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With little fanfare this weekend the last few thousand American troops in Iraq withdrew from their bases and traveled into neighboring Kuwait ending America's most contentious war since Vietnam. After eight and half years of conflict that cost the US almost one trillion dollars, 32,000 wounded and the lives of almost 4,500 service men and women, the war is officially over.
Well, at least for the Americans. This month alone 225 Iraqi civilians were killed in ongoing terrorism and violence. But that pales in comparison to the more than 100,000 Iraqis killed in the campaign officially known as Operation Iraqi Freedom.[i] The sad reality of post-US Iraq is that the oil production in Iraq is still not up to pre-invasion levels; previously ethnically mixed, vibrant neighborhoods have been cleansed of those belonging to the wrong sect; bombings and terrorism remain a part of daily life for average Iraqis; and on many levels, from garbage pick up to education, Iraq's civil society has been shattered by the US invasion, the bloody insurgency that followed, and the civil war that swept this tortured land since the US invaded and destabilized the country's fragile ethnic balance.
If this were not enough, in a sign of things to come, yesterday Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister moved to arrest his Sunni Vice President on charges of terrorism. This portends the breakup of Iraq's fragile 'peace' that came about between Sunnis and Shiites in 2008 and may lead the country back into a full blown Balkan-style civil war.
In light of the traumas the US and the Iraqis suffered in this "preemptive invasion" there has, not surprisingly, been little fanfare accompanying the US withdrawal. There were no "Mission Accomplished" banners greeting the US troops on the Kuwaiti border or American flags being triumphantly rubbed over the faces of fallen Saddam Hussein statues as in 2003. The days of that hubristic moment when Bush landed on the aircraft carrier and the White House spoke threateningly of invading Iran next have been replaced by a more sober assessment of the real costs in lives and gold that wars take. It is in this spirit of new found caution that this retrospective on the war in Iraq is written. Now that the war is over we can use hindsight and the distance of time to objectively assess how it started and finished.
How did We Get Here? Leading the American People from 9/11 to Baghdad
In the aftermath of the September 11th attack on the US there was a concentrated effort on the part of Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz to shift the war effort from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, which acted as a sanctuary for Al Qaeda terrorists who carried out 9/11, to Baathist-Socialist Iraq. As the World Trade Centers smoldered Wolfowitz claimed "Making war on Iraq might be easier than against Afghanistan."[ii] Wolfowitz and fellow Neo-Cons saw the attack as an opportunity to overthrow the secular dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, and replace him with a pro-American Shiite government.[iii] Fortunately, Secretary of State Colin Powell vehemently halted such discussions and the idea was shelved until after the US's stunning victory in Operation Enduring Freedom (i.e. the October-December 2001 invasion of the Taliban Amirate of Afghanistan that saw the US topple the Taliban with less than a dozen US deaths).
The unexpected victory in Afghanistan, the "Graveyard of Empires," empowered Wolfowitz, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the Neo-Cons who had long been planning for an invasion of Iraq. Their plan, known as a "Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," had been created back in 1996 and offered to the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.[iv] It was rejected as too militaristic and risky by the Israelis and shelved until the days and months after 9/11. In the aftermath of the successful takedown of the Taliban (which nonetheless saw the target of the operation, Osama Bin Laden, escape to Pakistan), it was decided the US would carry out the plan.
In an effort to rationalize the full-scale invasion of a sovereign nation that the US was not at war with, the Bush administration began to speak of nefarious links between Saddam Hussein, a secular Socialist dictator who had crushed political Islam in his state, and Osama Bin Laden, a Saudi fundamentalist firebrand who had previously offered his jihadi veterans to help expel Hussein from Kuwait.[v] A group known as the Office of Special Plans was created by the White House to cherry pick information that would conflate these two vastly different people and their agendas.
At the same time, efforts were made to demonstrate to the American people and the world that Saddam Hussein was actively building nuclear, chemical and biological weapons that would then be given to Bin Laden's shattered Al Qaeda group. Over and over again the White House scared Americans who were still traumatized by the images of Americans falling out of the burning World Trade Centers with rhetoric of a nuclear 9/11. In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, National Security Adviser Condi Rice, for example, stated "We know that he (Hussein) has the infrastructure, nuclear scientists to make a nuclear weapon…we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."[vi]
As Rice made these statements, I was teaching a course on Iraq at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. There I told my students and community groups that I spoke to that I thought it was all but impossible that Iraq had somehow reconstituted its WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) program.[vii] After all, even a passing familiarity with Iraq's history in the 1990s would have led to a familiarity with UN Resolution 687 which served to prevent such an occurrence. This post-1991 Gulf War resolution called for an arms embargo on Iraq and meant that Saddam Hussein could not rebuild a nuclear power plant that had been bombed the Israelis in 1981. Nor could he build facilities to create bio-chemical weapons. Nuclear reactors and accelerators are no small things to build even without US spy planes, UN inspectors and satellites looking for them in a country under an embargo.
But such commonsensical doubts went out the window for many in February 2003 when Colin Powell, the widely respected Secretary of State who had been opposed to the invasion of Iraq, gave in to the neo-cons and gave his historic speech at the UN. In this speech Powell convinced many doubters by showing slides of purported Iraqi WMD sites that had been provided to him by the Office of Special Plans and by the CIA. Most Americans, and many Democrats, were convinced and on March 20, 2003 the US invaded Iraq in a campaign called Shock and Awe.
The Course of the War: From Hubris to Catastrophe to a Victory…of Sorts
As in Afghanistan before, the 2003 take down of the Iraqi regime was a relatively smooth affair. The Iraqi army had been hurt by the UN embargo and fought poorly against more advanced US forces. On April 9th 2003, Baghdad fell to the US led Coalition which was effectively the US and Britain.
Soon thereafter Saddam Hussein and many top officials were captured by US troops. Interrogations and a subsequent investigation by the US government's Iraq Survey Group definitively demonstrated that Iraq had no WMDs.[viii] Top White House officials have subsequently admitted they were wrong and President Bush admitted in his memoirs to getting a "sickening" feeling in his stomach when the weapons failed to materialize.[ix] But many Americans still continue to believe that the mythical atom bombs, chemical and biological bombs (which were not used by the embattled regime when it was invaded) somehow existed and were counter-intuitively hidden, not used.
Regardless of the veracity of the original rationale for invading Iraq, it soon became obvious that the mission in the country was far from accomplished with the toppling of Hussein. As it transpired Hussein had been a Sunni and his sect had dominated the Shiite majority since the 1500s. By introducing democracy the US pushed his sect out of power and democratically empowered the Shiites who made up 60% of the country. To compound matters, the American authorities disbanded the Iraqi army and carried out a purge of known Baathist Party members (mainly Sunnis). This created what the US army called unemployed "POIs" (pissed off Iraqis), many of whom were military men with weapons.
At this time the disgruntled Sunni Baathists, who were a relatively secular lot, were organized to resist the Americans by Jordanian jihadi terrorist named Abu Musab Zarqawi. Zarqawi's Unity and Jihad terrorist group was soon planting land mines around the country to kill US soldiers and Americans were introduced to the term IED (improvised explosive device, the number one killer of US troops in Iraq). Thousands of Americans were killed or wounded by these explosives. Others were killed in ambushes carried out predominantly in an area known as the Sunni Triangle.
While Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld initially dismissed the insurgents as "dead-enders," it soon appeared that thousands of disgruntled ex-Baathist Sunnis had grown their beards long and joined Zarqawi's Islamist terrorists. Soon oil pipelines were being blown up, Americans ambushed, civilians killed in suicide bombings, and whole parts of the country blatantly taken over by Zarqawi's fundamentalist Sunni insurgents. In recognition of his influence in "jihadifying" the Socialist Sunnis, Osama bin Laden even allowed Zarqawi to join his organization and create a franchise known as Al Qaeda in Iraq. The Bush White House's claims that there were links between Al Qaeda and Iraq had become a self fulfilling prophecy.
To compound matters, Zarqawi's Sunni terrorists began attacking newly empowered Shiites as well. By 2006 the Shiites organized death squads of their own under an Iranian-backed fundamentalist named Moqtada al Sadr and began to fight back. Sadr's Shiite terrorists also began attacking Americans who attempted to disarm them. By 2007 Americans were dying in record numbers at the hands of terrorist-insurgents on both sides. It looked to many as if the war would be lost leaving Iranian-backed Shiite fundamentalists and Al Qaeda-linked Sunni terrorists to control the country which sat on the world's second largest reserve of oil.
But far from backing down, Bush doubled down on his bet and sent 30,000 extra troops under the leadership of General Petraeus to seize control of Baghdad. As this troop "surge" took place, events took a turn for the better in the western provinces of Zarqawi's Sunni triangle. There a local Sunni sheikh whose brother had been killed by Zarqawi's Al Qaeda men turned on the Sunni insurgents and went over to the Americans. This sheikh's men then helped the US surge troops raid Al Qaeda in Iraq safe houses and interdict "rat lines" of communication. Soon thousands of disgruntled Sunni moderates who had been sickened by Al Qaeda in Iraq's violence and fundamentalism joined the Americans in the so-called Anbar Awakening (named for the province where the movement began). By 2008, Al Qaeda had been vanquished by the Anbar Awakening as over 100,000 Sunnis joined a pro-US militia known as the Sons of Iraq. Bush's gamble had paid off just in time for a new American president to take control of the war.
While running for president, Barak Obama had famously declared Iraq to be a "war of choice" while Afghanistan, the original theater of war against Bin Laden, was declared a "war of necessity." In 2009/2010 Obama began to shift troops from Iraq to Afghanistan which had become know as the "Forgotten War" while the Americans fought in Iraq's Sunni triangle. With America's eye off the ball in Afghanistan, the Taliban had reconquered most of south and eastern Afghanistan and were within a day's march of the capital. Obama launched a troop surge of his own for Afghanistan that helped stabilize the situation and give the Afghans breathing time to push the Taliban out and build up an army. By 2011 a US Seal team had also killed Bin Laden, thus removing the original target of Operation Enduring Freedom from the scene almost ten years after 9/11.
In 2011, the number of US troops in Iraq, which had at one time been up to 170,000 (at a time when the larger country of Afghanistan had just 10,000) was diminished to 50,000 and then this weekend, none. While more than one in two Americans believed that Iraq had something to do with 9/11 in 2003, few believe it did today. Republican presidential candidates like Ron Paul have called the Iraq war a waste of precious resources that could have been better spent on nation building at home during a period of acute financial crisis. Both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have spoken in agnostic terms about the war and America's sense of hubris that at one time drove our government to contemplate invading the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Outgoing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (a Bush appointee) summed up many Americans' feeling about the war when he stated at West Point "In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should have his head examined." As for the Iraqis whose lives have been shattered by the calamity that befell them known as Operation Iraqi Freedom, there would be few who would dispute Gate's sage comments.
[i] For the most widely cited source on Iraq deaths see: http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
[ii] Bob Woodward. Bush at War. New York Simon and Schuster. 2002. Page 84.
[iii] For more on Wolfowitz's statements see the 9/11 Commission Report: http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch10.htm
[iv] Find the actual plan here: http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm
[v] For the best account of these events see James Bamford. A Pretext for War. 9/11, Iraq and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies. New York; Double Day. 2004.
[vi] http://articles.cnn.com/2003-01-10/us/wbr.smoking.gun_1_smoking-gun-nuclear-weapons-hans-blix?_s=PM:US
[vii] For my comments in 2002 on the eve of the US invasion see: http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20021031/NEWS/310319995&cid=sitesearch
[viii] For the government's report on the lack of WMDs see the CIA website here: https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/iraq_wmd_2004/index.html
[ix] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131187064


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Hockey is back; Tip your bartenders
For the love of God, hockey.
No disrespect to the Celtics, Patriots, or the marketing machine over on Yawkey Way, but was there any better way to wake up to an early-morning Sunday snowfall than with the news that the NHL lockout is mercifully over?
Hockey is back, and let's not forget, the Bruins are the last team to have had a banner-raising ceremony, Kings be damned.
It's likely to be a 48-game schedule, which, at this point, is the best thing imaginable. It will be a sprint, not a marathon, but whatever. Did we really complain about such matters in 1995? Wouldn't we have salivated of the thought in 2004-05?
Why did it take this long?
As excited as we may be to have the game back, there should be repercussions. The NHL and the NHLPA spat on your passion for the better part of three months, a fandom they'll surely expect to regain with some ridiculous "Thank You Fans" message etched into center ice. Not enough, Gary. Not enough, Don.
And it's certainly not enough, JJ.
Greed may be good, but in this case, let's give greed a message.
The thought of a boycott is foolhardy at best. The love of the professional game is a hierarchy for sure. Otherwise, how many college games have you attended the last three months? Let's stop with that well-intentioned pretension. We all love hockey, but at the NHL level, it a competitive and historical story line that other leagues can not match.
We're going to watch. We're going to go.
So, send your message by hitting ol' Mr. Burns where it really hurts; the concession stands.
Go to the games. Go early. Visit the Harp, Boston Beer Works, the Sports Grille, and any other business in the North Station area that has been hurting since the lockout began. Tip your bartenders. Tip them nicely. Then, go to the game.
And don't spend one dime on any of Jeremy Jacobs' draft swill, Dippin' Dots , or hot dogs.
Yes, the players are at fault here too, but nowhere near the realm of the inept owners. The NHL is a league far too big for its britches, with franchises in cities better suited for indoor lacrosse than what hockey delivers. (That's not necessarily a dig on indoor lacrosse. I'm sure it would do much better in Columbus as a matter of fact.) But aside from booing, how do you send that message? And are the likes of Shawn Thornton really worthy of such a target?
Nope. It may be minor, but the only way to deliver the smug, greedy Bruins owner your thoughts is to not buy his precious popcorn. After all, the guy owns the team just so he can make money on fast food. We can agree on that, right?
You have a right to be angry. You have a right to be frustrated, You have a right to express your opinion about what the NHL put you through. But we're not the happiest people today, nor are the players. It's that waiter or waitress who depends on the gate for his or her paycheck. The parking lot attendant. The cab drivers. The chefs, ushers, and box office personnel.
I can't wait to watch hockey again, but to be honest, I'm most excited for those people.
Hockey. Finally.
Luongo sucks.

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A hoard of jewels and coins, probably hidden by Jews fearing reprisals when the Black Death plague sweeping Europe was blamed on them, has gone on display in Britain for the first time.
The collection, including a delicate 14th-century wedding ring, intricately decorated cups and dazzling jewels, was unearthed in Erfurt, Germany, in 1998, close to the town's 11th-century synagogue.
Although historians cannot be sure, they suspect that the treasures were concealed in or around 1349 by Jewish families expecting to return and collect them later.
But whether because they were forced to flee, died in the plague or were among around 1,000 people killed in a pogrom in Erfurt in March that year, the items were left undisturbed for 650 years until excavations for a block of flats revealed them.
Some of the most precious pieces from the collection are on display at London's Wallace Collection alongside items from a second hoard found in France in 1863.
"There is a very poignant edge as these two treasures were almost certainly buried by Jewish families at the time of the Black Death when Jews were used as a scapegoat," said Stephen Duffy of the Wallace Collection in central London.
Among the highlights is a display case containing the three earliest known examples of Jewish wedding rings inscribed with the words "good fortune" in Hebrew and designed in the form of miniature houses.
Also on show is what the Wallace says is the only surviving medieval toilet set in the world, complete with an ear cleaner and perfume bottle. Only a handful of such hoards have been discovered.
"People in medieval times knew that Jews had hidden their jewels, and so they looked for them," said exhibition curator Karin Sczech, although she did not rule out more such discoveries being made.
Organizers said the London exhibition, which runs until May 10, could be the last time the rare items were allowed to travel. From the autumn the Erfurt treasures are to go on permanent display in the old Erfurt synagogue.
After 1349 the building was abandoned and converted into a warehouse, before being used as an entertainment space and dance hall from the late 19th century. The Nazis held dances there, unaware it had once been a Jewish place of worship. (Haaretz).
- Click here to read the entire article.
- Click here to read about this exhibit when it was displayed in the Yeshiva University museum in NY from September 9–January 29 (WITH PICTURES).


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How to Make Baked Fried Chicken
Tips For Achieving Perfectly Baked "Fried" Chicken
Tips For Achieving Perfectly Baked "Fried" Chicken
Elizabeth Karmel, executive chef of Hill Country restaurant in New York, knows a thing or two about fried chicken. She is an expert in Southern home-style cuisine and a member of the Lean Cuisine Culinary Roundtable, a group of chefs who gather quarterly to inspire new flavors for Lean Cuisine products.
The team recently gathered at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone to showcase their unique talents with food writers, and Karmel shared ways to achieve crispy, crunchy "fried" chicken, minus the deep-fry. Take a look at her tips for creating a baked "fried" chicken that packs all the flavor and crusty splendor of traditional fried chicken.


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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
What I Learned Wednesday: 6 April 2011
Then I got a call from my mother-in-law, who was replying to some questions I had e-mailed her. I had asked her to help me narrow down the dates of death of a couple of her aunts so that I could request copies of their Social Security applications, which, I hoped, would contain the maiden name of their mother, i.e., my mother-in-law's grandmother. She told me what she could remember about the aunts - including lots of reminiscences - and although she wasn't certain about exact dates, she thought the ones I had sounded right.
She continued to remember family stories, the subject switched over to my father-in-law's family, and he came to the phone to talk to me. Suddenly he remembered: "I think we have some kind of document with Judy's grandmother's name on it." He must have started to rummage through some documents, as I could hear him describing the documents - birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates. I held my breath; this was genealogical gold he was talking about. "I still can't find one with her name." At this point I didn't care; what he was looking at was what I wanted, no matter which relatives they concerned. "Oh, here it is, Judy's mother's birth certificate: "Her name was Angiola [later changed to Julia] D'Arco, her father's name was Nicholas D'Arco, and her mother's name was Vengenza [he spelled it out] Rossi."
Now I didn't even need to send off for the aunts' Social Security applications (though I probably will, anyway); as a matter of fact, I sort of had her name already, though I hadn't realized it: it was on the 1910 census.
I just thought the census taker who had recorded the Nicholas D'Arco family in 1910 couldn't figure out the names.
Well, maybe he couldn't spell them very well, but he had them right:
Dargo, Nicholas
Vincenza Rose [Rossi]
Rosie Rose [Rossi] [this is the name that really threw me for a loop]
To my amazement, I was able to find Vincenza/Vengenza and Rosie (listed as her sister on the 1910 census) on my first try at the Immigration Records on Ancestry using the year of immigration provided on the 1910 census - 1907. She had originally been transcribed as Vincenzo Laughter - the transcriber's attempt at the word "daughter."
The entry on the passenger list is another goldmine of information - if only I can read it all. (Note: The line above the entries for Rosa and Vincenza is included in these images in an attempt not to cut off any information.)
Last Permanent Residence: Salerno [and what looks like] Cava [de] Tirreni
Name and address of nearest relative or friend in country whence alien came:
mother/grandmother - De Donato [?Angela], Cava [de] Tirreni
Final destination: NJ, Jersey City
By whom was passage paid: Brother-in-law
Whether going to join a relative or friend; and if so, what relative or friend, and his name and complete address: Brother-in-law, Vincenzo D'Arco, 225 Fairmont Av., Jersey, NJ
Place of birth: Salerno, Vietri sul Mare
A few things are not quite clear, both literally and figuratively.
Is Rosa/Rosie Vincenza's mother or her sister; the passenger list indicates twice that she is her mother, while Rosie is described as her single sister on the 1910 census. She is old enough to be either. Because Italian women did not take their husbands' names, she would appear to be her sister. If she is her mother, she either shared her husband's name or Vincenza could actually be an illegitimate child.
I do not yet know how brother-in-law Vincenzo D'Arco was related to Vincenza's future husband Nicholas D'Arco - perhaps a brother?
In the last image, I cannot make out what the "mark of identification" is in the first column of the middle line. And I am not quite sure about the name of the "mother/grandmother."
This is definitely a brickwall breakthough, but I learned something even more important this week: when you interview relatives, don't take it for granted that they are aware that items such as vital records are important information to a genealogist. I never asked my in-laws these questions; now that my father-in-law knows how important such documents are, he is going to scan them and send them to me.
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Chills! I love this. Love the fact that our dear, dear families often have no clue what we are looking for. Love the fact that if we just hold our breath sometimes and let them talk we will learn amazing things. I'm so pleased for you.ReplyDelete
I couldn't wait to read this, and wasn't disappointed. Such good advice you gave...I could picture you on the phone, patiently, of course. What a lot of new information...Happy Dance. Although your work isn't over, I think you are anxious to take the next step.ReplyDelete
Now I know what that loud banging noise was earlier this week - - the bricks crashing down!ReplyDelete
Have fun with the next leg of this journey!
Susan - Thanks for your encouragement! I really took too much for granted and should have thought to ask these questions first!ReplyDelete
Barbara - Good thing we weren't Skyping, because they couldn't see the wild expression on my face and my arm pumping the air!
Carol - It's funny; the discoveries seem always to come when I'm not expecting them.
Don't you just love when that happens? I had a cousin send me some pages from my great-great-grandmother's journal this week. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
That's amazing Greta! All that good stuff just sitting there and they didn't have a clue how important it would be to you!ReplyDelete
Happy for you!!
I'm so happy for you! This is wonderful information.ReplyDelete
Yikes-chills for me too : ) congrats on the break through!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 9, 2011 at 2:59 PM
Ooooooo! You have given me hope that I just haven't asked the right questions!! Congratulations on your breakthrough!ReplyDelete


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Randy Seaver's Genea-Musings blog is one of my favorites. Why? Because he always has something that you can use. Now. Today. No pre-ordering needed!
Case in point: yesterday's blog post, Devier J. Smith in 1880 Agricultural Census. Somewhere in the back of my dusty and cob-webby brain I remembered that Ancestry has some "agricultural" census schedules, but I've never checked them out.
Ok, I've got oodles of Texas farmers in my tree, so let's see what I can find among the Selected U.S. Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880.
Isaac Turner was my second great-grandfather and a farmer in rural Hill County, Texas in the late 1800's. And..
here he is in the 1880 Hill County Schedule 2- Products of Agriculture schedule:
Lots of data here… where IS my magnifying glass… 🙂
(Of note, there is also an Isaac Turner enumerated in neighboring Johnson County. Is this my Isaac? Don't know, need to check that out!)
P. S. I also found another second great-grandfather, Miles Francis Stanley, in the 1880 Hill County Schedule 2- Products of Agriculture schedule. Glad I investigated this database. Thanks, Randy!


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An indication of each seller's minimum expectation is given as a "Guide Price" or as a "Guide Range".
The majority of lots offered will be subject to a "Reserve" (the minimum price acceptable to the seller) which is expected to be within the "Guide Range" or no more than 10% above the "Guide Price".
The "Guide Price" or "Range" may be subject to change at a later date.£120,000.00
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Monday marks the day exactly 246 years ago when some Philadelphia bumpkin laid the foundation stone for Tryon Palace. I�m guessing it was a Philadelphia bumpkin. After all, John Hawks, who designed the magnificent edifice whose avatar we all know and love today, couldn�t find a lot of skilled labor in New Bern, so he sent off to the City of Brotherly Love for workers.
Monday marks the day exactly 246 years ago when some Philadelphia bumpkin laid the foundation stone for Tryon Palace. I�m guessing it was a Philadelphia bumpkin. After all, John Hawks, who designed the magnificent edifice whose avatar we all know and love today, couldn�t find a lot of skilled labor in New Bern, so he sent off to the City of Brotherly Love for workers.
I don�t know if they did the groundbreaking thing, where high officials give lofty speeches then grab a shovel that�s been spray-painted gold and, standing in a neat line, turn up a chunk of earth. If they did, I�ll bet William Tryon himself gripped one shovel, Hawks another, maybe Richard Cogdell, the incredibly rich New Bern merchant, grabbed another. Maybe Atticus Jones, the anonymous letter writer who would trash the good governor Tryon over the coming years, stood to one side shouting: �Hire local labor!�
Perhaps the governor stepped forward then, describing his fine �government building,� then grinned slyly and added, �If you think this is great, wait till you see the history center they put up in about 240 years!�
And perhaps Caleb Bradham�s ancestors stood about, murmuring �Amen.�
The original Palace (it burned down in 1798) was one of the most controversial buildings in colonial America. When William Tryon first arrived as governor in 1765, North Carolina had no official capital. We were pretty much the backwoods of America in those days � the pesky Outer Banks made settlement fairly difficult, and our conceited brethren in Virginia and South Carolina didn�t help things along in that line.
The governor pretty much ran things from where he liked best. Arthur Dobbs, the man who preceded Tryon, lived in Brunswick, a town that no longer exists since the British destroyed it in the Revolutionary War.
The General Assembly met in various towns, moving up and down the coast while the colony�s vital records lumbered about in a wagon.
Tryon was determined to change this backward situation. When he came from England, he hauled along the architect Hawks specifically to design a governmental building. Tryon also chose New Bern as the location for his capital.
I�m not sure of his reasoning, but the town was pretty centrally located halfway up and down the coast. It was even roughly central east-to-west: The land where Raleigh stands today was pretty much seen as wild frontier.
Tryon took a couple of years to get around to building the edifice. He was tied up with other matters for a while � for instance, the Stamp Tax was a boiling-over issue when he first arrived.
But in January 1767, the General Assembly approved the new building, whose first floor would be an office of governmental business and whose second floor would serve as residential space for the governor, his wife and young daughter. Along with that approval was a poll tax � and therein came the controversy.
Tryon�s building would be glorious � it would even rival the fancy mansion in Williamsburg. Many people thought it was awfully fancy for a little rural place like North Carolina. And the settlers who lived inland deeply resented its high cost. For one thing, they lived too far away to get any benefit from it, in their opinion. And cash � which the poll tax required � was very hard to come by. Most trading among the common folk in those days was �in kind� � you shoe my horse and I�ll give you this fine chicken.
But Tryon, secure in his popularity along the coast, pushed on. On Jan. 9, he signed a contract with Hawks to have the building done in three years. The work began on Aug. 26. By January of the next year, the governor was back before the assembly, asking for more money and taxes to cover, which it gave, approving a ceiling price (including ceiling, I guess) of �15,000.
Despite setbacks such as a major hurricane, the Palace was completed in 1770. The Tryons moved in June 7, 1770, and would live there barely a year before moving on to New York.
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Mumford High School Demolition Underway #MumfordHS #DPS #TellUsDetroit
July 25, 2012 Leave a comment
Construction of a new $52.1 million high school nearly complete on the Wyoming Street campus
DETROIT – Demolition started today of the 63-year-old former Samuel C. Mumford High School on the campus located at 17525 Wyoming Street in northwest Detroit. It will take demolition crews approximately nine weeks to level the 240,273-square-foot Art Deco style structure that was built in 1949.
Construction of a new $52.1 million facility is nearly complete on the former athletic field and will open this fall. A new football and track and field area will be constructed on the grounds of the old high school after demolition of the structure is complete.
Construction of a brand new Mumford school and demolition of the old building is part of the $500.5 million DPS Capital Improvement Program Detroit voters approved under Proposal S in 2009.
Detroit-headquartered 1 Way Service, Inc. was awarded the contract to abate and demolish the former Mumford High School.
The DPS Capital Improvement Program is in the third and final year of construction, demolition and improvement projects. Demolition at Robeson and the old Mackenzie schools began this summer. The program also included demolition of seven other closed schools including the old Earhart, Chadsey, Munger, Gompers, Finney, Martin Luther King Jr. schools, and Cass Tech.
Program manager for the Bond Construction Program is Walbridge Joint Venture, which includes Brailsford & Dunlavey, Walbridge, and Fanning Howey.
Detroit voters approved Proposal S in November 2009 which enabled the district to access $500.5 million for school capital improvement projects. The improvement program also includes technology upgrades and security initiatives being funded with Proposal S dollars. To comply with federal guidelines, all bond dollars must be spent within three years and all projects must be completed by September 2012.


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Daimon wrote:Monika wrote:ElWanderer wrote:Those have the context of someone complaining about the way you talk. It does sound odd to say something like "I talk the way I want to" out of the blue. Monika, is there a specific context in mind?
The context is:
"irregardless: linguists would say "It is non-standard". Normal people would say "It is wrong". Other normal people who like to use it would say "I talk how|like|as(?) I want"."
I'm sorry, what was that first "word"?
Irregardless. That word that linguists would call non-standard, and many normal people (non-linguists) would say is wrong / not a word, and some normal people (non-linguists) would use anyway.


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This season, there have been plenty of explorations in eastern exoticism. Vera Wang did it, Prada too. But no one, for Spring 2013 anyway, has done it as sexily as Peter Dundas did today with his languid play on the "opulence of Indochina."
Sheer was the name of the game here, and it came in the form of white chiffon and organza that covered (well, not really) the body in loose layers and billowing shapes. Wide-leg trousers, tunics, tank tops, and even a trench coat seemed to float off the body in barely there wisps; some pieces were anchored only by strategically placed opaque panels or delicate, crystal-embellished embroidery in dragon and tiger motifs. A later group consisting of silky anoraks, kimono-style jackets, column gowns, and slouchy pantsuits came in liquid-like silk and printed with bold blossom prints or adorned with metallic appliqué. Though less revealing, they embodied the same sensual spirit.


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Q: What can you do to prevent kidney stones?
A: Most kidney stones are composed of calcium oxalate or a mixture of calcium oxalate and calcium phosphate. They form when the urine becomes very concentrated.
Maintaining a high fluid intake (2 to 3 liters per day) is critical for prevention. Water, lemonade (made with real lemons) and orange juice are the best fluids. The goal is to keep the urine clear.
Limiting salt intake as well as reducing meat portions to the size of a deck of cards can also be helpful.
Patients with recurrent stones should speak with a urologist.
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"Can you explain what it means when there is a flat tax on the first dollar of income earned? Does that mean I will only pay 2.98% of $1.00? Of course it can't mean that. I could only wish. I wouldn't mind a flat tax on 2.98% of all income. How would that work for those of us that work in NYS? I wish they would come up with an easier tax return. I hate the NJ 1040 since I work in NY and my husband works in NJ."
The Lonegan for Governor website page on the Flat Tax does not provide any examples of the application of the tax. I assume it will work similar to Pennsylvania's flat tax system. Sol, Lynn, here is how it would work, based on the existing Pennsylvania tax system.
You have W-2 income of $50,000, interest and dividends of $1,000, and a $2,000 net capital loss from the sale of securities. Your NJ state taxable income would be $51,000. Since, as is already the case with the NJ-1040, losses in one category of income do not reduce income in other categories, the $2,000 net capital loss would be "lost" and you would only be taxed on your combined positive income of $50,000 + $1,000.
There would be no deduction for personal exemptions or, and here I am not sure, medical expenses or property taxes (actual or, as with a tenant, assumed). Your tax would be $51,000 x 2.98%, or $1,520. Under the current NJ system the tax would be $1,220 (assuming the $50 Property Tax Credit instead of a Property Tax Deduction and no medical expenses) for a single filer.
I do not know how the new flat tax system would handle pension income and the Retirement Income Exclusion. I do believe that PA does not tax pensions.
So I assume that you would take the New Jersey Gross Income reported on Line 28 of the NJ-1040 and simply multiply it by 2.98% to determine your NJ tax.
FYI under Lonegan's plan the flat rate would decrease to 2.5% the following year, and further to 2.1% in the third year. So in the above example the tax would be less than the current NJGIT in the third year - $51,000 x 2.1% = $1,071.
I certainly expect that there would continue to be a credit for taxes paid on the same income to other states. So if the $50,000 was earned, and already taxed, in New York State a credit would be allowed on the NJ state return.
New Jersey and Pennsylvania have a reciprocal agreement. Residents of NJ are not taxed by PA on wages earned in Pennsylvania, and residents of PA are not taxed by NJ on NJ source wages. If you live in New Jersey and work in Pennsylvania your employer should not be withholding PA state income tax from your wages. He should be withholding New Jersey Gross Income Tax. It is the same if you live in Pennsylvania and work in New Jersey – PA state income tax should be withheld. There is no similar reciprocity for business income or other types of state-specific sourced income.
This will never happen with New York and New Jersey. Since New York's state income tax is for the most part higher than that of New Jersey no NYS legislature would ever agree to reciprocity.
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THE PARTY Famed appliance purveyor Fisher & Paykel hosted a West Coast Design event celebrating the launch of its DCS collaboration. The event gathered all of SoCal's top designers, architects, retailers and builders at Spark Woodfire Grill in Huntington Beach for Experience Two Brands, One Passion. THE PLAYERS Treana Feeney, Melinda Aguilar, Eder Davila, Cisco Aguilar, Monica Vrenza, Gina Lathrum THE SCENE The evening culminated around the company's iconic Social Kitchen concept, which shakes up traditional cooking methods. Guests munched on bites by Spark's chef Tom Shields and admired innovative appliances when not lounging by the fire pits. Photography by Michael DeLeon


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US Search, Inc., the company behind PrivacyLock, is an online data broker that compiles public records and sells data about consumers to the public. The records may contain not only names, addresses and phone numbers, but also information such as aliases, marriages and divorces, bankruptcies, neighbors, associates, criminal records, and home values. US Search offered customers a variety of search services, including "People Search," "Background Check," Real Estate Reports," and "Criminal Records/Court Records Searches." It also offered a "Reverse Lookup" service that can return the name of an individual associated with a particular phone number or property address.
The company's PrivacyLock service promised consumers that it would block others from seeing their personal information, but according to the FTC complaint, these claims were false. The agency alleged that since June of 2009, the PrivacyLock Service:
- did not block consumers' names from showing up as an associate of someone else in a search for the other person's name;
- did not block consumers' information from appearing in a "reverse search" of their phone number or address, or in a search of their address in real estate records;
- did not work if the consumer changed addresses, thereby generating new records that would not be subject to the PrivacyLock; and did not work if the consumer had multiple records – for example "John Smith" and "John T. Smith."
The settlement bars US Search, Inc. and US Search, LLC from misrepresenting the effectiveness of their PrivacyLock Service or any other service they offer that will allow consumers to remove information about themselves from search results, websites, and advertisements. The settlement order also requires that they disclose any limitations on such services, and that they fully refund 5,000 consumers who paid $10 each for the service.
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She's Geeky 10 - The 5th Bay Area Event!
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 9:00 AM - Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 4:00 PM (PST)
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She's Geeky: Bay Area #5
Fri, Sat, Sun January 27-29, 2012
Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California
- Doors open at 8:15am each day.
- Agenda Creation for the whole day happens between 9am and 10am.
- There are 5 - one hour conference sessions durring each day.
- We close as a group between 5:00 and 5:30pm.
- Evening activities will be on your own unless you want to sponsorship them!
Who is invited?
Are you a woman? Are you a Geek? This event is for you! We invite women from a diverse array of technological fields and those doing technology within non-technical fields. This includes:
- Scientists
- Engineers
- Mathematicians
- Entrepreneurs
- BioTech
- Users of Tech tools
- Open Source Applied Math
- Gadget Enthusiasts
- Hardware Hackers
- Firmware Programmers
- All kinds of Programmers
- Video Geeks
- Gamers
- .....what ever you think is geeky
All three days will be run the same, beginning with group/interactive agenda setting in the morning. Feel free to choose which day(s) you'll come based on your schedule. Choose how many days you attend based on how much community exposure and opportunity you want and need. Each day will have new things to offer!
You can bring your daughters! We even created a special ticket price for them. Girls as young as 9 years old have attended She's Geeky with their mothers, aunts, sisters, and/or mentors.
Sponsors: We are actively seeking sponsors please see this page to learn more about levels.
About She's Geeky:
Inspiring each other, creating vital networks, and sharing skills are the backbone of our events. Without places to re-energize and networks that support them, women who have done the hard work of developing their skills to work in STEM may drop out after just a few years in their field. We want to improve the situation of women in STEM fields, increase retention rates, and create a place for women to discuss the topics that are meaningful to them.
Women attending She's Geeky events find the inspiration necessary to continue on STEM career paths because they are given the opportunity to present their work, discuss critical issues and build peer networks for support.
We work with and promote existing activities and organizations in regions around the country. She's Geeky is a neutral event that supports connection between different geeky cultures by using a format where the agenda is created live at the event by the women in attendance.
Since the first successful event in 2007, we have hosted 10 events around the country inclusive of women of all ages who self-identify as geeks. We attract women from a broad spectrum of technological specialties, professions, industries, levels of expertise, and across generations.
This will be our fifth Bay Area She's Geeky event and we are aiming for 300-500 women attending the event over the three days at the Computer History Museum.
What is an unConference?
Beginning at 9 AM each day we start with a blank wall and in less than an hour, with facilitator guidance, attendees create a full day, multi-track conference agenda that is relevant and inspiring to everyone who attends. All are welcome to put forward presentations or propose conversations. As women register we will be posting proposed topics on our wiki.
If this is an unConference - why does it cost money?
We operate She's Geeky as a not-for-profit event of PlanetWorks and raise enough funds to cover the expenses of producing a quality event. About half (1/2) the cost of putting it on is covered by ticket sales and half (1/2) from sponsors. Our no-show rate is only 10% verses up to 60% for free camps. Because we are committed to providing food economically and ecologically we create a contract with attendees to attend via a financial incentive (aka tickets). Your payment covers food and a portion of the related venue and event expenses and in exchange we provide a well organized, adequately staffed, engaging event at a reasonable price that is considerably less than regular conferences. To understand more about this please see our post about money and unconferences.
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We look forward to seeing you soon!
When & Where
Computer History Museum
1401 N Shoreline Blvd
Mountain View,
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 9:00 AM - Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 4:00 PM (PST)
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Beginning Manners & Obedience for Dogs is the perfect first training class for your new canine companion. Our goal is to provide a safe and fun learning environment that will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to successfully work with your dog to get the kind of behavior you like, both at home and out in the real world.
We'll start by spending time in the classroom setting down the fundamentals and then we'll begin to take them on the road with increasingly more complicated real life challenges so that you can learn how to get your dog to work with you wherever you happen to be.
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We'll also help you work through the basics of bringing a new dog you're your home. We'll talk about housetraining issues and "naughty" behaviors like chewing inappropriate items. We'll help you learn how to teach your dog to be comfortable when left alone so they aren't to stressed and make the right decisions when you are away!
Our Beginning and Intermediate Manners & Obedience for Dogs classes are a complete training track for canines who are beginning their obedience training as young adults or adults.
Beginning Manners and Obedience for Dogs is 6 consecutive weeks long unless skip dates are noted below. Each session is on the same day and time each week that the class began (As an Example: Tuesday 6:15 start date will always meet Tuesdays at 6:15 ) and class lasts approximately 50 minutes. The first class session is "Humans Only", owners should attend the first class without their dog and attend classes 2 thru 6 with their dogs.
This class is for dogs 5 months and older! Feel free to enroll your senior companion because old dogs really can learn new tricks! You will be required to provide proof of current, age appropriate vaccinations.Click here to review all our group dog class rules and policies.
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Quinoa Chicken Salad
Cook 1/2 cup low-sodium chicken stock and 1/4 cup quinoa until al dente, about 15 minutes. Add 1/4 cup diced cucumber, 1/4 cup diced red bell pepper, 1/4 cup corn, and 3 1/2 ounces cooked shredded chicken. Whisk together 2 teaspoons olive oil, juice of 1/2 lime, 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar, 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro, 1 tablespoon chopped scallions, 1/2 teaspoon cumin, and a pinch each salt and red pepper flakes. Pour over salad and toss. Top with 1 teaspoon pumpkin seeds.
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Roast Beef Wrap
Whisk together 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon chili paste, 1 teaspoon sesame oil, juice from 1/2 lime, and a pinch each sugar and salt. Mix in 1/4 cup sliced red bell pepper, 1/4 cup sliced carrot, 1/4 cup snow peas, 1/4 cup chopped cilantro, and 1/4 cup broccoli florets. Add 1/3 cup cooked soba noodles and 1 tablespoon chopped peanuts; toss to coat. Divide into three portions and place each on 1 romaine lettuce leaf topped with a 1-ounce slice of lean roast beef. Roll into wraps. Eat with 1 small Asian pear.
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BLT Mash
Mash 1/4 avocado with salt and black pepper to taste and 1 tablespoon lemon juice; spread over 2 slices whole-grain toast.
On one slice, layer 2 strips cooked applewood-smoked bacon, 3 thin slices red onion, 3 thin slices tomato, and 1/4 cup arugula. Top with the other slice toast. Eat with 6 ounces vegetable soup.
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Tuna Nicoise
Mix 4 ounces canned albacore tuna, rinsed and drained, with 1 teaspoon capers, 1 teaspoon olive oil, 1 teaspoon chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, 1 teaspoon chopped scallions, and 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Top 1 cup Boston lettuce with tuna and 1 hard-boiled egg, quartered; 1/2 cup cooked fingerling potatoes; 1/2 cup green beans; and 2 tablespoons quartered Kalamata olives.
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Broccoli Cheddar Soup with Chicken
Heat 1 teaspoon olive oil over medium-high heat. Saute 1 garlic clove, minced, and 1/4 cup chopped yellow onion about 2 minutes. Add 4 cups low-sodium chicken stock, bring to a boil and add 2 cups chopped broccoli florets. Cover and simmer until broccoli is tender, 5 to 7 minutes. Puree, add back to skillet, and mix in 1/4 cup cooked chicken, 1/4 cup low-fat sharp cheddar, and a pinch ground nutmeg. Eat with 5 whole wheat crackers. (Makes 2 servings.)
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Greek Yogurt Chicken Salad
Combine 3 tablespoons nonfat Greek yogurt; 1/2 teaspoon mustard; 1 teaspoon low-fat mayonnaise; 2 tablespoons chopped celery; 1/2 medium carrot, chopped; 1 tablespoon chopped parsley; and 1 tablespoon chopped chives. Toss with 1 cup chopped cooked chicken. Whisk together 1 cup sliced cucumber, a pinch salt, 1/4 teaspoon sugar, 2 tablespoons white vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon canola oil, and 1 teaspoon chopped fresh dill. Serve cucumber salad with chicken salad over 1 cup chopped romaine lettuce.
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Citrus Shrimp Salad
Saute 3 ounces shrimp with 1 garlic clove, chopped, and 1 tablespoon lemon juice in a skillet coated with nonstick cooking spray. Combine 1/3 cup chopped bibb lettuce, 1/2 cup chopped endive, 1/2 cup chopped red cabbage, and 1/2 cup chopped fennel. Collect juice from 1/2 navel orange and 1/2 pink grapefruit. Peel and cut remaining fruit into segments. Whisk together 1/2 teaspoon olive oil and citrus juice and toss with mixed greens; 1/3 avocado, sliced; shrimp; and citrus segments. Top with 2 teaspoons Parmesan shavings and 2 teaspoons sunflower seeds.
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CRUMBLING cliffs above ancient Whitby are causing grave concern after landslips uncovered human bones in an old cemetery.
Torrential rain has caused ongoing problems in the town with a block of five houses already dismantled after land gave way.
The cliffs below St Mary's Church are being constantly monitored after a broken drainage pipe caused mudslides.
These uncovered the remains in the old cemetery to the front of the historic church, which was founded around 1110AD and the graveyard renowned as the inspiration for Bram Stoker's classic horror novel Dracula.
Reverend David Smith of St Mary's said: "The cemetery has been a closed cemetery for over a century, so if any graves are exposed it's only bones.
"If anything is exposed we collect and reinter them in the same churchyard away from the edge."
The church authorities have brought in engineers and contractors to assess the situation and it is hoped the pipeline can be repaired by the weekend to prevent further damage.
"The church has been trying to muck in to try and get things done and we have had a civil engineer and people working to sort it out. They've been trying to find where the water was coming from and making the cliff edge more secure."
Warning signs have been installed along the pathway but residents and nearby businesses are worried there'll be further landslides.
Barry Brown, owner of Fortune's Kippers, which has operated on the site at Henrietta Street for over 140 years said: "There is still debris coming down. I'm worried the cliff is going to come down, and I don't know what sort of damage it's going to do.
"If anything more comes down we are going to have to shut the shop because it will be too dangerous."
The cottages at Aelfleda Terrace were dismantled by Scarborough Borough Council after land slipped away under them, with work completed just after Christmas.
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The indie game Limbo is something that offers an interesting and very different atmosphere than what we're used to with most games – it is a dark shadowy puzzle game offering really unique experience, though not everyone may like it. This indie game is definitely something very different from the rest and you should take a look at it if you still haven't tried it as it has been available for a while now (there is a free demo version available). The game offers supports stereoscopic 3D, though due to the way the game world is presented the 3D effect isn't that strong as with some other S3D games, though it is still nice.
Originally made available only as a digital download, now Limbo's developer has released a Special Hard Cover Edition of the game that includes a copy of the game on optical media, along with some extras. You also get a standalone soundtrack by Martin Stig Andersen, seven original art cards, a boy sticker, and a pair of anaglyph 3D glasses along with a free Steam gift key. You can get Limbo Special Hard Cover Edition for $19.99 USD in USA or for 19.99 EUR in Europe, and it still also available as digital download for less than that, but you won't get the extras this way.
Now, originally the game supports stereoscopic 3D mode with anaglyph 3D output for Red-Cyan glasses, thus such a pair is included in the Special Hard Cover Edition, but you can also play the game with 3D Vision. There is an official Limbo 3D Vision profile available and Nvidia has rated the experience in stereo 3D mode as Excellent. To enable the built-in anaglyph stereoscopic 3D support int he game Limbo you need to press at the same time the following key combination: "SHIFT + 3 + D" and to get back to 2D mode you need to press "SHIFT + 2 + D" on the keyboard. Enabling stereo 3D mode using 3D Vision happens the traditional way – either by pressing the button on the IR emitter (if you have it) or with the "CTRL + T" key combination. To get an idea on what to expect from the stereo 3D mode in the game Limbo, I've recorded a short video using 3D Vision with low to moderate depth levels and shared it on YouTube (the clip embedded above). As I've said don't expect too much form the stereo 3D in the game, but it works well and may add an extra level of immersion in this really strange and weird puzzle adventure ahead of you.
– Here you can order the Indie Game Limbo in its Special Hard Cover Edition…


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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Hexie Fever
I am also working on a pink crocheted afghan for a soon-to-be-expected baby girl. The plan is to create an edging of some kind where this brown and pink ribbon can be woven into. We'll see how that goes as I seem to be making things up as I go along.
For anyone who is trying to email me at my Road Runner address, please note that I still do not have access to it. If you need to reach me right away, please contact me through my email posted in my profile page of my blog. We hope to have my Road Runner email up and running by next week.
Have a good day!
17 comments:
- karenfae said...
that sure is a lot of hexagons - looking forward to seeing what you make out of them.
- Thu Apr 30, 02:51:00 PM 2009
- The Handy Housewife said...
check out Alicia Paulson's crochet blanket. the pdf is free. http://rosylittlethings.typepad.com/TiramisuBlanket.pdf
- Thu Apr 30, 03:20:00 PM 2009
- Catherine said...
I wish I could help BUT I'm in the grips of a serious case of hexie fever too! They're addictive. I've printed out lots and lots of them in different sizes ready to stitch. I'll join you in the madness -- that's about the best I can do. :-)
- Thu Apr 30, 03:42:00 PM 2009
What are you planning making with all your hexie? Colors a very pretty!
- Thu Apr 30, 04:00:00 PM 2009
- Stephanie D. said...
AGGGGHHH! Basis for a horror movie--Attack of the Hexagons! lol
But they're too pretty to be scary.
- Thu Apr 30, 04:10:00 PM 2009
- Ann said...
Lettie, The pink afghan is so cute. I love brown with pink, some little lady is going to be very lucky. Go luck with the Roadrunner thing, that's who we just switched away from. ~Ann
- Thu Apr 30, 04:40:00 PM 2009
- Suze said...
Wow, that's a lot of pretty hexies! Can't wait to see what it turns into. Very pretty afgan.
- Thu Apr 30, 11:27:00 PM 2009
- annemarie said...
What a beautiful baby blanket! What pattern are you using - that stitch looks so neat. I must try hexagons this weekend - a new venture for me.
- Fri May 01, 04:55:00 AM 2009
- sweetiepie said...
Lettie, I love your baby afghan. It is a very interesting pattern.
Also, I think your hexies are very colorful. I can't wait to see what you create with them.
Take care.
- Fri May 01, 05:09:00 AM 2009
- emy said...
Anch'io adoro gli esagoni!!! Non vedo l'ora di vedere cosa ne farai!
- Fri May 01, 05:57:00 AM 2009
- Janine said...
Dear Lettie,
that´s what I call busy.
I guess I would be too lazy for that.
I wonder what you create of all this hexes.
It will be lovely, that is for sure.
Enjoy your weekend
- Fri May 01, 06:05:00 AM 2009
- Dawn said...
Your hexies look great!! Lovely blanket!!
- Fri May 01, 11:13:00 AM 2009
- Tozz said...
I love doing hexies too...and YOurs are looking superb!! I love your hexie bag too..its stunning.
- Fri May 01, 10:06:00 PM 2009
- Patty said...
I love all the fabric you've used for your hexies.
- Sat May 02, 11:11:00 PM 2009
- Sharon said...
That's a lot of hexies you have there. The pink yarn looks so soft and girly.
- Sun May 03, 09:51:00 PM 2009
- Carrie P. said...
You have the hexie thing bad. Pretty pink afghan.
- Mon May 04, 04:52:00 AM 2009
- Sherri said...
That's it...I have hexie fever!!! I too am afraid of turning my whole stash into hexies!!! Thanks for the diagnosis!
- Wed May 06, 12:35:00 PM 2009


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So last month I travelled down to beautiful Lennox Head NSW for a holiday and on way home collected my Cade Altumate 1500 cabinet. It was naturally all crated up so I couldnt look at it until Id made the return journey home to the NT. They are extremelywell packed and boxed up - kudoos to Cade, awesome piece of equipment. The tank itself should arrive mid next week 😅
Im planning on putting filter wool and sponge in the top two tiers of the sump basket in-filter, maxspect bio balls in the next tray and a continuum Bakki brick in the bottom basket. In the second chamber Im planning on a refugium with pothe or java fern - havent quite decided which. I have a 6500 kelvin light compact fluoro for the refugium so hopefully that will be sufficient for whatever does end up in there. In the third chamber Ill have two more bricks or possibly porous rock as suggested by Sayid. The pump is a Fluval Sea sp2 (thinking I maybe shouldve got a sp4 but well see). Its a wet or dry pump so I plan to run as a dry making the most of the chambers.
Decided to do a journal on it as Im sure there will be some trials and tribulations! Will try and post pics but Im not real good at it. Okay thats it, rabbited on enough. Cheers to the first chapter of journal! 🍾


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Last fall and winter, I cut enough firewood to heat my seven-room house and bring in a substantial profit ...even though my home is in the heart of suburban New Jersey, only 30 minutes from midtown Manhattan! And if you live in or near a large city, as I do, you might also be able to keep your woodpile high—while earning a steady income—by cashing in on readily available free fuel.
Just about every country dweller realizes the value of good cordwood, you see, but in the cities and suburbs great quantities of this valuable natural fuel go to waste every year. Scrap wood from urban building projects is just as often discarded as it is recycled, and streets in many older residential neighborhoods are lined with massive oaks and maples that are regularly trimmed. So anyone with a little free time, a few tools, and some elementary knowledge of woodcutting can help him- or herself to a bonanza of free-for-the-hauling firewood.
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I launched my career as an urban lumberjack when Hurricane David's violent winds littered the streets of my New Jersey town with enough tree trunks and tree limbs to fuel a whole battalion of stoves.
As I watched the city's cleanup crews feeding cord after cord of perfectly good wood into the steel jaws of chipping machines, I had a brainstorm: Who would object if I were to reach some of the fallen timber before the municipal workers did, and cut the logs to cart home for my fireplace? I set to it right away, and within a couple of afternoons—using only a bucksaw and a compact car— I collected nearly two cords of wood!
After that encouraging start, my project quickly mushroomed into a small but steady business, which brought in over $1,000 last year (not including the cash I saved by reducing my own heating bills). I've discovered numerous sources of free wood to supply my own fireplace and stove. I now have a long list of customers to whom I can sell the surplus, and my profits have enabled me to buy a chain saw, a used pickup truck, and a new airtight wood stove.
I'm willing to bet that you could easily duplicate my success whether you plan to cut wood just for your personal needs, or to harvest enough to start a full-scale delivery service. However, although urban lumberjacking is relatively easy to break into, it isn't an ideal line of work for everyone. The initial investment in equipment doesn't have to be large, but you will have to spend many hours cutting, splitting, and stacking wood. If you're not prepared to make that kind of commitment, you'd better plan to pay for having your fuel delivered to your doorstep this winter. On the other hand, if the idea of being your own boss and working up a good honest sweat with vigorous outdoor work does appeal to you, then read on ...and good luck!
Where to Find Free Wood
As you begin to collect stock for your business, you'll probably gain a new understanding of the term "windfall," since your main source of scrounged wood will be trees and limbs that have been blown down. In fact, you can sometimes gather a whole year's inventory after just one major storm. City maintenance teams usually clear the streets of broken limbs within one or two days after the skies clear, though, so you'll have to move quickly. To save time, simply saw fallen trunks and large branches into the longest pieces you can fit into your vehicle, then drop them off at home before heading back to the streets for another load. (Later on, of course, you can cut and split the large logs into fireplace and stove lengths.)
Ice storms often provide almost as much wood as heavy winds do. The winter tempests generally dislodge smaller branches than do hurricanes or tornadoes, but you can always use more kindling ...and remember, it's all free, so don't be too choosy!
Do be careful, however, about what kind of wood you take home. Sometimes you'll come across a tree or a limb that's fallen during calm weather, for no apparent reason. Examine such specimens carefully, because they may be infested with wood-eating insects. On the other hand, many deadfalls are perfectly good, and it's wise to explore new neighborhoods every once in a while—or simply to vary the route you take to work—in order to keep an eye out for such "gifts."
Believe it or not, homeowners will at times actually assist your wood-gathering efforts by stacking fallen or pruned branches at the curb. Of course, the leavings will only be carted off by the city sanitation department if you don't haul them away, so take advantage of the situation. Simply knock on the door. and ask the resident's permission to remove some of the timber he or she has left at the curb. Most of the time you'll receive an affirmative answer. If a homeowner hesitates, you might offer to chop up some fireplace lengths in exchange for the rest of the load.
It's even possible to find finished lumber that's been thrown away! For example, a builder who recently cleared a large wooded lot in my neighborhood provided a double bonanza. First, he left all of the logs (conveniently sawed into perfect fireplace lengths) for scavengers like me. Then later when the house construction was finished—I was able to collect hundreds of broken 2 X 4's and other odd-sized boards, which I split into piles of kindling.
When there hasn't been a storm for months and all your other usual sources of free wood are exhausted, pay a visit to the town or county landfill. Either one might be your best source of up-for-grabs fuel ...provided, of course, that dump scavenging is legal in your area. Logs that are too big for the city's chipping machines are routinely left in such places to rot. These huge timbers often measure over two feet in diameter. However, it's likely to be against regulations to use a chain saw in the dump, so you'd better take along some strong friends to help you load the monsters. You can cut the logs to size when you get home.
Yet another way to round up fireplace fuel is to trim unwanted wood from people's yards. You'll usually be working on small-scale "cases" which most tree surgeons would charge heavily for, but which can be handled by anyone with a ladder and a few tools. Of course, you'll have to be careful not to tackle jobs that really do need a professional's attention (such as removing an 80-foot oak that's leaning precariously over a $200,000 residence). However, a suburban homeowner who wants to get rid of a 15-foot apple tree that's no longer bearing fruit would be a perfect customer for your cut-it-and-haul-it services. (And, don't feel any guilt about charging $25 or $30 for your time and effort, either; the pros would likely charge two to three times that much! )
Equipping Your Business
If you plan to get into urban woodcutting on a commercial scale, you'll soon find that you can't function without a truck and a chain saw. Passenger cars don't usually have the suspension needed to carry large quantities of wood safely. Even a van—although it may have ample room—likely isn't adequately sprung for hauling heavy loads. Once I had tired of loading the trunk of my compact car over and over again, I purchased a 3/4-ton '69 pickup, and it's worked very well for transporting logs and delivering split cordwood. If you're concerned about gas mileage, you might want to consider buying one of the smaller-bed trucks ...but remember that you won't be able to load it with as much wood as a larger model could handle.
The amount and kind of cutting you plan to do will determine the size and weight of saw that best suits your needs. For my medium-sized business, I have found a 3.2-horsepower machine with a 16-inch blade to be very satisfactory. (Be sure to buy a gas fueled model, though, since the electric units are often underpowered ...and you can't be bothered with dragging along an extension cord every place you go.) In addition to a trustworthy saw, your beginning woodcutter's tool kit should include a six- or eight-pound maul, a sledge of the same weight, and a couple of wedges.
Marketing the Surplus
Whenever you cut a load of wood, try to split each log into the smallest pieces practical, to help it season quickly. Once the wood is processed and stacked, you'll want to let it "cure" for at least nine months before marketing it.
Once it's well seasoned, you should have little trouble selling your surplus wood, as long as you charge a fair price and give an honest measure. Of course, it also helps to undersell the competition by a slight margin. In my area, a cord of seasoned wood sold for $100 (and up) last year. I offered my stock at $90 a cord, and I couldn't fill all of the orders I received as a result of word-of-mouth advertising around the neighborhood!
Furthermore, I supplemented my suburban lumberjacking income by selling small loads of wood to apartment dwellers in Manhattan. Most city folks are used to paying astronomical prices even for kindling, so I had no trouble at ail securing orders for my less expensive bundles (I checked local prices, then cut them by 10 to 20%) .
You might also find that, in addition to being a very salable item, split wood is a valuable commodity on the bartering market. Last winter, for example, a colleague drove me to work every day for several weeks in exchange for a small load of fireplace logs. Later, a friend of mine who's an expert plumber repaired my toilet in return for stovewood.
Hired Hands
On occasion, you may find it necessary to hire a few part-time helpers to assist with the tasks that are just too big for one person to handle. I occasionally employ a couple of strong high school students to lift heavy logs and to carry wood long distances. The young people work happily for the minimum wage (since that's more than many after-school jobs pay).
When I need assistance with lighter chores such as moving split and seasoned timber from the garage into the truck or onto my own porch—I sometimes recruit a couple of the neighborhood youngsters who invariably show up to watch "the guy with the garage full of wood". The children are enthusiastic volunteers, and I can repay them with a mug of hot chocolate and 50¢ or so.
Problems ... and Rewards
Of course, no business is without its negative aspects, and any number of problems can befall the urban lumberjack. My biggest difficulty has been a lack of storage space. My garage is always packed to the rafters with drying wood. I'm also hard pressed to find a suitable area in which to split and store the fuel. In fact, if my customer list expands this fall, I'll have to rent another garage or fenced lot where I can process the orders.
Equipment failure can also hinder the smooth operation of your enterprise. I missed out on the windfalls that resulted from a tremendous storm last summer simply because my chain saw was in "dry dock" at the repair shop. An old truck can be counted on to conk out at any time, too (usually when you're swamped with orders to deliver), and everybody knows how expensive repair bills can be! Even the simple splitting tools require maintenance: I've broken $20 worth of handles in one year!
And, as I mentioned earlier, the urban lumberjack should always be on the lookout for wood-eating insects. Don't take home any timbers that appear to be infested, and never store a large supply of logs in your basement or in an attached garage.
Finally, take precautions to avoid on-the-job accidents. Always wear gloves, goggles, and earplugs when sawing trees or limbs. Keep your tools in safe working condition. In addition, never increase the risk inherent in this kind of work by tackling a job that you aren't 100% certain you can handle.
You know the old lumberjack's motto, "If you cut your own wood, it'll warm you twice." Well, I consider that an understatement: I find that cutting—and selling—my own wood warms me many times. To understand what I mean, picture yourself tramping through a snow-covered lot in midwinter with an axe on your shoulder ...splitting thick logs with a couple of clean strokes ...delivering a load of fragrant, well-seasoned wood to a satisfied customer ...pocketing some extra cash for the holidays ...and, of course, sitting by your own roaring (and free) fire on a stormy night.
Not many jobs—either city- or country-based—can offer such attractive working conditions. So I can just about guarantee that, should you decide to become an urban woodcutter this winter, you'll "warm" to your new occupation in no time!


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NEW YORK (AP) - Like mother, like daughter. And Jerry Hall and Georgia May Jagger do seem to like each other quite a bit.
NEW YORK (AP) � Like mother, like daughter. And Jerry Hall and Georgia May Jagger do seem to like each other quite a bit.
Together, they enjoy riding horses, spa days, gardening, cooking and reading the Sunday newspaper, especially their horoscopes. They share clothes now, too, and are starring in a campaign for Sunglass Hut, their first major joint modeling gig.
The key to the closeness between Hall, 56, and Jagger, 21? "Mom's always right," Jagger says dutifully � and with a laugh.
However, Hall says she is increasingly taking advice, especially when it comes to fashion and style, from Jagger, who has modeled for H&M and Madonna's Material Girl line. And it was Jagger who persuaded her mother to bring out an old leopard-print Thierry Mugler dress and dark cat-eye sunglasses on this day.
"My daughter has turned my old clothes 'vintage,'" Hall says.
But when one of Hall's items goes missing, Jagger says it's her sister, Elizabeth, also a model, who has taken it. Hall doesn't quite buy it. "I have spent hours looking for something, and then I see the girls wearing it. They both do it!" she says.
Hall and Jagger are reunited temporarily under the same London roof. Jagger is doing some home renovations, so she moved in with mom.
They were together in New York for a promotional event for Sunglass Hut.
Their opinions do differ when asked who is recognized more often on the street. Jagger says Hall, Hall says Jagger. "It seems like she's on TV every five minutes in England."
Hall, a Texas native, was a rising modeling industry star in the late 1970s when she met � and later married and divorced � Mick Jagger. She's broadened her career to include some acting, including several stage productions of "The Graduate," including an upcoming Australian version, as seductress Mrs. Robinson.
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Another Hole in the Halbig Verdict
It is no secret that the people bringing the challenge to the Obamacare subsidies in the Halbig and King cases—challenges now seeking review from both the full D.C. federal appellate bench and the U.S. Supreme Court after federal appellate courts in Virginia and D.C. came out in opposite ways last month—are some of the same people who brought the 2012 constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act before the high court (the same counsel, and one of the same plaintiffs).
What's less known, however, is that in the 2012 constitutional case, these same challengers filed briefs describing Obamacare to the court in precisely the way they now say the statute cannot possibly be read. Namely, they assumed that the subsidies were available on the federal exchanges and went so far as to argue that the entire statute could not function as written without the subsidies. That's a far cry from their argument now that the statute makes crystal clear that Congress intended to deny subsidies on the federal exchanges.
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I am not a fan of the "gotcha" flavor that some aspects of this case have taken on, but the challengers' 2012 statements are relevant as a legal matter because what the government has to prove to win—as a matter of black-letter law under the Chevron doctrine—is that the statute is ambiguous. ( Chevron says that federal courts defer to the relevant agency's reading of the statute when a federal statute is unclear—here, that agency is the IRS.)
The challengers have spent more than a year arguing that no reasonable reader of text could construe the statute in any way other than denying federal subsidies to insurance purchasers on exchanges operated by the federal government. But what about their statements from 2012—statements then echoed by Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito in their joint dissent to the Supreme Court's ruling in the constituitional challenge, NFIB v. Sebelius? Here are a few; judge for yourself.
The 2012 briefs filed on behalf of the same plaintiff, David Klemencic (among others), by the same counsel as the current challenge, made the case that it is nonsense to read the statute as not offering the federal-exchange subsidies. Indeed, the plaintiffs went so far as to say the entire Affordable Care Act should have been struck down without the subsidies—because the act would not be able to function as written without them.
From the brief:
The Federal Government only subsidizes coverage purchased within an exchange, thus giving insurance companies a reason to sell there despite the distinct regulatory burdens imposed on plans offered through the exchanges. The exchanges cannot be severed from the provisions already addressed. Without the subsidies driving demand within the exchanges, insurance companies would have absolutely no reason to offer their products through exchanges, where they are subject to far greater restrictions. Premised on the mandate, the insurance regulations, and the subsidies, the insurance exchanges cannot operate as intended by Congress absent those provisions. (p. 51, emphasis added).
From their reply brief:
Indeed, the "critical feature" of those exchanges was the "greater standardization of health insurance policies" created by the effective end to individual underwriting. Id. Without that standardization, Congress' goals in creating the exchanges "would be significantly frustrated." Id. 46. Moreover, the federal subsidies are the incentive to participate in the exchanges, and without those subsidies, there will be no mechanism to sustain the exchanges. (p. 20, emphasis added)
And in fact, this comports with precisely how Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito described the statute in their 2012 joint dissent—as nonsense without the subsidies:
In the absence of federal subsidies to purchasers, insurance companies will have little incentive to sell insurance on the exchanges. Under the ACA's scheme, few, if any, individuals would want to buy individual insurance policies outside of an exchange, because federal subsidies would be unavailable outside of an exchange. Difficulty in attracting individuals outside of the exchange would in turn motivate insurers to enter exchanges, despite the exchanges' onerous regulations. See 42 U. S. C. §18031 . That system of incentives collapses if the federal subsidies are invalidated. Without the federal subsidies, individuals would lose the main incentive to purchase insurance inside the exchanges, and some insurers may be unwilling to offer insurance inside of exchanges. With fewer buyers and even fewer sellers, the exchanges would not operate as Congress intended and may not operate at all. (p. 60, emphasis added)
These arguments, it is worth noting, are textual, structural and contextualarguments—arguments about what the statute means, drawing from how the act's different textual provisions fit with one another and are read in light of one another, in the entire statutory scheme. These are not extratextual or legislative history arguments. Rather, they are precisely the kinds of arguments commonly made by textualists, and accepted by the joint dissent in 2012, but which the challengers are now saying is an inappropriate method of interpretation in their effort to construe four words of a 900- page law in a vacuum.


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When you're faced with two different thorny problems, sometimes the best way to make progress is by combining them. I'm talking to you, Jerry Brown.
Your first problem involves water. Residents of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta — California's most vital estuary and source of water — fiercely oppose Brown's plan to build tunnels that will divert water from north of the Delta to provide more reliable supplies to San Joaquin Valley farmers and Southern California. Their opposition is based on fear. In the short term, they fear tunnel construction will disrupt their lives. In the long term, they fear that the tunnels, by allowing other parts of the state to bypass the Delta, will lead Californians to neglect the Delta. And a forgotten Delta, they fear, could die under the stresses of climate, habitat loss, and encroaching salt water from the San Francisco Bay.
Delta folks are likely to fight indefinitely to block the Bay Delta Conservation Plan and the tunnels it would create — unless something dramatic happens to change the conversation. When you ask people in the Delta what would inspire them to conversation and negotiation, they say they need more than promises. They will only consider supporting plans that include "physical assurances" — the placement of water infrastructure that ensures the Delta will not be bypassed and that its health will remain a cause of concern for all.
That brings me to the second, seemingly unrelated problem. It involves housing — for governors. Yes, Gov. Brown personally keeps a loft apartment in Sacramento near the Capitol, and the state has the Leland Stanford Mansion in Sacramento to receive official visitors. But California, unlike most states, has no official gubernatorial residence.
So why not offer Delta residents a very clear and timely "physical assurance" that they won't be forgotten by establishing an official governor's residence in the Delta?
Gov. Brown, people in the Delta couldn't accuse you of abandoning the Delta at the same time you were moving there. And a move would offer an opportunity to engage residents firsthand — and develop the ground-level understanding necessary to make Delta plans acceptable to people living there.
Beyond today's debate about water, there are benefits to turning California governors into Delta residents. The Delta would make a natural refuge from the fast-paced nastiness of politics. It's also not too far from the governor's office. The commute from the Delta town of Clarksburg to the Capitol is less than half an hour, according to Google Maps. Clarksburg produces a lot of good wine — which could be a comfort to future governors when their popularity takes a dive. But Clarksburg is hardly the only good option in the Delta. Anyplace near the proposed tunnels would demonstrate that the governor is ready to live with any disruption caused by his own plan.
But taking over an existing house wouldn't be as interesting as building a new one. Floods are a part of life in the Delta, and a host of environmental regulations govern construction. Many Delta homes are built high up on stilts. Wouldn't it be cool — educational — if the governor's place were an eco-friendly, regulatory-compliant residence built high above ground?
Requiring the governor to live in the Delta would send a profound message, and not just to Delta residents mad about today's water infrastructure plans. Such a move would demonstrate to Californians that our water comes not from a tap, but from real communities. It would emphasize that California's future, as an economy and a place, lies in environmentally minded development.
And it would be remind our leaders that reckoning with the challenges of climate change, water, and natural disasters is not merely part of the job — it's something that they should live with, every single day.
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