movement, supports Refusniks, and has lobbied the British government to "prosecute Israeli war criminals."
However, the leadership position held by Merav Amir with the Coalition of Women for Peace is not our only issue with her. In October 2010, Merav Amir wrote a report claiming that Israeli banks finance criminal activities in the Palestinian territories. In July 2010, Merav Amir co-authored an article in Jewish Peace News with Dr. Dalit Baum where BDS was promoted, Israel was referred to as an apartheid state, Israel was accused of economically exploiting and repressing the Palestinians via military control, etc. In June 2010, Merav Amir told the EU that even if they fund civilian projects in Israel, it would still result in the oppression of Palestinians, hoping that such a statement would stop the EU from funding Israel through the "framework program" for scientific research, which is the largest allocation of money that the EU invests in Israel. In August 2009, Merav Amir was interviewed for an article entitled "who profits from the Israeli occupation" that advocated boycotting Ahava Dead Sea products and she reinforced the interviewer in supporting BDS. And in November 2008, Merav Amir was quoted in an article as referring to Israel's presence in the Palestinian territories as an "illegal occupation" and called upon companies to have "nothing to do with the occupation."


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ESA PR 35-2007. With NASA's announcement today of the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on 6 December, ESA astronauts Hans Schlegel, from Germany, and Leopold Eyharts, from France, are set to carry ESA's Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station.
Atlantis is now scheduled to lift off from launch pad 39-A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 22:31 CET. Docking with the ISS is scheduled for the third day of the mission (Saturday 8 December at 19:14 CET). Landing is currently scheduled to take place on Monday 17 December at 18:29 CET.
ESA's Columbus laboratory is the most important European mission to the ISS to date and the cornerstone of Europe's contribution to this international endeavour. Once Columbus is launched, assembled to the Space Station and verified, ESA will become an active partner in the operations and utilization of mankind's only permanent outpost in space.
As the first European laboratory devoted to long-term research in space, Columbus will further expand the science capabilities of the ISS. In its interior, the Columbus laboratory will provide accommodation for experiments in the field of multidisciplinary research into biology, physiology, material science, fluid physics, technology, life science and education. In addition, its external payload facility hosts experiments and applications in the field of space science, Earth observation and technology.
Columbus will be transported into Earth orbit in the Shuttle's cargo bay, pre equipped with five internal rack. Two of its external experiment facilities will be stowed separately in the Shuttle's cargo bay and attached to the outside of the laboratory module structure in orbit. German ESA astronaut Hans Schlegel will play a key role in two of the three spacewalks or EVA (Extra-Vehicular Activity) scheduled for the mission. During the mission's first EVA, Schlegel will help to install and power up the laboratory.
During his long duration stay on the ISS, Eyharts will play a key part in the installation, activation and in-orbit commissioning of Columbus and of its experimental facilities. Once in orbit, Columbus will be monitored from ESA's Columbus Control Centre located within DLR's German Space Operations Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich.
Eyharts is also likely to be onboard ISS for the launch of Jules Verne, Europe's first Automated Transfer Vehicle, an unmanned supply ship carrying cargo to the ISS, including food, air and water. Jules Verne ATV is scheduled for launch on an Ariane 5 launcher early next year. Eyharts will return to Earth at the end of Shuttle mission STS-123 (currently manifested for launch not earlier than 14 February 2008).
For the launch of this milestone mission, ESA and the German Space Agency, DLR, are organising a live video event at ESA's Columbus Control Centre located in DLR/GSOC premises in Oberfaffenhofen (near Munich). Other local events will also be held at ESA's establishments. ESA experts, and top representatives from national space agencies or organisations as well as industry representatives will be on hand for interviews. See accreditation form linked on right.
The launch and the whole mission can also be followed on the web at: www.esa.int/columbus.
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Location: ESA Columbus Control Centre at DLR/GSOC
Address: Münchner Straße 20, 82234-Wessling, Germany
Opening hours: 16:00 – 23:30
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Saturday, December 25, 2010
Things Remembered
Fragrant, the smell of a Christmas tree…as intoxicating and palpable smell as there is. I woke from a little holiday induced nap on my couch to the deeply moving smell of a fresh Douglas Fir. The little lights and their waxy cords warming the needles and branches just enough to entice the tree's aromas to fill both the tiny space that is my living room as well as flip the switch on bits of my cavernous melon illuminating memories and emotions that I had boxed up and tucked away long ago.
I guess I was always a freak when it came to aromas. I was that annoying kid that smelled everything….yes, even the gross stuff and would base half my decision on whether or not liked something, and sometimes someone, by the way it smelled to me. I have always remembered smells just as strongly and vividly as I do sights and sounds, more often than not a scent can trigger a memory or feeling faster than a picture, a song or the written word can.
The gamey, feral aromas of a skunk always remind me of those long car rides back to San Diego from Long Beach, the uncomfortable silence as our VW Bug bumped along the dark highway….my mother making her walk of shame back to our dingy little apartment after having to ask her parents for money, again. An unpleasant smell on my levels, also one that evokes a little fear in me.
Corn tortillas, an aroma that fills me with self satisfaction and a sense of wander…a desire to learn. My odd little summers in Mexico with my American but truly foreign, grandparents. The days and nights left to wander the market stalls, smell and taste things that I had never seen before. The warmth and affection given me by those that really understood why I would rather spend hours alone fondling and sniffing fruits, burring my hands deep into the bins of dried beans, scooping up as many as my tiny hands could hold, lifting them above my head before letting them all rain back into the bin, the laughter and pat on my head when I called them "Pennies from Heaven". I began my love affair with food there in those stalls but it will forever be the smell of corn tortillas that is the most powerful. My little pockets stuffed with still-warm-from-the-stone tortillas, placed there by a "stranger" their heat and aroma my only company on the long, breezy walk back to the Bourbon and Scotch scented trailer that contained the strangers I had come to visit.
Roasted turkey always meant a happy day. Thanksgiving being my mother's most beloved holiday. Can't remember one time that she wasn't positively giddy once she put the bird in the oven so….well, the smell of roast turkey makes me smile and feel at ease.
Blistex, the thick white clunky goo that my first lover would slather upon his young chapped lips. The tiny jar tucked into the upper pocket of his jeans, the way it would blend with his lotion and cologne…those nervous hands fumbling about my skin, grazing my nipples, making them tingle with want and a craving so powerful that it convinced my young body that I needed him. The first man to love me, like really love me and the first man I would surrender to.
Warm milk and yeasty bread….Europe. My first morning, sleep deprived and lumbering down into the dining room of a Paris hotel. The clank of heavy cutlery, the rustle of the morning paper, the plushy, ornate woven carpet giving beneath my feet, the finding of my spot and ordering my first café.
The brickish orange cleaner that I used to scrub my palms, my nails, the one that used to stain my skin…the scent of a medicine cabinet and alpha, the aroma of visiting my son. His tiny body fighting for life, gasping for air, my cleanser filled nose dipping down into his tiny incubator…taking in that sweet, soft, vulnerable scent. His scent, the one that would forever change my life
Burgundy, discovering that wine was more than something I liked. It was to be as passionate and consuming….as physically and emotionally enveloping as any lover I had known before. The aromas that slithered from the glass like fingers wrapping around my jaw….pulling me closer, deeper. Standing in a cold cellar with five other people while this glass of wine slipped inside me, landed on my frame like a warm, wet mouth, causing my skin to tighten, my eyelids to heavy, the "oh fuck" to escape my lips. The groan as I felt my body demand that I take in more, one more sip, one more stroke, my heart pounding out of my chest, my mouth full of the most intoxicating and sensual lover I had ever tasted, a lifetime to do it over and over again.
A Christmas tree. As the vibrant, green, piney aroma filled my sleepy head I flipped through the pages of mental tasting notes, my connection and history with this most iconic holiday cast member. The first half of my childhood the smell of a Christmas tree made me feel sullen and helpless. We didn't have a tree during the holidays when I was little, just couldn't afford one and walking past them each time we entered or exited the supermarket my mother would stop and take deep chest filling sniffs…..likely visiting her own batch of "notes" and each and every time her eyes would fill with tears. Never understood it, knew nothing about her connection to that smell but the feeling was thick with words unsaid. It was a sadness and helplessness that I first connected to that smell.
The second half of my childhood we could afford a tree. One would think having this most longed for thing would inspire jubilation and a feeling of upward mobility, yeah…not so much. We first had a tree when we moved into a house with a man that would taunt, threaten and emotionally torment us. Flaunt the fact that we were lucky to have the tiny space he gave us and if we were not careful, didn't jump when he snapped, he would yank this "beautiful" home away from us. My second connection with the Christmas tree smell was one of rage. Sure I was angry at him but I was also enraged that my mother once longed for this….brought us there to see what was never really ever going to be something for us. Hated it and in a way, hated her.
Years after moving out of that terrible place we would get a tree and thus began the sullen and miserable month of December. My mother always worried about what she wasn't able to give. That smell made me feel guilty, like its being in the house was just one more symbol of failure to a woman who was doing all that she could, alone.
Sadness, rage, pity and guilt, these were the boxes I was riffling through as the tree…my tree shared its scent with me. I ran through the notes, reflected on those trees of past but the thing was…I didn't, couldn't feel any of it. My little tree, tucked into the corner of my living room, its lights blinking, the ornaments of varying interest, (hockey, wine, Jeremy's Harry Potter) dangling from its scent saturated branches….my senior in college son sleeping in the next room, my desire to come here, write, talk and be with all of you. Profound happiness. I felt profound happiness as that piney smell swirled around my head, dove into my lungs and wrote the next chapter of notes…another page in the book of smells that will remain with me forever.
Fuck, I'm rambling ( so unlike me) but I just wanted to come here, to this spot where I have gotten to share my love for wine, my passion for the job that I get to do, my rants and revelations…just wanted to come here to thank you all. Your support and affection means more to this wine slinger than you can possibly imagine. You've all leant a hand in changing my story, writing the next chapter…there are no words powerful enough to express my gratitude.
Happy Holidays to you all….
Forever Yours,
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Happy holidays darling Sam! You've done more for us than we could ever possibly do for you. I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say that.
- December 25, 2010 at 3:43 PM
- TWG said...
Happy Holidays, glad Jeremy was able to make it.
- December 25, 2010 at 5:46 PM
- John M. Kelly said...
Smells - I think at the most fundamental level it is smells that have dictated the courses of lives like ours.
For me the smell of distant skunk will forever be a good one - on vacation, camping out in the bunkhouse at my grandad's place in Escondido with my Montana cousins, or sleeping on the porch, the smells from the heat of the day - black asphalt sluiced with cold water, gasoline, leather and fresh paint on the '47 Chevy pickup we worked on, orange rinds, fresh-cut wood in the shop - softening and changing as the air cooled; the salt tang pushing in from Oceanside when the evening breeze was enough onshore, the coyotes singing in the hills around.
And then that whiff of distant skunk - did a coyote get unlucky? or did the skunk get unlucky and lumber across the highway at a poorly-chosen moment? It is for me the smell of youth, and summer, and endless promise. And all to do again the next day.
Merry Christmas, Sam. And thanks for sharing yourself.
- December 25, 2010 at 11:12 PM
- webb said...
An early Happy New Year and may all your smells be good ones in 2011!
- December 26, 2010 at 8:14 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Another Day of Crazy,
Happy holidays to you and your lovely family as well. Thank you so much for all your love and support girlie, you mean the world to me.
Happy holidays to you as well darlin' and I too am thrilled to have my sweet, remarkable son home for the holidays! Thanks as always for visiting me.
Fantastic story love, thanks for sharing that. Merry Christmas to you and your family kid. I adore you.
Happy New Year to you too sweetheart. Thanks for all the support over the last year and here's to hoping we all have a 2011 filled with amazing aromatics and all the rich memories that go along with them.
- December 26, 2010 at 8:21 AM
- Thomas said...
Yes in deed, we thrive on thoughts of past aromas. I've many memories of the smell of Christmas--some as bad as yours, Sam, some better.
We couldn't afford trees either, but there was a custom in Brooklyn: if you were there when the tree man shut down for the season on Christmas Eve and you could catch the tree that he threw at you, it was yours. Caught many in my day.
- December 26, 2010 at 11:42 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Gawd, I love that. I can just picture a young you readying yourself to wrap your arms around a tree being tossed your way. Very cool image that.
I'm not sure I would say my scent memories were bad, just were what they were but I must confess that I much prefer the one that is closest to me now. I have been amazingly lucky. Happy holidays to you my sweet fuzzy friend.
- December 26, 2010 at 1:45 PM
- chris said...
Christmas tree scent = "joy". That's a good thing.
Beautiful words from our favorite wine slugger Sam, that's another good thing.
Life is good.
- December 26, 2010 at 5:40 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
I simply cannot thank you enough for being one of most loyal and supportive readers. Your emails and comments here always flatter me beyond what I feel is deserved but....they are in my ear and heart when I feel like no one really gives a crap. I remember your, as well as many others, kindness and adoration when I am feeling down and like magic my heart feels touched and I know that people, you people have given me a gift that I shall never be able to repay....humbling but always feels like the hug I need and want. Happy holidays to you dear friend.
- December 27, 2010 at 8:28 AM
- Larry Anosmia, M.S. said...
Smells? I have no idea what any of you are talking about.
- December 27, 2010 at 8:52 AM
- Ron Washam said...
My Gorgeous Samantha,
I have a brother. What I remember about childhood Proustian aroma memories boils down to, "He who smelt it, dealt it."
What's amazing to me is that I've made a career from my nose, and I didn't even pick it!
Your beautiful, as usual, essay made me recall many powerful smells from the past--my Grandmother's White Linen cologne, Christmas cookies baking in the oven, gunpowder from the firecrackers my father gave us, freshly mown summer lawns, the underwear drawers of strangers' houses... Powerful stuff.
And I love your bouquet most of all!
- December 27, 2010 at 8:59 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Larry/Ron My Love,
Such a perv! Love that about you...
- December 27, 2010 at 9:09 AM


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Iain has invited me to post these here. These are some of the videos from my YouTube channel in which I show some Bunkai
Rather than just randomly posting, I would like to take the opptunity to raise some points for discussion. Firstly, Karate is NOT my primary Martial Art. All of these videos were recorded during the Jujitsu class that I teach. For my Martial Arts qualifications, see my about.me page. I don't actually regularly train in Karate although I attend Iain's seminars and do practice the kata. Two points:
1. I don't "look" for Bunkai. There are plenty of other people who are experts in the field that can do that for me. Many of them frequent this forum. However, sometimes I stumble upon Bunkai, which is exactly what happened in the double block bunkai video. I suspect that I'm far from unique
2. Just recently I've been thinking about my personal individual development as a credible Martial Artist. What makes me "different" or what do I have that others don't. After a LOT of thinking I realised the answer is obvious and evident in my YouTube videos - the degree to which I've cross trained in Martial Arts. Almost anything that I'm shown I can relate to another Martial Art. My Bunkai Videos discuss Jujijitsu, Karate, Taekwondo and Lau Gar. I now train in Eskrima (which I'm loving) and increasingly find that the motions that we use are already in my repertoire. What's changed in the mindset and method.


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I talked to folks who attended the December 12th symphony performance and they said Ben Wade had lost about 60 pounds since they last saw him, he was using a walking stick/cane (which he never needed before) and looked like he had been through the wringer. He has said there were would be an announcement on National TV after the superbowl that would "bring Susanville and the Symphony attention".
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(This is a repost from previous years to thank those that have served in the military and to remember those veterans in my family as well.)
I want to take a moment to say thank you to everyone who has served honorably in our Armed Forces. Without our service members past and present our country would not be where it is today. We would not have gained our independence, we would not have unified a divided country, we would not have stopped the atrocities of 2 World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. There are many conflicts not mentioned which do not make light of the sacrifices that servicemen and women made in them. Sometimes the sacrifice was in time away from family and long hours. At times it was witnessing the horrors of those wars or even succumbing valiantly to them.
Not everyone serves their country as a Veteran does and not everyone can or should. You are unique, respected and given a burden that many would not be able to bear. Whether you served many months or many years in our Armed Forces makes no difference. You served. Thank you!
I'd like to now pay tribute to my family members who have served (I hope I didn't miss any!).


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Car of History, by Carlo Franzoni, ca. 1819
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Charles Bulfinch's rotunda featured sculpture and paintings of European explorers, Indians, and settlers. Luigi Persico sculpted an allegory entitled Genius of America for the pediment over the east portico, and symbolic figures of War and Peace for niches flanking the rotunda entrance. In 1817, Congress commissioned John Trumbull to paint four Revolutionary War scenes for the rotunda. Twenty years later, four other artists began filling the remaining spaces with scenes of America's settlement by Europeans.


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I am always on the search for the other ways to encrypt my documents on a server.
I've used gpg keys, gpg symetric encryption, but this one seems to fit the bill the best.
Encrypting with vim is a very painless process, it does take some setup, but not much, I promise.
The first thing I do is to setup an alias in my .bashrc file. I alias the following :
alias vime="vim -u ~/.vimencrypt -x″
vime is short for "vim encrypted", at least in my head
WHEW! Step one finished, that was easy! ……hey, where is that "easy button" again ?
Next is to edit/and or/create a separate .vimrc just for this, and I name mine .vimencrypt
This file will be in your home directory. ~/.vimencrypt
It contains the following:
source ~/.vimrc
set nobackup
set noswapfile
set nowritebackup
set cm=blowfish
Note: Since Vim 7.3 (2010-08-15)(and newer), vim can now use Blowfish encryption.
If your using an older vim — remove the "set cm=blowfish" line. It will then default to crypt for encryption.
I know, very complicated right ? That's it folks, you are now READY to use encryption with vim!
Now, simply type "vime something.txt" and you're on your way.
You will then see:
Enter encryption key:
Enter same key again:
If you entered the same key twice, then you should be presented with a normal vim interface.
If you use "vime" to encrypt the document the first time, it will stay encrypted.
You can then just use vim normally to edit it endlessly (vim will ask for your password, you only have to use "vime" on the initial creation of the document), and it's encrypted when you close it.
Now you will see VimCrypt~02……. when you cat your encrypted file, and it's encrypted with blowfish, a MUCH MUCH stronger encryption than just "crypt" which can be broken fairly easily.
> cat test VimCrypt~02!sD~wLПYEx
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Have You Seen My Roots?
Monday, April 16, 2012
Tombstone Tuesday - John J Enama
This post is in memory of my brother-in-law's father. He lost his dad a few months after we lost my father-in-law. That was a tough year for our family. When I went home last summer I made sure to find his father's gravestone and to stop and pay a visit for them.
"Loving Dad and Pop-Pop
John J. Enama
Jan 8, 1940 - July 5, 2010
Life's Been Good"
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Amanuensis Monday - Figuring Out Where She Belongs...
I had started this transcription quite some time ago, and I don't really know why I didn't post it. I posted the obituary for Mary Villers nee LaCrosse's husband, Frank,
almost a year ago
, but never figured out where he belonged in my tree...and never figured out where Mary belongs. Perhaps that was why I didn't post this one yet. Trying to figure out where she belongs.
It didn't take terribly long to figure it out. I guess walking away and coming back with a clear head really does work! I looked for Frank and Mary Villers in the 1930 US Federal Census, and easily found them. Not only did I find Frank and Mary, but Frank's parents, Louis and Emmerance Villers, were living there with them.
Cool another generation back. Still not in my tree though...
So to find more on Louis and Emmerance. Louis was born some time between 1851 and 1854
(depending which census/record you look in)
. Emmerance is called Merance/Marans/Meretz in different records, but the gist of her name is clear. I was able to track them back from the 1900 US census (Kewaunee county, Wisconsin) and then to the 1880 census (still Kewaunee county). In the 1880 census Louis' parents were living with them...Eugene and Mary Villers. Eugene born about 1811
(according to this census)
. Now I do have a Eugene Villers in my tree...but I didn't have him with a child named Louis or with his wife's name. Grrrr....
But someone else did. Yes, I fell back to the evil family trees on Ancestry.com, but as long as you verify their conclusions, they aren't so scary...and then I saw that one of the family trees, belonged to none other than a Cayemberg cousin!
(Wendy, I look forward to sitting down with you at the family reunion!)
So independent research still needs to be done, but if verified, it appears that my Eugene and Mary Villers are indeed Louis' parents and therefore, Frank's grandparents. Lots to still do, but no doubt the family reunion and my research trip to the Wisconsin Historical Society this summer will be very exciting indeed!
Mrs. Frank Villers
ROSIERE - Mrs. Frank Villers, 70, Rosiere, died Sunday afternoon at her home. The former Mary LaCrosse was born April 1, 1892, and married Frank Villers on May 20, 1913. Her husband died on Sept. 1, 1954, and four brothers and one sister also preceded her in death. She was a member of the Altar Society.
Survivors include one son, Louis, at home; one grandson, Marvin Villers; two great-grandchildren; one brother, Felix LaCrosse, Algoma; two sisters, Mrs. Emily Bero and Mrs. John Monfils, both of Rosiere.
Friends may call at Wiesner-Massart Funeral Home, Casco, after 6 tonight. The Rosary will be recited at 8 tonight and Tuesday evening. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Hubert Church, Rosiere, with the Rev. A.C. Kenny in charge. Burial will be in the parish [cemetery]."
(Hand-dated - Mar. 24, 1963)
This clipping was passed on to me by family in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It was taken from a scrapbook filled with old newspaper clippings and had no publication information. It may have come from the Green Bay Press-Gazette.
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Happy new year everybody!!!!!!!!
I wish you all the best in this 2011, may all your wishes come true!
Meanwhile, check out what you should not have not missed this last December.
- Knightmodels December 2010 releases: Amazing new releases from Knightmodels, what a great set of figures to buy for this Christmas!
- Draconia and Ares Mithologic new releases painted by JMPN: The miniatures are painted by Jose Palomares, this guy is a painting god for sure. Congrats Jose!
- Alien Contact by Nakatan: This diorama shows the horrors of real war in the 40k millenium. Very well painted and executed. Some find it controversial because it depicts a rape scene, but I wonder, if there is no problem in showing physical violence, gore, blood and such, why is showing sex violence taboo? Crude as life itself.
- Ruby, Studio McVey's latest release by JAG Jacques Alexandre Gillois sculpted this beauty mixing western, sci-fi and a lizard creature. It reminded me of the Firefly series because of the western and the sci-fi.
- December releases by Infinity: I love the new Hafza unit from Infinity. Well... in fact I love everything Infinity does!
- Luke, 2010's last Knightmodels release: Just as the year comes to an end, Knightmodels reveals this amazing Luke Skywalker by Raúl Latorre. AWESOME!!


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Greetings in the name of the Most High! As we mark the end of 2011, Buju Banton and the entire Gargamel family would like to take a moment to thank the fans around the world for your unwavering support during these difficult times. Indeed, it is not an easy road, but it helps to know that we are not walking it alone.
Buju has been receiving all of your correspondence and apologizes for not being able to answer every single letter personally. Keep them coming, still, as they are a true source of upliftment in the midst of so much uncertainty.
While we patiently await a final ruling on Buju's case from the United States Court of Appeals, Team Gargamel remains hopeful, prayerful and focused on freedom… We encourage you to do the same.


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