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Reverse Root Beer Floats
I needed an assistant. I needed someone who would handle the mundane grunt work. Someone to write recipe notes for me; to scrape vanilla beans for me; to do the dishes for me.
The hitch, though, is that I don't have the money to pay a decent assistant. But, with a little perseverance on my part I found someone who was willing to work for Pop Rocks.
Granted, she needs to be in bed with the lights out by 8:00, but who am I to argue with the price?
This time of year the canister for our ice cream maker basically lives in the freezer. After every batch of ice cream or sorbet, it gets washed and put right back into the freezer so it'll be ready for the next recipe. Recently, with an itch to make something frozen, and in the mood for something different I hunted down the root beer extract we had left over from a horribly failed attempt candy making venture.
Middle age, being the jerk that it is, has required that we look for alternatives to dairy in our house. While the original recipe (from America's Test Kitchens The New Best Recipe) calls for whole milk and heavy cream, I used soy creamer and coconut cream in place of whole milk and heavy cream respectively. This recipe makes for a good base for most ice creams (just substitute another extract flavor), but works best with heavier flavors that can stand up to the coconut.
My newly hired assistant also expects a certain amount of entertainment and fun, so what we really needed was a vanilla soda so we could make Reverse Root Beer Floats.
We carry three different vanilla beans at the Spice House, but I settled on the Mexican beans. In contrast to the others, especially the Madagascar, I get earthier notes off the Mexican beans (think coffee and bitter chocolate), that I figured would work better with the root beer flavors.
Root Beer Ice Cream
- 1 ½ cup coconut milk (or heavy cream)
- 1 ½ cup soy half and half (or whole milk)
- ¾ cup sugar
- 4 large egg yolks
- 3 tsp root beer extract
- 1 tsp vanilla paste
Position a strainer over a medium bowl set in a larger bowl containing ice water. Heat the coconut milk, half and half and ½ cup of sugar in a medium sauce pan over medium heat, stirring occasionally until steam appears and the milk is warm (about 175 degrees), about 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, whisk the yolks and remaining ¼ cup sugar in a medium bowl until combined and pale yellow. Whisk half the warm mixture into the beaten yolks, ½ cup at a time, until combined. Whisk the milk-yolk mixture into the warm milk in the sauce pan; set the saucepan over medium heat and cook, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, until steam appears, foam subsides and the mixture is slightly thickened or an instant read thermometer registers 180-185 degrees. (Do not boil or the eggs with curdle.) Immediately strain the custard into the bowl set in the ice bath, stirring occasionally to help it cool. Cover and refrigerate until and instant-read thermometer registers 40 degrees or lower, at least 3 hours or up to 24 hours.
Add root beer extract and vanilla paste and stir well. Pour the custard into the ice cream machine canister and churn, following the manufacturer's instructions, until the mixture resembles soft-serve ice cream. Transfer the mixture to an airtight container, press plastic wrap flush against the surface, cover the container, and freeze the ice cream until firm, at least 2 hours.
Vanilla Bean Soda
- 3 Mexican Vanilla beans
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- ½ cup packed dark brown sugar
- 1 cup water
- Pinch of kosher salt
Combine sugars, water in salt in a medium sauce pan. Split vanilla beans lengthwise with the tip of a paring knife. Using the back of the knife scrape the seeds from the pods and add them to the saucepan. Add the pods to the saucepan.
Place the saucepan over medium heat and stir until sugars are dissolved. Let cool a bit and pour into an airtight container. Refrigerate overnight.
Strain and discard pods.
To serve combine ½ oz. (2 tbsps) with 8 oz. (1 cup) chilled club soda. Add syrup slowly to avoid foaming. Stir well. Or, add 4 oz. (½ cup) syrup to 1 liter of chilled club soda. (Again, add syrup carefully to avoid foaming.)
My trusty assistant forgot about the Pop Rocks altogether. She was too bugging me to taste the ice cream.


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text: barry bouwsma wrote: > --- On Sun, 9/14/08, Steven Toth <stoth at linuxtv.org> wrote: > >> is that the BSD folks can't port the GPL license into BSD because it's >> not compatible. > > I don't want to see any religious war here (trimmed to dvb > list), but... > > There is GPL code distributed as part of *BSD sources, > as you can see by reading the licensing in, for example, > $ ls /lost+found/CVSUP/BSD/FreeBSD.cvs/src/sys/gnu/dev/sound/pci/ > Attic emu10k1-alsa.h,v maestro3_reg.h,v p17v-alsa.h,v > csaimg.h,v maestro3_dsp.h,v p16v-alsa.h,v Interesting. > > >> I owe it to myself to spend somehime reading the BSD licencing. Maybe >> the GPL is compatible with BSD. > > It all depends on the intended use -- whether for optional > kernel components as above. In the distributions, though, > it's kept separated. > > It's also possible to dual-licence source, and I see a good > number of such files in NetBSD under, as an example, > /lost+found/CVSUP/BSD/NetBSD.cvs/src/sys/dev/ic/ I'm be quite happy to grant a second license on my work the the BSD guys, as the copyright owner I can do that. The legal stuff gets messy quickly and I don't claim to understand all of it. I'm an opensource developer, I chose to work on Linux because it's the biggest movement. I have no objections to any other projects, in fact I welcome them. > > > There will be plenty of misinformation and FUD about which > licensing is better, and I don't want to hear any more such. > Or debates. Or evangelism. Or anything. Agreed. > > The different BSDen will handle GPLed code differently. > > (By the way, it is possible to completely build NetBSD from > within Linux, though the DVB code hasn't been merged as of > this morning my time, if someone with *BSD familiarity here > wants to think about considering maybe playing with it later > sometime, perhaps, maybe) The issue would be your support community. If you're working on linux then people here will help, if our working on something else and asking for help here - then people will probably be trying to fix linux first, so responses to questions may not arrive, or be slow coming. Still, better TV support in BSD is good news. - Steve


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Part IV
So we begin. For those of you who may not know, the Marlins are about to embark, once again. The Organization and Armed Forces Entertainment are teaming up for our FOURTH TOUR together supporting our men and women who serve and protect our country. The first three visits covered the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Germany/The Balkans and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This one will be visiting the Pacific: Japan, Guam and Hawaii, in 15 days to be exact. The attendees are listed at the bottom of the marlins.com/troopsvisit web page.
After a 5AM call time (my apologies to that) and tears in our eyes as we left our loved ones, we traveled more than 7,000 miles and 17 hours in the air. If it wasn't for the gloomy weather when we landed, we would have seen the sun for nearly 20 hours! I met a couple of Japanese natives on the flight, and the one thing I was amazed at most was the number of times they travel from our country to theirs. They must love the U. S. of A!
Before I close for the day, I'd like to give a grateful thanks to Jennifer Milikien, Public Affairs Director for Armed Forces Entertainment, Captain John Gilleland, Circuit Manager of our tour from Armed Forces Entertainment and Atsushi Uchino ("Spike"), one of the coordinators from Armed Forces Entertainment who helped us begin our journey. Without them, the entertainment and support of the Miami Marlins and Armed Forces Entertainment would not exist.
So now the main objective begins. 15 days, 3 countries and 4,400 soldiers to visit. Our mission…To Show Our Support To Our Troops. I encourage every reader / follower to ask us any and every question they want an answer to relating to the attendees and the trip. Send your questions to email@example.com and let us know who's asking and from where! Ask everything from how much gel does Bryan Petersen put in his hair, to anything about all of our visits. We'll let you know how Billy The Marlin's new look and attitude is going as we debut Billy for the first time to the world as a Miami Marlin!
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Awesome! You guys are doing a great thing and we are all very proud of you. Which jersey will Billy be wearing, the black or orange/warm red?


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text: On 17 Sep 2008, at 2:22 pm, Lux, James P wrote: > But how is that any different than having a PC on your desk? > > I see the deskside supercomputer as a revisiting of the > "workstation" class computer. Used to be that PCs and Apples were > what sat on most peoples desks, but some had Apollo or Sun or Perq > workstations, because they had applications that needed the > computational horsepower (or, more likely, the high res hardware > graphics support.. A CGA was pretty painful for doing PC board > layout). > > Same sort of thing for having the old Tektronix 4014 graphics > terminal, rather than hiking down to the computer center to pick up > your flatbed plotter output. > > Jim We don't generally allow people here to buy their own PCs and Apples either. They get a standard build from us, all centrally managed by LanDESK. They also get a known type of hardware; they can't just buy what the hell they like. I have more than 800 Windows desktops to support. If they were all different and purchased ad-hoc by individual users, I would be in even worse hell than I am already. Most people don't build Beowulf clusters out of ad-hoc piles of machines from God-knows-where. Most of us buy consistent hardware, because it's impossible to support anything else. The Tektronix graphics terminal is slightly different, because it was just that, a terminal, and consequently doesn't present such a headache. Tim -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.


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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Something delicious to drizzle on your Sunday pancakes: bilberry or blueberry syrup
Pancakes by K, bilberry syrup by Pille
We eat lots of pancakes in our house, and we eat them regularly. Every Sunday morning*, K. wakes up before I do, goes to the kitchen and makes us some pancakes. Sometimes he makes thin, crepe-like pancakes, sometimes thick, smaller drop-cakes. They're all wonderful, and I feel very spoilt during those leisurely weekend breakfasts ;) Pancakes, of course, need a little something to accompany them. Maybe a spoonful of summery wild strawberry jam, or much more 'adult' rhubarb jam with ginger. Perhaps some honey-coloured cloudberry jam, plum & vanilla jam or blueberry/bilberry jam? There are other, non-jammy, options - a scoop of ever-so-slightly-melted vanilla ice cream comes to mind. Or a zigzag of chocolate sauce. Or a generous drizzle of this bilberry syrup that I found on this Finnish recipe site. The choice is all yours..
Blueberry/bilberry syrup
Makes about 1 litres
1 litre blueberries/bilberries
700 ml sugar
150 ml water
Put all ingredients in a saucepan. Bring to the boil, then simmer gently for 10-15 minutes.
Press through a fine sieve, pour into sterilised hot bottles.
Serve with ice cream or pancakes.
* Sometimes he makes pancakes on Saturday mornings, but then we head to his mum's place for Sunday morning pancakes :)
14 comments:
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
You lucky girl to have someone up before you making you pancakes! The Bilberry Syrup looks pretty special too.
- 8:10 pm, August 14, 2007
- Baking Soda said...
I love pancakes (in Holland pancakes are considered a child's treat and are eaten for lunch/dinner) I think I am going to transfer my raspberries into your syrup!
- 10:25 pm, August 14, 2007
- Lydia said...
Like you, I live with a pancake maker. Now, if I could only find a syrup maker to move in with us....
- 11:48 pm, August 14, 2007
- Valli said...
It sounds del1cious and a nice change from maple syrup. We don't make maple syrup here in western Canada. For one thing it does not get cold enough, plus we haven't any maple forests. But...I did see birch syrup. I will have to give it a try just to see how it compares.
- 5:54 pm, August 15, 2007
- Figs Olives Wine said...
Wonderful idea! I'd imagine it's pretty good drizzled into some prosecco too!
- 8:38 pm, August 15, 2007
- Su-Lin said...
I never realised how simple it was to make blueberry syrup. I was at a friend's house for a sleepover when I was about 10 years old and I remember being served pancakes with homemade blueberry syrup for breakfast. It was impressive and I'd always wanted to make it. Thanks for the recipe!
- 11:07 pm, August 15, 2007
- Thredahlia said...
Täna ei ole küll pühapäeva hommik, aga need pannkoogid näevad nii head välja.
Mitte küll päris mustikasiirupiga seoses, aga meenuvad vanaisa jutud tema vanaemast, kest kuumutatud mustikaid ilma suhkruta pudelitesse hoidistas ja siis mõni talvel ikka korgi pealt ära viskas - nii, et köögilage värviti igal kevadel :D
- 8:19 am, August 16, 2007
- Trig said...
We Brits are not really a pancake-loving nation, sadly. Well we celebrate them once a year, and in grand fashion, but unlike Americans we don't tend to eat them on a regular basis. We don't get bilberries in great demand here either, but blueberries aplenty
- 8:26 pm, August 16, 2007
- thepassionatecook said...
i just had something more to add to our bilberry/blueberry discussion: as i found out today, bilberries are also called schwarzbeeren in austria, which translates as black berries... which, of course, are VERY different from the English blackberries (and even more so from a certain dispensable gadget...)
- 12:22 am, August 17, 2007
- Kristen said...
Oh I love your blog! This syrup looks amazing.
- 3:45 am, August 20, 2007
- Pippurimylly said...
Delicious picture! The syrup looks amazing over the pancakes.
- 7:49 pm, August 20, 2007
- Tea said...
Is there anything so nice as a man in the kitchen making pancakes on a weekend morning? Lovely!
- 7:45 am, August 22, 2007
- Pille said...
Tanna - I know, I'm pretty lucky and very happy:)
Baking Soda - raspberry syrup would be great, too.
Lydia - wouldn't it be easier (and safer:) to teach the pancake maker to take up syrup making as well? Mh?
Valli- maple syrup is always beautiful on pancakes, too, of course. I've only had birch sap, though I can see that birch syrup would be lovely.
Figs Olives Wine - now, THAT's a wonderful idea!
Su-lin- indeed, there was nothing complicated whatsoever..
Thredahlia - K. "dekoreeris" mu uue põlle paar kuud tagasi mustikapritsmetega ära. Siiamaani hallikas-sinised laigud peal, seda vaatamata korduvale pesule. Nii et saan Su vanaisast täitsa aru:)
Trig - apparently bilberries are quite widely available in Scotland. But not in supermarkets, of course.. Thanks for popping by!
Johanna - bilberries translate as 'black berries' in Estonian, too, (and bog bilberries 'blue berries'). 'Blackberries' are 'field berries' in Estonian. Confusing:)
Kristen - I'm so glad you found your way here - welcome!
Pippurimylly - kiitos!
Tea - that's a pretty nice feeling - and sight - indeed:)
- 11:17 am, August 22, 2007
- Hedgehog said...
Hi from your neighbor to the north! I really have to blog about how much I love your blog one of these days.
You don't happen to have a recipe for lingon syrup, do you? Or any tips about how to adapt a blueberry syrup recipe to use with lingon? I have so many lingon and want to try out a few new things this year.
- 3:54 pm, September 01, 2007


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The school makes a deliberate attempt to understand the genius loci. The show is full of projects that emerge out of their location or at least are drawn with a graphic understanding of the context. It's easy to see the influence of the work of John Tuomey, professor of architectural design, but this approach is also part of the school's ethos.
UCD is Ireland's oldest architecture school and recently celebrated its centenary – the first student having enrolled in 1911. It was marked by a series of events focusing on the formative moments in the school's past, including a wonderful oral history, captured by master's student Lisa Cassidy, of the events surrounding the famous 1970's 'Flying Circus', an international crop of young tutors flown in to 'save the school'.
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The Thesis Studio Inside Outside (Sheila O'Donnell and Jennifer O'Leary) combined a fascination with architecture's broader commitment to engage socially with the school's ambition to embrace deeper understanding through research. Each of the students immersed themselves in conversations with the wider university body focused on reimaging the pedagogical experience, engaging with students from the UCD School of Education and the National College of Art and Design in a module called New Space for Learning.
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How to Help New Linux Users
If It's Not Obvious to Them, It's Not Obvious
This wonderful LinuxPlanet Classic was originally published July 26, 2001, and it is just as timely today--ed.
And that brings me to something I unearthed once again while thinking a bit on the Sun GNOME study, and also considering last week's editor's note (The Support Call HOWNOTTO) For a few years now I've subscribed to the Red Rock Eater News Service, a one-way mailing list run by Phil Agre, an associate professor of information studies at UCLA. Mr. Agre's list is a can't-miss for me, and many useful things have come from it.
For instance, for a while I worked as a database administrator at a high school. It wasn't fun work, and it had the distinct disadvantage of being a fairly stable environment. After a while, there's only so much you can bear of walking around muttering and looking inscrutable (even if that schtick does spell job security.) Having too much time on my hands, I agreed to take over some support work from the techs who handled the end users (over 125 teachers, staff, and administrators) and promptly found my temper and emotional reserves pushed to their limit. End users are a frustrating crowd, bringing an insane mix of enough-rope-to-dangle-experience and simple foolishness to their computing behavior. The document I'm including below (with Mr. Agre's kind permission) offered me some insights to grab hold of and use. I printed a couple of them out in 72 point type and taped them to my wall.
I include them here for two reasons:
One, they serve to underscore something the Sun study pointed out: end users have their own agenda and perception when it comes to the computer in front of them. Though it's a simple enough statement, "If it's not obvious to them, it's not obvious" seems to elude those of us who think everything about a computer is obvious, right down to "globe icon with drill next to it means 'connect to my ISP'".
Two, support is something the entire Linux user community provides its newer members. It's not uncommon of late to hear more and more complaints about a general sense of crossness creeping into the interactions of the initiated with new users. Now that the "pioneer" stage is over and just anybody can ride the train into town courtesy of near-universal ease of installation and more "install-n-use" books than the publishing market could bear (honest... talk to a few acquisitions editors), it's easy to be irritated with greenhorns who get hung up on the "simplest" things. Yes... menu configured PPP connections are a snap compared to writing your own chat scripts after debugging your non-auto-detected-modem with minicom, but sometimes even those menus aren't the simplest things to figure out for reasons beyond even a deficiency of the menu design itself.
Mr. Agre's wisdom in this area speaks for itself:
- Skip Ahead
- 1. If It's Not Obvious to Them, It's Not Obvious
- 2. If It's Not Obvious to Them, It's Not Obvious


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"The Looming Tower," based of the 2006 Pulitzer-winning book of the same name, stars Jeff Daniels and Peter Sarsgaard as dueling heads of the FBI and CIA, respectively, during the rise of terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden. After a few episodes into this series, the show doesn't seem to be as good as the book. The plot is all over the place and the dialogue is often pretty bad. Still, the show does enough things right ― notably the solid acting and compelling source material ― that "The Looming Tower" is still worth checking out. There's also a decent chance this will become a hit, so you might as well see what the hype is about.
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(CNN) -- With more than half the country in some state of drought, farmers are feeling the impact on their livelihood and consumers could expect to feel a hit in their wallet when they go to the supermarket soon, experts say.
The U.S. is facing the largest drought since the 1950s, the National Climatic Data Center reported Monday, saying that about 55% of the country was in at least moderate short-term drought in June for the first time since December 1956, when 58% of the country was in a moderate to extreme drought.
The hot, dry weather in June, which ranked as the third-driest month nationally in at least 118 years, according to the center, made the problem worse.
That has left farmers on the edge of their seat worrying about how much damage their harvests will sustain and how much of their livelihood they may stand to lose this year.
Throughout the Midwest, farmers are seeing signs of damaged crops. In the 18 states that produce most of our corn, only 31% of the crops were rated good or excellent this week, that's down from 40% last week, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This same time last year, 66% of corn crops were rated good or excellent. Soybean crops, which can be used in creating diesel fuel, are seeing similar troubles; 34% of the U.S. crop was rated good or excellent, down from 40% last week. This time last year, 64% were in that condition.
Derek Mullin, a farmer from Mount Pleasant, Iowa, told CNN's Chris Welch that in a good year he can get 200 bushels of corn per acre, but this year he expects that number reduced by 25%.
That lost money will hurt him and his family and he said there is nothing he can do about it.
"This is our personal business. It's right at our back door. As soon as we walk out of our house we see our investment and when it goes downhill it does take a toll on you," he told CNN. "One of the hardest parts about this is you can do everything just right -- planting dates, work hard at putting in a good crop, have a good stand established -- and when mother nature works against you, then it all seems like it was for nothing."
Mullin's expected low yield of corn, and similar situations for other farmers, is specifically why this drought is getting a lot of attention, Richard Volpe, an economist with the USDA's Economic Research Service told CNN.
"Corn is a major input for retail food," he said. "Corn is used to make feed for all the animals in our food supply chain. As this drought reduces the harvest of corn, that would drive up the price of feed for animals and then in turn meat products."
The current drought has forced disaster declarations in 26 states and a spate of emergency conservation orders. And experts say it could also lead to serious economic repercussions the same way the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it did during the 1956 drought, which dropped crop yields about 50% in some areas.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told CNN's Candy Crowley his heart goes out to the producers, ranchers and farmers who are dealing with something they have no control over.
"We're really not going to know the full extent of all of this until the cotton's picked, the beans and kernels are counted. But clearly our yields are going to be down."
And if the crops aren't there, you can expect to see some differences in the supermarket, Volpe said.
"You would see it first and heaviest for beef, pork, poultry and dairy," Volpe said, explaining that if you can't get the corn to feed animals, the meat market would be hit first and could have the longest-term impact.
Field corn, which is the dominant type of corn affected, is used to create feed for animals, but also corn meal, corn syrup and ethanol. Those products could also take a hit.
But Volpe wants to be clear that there isn't a one-to-one ration when it comes to the price of corn versus what you'll be paying for your meat.
"We understand historically, if the price of field corn goes up by 50%, which is a huge jump, we expect retail food in general to go up by about 1%," he said.
So you likely won't see the doubling of the price of a rib-eye steak, but over time, prices could accumulate.
And when might you expect to see this happen?
"For sure, the full effect of this drought will not be until 2013. It'll be 2013 when we see it and its in the whole supermarket," he said. "But if the price of corn shoots up, we'd see this effect within about two to three months. That doesn't mean we'll see a complete jump into food prices. It's just that we should start to see the effects."
Only July 25 the USDA will provide their monthly estimates of food prices, which would factor in drought conditions, Volpe said.
Volpe noted that you could also actually see some short-term lower prices on meat, noting that historically there is a small dip in the price of beef and pork before they start rising.
Ranchers "have these animals on hand, and animals that are market ready," he said. "What they do is figure out, OK well the cost of maintaining this herd in the next few months is going to shoot up because of the rising price of feed, if it make sense to do it now, get the guaranteed money."
Volpe notes that while there are many comparisons being made to the drought in the 1980s and the economic impact it had, it is important to keep in mind how much has changed since then and why that may mean you can't draw an exact correlation to how hard the economy could be hit by this drought. That's something that the agriculture secretary noted too, saying that technology had changed and conditions were different.
"The 1980s were a much different time, average food prices in the '80s were much higher than in recent years," Volpe said. "Fuel prices were much more volatile and the global economy and market for commodities were not as efficient."
While Mullin waits to see just how bad things will get he says that his saving grace, like other farmers, could be having federal crop insurance. But, he added, that only goes so far.
That's one reason why Mullin, and others in his state, are anxiously waiting to see how state and federal authorities may be able to help.
Mullin said he is hopeful he may hear some answers from a drought conference being led by Iowa's governor on Tuesday.
Vilsack said the biggest problem is that while the USDA has emergency loans and some other options to help, it lacks the full resources the government needs.
"The real challenge for us is the USDA does not have the tools it once had to help people through this difficult time," Vilsack told CNN.
Vilsack used the drought as an example to plead with the Senate to pass a farm bill that has already cleared the U.S. House of Representative, adding it was not enough to extend a previous bill that expired. He noted that the 2008 farm bill which expired had provided $4 billion in disaster assistance to 400,000 farmers and ranchers while it existed.
"Just extending the 2008 bill will not revive disaster programs for livestock producers" he said.
CNN's Chris Welch contributed to this report.


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Vehicle Strikes Utility Pole
An Everett man was not injured when his westbound 1998 Mercedes travelled onto the berm and struck an embankment and a utility pole. The vehicle driven by Donald E. Harman, 63, required towing from the July 23 12:46 a.m. accident scene along Lincoln Highway. Harman will be cited by state police for multiple vehicle code violations.
Two Charged With Harassment
Two Needmore residents face charges of harassment in connection with a domestic dispute at 229 Myers Road in Thompson Township. Those charged in the 12:40 a.m. incident on Sunday, July 21, include a 34- year-old female and a 45- year-old male, who were not identified by state police. Charges are filed through Magisterial District Judge Tamela Heming.
Warfordsburg Man Accused Of Taking Clothing
Pennsylvania State Police in Bedford have charged a Warfordsburg area man with theft in connection with clothes taken from a laundromat. State police alleged 42-year-old Raymond P. Truax took clothing belonging to a Breezewood man from the Hinish Car Wash on June 13.
Theft From Motor Vehicle Reported
A 20-year-old female and a 44-year-old female, both from Hustontown, reported personal items were stolen from their vehicles between 11 p.m. on July 17 and 9:55 a.m. on July 18. The vehicles were parked at 891 Taylor Road in Taylor Township when the thefts occurred. Anyone having further information linked to this case should contact state police Trooper Poole at 717-485-3131.
Man Charged With Lying Under Oath
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg have accused 27- year- old Harrisonville resident Lance Joshua Mellott with perjury. Police alleged Mellott made false statements while under oath during a criminal trial on August 10, 2012, in the Fulton County Courthouse. Charges against Mellott were filed through Magisterial District Judge Wendy Mellott.
St. Thomas Woman Arrested For DUI
A St. Thomas woman was arrested and transported to Fulton County Medical Center for blood alcohol content testing following a traffic stop on Saturday, July 20.
According to state police, 66-year-old Mary W. Lamb was pulled over along Lincoln Highway at the intersection of Possum Hollow Road at 3:06 a.m. for a traffic violation. Lamb was alleged to be driving under the influence of alcohol. She will be charged through Magisterial District Judge Devin Horne.
Harassment In Hustontown
State police have charged 24- year- old Kurt W. Edmonds, of Hustontown, with harassment following an altercation at 196 Church Street, Apt. B, in Taylor Township. Edmonds is accused of grabbing a 27-yearold Hustontown woman during a 1:26 a.m. dispute on Monday, July 22. Charges against Edmonds will be filed through Magisterial District Judge Devin Horne.
DUI Arrest Made
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg made a driving-under-the-influencerelated arrest along Breezy Point Road on Saturday, July 20. Stuart Neal Totten, 49, of McConnellsburg, was pulled over in Licking Creek Township at 12:02 a.m. for a traffic violation, police said.
Totten was arrested and transported to Fulton County Medical Center for a blood alcohol content test. Charges will be filed through Magisterial District Judge Devin Horne.
Burglary On Black Oak Road
State police troopers investigated a break-in at 2006 Black Oak Road, Warfordsburg, that occurred between June 10 and July 10. Burglars stole a Ruger Super Red Hawk .44 caliber, a Ruger Black Hawk .44 caliber, a Stihl weed whacker and a mini-chopper gas-propelled motorcycle from a shed belonging to a 46-year-old Warfordsburg woman. Anyone having additional information pertinent to this burglary should call state police Trooper Watkins at 717-485-3131.
Access-Device Fraud Investigated
A 60-year- old McConnellsburg man told state police investigators his credit card information was used to make purchases at convenience and department stores in Pennsylvania and Maryland between July 2 and July 15.
Windows Stolen
Aluminum-framed windows were reported stolen from 2232 Gem Road in Belfast Township between noon on July 14 and 6 p.m. on July 20. Victim is a 68-yearold man from McConnellsburg. Anyone with further information concerning this theft is urged to contact state police Trooper Sprague at 717-485-3131.
Assault At Vision Quest
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg responded to an assault at Vision Quest in Brush Creek Township Friday morning. Troopers discovered 18-year-old Aleyha Shawnte Wall of Erie had allegedly spit and struck five staff members at the facility at 9:44 a.m. on Friday, July 19. Charges of aggravated assault were filed against Wall through Magisterial District Judge Tamela Heming. Wall has since been removed from the facility by her county of placement.
Motor, Car Parts Taken
A Volkswagen motor and car parts were stolen from 281 South Madden Road in Taylor Township, according to state police reports. The victim, a 73-year-old male from McConnellsburg, reported the theft occurred between July 17 and July 19. Anyone having further information linked to this case should contact state police Trooper Piasecki at 717-485- 3131.
Warfordsburg Woman Arrested For DUI
A Warfordsburg woman was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol Sunday, July 14, following a two-vehicle accident along the westbound lanes of Interstate 70.
According to state police, at 12:17 a.m. a 2008 Dodge Caliber driven by Brandy L. Pierce, 36, of Warfordsburg, rear-ended a 2011 Mitsubishi Lancer operated by fellow Warfordsburg resident Doreen K. Tritle, 48. Pierce, police said, fled the scene but was located shortly after the Bethel Township accident.
Neither driver was injured and both were wearing a seat belt. The vehicles sustained minor damage.
Vehicle Rear-Ended Along Great Cove Road
A Mount Union man has been cited for following a vehicle too closely in connection with a two-vehicle collision along Great Cove Road last Tuesday morning.
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg reported Craig D. McClure, 39, of Orrstown, slowed down for a white-tailed deer crossing the Todd Township roadway at 12:01 a.m. McClure's 2012 Hyundai Elantra was struck from behind by a northbound 1998 Chevrolet Cavalier operated by Philip M. Heaster, 27, of Mount Union.
The men were able to drive their cars onto the berm. Both were wearing seat belts and were not injured.
Warfordsburg Woman Lifeflighted
Twenty-seven-year-old Erin Renee McCusker, of Warfordsburg, was lifeflighted after having sustained major injuries during an accident with a farm tractor.
McCusker rear-ended an International farm tractor operated by Lee James Golden, 39, of Needmore, while travelling southbound along Great Cove Road on Tuesday, July 16. The impact caused the tractor to flip over, state police in McConnellsburg reported.
Police added Golden managed to jumped clear of the tractor and landed in a culvert just south of Bard's Auto Sales in Needmore. He suffered moderate injuries during the 6:45 p.m. accident.
State police investigators are continuing to look into the accident.
DUI Accident Investigated
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg investigated a two-vehicle accident along Lincoln Highway near Pepple's Auction Barn.
According to reports, Alicea Edwin, 52, of Canfield, Ohio, was legally stopped in the westbound lane on Tuesday, July 16, when her 2013 Chevrolet Avalanche was struck from behind by an oncoming 2006 Ford F-350 driven by Charles James Rhodes, 30, of Harrisonville.
Neither driver was injured. Both vehicles sustained minor damages.
Police alleged Rhodes was driving under the influence of alcohol during the 11:05 a.m. accident in Licking Creek Township. He was subsequently arrested and will be charged through the office of Magisterial District Judge Devin Horne.
Diesel Tank Stolen
A silver 150-gallon diesel tank belonging to Pineloft Contractors was stolen from along Iron Bridge Road, Hustontown, between 3:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 14. Suspect is a 21-year-old McConnellsburg area man. Anyone who may have witnessed the theft or have information regarding the whereabouts of the tank is urged to contact state police Trooper Hoover at 717-485- 3131.
Hit-And-Run Reported
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg investigated a hit-and-run accident along Corner Road in Ayr Township last Monday evening.
Police said a southbound vehicle travelled onto the berm and struck a mailbox at 1062 Corner Road at 8:40 p.m. The vehicle then fled the scene. Anyone with further information linked to this hit-and-run accident should contact state police Trooper Poole at 717-485- 3131.
Car Rolls Over
A Goldsboro, Pa., woman suffered minor injuries during a vehicle rollover along Great Cove Road on Saturday, July 13.
Aimee L. Hammon was injured when she lost control of her 2006 Toyota Corolla on the rain-soaked Dublin Township roadway, state police said. The car slid onto the berm and onto an embankment at 1:07 a.m. before running into a tree. The car rolled onto its roof and down a three-foot embankment just south of the intersection of Forbes Trail Road. Hammon was wearing a seat belt. She will be cited for failure to drive on roadways laned for traffic.


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Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley must think cotton and rice farmers deserve a break on farm program payment limits, but not too much of one.
Grassley raised the limit on the total amount a farmer may receive in farm program payments from $225,000 to $300,000 in the amendment he introduced in a Senate Budget Committee markup session March 13.
But his proposal would also eliminate the three-entity rule that allows larger farming operations to receive additional payments and put a $200,000 lid on the use of generic commodity certificates, according to Washington reports.
The Budget Committee passed the amendment to its fiscal 2004 Budget Resolution by a vote of 14-9 with all 11 Democrats and three Republicans — Grassley, Jud Gregg of New Hampshire and John Ensign of Nevada — voting for it. Budget Committee Chairman Don Nickles of Oklahoma argued against the amendment.
"I do not want to turn the entire floor debate on the budget into a rehashing of farm programs," said Nickles, who predicted a floor fight over payment limits might jeopardize the entire budget resolution.
Senators voting for the amendment also rejected the arguments of a group of 24 farm, conservation and wildlife organizations who had written a letter to Nickles and House Budget Chairman Jim Nussle of Iowa urging them not to tamper with the funding levels in the 2002 farm bill.
The major difference between Grassley's latest proposal and the one he authored along with Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., last year appears to be the $300,000 payment limit for an individual farmer. Last year's amendment, which was included in the Senate version of the 2002 farm bill, but deleted from the farm bill conference report, limited farm program payments to $225,000 per individual farmer or $275,000 for a farmer and his wife.
Grassley said the $1.4 billion in savings from the latest version of the amendment should be applied to restoring funding for the Conservation Security Program, which fellow Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin authored. The Bush administration has recommended funding for the program be trimmed from an estimated $4 billion to $2 billion over 10 years.
Under Grassley's new proposal, farmers would be limited to $40,000 in direct payments, $60,000 in counter-cyclical payments and $200,000 in loan deficiency payments. Farmers could continue to request generic commodity certificates but only up to the $200,000 limit on LDPs.
The 2002 farm bill contains limits of $40,000 for direct payments, $65,000 for counter-cyclical payments and $75,000 for loan deficiency payments for each entity a farmer participates in. There is no limit on generic commodity certificates.
Most analysts count the farm bill limit on program payments at $360,000 based on farmers participating in three entities (one full entity and half of two others).
"Farm payments that were originally designed to benefit small and medium-sized family farmers have contributed to their own demise," Grassley said following the vote. "Unlimited farm payments have placed upward pressure on land prices and have contributed to overproduction and lower commodity prices, driving many family farmers off the farm."
The Washington representative for one farm organization said Southern senators have already begun working to try to make sure the Grassley amendment doesn't make it out of the Senate.
"Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi has been making phone calls to Sen. Nickles and other committee chairmen, telling them that with the ink barely dry on the new farm bill, this is not the appropriate time to be making changes," the representative said.
"Sen. Jim Tallant from Missouri has also been working against the bill. Being from a border state with constituents in cotton and rice country and in grain country, he's in a much better position to see the impact this would have on commercial farming operations."
The Senate Budget Committee also voted to modify several mandatory spending programs in agriculture for a savings of $321 million in the 2004 fiscal year and $1.1 billion over 10 years. The savings would include $240 million from the Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems and $80 million from crop insurance modifications.
According to documents released by the committee, the Budget Resolution assumes the Conservation Security Program would be limited to $2 billion over 10 years for savings of $1.8 billion.
The Senate panel's cuts were miniscule compared to those announced by House Budget Committee Chairman Jim Nussle. Nussle's proposal would cut $618 million from farm bill spending in fiscal 2004, $5.7 billion for fiscal 2004-08 and by $19.2 billion over the 10 years of the Congressional Budget Resolution.
Most of the reductions would be accomplished by requiring each authorizing committee except Defense and Social Security to "make a 1 percent cut from last year's funding level to target waste, fraud and inefficiencies in the programs."
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said his committee would attempt to comply with the Budget Committee's plan. But other congressmen and farm organizations said they would fight the proposal when it comes to the House floor.
"The National Corn Growers Association will continue to work through the budget process to insure there are adequate funds to secure the viability of the farm safety net and preserve the integrity of the farm bill," said Fred Yoder, the NCGA's president.
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I really think this is why knitting is so popular these days. I would never be bothered to knit my kids garments if I had to sew pieces up at the end! I know I can knit nicely, but sew? No. I do recall trying to patchwork together pieces of my first adult garment years and years ago, and trying to sew it so that everything matched up well enough. I remember vividly trying to sew together this blanket for a beautiful friend of mine who's most precious daughter Hope was diagnosed with terminal cancer...and whilst I did my absolute best at the time, I still grimace at the less than perfect sewing and piecing together.
No, there would be so many knitting bags with many more WIP's if the huge range of seamless patterns didn't now exist.
Seamless all the way! How wonderful are the fabulous ranges of circular needles these days, that we can just change tips and cable lengths to suit our projects. That we can just knit and virtually pop a garment on our children as soon as we cast off, or try it on numerous times whilst still knitting to get the length just perfect. All hail to the wonderful seamless designers out there.
I actually thought back to why I picked up my needles again after my first child was born - my next post I'm going to show you some oldest circular knitting and the patterns that got me hooked again. Be prepared for less than perfection! And imagine prickly yarn....(which I called wool then, because I called everything I knitted with wool then!) and birch needles with their terrible bumpy joins!
Do you ever sew items that need seaming? Why? What kind of garments?


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When you can't actually argue with someone based on facts so you just make fun of them instead.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are too stupid to actually argue global warming based on science, so they decided to manbearpig Al Gore.
From an episode of South Park featuring Al Gore. In the episode Gore is depicted as a paranoid guy who believes in a non-existent monster--"Manbearpig"--that is part man, part bear, and part pig. He believes the Manbearpig is a great threat.
South Park's creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, don't believe in global warming and the episode "Manbearpig" is their way of saying that when Al Gore talks about the dangers of global warming he is getting all worked up over something that doesn't even exist.
South Park's creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, don't believe in global warming and the episode "Manbearpig" is their way of saying that when Al Gore talks about the dangers of global warming he is getting all worked up over something that doesn't even exist.
"The South Park guys think that global warming is a myth just like the Manbearpig, even though there's tons of evidence that it's happening, and they make fun of Gore for worrying about it."
by Rabid_Caterpillar November 24, 2006
A fat, hairy man who looks like some kind of disgusting beast from South Park that is half man, half bear, half pig.
by AnonomysA December 12, 2008
A disgusting, foul, ugly ass chick who you just cannot stand! Usually resembling a man in the face, a bear in the body, and a pig in personality, this foul creature lurks in the back of your study hall, the middle of the locker room, and at the front of the lunch line! Give her a cookie and she'll love you forever, give her a cock, and she'll suck it, fuck it, then put a bun and mustard on it and treat it as a hot dog.
"dude, did you see that new man bear pig that just transferred from Florida?"
"damn dude... that creature sure is one ugly man bear pig... how long til she eats some1?"
"damn dude... that creature sure is one ugly man bear pig... how long til she eats some1?"
by Dikey McCarpetMuncher November 29, 2008
Another name for a beast known to live in a basement on Downer Street in Milwuakee, WI. This alleged creature is known to be quite the anti-social creature. He usually will not convene in places consisting of more than three or four other humans. Known to have a ravenous appetite consisting of McDonalds and Burger King. Also, the creature is not know to be smooth in interactions with other people. Most interpersonal reactions with this creature end up with one or both parties being embarrassed. Many speculate that Manbearpigs utterly horrifying appearance resulted from his mother getting pregnant via the water wheel (see definition) and then doing copious amounts of heroin while pregnant. If you see Manbearpig, avoid at all costs. He is known to be a compulsive liar.
I tried to talk Manbearpig into going to a party, but because a large number of people were there, he declined, stating that he would rather masturbate alone all night.
by eightdoubleoh September 06, 2010
someone who doesn't know how to brush their hair, teeth, nor how to shower. This person has very bad body oder and large front teeth. They also wear clothes that are too small for them. Aka: MBP
ALD looks like a manbearpig because she doesn't know what good hygiene is.
by Kayla Thomson November 24, 2007
the single biggest threat to our planet. something out there which threatens our very existence and may be the end to the human race as we know it. i'm talking of course, about... "manbearpig." it is a creature which roams the earth alone. it is half man, half bear, and half pig! some people say that manbearpig isn't real. well, i'm here to tell you now, manbearpig is very real, and he most certainly exists! i'm cereal... manbearpig doesn't care who you are or what you've done. manbearpig simply wants to get you! i'm super cereal...
manbearpig is Al Gore's way of getting friends because he doesn't have any.
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I love the way that proggit bubbles stuff around. Today, for a while at least, the top link is to a story from Salon in May of 2000 about Bill and Lynne Jolitz, the creators of 386BSD.
[An aside: I'm not sure exactly when I became enough of a graybeard to remember as current events things which are now discussed as history. It's really disturbing that an article from almost a decade ago talks about events seven years earlier than that, and I remember them happening! To me, the real graybeards are the guys that created UNIX and C to begin with. Me? I'm part of the second or third UNIX generation, at best. Sigh...]
Anyway, Bill and Lynne Jolitz created the first free, open-source UNIX that ran on x86 chips. Coherent was around before that, and I think SCO UNIX was available for x86 at the same time. SCO wasn't evil then, just expensive. In those days, you had to lay down some serious jing to get UNIX on your PC. Minix was available for free, but Tannenbaum held firm that Minix should teach principles rather than be a production OS, so he favor pedagogical value over functionality. Consequently, Minix wasn't a full UNIX implementation. (At least at that time. It might be now.)
Just contemplate the hubris of two programmers deciding that they would create their own operating system, to be UNIX, but fixing the flaws, hacks, and workarounds that had built up over more than a decade. Not only that, but they would choose to give it away for the cost of floppies! And not only that, but they would build it for a processor that serious UNIX people sneered at. Most impressive of all, they succeeded. 386BSD was a technically superior, well-architected version of UNIX for commodity hardware. The Jolitzes extrapolated Intel's growth curve and rapid product cycles and saw that x86 processors would advance far faster than the technically superior RISC chips.
At various times, I ran Minix, 386BSD, and SCO UNIX on my PC well before I even heard of Linux. Each of them had the field before Linus even made his 0.1 release.
So why is Linux everywhere, and we only hear about 386BSD in historical contexts? There is exactly one answer, and it's what Eric Raymond was really talking about in The Cathedral and the Bazaar. TCatB has been seen mostly as an argument for open-source versus commercial software, but what Raymond saw was that the real competition comes down to an open contribution model versus closed contributions. Linus' promiscuous contribution policy simply let Linux out-evolve 386BSD. More contributors meant more drivers, more bug fixes, more enhancements... more ideas, ultimately. Two people, no matter how talented, cannot outcode thousands of Linux contributors. The best programmers are 10 times more productive than the average, and I would rate Bill and Lynne among the very best. But, as of last April, the Linux Foundation reported that more than 3,600 people had contributed to the kernel alone.
Iteration is one of the fundamental dynamics. Iteration facilitates adaptation, and adaptation wins competition. History is littered with the carcasses of "superior" contenders that simply didn't adapt as fast as their victorious challengers.


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The man who suffered a broken jaw during an altercation with former Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable as a member of the coaching staff in 2009 is now heading to jail for an incident of his own.
According to Cynthia Lambert of the San Luis Obispo Tribune, former Raiders assistant Randy Hanson was found guilty of felony battery and misdemeanor assault for hitting a man in the face with a beer bottle last August.
Hanson was working as an assistant coach at Cal Poly University at the time of the crime and faces up to four years in jail. Hanson's attorney plans on trying to get the felony charge reduced to a misdemeanor at Hanson's sentencing hearing on June 10.
Hanson was awoken by 52-year old James Kelsey in the back of a limo outside of Harry's Night Club and Beach Bar in Pismo Beach, Calif. Upon being disturbed, Hanson cracked Kelsey with a bottle. Kelsey suffered a broken nose and a concussion. Hanson claimed it was in self-defense.
Hanson sued the Raiders and Cable for the incident that left him injured and eventually no longer employed by the team. Cable wasn't charged for the altercation.


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In 1868 Queen Victoria wrote a disturbing note to the then Home Secretary. She was deeply unhappy " to see the failure of the evidence against all but one of the Clerkenwell criminals… it seems dreadful for these people to escape…one begins to wish these Fenians would be lynch-lawed on the spot".
What had so worried the Queen that she should suggest such a thing?
The Fenians – both the Fenian Brotherhood and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) – were organisations established in the 19th century to promote the cause of Irish independence. Becoming a Fenian meant that not only did one accept the right of Ireland to be free and independent but also that such freedom could only be achieved through an armed struggle. It was a term that came to be feared by many Londoners, particularly from the 1860s onwards.
The number of Irish-born in London reached a peak in 1851. Numbers then began to fall quite significantly from around 110,000 mid-century to just 60,00 by 1901. However, the 1860s was a particularly active decade in the struggle for independence. In 1861 the IRB made an appeal to the 'Irishmen resident in London' and the capital quickly became second only to Dublin as a political battleground. The Clerkenwell area of Islington, already steeped in radical politics, became a focus for the Republican movement; so much so that following the Fenian's abortive attempt to seize Chester Castle in 1867 Edinburgh Blackwood's magazine wrote:
"Who can doubt, had the attack on Chester Castle succeeded, but that in St Giles, perhaps at Islington, not less than in Kerry disturbances would have broken out."
In the autumn of 1867, thousands of people attended rallies on Clerkenwell Green to plead for clemency in the case of three Fenians sentenced to hang in Manchester, but the petition to the Queen failed and they were executed on 23rd November. Just a week earlier, two men had been arrested at gunpoint in Woburn Square in Bloomsbury and it transpired that one was an Irish-American gun runner and leading member of the IRB, Richard O'Sullivan Burke. Charged with treason he was remanded to the Middlesex House of Detention at Clerkenwell, now the site of the Hugh Myddleton School.
From that moment plans were made to free O'Sullivan Burke by means of a complicated escape plan, organised using secret notes written in invisible ink on the back of letters to his sister passed on through the prisoner's solicitor.
On 12th December 1867 a barrel of gunpowder was pushed against the prison wall, but it failed to ignite and the attempt to free Burke was postponed. This was a critical moment. Between that attempt and the second just a day later, the police had been alerted to the plans by British Intelligence in Ireland and the prisoners were moved to the other side of the prison. On the 13th December, unaware that their plot had been uncovered, three people were seen to wheel a tarpaulin-covered cask into Corporation Lane (now Row) on a barrow. They apparently asked a local child for a light and then lit the fuse.
The explosion was huge. A hole 60 feet wide was blown in the wall of the prison and it is most likely that if Burke had been in the exercise yard on that side of the institution, as he had been the day before, he would have been killed in any event. However, it was the tenements in Corporation Lane that suffered the greatest damage from the blast – number 39 was just eight yards from the wall and the effects of the explosion were felt streets away. Twelve people were killed and more than forty injured. Talk at the time claimed that twenty babies 'died in the womb'.
The whole episode was a serious misjudgment on the part of the Fenians. Working-class support for the Irish struggle was damaged. Karl Marx said:
"The London masses, who have shown great sympathy to wards Ireland will be made wild and driven into the arms of a reactionary government"
Indeed Disraeli, who just the day before the blast had controversially banned political demonstrations, found public opinion turning his way as frightened people began to think it the only way to stop the regular marches in support of a group capable of such carnage.
In the immediate aftermath of the events of 13th December Scotland Yard panicked. The Pall Mall Gazette quoted the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Richard Mayne as saying there were some 10,000 armed Fenians in London. 50,000 Special Constables were immediately sworn in and sewer workers were called upon to support police searches under public buildings. Government offices had their floors covered in sawdust to protect against 'Fenian Fire'.
Although a number of people were arrested and brought to trial in relation to the explosion, many of the cases collapsed and one man alone received the death sentence. Michael Barratt was a member of the Fenians but always maintained that evidence against him in this case was fabricated to ensure at least one person was convicted. He gave an emotional speech from the dock, admitting his love for his country but asserting his innocence of the crime. However he was found guilty and sentenced to hang. Despite many appeals for clemency Barratt was eventually executed outside Newgate prison on the 26th May 1868. His was the last hanging in England to take place in public and he dropped to the jeers of a crowd of more than 2000 people.
The 'Clerkenwell Outrage' was the first time London was faced with an Irish Republican bomb, but it was not the beginning of a campaign as many feared. Historians of the Fenian Movement suggest that the events caused as much concern for the Fenians and the IRB as it did for London. The backlash against the Irish community that followed the explosion led the Movement to fear that it was not just the Queen that might favour lynch mobs. Any expression of Irish Nationalism in the decade after Clerkenwell was decidedly orderly and low-key. The Special Constables stood down and the atmosphere calmed somewhat.
It was a brief interlude however. The 1880s would be the decade when Home Rule agitation prompted the start of an organised and lengthy campaign of terror in London. It something the capital is alert to even today.
Sources: Criminal Islington – IAH, London in the 19th Century, Jerry White


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November 29, 2012 in Decorative Art | Tags: Burr Homestead, Christmas, Decorating, Modern Masters, Stain N Seal, Stencils, Wallovers | Leave a comment
It's time to bring out the red. It's so easy to say "yes" to favors for the holidays with the ease of allover designs using a large stencil and the industries largest stencil brush, the WALLBUSTER. This brush expands to 3 inches when in use so you get the greatest amount of coverage with one load of the paint.
The past two years I have supported this wonderful event at the Fairfield, CT historic Burr Mansion. Each designer creates a holiday vignette for the Christmas Tree Festival and all the proceeds fro the sale of their items go to local charities. The local designers, Donna Bonafide and Kim Smith, chose a red and white theme to kick off this holiday party and asked me for something to brighten the feature wall, a challenge when you cannot touch the historic walls! ….But with a some Roc Lon Canvas and clips… it's easy.
I love reverse stencils because you can go crazy on the background, forgetting lap lines and mistakes. The stencil will cover most of it showing your creation as it peaks through to create the actual design. it's hard to see here, but I used many different white on white products, including Modern Masters shimmer stone, various glitters and mica powders. Then stenciled using wallovers' Maya's Rose Revers stencil with Ben Moore 2004-20 mixed with a little Antique Cherry Stain 'N Seal, my favorite red combination. Once hung, the lights lit up all the sparkle. So don't forget to try a reverse stencil design with a Wallbuster brush the next time you squeeze in philanthropic project!


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George Clooney to Host Obama Fundraiser
Who needs the Oscars?
As measured by money, power, glamour and celebrity, George Clooney's dinner party on May 10th in Los Angeles is shaping up to be the party of the year.
The guest of honor is President Barack Obama. Barbra Streisand won't sing, but she'll be mingling in the crowd.
Jeffrey Katzenberg and other major Hollywood executives are expected to attend. And at the end of the evening, Mr. Obama's supporters hope the campaign will walk away with several million dollars. Organizers predicted the event will turn out to be Mr. Obama's most lucrative fundraiser yet.
A copy of the invitation urges Obama supporters to "Save the Date.''
Many of Mr. Obama's Hollywood donors have already given the maximum allowed under federal campaign laws. Yet there are some prominent industry executives who gave to Mr. Obama in 2008 but for various reasons haven't made a donation to his campaign fund yet. Organizers expect some of these executives to leave the sidelines and buy tickets to the party.
The price per head is $35,800, with the proceeds going to the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Mr. Clooney dined with the Obamas at the White House just last month for the state dinner honoring U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron. While in D.C., he was arrested outside the Sudanese embassy – a tightly scripted event to draw attention to the humanitarian crisis brewing in the border area between South Sudan and Sudan.


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Discover the benefits enjoyed by over 1000 GP's by becoming a member of the Family Doctor Association, the UK's largest doctors association.
The Family Doctor Association leads the way to the future for grassroots primary care. With over 1000 members inspired for over 30 years. Continuity of care benefits patients, improves health outcomes and saves the NHS money. The member GP practices aim to provide high quality medical care while maintaining the traditional personal care of the family doctor in a friendly environment promoting health by education and preventative measures.
The FDA is a proactive, caring organsiation you can trust to support you.
GPs like you enjoy education for them and their teams, support in a fast-changing GP landscape to cope with change, factsheets on, for example, QOF, revalidation, federation, hypertension, time-saving hot tips plus free advice to members on difficulties in their professional practice.
Membership gives you a sense of identity of the type of practice which melds the best of the older-fashioned patient-sensitive practice with the best of modern medicine. You can use the Association's logo as branding to support your practice identity and cohesion. Show patients you are part of a national organisation dedicated to high quality care with continuity of care. Proper vocational medicine.
We also lobby at the highest level for the type of practice which offers continuity of care and personal medicine and for old-fashioned values in a modern context and the FDA is always at the top table to influence the direction of travel and work with other organisations in primary care.
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•WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday.
•WHERE: Muir High.
•RECORDS: The Indians are 2-4, 2-1 in the Pacific League; the Mustangs are 3-3, 3-0.
•LAST WEEK: Burroughs defeated Crescenta Valley, 20-16; Muir defeated Glendale, 37-0.
•OUTLOOK: The Indians were able to come through with a win last week to keep their hopes of winning a fourth straight league championship alive. However, Burroughs might be facing the toughest league opponent this season in Muir. In three league games — wins against Crescenta Valley, Hoover and Glendale — the Mustangs have outscored their opponents, 136-0. Muir came into league after going 0-3 in nonleague games. However, the losses came against tough competition in Upland, Alemany and Rancho Cucamonga. The Mustangs have a talented quarterback in Joshua Muema-Washington. He likes to throw to wide receiver Mason Taoen.
•SOMETHING INTERESTING: Last season, Muir defeated Burroughs, 28-0, for the Indians' lone loss in league, forcing it to share the championship with Arcadia.
WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday.
WHERE: Memorial Field.
RECORDS: The Bulldogs are 4-2, 3-0 in the Pacific League; the Falcons are 3-3, 1-2.
LAST WEEK: Burbank defeated Pasadena, 34-8; Crescenta Valley lost to Burroughs, 20-16.
OUTLOOK: Burbank has already equaled its win total from 2011, when it failed to make the playoffs. With the win last week, the Bulldogs are one of only two league teams — along with Muir — that are still undefeated in league play. The Burbank defense continues to be the stingiest in the league, giving up an average of just 14.5 points a game. It was that defense that came up big in last week's win against Pasadena, keeping their opponent off the board until there was just 1:29 left in the contest. The Falcons are likely still reeling from last week's close defeat at the hands of Burroughs. Crescenta Valley has a steady running back in William Wang. However, Burbank has a host of running backs, led by James Williams and Teddy Arlington, who have put up their share of fine performances this season. The Bulldogs have battled with their share of penalty problems throughout the season. That struggle was evident against Pasadena when it committed 18 infractions for 170 yards. Sophomore quarterback Ryan Meredith has been getting the majority of snaps for the Bulldogs.
SOMETHING INTERESTING: Along with its tough defense, Burbank is also tops among league teams in scoring average, tallying 30.5 points a game.
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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
Is this something I need to do in the Admin web site?Are there step by step instructions for the process.I know these might sound like dumb questions but I just like to be clear so I don't mess anything up.
How do you have your system configured?
QuoteHow do you have your system configured?I have a cable modem. Cable company sends feed to modem I connect from the cable modem to my NIC in my core. I have no router between them. Then from my Core's Second NIC I connect to my Gigabit switch which then connects to all my MD's and other computers.
I set the security setting in the admin page to Allow outside access to the website.Then I went to the network settings and made sure to put in my user name and password as well as my URL from dyndns.org.
It is very possible that your cable internet provider is blocking port 80 (and other ports) to prevent you from running servers.
QuoteIt is very possible that your cable internet provider is blocking port 80 (and other ports) to prevent you from running servers.I think that you are most likely right. Cox is kinda a bitch like that. When I get home I will run the scan to see if I have any available ports. So to pose another question. If I need to set up another port such as 8080, do I need to do anything my URL?http://my.domain.com:8080/pluto-admin/weborbiter.phpOr when I use my URL will it find the open port automatically?


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- True day/night (ICR) captures sharp, detailed images day and night
- -40° F – 140° F operating temperature
- IP66 weather-rated housing
- BNC analog video output for connecting to a DVR or monitor
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Brussels, 4 th December 2009
Patents: EU achieves political breakthrough on an enhanced patent system
The Council has today unanimously adopted conclusions on an enhanced patent system in Europe. The package agreed covers major elements to bring about a single EU patent and establish a new patent court in the EU. Both together will make it less costly for businesses to protect innovative technology and make litigation more accessible and predictable. Today's agreement will pave the way for solving the outstanding issues to achieve a major reform of the EU patent system in the near future.
Vice President Günter Verheugen, Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, said: "Making patenting less costly and more efficient was very high on the policy agenda since many years. In fact it was a priority of the Reform Partnership for Growth and Jobs, since it is a precondition for fostering innovation and competitiveness. Therefore, today's agreement cannot be overestimated. It comes at a moment when it is most needed."
Internal Market and Services Commissioner Charlie McCreevy said: "I welcome this political breakthrough as a very strong signal from the Council that the EU is committed to achieve a true single market for patents. A number of issues remain to be resolved and we undertake to work closely with the Council and the Parliament towards achieving a final package that will meet the trust and confidence of users."
Enhanced patent system in Europe
The Council agreement encompasses the main features of a future patent court in the EU. A specialised patent court will allow cases to be heard before judges with the highest level of legal and technical expertise in patents. A unified court will also mean that parties do not have to litigate in parallel in different countries incurring high costs. Parallel litigation can amount at least € 500 000 in a typical case, which can be cut drastically by a unified court, saving as much as € 289 million each year for European companies. The court will include local and central chambers under a common appeal court. In the initial stages, parties will be able to continue to use national courts, allowing confidence to build up gradually in the new system. After this political agreement, the Council will now wait for a legal opinion on the new patent court from the European Court of Justice.
Ministers have also agreed an approach on an EU Patent Regulation. The Regulation was originally proposed by the Commission in 2000 under the Lisbon strategy but negotiations stalled in 2004. The creation of an EU Patent would help to improve the current situation where a patent designating only 13 EU Member States is already 11 times more expensive than a US patent. However, the creation of the EU patent will depend on a solution to be found for the translation arrangements which will be subject of a separate Regulation. A common understanding has also been reached on renewal fees and the cooperation between patent offices. Renewal fees will be set at a level to facilitate European innovation and foster competitiveness. Furthermore, the EU patent will involve partnerships between patent offices in Europe to allow synergies to be created to bring about more rapid delivery of patents and increase speed of access to market for innovative products and services. The European Parliament will now have the opportunity to debate the EU Patent Regulation.
The Commission proposed a Regulation for a Community Patent in August 2000 (now referred to as the EU Patent under the Lisbon Treaty). After a Council Common Political Approach in 2003, negotiations stalled and a final agreement was not reached. On the basis of an extensive consultation in 2006, the Commission adopted a Communication "Enhancing the patent system in Europe" in April 2007. This re-launched the patent reform debate in the Council. In particular, it suggested new avenues to explore on the patent court and translation arrangements for the EU patent.
Following progress in the Council on the litigation system which resulted in a draft Agreement on a common court for current European and future EU patents, the Commission adopted a Recommendation for a negotiation mandate from the Council. The court would be established by a "mixed agreement" between the EU, its Member States and third countries who are Contracting States of the European Patent Convention. In June 2009, the Council submitted a Request to the European Court of Justice on the compatibility of the draft Agreement with the EU Treaties. This opinion is pending.
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enomicon needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 217 designs submitted by 48 freelance designers.
Hello everyone,
We're now back with our third and final contest (for now ;-)) – a web page design contest!
So far we've had nothing but great response to our previous contests (logo and stationery), with A LOT of impressive, creative, and at times jaw-dropping submissions! Let's keep it that way! ;-)
This time around we seek a design for our corporate web site. Just as in our previous contests, we strive for a professional, yet clean and simple look. See the brief for details.
Enomicon is a software company based in Europe, Sweden.
You can download our logo from:
- http://www.enomicon.se/logo.jpg
- http://www.enomicon.se/logo.eps
Web site layout
This design will be used for our corporate web site and is our face outwards, towards existing clients as well as new ones that seek information about our services or products.
The different "sections" or "pages" of the site should be:
- Home
- About
- Services
- Products
- Contact
We also need the following:
- A link to "Customer Login"
- A way of switching between "Swedish" and "English" language on the site (either by clicking on a flag or in some other way)
We would like to have one design of the "Home" page (the page that visitors see when they first enter the site), and one design of the "About" page. The rest we will do ourselves. Feel free to use pictures or any other elements (corporate related, of course) you think may liven up the design.
- Professional
- Clean
- Simple
- Stylish
- Web 2.0
- Anime/cartoon style
- Overstyled


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sproutify necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 146 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
CloudFactory.com offers a web-interface and platform API to crowdsource your digital work to our "virtual assembly lines". We break projects up into small tasks and use microworkers around the world to perform each task then gather everything back up into your project results. (heard of Amazon Mechanical Turk?)
You can design your own assembly line or use one of our pre-built ones such as (image tagging, content filtering/moderation, transcription, data entry, translation, survey, geocoding businesses, etc). Then you can run multiple production runs on these assembly lines in the cloud by providing input data via spreadsheet, RSS feed or even a zip file. Or you can use the CloudFactory API to send work to your assembly line from a web application, desktop application or even integrate with your enterprise workflow.
Each virtual assembly line has one or more stations and at each station you designate either a human worker or a robot worker to perform the task. Think cloud labor meets cloud computing.
We also work with field partners in developing countries to train up and equip microworkers to do this sort of basic computer work. It is our goal and main motivation to provide work for people in the least developed countries wherever possible. We love what Kiva has done with microloans and would love to have a similar impact using microwork.
We are targeting technical and business folk that love Web 2.0 and know what crowdsourcing is. People with tedious and boring work they want to outsource to our virtual assembly lines. And also actual developers wanting to build their own applications using our API and tools.
Competitive companies in our space include mTurk.com, CrowdFlower.com, CloudCrowd.com, ShortTask.com.
Small businesses, Entrepreneurs, Consultants, Researchers, Non-profits have data service and research based work that can easily be done fast and cheap using cloudfactory.com.
Obviously "cloud" and "factory" bring up some instant imagery. But the name is less about a factory that produces clouds and more about a FACTORY IN THE CLOUD.
Blue, white, grey/silver are obvious colors that come to mind but we are open.
the ".com" is optional or perhaps smaller/grey
Fun, industrial, web 2.0 are words that come to mind. Tasteful/professional cartoony could work opposed to a boring IBM style logo.
But we want to see your creativity! Think virtual factory, virtual assembly line with humans and robots, think cloud computing meets cloud labor ... and have fun with it!
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text: Jim, I feel you notice a very important thing here. That is that mainly for hobbyists like me a GPU is interesting to program for, or for companies who have a budget to buy less than a dozen of them in total. For ISPs the only thing that matters is the power consumption and for encryption at a low TCP/IP layer it's too easy to equip all those cheapo cpu's with encryption coprocessors which are like 1 watt or so and are delivering enough work to get the 100 mbit/1 gigabit nics fully busy, in case of public key it's in fact at a speed that you won't reach at a GPU when managing to parallellize it and it to work in a great manner. The ISPs look for full scalable stuff of course such machines, quite the opposite of having 1 card @ 250 watt. In fact it would be quite interesting to know how fast you can run RSA on a GPU. Where are the benchmarks there? I tend to remember that i posted some solution to do a fast generic modulo (of course not a new idea, but that you always hear after figuring something out), with a minimum of code under the condition you already have multiplying code. How fast can you multiply big numbers on those GPU's? 4096 x 4096 bits is most interesting there. Then of course take the modulo quickly and repeat this for the entire exponent-squaring. That is the only interesting question IMHO, what amount of throughput does it deliver for RSA4096. I tend to remember a big bug it has in such a case is that the older cards (8800 etc) only can do 16 x 16 bits == 32 bits, whereas at CPU's you can use 64 x 64 bits == 128 bits. BIG difference in speed. Yet those hobbyists who are the interested persons in GPU programming have limited time to get software to run and have a budget far smaller than $10k. They're not even gonna buy as much Tesla's as NASA will. Not a dozen. The state in which gpu programming is now is that some big companies can have a person toy fulltime with 1 gpu, as of course the idea of having a cpu with hundreds of cores is very attractive and looks like a realistic future, so companies must explore that future. Of course every GPU/CPU company is serious in their aim to produce products that perform well, we all do not doubt it. Yet it is only attractive to hobbyists and those hobbyists are not gonna get any interesting technical data needed to get the maximum out of the GPU's from Nvidia. This is a big problem. Those hobbyists have very limited time to get their sparetime products done to do numbercrunching, so being busy fulltime writing testprograms to know everything about 1 specific GPU is not something they all like to do for a hobby. Just having that information will attract the hobbyists as they are willing to take the risk to buy 1 Tesla and spend time there. That produces software. That software will have a certain performance, based upon that performance perhaps some companies might get interested. Intel and AMD will be doing better there i hope. Note that testing CUDA also is suboptimal, it just runs for 5 seconds or so max. You need a machine with a 2nd videocard. That requires a mainboard with at least 2x pci-e 16x. How to cluster that? My cluster cards are pci-x not pci-e. quadrics QM400's. I can get boards @ 139 euro with 1 slot PCI-E 16x and build quadcore Q6600 nodes @ 500 euro, as soon as i have a job again. My macbookpro 17'' has no pci-e 16x slot free though. So for number crunching, a cluster always wins it from a single nvidia videocard. The communication speed over the pci-e from the videocards is too slow latency to parallellize software that is not-embarrassingly parallel. Majority of hobbyists will have a similar problem with nvidia, very sad in itself. A good CUDA setup that can beat a simplistic cluster is not so cheap and easy to program for like building that cluster is. Also the memory scales better in those clusters than it does for the cards. If 1 node can do less work than 1 GPU can, it still means that it's easier to get that exponential speedup by having a shared cache across all nodes (this is true for a lot of modern crunching algorithms). With a GPU you're forced to do all calculation including caching within the GPU and within the limited device RAM. Now in contradiction to what most people tend to believe, usually there is methods to get away with a limited amount of RAM with modern overwriting methods of caching, even when that loses a factor 2 there is ways to overcome that. The biggest limitation is that communication with other nodes is real hard. Scaling to more nodes is just not gonna happen of course as the latency between the nodes is real bad and it is an extra slow hop to latency of course. First from device RAM to RAM then from RAM to card and from card to RAM and from RAM to device RAM. Let's make a list of problems that most clusters here calculate upon and you'll see how much the GPU concept still needs to get matured to get it to work well for most codes. Software that needs low latency interconnects you could get to work within 1 card only therefore, provided the RAM access is not bottlenecked. Yet all reports so far indicate it is. No information there is just not very encouraging and for professional crunching work where companies therefore have a big budget for, building or buying in your own low power co-processor that so to speak even fits into an ipod is just too easy. So in the end i guess some stupid extension of SSE will give a bigger increase in crunching power than the in itself attractive gpgpu hardware. The biggest limitation being development time from hobbyists. Vincent On Jun 17, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Jim Lux wrote: > Quoting Linus Harling <linus at ussarna.se>, on Mon 16 Jun 2008 > 04:31:56 PM PDT: > >> Vincent Diepeveen skrev: >> <snip> >>> >>> Then instead of a $200 pci-e card, we needed to buy expensive >>> Tesla's >>> for that, without getting >>> very relevant indepth technical information on how to program for >>> that >>> type of hardware. >>> >>> The few trying on those Tesla's, though they won't ever post this as >>> their job is fulltime GPU programming, >>> report so far very dissappointing numbers for applications that >>> really >>> matter for our nations. >> </snip> >> >> Tomography is kind of important to a lot of people: >> >> http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/05/31/1633214.shtml >> http://www.dvhardware.net/article27538.html >> http://fastra.ua.ac.be/en/index.html >> >> But of course, that was done with regular $500 cards, not Teslas. > > > Mind you, if you go and get a tomographic scan today, they already > use fast hardware to do it. Only researchers on limited budgets > tolerate taking days to reduce the data on a desktop PC. And, while > the concept of doing faster processing with a <10KEuro box is > attractive in that environment, I suspect it's a long way from > being commercially viable in that role. > > The current tomographic technology (e.g. GE Lightspeed) is pretty > impressive. They slide you in, and 10-15 seconds later, there's 3 > d rendered models and slices on the screen. The equipment is > pretty hassle free, the UI straightforward from what I could see, etc. > > And, of course, people are willing (currently) to pay many millions > for a machine to do this. I suspect that the other costs of > running a CT scanner (both capital and operating) overwhelm the > cost of the computing power, so going from a $100K box to a $20K > box is a drop in the bucket. When you're talking MRI, for > instance, there's the cost of the liquid helium for the magnets. > > That's a long way from a bunch of grad students racking up a bunch > of PCs. > > > > > > >