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Why I Have Hope for Haiti
When people ask me, as they do all the time, "Is there any cause for hope in Haiti?" I answer yes.
It's more tempting to think that the situation is so hopeless that it can't any worse, especially right now. Last week, Hurricane Tomas brought three days of heavy storms, causing flash floods which washed away farmers' homes, animals, and crops throughout the island. The storm also left filthy standing water in towns, promising to spread cholera even more rapidly throughout the country.
Cholera has already killed more than 500 people and infected about 7,500, and will surely ravage many more, particularly as the best measures for prevention—using a sanitary toilet and washing one's hands often—are not possible for most of the 1.5 million living in internally displaced person's (IDP) camps. (One recent, extensive study of IDP camps found that 40 percent have no water and 30 percent have no access to toilets of any kind; a second showed that 44 percent primarily drink untreated water and 27 percent have no toilet.)
A Paradise Built in Hell
Rebecca Solnit: How do communities rise to the challenge of disaster?
Despite this grim state of affairs, I like to recall two definitions for "crisis" offered by historian Rebecca Solnit. The Greek origin of the word means "a point of culmination and separation, an instant when change one way or another is impending." And in written Chinese, "crisis" is a combination of the ideograms for "disaster" and "opportunity."[1]
The natural disaster of January 12 and the social and economic crises it has propelled mark a sharp rupture with Haiti's past, a fulcrum in an as yet uncertain future. Labor organizer Yannick Etienne told me, "This earthquake was one of the worst things that could have happened, but we have to turn it into something positive. We have to make sure that people are agents of change and right now this is a good opportunity, positive in a political sense. There are so many things that can be done to shake up the traditional way things have always worked here."
My hope comes from the power of progressive movements in Haiti, which have been active at many periods since the slave uprisings began in 1791 and which are again today, slowly, gathering force. Throughout Haitian history, united action from the grassroots has been the locus of all systemic change benefiting the majority. Just a few advances from modern political history (a period usually demarcated by the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986) are a popularly ratified constitution, universal elections (though their results have already been ruptured twice by coups), and the right to free speech and free assembly (not always protected, but infinitely more so than in past times). Sometimes progress has built slowly. Other moments have seen the camel's back phenomenon, in which one act has set off long periods of relative quiescence, such as when the killing by Tontons Macoutes of three youth in November 1985 ignited the spark of fury against the dictatorship; Duvalier survived a scant ten weeks of the resulting social upheaval.
A few examples of recent advances from the post-earthquake work of social change organizations include the following:
- A few environmental groups like Haïti Survie are using this moment not just to address the symptoms of ecological crisis like deforestation, but to challenge the root causes, including lack of income opportunities for the rural population which force them to over-exploit natural resources.
- Women's organizations, such as Women's House (Kay Fanm) and Solidarity among Haitian Women (SOFA), are using the visibility created by post-earthquake gender-based violence to draw attention to the ongoing need to reinforce women's rights.
- Friends of Health, the Haitian branch of Partners in Health, has developed an alliance with the Haitian Ministry of Health to remake the University Hospital, the largest public hospital in the country and a long-standing symbol of the deplorable state of health care available to the poor.
- The networks Society for Social Mobilization and Communication (SAKS) and Haitian Women's Community Radio Network (REFRAKA) are literally giving voice to earthquake survivors, providing radio transmitters to camps around the country.
- Several IDP camps have, under women's leadership, created a culture of community support and initiated programs—cultural, skills-building, income-generating, educational, and empowerment—which model what a nurturing society would look like.
A wholly new movement—though rooted in the long tradition of organizing—arose within days after the quake to claim a just reconstruction. The effectiveness of the women's sector, peasant farmer cooperatives, popular media, human rights groupings, youth and student associations, and other mass organizations is a critical variable in how equitable, rights-based, and democratic their country becomes. The grouping is not yet strong, both because coalitions were already fissured by political divisions when the earthquake hit, and because in the quake they lost members and organizing fundamentals (computers, internet possibilities, cell phones, offices, supplies, archives, etc.). This movement has in its short history already repeatedly stalled and restarted in new configurations. But given the urgency of the crisis, they are gaining steam. And two moves toward reconciliation between former adversaries—amongst peasant organizations and amongst some groups long divided by their positions around former President Aristide—give hope for greater unity and thus greater strength.
A declaration from this movement stated the priorities as "strengthening national production, valuing the riches of the country… [and] establish[ing] a reconstruction plan where the fundamental problems of the people take first priority. These include housing, environment, food, education, literacy, work, and health for all; a plan to wipe out exploitation, poverty, and social and economic inequality; and a plan to construct a society which is based on social justice." As usual in Haiti, the means to the solution is collective action, or what the statement calls building "a social force."[2]
The Right to Housing in Haiti:
With housing still inadequate more than 6 months after the earthquake, Haiti is witnessing the seeds of a people's movement to demand the human right to housing.
Today the united action is most visible in the form of street demonstrations, which reemerged in August. The demands of the protests span the political gamut, mostly concentrating on the right to permanent housing for those in camps. The movement is also engaged in information-sharing, consciousness-raising, and advocacy.
The potential for a real rebellion against the unacceptable status quo is strongest within the camps, where 1.5 million or so people—all of them desperate, many of them angry—have languished for 10 months. Small groups of activists have been moving through some camps, trying to raise political awareness there. Though the population's response is repressed by hunger, illness, and depression, increasing engagement by camp committees indicates the potential for mass mobilization.
Rising self-organizing from within the camps may be a fear among the Haitian and U.S. elite and others. A Wall Street Journal article hinted at the logic for the fear:
Inside the many tent cities… a rudimentary social order is beginning to emerge as committees agitate to secure food, water and supplies in high demand from international aid organizations. "We knew we wouldn't receive any assistance unless we formed a committee," says Mrs. Beaupin… She presides over an executive committee [which]… handle[s] everything from getting people to sweep outside their tents in the muddied terrain to ensuring that the sick and injured get treatment. "There is no government but us," says Mrs. Beaupin.
In the bleak landscape, it may be tempting to think that the Haitian people are losing their shot at the structural transformation alluded to in the disaster/opportunity dyad. But to believe that they have lost the battle discounts the evidence of their history. My own reading is that in politics, as in love, remarkably unpredictable shifts can and often do happen; any number of factors could flip the downward trajectory of the majority's well-being and power since January 12. The organized grassroots are working to ensure that they do.
- : In Haiti, sharing communities are proving more shock-proof in the wake of disaster than market-based economies.
- : Rebecca Solnit's latest book explores communities that rise to the challenge of disaster.
[1] Rebecca Solnit, Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Penguin Books, 2009), p. 142. The quote is by Samuel Prince, cited by Solnit.
[2] On January 12, the Earth Shook and Encountered a Country without Governance. Let's Raise Up the Dignity of the Country and the Haitian People," Port-au-Prince, February 13, 2010, signed by dozens of popular organizations.


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The vacation's over for Europe's politicians as they buy time - not for Greece, but for the rest of a continent scared of the economic and political consequences of a "Grexit". Also, US politics gets even more polarized ahead of the Republican convention, Ethiopia after Meles Zenawi and why Burgundy villagers are seeing red over a Chinese tycoon's big buy.
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Connie writes in (I edited her question a bit to protect privacy):
I recently married a business owner who had a net worth of around $10 million before we got married. He has lived in the same medium-sized town all of his life and has kept many of the same friends since his school years. Lately, though, he has noticed that a lot of them seem resentful of him. I asked a few of my friends about this and they said that the feeling in the community was that he was being wasteful and ungiving with his money. I don't feel that's the case at all. He gives substantially to our church and to several charities. It is hurting him to watch some of his friendships fall apart because of this greed. Do you have any thoughts about this?
I certainly do.
First of all, I think there is some inherent distrust of the rich in the mainstream of American society. People assume that if you have accumulated money, then you are either using it in some unworthy way or you're a miser, both of which are negative stereotypes. Many wealthy people solve this by either being extremely public with their giving (Andrew Carnegie, Bill Gates, people who donate to universities to get their name on the door), being extremely quiet about their wealth (John Madden, for example), or just not caring what other people think (every ostentatious display of wealth you can imagine).
A big part of that is that for many people, having $10 million is an enviable position to be in. There is, flat out, going to be a lot of envy of your position. People imagine all of the things they could do with that kind of wealth – both selfish and charitable – and they feel some sort of resentment towards others who don't do the same (even if, often, it's not what they would actually do with their wealth). "This person doesn't share my values," they think, or they feel simple jealousy.
Obviously, at some point, your husband has done something to not conceal his wealth. Maybe you live in a very high-end house. Maybe you drive expensive cars. Whatever it was, it made clear to your friends that you had significant money. Because of that, what you're now seeing is a mixture of envy and jealousy and opinions on what your husband is doing.
Yes, it's not nice. But at the same time, it's human nature. No one is immune to jealousy or envy. Your husband's success has made him a target for this.
Another thing to consider: has money changed your husband from the kind of person that he used to be? It could very well be that the wealth in his life has altered his values, his political beliefs, his ways of interacting with people, and so on. I'm not saying that they have, I'm merely saying that it's something to think about. A good source to look at here is old friends that have been there for the long haul – ask them what they think.
So what can he do from here? He has several options.
He can just ignore it and go on with his life. This falls into the "just not caring what other people think" category. He can continue to do exactly what he's doing now and decide that the friends who are falling into the jealousy trap aren't contributing positively to his life (because, honestly, if they're making him feel guilty about the things he's worked hard for in his life, they're not being good friends at the moment).
He can make a very public display of charitable giving. He could give a chunk of his wealth to some sort of civic charity, like sponsoring a building for the Boys and Girls Club or something like that, and do it in a public way. Alternately, he could just make an effort to just donate as he's donating now, but make it more public. This will smoothe some matters, but this still won't make everyone happy – there will be people jealous of the reception he gets for his giving, too.
He can temper his public displays of wealth a bit. Whatever he's done to make people think that he's rich, he can just pull back on a bit. If it's the car, get a less flashy car next time. If it's the house… well, there's probably not much he can do there. He can dress a bit more in time with how everyone else dresses if clothing is the problem. If you're wearing a large ring, you can save it for special occasions. (I don't know what triggered the response, so I'm guessing in the dark here.)
He can focus on actually shoring up the individual friendships that matter to him. Instead of fretting about this privately, he can instead focus on the friends that are actually closest to them. Have him sit down with them and talk through this stuff. It can sometimes be hard for males to do this kind of thing, but if it's deeply bothering him, he should do it.
He can re-evaluate what he values and how he treats others. This works best if you come to the conclusion that, yes, wealth has changed you in some not-so-positive ways. Introspection and a serious focus on improving yourself can go a long way.
If I were you, I'd probably use some combination of these tactics. I don't think he should bend over his life for these folks, but I think there's something to be said for not making ostentatious presentations of your wealth. Similarly, I think there's real value in always shoring up the relationships that deeply matter to you – and sometimes accepting that other relationships have moved on.
For those of you who don't have a lot of money, put yourself in this man's shoes for a moment. Yes, it would be wonderful to be financially secure for life, but what would you do if that security meant that many of the people you've had relationships with most of your life no longer were close to you? What price does wealth have? What's the best way forward? I don't think the answer is exactly the same for everyone, but spending a moment in someone else's shoes can make for some surprising insight.
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Stocks close out the best first quarter of this century so far Thursday, despite a long list of worries that doesn't seem to be able to hold the market down.
"Heading into the end of the quarter, people are anticipating money is going into equities and out of bonds, and people are trying to get there early," said Art Cashin, director of floor operations at UBS.
The Dow rose 71 points Wednesday to 12,350, just shy of the February high of 12,391. The S&P was up 8 at 1328, and is now up 5.6 percent for the quarter, its best first quarter since the more than 13 percent gain when the tech bubble was brewing in 1998. The Dow is up 6.7 percent for the quarter, its best first quarter since 1999.
"I called this the Scarlet O'Hara market. 'I'll worry about that tomorrow,'" said Cashin, noting the market is shrugging off Libya, unrest in Syria, the sovereign debt situation in Europe and the Japanese nuclear disaster.
"Instead of a flight-to-safety in the dollar, there's now a flight-to-safety in the Dow. They don't want to be in the dollar because the Fed has cheapened the dollar so they say, 'let's buy the companies that are benefiting from the cheapening dollar,'" he said.
Traders are looking ahead to the March jobs report Friday, so they are keeping a close watch on Thursday's 8:30 a.m. weekly jobless claims. Chicago purchasing managers are released at 9:45 a.m. and factory orders are released at 10 a.m. The grains market is focused on the USDA's crop planting estimates, released ahead of the market open.
In Europe, the results of Irish bank stress tests will be released but markets are already factoring in another capital injection.
Berkshire Hathaway will also be a focus after thesudden resignation of David Sokol, believed to be the heir apparent to Warren Buffet. GNC Holdings is expected to price its IPO Thursday, the latest in a string of high profile ipos this week.
Fed Speak
More Fed speak is scheduled Thursday, after a chorus of Fed speakers in the last couple of days came out on both sides of the Fed's easy money policies. Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker speaks at the Richmond Fed's fourth annual credit markets symposium at 10:30 a.m. and later meets press. Fed Gov. Daniel Tarullo speaks at the same event in Charlotte at noon.
Big on the Fed's calendar Thursday is the release of documents related to the use of the bank borrowing window during the financial crisis. The Fed has never disclosed this type of information before and was prodded to do so by the courts after a case brought by media.
"I think it's history, so I don't think it's going to make a difference (for future window borrowing). There may be a surprise or two. That's going to be interesting from a historical perspective," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's economy.com.
Of more interest to markets has been the comments from Fed officials, who are publicly debating the merits of continuing the Fed's quantitative easing program. St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, an outspoken critic of QE, said Wednesday that the Fed may need to end its extraordinary easing before the crisis in Japan and high oil prices are resolved. Earlier in the week, he said it could end $100 billion short of the intended purchase of $600 billion in Treasury securities.
Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig Wednesday said the Fed needs to act now and blamed its easy policies for the run up in gasoline and food prices.
The Fed also Wednesday rejected AIG's offer to buy the mortgage-related assets in its Maiden Lane II portfolio and said it would sell the assets individually and in blocks in a competitive process.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner meets with global bankers at a seminar in China, to discuss ideas for revamping the global monetary system ahead of the G-20 annual meeting in France in late May.
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Paris – November 5, 2012 – Withings, innovators of Internet connected devices, announces the US availability of its next generation Internet-connected bathroom scale, Wireless Scale WS-30. The WS-30 scale combines Bluetooth Smart technology and WiFi connectivity to offer a seamless and computer-free experience from the install stage to everyday use. This gem of simplicity features the latest Withings technology to provide users with an ultra-intuitive experience, including Withings Position Control™ technology, which provides on-screen visuals to help properly position a user's body on the scale for high-accuracy weighing.
By just stepping on the scale, the Wireless Scale gives users their weight and body mass index (BMI) on a large backlit display. Then, after each weigh-in, the scale uses its built-in connectivity to automatically transmit the data to the user's Withings Health Companion App and personal Withings webpage. A user can also decide where else to send their information, like their physician, Twitter feed, and over 60 Withings compatible applications including Lose It!, Runkeeper, MyFirnessPal, Daily Burn, Zeo, and Body Media.
With its enhanced connectivity, including Bluetooth and WiFi, the new Withings Wireless Scale adapts to your lifestyle and connects automatically, whether you keep it at home or take it with you on holiday – you don't even require a computer to set up the scale, just a Smartphone or tablet with Bluetooth.
Cédric Hutchings, Co-Founder of Withings says: "With Wireless Scale, we have simplified even further the way people automatically assess how fit they are. Now anyone can enjoy the benefits of self-measurement in a really simple way without worrying about connectivity."
The WS-30 is perfect for the whole family since it can instantly recognize eight individual users. Each user can easily create a custom profile with privacy & sharing settings. Users can decide to share weight readings with other users or keep them private so no one else can see. Sharing results with a physician or coach and publishing results to Facebook, Twitter or other compatible applications is made simple within the Withing set up.
In addition to partnering with over 60 applications, Withings has created the free Withings Health Companion App. This free application is designed to be the ultimate health and wellness application that enables users to store, access and manage their weight, physical activity (Body Media), heart and sleep data (Zeo) on a single user-friendly dashboard. This application also comes rich with features such as goal setting, coaching services, and generating of weight graphs.
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Keynote Mr Harish Porwal - VP, TIP CORE UI & Modeling Tools, SAP Labs
- Madhu Samuel K, Freelance Eclipse Trainer at EclipseBible.com - EMF - An MDSD Approach!
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc shares hit a record on Tuesday after it reported better-than-expected quarterly profit, fueled by the growth of higher-margin businesses during the fiercely competitive holiday quarter.
The world's largest Internet retailer said that its cloud computing services, video content sales and its aggressive expansion in e-books helped increase profitability.
In addition, a growing network of warehouses or fulfillment centers closer to customers held down shipping costs as it vied with Wal-Mart Stores Inc and other major retailers for consumer dollars over the holidays.
Chief Executive Jeff Bezos highlighted the Kindle's e-book business, calling it a multi-billion dollar category that grew about 70 percent in 2012. Its traditional physical book business rose about five percent in the same period, he noted.
"We're now seeing the transition we've been expecting," Bezos said in the company's results statement.
Profits have shrunk in recent years as the company invested for longer-term growth, building massive fulfillment centers, developing a Kindle Fire tablet hardware and digital content business in competition with Apple Inc, and expanding into Internet-based cloud services.
The fourth-quarter profit results suggested that Amazon may be able to generate attractive returns from such spending, analysts said.
"The fourth-quarter operating income was up more than expected," said R.J. Hottovy, an equity analyst at Morningstar. "This supports the bull case that Amazon can monetize its growth over the longer term."
The Seattle-based company said operating income jumped 56 percent to $405 million in the fourth quarter, compared with $260 million in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Amazon's stock climbed 9 percent to $284 in after-hours trading and touched $288 earlier in the session. It hit a record of $284.72 in regular trading on January 25.
The company also said fourth-quarter revenue rose 22 percent to $21.27 billion as it grabbed a big share of online spending during the holidays. But it was the profit that initially caught Wall Street's eye.
"It was a much better-than-expected gross margin, a strong forward indicator to drive margin expansion. What is really important is gross profit dollars and that line is stronger," said Ken Sena at Evercore Partners.
The gross profit margins were 24 percent in the fourth quarter, compared with Wall Street expectations of about 22 percent.
"Incredibly strong margins," said Jordan Rohan, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus. Amazon generated the highest quarterly gross margin in its North America business in more than three years, he noted.
Amazon mainly operates as a retailer, buying physical products at wholesale prices, storing them and then selling at a slight mark-up to consumers online.
But the company has expanded into other businesses that are potentially more profitable, including cloud computing, digital content and acting as an online marketplace for other merchants.
These newer businesses are growing faster than the company's original retail operations, boosting profitability.
The improved profitability was partly driven by the growth of Amazon's online marketplace for third-party merchants, known as 3P.
This business accounted for 39 percent of total unit sales in the fourth quarter, up from 36 percent a year earlier. Total unit sales rose 32 percent in the holiday quarter, while 3P unit sales climbed more than 40 percent, compared with the fourth quarter of 2011, according to Amazon Chief Financial Officer Tom Szkutak.
When Amazon sells products itself, it reports the total value of the sale as revenue. The cost of that product is then subtracted for a gross profit margin. When a third-party merchant sells products on Amazon's marketplace, the company gets a cut of that sale. That commission is reported as revenue, and most of it falls straight to its bottom line as profit.
"That shift means lower revenue numbers but much higher profit margins," said Rohan.
Amazon's cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services, or AWS, is also thought to be higher margin than the company's original retail business.
Amazon also runs an online advertising business that is also considered a lot more profitable.
These businesses are in the company's North America Other category, which generated fourth-quarter revenue of $769 million, up 68 percent from a year earlier.
"AWS is growing very fast and that is certainly impacting our operating profit," said CFO Szkutak.
The financial chief also highlighted Amazon's newer digital content businesses, particularly its video streaming offering.
Amazon has invested heavily in TV shows and movies to stream over the Internet. It has partly packaged this as a free service to consumers who have subscribed to its Prime two-day shipping service. But customers can also pay to stream other video, often newer movies.
"The percentage of Prime customers who were watching free content through Prime instant video has gone up dramatically year-over-year," Szkutak said during a conference call with analysts. "We've also increased Prime membership dramatically year-over-year. They are also purchasing paid content."
One of Amazon's biggest investments in recent years has been focused on building lots of fulfillment centers closer to shoppers.
It costs a lot to set up these giant warehouses, but over the long term, Amazon hopes they will help the company reduce its shipping costs.
That strategy shows signs of success in the fourth quarter. Net shipping costs were 4.5 percent of sales in the period, down from 5.4 percent a year early, the company reported.
"Over the past few years, we have expanded our fulfillment network to the point where we are closer to customers and you're seeing that reflected in our transportation costs," Szkutak CFO said.
Reporting By Alistair Barr and Alexei Oreskovic in San Francisco; Editing by Bernard Orr


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Mr. Gerald McLoughlin
Gerald McLoughlin is a retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer with extensive service in Sub-Saharan Africa, most notably Cameroon, Mozambique, and Nigeria. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Hunter College (CUNY), and Southern Connecticut State College.
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The existence of Nigeria as a unified state is in jeopardy. To counter this, the United States should better support Nigeria through some practical steps and thereby significantly advance both countries' interests.


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"Those Old Memories" will include stories, photographs, genealogy, scrapbooking, recipes, and interesting history of my family. Some family surnames: Troyer, Gardner, Moore, Hopkins, Allen, Amsberry, McPherson, Wyatt, Godfrey, Lee, Henley, Cutbirth, Tudor, Gustafsson, Larson, Hellgren, Farley, Harshbarger, Harvey, McComsey, Johnston, Hyndman, and Buchanan.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
This unusual story came together for me over a period of forty years. Little bits of information began to fall in place over time to form this Wyoming historical tale.
I spent most of my high school and college years working for one or both of my Grandfathers after school and on weekends. My Grandpa, Dueward "Wick" Hopkins, owned a road construction company which worked out of Wheatland, Wyoming and built roads throughout the entire state. As we drove around on the job site, we often talked about Wyoming and times past. In the 1960s, we were working south of Wheatland near Slater, Wyoming on I-25 construction and passed over a creek named "RICHEAU". I mis-pronounced the name and Grandpa told me it was pronounced "Reshaw" and was named after John Richeau, a Frenchman who had built the first bridge across the North Platte River in central Wyoming on the old Oregon Trail.
My other Grandpa was Earl Harvey. His farm was located near Slater, Wyoming and in the general vicinity of this historical event. As mentioned, I sometimes worked for my Grandpa or his neighbor doing farming and haying. Grandpa would often stop by to check on my work and we would often take a break and visit. Grandpa Harvey was an avid arrowhead hunter when he was not farming during the off season of the year. On one visit he told me that years before while hunting arrowheads, he had come across a pile of very old spent cartridges near the field where I was working that day. He noted that the cartridges were odd as compared to any others he had ever seen. They had no primers in their bases like modern ammunition does and were very large in size. Only a tiny dent was visible in the center of the base of the shell casing. Grandpa looked them over but did not pick them up to bring along as he was hunting for arrowheads that day. Little did he or I know at the time he was telling me the story, but he had probably stood on the site of an early historical event in Wyoming history.
Years later in the early 1990's, I found an old rifle cartridge near Fort Robinson, Crawford, Nebraska. This had been the site of a cavalry fort and an early Indian Agency. The shell looked like the same type that Grandpa Harvey had talked about years earlier. My friend, Don Sheldon, is an avid cartridge collector and he identified the casing as a benet', inside primed cartridge which dated from about 1860 and was used up until about 1880. The common caliber was 45-70 and happened to be the same ammunition as had been used by General George Custer at the Little Big Horn.
Late in the 1990's, I purchased a rare book entitled "FOOTPRINTS ON THE FRONTIER", written by Virginia Cole Trenholm. There were only 1,000 of these books printed and it is a factual history of south east Wyoming. It just happened that the author's brother was good friend to my Grandfather, "Wick" Hopkins, and this book had been a favorite read for my other Grandpa, Earl Harvey. As I read the book, there was an account of an Indian skirmish that took place along the "Richeau" Creek in Wyoming.
The book tells a story of the 1870's about three men who resided on the M Bar Ranch in what is now known as the Slater Flats area and how they were attacked by Indians. The men had gone out to collect their livestock. The horses were herded into the corral and they had gone back out after the cattle which were further out on the range. As they were riding along the breaks of Richeau Creek, they were attacked by Indians who wanted their horses. Both groups fired repeated volleys of bullets at one another. The horses were killed and both men were wounded. The men did manage to get back to the ranch figuring the Indians were headed there for the livestock. There were three women and a boy at the ranch that evening along with a soldier. As they all sat at the dinner table that evening, the boy looked out the window and saw the Indians driving off the last of the horses. They figured the Indians got what they had wanted and probably would not lay siege to the cabin with one soldier there and more likely to come.
I came to realize that the pile of old cartridges that Grandpa Earl had found many years before along the creek were very likely laying in the exact spot where the skirmish with the Indians had occurred. The time frame, cartridge type, and location were all good clues. After over 40 years, the odd pieces of this story were all coming together. My Grandpa, Earl Harvey, passed away in 1974 but I have since wondered if he had realized, while reading his favorite Trenholm book, that he had probably stumbled across the scene of the skirmish years prior while hunting arrowheads along "Richeau Creek"? It was simply a compilation of people, timing, bits of history, and Grandpa's story that brought all these facts forward and led me to believe he had stood on historical ground.
As for me, I never cared for history when I was young and in school but Grandpa's little mysterious find set me on a path toward a great appreciation for my history. It was a start down the road to discover my past and learn more about the history of where I was born and grew up. Studying Wyoming and Nebraska early settlement, old firearms, family genealogy, and WWII history have all become of great interest to me over a lifetime, mostly because both of my Grandfathers' cared enough to include me in the telling of Wyoming Tales!
note: this blog post written by Geoffrey Hopkins, husband of the owner of "THOSE OLD MEMORIES" and the story of the Indian skirmish was abridged from a written account in the book "FOOTPRINTS ON THE FRONTIER" by Virginia Cole Trenholm.
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Around this time last year, I did an odds and ends playlist of just random music I was listening to, and this year you get the same. It seems this time early in the year, there usually isn't a ton of releases and because of this, I try to use this time of year to explore some older artists I haven't had a chance to. So without further ado, here are five songs that have really struck me this past month.
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Barca established themselves as the leading side on the planet during a stunning run of success that saw them win 14 trophies in four years under Pep Guardiola.
They also look poised to reclaim the Primera Division title this season in Tito Vilanova's first campaign in charge, but while the club may be top dogs in Spain, they no longer appear to be the dominant force in Europe after being humiliated by the Bavarians.
However, although Xavi concedes Bayern were a class apart in sealing their final spot with a 7-0 aggregate win, the Spain international still sees a bright future for Barcelona.
"I think so, yes. There's no need to be drastic. The team has a future, we've competed very well up until now. I'm always optimistic and this team has the desire," he told Canal Plus.
"We've not been able to get through the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey and Champions League (but) I think we have the team to carry on.
"On Sunday we have another competition."
Barca could replace Real Madrid as Spanish champions this weekend and their players are now focussing on that match in a bid to banish their European misery.
Midfielder Cesc Fabregas said: "The players are hurt, we have to react and win La Liga as soon as possible.
"We went up against a very strong Bayern, their counters with (Franck) Ribery and (Arjen) Robben were very hard to stop. But we are Barca, we don't make excuses."
Defender Dani Alves added on his club's website: "We have to thank the fans for their support and promise them that we will return
"The fans understand football and they know that when you get knocked down you get up and you keep on fighting.
"We still have that hunger to keep on winning and the fact that we were eliminated in the semi-finals proves that. We don't make excuses. If your opponent is better than you, you get eliminated."
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No surprise: Hollywood's Oscar nominations reveal heavy dose of politics
Perhaps it is no surprise, given that 2012 was a US election year, but this year's Oscars crop includes a heavy dose of politics -- which has arguably influenced Hollywood's top awards race.
From gun control advocates blasting blood-spattered "Django Unchained," to rows over CIA torture that were triggered by "Zero Dark Thirty," this year's nominees have, whether coincidentally or not, fueled topical political debates.
The most obviously political film vying for Academy Award glory on Sunday, Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," even won a surprise backing from none other than former president Bill Clinton, on stage at the Golden Globes last month.
That looked eerily like the kind of candidate endorsement America spent last year watching, as Barack Obama and Mitt Romney vied for the White House, except that it was for a movie, in this case by Democrat-supporting Spielberg.
"A tough fight to push a bill through a bitterly divided House of Representatives -- winning it required the president to make a lot of unsavory deals... I wouldn't know anything about that," Clinton quipped at the Globes.
He was joking about the film's plot, in which the 16th US president schemes to ensure Congress backs the 13th Amendment to ban slavery. But he could easily have been referring to any Washington crisis including the current budget one.
"Lincoln" has the most nominations going into the 85th Academy Awards, but even Clinton's backing may not be enough to secure it top honors, in one of the most unpredictable Oscars contests in recent memory.
Political thriller "Argo," which has won virtually every major pre-Oscars award, tells a true story from the sidelines of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, a US diplomatic disaster which effectively sealed president Jimmy Carter's fate.
Reminding US voters of that debacle overall possibly didn't help Democrats too much, although the movie's focus on an audacious CIA operation to free six hostages leaves Carter looking surprisingly good.
One Oscar-nominated film which definitely sheds a good light on a Democratic president -- Obama -- is Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden manhunt movie "Zero Dark Thirty."
Indeed, the risk of the film being seen as propaganda -- it climaxes with the deadly raid on the Al Qaeda chief's Pakistan hideout, a game-changing Obama triumph -- was such that it was only released after the November 6 election.
But the bigger political row it triggered was over its depiction of CIA "enhanced interrogation" techniques, widely seen as torture, and specifically how much role they played in tracking bin Laden to his Abbottabad compound.
The CIA's acting head and a number of top lawmakers lambasted the film for implying that torture helped turn the tide in the hunt for bin Laden -- a charge Oscar-winning Bigelow repeatedly rebuffed.
"I think Osama bin Laden was found due to ingenious detective work. Torture was, however, as we all know, employed in the early years of the hunt. That doesn't mean it was the key to finding Bin Laden," she said.
But the torture row could well have clouded the movie's Oscars chances, as Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters may have balked at casting their ballots for such a politically-loaded film.
But perhaps the most obvious victim of political controversy, in awards terms, has been Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained."
The film is about a black slave freed by a white bounty-hunter in pre-Civil War America, and features Tarantino's trademark over-the-top violence as the pair kill for rewards and revenge in nearly three hours of blood-soaked chaos.
Days before its release, the massacre of 20 small children occurred in Newtown, Connecticut -- and America went into paroxysms of hand-wringing about gun violence, just as "Django" was gearing up for its big entrance.
A red-carpet premiere was called off, and a range of toys of the film's key characters was withdrawn and banned from eBay as "offensive."
Tarantino, long used to defending violence in his films, was pushed even more in media interviews, losing his temper in at least one encounter with a British TV channel.
"Yeah, I'm really annoyed," he told National Public Radio (NPR) in the US, saying his film had nothing to do with the deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
"I think it's disrespectful to their memory. The issue is gun control and mental health," he said.
But for all his arguments, it was never going to help his film's awards chances.
The movie won Golden Globes for best supporting actor for Christoph Waltz and best screenplay for a visibly startled Tarantino ("This is a damn surprise!") but has otherwise failed to pick up any big prizes this season.
It is nominated in five Oscars categories, including best picture -- but even Tarantino admits it has little hope of the top honor.
"I don't think we're going to win best film," he told the BBC after the nominations were announced last month. "But the recognition, being invited to the party, is a lot of fun."


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Bill Gates held an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit today. It was really good, so you should read the whole thing here.
One of our favorite moments was when Gates showed off the 80-inch Perceptive Pixel Windows 8 tablet that he uses as his primary computer. (He also just bought a new Surface Pro tablet).
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'3 Amigos' challenge McConnell
Mitch McConnell wanted Republican senators to communicate a consistent and clear message and unite behind a single plan to overhaul the sequester spending cuts.
Then came the "Three Amigos."
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Three Republican senators — John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire — publicly criticized the emerging GOP proposal and began pushing a competing plan. They undercut McConnell's message and led to a round of news stories highlighting party divisions ahead of the high-stakes confrontation with the White House.
This wasn't the first time the powerful bloc of senators flexed their muscles.
( PHOTOS: What they're saying about sequestration)
They effectively had a final say on when Chuck Hagel would be confirmed as defense secretary, first voting to block the nomination and then after a weeklong recess, changing course to break the filibuster. And they are poised to play another major role when it comes time to confirm John Brennan as the next CIA director; they are demanding more White House answers about the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, before letting Brennan escape without a fight.
"I'm not worried about the Republican Party," Graham said in an interview Wednesday. "I'm not worried about the Democratic Party. I'm not worried about the Republican leadership. I'm worried about those in uniform."
The issues that bind the three hawkish senators together are without a doubt related to national security. But McCain and Graham also are now central to efforts in Congress to craft a comprehensive immigration bill, a sweeping and politically risky proposal that McConnell and other Republican leaders are watching cautiously.
( Also on POLITICO: Bloomberg: 'Spare me' sequester fear-mongering)
McCain and Graham also are seen as two of the most likely GOP senators to break from their party to cut a major deficit deal that would include new revenues, a main reason Obama invited just the two of them for a private White House meeting Tuesday.
With House Republicans taking a back seat to the Senate and the calculating McConnell treading cautiously over a bevy of hot-button issues, the trio — dubbed by insiders as the "Three Amigos" — are asserting themselves in ways that give them huge influence to shape, derail or push through much of Obama's second-term agenda.
Top Republican senators are watching them closely.
"We don't always do what they say," said Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), a close adviser to McConnell. "But we listen to them."
( Also on POLITICO: Senate GOP ponders ceding power)
That hasn't been more clear than this week. McConnell went into Tuesday's party lunch with a finely tuned message that was tested over the weekend in the GOP's weekly address: If the president complains about having his hands tied, forcing him to make specific cuts certain to devastate the economy, then give him the flexibility and discretion to reallocate the cuts in different ways. And a McConnell ally and conservative stalwart, Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, began putting that idea on paper along with Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.).
But the Amigos scoffed at the idea, with Ayotte calling it a "cop-out," and McCain saying it would effectively render the legislative branch useless. Graham worried that the idea would still give Obama too much power to cut the Pentagon, which the three senators are vowing to protect.
Democrats said the trio's opposition to the plan gave them more room to negotiate, since they knew that the opposition to the emerging proposal was bipartisan. Now, they said, Senate Democratic leaders could release vulnerable Democratic senators who may want to vote for the GOP plan since it appeared to lack sufficient support to even clear a simple majority of 51 senators.
"Everybody around here is a free agent," Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) said when asked about the GOP trio's opposition. "So I would say there isn't a single message."
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Mike Holmgren's tenure with the Browns doesn't officially come to an end until the year is out, so he was in Dallas with the team on Sunday.
After a week filled with talk about Holmgren's interest in coaching the Cowboys and Jerry Jones' appreciation of Holmgren's reported interest in the team, Holmgren's presence obviously drew some attention. Of particular interest was whether Holmgren's conversation with the Cowboys owner before the game had any relationship to the chatter. After the game, Jones said that it wasn't anything other than two guys who have known each other a long time chewing the fat.
"Well, we had the visit that we always have when he comes, when I come to where he is. We're good friends. We served for about seven or eight years on the Competition Committee together," Jones said, via the Dallas Morning News. "We visited about all the things that we normal visit about. He's a really, apart from being an outstanding coach, he's a heck of a man. He's got a lot of character and I can't tell you how much I respect him. When you're close like that and spend a lot of time with somebody, familiarity can breed contempt. It's just the opposite with him. Every time I've been around him he's gone up."
Jones' flattering words about Holmgren won't do much to quell attempts to link Holmgren to the Cowboys coaching job. That talk is going to exist whether Holmgren and Jones go on a road trip to Graceland or never speak to one another, though. The only way discussions about a new coach are going to fade away is if Jason Garrett is able to steer the Cowboys into the playoffs over the final six weeks of the season.
Not getting there may not guarantee him a spot on the unemployment line, but it will guarantee that speculation about a coaching change will, like Jones' feelings for Holmgren, keep going up.


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OAKLAND — Two suspected gang members have been charged with murder in the shooting death of an 8-year-old girl killed while answering the front door during a sleepover in July, authorities said Tuesday.
Authorities said suspected gunman Darnell Williams, 22, and Joe Carroll, 27, who apparently planned the July 17 attack that left Alaysha Carradine dead, intended to seek revenge for the killing of Carroll's cousin, 26-year-old Jermaine Davis, in Berkeley earlier that day.
Williams and Carroll were each charged with murder, three counts of attempted murder and shooting at an inhabited dwelling. Prosecutors will decide whether to seek the death penalty against Williams, who was embarking on a brutal crime spree when he killed the girl, investigators said.
Williams is also accused of killing a man who he attempted to rob during a dice game in Berkeley in September, authorities said.
"Some crimes rock the agency and the community; they affect us forever. This is one," said Oakland police Assistant Chief Paul Figueroa. "Killing an 8-year-old is as despicable as it gets."
Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley said the suspects went to the Wilson Avenue apartment intent on killing someone they believed was responsible for Davis' killing and "did not care" who was inside when they opened fire.
Court documents show the suspects knew that their intended target's children and their mother lived in the Dimond District apartment. Carradine was staying at her friend's house.
Williams, after orchestrating the killing with Carroll, rang the doorbell at 11:18 p.m.; as soon as Alaysha's friend, a 7-year-old girl, opened the door, he started shooting, O'Malley said. The bullets pierced the apartment's metal gate and hit four of the five people inside. Alaysha was killed and her friend, a 4-year-old boy and their 64-year-old grandmother were wounded.
Carroll was arrested Sept. 27 in Houston, and Williams was arrested Sept. 8 by Berkeley police.
Williams and Laquana Nuno are also charged with the Sept. 8 killing of Anthony Medearis in the 1400 block of Eighth Street in West Berkeley. Williams was shooting dice with Medearis and others when he decided to rob Medearis, according to court papers.
Williams shot Medearis, and in the process, a bullet fragment struck Williams' 7-year-old nephew in the face, documents show. Nuno agreed to be a getaway driver for Williams, and fled police after Williams jumped out of her car, authorities said.
Williams was arrested later that night, found hiding in a shed, according to police.
Carroll and three other suspected gang members — Joseph Connors, Emando Roos and Travon Wilson — were also charged with conspiring to murder two men who Carroll believed had disrespected him and his brother, authorities said. Information developed during the course of the investigation into Alaysha's death allowed police to prevent the killing, including when some of the men were stalking the targets at an unnamed Oakland nightclub, authorities said.
Nuno, Connors, Roos and Wilson were arrested Saturday after police served search warrants in Berkeley, Oakland and Hayward.
Speaking at a news conference announcing the arrests, O'Malley said the killing of Alaysha "shocked all of us" and showed the 'disregard for human life" that gang members have.
She singled out Oakland police homicide investigator Officer Rob Rosin, who headed the case, for bringing it to a successful conclusion.
Mayor Jean Quan said Alaysha's killing "really broke my heart" and said she hopes the arrests "will send a signal" that violent crime will not be tolerated.
Alaysha, whose family called her "Ladybug," would have started third grade at Fruitvale Elementary School in August. Her death was Oakland's 54th homicide this year, and she is one of the youngest Oakland homicide victims this year.
Less than three weeks after Alaysha's death, 16-month-old Drew Jackson was shot and killed, along with his 20-year-old father, as the two slept next to each other at an aunt's East Oakland home.


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I like to write on planes. Well, not on planes of course, rather: when I'm on flights. Being forced not to be able to do anything but have your hand luggage with you, nothing else to do but sit and stare out the window, takes me into a contemplative mood almost immediately. It's always been a good way to think about things that need a goodthinking about. Helps me to focus, to have an uninterrupted chain of thought, and synthesize what a project is about. Now that I think about it, every one of my projects has had this airplane treatment so to speak, being forced offline, no-one to talk to, no internet, only a pen and notebook nearby. And hopefully a window seat.
I've been trying to think Dislocate through for years now. It seems like the project is taking extraordinarily long to settle in my head, to define itself for me, and thus, for me to define it. Maybe because it's one of the most overtly inner projects that I'm engaged in, where I try to talk about very personal things like feeling lost, uprooted, looking for a home, looking for meaning, a place. Not that this undertone isn't present in projects like Yakuza and Heavens, but that's exactly the difference: it's an undertone, underneath a recognizable and real world subject. In Dislocate it becomes the main thing, almost without a recognizable real world counterpart.
The question racking my brain is, do I need to create this real world counterbalance for this project? Can I have a project that is completely about the meaning of photographs rather than the actual scene depicted? I've always felt that a good story needs the outer and the inner part to be able to stand by themselves, and work together. Otherwise it seems so one-dimensional, no? Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I should just try. Or maybe I'm just overthinking. Overthinking is a danger too, I guess :-)
A project usually seems to start out very fuzzy, a vague feeling of sorts, and takes a long time to crystallize into something real, something understandable for the viewer and myself. It was with Yakuza that I first came to realize that the long term aspect that creeps into every project that I'm involved in, is not only a reflection of the rhythm of my life, but also because of my need for some deeper explanation to creep in. That counterbalance. My need to find that undertone. And in my case, it seems I'm not able to find that deeper meaning without letting things grow on me for an extended period of time, think hard and talk about it to friends a lot. Yes, I'm a little slow that way.
What if Dislocate were the other side of the spectrum: I found the undertone, that deeper meaning, but haven't found the real world counterpart yet. Geez, am I even still making sense here?
Then yesterday I realized the blatantly obvious thing: Dislocate simply hasn't had the airplane treatment yet.
Now I'm on a plane, ready to leave for my brother Malik in Tokyo to photograph more of Dislocate. It seems now's a time as good as ever... Signing off the internet, signing on the notebook. Wish me luck, safe travels... and talk soon.
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Summer is officially here and you have a few months before the next school year begins. If you're like most moms, the next several weeks will likely include entertaining your children (and their friends), possibly entertaining your neighbors, and in the midst of that, finding a few moments for yourself.
So what's a busy mom to do when she's staring at two full months of fun and entertainment, and desperately hoping to keep her sanity intact? Try these five ideas from our summer survival guide:
- Gamify cleaning. One thing about summer is, clutter multiplies. Create fun games that encourage your children to pick up the mess so you don't have to do it alone. One idea is to appoint someone to be the "queen" (or king) each day. That child is responsible for doling out the cleaning/de-cluttering duties for that day. Your children can rotate, taking turns as "cleaning royalty," and you can fill a treasure chest full of inexpensive items and snacks that they can raid once their cleaning duties are finished.
- Be a tourist in your hometown. There are likely interesting places you've never visited that are just across town or up the road a ways. People tend not to be tourists in the place where they live. Summer is the perfect opportunity to check out some cool local spots that have flown under your radar.
- Have a dance party. Seriously. Move the furniture, crank up the tunes, and dance with your kids. At least once a week. This is a great time for a little family bonding, good exercise, stress relief, laughter and good old fun.
- Try to stay on a schedule. Summer tends to be more laid back and less routine, which can be a welcome break from a busy school year. But lack of a schedule can make your days feel less productive. Work with your kids to create a summer schedule that allows for flexibility but still helps you (and them) get necessary tasks done. You can build in things like a weekly trip to the library, family game night, swim time and, of course, a dance party.
- Find alone time. With your kids home all day now, you'll likely feel the need for an occasional break. This might mean scheduling a few "moms' night outs" or lunch dates with other (gasp) grownups. You might prefer getting up a half hour early in order to start the day quietly before your kids demand breakfast. Maybe even get in some relaxing yoga!
Summer is a fun but sometimes demanding time of year for moms. Any other advice you have to surviving these next few months?
Before you shop: Tap into the pool of high school students who are out for the summer and looking for a way to make a few bucks. They can be great babysitters who can give you a little more time alone, which will help you survive the summer.


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I was working with my Sportsmans Guide tarp today. Didn't think this belonged in the DIY section since no special skills are needed. Was stuffing the tarp back into the provided bag (too much trouble to fold it) and had an idea which I'm sure someone has thought of but I had not seen posted here. Took a hot needle and made a small hole in the bottom end of the bag and routed one of the upper cords through. Instant Blackbishop sack for the SG tarp. Got the idea from Just Jeff's web page.


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Like the season, Illinois football recruiting turning in the right direction.
Pat Flavin will tell you a team he didn't follow while growing up in the Chicago suburbs.
"I hated Illinois,'' said the Lisle Benet senior offensive tackle. "They were terrible. They were 1-10 every year.''
Then Flavin watched as the Illini climbed up with coach Ron Zook to the Rose Bowl before sliding back down the pecking order. But after changes in the coaching staff last winter, a winning season and a bowl victory, Flavin felt liked he picked a winner.
"In my mind, Illinois football has turned the page and can compete for the Big Ten championship with the coaching staff they have in place,'' said Flavin, who is expected to be among the 28 prep seniors to sign letters of intent Wednesday. The class includes Canton offensive lineman Hunter Wells, and Metamora senior placekicker Brennen VanMieghem will join the program as a preferred walk-on with the chance of earning a scholarship later.
After rebounding for the second winning record in six seasons under Zook and the program's first bowl victory in 11 years, Illini recruiting also took a step in the right direction, said CBS sports recruiting analyst Tom Lemming.
The Illini are "probably in the middle of the pack in the Big Ten,'' Lemming said.
The coaching overhaul worked on the field last season, and it also worked on the recruiting trail, Lemming said."Zook is an outstanding recruiter, and he hit a home run with this staff,'' Lemming said.
Zook felt last year's class, rated one of the lowest in the Big Ten, had more impact players than analysts expected. With his coaching staff apparently set for next season, Zook spent more time this season on recruiting rather than hiring staff. A 7-6 record helped. The 38-14 win over Baylor in the Texas Bowl also doesn't hurt.
"It might have solidified some guys on the fence,'' Zook said. "Everyone understands where this program is going now. We've got the direction, the attitude and the things in place to get where we want to get.''
Quarterback Reilly O'Toole passed for 3,187 yards and 42 touchdowns last season to lead Wheaton-Warrenville South to a second straight Class 7A state championship. Lemming rated him as a top 100 recruit nationally. Illinois did good work in landing a quality quarterback, Leeming said, with redshirt freshman Nathan Scheelhaase starting every game last season.
"They want to get some different packages for me,'' O'Toole said. "I'm not much of a runner.''
Offensive coordinator Paul Petrino has experience with more of a pro-style attack, and O'Toole would give Illinois a passer to go with the option running of Scheelhaase.
Flavin chose the Illini over UCLA, California and Oregon, he said. Michigan made a late recruiting pitch after a change in coaching staff.
The Illini also grabbed commitments from two players rated as sleepers because of injury. Dondi Kirby of Monroeville (Pa.) Gateway is a four-star prospect at safety or outside linebacker after sitting as a senior because of a knee injury. Kirby could also be a conduit to a loaded western Pennsylvania region next fall. Iowa, Southern Cal, Maryland and Florida were also Kirby's finalists.
Running back Donovonn Young broke his foot in the first game of his junior season but finally chose Illinois after rushing for 2,332 yards and 35 touchdowns this season for Katy, a Houston suburb just miles down the road from the Illini bowl site.
"A lot of sleepers at running back come out of Texas,'' said Lemming. "Maybe lightning strikes for Illinois.''
With a new staff in place for the last year, Illinois also hit new areas. The Illini worked Texas harder. With defensive coordinator Vic Koenning's experience in Memphis, the Illini have a better handle on that territory. Koenning and West help in the Southeast and the Carolinas after working at Clemson for years.
CBS Sports ranked Illinois No. 13 overall and No. 2 in the Big Ten Saturday, in part because Lemming put O'Toole at No. 99 overall. But had Illinois No. 41 overall and No. 8 in the Big Ten. Recruiting isn't an exact science, but the numbers seemed to turn in the Illini's favor. Yet plenty of movement happens in the final weekend.
The Illini may sign the maximum of 28 allowed by the Big Ten, but the number must be trimmed to 25 by August. Attrition by academics usually creates some changes in the class. Another option is gray shirting a player, thus pushing back his enrollment until next January. Illinois is making a late push for four-star tight end Jon Davis, of Louisville. He appeared to be wavering on a commitment to Kentucky. Louisville is also a finalist.
"A year ago, there was talk Zook would be fired,'' Lemming said. "They had to show improvement on the field. Everything else is in place. They did a complete 360.''Illinois football commitment list Signing day is Wednesday Willie Beavers/DT/6-6/296/Lathrup Village (Mich.) Lathrup Chris Boles/OL/6-5/315/Toledo (Ohio) Central Catholic Darrius Caldwell/DE/ 6-5/210/Atlanta Mays Ralph Cooper/LB/6-1/220/Winnsboro (S.C.) Valdon Cooper/DB/5-10/170/Elberton (Ga.) Elbert County Henry Dickinson/LB/6-4/215/Memphis University School Tony Durkin/OL/6-3/265/Tinley Park Andrew Justin DuVernois/P/6-1/190/Jacksonville (Fla.) St. Thomas Aquinas Josh Ferguson/RB/5-8/165/Naperville (Joliet Catholic) Pat Flavin/ OL/6-7/260/Lisle Benet Jordan Frysinger/WR/6-0/175/Corning (N.Y.) Painted Post East Zeph Grimes/DB/5-11/200/Bamberg (S.C.) Bamberg-Ehrhardt Ted Karras/OL/6-3/290/Indianapolis Cathedral Dondi Kirby/DB/6-3/180/Monroeville (Pa.) Gateway Kenny Knight/WR/6-4/190/Beverly Hills (Mich.) Country Day Matt LaCosse/WR/6-6/220/Naperville North Scott McDowell/OL/6-5/280/Hinsdale Central Kenny Nelson/DE/6-6/245/Detroit Cass Tech Nick North/DB/6-2/195/Hollywood (Fla.) McArthur Chris O'Connor/DE/6-5/240/Tinley Park Andrew Reilly O'Toole/QB/6-4/215/Wheaton-Warrenville South Daniel Rhodes/TE/6-3/250/Charlotte (N.C.) Independence Eaton Spence/DB/5-11/170/Belle Glades (Fla.) J.T. Thornton/DB/6-0/170/Belle Glades (Fla.) Clint Tucker/DT/6-2/285/East St. Louis * -- Brennen VanMieghem/K/6-2/195/Metamora Hunter Wells/OL/6-6/280/Canton Jeremey Whitlow/WR/6-2/190/Cleveland Central Catholic Donovonn Young/RB/5-11/215/Katy (Texas) * -- Will join program as preferred walk-on.


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<SNIP>" orbiter says that the gc100 cannot be found as factory defaults. "Yes...gc100 is at 192.168.1.70 - change it to 192.168.80.70 for example. 192.168.1.70 is on the wrong interface."If I attach the gc100 to the network with 192.168.1.XXX the Pluto system detects the gc100 and I go through the setup screens. Once this is finished i reload the DCE router and try and send a command to the gc110 from the admin web page and the screens returns an error that says command failed. I have also tried to connect the gc100 back to the second network with the DHCP server and to no avail it still will not receive commands from the core."Pluto sends commands to the 192.168.80.0 (xxx) network. "I have read your explanation on how the gc100 works so I am curious to know if the core gives the gc100 a new IP address other than 192.168.1.70 and if so how does it decide which IP address to give it. My next question is should I leave the DHCP on the Pluto core as 192.168.80.XXX or should I change it to the 192.168.1.XXX scheme or does it even matter? I don't think it should need to be changed but I have been wrong before."The gc100 doesn't have dhcp and therfore doesn't accept dhcp, That's why it is a manual configuration step."Also does DHCP even need to be on for the gc100 to operate? "No, but pluto dhcp needs to be on for dhcp compliant devices. NOTE: You cannot have Two dhcp servers running which is why pluto should be connected to your internet service on the other card."Is the only reason to enable DHCP for plug and play and network booting?"Let me try and explain the internet/lan/pluto system in a more straightforward, secure way.1) IP's (1 or more) come in a dialup/dsl/adsl/fibre/cable/T1/T3 etc.2) Put a firewall (stateful inspection) box in e.g. nat'd 192.168.1.254 (only use one port, even though you may have 4 ports). Make the pluto external interface 192.168.1.1 (static) so it can contact the internet via the firewall at 192.168.1.2543) The default internal card is 192.168.80.14) Add a switch to the output of 192.168.80.15) Set all you other computers/devices to dhcp (the problem here is you need to get into the nitty-gritty of statics and mac addresses in the dhcpd.conf file. 6) Change the gc100 to 192.168.80.70 (that's an example).7) To change the gc100, take a computer with a static address in the 192.168.80.0 range and use a crossover cable to the gc100. If you don't have a crossover cable, temporarily remove the switch in item 4) above and add the cables from a compute to the gc100. Open a web browser and type http://192.168.1.70 - go to ethernet and change to 192.168.80.70 save/accept or whatever. change the browser Ip address to 192.168.89.70 - you should now see the gc100 screen. Set the equipment back to the way it was before, configure the gc100 in pluto and it all should work.


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TIME LightBox presents our monthly round-up of the best books, exhibitions and ways to experience photography beyond the web—from Rebecca Norris Webb's exhibition in New York and the Arles Festival in France to Harry Callahan's Ten Photographs in California and Jacob Aue Sobal in Prague.
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Packing your car trunk correctly can be important to the success of a road trip. Car trunks, like the cars themselves, come in all sizes and configurations, so there is no universally correct way to do it. Moreover, seasonal considerations (like snow and ice) can increase the need for special equipment. Even so, there are some general principles that are adaptable to every size and shape of trunk.
Compartmentalization is the key to finding what you need within seconds of opening the trunk. A variety of containers makes this possible. Road trip veterans usually work out some combination of clear Tupperware-style boxes, which are easy to see inside but tough to pack in odd-shaped spaces, along with small and large duffel bags, soft backpacks, cardboard boxes and commercially available trunk organizers.
After 30 years on the road, I've settled on one cardboard "banker's box" with built-in handles, two small cloth duffels and a small clear, plastic toolbox. After filling the toolbox with my small tools (pliers, a wire cutter, screwdrivers, wire, a tire-pressure gauge, duct tape, electrician's tape and extra fuses), I place the box on the right, rear side of the trunk space. Next to it, I place one of the duffel bags packed with my road clothes (coveralls, extra jackets, vest, rain gear, warm hats and mittens). To the right of the clothes duffel, I wedge in the second duffel stocked with emergency food supplies (canned food, trail mix and a can opener).
The banker's box is my catchall. It goes in the right, front space of the trunk. First I reinforce the built-in handles with duct tape, then I fill the box with these items:
- Safety and visibility supplies: reflective windshield cover (provides both heat and cold protection), signal mirror, flashlight, extra batteries, whistle, reflective "space blanket," a six-pack of waterproof matches, two 18-inch bungee cords, two sets of 24-inch nylon webbing straps, two orange reflective vests, a pair of scissors, two all-purpose clips, a beach towel, a paper sack of assorted cloth rags, two candles, a magnesium (waterproof) fire starter, a flyswatter, an extra camera, a hand-held GPS device and cell phone chargers. I also carry a 6-foot nylon dog leash, which I have found to be surprisingly handy, even if I am not traveling with a dog. You never know when such an item might be useful for corralling another traveler's critter.
- Larger road tools and supplies: tow strap, tire chains, leather gloves, motor oil, a funnel in a plastic Ziploc-type bag, radiator coolant, windshield washer fluid, a roll of paper towels, a roll of toilet paper, some large plastic trash bags, a 25-foot medium-duty nylon rope, a can of Fix-A-Flat, a small air compressor or a Power Tank, a mallet with a soft rubber head, a folding shovel, an ice scraper, and a portable jump starter (not jumper cables).
- First aid and medical supplies: First aid kit, spare eyeglasses, prescription medicines (and copies of prescriptions), sunscreen, lip balm and bug spray.
- Teddy bear: It may sound corny, but a teddy bear or other comfort animal can provide needed solace in an emergency, especially (but not only) to kids. The rest of the time, he can be your road trip mascot.
- Miscellaneous items: atlases, topographical maps, folding knife, sunglasses, camping equipment, lantern, book, deck of cards, personal travel pillow, a ready-to-grab fanny pack outfitted with first aid gear, water, tissues and matches.
Some of these items are too bulky for the box, so tuck them in wherever there is room. It's also a good idea to carry a car blanket, which can be used for extra warmth or comfort or to assist an accident victim in an emergency, and a small cooler for fresh food and snacks. Some travelers carry a much more complete set of road trip gear, and you might find this outfit to be a better match for your road trip style.
There are four emergency items that must be placed where they can be grabbed as soon as the trunk door is lifted:
- an X-shaped tire iron
- a supply of bottled water
- a fire extinguisher, and
- a folding triangle reflector.
Always pack these in the same place at the front of the trunk so you will not lose valuable time searching for them in an emergency.
Ideally, your equipment, tools and emergency supplies should take up no more than half your trunk space, leaving the other half for your luggage. Soft-sided luggage or duffel bags are easier to pack than hard-sided suitcases, but with planning, either type of luggage can work. If you are purchasing luggage for your trip, keep the dimensions of your car's trunk in mind when you go shopping and choose pieces that will not take up more than half the available space.
Once you've worked out an arrangement that works for your vehicle, keep using and improving it, and let your traveling companions know how the system works. A well-packed trunk behind you saves you time, keeps you safe and wards off aggravation — leaving you free to enjoy the road ahead.
Mark Sedenquist is the publisher of RoadTrip America, a Web site providing expert planning, advice and suggested itineraries for road trips. He's spent 30 years and a half-million miles on the road in North America. Also, visit Tripso's forums!