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May 7, 1918
Dear Mother and Father:
I am putting on a little style today, writing in real fussy paper and with pen and ink. This is the paper that is given out at the camp reading room. The place is just as nice and neat as the paper is. This is a stub pen, though, and I can hardly write with it.
I see by the New York papers that you have had it warm in Chicago, too. It has been really hot here and it is so damp that we feel it more than we used to at Ft. Riley. I don't know what 110 would be like here. We had it that hot in Ft. Riley last summer.
Today the Company let some men go to New York again so it looks as though we would not go before Thursday as they will not be back till tomorrow. A regiment of Engineers went out last night, or this morning rather. Troops always leave here during the night. I don't know why they do because everybody knows they are going a day or so before, at least we did with these men.
A new lot of cavalrymen came in yesterday, they are old timers having served on the [Mexican] Border a couple of years. Their principal occupation seems to be shooting craps. Gambling is prohibited in the army but their officers don't seem to care. We have always been strict about that in our company but I have heard the last couple of days that some of the boys are playing on the quiet. If they would play for small amounts it would be all right but some men lose all thier pay as soon as they get it.
Received a letter from Father this morning, also a dues book. I think I can keep track of my dues all right. I would have sent enough to pay up in advance but I didn't know when we would get paid again and I wanted some money to spend on the trip if the occasion arose. I understand that sometimes the men don't get paid for a couple of months after they get on the other side. I don't know what causes the delay. Maybe the U-boats sink a boat full of money once in awhile. That is possible of course. When the war is over the deep-sea divers ought to be in great demand. There will be a lot of stuff to bring up from the bottom of the sea.
I am rather surprised at John's going into the Navy. He will learn how to scrub decks now. They have to work pretty hard. There are always lots of sailors in New York, more than there are soldiers. There are so many ships going in and out and as soon as a ship lands the sailors are off for a day or two. The day we were in we saw a lot of them and half of them were drunk. It seems easy for them to get booze although there is a law against providing soldiers or sailors with liquor.
I haven't the address of Aunt Louise or of the Kessler's so I haven't written them. I could call them up and probably will if we have to go before I write them. I haven't kept my addresses separately and I must have destroyed the letter that had those in.
I don't think we are more than 75 miles from Philadelphia. If I had my Betsy I could drive down some time if I had time. This is almost a suburb of New York and the towns are so close together that you go from one town into another without noticing the difference.
There isn't anything that you can send me that I am in need of. We can buy nearly everything at the canteen here at prices less than retail. Will write you again tomorrow. Have written you every day since I came except the day I was in New York. This ought to be the sixth letter.
Love from
Camp Merritt, New Jersey
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Gluten-free Vegetarian Thanksgiving 9: Mushroom Stuffing, Raw Squash Salad and Nutritional Gravy
Thanks to this Gluten-free Vegetarian Thanksgiving event, I think I have a new favorite blog! When Hero Beth of Tasty Yummies signed up to participate in this event, I knew I was in for a treat when she started talking about developing not one but two terrific new recipes for the event. And besides, you know I have a weakness for Yummy recipes! They both sounded so good, I could see why she couldn't pick just one! Her first recipe is for a gluten-free, vegetarian mushroom stuffing that she baked in a muffin tin to make the most adorable stuffing "rolls" I've ever seen. She considered calling them stuffing muffins but found the title unappetizing. Since when I bake yeast breads in muffin tins I call them rolls, I think it would be a very fitting title for this extremely yummy-looking recipe. The only think is that now I'm in a quandry. I absolutely have to make my beloved portobella mushroom stuffed acorn squash recipe which has a delicious stuffing. But her recipe sounds so good. I know! I always have leftover stuffing. This year I think I'll bake it in muffin tins! Whee!!!
As I mentioned Hero Beth made TWO recipes. The other recipes is a Raw Butternut Squash and Kale Salad. This recipe excited me because in the back of my mind I have been daydreaming about what a raw Thanksgiving would look like, and this dish is a great start to an amazing raw foods menu. Also, weirdly enough, although Toddler Yum won't touch cooked squash these days because it is that most suspicious of colors, orange, she has been known to grab raw squash and pumpkin and chow down with enthusiasm. I think if I made this salad (perhaps sans kale, which I would love but which Toddler Yum would undoubtedly pick out fastidiously) Toddler Yum just might gobble it up!
Hero Beth is a tough act to follow, but I thought I'd share one of my favorite vegetarian (vegan) sides- a nutritional yeast gravy that makes everything taste better, from roasted stuffed acorn squash, to mashed potatoes, to biscuits. I bet it would be awesome on Hero Beth's gluten-free mushroom stuffing as well!
Nutritional Yeast Gravy
1/4 cup brown rice flour
1/4 cup nutritional yeast flakes
1 1/2 cup water
2 tbsp Braggs GF liquid aminos
2 tsp olive oil
1/4 tsp onion granules
1/4 tsp garlic granules (if desired)
1/8 tsp black pepper
Heat brown rice flour and nutritional yeast flakes in a dry nonstick frypan on a medium temperature, and let them lightly brown and release their fragrance. Take the pan off the heat and slowly add water, braggs, olive oil and seasonings, whisking continuously until mixture is silky smooth. Return to heat and stir until gravy reaches desired consistency.
I serve this gravy every holiday with mashed potatoes and (on thanksgiving) my portabello stuffed acorn squash dish. It's so easy you can make it anytime, and top brown rice, pasta, baked potatoes or tofu patties. DH enjoys it too, and it's considerably easier than the typical American gravy made from scratch.
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But this warts-and-all painting of Queen Elizabeth I, depicting her with facial wrinkles, is being exhibited at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, after being newly authenticated as the real deal.
Its only marginally less flattering than Kate's new pic.
According to The Telegraph it was produced "by the studio of Gheeraerts in the early-mid 1590s."
The painting is now owned by the Elizabethan Gardens in North Carolina's Outer Banks.
Thomas Herron, an author and English professor at East Carolina University, noted that the reason for the portrait's obscurity may lie in Elizabeth's efforts to control her image.


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For 32-year-old Books of Wonder, New York City's oldest children's-only bookstore, it wasn't so much the effect of the downturn of the economy on book sales that forced it to turn to indiegogo to stay in business, but cupcakes. As owner Peter Glassman wrote on the store's indiegogo site, which went live on Monday, "When we moved into our current space eight years ago, we leased out 40% of the space to a well-established NYC bakery to provide a cafe for our customers. Unfortunately, the Great Recession was even harder on cupcakes than children's books and they were forced to close, still owing us many months back rent and utilities."
Although Glassman estimates that the store lost over $300,000, he told PW that the present campaign for $100,000 would be enough to keep Books of Wonder open well into next year. "It's not like anybody's threatening to close the doors tomorrow," he said. "We're okay through the end of the year. We're looking for a reserve of capital for the slow period in January. I should have done this a year ago, but my pride kept me from doing it."
Glassman sent out a call for help to authors and illustrators two months ago. As a result, many not only provided postcards that can be reprinted exclusively for the campaign, but gave Glassman the originals to sweeten the pot. Donations came in from Adam Rex to Barry Moser, David Wiesner, Elisha Cooper, Robert Sabuda, and William Joyce. He's also put together collections of signed books from the store's shelves, such as a four-book, 10-poster set of Maurice Sendak.
In the first day of the campaign, Books of Wonder raised more than $14,000 through indiegogo's site. But a number of large donors and people uncomfortable with giving their credit card information online have also called the store directly and their donations aren't included in that figure. In addition, 18 months after the Cupcake Café closed, Books of Wonder signed a contract with a new tenant, who prefers to be unnamed for now.


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From confirmation hearings for Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress Kay Ryan before the United States Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, Recreation, and Poetry, Patrick Leahy, D-VT, Chair. The excerpted testimony comes from the third afternoon of the nine-day hearings in early July of 2008, in which Senator Orrin Hatch, R-UT, requested that Ryan explain her poetic philosophy underlying "He Lit A Fire With Icicles," her elegy for German writer W. G. Sebald. Many later recalled this relatively heated exchange as one of the most memorable of the hearings in part because of Ryan's coinage, "The Enjambed States of America." The slogan "UnbreaKAYble," which appeared on bumper stickers, T-Shirts and at the end of television and radio ads purchased by the 527 group Citizens To Confirm Kay Ryan, has been compared to the "I Believe Anita" slogan that was publicized similarly during and following the Senate confirmation hearings for then-nominee to the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas.
Senator Orrin Hatch: And Ms. Ryan, do you recall your use of enjambed line breaks to break up a rhyming couplet of iambic hexameter at the poem's conclusion?
Kay Ryan: Senator, I—It has been some time since I wrote that poem. I'm not sure that—
SOH: The poem's sixteenth line ends with the word stay. And the poem's twentieth, its final line, ends with the word away. Isn't that correct, Ms. Ryan?
KR: Yes, Senator, that does, that sounds correct, to the best of my recollection.
SOH: Then do you also recall that the final four lines, and I'll read them, "When he could feel his feet he had to back away," do you also recall that this single sentence, six iamb feet lined up like ducks in a row dah-dum, dah-dum, dah-dum, that it is in fact four lines, at least according to your poem as published? It is four lines, isn't it?
KR: Yes, Senator, I believe that is correct.
SOH: I'll get back to the issue at hand then, Ms. Ryan. I'm sure you won't be surprised, and I'm sure the other members of the committee and the members of the public here today won't be surprised to hear that I'm curious about how you came to the decision to break apart that single thought. I say single thought, of course, since that is the traditional, and, well, agreed upon definition of a sentence. A single thought.
KR: Senator, I think what you're—
SOH: And I consider enjambment, the breaking up of that single thought, a serious matter. I think all Americans do whether they agree with my position, which I know is a matter of deep personal, moral feeling, whether you agree with me or not. I'm sure that my constituents from the great state of Utah agree that it's a serious matter. But frankly, Ms. Ryan, based on the record that myself and others here today have tried to bring to light, I'm not sure I am yet convinced that you treat this matter with, really, the gravity it deserves. And that concerns me. It does. It concerns the American people. So I would hope that the other members of this committee would give pause before simply rubber stamping a Poet Laureate who went out and enjambed single, inviolable thoughts, thoughts contained in rightfully codified, systematic meter, went out and enjambed them willy-nilly. The, really, the question before you, Ms. Ryan, is whether or not there was a legitimate reason, a poetical basis if you will, for your dissection of the poem's closing thought in the manner you did, in fact, dissect it. And I give you the opportunity to explain yourself, if you can, here today.
KR: I thank you, Senator Hatch, for that opportunity. Before I answer though, I believe some clarification may have—may be, rather, in order. I think what you're calling a rhyming couplet of iambic hexameter is perhaps, if you'll excuse me, not entirely accurate. It is true that those final four lines can be considered six iambs, and that the second iamb of the first and third of those lines is enjambed. But it might also be said that each of those four lines is a trisyllabic foot unto itself, a Cretic or amphimacer foot. These are matters left up to interpretation, and intended to be left to interpretation, by the American people, as established in the precedent of 15 Poet Laureates and many, many Consultants in Poetry for the, to the Library of Congress before me. I feel I should also note that the poem's previous lines do not follow this structure, whatever we choose to call it, and that the couplet itself, is in question even if undoubtedly this poem does contain some rhyme. A digression, perhaps, that I hope this committee will forgive. The larger issue, however, if I take your meaning correctly, Senator, is a question of my loyalty to integrity and, I believe, by implication, clarity. The suggestion has been made today and in the previous weeks, before I was able to speak for myself, that my use of enjambment is confirmation of a not-so-secret belief that some parts of thoughts, some words, and therefore some citizens of this great nation are more important than others. In other words, my critics would have it that I have a tendency toward prejudicial emphasis. I want to assure you, Senator Hatch, as well as the other members of this committee and all of the American people that this great deliberative body represents, I want to assure you that nothing is farther from the truth. And I think if you go back and look at the context in which these, well, these line breaks occur, that is in the whole poem and the author it was trying to honor, I think you'll see that I had intended to show exactly the opposite. It is my belief that the integrity of a single thought is unbreakable, just as this nation has proven it is unbreakable, following our bloody second birth in the Civil War. What the poem suggests about Mr. Sebald, who is, for the record, a man I greatly admire for his unwillingness to insert even a single paragraph break into his narratives. The poem suggests that we must notice the juxtapostion, the natural pauses for mutual regard, for perspective, the stopping and restarting that takes place within integrity. And again, I would suggest that this notion is confirmed in our history and in our character as a nation, a nation that is united because it is enjambed, the Enjambed States of America, if you will. We are joined by our integrity as a culture, as a nation, as individuals. But we are set apart, as states, as people, set next to each other, enriched by our relation to each other. We comprise a more powerful whole because of our undeniable separations. We are enjambed as a nation and within ourselves and it is the fact of this enjambment, the acknowledgement of it, that makes us so great. It is what makes us unbreakable. That's not exactly that that poem is about, but that is, was rather the basis of my use of the, I want to re-emphasize, rather narrow usage of the technique.
SOH: Ms. Ryan, are seriously suggesting–
Senator Patrick Leahy: Senator Hatch, your time has expired. We must—
SOH: Mr. Chairman, I retract, I—One more question, please, Chairman. I will be brief.
SPL: I don't think I need to remind you, Senator, that we would all like to ask the nominee a lot of questions that—
SOH: I do apologize, Chairman Leahy, I simply want to know if Ms. Ryan is aware that W. G. Sebald, the subject of her poem, was a German citizen who wrote extensively about the so-called atrocities committed by the American army liberating Germany in WWII.
SPL: Senator Hatch, your time has expired. I will thank you to respect—
KR: Mr. Chairman, excuse me. Excuse me. If the chairmen permits, I'll answer the Senator's question.
SPL: Very well, Senator Hatch, you may ask your final question.
SOH: Are you, Ms. Ryan, aware of Sebald's writings on the so-called fire-bombing of Dresden?
KR: I am. I am well aware of Mr. Sebald's sympathies. I would ask, request that you judge me, however, on my own work, and not by supposed association with the sentiments of anyone else. My tenure as Poet Laureate would be loyal to the best interests of the American people and nothing else.
SOH: Thank you, Ms. Ryan, for your testimony, and thank you Chairman Lahey, for your consideration.
SPL: I prefer, for future reference, keeping to the schedule to being thanked, but I thank you both for your brevity once consideration was granted. We will, uh, will take a ten-minute, a flexible, ten-minute break now. This hearing is now in recess.


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A monocled cobra that attacked a dog in Thousand Oaks was captured Thursday and was being evaluated at the LA Zoo after it was spotted by a mom driving to pick up her seventh grader from school.
When Tanya Gray saw the snake crossing the road about 2 p.m., she slammed on the brakes, grabbed a picture and called authorities.
"It went right in front of me, went through that gravel, went down, up and over, into this driveway," she said.
Animal control officers, who were already in the neighborhood searching for the white snake, found the reptile in a woodshed after 3 p.m.
"He was just acting like a regular snake trying to get away," said Lt. Fred Agoopi, a Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control officer, who was shaken after capturing the snake. "It's a venomous snake. It's not something we're used to everyday."
The snake was taken to the Los Angeles Zoo for evaluation. Officials said they didn't know if it was venomous because they didn't know if it was defanged or had its venom sacks removed. A dog was attacked by the cobra on Monday, but the dog has recovered.
The snake's owner has not come forward. There are severe restrictions on possessing such exotic animals.
The Los Angeles Zoo is where the white monocled cobra that slithered into Southern California consciousness this week is on Thursday. It will be evaluated for any sickness or tumors.
And officials will look for clues into where it might have come from or who actually owns it.
It appears to have found food for itself these past four days and it's a different type of snake than everone initially thought.
LA Zoo reptile curator Ian Recchio said the snake will be evaluated and checked for any signs of an owner.
He says the snake isn't albino as was initially reported. It's leucistic, completely void of all color, with piercing blue eyes instead of red.
"It's got a scab on its nose, but other than that it seems to be in pretty good shape," Recchio said.
It's well fed, despite four days in the wild and just as dangerous as many people have speculated.
"It was probably fully loaded," with venom, Recchio said.
The LA Zoo does not have the anti-venon for this type of cobra so it can't stay there.
There are several zoos that do have the anti-venom, including the San Diego Zoo, which is where it will likely end up going.
The snake may eventually be assigned an inventory number, but it doesn't have a name yet, the curator said.
Andrew Lopez contributed to this report.


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Every day a unique prize for the visitors of the Ferrari museum in Maranello
The exhibition "The great Ferraris from Sergio Pininfarina'" successfully shown in Maranello until 7 January 2013 offers also the possibility to win every day a model signed by Paolo Pininfarina, son of Sergio and head of the company from Turin.
From 1 December 2012 to 9 January 2013 a winner will be picked every day amongst the visitors of the museum to receive a Ferrari on the scale of 1:18, mounted on an elegant base, authenticated and personally signed by Paolo Pininfarina, President of the company and son of Sergio, the founder of the legendary design company, to whom the museum has dedicated the exhibition.
Every ticket comes with a scratch card, so visitors can immediately find out if they won one of the unique pieces, destined to become collectors' items. By immediately presenting the winning card at the museum's entrance, winners can immediately receive their prize.
The selected models represent some of the Ferraris most loved by Sergio, recent and from the past, but all testimonials of harmonious and elegant coachbuilding.
The complete regulations for the competition can be found on the museum's website: www.museoferrari.com.
The Ferrari museum is open from Monday to Sunday from 9:30am to 6pm and will be closed on 25 December 2012 and 1 January 2013.
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The Ruth Kirschstein Diversity in Science Award was established to honor an outstanding scientist who has shown a strong commitment to the encouragement of under-represented minorities to enter the scientific enterprise and/or to the effective mentorship of those within it. The award will consist of a plaque, a cash prize of $3,000, and travel expenses to present a lecture at the annual ASBMB meeting. The recipient will be chosen by the Minority Affairs Committee. Nominations must be originated by Society members; however, the nominee need not be an ASBMB member.
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Choosing the right SAN makes life easier down the road
Once you've decided that an iSCSI storage area network fits your needs, it's time to choose the heart of your SAN: the disk array. There's an iSCSI array out there for just about everyone.
In our last look at iSCSI, Solving the riddle of data storage with iSCSI, we saw that consolidating your storage into an iSCSI SAN can improve your disk space utilization and simplify your life when you need to provision new servers or your servers run out of space.
Now that you've decided that an iSCSI storage area network would make your life easier, it's time to choose the heart of your SAN: the disk array. Today you can buy iSCSI arrays from vendors including iSCSI specialist startups EqualLogic Inc. and LeftHand Networks Inc. and EMC Corp., the 800-pound gorilla of the storage world. iSCSI array prices range from $5,000 to several hundred thousand dollars.
The first thing you need to do is figure out how you plan to use your new array. Do you need 3 TB for a disk-to-disk backup target or storage for your new Exchange or SQL Server cluster? Do you need storage for a few servers, or are you implementing a SAN so you can support a hundred blade servers for your Web and terminal server needs? The answers to those questions will help you put together a list of features your iSCSI array must have to support your servers.
Disk space is key to success
For a disk-to-disk backup system all you really need is lots of space. You could use a basic iSCSI array like Promise Technology Inc.'s Promise VTrak 15200 that simply presents its RAID sets as iSCSI logical units (LUNs). Since, with few exceptions -- like clustered servers -- an iSCSI LUN can only be accessed by one host server at a time, these systems can only handle a few host server connections that need large blocks of disk space.
Smarter systems let you create one or more RAID sets and then slice and dice LUNs from them. You can then create a 1.5 TB RAID-5 set out of seven 250 GB drives and assign 50 GB to one server and 800 GB to another leaving the rest of the space free for ad hoc or development servers. Remember to check how many servers a prospective array will support. Some, like the Dell/EMC AX100i are limited to as few as eight servers, which would make them the wrong solution for a Web server farm of 50.
Make the most of snapshots
We frequently recommend SANs for our clients running Exchange, SQL Server and other transactional systems to take advantage of a SAN array's snapshot capabilities. In the event of a server crash or a corrupt database, you can restore the server in minutes to it's state at the time of a snapshot rather than the hours it could take to restore a large database even from a disk-to-disk backup. In addition, you can take snapshots every hour while the server is active so your data loss, or the amount of logs you need to roll forward, is substantially smaller.
Consider how your structure will grow over time
Next, look at expandability. While traditional systems, like EMC's Clariion CX series, let you add capacity by hanging additional shelves of drives off the controller module, you still have to buy a controller big enough to handle your eventual growth or face a costly forklift upgrade when you outgrow it. Nashua, N.H.-based EqualLogic, San Jose, Calif.-based Intransa Inc. and LeftHand Networks, in Boulder, Colo., have a better idea. Their systems allow multiple drive arrays and controllers to form a single virtual array. As you add arrays, you also add controllers, with their cache memory and gigabit Ethernet interfaces increasing system performance. That allows you to start small and grow to 100 TB or more without the forklift.
If you're really on the consolidation bandwagon, you can combine NAS for file storage and iSCSI for block storage on a single integrated device. Check out Snap Appliance, a division of Adaptec Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and others using FalconStor Software Inc.'s iSCSI storage server for Windows to Network Appliance at the high end. Conventional wisdom says that your iSCSI traffic should be isolated from general network traffic, so make sure that an integrated system has enough gigabit Ethernet interfaces to provide the level of redundancy you need on both networks.
Backing it all up
Finally consider replication. Some iSCSI arrays, including those from EqualLogic and Intransa, support snapshot replication where an array at your primary site takes periodic snapshots of your sensitive data LUNs. Then, it replicates the changed blocks to another array at your disaster recovery site. Others, including EMC's CX500i, support synchronous replication, where all changes to the primary array are sent to the secondary array in real time. Others, like those running LeftHand Networks' SAN iQ, can do either.
There's an iSCSI array out there for just about everyone. Figure out what's important to you, talk to some vendors and I'm confident you'll find one that fits your needs.
Howard Marks has been in the personal computer industry from the very beginning. Starting at Lifeboat Associates in 1979, he founded Networks Are Our Lives in 1981 as a builder of custom single- and multi-user CP/M computers. Today, NAOL focuses on network design and documentation, storage consolidation and management projects, and it generally helps organizations clean up their network messes.


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Ryan: Indy 500 faster, tighter – and possibly scarier
INDIANAPOLIS — Eddie Cheever thought he was headed to the hospital to check on friend and teammate Scott Brayton and give him a hard time for crashing a backup car they shared.
Instead, he was directed to the morgue.
"He looked perfect, like he was taking a nap," Cheever told USA TODAY Sports about finding Brayton's corpse surrounded by his grieving family. "The G loads had been so high, they'd severed his artery."
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A week later in the 1996 Indianapolis 500, Cheever turned the fastest lap (236.103 mph) in its storied history.
"I cringe when I hear the philosophy of breaking speed records is necessary," said Cheever, an ABC/ESPN analyst who also won the 1998 Indianapolis 500. "I was told to get out of that car, and 10 minutes later, Brayton was dead. The speeds were too high."
No reminders of the hazards are needed at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where there have been at least a few dozen on-track fatalities since its 1909 opening.
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But the conditions will be as treacherous as ever in the pack mentality that will dominate Sunday's 98th running of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.
After a record 68 lead changes last season (doubling the previous mark of 34 set in 2012), the Indianapolis 500 again is expected to become a nonstop parade at the point. The 33-car field posted a record qualifying average (229.382 mph), and the difference between pole-sitter Ed Carpenter and last-place starter Buddy Lazier is the closest by time (2.1509 seconds) and second-closest by speed (3.147 mph, just short of the 3.130 mark in 1953).
Cars are being bunched into historically tight packs while running closer together at increasingly high speeds. That should put on quite a show for fans, but it's left some drivers admittedly unsettled by a brand of racing that sometimes laces them in untenable situations — particularly approaching the checkered flag — while racing inches apart at 230 mph.
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Is there such a thing as too much excitement at a 2.5-mile oval that builds part of its reputation on its inherent danger?
"In IndyCar, the closer you get to another car, the faster your car goes," said Team Penske's Juan Pablo Montoya, who moved over from NASCAR in the offseason and is making his second start at Indy since winning his 2000 debut. "But you can't run side by side. Two cars don't fit through a corner. You barely make it when it's one. It makes it where the timing of the passes is the key to everything."
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As Tony Kanaan proved in whipping by Ryan Hunter-Reay on the final green-flag lap of last year's race, it isn't advantageous to be in the lead coming to the white flag. A slingshot maneuver into the lead could be the key to drinking milk in the winner's circle.
But drivers also have been told they will be given more leeway this year defending their positions, permitting an anticipatory blocking move to the inside.
Isn't that a recipe for potential mayhem?
"Yep," 2008 winner and three-time Verizon IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon said.
"We don't make the rules," Kanaan said.
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But there have been instances in which IndyCar stars have gotten vocal to effect change.
They virtually revolted against white-knuckle racing at high-speed Texas Motor Speedway in the late 2000s, forcing rules updates that separated the packs.
There hasn't been such vocal opposition to Indianapolis — perhaps because of its special place as the series' crown jewel and the most renowned race in the world — but also because its flat layout isn't the same as Texas' 1.5-mile high-banked course. (Dan Wheldon was killed in a fiery airborne crash that resulted from pack racing in the Oct. 16, 2011 race at 1.5-mile Las Vegas Motor Speedway).
"Texas was more of a pack race than this, by far," Kanaan said. "We used to race there side-by-side, we can't do that here. You can always look and say, 'This is the Indy 500. You are leading the race and you have the right to lead.' I don't think it's fair enough sometimes to the leader that he'll be exposed and going to lose the race because he was in the lead. It doesn't make any sense. From that, I would say the leader should have the right to defend.
"It can be dangerous, for sure. Racing was never safe. I don't think the fans would appreciate if we go, 'Oh, please, go ahead, it's your turn (to lead).'"
If this sounds like the same type of conundrum that NASCAR drivers find themselves in the inherent chaos of Talladega Superspeedway, you're correct — with a catch.
"This is Indy-style restrictor plate at 236 mph," Cheever said. "And you can't bump into anybody."
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So why has Indianapolis' palace of speed become such a playground of parity?
--The cars are virtually the same. This is the third season of Dallara's DW12 chassis, which was sold as a concept of cost-saving standardization that still would afford teams and manufacturers opportunities to differentiate the cars. That would be achieved through "aero kits" — add-on bodywork that gave a unique identity while also offering potential performance advantages.
But a three-year implementation delay will keep aero kits from making a debut until next season, leaving IndyCar as virtually a "spec" series because of its exclusive chassis supplier.
--The ebb and flow between engine manufacturers Chevrolet and Honda has evened considerably. A year ago, Chip Ganassi was grumbling about Honda being down on horsepower, and he moved his Target cars to Chevy this year. But with Andretti Autosport emerging as its new flagship this season, Honda has rediscovered speed.
--In terms of driver talent and organizational depth, this might rank as the strongest field since IndyCar fractured into two series two decades ago (the split was restored in 2008). Ed Carpenter will start from the pole position for the second consecutive season in a Chevy fielded by his underdog team, and Sebastien Bourdais, Simon Pagenaud and Josef Newgarden also could be dark horses with upstart organizations.
But the powerhouse trio of Penske, Ganassi and Andretti also will be formidable with its affiliations touching a third of the field (including NASCAR crossover Kurt Busch, who has shown promise in attempting to become the fourth driver to run the Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600 in the same day).
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"Last year, you could pick nine guys that could win," said Kanaan, who moved from KV Racing last year to Ganassi's No. 10 in place of retired Dario Franchitti. "Now it's double that."
Said veteran Oriol Servia: "It's not like you just pass guys with bad cars. There are no bad guys. The depth has been ridiculous. Anyone can win. It's very tight, very competitive. There are at least 20 legitimate cars with a top possibility of winning."
But the strategy probably will revolve around a form of sand-bagging for the first 150 laps. With strong cars able to use the draft to scoot to the front at will, the first half of the race likely will be a litmus test.
"It doesn't matter where you are," Kanaan said. "You'll see how the car is in traffic and maybe lead to see how strong you are. Nobody is going to pull away. I don't think anybody is going to want the lead either."
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The Brazilian estimates a driver can use a slingshot pass to hold the lead for about a half-lap before facing another stiff challenge for first.
That makes for a see-saw battle that borders on a game of chicken in which drivers try to force one another into the lead.
"I think it would be healthier if it was possible for the cars to break away (and) get a 15-foot gap," Cheever said. "But the way the rules are written now it's impossible to do. You could have a 10th place guy who could pass the first-place guy because these cars punch such a big hole in the air, and suddenly you have 50 more horsepower (when approaching from the rear in the draft). No one is going to stop 50 more horsepower, so the guy in front is a sitting duck."
But Cheever believes the risk-to-reward ratio still is better than the era in which Brayton died in 1996. Tony Renna, who was killed in a testing crash in 2003, is the only fatality since then as the track has added SAFER barriers and the series has improved the safety technology of its chassis, helmets and seats.
"Maybe 240 mph now is safer than 230 then," Cheever said. "Safety always evolves. Everyone gets all euphoric about these records until something bad happens. Then it's human nature to wring your hands and go through the, 'Why did we do that?'
"But the uniqueness of this sport is about speed. It's something the drivers need to be comfortable with."
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Clinton no fan of moves on Ukraine
Former President Bill Clinton on Monday jabbed Russian President Vladimir Putin for treating Ukraine as a "piece on the international chessboard" without concern for its people, and added that pushing the country toward a split was a "crazy," outdated maneuver.
Clinton spoke during a conference in Wilmington, Del., titled "Opportunity: Africa," and he spent much of his address highlighting his work on the continent, with a nod to the Obama administration's efforts toward combating AIDS. But he also devoted some time to the crisis involving Russia and Ukraine, among other foreign conflicts.
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"Some people, including the Russian president…they think of Ukraine as a giant, important piece on the international chessboard," he said. "The people underneath get lost."
Ukrainians want to be a "bridge" between the East and the West, Clinton said. He pointed favorably to dissidents who "stormed" the palace of the country's ousted president and "didn't steal… didn't deface anything" but instead opened it up to showcase the "excess" of the leadership.
In an apparent swipe at the Russians, Clinton said the Ukrainians were being told, "If you choose the wrong side, we're gonna split you up."
"This is a crazy way to approach the 21st century," he said. "The only thing that works is creative cooperation."
Monday's gathering was spearheaded by the Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware. Clinton, who also spoke at length about the late South African leader Nelson Mandela, used his appearance there to praise President Barack Obama's continued work on the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
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In doing so, the former president also nodded to his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has said she will make a decision this year about whether to run for the White House in 2016.
"One of the things I'm proudest of in President Obama's legacy, that Hillary shared in because PEPFAR is under the State Department" is that by the end of Obama's first term, they had tripled the number of people receiving treatment for AIDS, he said.
PEPFAR started under President George W. Bush, Obama's Republican predecessor, and Clinton noted that "there's a surprising amount of bipartisan interest in Africa."
He lauded non-governmental organizations in particular for their efforts to stop the spread of AIDS as well as their willingness to take risks.
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Principle: The familiar "BioBrick cloning" enzymes (i.e., EcoRI, NotI, XbaI, SpeI, PstI) are Type II restriction enzymes, which cut the sequences that they specifically bind to. The Type IIS Assembly method uses a Type IIS restriction enzyme, which binds at a specific sequence and cuts at a non-specific location exactly five base pairs away. As a result, the enzyme cleaves away its own binding site and leaves behind the most useful feature of assembly, sticky overhangs. When designed properly, Type IIS sites can be used to perform seamless assembly of parts. As an added convenience, this protocol allows cutting and ligation to occur in a single tube, as a single reaction. Thus, gel purification steps can be eliminated.
This protocol uses the Type IIS restriction enzyme BsmBI (CGTCTCnnnnn/).
Prepare the parts with PCR
- Multiple parts can be assembled in one step.
- Parts and the destination vector should be amplified by PCR.
- Make sure that none of the parts/ vector have any BsmBI sites!
|First, map out your assembly. In this example, three parts, A, B, and C will be assembled and inserted into a Vector.
|Design a pair of primers to add BsmBI sites to each end. "cacacca" is used to help restriction enzyme positioning. The "a" is a spacer that is required to generate a correct 4-base sticky end.
Vector Primers
pSB1A3 Primers - already available in the Haynes lab freezer
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Note: For insertion into pSB1A3, "last 4 bp of vector left" = TAGA
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|Part C Primers
Note: For insertion into pSB1A3, "first 4 bp of vector right, reverse complement" = TAGT
|Purify the PCR products using a Zymo clean and Concentrator kit.
Digestion/ Ligation Reaction
1. Dilute the purified PCR product to 20 fmol/μL
- Measure ng/μL of the purified sample.
- Use the following formula to calculate the volume of purified DNA (x) you will need to dilute in a final volume of 20 μL
- Formula: x = 20 μL final volume * 20 fmols/μL * length in bp * 650 fg/fmol ÷ 1,000,000 fg/ng ÷ measured ng/μL
2. Golden Gate Reaction
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- Add total volume (10.0 μL) to 50 μL chemically competent cells (e.g., BL21) in a 2.0 mL tube.
- Incubate on ice for 2 min., heat shock at 42°C for exactly 90 sec., immediately place on ice.
- Add 800 μL sterile SOC medium.
- Grow with shaking at 37°C for 30 min.
- Pellet the cells at top speed in a microcentrifuge for 3 min. at room temp.
- Discard the supernatant. Resuspend the cells in 100 μL LB + antibiotic.
- Plate cells on pre-warmed LB agar + antibiotic. Grow overnight at 37°C.
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<-----Me, Mary, David and their three kids. Sending much love to them. BTW when I am trying to do something that is stressing me out...and my husband is standing there telling me how to do it...I have been known to tell him to shut up. "Shut up" is very endearing in the Southern US....and with us "hicks"...it means ... "Honey, I know that you have already done this and you are really trying to be kind and help, but for right now, can you just let me try to see if I can do it on my own?". We just like to save our words for other things, and "shut up" is easier.go Mary and David!!
Hi Rudy,I want to first say that it isn't a Kentucky "thing" for the man to be the BOSS. I cringed when I heard Mary speak those words last night but it isn't just a Kentucky "thing". You will find that type of male mentality (or lack thereof) in every state and every country. It is prevalent in some cultures. Is it right. No!!! I was born in eastern Kentucky about an hours drive from Stone. I have lived here for over 40 years in a town only slightly bigger than Stone. I just get tired of fighting the stereotypes.That being said Mary seems to be able to take care of herself. When she was trying to climb the wall it seemed to me that her husband was being supportinve and trying to help and all she did was shout at him, telling him to shut up. In the beginning they were both nervous and at the end they were working under major stress sure they were going to be eliminated. This is a combination of emotions that can easily bring out the worst in any of us and cause us to say things that we don't really mean.I don't want anyone to think that I am picking on Rudy. I'm not his post was just the one that caught my attention. I've read these forums for a long time, have no problems with Rudy and usually agree with him. I just hope this experience will expand the horizons of Mary and her husband and she can bring this back to their children.
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A mixture of history, politics and contemporary opinion on a range of Scottish and Irish matters from North Ayrshire based family historian Chris Paton
Saturday, 11 February 2012
Land inheritance in Scotland
When Scots died in the past, their assets comprised of moveable and immoveable goods - things pinned down and things not pinned down - or the house, as an example, on one hand, and its contents on the other. Coats of arms were also classed as 'heritable' property (and just to clarify, there is ABSOLUTELY no such thing as a 'family coat of arms' - use someone else's coat of arms, even if he or she has your surname, and you're breaking Scots Law). Houses and land fell into the 'immoveable' or 'heritable' goods category, and prior to 1868 could not be directly bequeathed in a will, unlike the rest of the British Isles, thanks to Scots Law dealing with the matter in a different way to English Law. (There were exceptions, such as 'trust dispositions' from the 19th century on, but let's not muddy the water just yet!)
If you couldn't leave land in a will then, it had to be disposed of in a separate manner. Until 1964 primogeniture operated in Scotland, the right of the eldest son to inherit land and property, and his dad's coats of arms etc. In the past, the way that the formal inheritance of land worked involved the heir having to prove that he (and sometimes she) was the legitimate heir of the deceased, but how you did that depended on who your 'feudal superior' was. We had a very long, complicated and brilliantly fascinating land system based on feudalism until 2004, which basically ensured that there was a long chain of people looking after land through a web of supervision all the way back up to God.
Here's the definition of feudalism in a nutshell - God was a busy chap, so let the monarch look after Scotland for him - except he was too busy off shooting wild boar and grouse. To keep the house in order he in turn carved Scotland up into vast tracts of land known as 'feus', and let a few earls and nobles look after them on his behalf. In return they paid him a tribute for the privilege, which was known as a 'feu duty' - this initially comprised of them volunteering some of their tenants to go off and get hacked to death on the king's behalf when he lost his temper with an enemy or two. Later everyone realised paying a sum of money would be a lot more civilised and would save on the body count - the king could also now just buy boar and grouse with the proceeds, so turned his attention to shooting deer and pheasants (not to be confused with 'peasants') instead. The nobles were also fairly busy, so they in turn kept on carving up their territories into smaller portions, with those looking after the land on their behalf giving them a feu duty also, which the nobles would pass part of back to the king. The land was in turn divided again and again until it became impossible to carve up further (unless you are my eldest son, who in 2000 apparently became the laird of one square foot of the Isle of Islay!). As long as the feu duties kept passing up the chain, everyone was happy. Feudalism was not the only way that land was managed in Scotland, but was almost universally the main method until finally abolished in 2004.
Lots of land was 'feued' directly from the Crown - in which case the Crown was the feudal superior (i.e. the person above you in the chain). Other lands were feued from one of a series of middle men beneath the king, as described above, who were known as 'subject superiors' or 'intermediate lawful superiors'. So how you formally inherited land - who you had to prove your entitlement to inherit to - depended very much on whether your superior was the Crown or a subject superior.
The first thing to note though is that when someone died, the heir actually immediately became what was legally known as an apparent heir, and had certain rights from the start. He or she could actually take possession of the property immediately, and assume various responsibilities (for debts etc). The problem was an apparent heir could not pass on the property himself unless he completed the process of inheritance.
That's where the type of superior comes in. If it was one of the middlemen, the subject superiors, all you had to do was to obtain a document from him that showed that he (it was mainly a he!) recognised that you were the lawful heir. This document was known as a precept of clare constat which basically started its wording along the following lines:
"___ having, &c, the said precept of seisin, commonly called a precept of clare constat, made and granted by an honourable genetleman A of___ , in favour of the said B of ____ , as heir to the said umquhile D of ____ , his father, of all haill the lands, annual rent, and others under written, of the date, tenor and contents after written". [Followed by the description of the property etc]
There is no register of such documents unfortunately, as they are scattered all over the place in estate papers, dusty cellars, solicitors offices and probably in a few compost heaps - assuming they've survived at all. However, anytime land was transferred, whether by purchase or by inheritance, it had to be entered into the Registers of Sasines which can be consulted either in Edinburgh or at a local county archive (depending on the type of register - again, let's not go there for now!). So usually if land was inherited after a precept of clare constant was issued, you'll find it mentioned in the sasine record. Here's an example of a sasine abridgement that does that:
MARION McKECHNIE, spouse of Hugh Paton, Grocer, Largs, as heir to John McKECHNIE, Grocer and Manufacturer there, her father, Seised, in the half of a Dwelling House with Byre and Yard at the back thereof on the north side of the Street of LARGS, and of a Barn extending to about 10 Feet in length adjoining, par. Largs; on Pr. Cl. Con. by Gen. Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane of Makerstoun and Brisbane, Sept. 21. 1849 P. R. 353.249.
[Pr. Cl. Con = precept of clare constat]
NB: Other documents would be involved possibly also, with Godforsaken names such as writs of clare constat and charters of confirmation, but the bottom line is you'll find evidence for them in the sasine registers, not in some dedicated central register for heirs.
If the Crown was the superior, however, it was a different kettle of fish. You instead had to do something a little different, and go through a process called the Services of Heirs to prove you were the legitimate heir. This was a jury of local landowners who would take a decision as to whether you were who you said you were. If they agreed, they 'retoured' their decision to the Chancery, and you were recognised as the lawful heir and could take full and formal possession, no longer as just an 'apparent heir'. The Services of Heirs are therefore also known as the retours (Scots word for 'returns'), and these judgements are today held at the National Records of Scotland (there are exceptions, such as areas known as regalities not having to retour their findings, and some local courts forgetting to send the records through etc etc - but you get the song now, "let's not go there for now"!). There were two types of retour - general retour and special retour, basically dependant on whether the heir was about to be made infeft into land left by his ancestor, or simply needing to be recognised as an heir (e.g. to inherit a heritable benefit not involving his predecessor's land, such as a heritable bond, or if simply needing proof to convince a subject superior that he or she was who they claimed to be, in order to receive a precept of clare constat).
(It's also worth noting that the retours were also used to record the appointment of tutors for minors - via 'brieves of tutory' - when they succeeded an ancestor but were too young to take full possession of an estate - but that's another story for another day!)
On the whole the retours or services of heirs were indexed in the 19th century, with records from 1530-1699 indexed between 1811 and 1815, and records from 1700-1859 indexed in 1860. After this they were indexed annually. The indexes from 1530-1859, as with the later indexes, are available for consultation at the NRS, though it's worth mentioning they aren't quite complete - in the annual index for 1906 there are in fact five pages added which contain details of missed entries for material from 1700-1859. The indexes from 1530-1699 and 1700-1859 are also available on CD now from the Scottish Genealogy Society (www.scotsgenealogy.com).
An index entry for a retours / services judgement would typically be as follows:
Paton – Marion: Wife of H. Paton, Grocer in Largs, to her father, John McKechnie, Weaver there – Heir General – 6th October 1849 (Recorded 1849, Oct. 12)
The eagle-eyed among you will notice this is actually the same piece of land being described above with the precept of clare constant. Some people actually went through both just to be super-sure, getting a court to back up the position as well as the local superior.
There was actually a third method by which an heir could secure his or her position. The following quote comes from A Dictionary of the Law of Scotland from 1815 (available on Google Books at http://tinyurl.com/6q2eolv), and describes the third process that could be undergone by the apparent heir:
"...he may give a trust bond to a confidential friend, who, having charged him to enter, may adjudge, and in that way acquire a title by an adjudication, which will enable him, without representing the ancestor, to try the effect of any right the ancestors may have given; and having cleared the estate of any claims, the adjudger may transfer to the heir the whole right under the adjudication."
So there you have it, a ready reckoner to the simplicity of Scottish land inheritance...! (You'll notice I quickly left the last bit!) It's actually a lot more complicated than all of that, with different types of heirs, such as heirs portioners, heirs of tailzie, and more, but this is the basic backdrop guiding it all. Thankfully from 1868 onwards you could just chuck it all in a will and deal with it that way - but there was a certain elegance to the old system!
I'll be dealing with Scottish land records and inheritance in my forthcoming Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the OPRs course taught through Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd from May 16th - see www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=302. Prior to that though I will be teaching a more introductory course entitled Scottish Research Online from March 8th - see www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=102. Both courses cost £45.99 and last 5 weeks.
Hopefully see a few of you there!
UPDATE: The book is now available from www.gould.com.au/Discover-Scottish-Land-Records-p/utp0283.htm - from sasines to skat, and retours to tailzies, it's all in there! :)
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- Anonymous11 February 2012 at 11:18
Very interesting and illuminating Chris. The course seems very good value compared to the cost of my current module.ReplyDelete
Och, we aim to please Karen! :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12 February 2012 at 03:15
What's the difference between an apparent heir and an heir apparent?ReplyDelete
Word order?! lol No there is something more fundamental between them. From Students Glossary of Scottish legal terms, p.37-38, an explanation within the section on heirs:ReplyDelete
"Its (i.e. the word 'heir') meaning is lent greater precision by appending other words, thus: 'heir-apparent', strictly an English expression meaning one who is bound to succeed X if only he survives him, with which contrast 'apparent heir', supra: 'heir-at-law', the person succeeding by force of law, also known as 'heir-general', 'heir whatsoever', and 'heir of line'"
- Anonymous12 February 2012 at 07:39
Thanks for the reply Chris, especially as my question sounded like the beginning of a bad joke : )ReplyDelete
So... If a person is described as "apparent heir" in a sasine, then they have already succeeded, or are in the process of succeeding, and the person they have succeeded/are succeeding is dead ?
And if a person is described as "heir apparent" in a sasine then they have not yet succeeded?
That sounds about right, though whether the terms were confused by whoever was writing the sasine might be a different matter! :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous12 February 2012 at 08:58
Thanks Chris very helpul!ReplyDelete
Interesting. Of course the Scots were not the only people to divide property into moveable and immovable - law in Jersey and Guernsey continues to do that to this day, to the confusion of the English!ReplyDelete
That's true - I was reading Pen and Sword's Tracing Your Family History on the Channel Islands about that not too long ago - similar but different!ReplyDelete
Thanks for this interesting post Chris - I have learned something about Scottish genealogy that I didn't know. And I thought finding an English will was complicated! Always enjoy reading your posts - they make me smile as well as learn stuff (the best way of learning, of course).ReplyDelete
Glad it's of use - and I'm always serious about what I do, just not in the way that I do it! :)ReplyDelete
So Chris,ReplyDelete
You sucked me in again. I have signed up for your next Pharos course. I really do enjoy your knowledge, the way you present it, and your "kinda" weird sense of humour!
- Anonymous27 October 2013 at 11:55
Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts.Thanks for all your great posts. Find MoreReplyDelete


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