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FRESNO (AP) — Want to avoid pesticides and antibiotics in your produce, meat, and dairy foods? Prefer to pay more to make sure farm animals were treated humanely, farmworkers got their lunch breaks, bees or birds were protected by the farmer and that ranchers didn't kill predators?
Food labels claim to certify a wide array of sustainable practices. Hundreds of so-called eco-labels have cropped up in recent years, with more introduced every month — and consumers are willing to pay extra for products that feature them.
While eco-labels can play a vital role, experts say their rapid proliferation and lack of oversight or clear standards have confused both consumers and producers.
"Hundreds of eco labels exist on all kinds of products, and there is the potential for companies and producers to make false claims," said Shana Starobin, a food label expert at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment.
Eco-labels have multiplied in recent years in response to rising consumer demand for more information about products and increased attention to animal and farmworker welfare, personal health, and the effects of conventional farming on the environment.
"Credible labels can be very helpful in helping people get to what they want to get to and pay more for something they really care about," said Urvashi Rangan, director of consumer safety at Consumer Reports. "The labels are a way to bring the bottom up and force whole industries to improve their practices."
The problem, Rangan and other said, is that few standards, little oversight and a lot of misinformation exist for the growing array of labels.
Some labels, such as the USDA organic certification, have standards set by the federal government to which third party certifiers must adhere. Some involve non-government standards and third-party certification, and may include site visits from independent auditors who evaluate whether a given farm or company has earned the label.
But other labels have little or no standards, or are certified by unknown organizations or by self-interested industry groups. Many labels lack any oversight.
And the problem is global, because California's products get sold overseas and fruits and vegetables from Europe or Mexico with their own eco-labels make it onto U.S. plates.
The sheer number of labels and the lack of oversight create a credibility problem and risk rendering all labels meaningless and diluting demand for sustainably produced goods, Rangan said.
Daniel Mourad of Fresno, a young professional who likes to cook and often shops for groceries at Whole Foods, said he tends to be wary of judging products just by the labels — though sustainable practices are important to him.
"Labels have really confused the public. Some have good intentions, but I don't know if they're really helpful," Mourad said. "Organic may come from Chile, but what does it mean if it's coming from 6,000 miles away? Some local farmers may not be able to afford a label."
In California, voters this week rejected a ballot measure that would have required labels on foods containing genetically modified ingredients.
Farmers like Gena Nonini in Fresno County say labels distinguish them from the competition. Nonini's 100-acre Marian Farms, which grows grapes, almonds, citrus and vegetables, is certified biodynamic and organic, and her raisins are certified kosher.
"For me, the certification is one way of educating people," Nonini said. "It opens a venue to tell a story and to set yourself apart from other farmers out there."
But other farmers say they are reluctant to spend money on yet another certification process or to clutter their product with too much packaging and information.
"I think if we keep adding all these new labels, it tends to be a pile of confusion," said Tom Willey of TD Willey Farms in Madera, Calif. His 75-acre farm, which grows more than 40 different vegetable crops, carries USDA organic certification, but no other labels.
The proliferation of labels, Willey said, is a poor substitute for "people being intimate with the farmers who grow their food." Instead of seeking out more labels, he said, consumers should visit a farmers' market or a farm, and talk directly to the grower.
Since that's still impossible for many urbanites, Consumer Reports has developed a rating system, a database and a web site for evaluating environmental and food labels — one of several such guides that have popped up recently to help consumers.
The guides show that labels such as "natural" and "free range" carry little meaning, because they lack clear standards or a verification system.
Despite this, consumers are willing to pay more for "free range" eggs and poultry, and studies show they value "natural" over "organic," which is governed by lengthy federal regulations.
But some consumers and watchdog groups are becoming more vigilant.
In October, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against Petaluma, Calif., organic egg producer of Judy's Eggs over "free range" claims. The company's packaging depicts a hen ranging on green grass, and the inside reads "these hens are raised in wide open spaces in Sonoma Valley..."
Aerial photos of the farm suggest the chickens actually live in factory-style sheds, according to the lawsuit. Judy and Steve Mahrt, owners of Petaluma Farms, said in a statement that the suit is "frivolous, unfair and untrue," but they did not comment on the specific allegations.
Meanwhile, new labels are popping up rapidly. The Food Justice label, certified via third party audits, guarantees a farm's commitment to fair living wages and adequate living and working conditions for farmworkers. And Wildlife Friendly, another third-party audited program, certifies farmers and ranchers who peacefully co-exist with wolves, coyotes, foxes and other predators.
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Apple TV disappears from BestBuy.com as refresh rumors swirl
Though BestBuy.com carried Apple's set-top box as recently as the 2011 holiday season, the device was nowhere to be found on the retailer's website as of early Friday.
AppleInsider contacted the company's sales division to inquire about stock of the Apple TV. A Best Buy salesperson was unable to say when exactly the device had been removed from the website's listings. "I don't recall seeing them for a while," he said.
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The disappearance of the Apple TV from Best Buy's inventory comes as a surprise because the big-box retailer was one of the first to carry the device when it first arrived in 2007. The original Apple TV got off to a promising start, but the product has yet to become more than a "hobby" for Apple.
Though a second-generation refresh of the device jumpstarted sales in 2010, Apple CEO Tim Cook said at an investment conference earlier this week that revenues from Apple TV are still a tiny fraction of those generated by the iPhone, iPad or Mac.
He also pointed out that Apple's decision to direct resources to the Apple TV was unusual because the company doesn't normally "do hobbies." According to the executive, the company sees potential for something larger to eventually develop from the device.
Many have speculated that Apple's plans for expanding its Apple TV platform involve a full-fledged television set. Multiple reports have suggested that the company has begun building prototypes for a connected TV, with one even claiming that Canadian telecoms Rogers and BCE are testing the set in their labs.
Best Buy actually made headlines about an Apple television set earlier this month when a speculative customer survey was leaked because it contained references to a 42-inch iOS-based HDTV from Apple. The company responded by pointing out that the survey was a "routine offer effectiveness survey" conducted by a research partner and was strictly hypothetical.
Sales of the second-generation Apple TV reached a record 1.4 million units in the most recent quarter roughly half of the 2.8 million units sold during the previous fiscal year, which ended last September.
Apple clearly still has big plans for the Apple TV, as the company announced that it will bring the AirPlay Mirroring feature to its Mac computers with the release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion this summer. The feature will allow users to wirelessly stream from their Macs to an HDTV via the Apple TV.
With rumors swirling that Apple is readying Retina Display versions of both its iPad and MacBook Pro, some have speculated that the Apple TV is due for a refresh to upgrade video support from a maximum resolution of 720p to 1080p.
AppleInsider reported last year that Apple was investigating 1080p HD+ content for its iTunes movie store. People familiar with the matter said Apple already has the backend in place to serve up 1080p video files, adding that consumer connection speeds are the biggest bottleneck at present. The arrival of AirPlay Mirroring for Mac could address some of these issues, though, as users could download the files to their computers ahead of time and then stream them to the Apple TV, rather than directly streaming them over the Internet.
Given that the second-generation Apple TV is powered by the A4 chip, it's possible that Apple could skip a generation and jump to the A6 processor for the rumored next-generation Apple TV. The company is expected to unveil the new chip alongside the third-generation iPad in early March. Reports have differed on whether the A6 will be quad-core or dual-core, but most are in agreement that the chip will see a significant boost in graphics capability and overall speed.


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I lived alone in Paris for six months when I was 20. Technically, I had a roommate, an 80-year-old Frenchwoman who'd helped her father smuggle Jews out of the city during the Nazi occupation. She took in boarders to help pay the rent on her Latin Quarter apartment, and I was just one in a long string of American students.
Most evenings I spent alone in my bedroom. I felt lonely and awkward because I hadn't made any French friends, and I was too cash-strapped to take advantage of the city's nightlife. Yet I never felt bored. I spent the evenings reading French novels, listening to French pop music and writing in my journal. During the day, I'd go to classes and then wander around, seeing words on billboards and in storefronts that I'd read in a novel or had heard on the radio. My thinking seemed clear and uncluttered; new ideas came easily and unexpectedly.
Only lately have I come to believe that that the feeling I had in Paris -- that my mind was completely alive -- was caused by more than just the stimulation of living in a foreign city. I think that my sense of mental clarity was made possible by my solitude. What I mistook for loneliness was actually aloneness: a period of reflection, heightened observation and, I'd like to believe, greater insight.
I started thinking about the difference between aloneness and loneliness while visiting my friend V, who works as a caretaker on a ramshackle ranch in northwestern Wyoming, more than 10 miles from the nearest paved road. The ranch consists of a cluster of 10 or so log cabins, with no plumbing or electricity. With the exception of a satellite telephone and a small solar panel, it could be a time capsule from the 1940s. I arrived with the spring thaw, just as three feet of snow began to soften.
Each morning during my stay, V cooked a breakfast of bacon, eggs and sourdough pancakes made with the ranch's 50-year-old sourdough starter. We spent the days chopping firewood, skiing, pitching loose hay from wooden cribs to the ranch's four horses, and talking. In the evenings, she made dinner on a cook stove that burned wood.
Her two-room cabin, built of lodgepole pine with wood chinking, smelled of wood smoke, leather and propane. Next to her bed, three homemade banjos hung above vats of brewing dandelion wine. Shelves along the walls held photo albums, Western songbooks and guides to veterinary medicine and medicinal herbs. Next to the bench sat a foot-operated sewing machine and a half-finished Decker packsaddle.
We had lots to talk about: grizzly bears, men, how to preserve elk meat, the nature of happiness and her 12 years on the ranch, half of it spent living alone. She said all that solitude had brought her both bliss and sorrow, inspired songs and designs for jewelry, and given her time to play music and make horse tack.
I didn't stay long enough to slow down, or even to get much beyond my initial contradictory reactions. The silence made me uneasy, as did the lack of schedule, yet I delighted in the novelty of the place. V has learned to live in peace with the ranch's resident mouse population, but I was disgusted by the ubiquitous droppings. Finally, I was ashamed of my wastefulness compared to my friend's careful calculations of energy and garbage.
Most of all, my stay made me aware of how I spend my time. I noticed that I stayed occupied to avoid the terrifying prospect that I'd be alone with myself. I know that my fear of being alone is a human trait, that for centuries we've used ostracism and solitary confinement as punishment. At the same time, don't we turn to solitude to achieve deeper spirituality and wisdom?
It wasn't until I remembered my time in Paris, and how turning inward had helped me understand the outside world and feel more aware, that I began to understand what my friend meant when she talked about needing long stretches of solitude.
"Most people aren't brave enough to try being alone," she said "Once you learn who you are, you find you can't run away from yourself."
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Well, I'm not Dutch, but I live in Holland. If we were to have a stand there, I'd certainly go. I've got the tools to make artwork / flyers and such. Any advocacy is good advocacy IMO :).
Hey, cool.. But like Martin already said.. it's a bit of a short notice. Will you be able to do all that stuff before the event starts? How about transport and such? I can go by train but if I have to take a PC with me that isn't a good idea. The next event that I know of that we could go to in Europe is EuroBSDCon in Karlruhe, Germany. 29 till 31 october. But that's so far away :-) We could also get someone to do a talk.. (not me, lol) about DragonFlyBSD there..


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New edition of the Arizona Jazz Festival is packed with soul
R&B veterans Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, Ralph Tresvant, Charlie Wilson, Boyz II Men, Brian McKnight, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Mint Condition, Kem, Fantasia and Jaheim join smooth jazz headliners Boney James, Brian Culbertson, Mindi Abair, Peter White, Euge Groove and more
Phoenix, Arizona (28 July 2014): Thousands of concertgoers from all over the U.S. will be dancing in the desert October 24-26, 2014 when a stellar lineup of R&B and smooth jazz artists perform at the fall version of the Arizona Jazz Festival taking place at the posh Arizona Grand Resort & Spa. Tickets are on sale now for single-day and 3-day passes priced from $50 to $750 available at the festival's website (www.ArizonaJazzFestival.com) and by calling event producer BTWconcerts.com at 602-244-8444.
The boys will be out to play when the Arizona Jazz Festival blasts off with perhaps the strongest opening night lineup in the semi-annual festival's history. The cool cat in the hat, four-time Grammy nominee Boney James gets the event started with his soulful sax grooves that never fail to stir the crowd to spontaneously erupt into a fervent "Go Boney! Go Boney!" chant. Jaheim employs his distinctive husky voice to chronicle his pained upbringing and tales of ghetto life that have earned him three Grammy nominations. It is far from the end of the road for Philly's finest Boyz II Men, a trio that harmonizes in perfect union while presenting their Grammy-winning songbook filled with R&B/pop vocal and a cappella hits. New Edition members Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill and Ralph Tresvant, each of whom has also scored solo hits, are touring as Heads of State and you can bank on a well-choreographed, high-octane show from these R&B superstars.
It will "Be OK" on Saturday when Grammy-winning alchemist Chrisette Michele takes the stage to sing her empowering love songs blending R&B, soul, jazz and hip hop. Equally capable of seducing with her proficient saxophone skills as well as her feminine wiles, Mindi Abair has it all. She will team with Booker T and Elliot Yamin for a hot buttered soul, blues and rock jam. Fantasia's incomparable voice reflects the real-life pain that's she endured molding her into a mesmerizing talent. At heart, crossover crooner Brian McKnight is a singer-songwriter able to captivate with compelling lyrics, rich melodies and an emotional vocal delivery. Those in attendance at last fall's Arizona Jazz Festival are still abuzz over the show that "Uncle" Charlie Wilson put on. The BET Lifetime Achievement Award and Soul Train Icon Award winner marched through his hits backed by a skin tight band, elaborate dance routines performed with precision by an army of performers and enough costume changes to rival Beyoncé. Expect more of the same.
The energy continues on full blast Sunday with sax showman Eric Darius making sure that patrons will arrive early to catch the consistent crowd pleaser. British guitarist Peter White and sax powerhouse Euge Groove have racked up enough No. 1 hits between them to keep the festival going for days, but they'll rip through their biggest and best in an afternoon session. Mint Condition keeps the endangered full band concept alive with a rich R&B sound spiked with funk, rock, Latin and reggae. Multi-talented keyboardist Brian Culbertson is responsible for 27 No. 1 hits and is out on his 20th anniversary tour while supporting his sixth album to debut at No. 1, "Another Long Night." Kem's suave and sophisticated voice melts into steamy, sensual grooves that have earned him a pair of Grammy nominations and a Billboard Music Award. The festivities conclude in old school party mode with Maze featuring Frankie Beverly who leads audiences through sing-a-long sets of the outfit's enduring classics.
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Klein win! I rather want the normal adult version from her in my collection, but this is also very cute.
Anyway, i'll buy a Klan figure. This is sure. And this version, or any other will be the lucky one... hmmm... dunno. :D
I would kill for english version of this game!!!!!!!!!!!
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I received my shipment of the first issue of the new Macross Chronicle today and I've had a chance to look it over.
As we all know, the Macross Chronicle is not one book but a series of loose-leaf style sheets inside a thin folder (with three-hole punch in each sheet). The first issue contains 20 pages and each issue is divided into specialty sheets titled Mechanic Sheet, Character Sheet, Timeline Sheet, World Guide Sheet, History Sheet, Technology Sheet, Gallery Sheet, Song Sheet, Goods Sheet, and four other miscellaneous sheets named Glossary, Tribute, Making and Extra Sheets. Each Macross Chronicle issue is made to fit inside a Macross Chronicle binder (sold seperately) which features dividers for 7 categories; Mechanic, Character, Timeline, History, Technology, World Guide and Special.
Macross Chronicle Issue One details the VF-1J Valkyrie, including a 2-page fold out painting of the fighter mode in high detail colors, drawn by Tenjin Hidetaka (known for his beautiful Macross art work on the Hasegawa model boxes and his own Tenjin Hidetaka Valkyrie Artworks of Macross book). There is not an abundance of line art to be found here but the VF-1J section does include line art of VF-1J white/red in full color Fighter and Fighter ventral view, full color Battroid and Battroid rear view and full color GERWALK and GERWALK rear view. Also included are full color pictures for all modes of the Max and Milia variants of the VF-1J Valkyrie. Also included is the VF-19 Excalibur Custom Sound Booster (color Battroid mode only) sheet, Lynn Minmay Character Sheet, Haruhiko Mikimoto Gallery Sheet (with another 2-page fold out painting), Mash Macross II Character sheet, 1999-2004 Timeline Sheet, Sharon Apple History Sheet, Technology Sheet, Sheryl Nome Song Sheet, the old Bandai 1/55 scale VF-1J transformable toy Goods Sheet, a subscription sheet and a Yamato advertisement sheet for the VF-1A Valkyrie 1/48 scale Max and the VF-1S Super Valkyrie 1/48 scale Hikaru weathered.
Without a doubt the Macross Chronicle is designed to be a fan book. It's filled with plenty of flavor text, official trivia and is very colorful. It's designed to cover ALL aspects of the Macross universe, NOT focus upon only one facet of the fiction. So it cannot be emphasized enough that - based on the mechanic sections of issue 1 - the Macross Chronicle is NOT a replacement for the art books of the Macross Mecha, like the Shoji Kawamori Macross Design Works book for example. Other than the full color pictures, there is not a lot of extra line art to admire and most of the non-color pictures are small. However, since this is the first time we've ever seen the Macross mecha colored in a collected work, this book is a real treasure.
Speaking as owner of the Macross Mecha Manual, the coloring is definitely a step up from my own coloring work :)
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Looks Alto is much better than Basara according to the stats in the screen shot.
How can a shouting dude be better than a guy who plays guitar while flying a jet effortlessly!?
It's basicly the only damn thing in M7 that i really dislike.
Controlling a plane with a guitar hmmz borderline, but then and singing, and piloting without a helmet and oxygene mask and pulling moves that would put several G's on your body... In my opinion the guy should have been blasted to little pieces in the frist real combat situation, only to be replaced by Mylene.
The Jamming birds concept with 2 seaters was much better as a whole to be honest.
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Yes please :D damn that looks sweet, i'd have to find another spot to place the dining table though :P
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Kami Stepanik, a MBA student pursuing a concentration in the business of health, was selected as a Texas Business Hall of Fame scholarship recipient.
Stepanik, who will complete her degree in 2015, is a nutritional sales representative for Abbott Laboratories. The $10,000 scholarship is presented to 21 business students across the state who exhibit entrepreneurial spirit.
"An entrepreneur is driven by the desire to better him or herself," said Stepanik, who envisions a career in healthcare administration. "Entrepreneurial spirit is necessary to shape a new vision of healthcare services in our country."
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I have come up with a plans for a simple machine that would automatically hatch and feed live brine shrimp to the tank for up to a week. I have a very crude drawing of this and I think it would not be hard to make. However I don't have any experience or knowledge with robotic mechanics. Do you think you guys could help steer me in the right direction?
You have the main tank and a secondary small tank with conical base at the bottom. You pump some water from the seahorse tank into the small tank, drop a measure of eggs into the small tank and set a timer for them to hatch.At the end of the period, the small tank will have a valve on bottom and will let the shrimp into the main tank.
Perhaps I can help you.But my English is not very well,so i don't know how to express the process briefly.It's simple , and someone else can help you.
Here I made a drawing, this works once you've figured out the right flow:If the image is too small you can go right to the link to see it:http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2007-7/1267605/Shrimp.JPG


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As I noted in the first part of this essay, The Child Online Protection Act of 1998, which was passed by Congress in 1998 in an effort to restrict minors' access to adult-oriented websites, has again been struck down in the courts. The decision is fairly devastating for the government, which had been hoping to prove to the court that private Internet filtering technologies are ineffective in blocking objectionable material. The government had also hoped to prove that age verification technologies were available that might be used to block access by minors to various websites. The court rejected both of these arguments.
Here's a quick summary of the court's major findings on these two important issues:
On the general effectiveness of filters:
"Filters can be programmed or configured in a variety of different ways according to, inter alia, the values of the parents using them and the age and maturity of their children." (p. 24)
"Some filtering programs offer only a small number of settings, while others are highly customizable, allowing a parent to make detailed decisions about what to allow and what to block. Filtering products do this by, among other things, enabling parents to choose which categories of speech they want to be blocked (such as sexually explicit material, illicit drug information, information on violence and weapons, and hate speech) and which age setting they want the product to apply." (p. 27)
"Some Internet content is now capable of being viewed on devices other than traditional personal computers" but… "Several vendors, including large, experienced software companies, currently offer content filtering products for alternative devices." (p. 29)
"Filters are widely available and easy to obtain. Numerous filtering products are sold directly to consumers, either in stores or over the Internet. Filters are also readily available through ISPs. Because most ISPs offer filtering products, a parent does not have to do anything to obtain a filter other than to activate it through the ISP's Web site or to call the ISP." (p. 30)
"Filtering programs are fairly easy to install, configure, and use and require only minimal effort by the end user to configure and update" and… "studies have found that many filtering products require little effort for parents to install and use." (p. 31)
"Installing and setting up a filter will usually take a typical computer user no more than ten or fifteen minutes. The installation and set-up process is not technically complex and does not require any special training or knowledge." (p. 32)
"Filtering products have improved over time and are now more effective than ever before." (p. 33-34)
"Another reason the effectiveness of filtering products has improved is that many products now provide multiple layers of filtering. Whereas many filters once only relied on black lists or white lists, many of today's products utilize black lists, white lists, and real-time, dynamic filtering to catch any inappropriate sites that have not previously been classified by the product." (p. 34)
"Filtering companies actively take steps to make sure that children are not able to come up with ways to circumvent their filters." (p. 34)
"I find that filters generally block about 95% of sexually explicit material." (p. 35)
On mandatory age verification or data verification services as a potential alternative to private filters:
"From the weight of the evidence, I find that there is no evidence of age verification services or products available on the market to owners of Web sites that actually reliably establish or verify the age of Internet users. Nor is there evidence of such services or products that can effectively prevent access to Web pages by a minor." (p. 44)
"payment cards cannot be used to verify age because minors under 17 have access to credit cards, debit cards, and reloadable prepaid cards" and… "there are many other ways in which a minor may obtain and use payment cards." (p. 46)
"The minimum information required by a DVS [data verification services] company to attempt a verification is a first name, last name, street address, and zip code. This minimum information requirement can easily be circumvented by children who generally know the first and last name, street address and zip codes of their parents or another adult." (p. 49)
"I find from the testimony that without a physical delivery of goods and an accompanying visual age verification, neither the [data verification services] nor the Web page operator can know whether an adult or a child provided the information. Attempting to verify age with this information in a consumer-not-present transaction is therefore unreliable." (p. 49)
"It is not economically feasible for a Web page operator, especially one that
provides free content, to verify the information of every customer that visits the Web page with a [data verification service]." (p. 53)
"Requiring users to go through an age verification process would lead to a distinct loss of personal privacy." (p. 55)
[For more analysis of the impact of this decision on the debate over age verification for social networking sites, see Part 3 of my essay.]


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Joan Waugh
Professor Emeritus
Professor Joan Waugh of the UCLA History Department researches and writes about nineteenth-century America, specializing in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age eras. Waugh has published numerous essays and books on Civil War topics, both single authored and edited, including her prize-winning U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth, (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). Her most recent book (co-authored with Gary W. Gallagher), is entitled The American War: A History of the Civil War Era (State College, PA: Flip Learning,2015) Other works include Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell (Harvard University, 1998); Civil War and Reconstruction, 1856 to 1859 (Facts on File, 2003, 2010); The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), and Wars Within A War: Controversy and Conflict Over the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). The recipient of Huntington Library, NEH and Gilder-Lehrman fellowships, she has been interviewed for many documentaries, including the PBS series, "American Experience" on Ulysses S. Grant and the History Channel's production of "Lee and Grant." Waugh has also published a number of op-eds on current controversies regarding Civil War issues for media outlets such as the Los Angeles Times and Salon.com. An active public speaker, Professor Waugh recently delivered the 50th Annual Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the Joanna Dunlap Cowden Memorial Lecture at California State University at Chico, and the Andrew Bell Appleby Memorial Lecture at San Diego State University. Serving on numerous advisory boards and editorial boards, Dr. Waugh has been honored with four teaching prizes, including UCLA's most prestigious teaching honor, the Distinguished Teaching Award. Her dedication to teaching reaches far beyond the campus classroom and she has participated in local, state-wide and national teaching workshops for elementary, middle-school and high school teachers. She led groups of Southern California teachers on Civil War battlefield trips and developed and led a summer travel-study program for UCLA students to go on a two-week field trip to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, Antietam, Maryland, Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Professor Waugh's current research agenda includes two book projects: a study of Harvard-educated Union officers and an examination of the nature of surrender during the Civil War. In 2013-2014 Dr. Waugh holds the Stephen and Janet Rogers Distinguished Fellowship in Nineteenth Century American History at the Henry Huntington Library in San Marino, Califo Click here for her article on surrender in the Fall 2012 The Journal of the Civil War Era: "'I Only Knew What Was in My Mind': Ulysses S. Grant and the Meaning of Appomattox"
UCLA At Gettysburg students walking through the famous "wheat field" at Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
2009 Jefferson Davis Book Award, Museum of the Confederacy
William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography, Civil War Forum of Metropolitan New York
Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow of the Huntington Library, 2005-2006
Travel and Research Grant, UCLA, 1996-2008
UCLA History Department Research and Travel Grant, 2002-2003.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the Henry E. Huntington Library, 2001-2002.
Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, New York Historical Society, 1999-2000.
Huntington Library Fellowship, San Marino, California, 1997-98.
Finalist, Nevins Prize, The Society of American Historians, 1993.
Mary Wollstonecraft Dss. Prize, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, 1992.
Woodrow Wilson Research Grant in Women's Studies, 1991.
"Outstanding Professor in the History Department," Phi Alpha Theta Annual Student Faculty Dinner, May 28, 2008.
Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship Program, 2004-2010
UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, 2004
UCLA Brian Copenhaver Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology, 2003
Chair's Outstanding Teacher/Mentor Award, UCLA History Department, 2000-2001.
Selected Publications
I. Books
The American War: A History of the Civil War Era (State College, PA: Flip Learning, 2015).
Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).
U.S. Grant, American Hero, American Myth, University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
- History Book Club Main Selection, November, 2009
- Military Book Club, Alternative Selection, November, 2009
- Book of the Month Club, Alternative Selection, November, 2009
- Book of the Month Club 2, Online Selection, November, 2009
- A Washington Post Critic's Favorite Book of 2009
- Jefferson Davis Book Award, The Museum of the Confederacy
- William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography, Civil War Forum of Metropolitan New York
- 2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
II. Edited Books
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009). (Co-edited with Gary W. Gallagher, and contributed introduction and one essay titled, "The Nation's Greatest Hero Should Rest in the Nation's Greatest City").
The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004). (Co-edited with Alice Fahs, and contributed introduction and one essay titled, "U.S. Grant, Historian.")
- Winner of the 2004 New York Military Affairs Symposium Civil War Book Award
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1856 to 1869. (New York: Facts on File, 2003).
Volume 5, of Gary B. Nash, general editor, Encyclopedia of U.S. History; Second edition forthcoming, 2008.
- Winner of four awards
III. Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
"Francis Channing Barlow's Civil War," in Gary W. Gallagher and Caroline E. Janney, eds., Cold Harbor to the Crater: Episodes of the War in Virginia in 1864 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015).
"It is just what it is and nothing else': U.S. Grant at Cold Harbor,' in J. Matthew Gallman and Gary W. Gallagher, eds., The Lens of War (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2015).
"I Only Knew What Was in my Mind: Ulysses S. Grant and the Meaning of Appomattox," The Journal of the Civil War Era (September, 2012).
"Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: A History of the Union Cause," in James Marten and A. Kristen Foster, eds., More Than A Contest Between Armies (Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2008).
"New England Cavalier: Charles Russell Lowell in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign," in Gary W. Gallagher, ed., The 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006).
"Pageantry of Woe: The Funeral of U.S. Grant," Civil War History (June, 2005).
"The Funeral of U.S. Grant: A Meditation on Gilded Age Religion and Reunion," Edward J. Blum and W. Scott Poole, eds. Vale of Tears: New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2005). (Revised and expanded version of "Pageantry of Woe," in Civil War History (June, 2005).
"Give This Man Work: The Charity Organization City of the City of New York and the Depression of 1893" Social Science History Journal (Summer 2001).
"A Sacrifice We Owed: The Shaw Family and the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts," in Martin H. Blatt, Thomas J. Brown, Donald Yacovone, eds., Hope and Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001).
IV. Published Lecture
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: A History of the Union Cause. Twelfth Annual Frank L. Klement Lecture (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2003).
V. Scholarly Introductions
Harold Holzer, Ed., Hearts Touched by Fire: The Best of Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (Modern Library, 2011).
John J. Pullen, The Twentieth Maine: A Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2008).
The Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, by Edward Waldo Emerson (University of South Carolina Press, 2005), pp. xiii-xlii.
The Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell, by William Rhindlander Stewart (Cambridge, MA: Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, Philanthropy Classics Access Project, 2006).
VI. Encyclopedia Entries
Author of 40 entries in Civil War and Reconstruction, 1856 to 1869 (New York: Facts on File, 2003), Volume 5, of Gary B. Nash, general editor, Encyclopedia of U.S. History. Second edition forthcoming.
"Charity Organization Societies" and "Josephine Shaw Lowell," entries for Encyclopedia of Social Welfare, Sage Publications, 2005.
"Charity Organization Movement," entry for the Oxford Companion to United States History, Fall 2000.


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I Drank German Wine and it was Awesome
Because much of what actually happens in the world is random and unpredictable, after years of drinking essentially no mature German Riesling, in the past few weeks I've had maybe 20 mature wines. This is due to the generosity of friends - dinners and things like that. What I'm about to tell you might be old news to you, but WHOA, these wines can be great.
When the wines are great, what really gets me is the seamless combination of impossibly wispy delicacy and focused pungency. How can a wine be so incredibly delicate and wispy, and yet so powerful? Well, some wines can do both. The power and lightness idea is not new to me, but it feels like it might reach its apex with some of these old wines. Here are a couple from the past few weeks that really blew me away:
The following week I was lucky enough to attend a dinner featuring a slew of 1997 German Rieslings and I was able to drink two more wines by Egon Müller. I thought they were both truly excellent, again showcasing that startling contrast between lightness and power. The 1997 Egon Müller Scharzhofberger Riesling Kabinett was a wonderful wine, so graceful, such depth.
Willi Schaefer has to be one of the finest producers whose wines I can actually afford. In the past month I experienced some mature examples of his wines and whoa, I am very impressed. Several wines form the 2001 vintage and two from the 1997 vintage. All were compellingly delicious.
And since I'm kvelling about German wines, I have to tell you about the most exciting red wine I've had in some time.
website might be helpful. I drank the wine over three days and it was delicious immediately, showing vivid wild cherry flavors and excellent balance. But it was days two and three when the wine showed all of itself. The fruit is still vivid but more complex now, and the mineral expression on the finish became an integral aspect of the wine, with iron and dark smokey earthy notes. The wine really is wonderfully balanced and graceful, and it offers all of the pleasures of great Pinot Noir. In fact, in my humble opinion, this wine at $55 offers as much or more than almost anything I can think of at that price point in Burgundy red wine. This is one to buy, if you can find it.


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CHICAGO, IL – Obatma was wrongly arrested this morning for conspiring to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat.
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff were arrested Tuesday morning after the FBI revealed wiretaps exposing Blagojevich's plans to trade the Senate seat for cash and a well-paying job for his wife.
Obatma was also picked up from his makeshift cave in Grant Park. FBI agents believed he was involved in the planning but were admittedly confused by his motives. Why would Obatma conspire against his own half-brother's old seat?
Upon reviewing the tapes, the error was found. Obatma's grasp on English, let alone any human language, is extremely poor. Obatma was able to explain through a sonar interpreter that when Blagojevich called, he thought they were talking about selling seeds for honey. Honey is very valuable in his home country of Kenya, and Obatma occasionally ventured from his cave to trade seeds with the honey hunting Ogiek tribe.
The taped conversation went as follows:
R: I'm going to keep this Senate option for me a real possibility, you know, and therefore I can drive a hard bargain. The seat is a valuable thing – you just don't give it away for nothing.
O: squeak!
R: I want to make money.
O: squeak squeak!
R: Are you in?
O: squeeeeaaaaaaak!
R: Wow. Keep our fingers crossed. You're the man. Good job, son.
Obatma was returned to his cave, but not before he was given five minutes to sit in the front seat of the police car and turn the sirens on and off repeatedly.


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MADRID – Spanish police working in cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency say they have arrested six members of a Colombian-based drug-trafficking gang and seized 240 kilograms (530 pounds) of cocaine that had been hidden inside a yacht.
According to Saturday's police statement, their investigation opened in April after police learned that a Spanish citizen based in Colombia was smuggling cocaine into Europe by sea.
Police say they raided three premises after the gang leader, his wife and four gang members from Colombia traveled to Spain as part of their latest cocaine-smuggling operation. The gang leader and his wife were arrested in Madrid, the four henchmen in the southwest province of Huelva.
The drugs were found concealed within the hull of the yacht at the Huelva port of El Rompido.


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Like this, because the Frenchie has a flat I'm too 'lazy' to fix. Road bikes are fun. ♥Frenchie I miss you, though
Friday, May 22, 2009
Happy Friday! Go ride
Like this, because the Frenchie has a flat I'm too 'lazy' to fix. Road bikes are fun. ♥Frenchie I miss you, though
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Your gloves/arm warmers are great. Where can I get me some of those?ReplyDelete
Thanks, Aubree
I love how the colors of your bike always seem to be PART of your outfit. :)ReplyDelete
Hi aubree!! thanks, they are an alpaca knit. cozy but not overwhelming, made by Matthew Breaux, dont think there's a website, but here's a [link] I found.ReplyDelete
I got them at a local little shop here in SF (not azalea from that post) ♥thanks for stopping by!
RJ/ thanks so much!!! I dont think I wear blue much at all, but since having 2blue bikes, somehow I've found a new appreciation and mixing in the love of blue ;D
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• Authors and other book folks in northern New Jersey might want to see about getting involved in BooksNJ 2009 coming up in June.
• A few (new-to-me) online lit journals I've stumbled across and enjoyed recently: Litter Box, Stone's Throw (with an essay by my friend Harriet Brown), and something unusual (hint: keep those envelope backs, folks): Hit and Run, "publishing the raw materials of fiction, poetry and other creative work: scrap metal; index cards; napkin notes; etc."
• Walter Boyer is co-owner of the dominant independent bookstore Bookends, in Ridgewood, NJ, not far from where I live. The store is known for celebrity author appearances, but also puts on its share of lesser-known author events. Boyer is interviewed in the latest Bookhitch newsletter (which by the way always delivers a bunch of smart book marketing ideas). Here's a small part of his response to a question about what he looks for when asked to schedule an event for a newly published author:
"Since we're talking about relatively unknown authors, I prefer a detailed email including a bio of the author, a bio of the book, a picture of the jacket, and a publicity plan, or a marketing outline. With an unknown or first-time author, a lot of what they do to market themselves is what determines the success of a book signing. I want to know what they are doing already, before the signing is even proposed, to market themselves and their book. I want to know what kind of following they have now. It's a challenge, and you cannot expect success without the author's involvement in publicity."It looks like the current (April) newsletter content is not yet up on the Bookhitch site, but you can sign up for the electronic newsletter here.
• Wish you were at the London Book Fair recently? Then enjoy this vicarious visit.
Have a great weekend. Don't forget to write.*
* I say this all the time, with a smile, to my writing workshop students and even to writers whose essays, manuscripts, synopses, book proposals and other works I'm editing or critiquing. They think I'm being funny. I'm not. I know firsthand how easy it is to "forget" to write, though it's often cloaked in other wording: too busy, too tired, blocked, stuck, burned out, overworked in the day job, uninspired, muse-less, etc. So I'll say it again: Don't forget to write.
And, have a great weekend too.


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Jorge Ribalta. A look at Harsh light, without compassion. The Worker-Photography Movement, 1926-1939
Jorge Ribalta, curator of the exhibition The Worker-Photography Movement, 1926-1939, exercises a first attempt in this presentation of the historical documentation of the worker photography movement. Beyond formulating an examination of artists and unique works, his aim is to recount the constitution of public spaces through the medium of photography.


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Kidney Stone Treatment in Spring Hill, FL
"Kidney stones" is the casual term given to the medical condition renal lithiasis. Kidney stones can range anywhere from asymptomatic to very painful. Many people struggle with the repeat formation of kidney stones, and passing them can be difficult.
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Men are more likely than women to develop kidney stones with obese people from either gender facing the highest risk. Kidney stones in children are very rare, but do occur.
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There are many different kidney stone treatments available. These treatments vary based on the size of the kidney stone and the individual patient. For a small kidney stone with few symptoms, treatment may include:
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WASHINGTON — — It was the kind of runaway spending usually reserved for someone with newfound riches — a holistic retreat, a cruise, pricey restaurant tabs, flat-screen televisions and even a pair of stuffed elk heads —and former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. admitted Wednesday that he conspired with his then-Chicago alderman wife to pay for it all with campaign money and cover it up.
In two quiet federal court appearances just hours apart, the power couple who once sought to write a new chapter in Chicago political history instead became the latest entry in an infamous culture of public corruption. Jackson pleaded guilty to conspiring with his wife, Sandi, to siphon campaign funds for personal use, and she pleaded guilty to not reporting most of the take as income on the couple's tax returns.
A sullen Jackson gave his wife a peck on the cheek at his own hearing and at times appeared to wipe tears from his eyes as he told a judge he was guilty of misusing about $750,000 in campaign money. And with that, a political star once seemingly destined for the U.S. Senate or the Chicago mayor's office dissolved once and for all.
"Tell everybody back home I'm sorry I let 'em down, OK?" Jackson told a reporter as he left the courtroom.
As part of Jackson's plea agreement, prosecutors filed a 22-page statement filled with stunning details of how the Jacksons used his congressional campaign fund to fuel a lavish lifestyle. Jackson admitted that together the couple used campaign credit cards to buy personal items, tapped campaign funds to pay those bills, sometimes arranged for their campaign treasurer to make purchases for them, filed falsified campaign-disclosure forms to hide their actions and ultimately understated their personal income for tax purposes.
Both Jacksons face the prospect of time in federal prison.
As part of the plea deal, prosecutors and Jesse Jackson's defense agreed that sentencing guidelines in the case call for a term of between 46 and 57 months, but the sides reserved the right to argue for a sentence above or below that range when he is sentenced June 28.
Sandi Jackson is to be sentenced days later on July 1 and may face from one to two years. Among the conduct in her case, prosecutors said, was failing to report that money in her aldermanic campaign fund was used for personal expenses.
Experts said the agreement for Jesse Jackson leaves room for the defense to argue for probation and use his mental health as a mitigating factor.
Jackson removed himself from the public spotlight last June after winning a primary election in March. His medical leave was initially attributed to "exhaustion." It was later revealed that he had been treated in the Sierra Tucson facility in Arizona and the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
He resigned in November amid the swirling probe, ending a 17-year congressional career just two weeks after winning re-election.
U.S. District Court Judge Robert Wilkins asked Jackson during the hearing whether he understood what was happening.
"Sir, I've never been more clear in my life," Jackson answered.
At a news conference after the hearing, Jackson Jr.'s attorney, Reid Weingarten, said Jackson's health problems contributed to his crimes, hinting it may be an issue raised in a sentencing hearing.
"It turns out that Jesse has serious health issues. ... Those health issues are directly related to his present predicament," Weingarten said. "That's not an excuse, that's just a fact."
Documents filed with the plea agreement lay out a steady pilfering of Jackson's campaign fund during a period of nearly seven years dating to August 2005.
Six people identified by letters of the alphabet — Persons A through F —- were involved in various aspects of the crimes, prosecutors said, and have not been granted immunity in the case. They include two former campaign treasurers, an Alabama businessman who issued a check to pay down a Jackson credit card balance and a Chicago consultant.
In January 2006, Jackson personally opened a bank account under the name "Jesse Jackson Jr. for Congress," and the following year withdrew $43,350 he used to buy a gold Rolex watch, prosecutors said. In 2007, he was also withdrawing funds to pay down personal credit cards, according to case documents.
After that year, the spending went into high gear.
"These expenditures included high-end electronic items, collector's items, clothing, food and supplies for daily consumption, movie tickets, health club dues, personal travel, and personal dining expenses," prosecutors said. When he was charged last week, Jackson was accused of buying, among other items, a fedora that belonged to pop superstar Michael Jackson, an Eddie Van Halen guitar and a football signed by U.S. presidents.
More than $10,000 was spent at Best Buy. A Martha's Vineyard retreat cost $5,687. The Jacksons even billed two shopping trips to a Build-A-Bear Workshop, according to the documents.
Jackson also spent more than $60,000 "at restaurants, nightclubs, and lounges," as well as more than $5,800 for alcohol and more than $17,000 at tobacco shops, prosecutors said. Jackson is known as a cigar aficionado.
One of the most curious purchases took place in the spring of 2011.
In a transaction arranged by Person A, a onetime campaign treasurer, campaign funds were used to pay a taxidermist in Montana $7,058 for two mounted elk heads that were shipped to Jackson's congressional office in Washington. But a year later, with the federal investigation brewing, Person A tried to sell the heads, prosecutors said.
With federal investigators already watching, the move led to an FBI sting operation where an undercover employee of the FBI posing as an interior designer offered to buy the heads at a loss. Prosecutors said $5,300 was wired to Jackson's personal bank account.
Shawn Andres, a taxidermist who owns Alpine Artistry in Arlee, Mont., told the Tribune he was not the person who handled the sale, nor did he know which colleague did. But he did have an observation, saying Jackson paid "top dollar" for his elk heads.
"So that's a significant amount of money," Andres said. "$1,800 is about the most you should be spending for an elk head."
Federal prosecutors said Person A — involved in the elk head sale — was the treasurer of Jackson's campaign until 2008. Separate campaign records identify that aide as Terri Eileen Jones, 62, of Columbia, Md. Person B, a second treasurer, held that post after Jones, and is identified in separate campaign documents as Vickie L. Pasley, 57, of Chicago. Neither could be reached for comment.
Often personal spending was made to look like campaign expenses on official forms, prosecutors said in court filings. A 2008 expense of more than $1,500 for space for a fundraiser purportedly at the Museum of Science and Industry really went for porcelain collectibles, prosecutors said, and $224 for a "FR dinner meeting" at the Peninsula Hotel actually was the tab for a family lunch.
Legal experts said the case is without question headed to Chicago's hall of shame for disgraced politicians — one that just in recent years welcomed two governors, a series of aldermen and another congressman, Dan Rostenkowski, who pleaded guilty in 1996 to diverting taxpayer dollars to his own use.
But the brazeness of the Jackson case makes it unique, some said. Former federal prosecutor Sergio Acosta, now in private practice, said he would not be surprised to see the defense use that element to its advantage at sentencing.
"The outlandishness of it may actually play into the idea that he was suffering from some sort of mental illness at the time," said Acosta, who noted Chicago has seen its share of the misuse of campaign money. "But not to that degree."
In recent years when he was in Congress and she was on the Council, the Jackson's combined annual salaries as public officials totaled more than $270,000.
The day had started with an unusual sight in a city accustomed to seeing Jackson and his well-known father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, at official events. Members of the family looked somber and were linked arm-in-arm as they headed into federal court.
Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, both Democrats, wore dark suits to court, and switched places in a chair just behind the defense table as each stood before the judge to enter a plea at their separate hearings four hours apart.
Jesse Jackson Jr. was first to speak to the judge, and summed up his conduct in a short statement.
"Sir, for years I lived (off) my campaign. I used monies that should have been used for campaign purposes, and I used them for myself personally, to benefit me personally," Jackson said. "And I am acknowledging that that which the government has presented is accurate."
In the afternoon, it was Sandi Jackson's turn. But unlike her husband, she answered the judge's questions only with a string of "Yes, sirs," and sniffled loudly and dabbed her face as it came time to enter her plea.
"Guilty," she said in a tiny voice, choking back tears.
The "statement of offense" filed in Sandi Jackson's case alleges she failed to report at least $15,000 in taxable income earned through her political consulting firm, J. Donatella & Associates. Her husband's congressional fund paid that firm at least $452,500 since 2002, federal campaign reports show. Prosecutors said she knowingly failed to report nearly $570,000 in taxable income over six years ending in 2011, leading to an estimated tax loss of about $159,000.
There was dispute between government and defense lawyers about where Sandi Jackson would fall under federal sentencing guidelines, which the judge is not bound to follow. On the high end, favored by the government, she would face a prison term of 18 to 24 months, while her lawyers are pushing for a sentencing guideline of 12 to 18 months.
The couple have two young children, who lived with them in Washington and attended school there, despite their mother serving for years on the Chicago City Council. Acosta, the former federal prosecutor, said it is not unheard of in case involving convicted couples with young children for one spouse to have his or her sentence deferred until the other spouse finishes serving a sentence.
Dan Webb, Sandi Jackson's attorney and a former top federal prosecutor in Chicago, told reporters following his client's court appearance that Jackson had faced a "hard decision" to plead guilty rather than fight the charges against her. Despite documents detailing her central role in the conspiracy, Webb downplayed her offenses.
"She made the decision to plead guilty today to a one-tax charge, and that's the only thing she pleaded guilty to," Webb said.
The downward spiral of a politician who had been one of Chicago's favorite sons began in 2008 when his name surfaced in the Chicago corruption case against then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Prosecutors alleged top fundraisers for him offered as much as $6 million in campaign cash if Blagojevich would name Jackson to replace the newly elected president, Barack Obama, in the Senate.
Jackson has denied knowledge of that offer. The U.S. attorney in Washington, Ronald Machen Jr., said the criminal case that felled Jackson was not referred to Washington out of the Blagojevich matter.
Machen declined to specify when the investigation began or if it was an outgrowth of an ethics probe of Jackson when he was in the House.
Jackson's misdeeds were a betrayal of the public trust, he said, especially since he spent campaign funds on "items of excess" such as fur coats and music memorabilia. Prosecutors outlined about 3,100 personal purchases in all.
"The people of Illinois' 2nd Congressional District and the American people deserve better from our political leaders," Machen said.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, typically outspoken on a wide variety of issues, offered no comment at federal court on Wednesday.
Neither did his son or Sandi Jackson, who left her hearing holding hands, Sandi still with tears in her eyes.
Katherine Skiba and Wes Venteicher reported from Washington, with Jeff Coen in Chicago. Tribune reporters David Heinzmann, John Chase, David Kidwell and Kim Geiger in Chicago contributed.


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Touring art exhibit to showcase Lake Champlain, Vermont talent
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Addison County residents are taking a lead role in organizing a major art exhibit that will tour through some major cities and venues next year celebrating Lake Champlain and the 400th anniversary of its naming by French explorer Samuel de Champlain.
Dubbed "Champlain's Lake Rediscovered," the exhibit will boast 50 works — primarily paintings — submitted exclusively by Vermont artists. In 2009, the collection will meander its way through the six major institutions: Shelburne Farms Coach Barn, the National Arts Club in New York City, the Boston Public Library, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Washington, D.C., the Chaffee Art Gallery in Rutland and the Southern Vermont Art Center in Manchester.
The show — the only visual arts feature from Vermont in next year's quadricentennial celebration of Lake Champlain — is the brainchild of Middlebury artist Doug Lazarus. Lazarus is serving as curator of the exhibit, while Ripton-based artist Jean Cherouny is coordinating the endeavor.
The exhibit's major sponsor is the nonprofit Willowell Foundation, an Addison County-based organization that supports projects connecting the arts, education and the environment.
"This is the first time, according to the Vermont Arts Council, that Vermont art has every traveled to major cities as 'Vermont art,'" Lazarus said of the exhibit. "This (show) will declare that Vermont has a seriously competent art community in it."
Lazarus conceived of the exhibit last year as a way to showcase Vermont artists, export images of the lake in this special anniversary, and provide an added incentive for tourists to come to the Green Mountain State.
Organizers believe Vermont has made strides in recent years as a destination point for artists who had previously practiced their crafts in urban areas. As those cities have grown more and more expensive, large numbers of painters, sculptors and craftspeople have made their way to the Green Mountain State.
"Now, we have a wealth of artists," Lazarus said. "They have also brought a sophisticated style."
Champlain's Lake Rediscovered will soon send out several hundred invitations to artists and galleries throughout the state that may want to submit works for the exhibit. Interested artists will have until Sept. 15 to hand in their work. Lazarus anticipates the exhibit will draw a few hundred entries. He will winnow that initial lot to a crop of finalists that will be judged by a statewide panel. That panel will determine the 50 works that will make the cut for the exhibit.
"Anything that is truly amateur is not going to make it," Lazarus said.
Nor are organizers seeking commercial depictions of the lake and its environs.
"We're not looking for picture postcards here," Lazarus said. "We are looking for work that will be treated respectfully when it goes to the urban centers."
He hopes submitting artists will use abstract, impressionistic and other creative techniques to impart what they believe is the true essence of the lake and the feelings it evokes in the people who view it.
"We're looking at creativity and professionalism as the two categories," Lazarus said.
The exhibit will also celebrate Abenaki culture. Nationally known Abenaki artist Gerard Tsonakwa will craft a mask that will represent the "spirit of Lake Champlain" and will serve as the logo for the show, according to Lazarus.
Artists will be given some flexibility in producing their works. Lazarus said the only real stipulation for submitted artwork is that it be two-dimensional, on surfaces no smaller than 20-inches-by-30-inches and no larger than 36-inches-by-48-inches. While many artists are likely to use canvas and oil paints or pastels as their tools, Lazarus knows of two participating artists who plan to go in different directions. One is using wood enameling techniques, and another will blend linoleum into her work.
Lazarus estimates it will cost $100,000 to organize and stage the exhibit. That includes packaging the artwork, trucking it to the venues, insurance, receptions and printing the art catalogue.
"It's only because I've been up here for 25 years that I know how to stretch the dollar," said Lazarus, who added such an undertaking could reasonably be expected to cost $300,000.
Lazarus continues to apply for grants to cover the needed funding. While state tourism and arts organizations have been supportive, they have thus far been unable to contribute any money toward Champlain's Lake Rediscovered.
Still, Lazarus is optimistic.
"We will close the gap," he said.
Lazarus will soon firm up a Web site for the exhibit that will feature more details and contacts. In the meantime, anyone seeking more information about the project can reach Lazarus at 388-0239.


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Legendary console modder Ben Heck's creations are normally quite elegant, but when a couple in Afghanistan asked for something rugged, he gave them this majestic beast.
What you're looking at is a PlayStation 3 built into an existing Pelican Storm case. It features a 22 inch LCD display, built-in speakers, networking, a TV tuner, and a little storage space to keep everything nice and compact.
The mod was built for a couple in Afghanistan that were looking for something portable enough to lug around with them yet tough enough to survive being banged up. Weighing in at around 30 pounds, this custom PlayStation 3 should fit the bill nicely.
See how Ben built this monster in the latest episode of the Ben Heck Show over at element14.
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The Micro Camera is a key fob-shaped camera which weighs only half an ounce, can record an hour of 480p video and HD audio and only costs $20. Its cheapness and size may make every car video way more awesome.
We must admit to not having laid our grubby mitts on one of these babies yet, but testimonials are almost universally positive for these things given the cost. The Micro Camera is part of a new class of ever-smaller solid-state recording devices that will inevitably make every car video that much more awesome. Most of the time when rigging a car for video, you have to worry about losing cameras to shock forces. Nice, expensive ones are always rigged up inside or to a mountain of restraints. Cheaper, but still-expensive cameras or remote lenses are put in harms way and regularly lost.
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But what if a camera only cost $20 and returned video acceptable for online use? Put a $10 4-gig MicroSD card inside and you've got a nearly indestructable, throw-away camera that can be mounted with duct tape. Put a camera on the rear axle, put it on a leaf spring, put it on a tie rod, put one on a wheel spoke. Doesn't matter. The battery will run for an hour, recording 720x480 video which is 480p in HD lingo and do it on the cheap. Should the camera get wet or smashed, open it up and extricate the MicroSD and be on your merry way, video in hand. Maybe we cover a Murcielago with 'em and enter the running of the bulls. What would you do with it? [TheMicroCamera]


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Another great way to do invitations is to design a 4x6 picture, and have them printed at Sam's Club or Costco. Last I checked, prints were about $0.14 each. And, if you are really tight on cash, they can be send as postcards, so you save on envelope costs, and reduced postage.
The best refreshments I have ever been a part of was when my sister and I did a baby shower for our other sister and served pie. Anyone that called and asked what they could bring, we told them a pie of their choice. I was amazed that we had almost no repeats. It was fabulous and pretty simple.


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Daluyon Beach and Mountain Resort
We stayed at this resort in Sabang, Palawan. They still need to improve A LOT when it comes to customer service. There were so many unnecessary things that could have been prevented if only they would learn to LISTEN to what their customers are saying. Very beautiful place - that is their BIG plus.Read More