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Thursday, March 4, 2010
The Constitution Does Not Protect Our Property
To the extent that the Constitution enumerates certain powers for the federal government, with all other powers assumed to be excluded, it does set some limits on government. When one includes the first ten amendments of the Constitution, it also protects certain rights. Indeed, the ninth amendment makes the very important point that the specific protections of certain rights does not in any way deny the existence of others, while the tenth amendment makes explicit the implied limitation to enumerated powers in the Constitution itself. At first glance, the so-called "Bill of Rights" seems to confine government power within an airtight bottle, rendering it incapable of becoming a violator of rights instead of protector of them.
However, this theory does not hold up well under closer examination. To begin with, the Constitution itself does not protect a single right other than habeas corpus, and that comes with a built-in exception. What the Constitution does do is grant powers, and not just to a representative body, as the Articles of Confederation did, but to three separate branches. That leaves it up to the Bill of Rights to serve the purpose of protecting our rights. Generally, those ten amendments protect our rights under extraordinary circumstances, but not under ordinary circumstances. More specifically, the Bill of Rights provides protections for the individual during situations of direct conflict with the federal government, such as when one is accused or convicted of a crime, when one is sued, on the occasion of troops being stationed in residential areas, or when one speaks out against the government or petitions it for redress of grievances.
Make no mistake, these protections are vital and have provided protections for the people against government abuse of power many times in U.S. history. However, they have proven ineffective against the slow, deliberate growth of government power under ordinary circumstances, when the specific conditions described in those amendments do not exist. This is primarily due to the absence of protection, either in the Constitution or in any subsequent amendment, of the most important right of all: property.
By "property," I do not mean exclusively or even primarily land ownership, although land ownership is one form of property. By "property," I mean all that an individual rightfully owns, including his mind, body, labor, and the fruits of his labor. It is specifically the right to the fruits of one's labor that the Constitution fails entirely to protect. In fact, it makes no attempt to do so whatsoever.
In the Constitution itself, the word "property" appears only once, and that is in reference to property owned by the federal government (an inauspicious start). Nowhere does it make any mention of property owned by the citizens.
The document does grant the federal government the power to tax "to pay the Debts and provide for the common defense and the general welfare of the United States." This is a strikingly unlimited scope for which the federal government may tax its citizens. Arguments that taxes may only be collected to underwrite the subsequently enumerated powers have been struck down. Sadly, those decisions have probably been correct. While the power of the Congress to pass laws is explicitly limited to those "necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers," no such language binds the power to tax. The fact that the explicit limitation exists for lawmaking (which Congress ignores anyway) but not for taxation lends further weight to the argument that the Constitution grants Congress unlimited power to tax its citizens.
One can certainly make the argument that in 1789, the term "general welfare" would have been interpreted much differently than it is today. Indeed, one might assume that the term "general welfare" meant the general protection of each individual's rights. Perhaps that is what many of the founders believed at the convention. However, it is clear that Alexander Hamilton and his Federalists, the driving force behind calling the convention, had far different ideas about what the term "general welfare" meant. Remember that for Hamilton, the purpose of government was not the protection of rights, but the realization of "national greatness." This could only be achieved at the expense of individual rights, primarily property rights.
So, the Constitution itself grants Congress unlimited power to tax and does not even mention, much less protect, the individual right to keep the fruits of one's labor. Certainly the Bill of Rights addresses this deficiency, doesn't it?
It does not. Like the Constitution itself, the Bill of Rights is virtually silent on the central right of property. Out of all ten amendments, the word "property" appears in only one of them:
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
Unlike the congressional power to tax granted in the Constitution, the constitutional protections codified in the Fifth Amendment are severely limited to specific, extraordinary circumstances. The entire Fifth Amendment is set in the context of criminal law, granting certain protections to the accused and/or convicted. The phrase "due process of law" is a specific legal term that refers to those accused of a crime being given notice of the charges, opportunity to face their accusers, call witnesses in their defense, etc. This was obviously the intent of this protection of property, rather than a general protection of property rights against taxation.
Even if one discards the clear intention of this clause of the Fifth Amendment and interprets "due process of law" more broadly, the amendment offers no more protection of property than if one interprets the clause narrowly. Since the power to tax is an enumerated power, Congress would be following due process of law simply by levying the tax in the first place.
The last clause of the Fifth Amendment, regarding property taken "for public use," is similarly limited to extraordinary circumstances. This clause undoubtedly refers to eminent domain, which is a grievous abuse of property rights, but certainly not one that affects a large percentage of the population. Even here, no right is protected. The clause merely requires the government to give the victim "just compensation." There is no mention of the primary component of the right of property, consent.
Furthermore, there is no mention of how "just compensation" is to be determined, although history has shown that the government itself determines what compensation is just arbitrarily. In a free society, the value of property is determined by the price at which the owner is willing to exchange it. However, since there is no requirement here of the owner's consent, no such price determination can occur.
As for the remaining protections of property in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, there are none. These two phrases, protecting property under only the most extraordinary circumstances are the length and breadth of the Constitution's involvement with this most fundamental right. It is this deficiency that has allowed the federal government to grow into the monster that it is, concerned with virtually nothing but the redistribution of wealth.
If you believe the official myth about the Constitution, this might seem shocking. After all, the document was drafted by the same people that had seceded from their nation and fought a long and bloody war primarily to defend their right to keep the fruits of their labor. How could they draft a document to recreate their government, which they said only existed to secure their rights, and not only fail to secure the most important right, but actually empower their government to violate it with impunity? Certainly this was history's most colossal error.
However, when you consider the political platform of the Federalists, which included corporate welfare, monetary inflation, deficit spending, government debt, and militarism, all designed to maintain the wealth and power of a privileged elite at the expense of the rest of the citizenry, the unlimited power to tax and lack of protection of property seem less like error and more like deliberate intention.
Whenever the subject of "constitutional rights" (a problematic term itself) comes up, people reflexively refer to the right of free speech. This is an important right, and one defended across the political spectrum. However, free speech, freedom of the press, and the other rights protected by the Bill of Rights, without property rights, are inconsequential – the mere window dressing of liberty. It is property that enables one to determine the course of one's own life. Without it, the right to life is no right at all, but rather a privilege granted by those who own your labor.
George W. Bush was an enthusiastic supporter of the right of "free speech." During a town hall meeting, an average American who opposed Bush's policies rose and began hurling insults at the president, eliciting boos from the Bush-friendly audience. Bush reprimanded the crowd, reminding them that this man had a right to speak his mind, even if they did not like what he had to say. It was not the only time that he stood up for free speech. This was no accident. A government that has the unlimited power to seize the property of its citizens can afford to be magnanimous when it comes to free speech. Yet, for the citizen who no longer owns the fruits of his own labor, the right to complain makes him no less a slave.
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© Thomas Mullen 2010
12 comments:
- Crusty said...
Nice...I guess it could be justifiably argued that the Declaration of Independence could have been re-issued to the U.S. government, immediately after the Constitution was ratified. Either way, a Declaration of Independence is long overdue today.
I like that you briefly pointed out the misconception that the government's job is to PROTECT our rights, whereas their actual job is to just not violate our rights.
They were never supposed to protect our rights, and I don't want them to protect my rights. I just want them to NOT violate my rights (of which we have very few, as you pointed out).
- March 5, 2010 at 12:54 AM
I like it, I like it. Good job here, Tom.
Could it be that the founding fathers (the elites of their day) saw the massive outflow of property (in the form of currency, taxes) going out of the country, overseas, and got envious and greedy? After all, why should some prick on a throne 3,000 miles away receive all this capital/property derived from the labor of the colonists when the homegrown elites could take it for themselves?
So their conundrum was instating a similar system, but merely changing the immediate beneficiaries; to create a system that serves the same purpose, while making it less obvious to the masses. To this end they created the most upside down, duplicitous government in history, where "we the people" is an inside joke to the elites -the ones who truly understand what this system is all about.
- March 5, 2010 at 6:57 PM
This really puts things in perspective as it pertains to the libertarian supporters of the american constitution. Could it be that they only seek to facilitate its continuation for the sole purpose of maintaining our enslavement? If so, it's an elitist strategy and not a grass-roots one. The libertarian individuals' support is misplaced, when you think about it, because they may unknowingly support the inevitable confiscation of all that gold that they've been greedily accumulating. Furthermore, the only ones who could benefit from such a monetary policy today are the very rich who can afford to buy all that gold. Even if we somehow transitioned back to an old-school interpretation of a constitutional republic, the power structure would remain the same and the enslavement and violations of our rights would only continue.
What does one do to change a system that favors profits, bureaucratic hierarchy, elitism into one that favors social utility and Human dignity? I doubt the constitution, in it's current form, will facilitate or endorse such change.
Very nice article. You helped me understand a little more today.
- March 6, 2010 at 4:33 PM
- Mike said...
Interesting, Tom.
I must ask though, from whence comes "property"?
It is a impossible conundrum in itself-particularly when dealing with land and the product of it. Can you think of a time, or place, where "ownership" of land did not rely upon the use or threat of force to secure the exclusive use of that land? I know of no such instance.
So then should we be surprised that governments-the entities that maintain that fascinating monopoly on violence(force for the uninitiated)-manage to find a way, veiled or not, to make all real property "public"? They must do so, or they cease to be.
Anyway, good article.
- March 6, 2010 at 9:47 PM
- Luke Fisher said...
Intriguing article. I had never thought of a few of the ideas presented here before but to see it presented in this manner is refreshing. I had an inkling of this when people say, let's go back to the Constitution or "I'm a constitutionalist". What they mean is their interpretation of that document.
I wonder if there will ever be a time when people respect property rights en masse.
- March 7, 2010 at 1:22 PM
- liberranter said...
Well done, Tom! At one point a few years back I actually started examining the Constitution article by article, section by section, clause by clause to identify what I considered either flaws or loopholes (more the latter than the former, I'm sure) that gave the federal government excessive power. I then began rewriting and blogging them, as an exercise in intellectual isometrics, just to see what a "libertarian" constitution might have looked like. Of course I ultimately realized that any "constitution" revolving around a central government was fundamentally un-libertarian to begin with and decided that there were better ways to use precious lifehours. Still, it was the first time I had ever really examined just how inadequate this most hallowed document is for its ostensible purpose.
By the way, someone needs to send a copy of your article to Howard Phillips, Chuck Baldwin, and the others who make up the leadership of the "Constitution Party" and ask them to explain why they believe that the document they've chosen as their party's symbol is adequate to the preservation/reassertion of liberty they claim to want to restore. What better way to determine where their loyalties lie: the document itself or the ideals of liberty that it is supposed to represent, if not actively preserve?
- March 8, 2010 at 12:03 PM
I agree it is a shame that our constitution does not expressly protect the right to property. Maybe we should amend it to do so, and amend the general welfare clause while we are at it. You could still argue, though, that since racking up deficits and killing jobs through socialism is clearly NOT in the interest of our general welfare, however one chooses to define the term, therefore Congress has no authority to do these things.
That being said, I think your take on the Federalists is way too cynical. It was very expensive to defeat the British and gain independence. Without the power to tax for military spending, how would the colonies have paid for that war? Without a federation, what would have stopped various states from just opting out and refusing to pay, or to fight, knowing that they might just be able to sit back and let others do the dirty work, and then reap the benefits of freedom from British rule when it was all over?
If in fact most colonists thought like this, if there were no sense of unity and solidarity in the pursuit of liberty, we would probably still be a British colony.
An what about the great success of the USA prior to the disastrous and I would argue (taking issue here with the premise of your article)unconstitutional policies of FDR? Could this country have risen so fast and so well had we not had a common currency and federal laws prohibiting the states from levying tariffs against each other? Can you honestly say that our great military might as a nation did not deter foreign invasions against us? Think of what Hitler, Hirohito, Stalin would have loved to do to this great and fertile land, had it only been divided into 50 disorganized and unaffiliated states with no air force or navy, just small militias? The USA was a great nation that changed the world for the better; moreover there have been many occasions when our federal government did protect individual rights against the tyranny of state governments. I wish more libertarians would appreciate that.
- March 9, 2010 at 2:05 PM
Is Tom becoming an anarcho-capitalist?
- March 11, 2010 at 8:02 PM
- Auto Accident Attorney Houston, Texas said...
There should be change in the constitution. The unlimited seizing right should be taken from the govt.
- May 28, 2010 at 4:10 AM
I recently read a book about the Constitution that makes it out to be one of the greatest documents ever written. Certainly the bill of rights beats the tyrrany of the inquisition. However, it is true, that property was left out of the equation. The right to the fruits of ones labor didn't enter into the consciousness of the wealthy landowners who framed our constitution. They still held slaves for crying out loud.
We have some very fundamental problems that cannot be fixed by making an amendment here or there to the constitution.
In a land that is ruled by laws based on certainty, the laws are few and easily understood by all. However, in a corrupt land, the laws being based on uncertainties, are complex and under constant revision. This weaves a web that traps the weak and only allows the strong to break through.
Aristocracy is very much alive in the minds and hearts of men, and until all men and women respect each others right to live a full and fulfilling life, neither communism, nor capitalism, or even anarchy will help us out of our predicament. The system is only a manifestation of the hearts and minds of the people who comprise that system.
- May 29, 2010 at 3:34 PM
- silentnomore9 said...
When the first amendment says, "Congress shall make no law..." it is limiting the power of congress.
When the Bill of Rights says, "... shall not be infringed", it is limiting the power of government.
When the Fifth Amendment says, "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation" it is limiting the power of government.
This same process of saying no to government intrusion is repeated 13 times in the Bill of Rights which is expressly permitted by the constitution.
The constitution is all about establishing a federal government that is severely limited in its power to intrude upon individual freedom. Somebody needs to read the constitution before they try to write a book about it.
- June 22, 2010 at 2:25 PM
- Tom Mullen said...
@silentnomore9 - I specifically addressed the so-called Bill of Rights in the article, pointed out why its protections are limited to extraordinary circumstances, and quoted them and the Constitution at length. Your response completely ignores my argument and instead implies that I haven't even read the Constitution. I suggest that you have an emotional attachment to the Constitution that is clouding your reason - this reply smacks of exactly that. I suggest that you read "Hamilton's Curse" by Tom Dilorenzo. It is an eye-opening look at the real agenda of the Federalists, which is by no means a secret of history, but which we ignore because of the comfort our fairy tales about the Constitution give us.
- June 22, 2010 at 2:35 PM

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Probability is a fundamental concept in statistics, often thought of as "the odds." It is defined as the ratio of the number of favorable outcomes to the total number of possible outcomes. As an example, the probability of picking an ace from a standard deck of cards is 4/52 or 7.7%. There is also the probability of failure, which is 48/52 or 92.3%. When discussing the probability of success or failure for an electrical product or system, however, exact projections are much harder to come by.
Reliability is defined as the probability that a product or system will operate properly for a specified period of time under design operating conditions without failure. There can be many factors that affect overall reliability and some types of failure have a much greater impact on production than others. Therefore, determining reliability involves not only how often something fails, but also the failure's impact on other products or systems involved. Each type of failure can be categorized as a particular type of risk.
Assessing the odds. One method of evaluating risks associated with technically complex systems is called probabilistic risk assessment (PRA). Risk in a PRA is defined as a detrimental outcome that is feasible. Each detrimental outcome has an associated magnitude or severity and the probability of it occurring.
The first step of a PRA is to determine what the risks are for a particular system. Next, look at the risks that would have a major impact on its performance, and determine what the probability is that it will happen. There are a number of ways to perform a statistical analysis of the reliability of a piece of equipment or system. One common approach is called a reliability block diagram (RBD), in which a block diagram is developed of the equipment or system to be modeled. The failure and repair rates for each major component are combined to determine the overall reliability of the system.
As an example, consider a PRA for a data center. For facilities that use computers extensively, one of the severe detrimental outcomes to the operation is the loss of power. In order to determine the probability of losing power at the output of the UPS module, an RBD is used to model the system. The failure and repair rates for the individual components are combined, based on the configuration of the system to be modeled to determine the reliability and availability.
Sample exercise. Shown in Fig. 1 is the electrical one-line diagram for a simple system used by many facilities that use computers extensively. It consists of a standby generator, automatic transfer switch (ATS), uninterruptible power supply (UPS) module, and a static bypass switch. The UPS module provides power to the switchboard below it. If the UPS module fails, the static bypass switch turns on to provide power to the switchboard directly from the utility.
The utility supplies normal power to the ATS. The generator supplies emergency power, through the ATS to a UPS module on loss of utility power. Both the generator and batteries to the UPS module are on "standby" until the utility power is lost. While the generator starts, the batteries provide power to the inverter, maintaining the power at the output of the UPS module. In order to model the actual standby operation of the generators and batteries, a software program is needed, which performs simulations to calculate the reliability.
Figure 2 (click here to see Fig. 2) shows an RBD model of Fig. 1. At the top lefthand corner of the RBD is where the diagram starts. In each block is a reference designator, which indicates what the block represents. The RBD ends at the bottom, beside the distribution switchboard shown in the RBD as "Dist Swbd." There is a failure rate and repair rate for each block in the RBD, which is loaded into the software. The first block UTL represents utility power. In normal operation, the utility power goes through a distribution switchboard and an airframe circuit breaker (CB AF) to an ATS. The standby junction above the ATS has priority set to the utility side, and the generator is set to standby. There is a line from the junction to the right of start directly to the generator (GEN) that is obscured by the UTL and Dist Swbd blocks. When the block UTL fails, the generator starts, and the ATS transfers to provide generator power to the switchboard below it. Since it takes approximately 10 seconds for the generator to start, the standby junction has a 10-second time delay before it transfers.
Below the ATS and switchboard is a pair of molded-case circuit breakers. One provides power to the rectifier of the UPS module; the other provides power to the static bypass switch (SBS). Below the rectifier is another standby junction, which connects the battery. The battery charge block (BAT CH) lasts for 15 minutes. The block below the generator is the probability of the generator starting, which is 98.65%. When the utility fails, 98.65% of the time the generator starts. During the 10 seconds that the generator is starting, the battery provides the power to the inverter of the UPS module. If the generator fails to start (1.35% of the time), the battery runs out of power after 15 minutes, and the distribution switchboard below the UPS module loses power.
If the UPS module fails, the static bypass switch turns on, providing utility power directly to the distribution switchboard. Should the utility power fail while the static bypass switch is providing power, the system would fail, since power would be lost while the generator was starting.
For the system in Fig. 2, the probability of losing power to the distribution switchboard at the bottom is 24.7% for a five-year period. Reliability is a function of time. The longer any system runs, the lower the reliability will be. Since the probability of failure is equal to 1 minus the reliability figure, the longer the time, the higher the probability of failure.
There are two more factors that are very commonly used when determining the reliability of a system. The first is mean time between failures (MTBF). The MTBF, as the name implies, is an average of multiple failures. Shown in Fig. 3 on page 50 is a very common failure distribution called the normal distribution or "bell curve." The MTBF is the average of all of the failures.
The MTBF for the system in Fig. 2 is 116,750 hours. That is not how long it will be before the first failure, but the average time between failures. For example, let's say there are 100 systems just like the one above in service. There may be a failure of any one system at any time, but the average time between failures will be 116,750 hours.
The other very common term used in reliability modeling is availability. Availability is the long-term average fraction of time that a repairable component or system is in service and satisfactorily performing its intended function. For example, if the electricity is off for one hour in a year, but the rest of the year the electricity is on, the availability of electrical power for that year is 8,759 hours divided by 8,760 hours, which is 0.999886.
An availability of 0.99999 (which is commonly referred to as five 9s) could mean that the system was down for 5.3 minutes (or 315 seconds) per year. It would make no difference in the availability calculation if there was one 5.3-minute outage, or 315 one-second outages. It could also be one outage of 1.77 hours in 20 years. In all three cases, the availability is 0.99999.
The availability for the system shown in Fig. 2 is 0.999986. Since availability is a combination of how often the system fails and how quickly it is repaired, availability alone does not tell us how good this system would be for our application of powering computers. Obviously 315 1-second outages would be very destructive to the operation. However, one outage of 1.77 hours every 20 years would not be so bad.
This is why the probability of failure and MTBF are also used. The MTBF of 116,750 hours tells us the average time between failures is 13.3 years. Therefore, it is very unlikely that our system will experience a lot of very short outages. The probability of failure of 24.7% in five years gives us an indication of the likelihood of experiencing the first failure in a short period of time.
Analysis advantages. As demonstrated in the example above, performing a PRA can provide quantitative data you can use to evaluate and mitigate risk. If a probability of failure of 24.7% were too high, which it would be for a major data center, redundant components would have to be added. A second UPS module or a second generator are two obvious possibilities. Using RBDs to model each would offer insight into which strategy would boost overall system performance.
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The naked truth in Sturgis: World's largest motorcycle rally getting tamer
See the sights and sounds of Sturgis, from the motorcycles to the bikini competition and everything in between. Trevor Hughes/USA TODAY
STURGIS, S.D. — Among the rumbling V-twin engines, the half-naked, body-painted women and wet T-shirt competitions, the black leather jackets and majestic beards, a gnawing question keeps coming up: Has the world's biggest motorcycle rally lost its edge after 77 years?
There's no question Sturgis remains wildly popular. An expected 500,000 riders are flocking to this tiny town in the Black Hills this week, filling hotel rooms and renting out homes, parking their RVs in fields and setting up tents on lawns. They're buying gas, pulled-pork sandwiches and T-shirts commemorating the trip. They're riding the curvy, hilly pavement for hundreds of miles around the city, and doing anything conceivably motorcycle related, all under the single-word description: "Sturgis."
But this storied weeklong biker rally is no longer the raucous spectacle it once was, when motorcycle gangs fought in the streets with wrenches and set fire to foreign-made bikes. Today, you're more likely to find doctors, lawyers and accountants than Hell's Angels, although you'll still see them too, selling patches alongside corn dog vendors and scantily clad women hawking motorcycle insurance at an event that celebrates everything fast, loud and powerful.
Just maybe not so rowdy these days.
"There aren't so many naked ladies anymore," said longtime attendee Robert Huddleson of Vista, Calif., who makes and sells custom motorcycle helmets.
Huddleson has attended Sturgis for more than a decade, and misses — a little — the rowdiness that once permeated the streets, which today are patrolled by polo-shirted police officers recruited from departments across the country. Many are high-ranking officers who have taken vacation to work Sturgis, which pays, houses and feeds them for the week.
Officially known as the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, much of the event's focus is on Harley-Davidson, the storied manufacturer of American-made bikes with V-twin engines and that distinctive rumble. Riders come from every state and dozens of countries to share in a camaraderie that's virtually impossible to understand unless you're a rider. And there's three parts to the package.
First, of course, is the riding: cruising Main Street, whipping through the Black Hills, rumbling past Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse. The pavement here is smooth and gravel free, with sweeping turns and vistas that make riding a joy. Eastern riders marvel at the wide pavement and staggering views. California riders marvel at how little traffic there is. In short, there's something for every rider.
Second are the concerts. With more than a dozen musical acts performing each day in Sturgis and the surrounding campgrounds, including the rambunctious Buffalo Chip amphitheater that can hold about 50,000, this is one of the nation's largest music festivals. Ozzy Osbourne is headlining this year's Buffalo Chip concert series, joined by Night Ranger, the Doobie Brothers, Blue Oyster Cult and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Last, but not least, is watching everyone else. Saloons with seating for thousands of people line the two major streets in Sturgis, benches and stools facing out so patrons can drink and eat and people-watch all at the same time. Body-painted women with strategically placed Band-Aids sashay down the sidewalks, sharing space with men in jackets proclaiming frequent Sturgis attendance via annual patches. Diners crane their heads to watch women in leather shorts walk past or admire a particularly loud and flamboyant chopper.
"It's loads of fun, great people and excellent people watching," said Amanda Augustine, an elementary school teacher from Phoenix, before she climbed a viewing stand on Main Street. "People think bikers are something they really aren't."
For many Americans, Sturgis conjures up images of an anything-goes motorcycle festival, where drugs flow, fists fly and nudity runs rampant. But the reality is that most attendees today are professionals with too much to lose if they get arrested. Surprisingly, the top three professions at Sturgis are doctors, lawyers and accountants, said city manager Daniel Ainsley.
Doing the math makes that statistic easier to understand: New Harley-Davidson or Indian motorcycles start around $20,000, although high-end models can hit $50,000, and that's before any real customization. Then there's the logo-wear clothing, the gas, the insurance and even the ability to take a week's vacation.
These aren't Easy Riders, living a carefree life on the road. These are aging Baby Boomers with kids and mortgages and nice cars. Read the headline in one local paper this week: "Has Sturgis gotten too grey?"
The most risqué thing you might see on the street is Cierra Browning's airbrush-painted torso. Wearing fishnet stockings and a lacy thong, Browning, 21, a restaurant manager, this week stood outside the Tattoo Cellar, calling out to passersby, cajoling them into getting inked.
Her outfit consisted of an eagle with an American flag painted on her back, and another eagle, wings spread, across her bare chest, her nipples covered by stickers. Man after man stopped to take pictures with her, and she tucked $20 bills into her waistband as she scanned the crowd.
Along the next block, young women in miniskirts hawked legal representation to motorcyclists, and across the street Progressive Insurance created a free popup tattoo parlor and barbershop.
Around the corner, accountant Lisa Frushour celebrated her 50th birthday by getting airbrush painted. Her two wishes for the milestone: To ride to Sturgis with her husband from their Maryland home, and to walk, body-painted, around the festival. An artist sprayed on a design of a snake curling around her chest, with one of her breasts painted to look like an apple. A pair of large Band-Aids covered her nipples, keeping her legal in the eyes of the police.
"I love it," Frushour said as she looked out at the passing crowds of bikers.
Frushour and her husband are exactly the kind of guests Ainsley wants to encourage. The city runs the festival, with help from corporate sponsors, and Ainsley said the shifting demographics of bikers means the rally needed to change. Older folks want an experience that feels edgy without ever truly being dangerous, he said, and sponsors want them to feel comfortable enough to test-drive $40,000 motorcycles.
"It definitely has a history and a legacy of being quite rambunctious," Ainsley said. "It is not by any means now. It is a very tame group. It's people who have the disposable income to afford motorcycles and all the toys that go along with that. They are incredibly polite."


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Salsa has now passed ketchup as America's favorite condiment. Isn't that amazing? You know it's bad when even our vegetables are starting to lose their jobs to Mexico. – Jay Leno
When Oxnard local Peggy Rivera won best amateur medium salsa at the Oxnard Salsa Festival in 2011, she hadn't anticipated where such a victory would land her. Rivera attributes her love for salsa to her mother and her family roots.
"My mother always made homemade salsa growing up, and I continued with her tradition, making homemade salsa for my family and friends," she said. Her victory at the festival, however, was a surprise. "I never expected to win, but it's changed my life."
The following year, the Rivera family was hit hard by the recession. Rivera wanted to market her salsas and take a percentage of her profits to help support a local nonprofit; but she did not know how to make that happen, especially without financial backing. Her boss at Applied Merchants, an organization that is affiliated with the H.O.P.E. (Helping Our Poor and Elderly) program, talked with her about her vision. From their initial conversation, Sabor Maggie's Best began and FOOD Share became the recipient of a percentage of her profits. The Banana Festival at Port Hueneme was the first event where Rivera sold her salsas, and to her utter wonder, she sold 10 cases. In selling her salsa, she gets to give back simultaneously.
But Rivera isn't a stranger to helping the needy. In fact, she holds the chair of the commission on homelessness in the city of Oxnard. Raised by a single mother and her grandmother, Rivera was taught to give back to the less fortunate.
Bonnie Weigel, CEO of FOOD Share, and Jesse Rodriquez
won the Oxnard Salsa Festival People's Choice Award at
Dancing with Our Community Stars, 2009.
"I want to encourage people to follow their dreams. I don't know where this will take me, but it's given me an opportunity to do something that I love, while helping those in need, and you can't beat that," Rivera said.
Rivera isn't the only success story from the festival. In 2008, Roseanne Waltip won the best mild salsa. Since then, Waltip has founded Roseanne's Salsa Company, a local business that delivers fresh, chunky salsa to clients in Ventura County.
The word "salsa" encompasses a lot. This little five-letter word has an interesting origin. In an article published in Latin Beat Magazine, Max Salazar wrote, "The popular usage of the word 'salsa' for danceable Latin music began in 1933 when Cuban song composer Ignacio Piñeiro wrote the song "Échale Salsita." The late Alfredo Valdés Sr., whom I interviewed in 1974, said 'On July 6, 1933, I married Anita Purmuy, guitarist for the all-female band La Anacaona. I didn't have a honeymoon because hours later I was on a boat with (Septeto) Nacional headed toward Miami … then on to the Chicago World's Fair. On the train I rehearsed Ignacio's new work "Échale Salsita." He got the idea after tasting food, which lacked the Cuban spices. It was a protest against tasteless food.' "
Peggy Rivera of Oxnard won best
amateur salsa at the 2011 Oxnard Salsa
Festival. She now bottles and sells her
salsa throughout Ventura County.
On July 27 and 28, Oxnard will embrace the spice, the music and the dancing as it celebrates Oxnard's rich agricultural legacy and Latin cultural diversity at the 20th Annual Oxnard Salsa Festival.
"When we created this 20 years ago, we wanted to come up with a way to attract the community to downtown Oxnard," said Gary Blum, who is on the board of directors at the Downtown Oxnard Merchant's Association (Oxnard Downtowners). "At the time, we had a lot of Mexican restaurants, so we came up with the concept of doing a salsa festival. It was all about the condiment."
For the first few years, it was only a one-day event, but with the rise in popularity of salsa, the affair expanded. In 1999, things shifted when Ruth Ballin became the festival director. Ballin incorporated it, and the festival became a celebration of "everything salsa." Now, the festival showcases a wide array of salsa, foods, live music and dance.
Former Salsa Festival Director Ruth Ballin (center),
with current Director Kellie Meehan (left) and
Sheila Jenkins, operations manager.
"The committee that has put this event on are a pretty incredible group of people, and they are incredibly dedicated to the community and to the success of this festival," Blum said. It is a great spotlight event for downtown Oxnard at large. The festival has done amazing things for downtown Oxnard, bringing awareness to the city as people from everywhere come to participate in this festive event."
"From the minute you arrive, you're thrust into a Latin, all-around feel-good event. With the professional stage and sound company we've hired, the music permeates the festival site and takes center stage. It can be heard wherever you are," Ballin said.
It is not just about feeling, but also about tasting. The salsa tasting tent combines a number of local restaurants and gourmet salsa purveyors sharing the best of the best. For the salsa aficionado, this mega salsa bar will provide more than 50 salsas to choose from. From hot to mild, spicy, smoky and fruity salsas are ready to be sampled and bought. A $5 ticket will allow unlimited access into the tent, plus a bag of fresh Mission tortilla chips.
Photo by Kenneth Jones
This year, Rivera will be selling Sabor Maggie's Best at the Salsa Festival in space 38, right in front of the salsa tasting tent. She will be selling the 2011 winner, plus salsa chili japones (toasted Japanese chilis) and the 2012 winner, roasted jalapeño salsa.
The event kicks off on Friday night, July 26, with a concert featuring Tito Puente, Jr. and his orchestra. The famed percussionist has performed on ABC's Dancing With the Stars, NBC's two-hour special The Apollo at 70: A Hot Night in Harlem, and in casinos, performing arts centers, jazz festivals and symphony halls around the world. Tickets for the concert are $15 per person, and can be purchased on the festival website at www.oxnardsalsafestival.com or call 247-0197 (gates open at 6 p.m.).
Other entertainment includes Orquesta Charangoa, dance performances featuring dancers from both Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, and Son Mayor, the Los Angeles-based salsa band (voted the "Best Salsa Band" by L.A. Weekly). From San Francisco comes Rumbaché, the young, vibrant salsa band, blending funk, salsa, timba and bomba into a fresh, original sound. For the classic Latin big band sound of New York City, Angel Lebron y su Sabor Latino promises to entertain.
Dancing With Our Community Stars (a dance contest and charity fundraiser) is a big highlight event at the festival. Oxnard's version of Dancing With the Stars television show has been a huge success. The contest has provided a vehicle to raise money for local charities, and over the last five years, it has raised more than $300,000.
With only nine weeks of rehearsal time, the best salsa instructors in the region will be paired up with local "stars" to compete before a panel of judges. Bonnie Weigel from FOOD Share, Sandra Laby for Ventura Music Festival, John Crombach for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Oxnard/Port Hueneme, and George Cogswell for Big Brothers/Big Sister, are some of the favored dancers competing. The public can vote by making donations in support of their favorite dancers and charities. This year, the festival hopes to raise another $50,000 or more with this contest. Other charities that are represented are Casa Pacifica, Gull Wings Children's Museum, the Rebozo Festival, FOOD Share, ACT Today and Teatro de las Americas.
Bonnie Weigel, FOOD Share's CEO, cannot say enough good things about this festival. Five years ago, FOOD Share was picked to participate in the Dancing With Our Community salsa competition. It was an event she will never forget.
"I'm not a dancer; in fact, my instructor was very kind when he told me I have no rhythm. But he was amazing," Weigel said. "He built upon my strengths, and I won the event. This was the most successful cause marketing campaign that I've ever been involved with. We raised over $48,000 for FOOD Share that year. It was a great way to build awareness for our nonprofit while sharing in this amazing celebrated event."
This year, FOOD Share is participating again, and Joe Schroeder, Ventura County Credit Union CEO and FOOD Share's vice chair, is currently training for the event.
"Joe is larger than life, with a John Wayne type personality, so I'll be eager to see how he embraces dancing. He's not a dancer either," Weigel said.
Weigel appreciates the fact that the contest is not overly competitive but very collabor ative. "It's a beautiful thing to come together in a light-hearted, entertaining way and raise awareness for various charities in the community," she said.
Philanthropy is not just about large numbers; every dollar counts. "The salsa competition only takes one dollar. Little grandmas and kids give a dollar to support their favorite dancer. Everyone gets involved. It engages people at different levels – with a dollar everyone gets a chance at supporting a charity. I love this," Weigel said.
The Yard House, Oxnard's newest restaurant and brewery, located in The Collection at RiverPark, donated $2,000 (which is 2,000 votes) toward the salsa competition in celebration of its grand opening. "Our goal is to reach $50,000 dollars by the end of July. We have a long way to go, but we're grateful and excited for the challenge," Weigel said.
The festival is family-friendly and will offer not only various activities for adults, but also a number of things scheduled for children at the Kids Korner. There will be an art and craft booth set up by Oxnard's Art and Music Factory, where the salsa theme will continue, using real tortillas. Gloria Hidrogo, a graduate of Mexico's Bellas Artes, is the Art and Music Factory's director of art. Hidrogo will concentrate on giving the kids various art projects that emphasize positive affirmation, conservation and recycling. Along with the various art projects, there will be a climbing wall, a slide and a giant maze and a "bounce house" for smaller children.
More than 100 arts, crafts and retail exhibitors will provide a diverse shopping experience for festival-goer's. Shoppers can comb the streets and choose from Latin American imports, handcrafted jewelry, hats, sunglasses, toys, gourmet sauces, Mexican pottery, potted succulents and various clothing.
The Oxnard Salsa Festival is one of Southern California's renowned summer events. It is a two-day extravaganza celebrating everything salsa – the food, the music and the dance.
The 20th Annual Oxnard Salsa Festival, July 27 and 28 in Oxnard, will take place in Plaza Park. General admission and parking are free.


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By Kathryn Kopchik
LEWISBURG, Pa. — The Weis Center at Bucknell will host a concert by ETHEL — acclaimed as America's premier post-classical string quartet — with Native American flutist Robert Mirabal as guest artist, on Friday, April 15, at 8 p.m. in the Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell University.
"ETHEL has become extremely popular in New York and around the world for its edgy approach to modern music, boldly infusing contemporary concert music with fierce intensity. The group challenges boundaries of all kinds," said Bill Boswell, executive director of the Weis Center.
"One of ETHEL's fascinating current collaborations is with Native American flutist Robert Mirabal, and I considered us very lucky to be able to snag a performance of this extraordinary evening. It is a great way to close the Weis Center season with all the immediate and historical connections to music of European, Native American, and even other cultural traditions."
The concert program includes, besides music by Mirabal and the members of ETHEL, works by John Luther Adams, Terry Riley, Marcello Zarvos, Anna Milosavljevic and Eve Beglarian.
Adventurous music
Formed in 1998 in New York, ETHEL includes Juilliard-trained violinists Cornelius Dufallo and Mary Rowell, violist Ralph Farris, and cellist Dorothy Lawson.
The quartet performs adventurous music of the past four decades, with emphasis on works composed since 1995. Their repertoire includes self-composed works as well as works by such luminaries as Julia Wolfe, Phil Kline, John Zorn, Steve Reich, JacobTV, David Lang and Mary Ellen Childs.
ETHEL tours the world, appearing on stages as varied as Venice Biennale, Sydney Opera House, Ravinia, TED, Lincoln Center, Holland's TROMP Festival, Kennedy Center, FIAC in Guanajuato, Mexico, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Highlights of recent seasons include the world premieres of Phil Kline's "SPACE" at the gala reopening of Alice Tully Hall; "ETHEL Fair: The Songwriters" at opening night of Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Festival; "WAIT FOR GREEN" with choreography by Annie-B Parson, commissioned by arts>World Financial Center; new collaborative works with both Merce Cunningham Dance and Arena Dances companies; and a commissioned original live film score for "Celebrate Brooklyn!"
Other highlights include performances at the annual TED Conference; the TROMP Festival with Colin Currie and Todd Rundgren; Merkin Hall as part of "New Sounds Live: ETHEL Plays JacobTV"; Jazz at Lincoln Center's Allen Room, and the Grand Canyon Music Festival, where ETHEL is Ensemble-in-Residence with the Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project.
Robert Mirabal
Two-time Grammy winner Robert Mirabal lives with his family at the foot of sacred Taos Mountain in northern New Mexico.
Maintaining a traditional life, keeping the centuries-old customs of the Taos Pueblo people, he has been described as a Native American "Renaissance man" — musician, composer, painter, master craftsman, poet, actor, screenwriter, horseman and farmer — and travels extensively playing his music all over the world.
He bought his first flute when he was 18 with money he borrowed from his grandmother. Shortly afterwards he had the opportunity to meet Native American flute player R. Carlos Nakai, who greatly influenced him.
In the years since, he has continued the evolution of his flute-making and also has become a concert performer and recording artist, with a dozen albums of traditional music, rock 'n' roll, and spoken word. A leading proponent of world music, Mirabal has merged his indigenous American sound with those of Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
A composer, songwriter and musician, he has won many honors, including two-time Native American Artist of the Year, three-time Songwriter of the Year, a 2006 Grammy Award for "Sacred Ground," and his 2008 Grammy for "Johnny Whitehorse Totemic Flute Chants."
Ticket information
Tickets for the performance are $20 per person. Discounts for senior citizens and students are available.
Tickets for Weis Center series performances are available in person from the Campus Box Office in the Weis Center weekdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; from the Barnes & Noble at Bucknell University bookstore box office in Lewisburg, weekdays and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, 12:30 to 4 p.m.; or the Campus Activities and Programs office on the ground floor of the Elaine Langone Center at Bucknell, weekdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Advance tickets also are available online or by calling 570-577-1000. The box office in the Weis Center lobby opens one hour before performances.The 2010-11 season of Weis Center Events is generously supported by grants from the Bucknell University Association for the Arts and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Additional support for the series is provided by numerous and generous private donors, including members of the Weis Center Green Room Circle and Green Room Board.
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The Center Theatre Players' production of "Into the Woods," Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical, will be presented at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, July 25 and 26, and 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Aug. 1 and 2, in the auditorium of the Penn State Beaver Student Union Building. The musical, which is part of the Brodhead Cultural Center's 32nd summer programming series, is directed by Sandy Reigel, Monaca, who also is the director of the Center Theatre Players.
Tickets are $13 for all ages and can be obtained by contacting the Brodhead Cultural Center at (724) 773-3610 or by sending e-mail to the Cultural Center at email@example.com. Tickets also will be sold in the auditorium lobby beginning at 6 p.m. each night of the show. Audience members will be permitted to enter the theatre for general seating at 6:45 p.m. There is no reserved seating for any performance.
"Into the Woods" blends fairy tales with the story of a childless baker and his wife who must lift a witch's curse in order to have a child. Fairy tale characters and their stories are woven into the musical, including Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.
The 2008 Brodhead Cultural Center series is co-sponsored by the Beaver County Times, ARA Corp., The Idea Works and the Beaver Valley Musicians Union Trust Fund.
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By Shannon McDonald
"All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles, and being able to employ these principles to do more with less"
There once was a square with a romantic flare,
Pure Beaux Arts, McKim, Meade and White;
In the mood than ensued, he went factory-nude
Mies, Gropy, Corbussy and Wright.
Roam home to a dome
Where Georgian and gothic once stood;
Now chemical bonds alone guard our blondes.
And even the plumbing looks good.
In 1983, just months before his death, R. Buckminster Fuller was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award given by the United States government. His ideas as an architect, author, engineer, designer, philosopher, educator, mathematician, futurist, entrepreneur and inventor prompted Marshall McLuhan to call him the "Leonardo Da Vinci of our time". His beliefs of doing more with less, making the world work for 100% of humanity, and an understanding of the critical role that humans play in their own success are words that are resonating today. Building upon this foundation, his contributions to the world are now underway: sustainability, whole-systems approach to problem solving, synergy (the whole being greater than the sum of its parts) and comprehensive anticipatory design science. Bucky believed in creating change by focusing on the artifacts with the environment in which humans interact. The physical landscape of southern Illinois created just the environment to stimulate his fertile mind.
Image: During Construction Of The Dome Home Of R. Buckminster Fuller, Carbondale, IL. Credit:The Late Ben Gelman, Photographer For The Southern Illinoisan
Fuller patented the dome in 1954 as a solution the need for safe, affordable and accessible housing. In April 1960, a dome was assembled on a corner lot in a quiet Carbondale neighborhood of small older homes, at 407 South Forest Ave. While living there with his wife Anne he made the cover of TIME Magazine and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Six of his patents were issued with the South Forest address, and 12 of his books were published during his residence in the home. This is the only home that he and Anne lived in and owned. After many years experimenting on the concept of the dome with students from different universities and at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, his personal home became the prototype for all other dome homes that followed.
Let architects sing of the aesthetics that bring
Rich clients in hordes to their knees,
Just give me a home in a great circle dome
Where stressed and strains are at ease
Rome home to a dome
On the crest of a neighboring hill
Where the chores are all done, before they're begun
And eclectic nonsense is nil.
Currently on the National Register of Historic Places, the goal for the dome's restoration and preservation as a museum and education center has been a vision of many in the community. The National Park Service awarded a Save Americas Treasures matching grant that is now in actively in the matching funding stage. Thad Heckman, architect and professor in the SIUC architecture department, one who remembers R. Buckminster Fuller as a professor in the SIUC Department of Design, has produced measured documents of the home and has just received the Leicester B. Holland Prize for these renderings. Photographs by Ben Gelman, photographer for the Southern Illinoisan document the construction process, the dome, Buckminster Fuller and his many famous guests in Carbondale, IL. The restoration is set to begin in 2013 as funds continue to be raised to match the grant.
The geodesic dome, based on a natural pattern of interlocking triangles is considered one of the strongest and most efficient built structures and can be constructed at many different scales. Currently there are over 500,000 worldwide. Assembled in just seven hours the panelized wood frame assembly, with foundation and mechanical/electrical systems cost only $7,000.00 to $8,000.00 for the final product. It was prefabricated by the Pease Woodworking Company of Hamilton, Ohio and constructed by Ira Parrish, a Carbondale contractor.
Let modern folks dream of glass boxes with steam
Out along super-burbia way;
Split-levels, split-loans, split-breadwinner homes
No down money, lifetime to pay.
Rome home to a dome,
No banker would back with a dime,
No mortgage to show, no payments to go,
Where you dwell, dream, and spend only time.
The geometry of the home is a 3 frequency, 3/8th sphere geodesic dome consisting of six pentagons and five hexagons comprised of three differing length modular struts forming a total of 60 triangular panels. Natural lighting was through skylights. Interior ventilation incorporated a stack effect and central fan allowing air to circulate from the lower level to the upper level via ceiling grills and a perforated "peg-board" base at the built- in bookcase in the loft. Radiant hot water circulating heat was incorporated into the floor slab and is still active.
Although computer documentation has not been found for the original Pease Woodworking Company's shop drawings, from the report and description of the documentation work of Thad Heckman, the requirements due to the geometry of the home demanded unique procedures to verify it's "closeness to sphere". The requirement for which geodesics, in this case, icosahedral, is needed in order to determine preservation strategies for its structural repairs. He used a Hilti PM 24 multi-axis laser plumb device and laser range-finding instruments to determine sphericity above and beyond concerns for obviously damaged pentagons and hexagons and the corresponding triangulation along with three-dimensional computer simulation model. Please refer to the Holland report submitted by Thad Heckman.
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What do you Collect?
People love to collect. A hobby is something you like to do on a rainy day, when you can't go outside with your friends to play. Saving stuff as a hobby is lots of fun, especially if the stuff is pretty and interesting. Kids can save or collect lots of things, like sports cards, coins, dolls, action figures, rock group posters, and even clocks and watches. Collections can be anything that you want it to be. If you are interested in collecting clocks, watches, or other timepieces, then the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC) is a good place to learn and meet others who are interested in clocks and watches. Tell us what type of timepieces you collect by emailing email@example.com. We may feature your collection on the website.


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South Carolina man arrested in killing of 2 found stuffed in barrels
ANDERSON, S.C. – South Carolina authorities say they've arrested a man accused of killing two people more than a month ago and stuffing their bodies in barrels before dumping them into a lake.
Anderson County Sheriff's spokesman Chad McBride says John Michael Young was arrested early Saturday. A jail spokesman says Young was likely to make a first appearance before a judge later Saturday. He did not know if Young had an attorney.
Deputies charged Young with two counts of murder after collecting a chainsaw and machetes from his home near Lake Hartwell.
Authorities say Young killed 52-year-old Tony McGinnis in September and 37-year-old Andrea Mitchell in October by beating them in the head in woods near his home. Investigators haven't given a motive but say the slayings weren't random.


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text: Hi, <snip> > > I must say though that from what I know checkpointing/restarting > serial codes is OK. > Checkpointing parallel jobs is problematic, and from what I've read > not recommended (the various processes are passing > messages, and how do you checkpoint in a consistent state?). > I would send a signal from SGE only to the head node of a let's say MPI job. This rank 0 job has to set some special fields and broadcast this to the slave processes. The slaves must check this from time to time and send their state to the head node (and shut down in a proper way), which is performing the storing of the information in any checkpointing place on a shared file system (maybe we get different nodes the next time). I think it's possible to program it (when it's included in the design of the program), but adding it later to an already existing program is not so easy. - Reuti


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1) Introduction
2) What we are up to with Linux?
- Google Drive on Linux (Mostly) - The only thing it doesn't sink is Google Docs stuff. Brian got it working. It was easy and works nice.
- Debian server to run Sickbeard.
- Linux Multiimedia Server(LMMS) and Audio-Recorder
- Arch vs Gentoo vs Fedora/Redhat vs *Ubuntu/Mint
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- 2 teaspoon active dry yeast
- 1 scant cup warm water (about 110?F)
- 1 tablespoon melted unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 6 tablespoons dark molasses
- 1 tablespoon caraway seeds
- 1/2 cup mashed cooked potatoes
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped semisweet chocolate
- 2 cups rye flour
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/4 cup cornmeal
- 1 handful all-purpose flour
- Line a baking sheet with parchment or wax paper.
- In a large bowl dissolve the yeast in the water. Add the butter, sugar, and molasses and mix well. Stir in the caraway seeds, potatoes, chocolate, rye and wheat flours, and the cornmeal. Using your hands, mix the ingredients together, and knead until you have a smooth ball of dough.
- Cover the bowl with a towel, place in a warm spot in your kitchen, and allow to rise for about 1 1/4 hours.
- About 15 minutes before baking, preheat the oven to 350ºF.
- Spread the all-purpose flour on a flat surface and using your hands, flatten the dough into a circle about 1 inch thick. Cut the dough into 18 pieces and form each into a roll about 3 inches in diameter. Place the rolls on the baking sheet and bake until they are brown and firm, for about 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool.
Recipe Details
- Source: Emeril's New New Orleans Cooking [4]
- Dish Type: Baked Goods [5]


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By Dave Warner
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Philadelphia abortion clinic that prosecutors called a "house of horrors" is now being cited as powerful evidence by both abortion and anti-abortion rights groups.
Advocates on both sides of the issue spoke out as the murder trial of Dr Kermit Gosnell, accused of killing a patient and four infants during late-term abortions at his clinic, headed for closing arguments on Monday in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia.
Gosnell, 72, who ran the now-shuttered Women's Medical Society Clinic in urban West Philadelphia, could face the death penalty if convicted. The case focuses on whether or not the infants were born alive and then killed.
"Abortion is not safe, it never has been, and what happened in Kermit's clinic is not that unusual," said Joe Scheidler, national director of the Pro-Life Action League.
Rev. Frank Pavone, director of the anti-abortion group Priests for Life, said the often gory trial testimony "will change the conversation ... It'll help people engage and make them realize they're not just talking about a theoretical idea."
Abortion-rights activists said Gosnell is an outlier among predominantly safe and legal abortion providers.
"Gosnell ran a criminal enterprise, not a healthcare facility, and should be punished to the fullest extent of the law," said Eric Ferrero, a spokesman for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Shoddy practices revealed in the Gosnell case are proof that safe abortions should be easily accessible to women of all income levels, said Ilyse Hogue, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.
"This is a peek into the back-alley days, the pre-Roe v. Wade days. It's what too many women experienced when we didn't provide access to safe and clean abortion services," Hogue said, referring to the landmark Supreme Court ruling in 1973 that struck down state laws restricting abortion.
The charges against Gosnell and nine of his employees have added fresh fuel to the debate in the United States about late-term abortions.
It is legal in Pennsylvania to abort a fetus up to 24 weeks of pregnancy. It becomes murder if the infant is fully expelled from the mother alive and then killed, according to a lawyer familiar with Pennsylvania law, who declined to be named given the volatility of the case.
Gosnell is charged with first-degree murder for delivering live babies during late-term abortions and then deliberately severing their spinal cords, prosecutors said. He is also charged with third-degree murder in the death of Karnamaya Mongar, 41, of Virginia, who died after the procedure from a drug overdose, prosecutors said.
The doctor has pleaded not guilty to all charges, contending there is no evidence the babies were alive when they were expelled and that Mongar failed to disclose her full medical history, which may have triggered drug complications.
Testimony in the six-week trial before a seven-woman, five-man jury has depicted a filthy, squalid clinic serving mostly low-income women in the largely black community.
Early in the trial, anti-abortion rights groups criticized the national media for largely ignoring the case.
Day Gardner, the head of the National Black Pro-life Union in Washington, tied the media's initial avoidance of the trial to what she said was deeply ingrained racism in American society, noting that many of Gosnell's patients were poor black women and the doctor himself is black.
The national spotlight would have shown brighter if the victim had been "a blonde, blue-eyed child ... It's very obvious that passion across America is not quite the same when it comes to black children," Gardner said.
Gosnell, who has been in jail since his January 2011 arrest, is being tried along with Eileen O'Neill, a medical graduate student accused of billing patients and insurance companies as if she had been a licensed doctor. Eight other defendants have pleaded guilty to a variety of charges and are awaiting sentencing.
(Additional reporting by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian; Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Prudence Crowther)


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The delights of alcohol, tomato juice and spice are an experience to be savoured. One might think these seemingly odd ingredients form a recipe for tragedy, a taste phenomenon that surely cannot constitute a cocktail. However, with the right methods and ingredients, there's nothing better.
Historical accounts of the true origins of this infamous Sunday morning concoction differ. In my humble opinion, true recognition should be credited to Mr Fernand "Pete" Petiot, a bartender in the 1920s who served up the first "Bloody" in Harry's New York Bar in Paris. Today, millions of aficionados have developed their own variations, recipes and additions, making the bespoke Bloody Mary an interesting weekend staple. Click through the slides above to see how to create my take on this spicy special.
Many people are tempted (especially if you are indulging in some hair of the dog therapy) to be over generous with the vodka. Similarly, some choose to use less. Measure this key ingredient carefully (60ml) to perfect the overall taste.
You want your Bloody to be nice and cold, and you don't want to dilute your cocktail with melted ice. Mix the correct amount to achieve the optimum temperature for serving. Thirty revolutions of the ice using a bar spoon will do the trick.
Don't be shy with experimenting to find the exact amount of Tabasco, hot sauce, horseradish and Worcestershire sauce to satisfy your palate.
There are many glasses to choose from, but one should always serve a Bloody Mary in a highball glass over ice. The highball is a classic, easy-to-drink-from vessel and it houses the ingredients perfectly. This completes a refreshing, chilled cocktail to enjoy with your Sunday brunch.
Some people are afraid to think outside the box. Luckily for all, there is no such thing as wrong when making a bespoke Bloody Mary. Add anything you think might enhance your experience. Tequila and wasabi can be great add-ins to make things interesting.


text: Peter, To some extent I can understand the need to specialize shells, especially for optimization of batch processing directives. However, someone reasonably competent with a particular shell should be able to set up environment variables and such in a manner likely to make a build work. Add as a complication, that the WRF scripts are prepackaged and not in the (preferred) korn shell... I'm not sure I want to undertake relearning korn to do that translation! Anyway, thanks for the note. I'm slowly changing how I do my work to satisfy the sysadmin on an AiX machine (which also satisfies my boss...) gerry Peter St. John wrote: > Gerry, > I just wanted to note that if it's difficult to recompile using a > different shell, perhaps because of elaborate build scripts in tcsh or > something, then your admin is right, he can't help you debug the make > until you switch shells. With the burgeoning complexity of the business > specialization is necessary. We can't expect admins to be programmers > too, anymore. > > If I install LISP and emacs on this XP box I can't expect the MCSE to > help me :-) for reductio ad absurdum :-) > > Peter > > > On 4/12/07, *Gerry Creager* <gerry.creager at tamu.edu > <mailto:gerry.creager at tamu.edu>> wrote: > > I'm trying to get WRF-NMM running on a new IBM p575 and having some > issues. Anyone on here gone down that path and willing to offer a > little advice? > > Please reply off-list. Note: AiX spoken on this system. Leads to all > sorts of interesting things when the sysadmin states he can't tell me > why it fails to compile 'til I stop using either bash or sh as my > shell. > > gerry > -- > Gerry Creager -- gerry.creager at tamu.edu <mailto:gerry.creager at tamu.edu> > Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University > Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX: 979.862.3983 > Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org <mailto:Beowulf at beowulf.org> > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > -- Gerry Creager -- gerry.creager at tamu.edu Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX: 979.862.3983 Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843


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Do not base your order on the picture presented.
Features of the Harloff V-Series Three Drawer Cart, Standard Package:
Harloff's V-Series Carts are value-priced for use in a variety of hospital departments. This drawer configuration is often a popular choice for treatment, procedure and isolation applications.
Steel construction
Key lock with two keys
Aluminum side rail / push handle
30" of vertical drawer space
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5" (12.7 cm) ball-bearing casters, all full swivel – two with brake
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Hydrogen is the simplest element on earth—it consists of only one proton and one electron—and it is an energy carrier, not an energy source. Hydrogen can store and deliver usable energy, but it doesn't typically exist by itself in nature and must be produced from compounds that contain it.
Why Study Hydrogen Production
Hydrogen can be used in fuel cells to generate power using a chemical reaction rather than combustion, producing only water and heat as byproducts. It can be used in cars, in houses, for portable power, and in many more applications.
How Hydrogen Production Works
Hydrogen can be produced using diverse, domestic resources—including fossil fuels, such as natural gas and coal (with carbon sequestration); nuclear energy; and other renewable energy sources, such as biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, and hydro-electric power—using a wide range of processes.
Hydrogen can be produced:
- At or near the site of use in distributed production
- At large facilities and then delivered to the point of use in central production
- At intermediate scale facilities located in close proximity (25–100 miles) to the point of use in semi-central production.
Research and Development Goals
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supports the research and development of a wide range of technologies to produce hydrogen economically and in environmentally friendly ways. View the hydrogen production pathways graphic to learn more about the time frames and production scales for these technologies.
The overall challenge to hydrogen production is cost. For cost-competitive transportation, a key driver for energy independence, hydrogen must be comparable to conventional fuels and technologies on a per-mile basis. In order for fuel cell electric vehicles to be competitive, the total untaxed, delivered and dispensed, cost of hydrogen needs to be less than $4/gge. A gge, or gasoline gallon equivalent, is the amount of fuel that has the same amount of energy as a gallon of gasoline. One kilogram of hydrogen is equivalent to one gallon of gasoline. This goal is based on thorough research with stakeholders, academia, and national labs. Learn more about DOE's hydrogen cost goal and the analysis used in projecting the future cost of hydrogen.
Also view related links that provide details about DOE-funded hydrogen production activities.
Technical Targets
Download the Hydrogen Production section of the Fuel Cell Technologies Office's Multi-Year Research, Development, and Demonstration Plan for full details about technical targets, or view individual target tables for hydrogen production from:
- Biomass-derived liquid reforming
- Electrolysis
- Biomass gasification
- Thermochemical water splitting
- Photoelectrochemical water splitting
- Photobiological processes
- Microbial biomass conversion.
H2FIRST Project
On April 30, 2014, the Energy Department announced the launch of a new project leveraging the capabilities of its National Laboratories in direct support of H2USA. The project is led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories and will tackle the technical challenges related to hydrogen fueling infrastructure. The Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project is designed to reduce the cost and time of fueling station construction, increase station availability, and improve reliability by creating opportunities for industry partners to pool knowledge and resources to overcome hurdles. The project was established by the Fuel Cell Technologies Office, drawing on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs.


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From Erights
Note: den.cubik.org was once the official web site, but access to it was lost and this page is newer.
Den is a distributed MUD system written in E by Kevin Reid.
It was last tested on E 0.8.28e.
The source code is available in a Subversion repository at
What It Is
Den is/will be a peer-to-peer MUD system, theoretically supporting mutual suspicion between parts of its world.
Den's world model is currently room-based, insofar as it cares. I hope to eventually support coordinate systems and graphical UI — possibly losing the text UI — but not yet.
Den is definitely not useful or 'interesting' (other than being written in E, perhaps) yet. It is only an experiment in using E. It may or may not eventually become something more widely useful.
How to use it
rune -cpa src/ src/org/cubik/den/boot/den.e-awt
- First run
-save <filename> <yourNickname>
- Further runs
-restore <filename>
- Non-persistent
-once <yourNickname>
(You may need to increase the JVM's maximum heap or stack size. For Mac OS X, specify
-J-Xmx500m -J-XX:ThreadStackSize=10240 before the other arguments to
Three windows will be opened.
The narrow one at the top contains commands for performing a checkpoint and some other systemwide functions.
A checkpoint will be performed when this window is closed (which also stops the program), or via the "Save" command in its World menu.
The second is the inspector, which lets you view and manipulate the state of objects making up the world. The
<world> object has a name
=> object mapping for convenience in accessing important objects, and also lists all SturdyRefs currently existing, since they may need to be manually deleted. (This UI is clearly poor and I hope to replace it with something better soon.)
The third (to the right or overlapping the inspector) is the terminal, with which you control a character in text-mud style.
(The default world's "
in" exit is a locked door, and to go through it you need to use the command "
go 'in' with key". (I need to write some documentation for the commands—for now, see
Setting up cross-vat travel:
- In the inspector window, select "Sturdy Entrance" from the "Make" menu. Choose the room which it will lead to, the name by which it will be known for later editing, and the message shown in that room when something arrives through it. Click Create.
- Copy the
cap://URI from the resulting window.
- In the other world/vat/Den-instance, select "Exit" from the "Make" menu. Choose the room in which it will be placed, the name in that room, and the message when something uses that exit. Select "Far" and paste in the
cap://URI from step 2. Click Create.
Repeat the above procedure to create an exit for the other direction.


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Longtime N M Tech Research Foundation Board Member Retires
by George Zamora
Right: Alex Thyssen and John P. Eastham
SOCORRO, N.M., Aug. 23, 2007 – Longtime Albuquerque attorney John P. "Jack" Eastham recently was honored by the New Mexico Tech Research Foundation upon his retirement from the foundation's board of trustees after completing 46 years of service on the board.
An oak and bronze plaque commemorating Eastham's dedicated service was presented to him by Alex K. Thyssen, executive director of the New Mexico Tech Research Foundation, at a retirement luncheon held at the Rancher's Club in Albuquerque.
"I've always felt that Jack was the founding father of the foundation," Thyssen said during the presentation.
In fact, Eastham is indeed one of the original founding members of the New Mexico Tech Research Foundation, and has always played a pivotal role in guiding the nonprofit foundation's mission, vision, and directives, Thyssen continued.
"During Jack's 46 years on the board, the New Mexico Tech Research Foundation has grown from its initial $30,000 in assets to now more than $28 million in assets," Thyssen said.
In addition, Eastham was instrumental in negotiating and resolving several commercial litigations in the United States and Europe involving the New Mexico Tech Research Foundation's ownership of the patent for the world-famous nicotine patch.
"Jack's been there for the foundation since the start," Thyssen related. "He was one of the original board trustees who worked to get New Mexico Tech its first computer, which was the first major effort mounted by the foundation and which was supported at the time by donations from a lot of people in Socorro."
The New Mexico Tech Research Foundation currently makes available more than $1.3 million each year in scholarships to New Mexico Tech students and financial support to the university's various research and educational activities.


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Lillet Blanc is here!
Lillet Blanc, one of my favorite aperitifs in the world, has recently arrived in the Alberta market. I first tried this wine based aperitif in Seattle 5 years ago. We were in a crazy little cocktail bar just outside of Pikes Market called "The Zig Zag Café". One of the owners, a human "wiki" on […] Continue reading