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Elizabeth "Crazy Bet" Van Lew
Grant's Spy in Richmond
By every rule of background, Miss Elizabeth Van Lew should have been among the Confederate women who hurried in and out of Jefferson Davis's "Gray House" on fashionable Clay Street, knitted for the Southern boys, and wept softly to themselves as the Stars and Bars floated past the iron-balconied residences of Richmond.
Miss Van Lew was the daughter of a prominent Richmond citizen. Their house stood on one of the city's most commanding hills, a mansion soaring three and a half stories high. And Elizabeth in her soft Southern voice always spoke of Virginians as "our people."
Yet Miss Van Lew became a freak in Richmond, a woman whose existence was a protest against the beliefs of her class and region. Defying old friends, civil and military authorities, she opposed slavery and war. She poured out money and energy to assist Union soldiers, and gained the hatred of her neighbors. But Elizabeth Van Lew was more than the "fanatic" and "theorist" that most Richmonders considered her. For the four full years of war she operated as a dedicated and resourceful spy, according to several Northern generals, the best one inside the Confederate capital.
Her reputation as a Union sympathizer, though it brought her heavy censure, served as a blind behind which she practiced espionage, directing a band of assistants of assorted ranks and occupations. Miss "Lizzie" was so foolishly and openly attached to the North that most people considered her a silly, hysterical woman. A spy would be ' expected to be silent or speak the opposite of what he felt. Deviousness was the last thing to be looked for in anyone like Miss Van Lew.
Yet dissimulation, it seems clear, was actually the quality that she possessed above all others. Without it she could not have bribed farmers, used Confederate clerks and attorneys, maintained lasting contact with secret service men, and helped prisoners to escape. At times Miss Lizzie could be acid-tongued, scalding in her contempt; again she was gentle and flattering when it helped her to get what she wanted.
Prim and angular, nervous in movement, she had once been pretty, but by her early forties she had turned into an old maid. She was the same age as her fellow Virginian, Rose Greenhow, but she had no men in her life. Tiny, blondish, with high cheekbones and a sharp nose, Miss Van Lew went about with an "almost unearthly brilliance" in her blue eyes. The opposite of the seductive lady, she accomplished her ends without the help of charm or a lush figure or a coquette's air.
Miss Lizzie served particularly the general whom Southerners regarded with marked dislike, U. S. Grant. After the victorious Union army arrived in Richmond, one of Grant's first visits was to the spinster's home. Proudly, her ringlets bobbing, she received him for tea. Nevertheless, some years later, when a little girl demurred against meeting her, a "Yankee," Elizabeth Van Lew bridled: "I'm not a Yankee." For she maintained at all times that she was only a good Southerner, holding to an old Virginia tradition of opposition to human bondage. She had been the loyal one, she said, they the traitors. . . .
Some Richmonders insisted the Van Lews had not, after all, come originally from the Old Dominion. Elizabeth's father was from Long Island, a descendant of a colonial Dutch family. Going to Richmond at twenty-six, John Van Lew cast his lot in 1816 with a member of the well-established Adams family. Their commercial firm failed, owing a debt that the daughter recalled as a hundred thousand dollars. With the sense of rectitude strong among the Van Lews, he "honorably paid" his share. Then, starting again as a hardware dealer, Mr. Van Lew prospered magnificently.
On a trip to Philadelphia he met the daughter of that city's late mayor, and brought her back as his bride. Of their three children, Elizabeth was, though least robust, the strongest willed. She was tutored, and given the best of academic and social training, and she soon grew proud of her family's magnificent home on Church Hill, across from the church in which Patrick Henry called for liberty or death. The Adamses had lost the property, and the Van Lews acquired it.
'Handsome as the building was, John Van Lew transformed it, adding the superb portico and other embellishments. For years the great of America and some from the Continent visited the house to admire the chandeliered parlors with their walls covered with brocaded silk, mantels of imported marble, the sixteen-foot hallway, the terraced gardens lined with boxwood, and the summerhouse at the edge of the James. Jenny Lind stopped there, when she sang her way across America, and Chief justice John Marshall, and Edgar Allan Poe, who, it has been claimed, recited in one of the parlors.
From her earliest days Elizabeth was very close to her quiet mother. Then the girl left for school in Philadelphia, and Richmonders maintained that she "imbibed abolitionism" there. It appears, however, that she had always been a serious, introspective child. As she put it in a rather self-pitying analysis: "From the time I knew right from wrong it was my sad privilcge to differ in many things from the . . . opinions and principles of my locality." She described herself as "uncompromising , ready to resent what seemed wrong, quick and passionate but not bad tempered or vicious. . . . This has made my life sad and earnest."
When his daughter was twenty-five, Mr. Van Lew died, and his son John, as energetic as he was unspectacular, took over the hardware business with success. Meanwhile the bond between Elizabeth and her mother grew stronger. In the early i850s, when Fredericka Bremer, the Swedish novelist, visited Richmond, she met Elizabeth, who was then thirty, "a pleasing, pale blonde," who "expressed so much compassion for the sufferings of the slave, that I was immediately attracted to her."
As the 1850s passed, this Richmonder did more than feel compassion for her slaves. She freed all the family servants (Elizabeth dominated her mother in such matters), and most of them stayed on in their jobs. Hearing that the children or relatives of Van Lew slaves were to be sold by other owners, she bought and liberated them as well. And she set down such firm opinions as: "Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic, not only over the slave but over the community, the state."
Surviving today is an unusual manuscript of hundreds of pages, part diary, part reminiscences, confused yet vivid in many passages. In it Miss Lizzie recalls the days just before the war: "I was a silent and sorrowing spectator of the rise and spread of the secession mania." From the hour of John Brown's raid, "our people were in a palpable state of war." In the general fury, rumors spread that Northern forces were immediately marching on Richmond. "The alarm bells would be rung, the tramp of armed men . . . heard through the night."
About this time Miss Elizabeth started her pro-Northern activities by writing to Federal officials and telling them everything that was happening. In her recollections she pictured the Virginia Secession Convention, and quoted a number of women as asking: "Do you think the state will go out today? For if it does not, I cannot stand it any longer." Upon this she commented: "God help us. Those were sorry days. . . ."
On April 17, 1861, Miss Van Lew first beheld the Confederate banner over Richmond. "Alas for those with loyalty in their hearts." Through tears she watched a torchlight procession, and fell to her knees. "Never did a feeling of more calm determination and high resolve for endurance come over me. . . ." Friends understood her general sentiments, but some of them must have thought Miss Van Lew's attitude would change. A delegation came to ask Elizabeth if she and her mother would make shirts for the troops.
The Van Lew ladies declined, but when they began to receive "personal threats" they agreed reluctantly to take religious books to the camps. If the people of Richmond thought the Van Lews had given in, they were wrong. An uneasy May and June passed. July brought the preparations for the first battle at Manassas. The two women saw the soldiers ride off to the applause and tossed roses of Richmond admirers. Their hearts sank when the South sent the Union Army reeling back. Through Richmond rolled wagons with dispirited Northern prisoners, and resentment against Yankees rose so high that no one dared speak to them.
A day or two later the Van Lews heard stories of suffering in the grim warehouse that was Libby Prison. Miss Lizzie went to Lieutenant Todd, the Confederate prisonkeeper (who was also Mrs. Abraham Lincoln's half-brother) and asked to be a hospital nurse. The lieutenant gasped. She didn't mean she wanted to nurse those men! Why, he knew people who would be glad to "shoot the lot of them."
Miss Van Lew next tried Secretary of the Treasury Memminger, with whom she was acquainted. Ah, he could not hear of such a thing. A class of men like that-they were "not worthy or fit for a lady to visit." She changed her tactics and reminded Memminger of the time he gave a beautiful discourse on religion. His face beamed; so she had liked it? "I said that love was the fulfilling of the law, and if we wished 'our cause' to succeed, we must begin with charity to the thankless, the unworthy." She won her point and the Secretary gave her a note to Provost Marshal Winder.
Once Miss Lizzie assured a friend: "Oh, I can flatter almost anything out of old Winder; his personal vanity is so great." Now she proved it. With her gaze fixed on his white head, she smiled: "Your hair would adorn the Temple of Janus. It looks out of place here." A few more such remarks, and she had her pass!
From then on Miss Van Lew called regularly at the prisons, until, as one man said, she shopped as much for the prisoners as for her own family. She carried clothes, bedding, medicines. Discovering sick men, she persuaded Confederate doctors to transfer them to hospitals. Some thanked her for their lives. As one of the Union secret service chiefs ultimately declared: "By her attractive manners and full use of money she soon gained control of the rebel prisons......... But before long the Van Lews were in the limelight, when newspapers singled them out.
Two ladies, mother and daughter, living on Church Hill, have lately attracted public notice by their assiduous attentions to the Yankee prisoners. . . . Whilst every true woman in this community has been busy making articles for our troops, or administering to our sick, these two women have been spending their opulent means in aiding and giving comfort to the miscreants who have invaded our sacred soil, bent on rapine and murder. . . . Out upon all pretexts to humanity! . . . The course of these two females, in providing them with delicacies, bringing them books, stationery and paper, cannot but be regarded as an evidence of sympathy amounting to an endorsement of the cause and conduct of these Northern vandals.
The Van Lews did not take the hint. Instead, they expanded their activities. Learning of Lieutenant Todd's taste for buttermilk and gingerbread, they plied him (shades of Mati Hari!) with these wholesome items. They worked similarly to gain favors from others. And Miss Lizzie's enemies would have been even more indignant had they known she was getting military information from the Union prisoners. The day she first sent secret messages through the lines is not known, but it appears that she soon established contact with Union agents who slipped into Richmond on secret missions. The prisoners understood the meaning of Confederate troop movements, the shifting of regiments near the capital, and they and Miss Lizzie picked up hints from soldiers and guards.
Elizabeth's servants were ready to leave the Van Lew mansion on a minute's notice on innocent-looking errands. The Van Lews had a small vegetable garden out of town-an excuse for the Negroes to go in and out of Richmond. Not many people would poke into the soles of muddy brogans worn by an old colored man on a horse. Few would inspect a servant's basket of eggs, one of which was an empty shell concealing a coded message.
The Confederate attitude toward Miss Lizzie's prison visits varied. A commanding officer once asked her to stop bringing in special meals because it "subverted the consistency of prison rules." Such orders inconvenienced but seldom halted her. During a tense period when she was ordered not to exchange a word with the prisoners, Elizabeth brought books. When the soldiers passed them back to her, the Confederates did not know that tiny pin pricks conveyed military data.
The spinster also slid notes into the "double-bottom" of a dish, originally intended to hold wan-n water. Advised that a suspicious guard planned a thorough inspection of the dish, Miss Van Lew prepared for him. When he reached for it she gave it up readily; for she had been holding it for some time cradled in her shawl. He let it go with a howl; she had taken care to fill the bottom with boiling water!
In the summer of i86i the Union seized fifteen Confederates as privateers on the vessel Savannah, and threatened to hang them. In retaliation Jefferson Davis ordered the same number of Federal soldiers held as hostages. Miss Lizzie protested and won the right to visit the endangered men, comforting them, bringing food, taking out forbidden letters. At this time the old maid developed a particular friendship for one of the condemned men, a young Colonel Paul Revere of Massachusetts. At one point she connived in his attempted escape. The danger of the mass hanging passed, and Colonel Revere eventually was exchanged, only to die later at Gettysburg.
Each incident meant intensified Confederate bitterness against Miss Van Lew. She did not dare keep a complete journal. "Written only to be burnt was the fate of almost everything which would now be of value. Keeping one's house in order for Government inspection with Salisbury prison in prospective, necessitated this. I always went to bed at night with anything dangerous on paper beside me, so as to be able to destroy it in a moment." Again: "The threats, the scowls, the frowns of an infuriated community-who can write of them? I have had brave men shake their fingers in my face and say terrible things.........
Miss Lizzie once went to Jefferson Davis himself to request protection. Not many spies for one government asked the head of the opposing government for his aid! Mr. Davis's secretary advised her to apply to the mayor, but she had a better thought, which grew out of the housing shortage. Lieutenant Todd was to have a successor as keeper of prisons-a captain with a family. The newcomer had to live somewhere, and Miss Van Lew knew just the place-her big house. While he stayed there with his "interesting family," the Van Lews were left in peace.
It is hard to tell when the next step occurred in her evolution as a spy. Slowly, however, she took on a new, protective coloration. Richmond had long regarded her as a trifle odd. Elizabeth began to accentuate that oddity. As she walked along the street, she mumbled and hummed to herself, head bent to one side, holding imaginary conversations. Richmonders glanced at one another and shook their heads. The prison guards gave her a new name: "Crazy Bet." She lived up to her title, combing her curls less carefully, wearing her oldest clothes and most battered bonnets.
Yet there was nothing crazy in the next exploit credited to Miss Van Lew. Among the slaves she had liberated was slim, intelligent Mary Elizabeth Bowser, then living outside of Richmond. Mary Elizabeth returned at Miss Lizzie's request and became the new house servant for the Jefferson Davises. The Union now had its spy in the household of the Confederate President. The girl apparently brought back some interesting stories. . . . Mary Elizabeth and her former mistress met at intervals after dark near the Van Lew farm. For such trips the older woman varied her Crazy Bet routine and wore a huge poke bonnet, leather leggings, "belt canvas coat." Tucking up her curls, she played the poor country woman driving around in her buggy.
Miss Lizzie enlisted the help of a number of simpler folk, farmers, storekeepers, factory workers, united in their belief in the Union. In the words of General George Sharpe of the Army Intelligence Bureau: "Their [the Van Lews's] position, character and charities gave them a commanding influence, and many families of plain people were decided and encouraged by them to remain true to the flag, and were subsequently able during the war to receive our agents. . . . For a long, long time, she represented all that was left of the power of the United States government in the city of Richmond."
Other Federal spies or scouts arrived in the capital to "take her orders," the intelligence chief added. They usually slipped into the Van Lew house at night, to stay for days in rooms at the back of the mansion. In emergencies they stopped only at the family farm. Miss Lizzie's friends took them frequent messages. One such friend was a seamstress who stitched dispatches into her patterns. Several times the girl was halted by Confederate guards; rough fingers felt the patterns but none of the messages was discovered.
The Union threat against Richmond became ominous in 1862. McClellan came so close that the people of the capital could hear gunfire. "We are in hourly expectation of a battle. . . . We have hatched eight chickens today and have a prospect of rearing and eating them under our 'dear young government'; and so we go, mixing peace with war," wrote Elizabeth.
Miss Lizzie had the happy notion that when McClellan entered Richmond he should be their guest. Using "new matting and pretty curtains, we prepared a chamber." Meanwhile, revealing another side of herself, she went out with friends for a ringside view of the fighting. "The rapid succession of the guns was wonderful.... No ball could be as exciting as our ride this evening. Only think of the bright rush of life; the hurry of Death on the battlefield!" Here was a sight that not many other Richmond spinsters would have enjoyed.
McClellan never set eyes on Lizzie Van Lew's pretty room. Robert E. Lee took charge of the Confederate defenses, and Little Mac pulled back. For the saddened Van Lews there were other misfortunes. One day Elizabeth took pity on an undernourished milliner, "friendless and alone." Bringing this Miss McGonigle home, she helped her for months. Overnight the milliner turned on her and paid a call at Confederate headquarters to report her suspicions. Luckily Miss McGonigle knew nothing definite against the Van Lews, but Elizabeth was deeply hurt by this occurrence.
By now the family had taken in other boarders. One such guest, who might have told far more than the milliner, received a note from "W. W. New, Detective, C.S. Police," with a request to appear for testimony against the Van Lews. Her evidence was needed "to conclude the case." Detective New added that if the boarder felt some hesitation in going she would not have to appear before Mrs' Van Lew, nor would her name be mentioned in the case. The lady felt more than delicacy in the matter; she declined to say a word.
Some of the neighbors, however, were not so loyal and the Van Lews were continually trailed by detectives. As Miss Lizzie wrote: "I have turned to speak to a friend and found a detective at my elbow. Strange faces could be seen peeping around the column and pillars of the back portico." The grand jury investigated the old maid and her mother for "trafficking in greenbacks," United States currency, and Elizabeth's mother fell sick when she heard that warrants had been prepared against her.
With the supply of army horses decreasing, few Richmonders were allowed to keep their animals. One day Elizabeth received a tip from a friendly Confederate clerk that soldiers were headed for her home to confiscate her horse. She needed him badly for spy work, so she hid the animal in the smokehouse. A few days later Confederates learned of this and, being warned again, Miss Lizzie led the horse through the house and up the stairs to the library. Straw had been spread, "and he accepted his position and behaved as though he thoroughly understood matters, never stamping loud enough to be heard nor neighing." He was "a good, loyal horse," Elizabeth assures us.
Many townsmen were certain that Crazy Bet hid more than horses. In these later days, as privations increased and men in prisons turned desperate, scores escaped. The Van Lew home was searched several times without result, but people whispered stories of secret passages and hidden rooms. Miss Lizzie's niece told eventually how she saw Aunt Elizabeth glide toward the attic with a plate of food, and tiptoed after her. As the niece peered around a corner the spinster touched a panel. It slid back, and a bearded man reached out hungrily for the food. Years afterward the girl found the concealed chamber beneath the slope of the rear roof.
General Sharpe of the Union Intelligence credited Miss Van Lew with helping in many escapes, including the celebrated exploit in which a sixty-foot tunnel was dug under Libby Prison. The time was a chilly February day in i 864. Elizabeth had been told "there was to be an exit" in the near future, and she prepared "an off, or rather end room." Personal problems intervened and she had left the house when some of the escaping prisoners sought refuge, and the servants turned them away. Other Union sympathizers took them in, communicated with Miss Van Lew, and she went to work to assist them on their perilous journey....
By now she had further systematized her espionage, establishing regular contact with General Ben Butler at Fortress Monroe. Becoming more professional, she received a cipher and hid the key to it in her watch case, which she retained until her death. As an additional safeguard, her niece said, Miss Lizzie would tear cipher messages into two or three pieces and roll them into tiny balls, to be handed over in that shape. Years later the retired spy herself told a Richmond child how she hid papers by unscrewing the top of the andirons in her bedroom.
Crazy Bet's spy organization had also widened. The chief of Federal spies, speaking of her and her mother, said: "They had clerks in the rebel war and navy departments in their confidence." On that point Elizabeth always remained reticent, and such helpers, traitors to the Confederacy, were apparently never exposed. Once, she noted, she did go to General Winder's office with an emergency message from General Butler to a Union agent on the Confederate payroll. Had it fallen into Southern hands, the letter could have destroyed the man and also Crazy Bet.
The old maid acted with cool daring. She entered Winder's quarters, sought out the individual in question, and placed the note directly in his hands. A few feet away were the central offices of the Confederacy's secret service. The man trembled and seemed about to break. Might he betray her, in his terror? Instead he slipped the paper into his pocket and whispered that Miss Lizzie must never come there again. Apparently she did not have to, as the next time he went to her.
Late in January of 1864 Elizabeth Van Lew and her friends in Richmond passed on vital information about Confederate plans to move thousands of prisoners. Here was an opportunity for a sudden Northern attack which would free a great many Union soldiers and might even take Richmond. Miss Lizzie called in a few well-placed assistants and then sent a young emissary on a dangerous trip to Butler's headquarters in Virginia. The official war records contain her dispatch, originally in cipher:
It is intended to remove to Georgia very soon, all the Federal prisoners; butchers and bakers to go at once. They are already notified and selected. Quaker knows this to be true. They are building batteries on Danville road. This from Quaker. Beware of new and rash councils. This I send to you by direction of all your friends. No attempt should be made with less than 30,000 cavalry, from 10,000 to 15,000 infantry to support them.... Forces probably could be called in from five to ten days; 25,000 mostly artillery, Stokes's, and Kemper's brigades go to North Carolina. Pickett's is in or around Petersburg. Three regiments of cavalry disbanded by Lee for want of horses. . . .
When Butler received Miss Lizzie's message four days later, he marked it "private and immediate" and forwarded it to Secretary of War Stanton, with an explanation that it came "from a lady in Richmond with whom I am in correspondence." The bearer had carried a token to show he could be trusted. "Now or never is the time to strike," Butler added . , and told of his questioning of Miss Van Lew's nervous courier.
The boy had contributed dozens of other military facts, troop movements of which the Van Lew group had learned at the last moment, and other advice from "Quaker" and "Mr. Palmer," two of the Union agents who concealed their identities. All pointed to the belief that "Richmond could be taken easier now than at any other time of the war."
This advice from civilians had its defects, to be sure; they threw figures about carelessly, and there were military factors about which they lacked information. Nevertheless, the Northern officials apparently accepted the truth of the general situation as presented, and accordingly launched a major operation. The Union War Department gave considerable time, attention, and manpower to a cavalry movement to surprise Richmond and free the prisoners. Unfortunately for the enterprise, however, the "secret" project became as confidential as a White House reception. Too many officers' wives, and officers themselves, talked about it.
On February 28 a body of four thousand picked troops swept toward Richmond from the left, under General Judson Kilpatrick and Colonel Ulric Dahlgren. From the right several thousand other Union soldiers would make a feint. Then young Dahlgren was to drive on the Confederate capital in one direction while Kilpatrick knifed in from the other. The blow might be one of the most brilliant of the war; his superiors expected a great deal of the twenty-two-year-old Dahlgren, son of Rear Admiral Dahlgren, and the Army's youngest man of his rank. Having lost a leg shortly after Gettysburg, the boy used a wooden leg and crutch, but could still outride anyone in sight.
The raid started on schedule, then rapidly went to pieces. There were unforeseen obstacles, a Negro guide who could not or would not find a ford across the James, and, not least, Confederate foreknowledge. In badly frightened Richmond, as Miss Van Lew reported: "every reliable man was called out. There was an awful quiet in the streets; the heavy silence was impressive. . . . At night we could hear the firing of the cannon. . . ." By the time Colonel Dahlgren reached a road only five miles from the city, strengthening resistance made the attack hopeless. As the Union troops retreated in darkness and rain, Yount, DahILyren himself was killed.
Then began a macabre episode that involved the boy's remains. The body was hastily searched by Confederates, a memorandum taken, a finger cut off for its ring, and the valuable wooden leg was removed. Casually they buried what was left of Dahlgren near a road.
Soon afterward Southern officials made an announcement that sent a wave of fury over Richmond. Dahtgren, they said, had carried orders to burn and sack the city, and kill Jefferson Davis and his Cabinet. Whether or not the documents were authentic has never been determined. Richmond papers described the captured Union soldiers as "assassins, barbarians, thugs . . . redolent of more hellish purposes than were the Goth, the Hun or the Saracen." Kill them all as enemies of humanity! One journal urged a public showing of the Dahlgren corpse as a "monument of infamy" to teach young Confederates to hate such men.
Where Ulric Dahlgren lay interred, no one knew, said the newspapers. "It was a dog's burial, without coffin, winding sheet or service. Friends and relatives in the North need inquire no further." As a matter of fact, the remains had meanwhile been placed in a coffin and transferred to Richmond, and on orders from President Davis workmen reburied Dahlgren late at night and secretly among thousands of other Union graves. But not entirely secretly, because of Elizabeth Van Lew.
She tells us that a Negro she knew was "in the burying ground at night . . . entirely accidentally, or rather providentially"! The man marked the spot of Dahlgren's grave, sought her out, and she took over, managing a remarkable job of plotting, body stealing, and transfer through the Confederate lines. Needing six or seven helpers, she had no trouble enlisting them at once among her Union friends.
Late one night, four men rode to the burial place. Digging up the rude casket, they unscrewed the lid and identified the corpse by the missing right leg. Over rutted back roads they hastened to the farm of W. C. Rowley, where Miss Lizzie waited in a seed house, and once again the boy's remains were examined, but with "gentle hands and tearful eyes," she said. She helped transfer the corpse to a new metal coffin, which would now be put into the earth on Robert Orrick's farm outside town.
First, however, they had to take the box past Confederate pickets. In the morning Farmer Rowley climbed to the seat of his wagon, the coffin on the floor behind him, covered by a dozen closely packed peach trees. Approaching the pickets, the farmer saw that they were examining everything. He was panicky until he recognized the soldier who strolled over to inspect his wagon. He reminded the man of their last meeting. Vaguely the soldier recalled the incident. "But whose trees are these?" Rowley tried to be casual: "They belong to a German in the country." The two acquaintances talked about the unwisdom of planting peach trees at this season. Ah, well, that was the German's worry. The uniformed man sighed: "It would be a pity to disturb those trees, when you've packed them so nice. Go ahead."
With the body safely buried, Elizabeth Van Lew promptly started a cipher report of the exploit on its way to General Butler. Dahlgren's sorrowing father had meanwhile asked that Ulric's remains be returned to him and Jefferson Davis issued orders to grant the request. When Confederate soldiers dug in their own burial grounds and found nothing, Richmond buzzed with a greater mystery than ever. Not until after the war was the matter cleared up.
At least once Miss Lizzie was almost led to betray her connection with Butler. The general had requested an up-to-date report on Richmond's defenses, and she had her cipher message ready, torn in strips and rolled in wads as usual. An expected scout had not arrived and as she walked along the street, wondering how she was going to send her report, a man beside her murmured: "I'm going through tonight," and continued on without pausing.
Perhaps it was the Union agent, who might have some urgent reason for approaching her this way without identifying himself. Quickening her steps, she passed the stranger, and again she heard: "I'm going through the lines tonight." She frowned and made no acknowledgment. The risk was too great. The next day a Southern regiment marched by, and she recognized the man, now in his gray uniform. Belle Boyd had once been trapped in much this fashion; Crazy Bet was more crafty.
From General Sharpe, we learn that as General Grant moved closer to Richmond Miss Van Lew's communications with the Union command reached a new peak. With the distance shortened, she could forward messages almost daily. She used a system of five "stations" or points along the way, from the mansion on Church Hill, to her farm, and beyond. Grant asked repeatedly for "specific information" and she "steadily conveyed it to him," Sharpe explains.
So expert was her transmission belt that flowers from the Van Lew gardens often arrived fresh and dewy on Grant's breakfast table! And Sharpe declared that "the greater portion" of the information passed to the general's army in 1864-65 "in its collection and in a good measure in its transmission, we owed to the intelligence and devotion of Miss E. L. Van Lew."
But at this late date Crazy Bet faced a final threat of exposure. In February of 1865 Union officials believed they had an inspiration when they dispatched to Richmond an Englishman named Pole. Prodigious spying deeds were predicted. On his way Pole met many Union sympathizers. Careful arrangements had been made for him in the city and supposedly he was to meet Miss Lizzie. Her diary described her suspicion and anxiety, which turned to terror when Pole suddenly rushed into Confederate headquarters to sell out his employers.
At least two Union agents went to prison. For hours Elizabeth waited in apprehension, fearing the man had discovered enough to implicate her. Then nothing more happened. She had missed disaster by a thread. Personal deliverance was not long in following. On a Sunday in early April a roar echoed in the Richmond streets; Lee's lines had given way, the Confederates were marching out, and the town had gone mad. Fires crackled in one square and another. "Hundreds of houses had fallen victims to the spreading fire.... The constant explosion of shells, the blowing up of the gunboats and of the powder magazines seemed to jar, to shake the earth and lend a mighty language to the scene ... the burning bridges, the searing flames added a wild grandeur. . . ."
Neighbors borrowed the Van Lew wheelbarrows to save their belongings. The prisons were emptied and scores of Union soldiers were taken out of Richmond. Miss Lizzie had determined to make a grand gesture, whatever its cost. At considerable peril she had ordered a big American flag smuggled through the lines. She and her servants scrambled to the roof and set it to waving its thirty-four stars against the sky. Hers was the first Union flag to be unfurled again in the Confederate capital.
Richmonders glared, and a howling mob gathered. God damn the old devil; burn her place down! Men shoved toward her house, trampled the garden, and Crazy Bet stepped forth to confront them. "I know you, and you. . . " Her thin face contorted, she screamed their names and pointed them out. "General Grant will be in town in an hour. You do one thing to my home, and all of yours will be burned before noon! " They were convinced and they backed away.
Miss Lizzie had one last assignment for herself. She ran to the Confederate Capitol, to search among the ashes of the archives for secret documents which the Union government might find helpful. She was found there by a special guard dispatched for her protection by General Grant. He had remembered her and the danger she might face on this day....
Soon after his arrival the general paid his formal visit. Mrs. Grant explained later that her husband said they must visit Miss Van Lew, for she had given great service to the Union. They drank tea together and talked politely on the columned porch. "Crazy Bet" was very proud; for the rest of her life she kept Grant's calling card.
Source: "Spies For The Blue And Gray" by Harnett T. Kane


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As the Arctic sea ice continues to melt, an initiative led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is trying to predict out future changes to the Arctic and how this will affect the environment.
In 2004, John Toole and his research team at Woods Hole Oceanic Institute (WHOI) developed a new way to measure changes in the Arctic as part of the Arctic Observing Network, an international collaboration of scientists studying the Arctic polar climate and ecosystem. Computer models suggest significant impacts in this region will occur in the next few years, and it is of great concern to scientists to know how these shifts will affect ocean stratification and circulation, ecosystems, and global weather patterns.
"The Earth's climate system is changing in response to the increase of carbon levels in the atmosphere. Computer models seem to suggest in the next 100 years or earlier, say by mid-century, the ice cover of the Arctic may disappear mid-summer each year, and some models suggests once it begins to disappear, it could go very quickly, perhaps over the course of ten years," says Toole. "The Arctic may function more like the Antarctic in the future with a highly seasonal ice cover – little in mid-late summer, and a broad, thin coverage in winter."
The instruments Toole's research team developed, known as Ice-Tethered Profilers (ITPs), measure seawater properties in the Arctic daily and send those data back to WHOI. Autonomous profiling instruments actually date back to the 1970s. However, engineers at WHOI were able to design a new model with greater endurance and depth capability. This new model consists of a foam buoy float that sits atop the sea ice and supports a wire rope tether extending down into the ocean, with an underwater vehicle that profiles along the wire.
The ITP is important given that it is nearly impossible to collect data over long periods of time in an environment such as the Arctic.
"To be able to get sustained measurements over time you need to have autonomous measurements rather than having a person standing there to take the measurements. Most likely if you place a profiler there you will not receive it back, so it is important to get data in real time through satellites," Toole explains.
Image shows WHOI Research Team Deploying Ice-Tethered Profilers at the Arctic. (Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).
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Greetings and Yarr, Mr. Henderson.
I have realized I have been too confused to see the light and have recently decided to reform from my heathen ways as an atheist. I found light in the holy FSM while making a bowl of lime & shrimp ramen at approximately 1:36 AM. I recalled a thread on a forum speaking of FSM and His Noodly Appendage, and it all seemed to make sense.
I have now become a child of FSM and graciously accept His Noodly Appendage and all His glory into my life. However, I have a few questions I couldn't find in your marvelous, eye-opening site.
1) Is an eye patch or hat required every day or just every friday? It will be hard to explain to my English teacher why I am wearing a divine head-piece every morning.
2) Are we required to wear such clothing in all posed photography? If so I will need a signed letter from the prophet speaking of His holiness and need of such headgear for my school.
3) Do I have your permission to pass out FSM pendants, rings and brochures around my school to spread the good word? I recently discovered that a fairly accurate model of His Noodlyness can be made out of 22 gauge wire and 4 beads (2 copper, 2 silver), and it gives me something to keep with me whenever I have moments of doubt or weakness.
Thank you, and may His Noodly Appendages be with you.
FSM bless,
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text: E 519 Applied Remote Sensing of the Environment (3 cr.) Applications of remotely sensed data and raster geographic information systems in environmental research. Concepts of remote sensing. Image acquisition from different sensors ranging from aerial photography to various types of satellite imagery. Image processing and analysis. Raster geographic information systems. Raster-vector integration. Concepts of spatial analysis.


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SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — A court in Macedonia has sentenced former Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski to three years in prison in an arms scandal that cost the government an estimated 2 million euros ($2.6 million).
The court upheld a 2008 conviction Monday in a retrial of the original case.
The 50-year-old Buckovski was convicted of ordering excessive quantities of tank parts while he served as defense minister during an armed conflict with ethnic Albanian rebels in 2001. A former chief of general staff and a businessman were also sentenced to three years, while two other former Defense Ministry officials got two years each. Buckovski and the other defendants were freed pending appeals.
Buckovski served as defense minister in 2001 and 2002-2004 and as prime minister in 2004-2006.


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Using photoshop 7, and It can start nicely, BUT when I quit the photoshop --> window borders does not work anymore. It is enabled still in compizconfig-settings-manager but will not work. If I untick and tick the cross, everything works fine. (aka, disable / enable window borders). It affects only to window bordes (as far as I can tell), for example cube works, and many others.
So, is there a way to start my photoshop the way that when it stops it will reload compiz (or whatever).
Here is what it says when opening via terminal
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janiporo@janiporo-desktop ~ $ env WINEPREFIX="/home/janiporo/.wine" wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe /Unix /home/janiporo/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/Public/Start\ Menu/Programs/Adobe\ Photoshop\ 7.0.lnk
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00004100
janiporo@janiporo-desktop ~ $ fixme:font:WineEngRemoveFontResourceEx (L"C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Photoshop 7.0\\Required\\ADMUI3.fon", 0, (nil)): stub
fixme:driver:NamedEscape ((nil), L"ATMFDA.DLL", 9474, 0, (nil), 0, (nil))
fixme:driver:NamedEscape ((nil), L"ATMFD.DLL", 9474, 0, (nil), 0, (nil))
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x12538c0 "?" wait timed out in thread 002a, blocked by 0024, retrying (60 sec)
And here what it does when shutting down photoshop.
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fixme:font:WineEngRemoveFontResourceEx (L"C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Photoshop 7.0\\Required\\ADMUI3.fon", 0, (nil)): stub
fixme:font:WineEngRemoveFontResourceEx (L"C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Photoshop 7.0\\Photoshop.fon", 0, (nil)): stub
janiporo@janiporo-desktop ~ $
I made /usr/local/bin/compiz_start.sh that contains this (file does not exist):
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# Start compiz-fusion with compiz --replace
sleep 3
DISPLAY=:0.0 compiz --replace -c emerald &
sleep 1
DISPLAY=:0.1 compiz --replace -c emerald &
And made it executable:
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sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/compiz_start.sh
Then added it to startup programs.
Is this the correct way to start compiz? In Ubuntu


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Governor Clement Camp, 5 miles South of Rutland
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Title: Governor Clement Camp, 5 miles South of Rutland
- Field, W.H.
- Puffer, Louis
- Eldred
- Perry, Mrs.
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Extent: 1 lantern slide : hand col. ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Date Created: Undated
The gentlemen in the photo are: Major Jenks (left) and either Bob Aiken or Puffer (right). The photo was a gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Field. The negative was done by Puffer, the slide by Eldred, and the coloring by Mrs. Perry.
Genre(s): photographs, lantern slides
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Gov. Clement Camp. 5 mi So. of Rutland. Major Jenks left. Bob Aiken or Puffer right. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Field. Neg. by Puffer. Slide by Eldred. Colored by Mrs. Perry
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MadManOriginal wrote:The floor mats look fine, they match the lighter colored lower half of the dash.
Also, the engine compartment is cleaner than the wheel wells I imagine once you've got it back from your mechanic a nice spiffing up of the exterior is in order.
Haha, the wheel wells used to be clean, I took the car round the block test driving it, around the corner is a dirt road and lots of grass, so I decided to have some fun on the grass, I was interested to see how well the LSD worked, the rears were absolutely caked in mud.
ludi wrote:How To Build a New Car By Starting With An Old Car, Part XIV in our continuing series...
That's good work, but, wow. I ended up doing about the same amount of stuff on the 2gb Eclipse, and I was really beginning to hate that car by the time I decided to sell it.
Haha, its been a learning project for me and me and my Dad have been spending some quality time together working it out and learning along the way, also a lot of swearing, bloody knuckes and mistakes. I don't think I would sell it just because of the effort put into it, and these cars are worth next to nothing anyways, $2500 tops.
PenGun wrote:If that tranny is even close to a 4R70W it needs Mercon V. A full flush will be 12 liters.
Its a BTR93LE, wasn't intending on a full flush, just the oil inside the gearbox, I can't be bothered trying to flush the torque converter out at the moment.
I've also taken a bit of a turn in direction for the project, which I will update here when its ready, maybe 2 months from now hopefully.
Random fact about these cars is that they have the same engine management system as the 90s Mustangs, EEC-V.


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Without the efforts of community members who advocate for children and families regarding education and health care, initiatives and legislature that emphasize the importance of these issues would never get passed or even glanced at.
Vangi McCoy, Montelores Early Childhood Council Coordinator, received the Governor's Service Award for Colorado on Friday, Oct. 5 in Denver. The award is given through the office of the Lieutenant Governor for Serve Colorado-Governor's Commission on Community Service.
Individuals are nominated and 12 are awarded for various work and services in their community. McCoy was the only person recognized from Southwest Colorado.
"I am very humbled and proud," McCoy said. "But it's not just about me. It's about early childhood education being recognized and Southwest Colorado being recognized."
McCoy was nominated by Americorps member Tyra Hughes who works directly with McCoy in coordinating activities with the MECC.
"She works very hard to provide services for early childhood education," said Hughes. "With all she does in the community I knew she would be perfect for this award."
McCoy has an endless amount of responsibility. She also has an endless amount of passion for her work. She has helped to coordinate and put forth the yearly event called the Early Childhood Celebration and Fair, in which families with children up to five years of age can receive free developmental and emotional health screenings, hearing, and dental and vision screenings. The fair occurs every April and is approaching its fourth year.
"She understands there needs to be a big focus on educating kids when they are young," Hughes said. "Because that helps to get them through life and prepare them mentally."
McCoy also works to make sure early childhood educators are receiving the training needed for their positions. She has also brought the School Readiness Program and the Family Leadership Training Institute into the community. Both programs are helping children and their families learn the importance of quality education.
The FLTI is a 20-week program, specifically designed to educate parents in civics and government operations. It also offers parents opportunities to learn about themselves and what is important in their lives. Trish Peters is the FLTI coordinator. She also works closely with McCoy.
"She really is a true leader for the children in our community," Peters said. "She is a voice for early childhood educators, children and their families. She doesn't do much for herself. She is truly deserving of this (award)."
McCoy also serves on the Dolores School Board, the San Juan Board of Cooperative Educational Services. With her help and the help of health professionals, child council members, BOCES members and countless others, they have found many ways to aid and support families with young children. McCoy is very passionate about advocating for that cause and making a difference in the community.
"Some say I can't say 'no,' McCoy said. "And that may be true, but if it's something I am passionate about I get involved because I want to make a difference so families and children can thrive with the community."
McCoy teaches early childhood classes at Southwest Colorado Community College. She is also a leader for the It's About Kids program through the Colorado Children's Campaign. Her future plans for children in the community continue to grow and she hopes to continue to implement new strategic goals put forth by the council every year.


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Comments on the marketability of Michelle Kwan, Linda Fratianne, Nancy Kerrigan, and Timothy Goebel.
Comments on the marketability of Michelle Kwan, Linda Fratianne, Nancy Kerrigan, and Timothy Goebel.
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Believe me, MOST of the figure skaters won't be able to cash in on their medals.
First of all, there is the obsession with the gold medal, with so many acting like silver and bronze medals are completely meaningless.
The number one reason that most figure skaters won't be able to cash in on their medals, unless they are gold medal media darlings, is that professional skating is almost dead. In the big excitement that came over the skating world because of the Tonya-Nancy happenings and the Maya-Pasha-Evgeny-Sasha Z. soap opera-like tales, there was suddenly skating almost all the time!
There were so many shows on tv, and it was great. However, almost all of them have since disappeared, and most of the traveling ice shows are in big trouble, having to cancel many shows because of lack of ticket sales (They might try reducing their prices). I guess that most skaters will have to go into coaching to try to make a long-term living in the business, or go into something related, such as designing skating costumes.
It is also hard to compare between different countries. For example, I doubt that there will be commercials featuring Shizuka in the US, but there will be a lot in Japan. I wonder though, who will win an "endorsement race" between Sasha and Tanith?
I say Tanith.
Why? Tanith and Ben came and won the first US dance medal in many years (don't know exactly how many). That's looked at as a triumph.
Sasha, on the other hand, was in position to win the Gold, but "choked" and lost it all. Therefore, many see her silver as a setback.
Then again, since ladies skating is more popular overall then ice dance here in the US, maybe it might play out differently.
Just speculation. I could be way off base on this one.
I say Sasha. More people identify with Ladies individual medalists than dance. Besides, I'll bet Sasha retires from the amateur ranks which would free up some time to persue other ventures, and she's in California, which is a good place to be for TV.
I also think Tanith is better looking than Sasha (she looks more like a woman- NOT meant as a bash to Sasha), but that's JMO. I realize beauty is subjective...very subjective at that.
That was a golden opportunity to widen the fan base long term and the skating establishment blew it with their ridiculous olympic obsession.Originally Posted by RubyNV
No sport can prosper if the CW is that the only competition that matters only takes place once every four years.
They discussed this on CNBC last night, right after the ladies event finished (in real time, not NBC time). They believe that Sasha will not get many endorsements for two reasons: 1) Her reputation for flubbing it at big events (their words, not mine). "What product wants to put their name to that?" was the quote from the speaker. 2) She probably will not continue on to 2010. There were four people discussing this and they all agreed that the endorsers will be going for the youngsters (Kimmie and Emily). They did mention Sasha's current Citizen Watch endorsement and hoped someone would pick her up, but they weren't hopeful. They all also agreed that all these girls will be forgotten for the next couple of years, then "remembered" as 2010 approaches.
I personally think Sasha might be more successful in print modeling or something like that. A lot could depend on how she does at Worlds.
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That's fine for Ford or Gatorade, but I think anyone marketing clothes and make-up to the teenage market would want to put their name to that beauty and radiance, and anyone marketing upscale products would want to put their name to that beauty and elegance.Originally Posted by Lucy25
Agreed. The teenagers don't have those qualities-yet.Originally Posted by hockeyfan228


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It's Earth Day: Do we really care?
April 21, 2013 at 11 p.m.
Updated April 21, 2013 at 11:22 p.m.
As the 43rd anniversary of Earth Day rolls around, efforts continue to make people aware of the need to take care of their environment.
But is that message being received?
"A lot of people are recycling more now. I see a lot of the cans out in my neighborhood," said Christi Hobizal, a mother of four who works two part-time jobs. "I've been doing it more and more since the city put out the new containers."
Data from the city of Victoria Environmental Services Department back up Hobizal's observation.
During the last quarter of 2012, 72 percent of Victoria residents participated in the city's curbside recycling program, averaging 280 tons of material a month.
"When first looking into the curbside recycling program, we compared rates of cities around the country that were both required and not required to recycle," said Darryl Lesak, director of Environmental Services.
The department found that cities that were required to recycle had a participation rate in the 70 percent range, he said. Cities not required to recycle were in the 20-30 percent range, so the department anticipated about 40 percent participation from Victoria residents at the beginning of the program.
"Much to our delighted surprise, we have found Victoria as a city that is not required to recycle maintains an average participation rate comparable to those cities required to recycle," Lesak said.
Others, too, think Victorians care about the environment.
"We do hope that people care about the environment and not only care, but take a step to make a difference," said Dian Denker Patterson, executive director of Keep Victoria Beautiful.
"It is one thing to say it, then another to act upon it. It only takes one step - lend one hand, plant one plant, pick up one piece of litter - just one step will make a difference to our environment."
It's that action, or lack of action, that is apparent to others.
"People really don't care," said store manager Jennifer Bryant. "If they did, you wouldn't see so many people driving big pickups, spewing out smoke.
"In my neighborhood in the country, I see trash bags of garbage thrown on the side of the road all the time."
Cody Shelton does not feel people care enough about the environment, and the evidence is all around, he said.
"Just go to the dump site," he said. "I can tell you for sure not many are doing it."
Shelton's friend, Chase DeLaGarza, feels the same way. The methods to prevent pollution are there, but people aren't taking advantage of it, he said.
"It's got to be easier," he said. "The bins help, but only if you use them."
DeLaGarza said he tries to recycle, but sometimes it's hard to make it a habit, even with curbside recycling.
Shelton believes people will never be compelled to recycle and be more environmentally conscious unless some sort of gain is offered.
In Cuero, the unsightly problem of residents discarding plastic bags from area stores spurred the City Council to form a committee to study the issue of possibly banning the use of plastic bags.
The committee has not yet reported back to the City Council, said Cuero City Manager Raymie Zella.
Patterson thinks there is hope for continued environmental awareness and actions.
"We all have a social responsibility to take care of our planet. There are numerous ways that your can be involved," Patterson said.
"The future of our planet will depend upon the actions of each and every one of us. By starting a change and becoming involved, you will make a difference."
Gardeners find composting to be natural way to go green
Earth Friendly: Victoria offers programs to make city 'green'
Master Naturalists: Eating green is about much more than broccoli


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Ireland have been drawn alongside France and Italy in Pool D of the Rugby World Cup 2015.
Declan Kidney's men will also face either the USA or Canada (winner of the Americas 1 stage), and the runner-up from a qualifying group containing Georgia, Romania, Spain, Russia, Portugal and Belgium.
The draw also means that should Ireland qualify in second place, they would most likely face New Zealand in the quarter-finals, the All Blacks being the band 1 nation in Pool C.
In the event that Ireland win the pool, a showdown with Argentina is on the cards.
Host nation England have been drawn in the same pool as Wales and Australia.
Scotland are in with Pool B rivals South Africa, Samoa, Asia 1 and Americas 2.
The tournament kicks off on 18 September, 2015, with Twickenham staging the final six weeks later.
Today's draw, held at the Tate Modern art gallery in London, presents Stuart Lancaster's team with a tough task, although they managed to avoid world champions New Zealand, the team they beat at Twickenham two days ago.
England's group - Pool A - will be completed by two qualifiers, Oceania 1 (probably Fiji) and the play-off winner, possibly Uruguay.
Pool A: Australia, England, Wales, Play-off winner, Oceania 1
Pool B: South Africa, Samoa, Scotland, Americas 2, Asia 1
Pool C: New Zealand, Argentina, Tonga, Africa 1, Europe 1
Pool D: France, Ireland, Italy, Americas 1 (Either USA or Canada), Europe 2 (2nd-place team from Georgia, Romania, Spain, Russia, Portugal and Belgium)
*The top two teams from each pool qualify for the quarter-finals
Brian and Declan in front of the TV cameras at the media mash.#RWC2015Draw twitter.com/irfurugby/stat…
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Ireland coach Declan Kidney insists Pool D has a familiar look to it and fears the lure of winning a World Cup on English soil will inspire France.
"We've been drawn in a group where everybody knows one another. It's going to make things really tight in 2015," he said.
"We're obviously playing each other in the Six Nations three times before then. We also have a tour to the Americas in June when we'll be playing Canada twice and America once.
"And then we have World Cup history with Russia and Georgia, so there won't be too many surprises.
"We played France a couple of times in the World Cup and came second by a bit. They've always shown themselves to be an extremely good side who peak for that competition.
"I'm sure they'd like nothing better than to win the World Cup in England. We know we have a huge task ahead of us."


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Yanks, especially Teixeira, set for Halos
Sunday sweeps create matchup between AL heavyweights
By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com
The Yankees and the Angels both finalized their date in the American League Championship Series on Sunday by sweeping the Twins and Red Sox, respectively, setting up a battle for the World Series that Teixeira predicted could be on the way.
"I think it's going to be a great series," Teixeira said, his eyes covered in blue protective goggles that dripped with celebratory champagne. "I told Torii Hunter in December, 'I hope to play you guys in the ALCS.' And I meant it. I'm going to get that opportunity, and it's going to be a really fun series."
The Yankees were watching the Angels' comeback against Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon in the visitors' clubhouse at the Metrodome on Sunday, finally learning just whom they'll have to go through to reach their ultimate destination.
Since they wear pinstriped uniforms and cash their checks from a Steinbrenner account, the Yankees need no refresher on the demands. It has been their goal to win the World Series since Day 1 of Spring Training, and as they sprayed champagne and beer around the Metrodome, the Bombers knew that path will include the Angels.
"We are going to celebrate this one and enjoy it, and I am just really happy for our club," Andy Pettitte, the winning pitcher in New York's 4-1 Game 3 victory, said. "We got a lot of young guys that hadn't had an opportunity to see this and to do this, and they have had a lot of growing experience this season. You can see the confidence building in them as we continue to move on."
While the Angels have perennially been a tough matchup for the Yankees to figure, the Bombers should be boosted somewhat by having conquered their Angel Stadium demons, having won a three-game series in Anaheim last month.
The Yankees won two out of three in a set against the Halos from Sept. 21-23, something they hadn't done at Angel Stadium since May 2004, when manager Joe Girardi was still broadcasting for the YES Network and the winning pitchers were Jon Lieber and Mike Mussina.
"They've got a great balance," ace CC Sabathia said. "They've got speed, they've got power, they've got [Chone] Figgins up on top. He gets on base and he's running around, and you're worried about him. We've just got to go out and try to keep those guys off the bases."
A potential playoff meeting was on the Yankees' minds last month, as they finished the season 5-5 in 10 matchups against the Angels in 2009, including a victory that secured New York's 14th postseason appearance in 15 years.
"Last year was a terrible feeling going home so quickly," Alex Rodriguez said. "It's something we're not used to. It feels good to not only make the playoffs but take care of the first round the way we needed to."
But if the playoffs prove anything, it's to expect the unexpected.
"I think the story before Anaheim played Boston was that Boston dominates Anaheim in the playoffs," Yankees captain Derek Jeter said. "You play the games, man. Whatever happened in the past, throw it out the window, because it doesn't mean a thing."
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Prompted Sunday in a pregame meeting with the Yankees' beat reporters, Girardi sat in an empty, darkened locker room formerly used by the Minnesota Gophers and briefly allowed himself to look ahead.
Girardi said that the key to defeating the Angels would be not letting their speedsters rattle Yankees pitching, accepting the fact that Mike Scioscia's club is going to run. The onus would be on catchers Jorge Posada, Jose Molina and possibly Francisco Cervelli to call good games and throw well.
"Their lineup is very good," Girardi said. "Up and down their lineup, the guys have become more patient in their lineup. They have power, they have speed and they can score runs in so many different ways.
"Their starting rotation is balanced -- a couple of lefties, a couple of righties. Their bullpen has done a good job. I just think they're a complete team, and they create problems for teams with their team speed."
With the Yankees cleared to book flights and hotel rooms in Orange County, Calif., Girardi said that a major benefit of his club's win on Sunday is that it can align its rotation for the Angels.
Sabathia would have had the ball for a potential Game 4 on Monday in Minneapolis, but Pettitte ensured the ace will be well rested and ready when the lightbulbs come on Friday night in the Bronx.
"Everybody said that we've struggled with them, but this is my first year here, so I don't really know anything about that," Sabathia said. "Hopefully, we can keep it going. ... It's the first celebration of a couple, hopefully, for us, and we're going to try to go out and have a couple more of these."
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Scotland and on the Hebrides islands the Corckindil family was born among the ancient Dalriadan clans. Their name comes from the Gaelic word Mac-Thorcaill which means son of Thor's cauldron, which is the Norse hero whose name refers to the cauldron of the thunder god.
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Guess who's face is one the front page of BBC right now?
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TehSpectre wrote: »Why did no one tell me Sexyama was an action star?
Bisping calls Rivera racist for no good reason
TehSpectre wrote: »I don't think "The English" count as a race.
Inquisitor77 wrote: »What part of his footwork impresses you? The part where he always circles to his left? Or the part where he always circles to his left and then gets knocked out?
Hypothetically, if Michael Bisping had made a similar video to Rivera's, mocking him on his Puerto Rican ancestry, is there any doubt that Bisping would be web-tarred and e-feathered before being run out of the interwebs?
Bisping will try and pitter patter and he'll get KO'd.
I like Bisping, but that might be because I skipped season 3 of The Ultimate Fighter. A lot of what he does to rile up people looks like it's an act to drum up excitement than actual vitriol. I'll actually be rooting for Bisping the next fight even though I also like Rivera.
Excellent grapple-fest in last night SF Challengers event, Lyle Beerbohm vs Pat Healy
Also very competent commentating due to the absence of Gus.
Peter Ebel wrote: »Be sure to check out Rogan's next podcast. It has Bas Rutten!
doug_grammar wrote: »Peter Ebel wrote: »Be sure to check out Rogan's next podcast. It has Bas Rutten!
Oh it's like I've died and gone into an isolation tank.
Bispings wrestling and Jits are much better than Riveras, his cardio is much better too, he could easily take him down and win a UD or (gasp) submit him. You say Rivera lost to Lee Murray who had only lost once before but he was submitted by Lee Murray by chasing him into his guard.
And I really don't see what's so controversial about what I said
Bisping and Rivera are in about the same position in their MMA careers
I'm picking Rivera because I think he's going to try and keep it standing and I think his stand-up better than Bisping's
Rivera has power, can he catch Mike? yes, will I be sporting a sig eating humble pie if he does? yes, but none of what I said above is incorrect either.


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ORMOND BEACH, Fla. - A 73-year-old Deltona woman has been arrested after Volusia County deputies say she hit a 8-year-old boy on a scooter with her car and drove away on Tuesday afternoon.
Rosa Aiezza was charged with failure to stop or remain at a crash, a felony charge, after she hit 8-year-old Eddie Sims while driving her Chevy Impala east on Fort Smith Boulevard.
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"The lady stopped and then she went off," Eddie said. "I pressed the brakes a little bit, that's when the car hit the front wheel and I was in the air, and crushed my foot."
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Witness: "The scooter. Yea the lady admitted that she hit the scooter."
Aiezza told deputies she applied her brakes and just hit Sims' scooter, knocking him down. She said one of the children on scene told her he was OK and that she could leave.
Aiezza stated she thought "it was no big deal," and that the boy said he was OK. She told deputies she wasn't aware she had to report the incident to VCSO and that she hadn't been driving very long because of the recent passing of her husband.
The boy was taken to Fish Memorial Hospital with a foot injury. The boy was found to be at fault for the initial crash for not yielding to oncoming traffic. Aiezza was arrested for leaving the scene and taken to Volusia County jail on $1,000 bond.
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Joseph Schwarz of North Adams, son of Valerie Schwarz, has been named to the spring 2012 dean's list with honors at Berkshire Community College.
Patrick J. Hennessey of Richmond has been named to the dean's list at the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y., for the spring 2012 semester. An English major, Hennessey is the son of Joseph and Maureen Hennessey and a graduate of Pittsfield High School.
Endicott College in Beverly has announced its dean's list for the spring 2012 semester. The dean's list requires a minimum grade point average of 3.5.
Emily Jordan Harrigan, daughter of Timothy and Carolee Harrigan of Great Barrington, majored in history.
Lucas James Harrigan, son of Michael and Judith Harrigan of Great Barrington, is majoring in international studies.
Alanna J. Kellogg, daughter of Kirk and Paula Kellogg of East Nassau, N.Y., majored in visual communications.
Laura Margaret Smith, daughter of John and Theresa Smith of Great Barrington, is majoring in liberal studies/education.
Smith College in Northampton has announced its honor roll for 2011-2012 school year. The dean's list recognizes those students with grade point averages of 3.333 or above.
Emma Haskell, daughter of Scott and Paula Haskell of Lenox, is majoring in education and psychology. She is a graduate of Lenox Memorial High School.
Sarah Schiff, daughter of Gary and Arlene Schiff of Lenox, majored in biochemistry. She graduated from Smith with a bachelor of science degree in May. She is a graduate of Lenox Memorial High School.
Hannah Schiff, daughter of Gary and Arlene Schiff of Lenox, was named a First Group Scholar and named to the dean's list. First Group Scholars are further recognized for their particularly high level of achievement and generally represent the top 10 percent of the class. An English major at Smith, she graduated from Lenox Memorial High School.
Rochester (N.Y.) Institute of Technology has announced its dean's list for the spring 2012 quarter.
Jennifer Boc, daughter of Eric and Izabela Boc of Pittsfield, is studying medical informatics in RIT's B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. She is a 2011 graduate of Taconic High School.
Amanda Errichetto of Pittsfield, daughter of Jamie DiPietro and Dino Errichetto of Dalton, is studying graphic design in RIT's College of Imaging Arts and Sciences. She is a 2006 graduate of Wahconah Regional High School in Dalton.
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Hi folks from sunny olde England.
There is much speculation about wether or not we will attempt to acquire a centre during this off season. I am wondering if we are going to develop Jerome Jordan and try to groom him into being our starting centre?
He has been playing in Europe this year and I have no idea if he has been playing well or not. When the Melo trade went through I seem to remember no D-Toni talking about losing our starting centre then saying that we developed Mozgov so we will have to develop Jordan.
What do you guys think? Will we go for a centre or just develop Jordan. And if anyone has any idea how Jordan has been playing this season then maybe you could let us know.


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Norma,I might just go with "sticking" to John's non-stick Calphalon pan. It worked perfectly. He sent me an 8 x 8 and I'm going to try a 10 x 15 jelly roll pan. On the other hand, I feel like a bit of a traitor being a native Detroiter and using non-traditional DS pizza pans, so maybe I'll give the steel pans another try.Gene
Gene,You just have to work with the pans that work out for you. The only part you won't be able to say if you make them commercially and make your Detroit style pizza in another kind of pan is that your Detroit style pizza weren't made in auto parts pans, but that is okay.Norma
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Norma,I guess I'll have to change the definition of "Detroit Style Pizza" a bit to not include the type and size of pan... :^)I got a response from Shawn about the oil they use to season their pans. The answer surprised me:I don't know about others, but it never occurred to me to try combining different oils. And that still leaves the question of proportion. Equal amounts?Gene
I really wouldn't think it would matter if the oils are combined or not, but maybe another member might have an opinion on that.
I don't know about others, but it never occurred to me to try combining different oils. And that still leaves the question of proportion. Equal amounts?
Buddy's pizza to be on 'Pizza Cuz' on Cooking Channel tonight.http://www.freep.com/article/20130510/FEATURES02/305100086/pizza-food-Buddy-s-Pizza-Cuz Norma
I'm really glad you mentioned that, Norma. I had it set to record but my DVR crapped out last night and somehow lost all the series that I watch. I thought I'd re-programmed them all but I forgot Pizza Cuz. My cable company won't be here till Wed. with my new DVR (6 tuners!) W00H00!
Maybe I need toothpicks to keep my eyes open. Norma
Try a 'lil pinch of snuff Norma.
The baking of Buddy's pizza at 600 degrees F for 14 minutes seems high to me.
Norma, is that what they showed in the episode? Funny thing is that I have both DS and NY on the menu tonight and was planning on running the oven at 600F to see how the DS does with 300g of 70% dough.
The DS at the higher temp turned out very nicely. Heated the oven on convection at 550F and the lower stone hit 630F. Didn't want to use convection and risk scorching the sides, so turned off the fan just as the pans went in. Done in 12 minutes (300g, 70% hydration) and they turned out really crispy and very light inside.
Your Detroit style pizza look very good. Your bottom crust looks nice and your crumb looks very light. Great job!
Thanks Norma! I rotate through three different DS - Jet's style (sauce to edges under the cheese), Buddy's style (sauce cooked on top of cheese), and Via 313 (warm sauce spooned on after baking). Not sure which I like best, they're all good in different ways, but if I had to pick one it would be the Via 313 with the super-light crust and fresh tomato flavor (the sauce is just 6-n-1 with a little spice, not cooked).
All of your DS pizzas sound good to me. I also have made attempts on a Jet's pizza and did like them. How is your Via 313 formulation different from the one you just tried? Is it higher in hydration?
Norma, they're all done with a 70% hydration dough and the same base sauce but I play around a little with the dough and cheese weight per pan depending on the style. The one in the picture above is the "Via 313" formulation and since it is cooked with just the cheese, I use 300g of dough, and for the other two I now use 275g, to make the crust cook a little faster, and a little less cheese, to keep the oven times about the same for all of them.
Gene,Thanks for posting the answer you got from Shawn on what he seasons his pans with. I really wouldn't think it would matter if the oils are combined or not, but maybe another member might have an opinion on that. It doesn't really surprised me that a combination of oils are used to season Shawn's steel pans.You can just call your pizzas Detroit style whether you use the steel pans or not. Do you have a formulation you like best?Norma


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Morneau knows Canada has a lot riding on Classic
By Scott Bair / Special to MLB.com
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- The Canadian national team took pictures Monday morning and held a workout in the afternoon.
With an evening free and most players displaced for the impending World Baseball Classic, Justin Morneau created a little Canada in the desert.
The Twins first baseman, former American League MVP and unquestioned leader of Team Canada invited his teammates to his Phoenix-area home for a barbecue and some hockey.
No, that doesn't mean they ate ribs huddled around some NHL action.
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Morneau had something a bit more active in mind. With no ice outside a freezer for miles around, these Canadians took to the streets for a friendly.
"Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that," Canada manger Ernie Whitt said with a smile. "But it's the Canadian way. We have a good time, and we stick together."
No harm, no need for a power play, despite Whitt's pun. It's just Canada being Canada.
It's also Morneau's way of keeping his guys loose heading into a pivotal tournament for Canadian baseball. This small baseball fraternity has yet to make it past the first round of the World Baseball Classic, and Canada considers it time to take that next step as a national program.
While the Canadians have Reds first baseman and 2010 National League MVP Joey Votto and plenty of young talent on their side, Morneau is their greatest asset.
He's proud of his roots and is a champion for Canadian baseball whenever he can be.
"I wouldn't be here if not for where I came from and the people that influenced me," Morneau said. "I grew up in the junior baseball program, and we're supposed to come back and help the program that helped us start a professional career. It's an honor for me, and I'm happy to do it."
Morneau also embraces his role as a role model. He remembers how big an influence Larry Walker was in his youth, when the three-time batting champion and 1997 NL MVP gave a young Morneau something to aspire toward.
Morneau remembers the national high that followed the Blue Jays' back-to-back World Series triumphs in 1992-93. Those moments spurned Morneau to work hard and try harder to become an excellent baseball player where hockey is king.
At just 31, Morneau knows it's time to regift the inspiration he was given. It starts with a career .280 batting average, 204 home runs, 786 RBIs and MVP hardware, but the job goes beyond statistics.
"Whether we as ballplayers like it or not, we're role models," Morneau said. "The impact you can have on people is greater than what you originally think. If you asked Larry at the time, he wouldn't have considered his place as a role model, but looking back, he'd say it was important. It's a good position for us to be in, and I think we should consider ourselves fortunate to be able to positively affect other people's lives."
That starts at home. That's why Morneau has played in each Classic starting in 2006 and was all-in for this tournament when other countrymen, including Russell Martin just last week, backed out.
"It makes a difference to have the guys that should be there," Morneau said. "It's such a tough tournament when you don't have the depth that some other countries have. We have a lot of Canadians that are battling for big league jobs and need to be in camp that we would love to have on the WBC roster, but they stayed home. You can't fault guys for that, but it hurts. Anytime a Canadian is asked to play for country and is available, they're proud to do it. It's a pretty rare occurrence when that doesn't happen."
When a player of Morneau's caliber jumps first, it prompts others to leave pro camp and follow suit.
"It makes it an easier sell for guys to participate in all levels," Whitt said, "especially when they have a role model who has had so much success."
Morneau wanted to be at his best for this tournament. He played extensive innings in six Spring Training games with hits in nearly half his 17 at-bats and hit a home run the day before joining Team Canada.
Monday was a family reunion of sorts, with so many players from youth national teams past. Canadian junior teams frequently travel together for international tournaments and to play young pros in extended spring training with snow still on Canadian ground.
The bonds among this group are strong within and across generations. Morneau, for one, is hoping that camaraderie can take Canada beyond the first round.
"It's the same cast of characters as it's been for national tournaments of years past, which makes it a close-knit group," Morneau said. "That helps us stay calm during pressure situations, and hopefully, it will help us win some close ballgames in the World Baseball Classic."
Scott Bair is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A court case against a former Belmont city employee accused of stealing $60,000 worth of gasoline remains unsettled.
A court case against a former Belmont city employee accused of stealing $60,000 worth of gasoline remains unsettled.
Gaston County Superior Court Judge Jesse Caldwell on Thursday continued the case against Jarreal Montra Grier, 23, of 5509 Washington St., in Belmont. Grier�s attorney, David Phillips, asked for the final extension of time.
Grier was arrested in September and charged with using a city credit card to buy gas for his personal use. That was after he left his job with Belmont�s public works department in 2010. Investigators said he stole gasoline on a regular basis for two years and was rehired by the city in August before the theft came to light.
Charges were initially filed in September and Grier was later indicted by a Gaston County grand jury. Grier posted a $25,000 bond after his arrest.
City Manager Barry Webb said previously that Grier started with less frequent gas purchases in 2010 before gradually purchasing more and more. Belmont officials finally noticed something was amiss with their finances during budget discussions in spring 2012. City leaders began to question why the public works department was so far over budget on fuel purchases.
Police looked into the matter and the investigation soon centered on Grier, who was hired in July 2009 as a public works maintenance mechanic. They determined he had stolen a city gas card when he left to take another job in July 2010, and continued to use it for two years by entering the personal ID number of another city employee.
Grier is charged with four counts of obtaining property under false pretense for buying $59,276 worth of gas with a city credit card from Sept. 6, 2010 to Aug. 14, 2012. He is charged with one count of embezzlement for buying $1,433 worth of gas from Aug. 18 to Sept. 11 this year, after he had been rehired.
Belmont City Manager Barry Webb could not be reached for comment Thursday. He said after Grier�s arrest that the city was taking steps to ensure such theft would not happen again.
Webb said the city will seek whatever restitution it can get from Webb if he is found guilty.
You can reach Michael Barrett at 704-869-1826 or twitter.com/GazetteMike.


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Internet service providers like Comcast and AT&T want to speed up voice and video applications while downgrading others. And while that might not seem as dramatic as outright blocking or slowing down their competitors' applications, prioritization can still cause problems for Internet users.
On this week's Media Minutes, Free Press Policy Counsel Chris Riley talks about the new paper he wrote with Robb Topolski of the New America Foundation, Hidden Harms of Application Bias. On the show, Riley explains how Internet traffic prioritization would harm Net Neutrality.
In this edition of Media Minutes Extra!, Riley discusses how prioritization can undermine the overall health of the Internet.
Riley: One of the worst, underappreciated negative impacts of prioritization is the fact that, well, if the ISP says it's going to speed up voice and video and its going to slow down peer-to-peer, some peer-to-peer users will say that they don't like that, because their use of peer-to-peer actually is priority.
Let's say they're doing peer-to-peer video or peer-to-peer voice, for example, because there are peer-to-peer video and voice apps. Those users will likely switch to encryption, rendering it difficult or impossible for the ISP to know that what they are doing is peer-to-peer. So this cycle of deep packet inspection and encryption will trigger an arms race between application developers and Internet users and the Internet service providers themselves.
This arms race is just going to create a whole lot of inefficiencies. And it's all to try and enforce a policy that wasn't really the right idea to begin with.
Riley admits that prioritization can help a little with voice applications, but it won't improve video.
Riley: Most of the reasons why users have problems with real time interactive video is not congestion, because you can always buffer, and you can handle congestion on some level. The reason we don't have high-definition, two-way interactive teleconferencing is because almost everybody in this country is using a slow DSL line or an only barely faster cable modem.
The only real solution to the major problems experienced in the broadband market right now is substantial investment to try to get the United States out of the cellar in international broadband rankings.
And that means building bigger, faster pipes. ISPs will continue to resist investing in their infrastructure, Riley says, but the FCC shouldn't allow prioritization to be a fallback plan.
Riley: The fundamental idea that voice traffic is important, we want it to work well – that resonates with a lot of people. That's why the problems of prioritization are so pernicious. It does seem to make sense that voice and video should get better treatment on the Internet.
But the engineering just doesn't back up that common-sense assumption. Especially when the network is the one doing the prioritizing and when the user doesn't have any control to choose, the problems really outweigh the potential benefits.
Riley emphasizes that decisions about what traffic should be prioritized belong with individual users, not the phone or cable companies.
Riley: If the user says I want this traffic to be prioritized. If the ISP wants to respect that and wants to prioritize that, that's fine. The only problem comes in when the ISP says, regardless of what the user says, this application needs priority, because that's where you get all of these spinoff problems. They occur when the network operator says this will be prioritized, regardless of what the user chooses.
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