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Jim, have you been reading "What the Dog Saw?" I love that book, and could guess exactly where this episode was going as soon as you said "Malcolm Gladwell." You were right. This was a damn good episode.
Disney? Listen to this man. Take the message to heart. Now is the chance to make good on your shakeup involving the shutting down of LucasArts and its incompetent leadership.
Listen very carefully now...
Hire Lawrence Holland and Edward Kilham. MAKE...ANOTHER...X-WING...GAME...
The fans have been clamoring for a new Star Wars space combat sim for YEARS now. You have a golden opportunity to win the loyalty of legions of fans. Don't screw this up.
It seems publishers are sometimes completely unaware of audiences even when they're right under their noses. City of Heroes was a super hero based twist on the classic team RPG (ie made use of the typical trinity but didn't massively forced it on you) with well engineered social elements such as the side kick system, level scaled content with adjustable difficulty, not to mention user generated content with the mission architect and the costume creator itself.
I could have sworn EA pulled all their stuff, the more you know I guess.
I think, in gaming terms, "innovation" is also one of these perceived prefereces. It just sounds so damn good to claim that you want "some originality", and how it makes you sound like a jaded connoisseur, who is already familiar with everything under the sun.
Ask gamers simply "what they want", and they will cry for new IPs, for whacky genre combinations (like MMORTS), and for genres never seen before.
Yet even in the examples you gave for surprisingly successful games, what gamers turned out to really want were resurrections of old genres and beloved franchises, fine-tuned versions of comfortably familiar gameplay, and interesting plots that still fit into the basic trends of narratives.
If there is one thing that really needs to listen to Jim's words and fits the pasta sauce analogy, it's the MMO genre. Considering WoW is the Ragu, and a whole lot of other MMOs are Pregos, no wonder people just aren't finding the series interesting enough to explore. GW2 really tried, and for the last few months I've heard nothing about it; TERA tried, and it ended up going F2P, and we all know what happened to TOR. TESO isn't looking too good either.
I know a lot of people have heard this from me, but I feel that the next big MMO will break a few "taboos" hovering around the genre and prove the thoughts about them wrong. One taboo I'm waiting for to be broken? Private server support. That word "Massive" in the acronym MMO can stand for something else in the games, it doesn't have to be about how many players there are on a server.
Definitely one of your best episodes. Put into clear and simple words what I couldn't quite figure out in my head.
For as much EA squanders on marketing, they have some of the worst marketers out there. They say they can't take risks in the big budget market anymore, but putting out such copy and paste drivel has been a hell of a lot more risky than actually exploring new territory. You can't make a good game based purely on established metrics.
Dear Jim,
I woke up about 15 minutes ago and, because it's Monday, one of the first things I did after getting my Cheerios was come watch your show. And then you said "Pasta Sauce." And I now feel my day is complete. Thank god, for you.
That being said (and I bloody well mean it, please, say Pasta Sauce at least once per episode, you'd make me so happy), this is exactly what I've been saying for a while, and it's the reason I think that in the near future, the majority of AAA publishers are gana go the way of THQ. A small handful might make it selling titles like CoD almost exclusively to console players. But that majority of games that won't suck will come from the indie scene. And, TBH, that makes me very very very very very very very very happy. :)
I am that 1/3 of chunky users! I don't want big budget military shooters thrown at me right and left. Give me something new!
Goodness, this video was great. Thank God for Jim.
SOB someone beat me to it lol.
Long time prego fan lol. and yes it does beat the high f. out of rago. and now i'm hungry.
Ever consider doing marketing jim?
Lets let disney fix the film franchise first.
Holy poop Jim, I am amazed. This is the first episode I've seen in a long time that didn't feel like a waste of time. Admittedly, I've been saying this for quite a while, but it was still a good episode.
Frankly Jim, this has been said 100 times in 100 different ways. And you know what... this is probably you're best episode ever, because you have said it the best that it has ever been said.
Thank god for you Jim
Unfortunatly the most important people to please are shareholders. Doing money is not enough, because you could have made Big Money! Not trying for Big Money, especially when competitors do it, makes shareholders unhappy. Decisions that make sense (and money) can't be made in such an enviroment.
What I've wanted to see fully fledged in this gen was a freaking 3D platformer, not a stupid kart building game, thankfully Sonic Generations was awesome and I still play it from time to time, but I wanted a freaking collectathon, Banjo-Kazooie style.
While I appreciate Nintendo is still making great Mario platformers... they're still Mario platformers, we need something else.
Also, remember Bionic Commando Rearmed?, I want a fully fledged Contra game with that style of retro/new stuff, not a freaking MegaMan 9, heck, I wanted MegaMan with that style, not freaking 8 bits and then forget about it.
I mean, fortunately it's not all doom and gloom, thanks to the indie scene and it's multiple awesome 2D platformers, heck, even we have a AAA 2D platformer with Rayman Origins, Donkey Kong Returns and Sonic Generations (I consider it mostly 2D), but... I want a AAA 3D platformer with Banjo-Kazooie's style, or even better yet, a Banjo-Kazooie platformer.
You are obviously not a royalist anyway jim.
Good episode
I believe the recent Syndicate reboot could have been what XCOM Enemy Unknown is if they had bothered to release it as a strategy game. But no, opportunity wasted.
Jim, theres plenty inside the head of Prince Philipe... like racism.
On one hand, I want to have this sent to all publishers immediately and make them watch it again and again until they get it.
On the other hand, I want to make sure no publishers see this and allow them to continue bringing about their own deaths. If they're this fucking horrible at running a business then they shouldn't be in these jobs in the first place.
Microsoft didn't do anything to Rare. Rare ruined Rare. Why do you think Nintendo was so willing to sell? Because they knew Rare was turning into shit. It astounds me how many people still don't realize this very simple fact and blame Microsoft.
I've actually had an episode all about MMOs planned for a while, along those lines.
I've been wondering how long it's going to take before developers start thinking in terms of niche markets. I'd like more RPGs with rich characterization options like Bioware makes.
Excellent analogy, Jim. I see no need to mix in elements in a game where they don't make sense. I noticed you didn't mention anything publishers are doing to MMORPGs, so those are safe, right?
I'm equally interested in and scared of seeing a "point and click" game, made today. The plot could be taken from a good book, if it's too difficult for publishers to think of a good storyline. It could be very interesting, having all this modern tech and all. Probably AAA fans wouldn't like it very much, but still it'd be a bloody fascinating project :)
Good points indeed there Jim! There's definitely a lot of other kinds of games to be made out there. Fortunately they do seem to be getting tackled by other developers, either on their own or through ventures such as Kickstarter. Hell, just look at the massive kickstarting success of Star Citizen, or the upcoming release of Stardrive. A new Freelancer and a new Master of Orion like experience? Sign me the hell up! :D
Jim, i doubt you can ever go back to britain without having the SAS watch your as through a scope.
Nicely said Jim, nicely said. Not that it means a lick to the 3A's . See there's a reason they always base everything off of market research and focus testing. They likie to keep their asses covered.
See it's like the film industry. Ever wonder why there's such an industry hard-on there for sequels and reboots? Simple. Spreadsheets. You see anything new is a risk and if it doesn't work or doesn't work as well they have a lot of angry investors (with lawyrs) asking them why their dividend payment is less than they're expecting. Saying you were trying something new will get you buried in litigation, claims in incompetence and what have you. However if you say. Well all research and market evidence points to X as being popular and having wide market appeal so we tried to make x+, For some reason it didn't work but as you can see the figures and trends pointed in that direction.
That will save your ass.
Which more or less means that games have finally achieved their goal. They wanted to be considered an industry and artform on par with film and guess what, they are, same budgets, same payouts and sadly the same problems.
I think what this invariably means is we mkay see one of two things happening. The collapse of the current 3A's freeing up space for the current crop of indies and small studios to expand into thusly repeating the cycle just in time for the PS9 release.
Or. Much like the film industry what you will find is 3A's not so much producing games but simply buying up any successful indie or small franchise/company and making it their own, much like DIsney is doing and what EA has been doing for years. Also look for them to start leasing their IP out to third party developers.
Support for smarter more diverse types of games have been so big that AAA companies aren't going to ignore smaller more stylised titles or forms of game-play. COD, Halo, and Battle Field are one angle that big publishers are going in, but I think they are going to considerable effort to try and captivate the middle ground. For example: support for new independent developers, more willingness to finance indie development with smaller budgets and to produce mid-level titles for themselves.
The X-Com example is a good example for this. Through" duress" when X-Com was released as a strategy game not an FPS it sounds like it was a complete fluke that something like that happened. The big publishers look at the people still buying games decided to do this. This shows growth not idiots who stumbled upon something. There will be more games like X-Com it's just takes time for larger companies to evolve to market changes.
Great show Jim! got to say the decline & stagnation of the MMO market with all those WoW clones should of been the early warning signal for the AAA market especially after SWTOR failed.
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So much focus on FPS's while the publishers forgot about the super success of XCOM, Batman Arkham City & company =/
TV Tropes to the rescue!
Complete with Video Game samples to go and try out X3
I had a similar reaction to "Red Alert 3" and "Decent" in the same post.
OT: I think Jim actually helped me out here with the whole Pasta example than he realised. Thank Menoth for Jim X3
Ironically, the shooter that will eventually outsell Call of Duty will be something disruptive - something new, nothing like Call of Duty, that takes chances and redefines the genre. You'll never outsellf Call of Duty with a CoD-like game, because the CoD fans are used to it already, and like it how it is. Plus they're getting new version just as often as they want them, they definitely don't want another similar shooter when they're 'shooter slot' is filled by Call of Duty already.
... you know platformers are probably the most numerous type of game at the moment because they're the easiest for entry level designers to make, yes? And that lots of them are unique, well-received games?
The reality of the current market, is that anyone working at EA or unfortunately Squeenix or similar dinosaurs ought to be sprucing up their resume and taking a little look around to see if there's any other job options available to them. As Shamus and others regularly say, the future seems to be in small and medium-small sized companies making games with budgets that are actually budgeted towards projected sales, rather than projecting sales based on how much has been spent.
Oh god awesome video Jim. In my opinion the industry had more variety in the 90s then it does now but I'm a bit of a retro gamer. It's good to see so many indies making great games though. What your opinion on that, was the industry better in the 90s in terms of the process of how games were made and if so what changed and why?
Okay. Try Braid, Limbo, Terraria, Cave Story (my personal favorite out of the bunch), and any games from the Basement Collection. Like I said, Cave Story is the one I recommend the most, as it feels more platformy than the others. In my opinion, of course. All of them are for PC, so go check them out. :-)
(I want 2D platformers too. I freaking love those games.)
OT- YES JIM YES. I fully agree that I'd like something new and interesting. I don't want homogenization, I want my good games. Considering I'm getting out of my zone and trying new things, I really what I'm seeing. I started Ys Origins. Fucking fantastic and a change from my days of playing TF2 and Skyrim.
Bravo man, bravo.
Guild Wars 2 is out, it's good, and it's like a love-letter to World of Warcraft and anyone who wanted to play that game but found it stupid, as they'e specifically re-engineer all the things people mock about WoW. instead of 120 skills you get 10. Instead of killing wolves to fetch hearts only to realize this wofl -has no heart- you go to areas where there are three different things t do and they all count equally towards the quest. instead of standing still in combat, tapping the number keys, the game requires dodge and maneuvering. Instead of the holy trinity of classes, the game is specifically designed so that every class is a red mage, and it's impossible to make a dedicated tank or healer. The gameworld is more unique than a cookie-cutter fantasy. The higher tier and harder to get loot is, the less of a difference in makes. You can put any skin on any armor so you don't have to choose between stats and appearance. Each level takes about the same amount of time to unlock, and you get the same experience from a level 5 zone as from a level 80 one. When you attack a monster someone else is fighting, you each get a seperate loot roll, and each get the same experience you'd get from soloing it. I don't know about WvW and PvP but I hear good things.
I think it's because people looked at the first game, saw a guy a guy with a gun and a third person perspective, and though "oh, this must be a third person shooter!"
Of course it wasn't; it was an RPG. And so those people bitched about the shooting mechanics being janky and not skill based, which would be fair if it were a third person shooter. But it wasn't; it was an RPG.
And so Bioware were bought by EA, and EA/Bioware decided that what people wanted *wasn't* an RPG, but a third-person shooter with RPG elements. That lead them to scrapping the inventory system rather than fixing it by introducing context sensitive stacking and ordering (which is all that was needed to fix the inventory system from the first game), turned the gameplay into a third-person shooter, and turned the game into a relatively small number of linear missions.
Now I really liked ME2, but I *loved* ME1 in spite of its myriad flaws. ME3 just fell apart completely as soon as it hit London.
Thank god for Jim and his knowledgable truthiness
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BOSTON, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth men's basketball team fell to visiting UMass Boston, 73-62, in the second game of a Little East Conference doubleheader at the Tripp Athletic Center Tuesday evening.
Senior forward Brandon Stephens (Dorchester, MA/Newton North HS) scored a game-high 22 points on 6-of-17 shooting, with five assists and three rebounds. Junior guard Alex Klepadlo (Bernardston, MA/Pioneer Valley HS) added 10 points and a team-high six rebounds. Junior center Justin Pulver (Plymouth, MA/Falmouth HS/Johnson & Wales) chipped in nine points while junior guard Colin Burns scored eight points in the loss. UMass Dartmouth shot 38.3% (23-of-60) from the floor and 22.7% (5-of-22) from three-point range.
The Beacons had three players amass double-digit point totals in the win. Junior guard Isaac Jenkins (Pordenone, Italy/Savio Prep) came off the bench for a team-high 17 points and four rebounds. Senior forward Pat Joseph (Queens, NY/Springfield Gardens HS) tallied 15 points and a game-high nine rebounds while junior guard Michael Mitchell Jr. (Boston, MA/Wayland HS) registered 14 points, seven rebounds and three assists. UMass Boston shot 53.1% (26-of-49) from the field, including 50% (4-of-8) from behind the three-point arc, and 70.8% (17-of-24) from the free throw line.
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I am running a Fedora Core 13 with dm-crypt + luks, all standard with fedora distos.
After upgrading libgcrypt.so, cryptsetup moans at boot up that it can not find the library where it expects it to be (
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So I booted with a live cd, decrypted the root partition of that drive, and mounted my old hard drive, then I chroot'ed in there.
I ran cryptsetup and as expected it bombed out with the same error as when booting up... I fixed the symlinks, and tested cryptsetup. It worked.
When I rebooted the same error was there again... I thought that somehow my changes was not being saved. So I booted back into the live OS, mounted the hdd & chroot'ed again, and to my amazement I found my symlink where I left it and cryptsetup working.
Can someone tell me why this is happening? Why is cryptsetup still looking for the file in /lib and not finding it when its obviously there?!
P.S. I have also tried making duplicates of the libgcrypt library files in /lib as well as tried recompling cryptsetup from source, it all works 100% untill I reboot and then that error again!
I am thinkin' of just rebuilding that box, but I thought I'd ask you guys first? Anyone come across a similar issue?


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I am a transsexual female-to-male person who plans on undergoing sex reassignment surgery in the future. I happen to know a male-to-female who will get the surgery in the near future. I was wondering if it would be possible to surgically switch our genitalia if we got our surgeries at the same time. Would the parts still work as if we were born with them? Would there still be reasonable feeling if the nerves were cut and somehow reattached? Is reattaching nerves even possible? Would cost become an issue? Would it increase or decrease from standard practices? Both of us would much rather have real organs than manmade ones, but I`m not sure if it`s a reasonable option or if it`s even possible. More information on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Dear Reader,
Thank you for your question.
Surgical techniques do exist for reconstructive surgery for traumatic penile amputations including microreimplantation techniques. These techniques are usually reserved for those individuals who sustained a genital injury and do not involve genital organ donation or exchange. The severed penis is reimplanted to the host using micro-surgical techniques (1).
To my knowledge, there have been no genital transplant procedures documented in the medical literature. In part, the surgeries would be technically different and difficult and the risks related to organ rejection great. Current surgical techniques for creation of a phallus or neovagina use various autologous (same-donor) techniques to avoid issues of tissue rejection. These techniques also involve nerve-sparing procedures to maintain and maximize sensation for the genitals of the desired gender.
According the the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Inc. (WPATH), sex reassignment plays an undisputed role in contributing toward favorable outcomes, and comprises Real Life Experience, legal name and sex change on legal documents, as well as medically necessary hormone treatment, counseling, psychopherapy, and other medical procedures. Genital reconstruction is not required for social gender recognition, and such surgery should not be a prerequisite for document or record changes; the Real Life Experience component of the transition process is crucial to psychological adjustment, and is usually completed prior to any genital reconstruction, when appropriate for the patient, according to the WPATH Standards of Care. Changes to documentation are important aids to social functioning, and are a necessary component of the pre-surgical process; delay of document changes may have a deleterious impact on a patient's social integration and personal safety. . . . Medically necessary sex reassignment procedures also include hysterectomy, bilateral mastectomy, chest reconstruction or augmentation as appropriate to each patient (including breast prostheses if necessary), genital reconstruction (by various techniques which must be appropriate to each patient, including, for example, skin flap hair removal, penile and testicular prostheses, as necessary), facial hair removal, and certain facial plastic reconstruction as appropriate to the patient (2). To my knowledge, genital transplantation surgeries and procedures are not an available treatment option.
1. Jordan GH, Gilbert DA. Management of amputation injuries of the male genitalia. Urol Clin North Am. 1989 May;16(2):359-67.
2. WPATH Clarification on Medical Necessity of Treatment, Sex Reassignment, and Insurance Coverage in the U.S.A. Available at: http://www.wpath.org/publications_standards.cfm
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Magical Happenings is your one stop for the perfect birthday celebration.
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Magical Happenings is a place where your child's wishes and dreams can come true, we aim to leave an endless smile on your child's face.
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I need a standard identity kit, however I am more focused on the business card.
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Please use the black fairy and gold text from the files.
The logo can be found here: http://www.magicalhappenings.com.au…enings.zip
Please use some sort of orb like fairy dust like the logo.
The designs should be professional, yet fun and stand out. Be creative!
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Joab, are you the one complaining about angie not changing her hairstyle? Now she ironed it... Lol... She heard you.
Nice job with the prediction Joab!Ugh. I can't believe Lazaro wasn't in the bottom 3. I know he has a huge fanbase blahblahblah but his performance was so bad. Amber's little stair/fog rehearsal clip was hilarious. Wasn't surprised that Paul was voted off. Would have preferred Lazaro, but eh.
We weren't able to watch the show until today. I'm really puzzled as to what Jimmy means when he says Angie is in trouble and they need to find and fix the problem. What am I missing? I don't see a problem with her!
A plead to Idol:Can we just do 4 eliminations next week and make Candice, Angie, Amber and Kree our Final 4?#sincerefan
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TOKYO, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Kristen Stewart is back to being brunette.
The 24-year-old actress has dyed her hair brown after months of having orange-colored tresses. Stewart dyed her locks bright orange for her movie American Ultra in April, and kept the citrus shade even as it grew out. She debuted her new, chocolate hue at a press conference for her movie Equals Saturday in Tokyo.
Say 'see ya later' to K-Stew's orange hair! Her brunette locks are back and we love them! http://t.co/b1QBsZ7Quf pic.twitter.com/TPOaDs7noi— E! Online UK (@EOnlineUK) August 4, 2014
Equals is a science fiction romantic drama directed by Drake Doremus and produced by Ridley Scott that stars Stewart and Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: Days of Future Past). The actors portray citizens in a futuristic society where human emotions have been eradicated in the name of peace.
"I'm definitely not afraid of 'feels,'" Stewart said at the conference. "My life revolves around it, actually. Finding the balance between the head and the heart is important -- but I've always been very driven by the gut."
Equals is scheduled for release in 2015, and Stewart will appear in Clouds of Sils Maria, Still Alice and Anesthesia later this year.


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For more than 100 years, Saint Michael's has been providing a meaningful education to students.
In 1904, the Society of Saint Edmund founded Saint Michael's Institute in Winooski Park, Vermont. The Edmundite priests and brothers took Saint Edmund of Canterbury, the 13th-century Archbishop of Canterbury, as their patron saint. Saint Edmund taught at universities in Oxford and Paris and played an instrumental role in the construction of Salisbury Cathedral. In 1843, the Society of St. Edmund first began their ministry at his final resting place in Pontigny, France.
The Edmundites came to Vermont from France in the late 19th century. They bought the land where the college stands from a local farmer and turned the original farmhouse into what today is Founders Hall. Saint Michael's first followed a curriculum deeply rooted in the classical European liberal arts tradition, including mandatory Greek and Latin. In 1951, following an enrollment boom fueled by the GI Bill, the dean and future president, Reverend Gerald E. Dupont, SSE, initiated the Saint Michael's Plan, which focused on the intellectual growth of students through studies informed by Catholicism while meaningfully engaged in the secular world. Since then, the curriculum has been revised in response to changing times.
In the early 1970s, the College, which had been all-male, began admitting women. Enrollment has increased gradually to its present levels of about 2,000 undergraduates, 650 part-time adult graduate students and more than 200 international students studying English through the Applied Linguistics Department. Saint Michael's offers graduate programs leading to master's degrees in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Education and Clinical Psychology. The Saint Michael's Playhouse, started in 1947, continues to bring professional summer theater to the community as well as a range of educational opportunities, including backstage internships for Saint Michael's undergraduate students.
In 2003, Saint Michael's was invited to join the elite group of 270 colleges and universities nationwide that shelter chapters of the prestigious academic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa. In 2006, Jamila Headley '06 was named a Rhodes Scholar, and Michelle Kayser '08 was awarded one of only 19 prestigious Pickering Undergraduate Fellowships. Saint Michael's is included in the 2011 Princeton Review's Best 370 Colleges guidebook, the 2010-2011 Colleges of Distinction Guidebook, and as one of the top 100 national liberal arts colleges in the U.S. News & World Report 2010 Guide to America's Best Colleges. Saint Michael's is also included in the 2010 Fiske Guide to Colleges.


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Neal and Bennett Return Tonight vs. Bluesby Michelle Crechiolo / Pittsburgh Penguins
Penguins wingers Beau Bennett and James Neal have been activated from injured reserve and will return to the lineup tonight in St. Louis.
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Bennett will skate on the right wing of the second line with Jussi Jokinen and Evgeni Malkin, while Neal will start on the right wing of the fourth line with Craig Adams and Joe Vitale. With Bennett and Neal back,
Neal, who was out with an upper-body injury, has not played since leaving the regular-season opener after logging just 3:49 minutes of ice time on Oct. 3 vs. New Jersey. He resumed practicing with the team on Thursday and had been skating on his own with strength and conditioning coach Mike Kadar the few days prior to that.
Bennett, who was out with a lower-body injury, has not played since recording just 6:05 minutes of ice time on Oct. 12 at Tampa Bay. He started individual workouts with Kadar on Oct. 20 and returned to team practice on Monday with hopes that he would progress towards playing tonight against the Blues.
Bennett said this morning he wasn't going to overthink a potential return, saying, "I'm just trying to get back in the swing of things. Try to get out there, play simple, play fast and try to play my game and hopefully our line will be clicking right off the get go."
The Blues are known for being a physical team and not allowing their opponents a lot of time and space. But instead of that being a challenge for Bennett, he thinks that will actually help him.
"Because getting hit early really gets you back into the game and that way, you know you're in one and you're not just floating around out there," he explained. "So it'll be good to get into a physical game, physical battle. We've just got to play our game and hopefully come out with a W."
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Players with tickets that have won instant prizes have the option of redeeming their instant prize immediately or waiting until after that night's draw.
If an instant prize is redeemed prior to the nightly draw, the retailer will provide the player with an Exchange Ticket that is valid for the nightly draw. The Exchange Ticket indicates that the instant prize has already been paid.
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Ag census report shows same farm acres, fewer farms
The United States Department of Agriculture recently released the final 2012 Census of Agriculture.
The number of farms in Kansas during 2012 was 61,773, down 6 percent from the 2007 census.
Land in farms remained the same, but the average size of farm was 747 acres, up 40 acres from 2007.
Market value of production was up 28 percent, and the average value of farms was $299,000, compared to $220,000 in 2007. The number of farms with sales of $500,000 or more was 5,180, up from 4,015 in 2007.
The average age of the principal farm operator was 58.2 years in 2012, compared to 57.7 years in 2007. The number of operators under the age of 34 was nearly unchanged while the number of operators over the age of 65 was down 3 percent.


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Awesome Jalapeno Popper DipOkay. I know that saying this is an "awesome" dip is a pretty bold statement but I think it's pretty awesome. A layered, deconstructed version of a jalapeno popper in a dip, that I've never seen done quite this way, and since I didn't have outside influences, I'm claiming it as my own original recipe.
Layered like this instead of combined, it is more like eating a popper to me, and so good that I almost forgot to get a picture of it coming out of the oven! I hope that you enjoy it as much as we are.
DE-lish. Here's how to make it.
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Recipe: Awesome Jalapeno Popper Dip©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min |Cook time: 30 min | Yield: About 8 to 10 servings
- 4 slices of bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 4 jalapeno peppers, ribs and seeds removed, chopped
- 1 (7 ounce) can green chilies, undrained
- 2 (8 ounce) blocks of Philadelphia cream cheese
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1 cup of shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons of butter, melted
- 1/2 cup of dry bread or panko bread crumbs
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Cut the bacon with kitchen shears into a hot skillet and cook until crisp. Set aside a tablespoon of the cooked bacon for garnish if desired. Add the chopped jalapeno to the same skillet and cook until softened. Stir in the undrained chilies, warm through; remove from the heat and set aside.
Cube the cream cheese and place it in a pie plate or 9 x 9 inch baking dish. Microwave on low/defrost for 2 to 2-1/2 minutes or until softened. Stir in the mayonnaise, cheddar cheese, and Parmesan cheese; mix well. Smooth out the top.
Spread the sauteed pepper and bacon pepper mixture evenly as a layer on top of the cream cheese mixture. Bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes, or until bubbly.
Combine the bread crumbs with the melted butter and sprinkle all over the top of the dip. Return to the oven for another 5 to 10 minutes, or until lightly browned. Sprinkle top with the reserved crumbled bacon, if desired. Keep this on a hot plate if you can.
Serve with toast points, tortilla chips, Triscuit crackers, or your favorite dipper.
Variation: Top with crushed kettle style potato chips instead of buttered crumbs. May also substitute Baconnaise spread for the mayonnaise.
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Field Guide to the Birds of North America
National Geographic Society, 2002 - Nature - 480 pages
Now in its fourth edition, the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America is the ultimate birder's field guide. Sturdy, portable, and easy-to-use, it features the most complete information available on every bird species known to North America. This revised edition features 250 completely updated range maps, new plumage and species classification information, specially commissioned full-color illustrations, and a superb new index that allows birders in the field to quickly identify a species. The National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Fourth Edition will continue to be a bestseller among the fastest-growing sector in the U.S. travel market—the nearly 25 million people who travel each year specifically to observe wild birds.
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This year we've got one new member; Erlend Oftedal. He is working for Bekk Consulting and is maintaining his blog at http://erlend.oftedal.no/blog in addition to ours. He's an expert in web application security. Also, Christian Stigen Larsen has left our chapter. It's excellent that the Honeynet Project finally got it's own SILC server, though we would wish more of the chapters would use it.
The norwegian chapter currently consists of the following members:
Our current honeynet is a GenIII honeynet with Roo and various various operating systems running as honeypots on VMWare Server. Most of the honeynet is redesigned and reinstalled in the last period in a new data center with stable power and proper AC.
As we've experienced some performance issues with the roo-1.3 version of the honeywall, we've implemented our own ad-hoc solution; a dedicated server bridging the honeynet and the Internett whilst running Ubuntu 7.10 server with Daemonlogger, Snort, Barnyard, Softflowd and NfSen. This gives us an adequate overview and easy access to data going in and out of the honeynet.
We have a central nepenthes honeypot with distributed malware collectors. We are also experimenting with various high-interaction applications honeypots, like; Wordpress-honeypot and MySQL-honeypot.
In addition we've also deployed five ssh-honeypots on different ISP networks throughout Norway. These honeypots records authentication attempts only, and not what the attacker may do after gaining access. The honeypots are based on a modified OpenSSH 4.1 and do not allow any authentication to succeed. All authentication attempts are stored and forwarded to a centralized MySQL database. Currently this database holds a total of 4.2 Million attacks. The ssh-bruteforce honeynet has been running for almost one year.
We're currently doing research on SSH bruteforce attacks and are working on developing a honeypot specifically targeted for VoIP attacks.
SSH Brute Force Attacks
SSH brute force attacks are happening all the time. In this period we've also observed brute force attacks using Norwegian user names, very similar to what we reported in our last status report. In the 11 months we've had our ssh-honeynet operational, we've recorded attacks from 1584 different IP-address. Attacks from 202 of these 1584 address have been seen on all five honeypots (note that these are all located on different large ISP networks throughout Norway, all with different address space allocations). The country distribution of the the 1584 addresses is shown in the graph at http://www.honeynor.no/img/2008_annual_report_SSH_attacking_cc.png
In our blog (http://www.honeynor.no/2008/07/23/size-definitely-matters/), we've got an entry about the observed length of the passwords used against our pots, and the distribution is shown in the graph: http://www.honeynor.no/img/2008_annual_report_SSH_pwlen.png
Not surprisingly, most of the attacks are targeting passwords in the range 4-8 characters. Notice the significant drop after 8 characters, this is probably due to the fact that a lot of systems still enforces an 8-character upper limit. Another reason could be related to human laziness in selecting the lowest amount of characters allowed by the policy, which in all most every case sets the lower limit to 6, 7 or 8 characters. Most policies also defines the recommended length equal to the lower limit. Restricting the length of the password to an upper limit of 6-8 characters is fortunately no longer the case for modern operating systems, but as lower limits and recommendations are still kept at this length, it will be the main target for brute force attacks.
An interesting piece of information extracted from the ssh-database is the password composition distribution as shown here: http://www.honeynor.no/img/2008_annual_report_SSH_pwstats.png
In this graph we examine the composition of each password. By 'characters' we mean alphabetic characters [a-zA-Z] and digits comprise of numbers between 0 and 9. A staggering 71.2 % of all recorded password contained only alphabetic characters! While the usual recommended passwords consisting of both alphanumeric and special characters are only seen in 4.4 % of the cases.
Malware collected
Malware collection from Nepenthes continues. Top three malwares are SDBot, PoeBot, Virut. Analysis with anti-virus scanners shows 70% detection rate (past 12 months of data). Malware submitted to Norman Sandbox on regular basis and CWSandbox on ad-hoc basis for analysis. Manual malware analysis using e.g. Olly debug and IDA.
Malicious VoIP
We have investigated several attacks targeted against VoIP equipment. At one specific corporate network here in Norway, we've experimented with a custom VoIP honeypot with sipsak (http://sipsak.org/) that answers on the first SIP INVITE.
This should trigger the attacker to continue to probe that server for any possible combinations of numbers that will allow the attacker to call onto the POTS network. We've also made some of the finding public on our blog at http://www.honeynor.no/2008/10/19/voip-attacks-are-escalating
Malicious PDF
As a result of the increasing amount of malicious PDF documents used in attacks, we constructed an extensive video (ca. 20 minutes long) showing how to analyze a malicious PDF file, extracting shellcode embedded in it, and doing further analysis on that shellcode. This video demonstration has been very well received, and is one of our top visited blog entries. It's located at http://www.honeynor.no/2008/08/24/analysing-malicious-pdf-documents-and-shellcode/
The PDF document analyzed in this video is a real malware sample trying to exploit the following vulnerabilities; CVE-2008-0655, CVE-2007-5659, CVE-2007-5663, CVE-2007-5666, CVE-2008-0667, CVE-2008-0726, CVE-2008-2042. All vulns are related to Adobe Acrobat, read more at NVD (http://nvd.nist.gov) for more details about these vulnerabilites. IDA Pro, HT, SpiderMonkey and some small custom python scripts were used to perform this analysis.
EXE obfuscated as JPEG
Previously this year, we came across a downloader (win32.exe) that was making some effort in hiding its traffic. The downloader was making GET requests to files, such as search.jpg, winlogon.jpg, tibs.jpg and tool.jpg. Using tools like chaosreader and foremost to extract the files from the recorded pcap, we found out that these files indeed were valid jpeg files. However, when we looked more closely, we found that these files had something more interesting appended past the JPEG data. When we analyzed the superflous contents of the file, we discoved that by doing a simple XOR with the hex value of 31 on the entire image file, the result was a standard microsoft executeable (the malware). We've also seen this kind of obfuscation before, then with the image of a green frog.
Now, what winlogon.jpg (..or the executable inside it) did, was to install BraveSentry, a rogue anti-virus/spyware product that claims to have found malware on your system in order to trick you to purchase their product.
This is not a new obfuscation technique, but it seems to be a characteristic for this group of spyware creators, that are pushing these rogue security programs.
We made a blog entry about this finding, and we also created a video demonstration of how this image file was de-obfuscated using standard unix power tools (http://www.honeynor.no/2008/05/04/obfuscating-downloads/).
There has been a couple of servers doing port scan on port 5060. It is not much at the moment, but will most likely explode in the next year.
We've been looking at the results of quite a few of the different SQL-injection (and XSS attacks) successfully performed against norwegian and danish servers. The attacks have several common properties:
The javascripts are usually pointing to a russian or chinese server. They are obfuscated in different ways. Some simply use url-encoding of the actual script combined with unescape() and eval(), while others use complex encryption functions including long encrypted strings that are decrypted by shifting parts of the string and combining parts in different ways.
The first script usually loads several different other scripts from servers, often contacted by IP. Many of these servers are probably zombies, and a lot of the servers were no longer serving any scripts (the zombies may have been cleaned out). The attackers were using scripts from several different servers, in case one of their zombies go down. So it's basically a "hacker cluster" for availability. The end scripts usually contain several different attacks. We've seen scripts trying to exploit up to ten different activeX-components, and many of the scripts use both activeX and flash (.swf) attacks.
We've written more details of some actual attacks in addition to various mitigation strategies against SQL-injection on our blog at http://www.honeynor.no/2008/11/11/looking-at-some-sql-injection-attacks/
We are planning to write and publish a paper on SSH bruteforce attacks, kind of a follow-up on the Clarkson Univ. paper called "A Study of Passwords and Methods Used in Brute-Force SSH Attacks" from 2007. We don't yet have a time frame for when it might be finished, as everyone in our chapter have a full-time (and beyond) job to deal with. We have initiated some collaboration with other chapters, but a lot depends on us to actually get some available time.
We presented at a private security conference with 20 people about VoIP security. This was people from different state organizations. We also presented at the Norwegian ISF-conference. More info and slides at http://www.honeynor.no/2008/09/08/talk-about-data-analysis/
Which of your goals did you meet for the last six months?
Honeynet infrastructure successfully migrated to new datacenter. We've held internal course/training on malware analysis for members on two occasions.
Which of your goals did you not meet for the last six months?
We did not participate in the GDH phase 2 as we had planned, but this is strictly our own fault. We have the necessary hardware readily available and we have the GDH DVD, but unfortunately we've not had the time to get it up and running.
Goals for the next six months
Continued focus on malware analysis, automation of collecting samples and training of team members in analysis and reverse engineering. Get infrastructure running properly in new datacentre. New deployments of honeypots, with focus on getting sebek-integrated honeypots and the first VOIP honeypot up and running. But also more high-level third-party application honeypots. Let's deploy pots for whatever is currently "hot". And finally we have to get more active in the participation of GDH.
Here are some lessons learned which we'd like to share:
VOIP/Asterisk works well for conferencing if all members can not participate in person on meetings.
Using a wiki-software (we use MediaWiki) makes it so much easier to gather documentation, analysis and notes from various meetings.
We've also had a big success of deploying a chapter specific blog (we currently use WordPress). Not only has this gained more attention here in Norway to our chapter and HP as an organization, but maybe more importantly it has increased the enthusiasm of the members of our chapter.
Database-ify all the data you can. It makes storing and analyzing the data so much easier.


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Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, in the foreground; the Missaguash River separating New Brunswick from Nova Scotia and Westmorland County, NB, in the middle ground, with the Bay of Fundy, more Westmorland Co., and Albert County, NB in the distance.
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House in Sackville
Watercolour painting on 3 ½ × 5 ⅜″ Pentalic Aqua Journal (140 lb). Earlier pencil sketch of work in progress. Related post: House in Sackville (original sketch)
Quick sketch of the ruins of the Sunny Brae Rink
Quick & dirty watercolour sketch of the ruins of Moncton's Sunny Brae Rink. This is on unbelievably light-weight paper in a throw-away sketchbook. From a photo I took a couple of weeks ago. John Philip Sousa played here a couple of times. Historic Places page on the history of the Sunny Brae Rink.
The Vogue Cinema, Sackville
Pen-&-ink sketch of Sackville's Vogue Cinema for Sweetest Little Thing 2017. Carbon pen on 3 ½ × 5 ½″ Moleskine sketch album (120 gsm). The Vogue Cinema website Sweetest Little Thing website Dan Mangan live at The Vogue Cinema, 2011-10-24. In a private collection.
House in Sackville
House in Sackville; pencil sketch, 3 ½ × 5 ⅜″ Pentalic Aqua Journal (140 lb).
Abandoned shop in Memramcook
Abandoned shop at the corner of rue Landry & NB Route 106 in the Village of Memramcook. Pencil sketch in 5 × 8″ Pentalic Aqua Journal (140 lb).


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Can financial incentives put a brake on senior driving?
Two weeks ago a lawyer in Chiba was cited for leaving the scene of an accident. He had hit a pedestrian with his car but later told police he didn't notice anything odd at the time the accident occurred. The police believe him because he's 81. The victim was also "over 60." This may be a pattern we have to get used to. According to the transport ministry, more than 6,000 traffic accidents a year involve a driver confusing the brake for the accelerator. Though the ministry doesn't break this particular statistic down into age groups, it does report that in 2010 there were 0.5 traffic accidents per 10,000 drivers between the ages of 25 and 54, and 3.3 accidents per 10,000 drivers over the age of 75. In the same year 106,000 of the 724,000 traffic accidents were caused by drivers over 65, while 50.4 percent of the people who died in traffic accidents were over 65, both new records.
Consequently, a number of local governments have been trying to convince elderly residents to surrender their drivers licenses, and have turned to financial incentives to do so. Ichihara city in Chiba Prefecture will launch a program in February wherein "old people" (no actual age is designated) who voluntarily give up their licenses will receive in return an identification card that allows them a 10 percent discount with 17 taxi companies operating in the city. Normally, municipalities offer discounts for bus rides, which may not sound like much of a trade-in considering that, traditionally, many local governments actually subsidized public transportation for elderly riders, in many cases giving then free passes. That time-honored practice started disappearing as the percentage of elderly, especially in rural areas, steeply increased over the past two decades. Local governments just couldn't afford to pay for all those fares.
But driving could become even more dangerous as the baby boom generation enters its twilight years. Among previous generations, the driving population was mostly limited to men, but among boomers there are just as many women behind the wheel, which means there will soon be a sudden steep increase in the number of elderly drivers. In addition, insurance companies want to increase premiums for older drivers. Many of these people consider their drivers licenses more than a necessity, so local police departments issue unten keireki shomeisho, or "certificates of driving history," a form of ID that looks just like a drivers license but isn't. The psychological effectiveness is questionable, but in any case it is this card that can be used for discounts when using taxis or public transportation. To make the card more attractive, local merchants in Shizuoka Prefecture have agreed to offer discounts to anyone who produces one (rather than a bona fide drivers license). Last year in Kagawa Prefecture, 976 people gave up their licenses, a threefold increase over the previous year owning to a new discount service provided by the local taxi union and a special low-priced IC bus card especially for older patrons.
A university professor who specializes in "traffic sociology" told Nishi Nihon Shimbun that local government's face a very real problem of guaranteeing old people mobility in the future. If public transportation isn't available and affordable, then the elderly are going to drive as long as they possibly can, a possibility some carmakers are trying to take advantage of. It's basically up to friends and relatives, and not just the local authorities, to convince them to give it up "without hurting their pride." Economic incentives may be a good way to convince them, but first bus and train lines have to be substantialized and taxi service increased.


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22-year-old dies while swinging from Utah rock arch
MOAB, Utah – A 22-year-old Utah man was killed while swinging from a rock arch in a stunt made popular by YouTube.
Grand County sheriff's officials say Kyle Lee Stocking, of West Jordan, died about 3:30 p.m. Sunday, after hitting the ground below the 140-foot-tall Corona Arch near Moab.
Sheriff's Lt. Kim Neal tells The Salt Lake Tribune the length of rope from the arch was miscalculated and sent Stocking swinging into the ground as he went under the red sandstone formation.
Rescuers say he was dead at the scene.
Viral videos have bolstered the activity, which involves using rock climbing ropes and jumping from near the top of the arch. One titled "World's Largest Rope Swing" has racked up more than 17 million views on YouTube since it was posted in February.


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Southern Historical Society Papers/Volume 30/The Gallant Pelham
[From the Mobile, Ala., Register, May 20, 1894.]
Jeb Stuart's "Boy Artillerist" From Alabama.
(By James R. Randall.)
Just as the Spring came laughing thro' the strife,
With all her gorgeous cheer—
In the glad April of historic life—
Fell the great cannoneer.
The wondrous lulling of a hero's breath
His bleeding country weeps;
Hushed—in th' alabaster arms of Death—
Our young Marcellus sleeps!
Grander and nobler than the child of Rome,
Curbing his chariot steeds,
The knightly scion of a Southern home
Dazzled the world—with deeds!
Gentlest and bravest in the battle's brunt—
The champion of the Truth—
He bore his banner to the very front
Of our immortal youth.
A clang of sabres 'mid Virginia's snow,
The fiery pang of shells—
And there's a voice of immemorial woe
In Alabama dells.
The pennon droops, that led the sacred band
Along the crimson field;
The meteor blade sinks from the nerveless hand,
Over the spotless shield!
We gazed and gazed upon that beauteous face,
While round the lips and eyes,
Couched in their marble slumber flashed the grace
Of a divine surprise!
Oh! mother of a blessed soul on high,
Thy tears may soon be shed;
Think of thy boy, 'mid princes of the sky,
Among the Southern dead.
How must he smile on this dull world beneath,
Fevered with swift renown—
He, with the martyr's amaranthine wreath
Twining the victor's crown!
N. B.—This is the original version from Randall's manuscript.—T. C. D.
No one can be accused justly of raking amid the ashes of the past to rekindle the fires of sectional prejudice when he undertakes to briefly sketch one of the many brilliant careers during the late war that illustrate the valor of the American soldier on a hundred battlefields, especially when that career is all too little known, says the Louisville Courier-Journal. In Alabama, in the vale of Alexandria, September 7, in the year 1838, there was born a babe destined to be Bellona's bridegroom, and write "John Pelham" across the sky in flaming letters of battle. His was a superb career, but for some reason or other it is scarcely known outside of his native State, and even in that State but for being commingled with fiction the daring deeds and brilliant bravery of "Jeb" Stuart's "boy artillerist" would be almost mere tradition when the last Confederate shall have passed away. Indeed, while writers almost innumerable both historical and penny-a-liners have, in song and story, traced the career of lesser light of higher rank, they have scarcely mentioned much less eulogized the beardless boy whom General Robert E. Lee, in his report of Fredericksburg, termed "the gallant Pelham," thus knighting him upon the field. Of this same youth the London Times, in chronicling his death in,1863, said: " For his age no soldier on either side in this war (Confederate) has won such fame as has young Pelham."
John Pelham came from old Kentucky stock, his father, Dr. Atkinson Pelham, having removed from this State to Calhoun county, Ala., in 1837. Young Pelham was appointed a cadet at West Point in 1856 by the representative in Congress from the Talladega (Ala.) district, Hon. S. W. Harris. The only five-year class in the history of the academy was organized that year, which accounts for his being there at the opening of the war. Like many other West Pointers who have made gallant soldiers, his standing in his classes was low, but his commission was passed on, and he would have received it had he not resigned a week before commencement to go South. As a cadet he had a dash and a soldierly bearing, and it is related that when he started to walk across the parade grounds, or from one quarter to another, he went straight as a "bee line" and never looked back, no matter how much noise the other cadets made in his rear. He was considered the best athlete at West Point, and was there noted for fencing and boxing.
Then, as now, at the academy, a cat with its reputed plurality of lives would be dead a dozen times in taking half the chances those laughing cadets would eagerly seek in the cavalry drill, but Pelham excelled them all. The Prince of Wales was struck with his horsemanship when he visited the academy in 1860. His horseback riding was marvellous, and went down from class to class as a sort of tradition, and long years after he had met a soldier's death the cadets would relate to gaping plebes how Pelham rode.
In 1861, when the laughing blue of the Southland sky was overcast by the dark cloud of civil strife and Alabama called to her sons in every clime to come to her defence, Pelham resigned his cadetship at the academy and started South. At New Albany, Ind., he was intercepted by the Federal authorities, for it was known there by some one who reported the fact that he had left West Point to join the Confederate army. He was placed under surveillance and not allowed to cross the river to Louisville. However, he accepted the first opportunity to elude the authorities and went up to Jeffersonville.
Around his stay at Jeffersonville and subsequent escape there is woven a pretty little romance, which; whether true or not, is worth relating. He had disguised himself as one of General Scott's couriers, so the story goes, before entering the town, and while watching his chance to slip across the river, he became acquainted with a pretty Yankee maiden, who was visiting friends in the place. She became smitten with the handsome young soldier, and they were together much.
By and by he gained her confidence sufficiently to disclose his identity without fear of betrayal, and informed her of his purpose to go South and join the Confederate army. She was a true Northern girl, and endeavored to prevail upon him to stand by the "old flag," but he was firm. Love has been known to be stronger than patriotism in hearts colder than that of a sympathetic maiden. It was true in her case, and Cupid overthrew Mars in her heart.
Finding her entreaties of no avail, she volunteered to ferry him across the river. Consequently they took a skiff the following day for a pleasure row on the Ohio, but they never came back; that is, he did not, for they landed on the old Kentucky shore, where he bade his fair benefactor a last farewell and she returned to Jeffersonville by way of the ferryboat. From the time he set foot upon Kentucky soil Pelham' s brilliant career began. However, he did not remain in Louisville long, but hurried on to Montgomery, then the capital of the Confederacy, and reported for duty. He was commissioned first lieutenant in the regular Confederate States Army, and assigned to duty at Lynchburg, Va., where he had charge of the ordnance. Shortly after reporting there he was ordered to Winchester, Va., and was drillmaster of Albertu's Battery.
In the meantime, the Federal army, like a huge snake, was coiling itself around Manassas preparatory to striking Richmond. The Confederate army went out to receive the blow and deliver another in return, and Pelham rushed to the front with his battery. All that long day of Manassas he fought with superb courage. So well did he handle his guns that he attracted the attention of that Prince Rupert of American calvarymen, General J. E. B. Stuart. General Stuart saw what was in the boy, and intrusted him with the organization of a battery of six pieces of horse artillery. Some of these men were from Virginia and Maryland, but most of them were from Alabama. From Talladega, Ala., near Pelham's home, went forty men under Lieutenant William McGregor, a gallant officer now living in Texas. One gun was manned by French Creoles from Mobile, Ala., who were called by Pelham the "Napoleon Detachment." They were gallant fellows, and invariably in battle the voices of these men could be heard above the roar of the guns singing the "Marseillaise," that stirring song that roused the man of destiny's imperial eagles on many a gory field where the Old Guard could die, but never surrender. This six-gun battery was the nucleus around which gathered that brave body of men that goes down in history as Stuart's horse artillery. Wherever the dashing Stuart and his cavalry went there were Pelham and his war dogs. At Williamsburg and Cold Harbor Pelham fought with bull dog tenacity. At the latter fight he advanced one gun a third of a mile to the front, and for more than an hour it was the only gun on the Confederate left firing, drawing the attention of a whole Federal battery, until Stuart said to Stonewall Jackson:
"General, all your artillery on the left is idle; nobody is firing except Pelham." After the battle the warm pressure of Jackson's hand told Pelham how well he had demeaned himself. That is history. Shortly after this Pelham drove a gunboat from the "White House" with one gun.
He again received the thanks of old Stonewall at Second Manassas, where he thrust his guns forward almost into the enemy's columns and used them with bloody effect. During this fight Jackson said to Stuart, pointing to the young artillerist: "General, if you have another Pelham give him to me." He was then twenty-three years old.
In the bloody repulse the Federals received at Sharpsburg, his guns roared for hours, and a little later he was with Stuart in the bloody track he made from Aldie to Markham's, fighting the immense odds of the foe till they were in a few yards of his guns, drawing off to a better position only to fight again. In was in this gory track that an instance occurred which illustrates his courage. He was with one gun far in advance of the others when the enemy almost reached him, and Stuart ordered him to retire, but he begged to be allowed to remain a little longer, which request was granted. His cannoneers scampered away and left him alone. He loaded the piece and fired almost in the face of the enemy, surging forward like a great billow, and then mounting one of the lead horses, began to gallop away with the cannon, but had not proceeded far when the horse was shot from under him. Quickly cutting the traces to free the dead animal he mounted another, and it, too, was shot down immediately. He escaped with the gun only after a third horse had been shot down and cut from the traces. At Sharpsburg he commanded nearly all the artillery on the Confederate left, and rent the blue lines with shot and shell.
But it was at Fredericksburg that the zenith of John Pelham's renown was reached. The martial king of the proudest nation in all the tides of time might well envy—if the shades in Valhalla are given that privilege—the story that crowned the "boy artillerist" in that stupendous fight and dreadful revelry of death. All was quiet in the Confederate army at Fredericksburg on the morning of the thirteenth of December, 1862. The flower of the South's young manhood was there on the heights in double lines behind bristling bayonets and grimmer guns. Every soldier knew there was to be a fearful fight before the sun sank behind the western wood. The Federal army had crossed the Rappahannock and was forming line of battle under cover of the river bank. Jackson, Stuart and Lee rode down the Confederate lines to the extreme right, followed by waves of cheers, where the Stuart horse artillery was parked. Stuart called to Pelham and said something. Then Pelham turned and galloped to his guns. Immediately he dashed down the heights followed by one gun. It was the "Napoleon detachment," of Mobile Frenchmen. Onward they rushed far down the foot of the heights where the road forks. There they halted, unlimbered and prepared for action. The mist that overspread the field cleared away and the men from the South saw moving toward them steadily, swiftly, with measured tread, a long, compact blue line. On swept the fierce men in blue, their bayonets glistening in the streams of sunshine that stole through the fog. There was a flash, a boom, the earth shook—Pelham's Napoleon had bellowed. Then there was a shrill, hideous, indescribable shriek of a shell as it swirled in the air and went crashing through the charging lines of blue. The surging mass recoiled, halted, hesitated, then with a demoniacal yell, pressed forward toward the single gun. The yell ceased and for a moment there was a ghastly hush, and then, there came thundering through the chilly, December air from across the Rappahannock boom on boom. From southeast to east, from east to northeast. Then from the north came huge shells whirling death in their arms. Pelham had drawn upon himself the concentrated fire of half a dozen batteries twenty four guns. Yet his gun continued to roar, and roaring never failed to slaughter. No other gun on the Confederate side had yet opened, but the lone war-dog howled on. And in the half lull between the boom of the cannon there floated above the noise a sound that seemed strange on that day of multitudinous terrors—the Napoleon detachment singing the Marseillaise as they fought their gun. Like infernal imps of Tophet they flitted about in the smoke of battle. Two armies looked on while the Mobile Frenchmen wrote history with blood. Arms, legs, heads were whirled off, and the ground around torn as by Titan plows. No other Confederate gun had opened, but the fierce Federals could not pass the bellowing Napoleon. Time wore on. Still the gun roared and the sound of its roaring thundered through the air in breaths of battle to the ears of General Robert E. Lee, as he viewed the red revel from the heights. "It is glorious," he exclaimed, "to see such courage in one so young." And in his report of the battle he spoke of no one but Pelham below the rank of major-general, terming him "the gallant Pelham."
Once, twice, three times, Pelham drove back the Federal columns and delayed the battle an hour. When his ammunition was spent he retired, in obedience to a peremptory order, and was assigned to the command of all the artillery on the Confederate right.
Amid shot and shell he had opened the great battle of Fredericksburg and had become immortal. The part played by Pelham at that fight is history that will survive with General Lee's report He was a major of artillery then. His commission as lieutenant-colonel was issued soon after, and only awaited confirmation when he was killed. This was at Kelly's Ford, on the Rappahannock, March 17th, 1863. He had gone to visit some ladies in Culpeper county when he heard the cannonading and hurried to the scene. His artillery had not come up, but he galloped to a regiment that was wavering and shouted: "Forward, boys! Forward to victory and glory!" and at that moment was struck by the fragment of a shell that penetrated the brain and he died shortly after midnight. He died as he had wished amid the roar of battle.
General Stuart telegraphed to Hon. J. L. M. Curry, at present trustee of the great Peabody fund and well known in Louisville, who then represented Pelham's Alabama district in the Confederate Congress:
"The noble, the chivalric, 'the gallant Pelham' is no more. He was killed in action yesterday. His remains will be sent to you to-day. How much he was beloved, appreciated and admired, let the tears of agony we shed and the gloom of mourning throughout my command bear witness. His loss is irreparable."
His remains were taken to Richmond and lay in state at the capitol, viewed by thousands. He was buried at Jacksonville, Ala., amid the scenes of his childhood. General Stuart's general order to the division announcing his death concluded:
"His eyes had glanced over every battlefield of this army, from the first Manassas to the moment of his death, and, with a single exception, he was a brilliant actor in all. The memory of 'the gallant Pelham,' his many virtues, his noble nature and purity of character is enshrined as a sacred legacy in the hearts of all who knew him. His record has been bright and spotless, his career brilliant and successful. He fell the noblest of sacrifice on the altar of his country, to whose glorious service he had dedicated his life from the beginning of the war."
He was calmly and recklessly brave, and saw men torn to pieces around him without emotion, because his heart and eye were upon the stern work he was performing. Such is the brief but resplendent career of the "boy artillerist."
The deeds of Pelham's nephew, who was a private in Terry's Texas regiment, caused the Texas Legislature to enact that as he, "a hero in more than a hundred battles," had fallen while charging the enemy at Dalton, Ga., leaving no issue, the name of a certain child, a nephew, should be changed to Charles Thomas Pelham, to perpetuate his memory.


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Well, here I am, looking at this blog and thinking how sad it is that I haven't posted in so long. Not only that, how long since I've done any real research! This year of new job responsibilities plus quite a battle with health issues have made this a VERY different year than I thought it would be!
So last week, while my mother was visiting for the 4th, I decided to FINALLY take a look at the 1940 census to see if I could find her family – although she wasn't born for a couple of years yet. I used the links that Ancestry has on the home page to use the Stephen Morse and Joel Weintraub work and I pretty quickly found my mother's grandfather in Franklin, Indiana, by entering the E.D. from their 1930 census but I could not found her family using the same method.
She tried to think of all the places that she had heard about her family living before she was born and I used that information along with my aunt's birth certificate (she was born in 1939) to discover that the family probably lived in Shelby County. From there, I used the 1940 census Enumeration District map available at the Online Public Access site found at Archives.com. (Find instructions for using this site under Number 3 at http://www.archives.gov/research/census/1940/start-research.html)
Luckily, Shelby County was not a booming metropolis like Chicago or even Indianapolis! I used the Ancestry option of selecting a district within a county to begin a page by page browsing to look for Mom's family. They weren't in the same district as the address on my Aunt's birth certificate, so I began searching districts between that location and the Franklin location where my grandfather lived. As I moved across the county looking for the family, I began to think they would never be found this way. After about 2 hours of searching (and a tiny bit of a census reader's headache!) I found them! And while I didn't discover any earth shattering information, we all know that it's all about collecting all the information we can and I'm happy to have it!


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Mom, as I was driving in my car on Academy between Wyoming and San Mateo, the song Happy Mother's Day was created. When I arrived at home, I immediately picked up a guitar and wrote the melody in a couple of hours. The lyrics as simple as they are took weeks. Recording it was a two month long project because I played every instrument, not at the same time, but I also was the engineer at the same time, so it quite frustrating and difficult, but in the end I believe it is a very good quality recording for a home recording.
There is a warm happy touchy feely funness about it and I play it over and over again and never get tired of listening to it. That is why I believe it is good.
Now the video really put the icing on it. I think the video is great for a home video. It also took about two months to complete. I have never edited in this fashion where I have had to use backgrounds and outside scenes and needed to look through endless miles of footage of video to pick out just the right feeling for the words. Again, the video could have been done differently, but I believe I captured a beautiful feeling that this family has to offer for all the world to see. I hope you will agree with me when you listen to Happy Mother's Day.
Initially it was a spiritual feeling that I was after, and instead now every mommy who has had a child or is going to have a child, it is for them, the Mom's of the world to show them how very important each and every life that was born is because of MOM. Every child, and we are all children, should give this song to his or her MOM.
Happy Mother's Day Is Everyday
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