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By Craig Hill; Staff Reporter News Tribune
STAMPEDE PASS, Wash. (AP) — The instructions for time travel are as follows:
Step one: On a winter weekend, follow Interstate 90 east to Exit 62, then drive south until the road ends.
Step two: Haul your gear to the southeast corner of the parking lot and step into your skis.
Step three: Put on a pair of heavy duty leather gloves and wait.
You'll hear a rumble rising from the woods before you see your escort to the winter of 1938.
Seventy-five years ago, Washington's ski scene took a giant step toward the future thanks to the arrival of a device called the rope tow. The relatively simple contraption used a long rope loop, a car engine and pulleys to tow skiers up hills that they previously had to hike.
A Tacoma lumber baron urged on by an East Coast visionary installed rope tows on Snoqualmie Pass, Mount Rainier and Mount Baker while others assembled a tow on Steven Pass.
Meanwhile, near Stampede Pass, an outdoor recreation club called The Mountaineers built its own rope tow at its 10-year-old ski hut, Meany Lodge.
Most of Washington's first rope tows saw popular ski areas take shape around those tows before these glove-shredding lifts were replaced with comfy chairlifts.
But at Meany Lodge, it's as if time stood still. Here, just 10 miles from the Summit at Snoqualmie's crowds and modern lifts, a Chevy truck engine still powers the longest of three rope tows.
But that's not the rumble you'll hear as you prepare for time travel. That noise is from Tom-Cat, a 1954 Bombardier snow tractor.
When it arrives, two long ropes are tossed off the back of the covered tractor with tank-like tracks. Skiers grab hold and are towed down a popular snowmobile road before veering left onto a less-used route. Here, the tractor might pick up speed, slowing only to cross the railroad tracks that once delivered skiers from Seattle for 50 cents each before service stopped in 1960.
After 2.7 miles, Meany Lodge comes into view.
Most lodge visitors these days come Friday night and stay for the weekend. Because I was the only person arriving on a recent Sunday morning, I was towed in by a snowmobile.
While the 80 guests in the lodge enjoyed a pancake breakfast, I followed ski instructor Jim Fahey to the tow house where Andy Smith was firing up Mach, the main lift.
Fahey calls the tow house "a living museum," and I immediately saw why. A still working — but barely-used — hand-crank phone hung just inside the door. Ropes, pulleys and tools hung from the walls.
But the real piece of history is the Chevrolet truck skeleton that fills most of the room. From the radiator to the rear wheel that moves the rope, the machine is painted red. A protective casing around the fan is fashioned from wire fencing.
I watched as Smith opened the fuel line, checked the radiator and turned on the battery. Fahey checked the oil.
Smith pushed a button on the wall to start the engine.
"Like an old car engine it takes a while sometimes," Smith said. On the fifth try, the old engine sputtered to life.
In the middle of the contraption sits the four-on-the-floor gear shift. To shift gears, Smith engages the clutch by pulling a yellow rope above his head.
He puts the engine in third gear, which moves skiers up the hill at about 15 mph, the maximum speed allowed in Washington, Fahey said. Before high speed chairlifts necessitated speed limits, Fahey said the old engine ran in fourth gear moving skiers at 21 mph.
Mach is the oldest rope tow in the state, just as Meany Lodge is the state's oldest ski area. But fire code is forcing a new chapter in Meany history.
Because the tow house doesn't meet code, the engine will be replaced by a modern electric motor after this season. The Chevy engine will be saved as a backup for Tom-Cat.
As Mach warmed up for one of its final weekends of work, young skiers and snowboards gathered.
Smith gave them a thumbs-up and they were off.
I was feeling pretty nostalgic when I clicked into my skis and joined the fun. I'd learned to ski on a rope tow at Summit West, but hadn't spent much time on them since. But this was like no rope tow I'd ever seen.
First, at 15 mph, the rope hummed as it ran across the palm of my leather glove. And the hill it was pulling me up was so steep that a gripper was required to hang on.
The metal gripper looks like a pair of large pliers and was attached to a harness that is worn around the waist. Once you get up to speed, you clamp the gripper onto the rope and hold on.
Using the gripper is a bit tricky at first, but with no trouble my first two runs, I thought I'd picked it up quicker than most.
But if there was any question why skiers don't pine for the days of rope tows as they sometimes do for the time of two-seat chairlifts, it was answered on my third run.
The rope caught the cuff of my right glove as I grabbed hold. The rope tore into my hand. I let go, but was left with an inch-long burn on my right palm, a torn sleeve on my shirt and a small hole in my soft shell jacket.
Later, I'd notice initiation markings like these on the clothes of many Meany regulars.
While this might seem brutal now, there was a time when the rope tow was cutting edge.
"Before the rope tows, skiing was mostly a pretty dedicated community of people who parked at Narada (Falls) in Mount Rainier National Park and hiked up to Paradise," said ski historian Lowell Skoog. "It's amazing that people actually did that. The rope tow made that much easier."
The first rope tow in the United States was installed near Woodstock, Vt., in 1934 and Jim Parker, one of the men who helped run the tow, moved to Washington three years later.
In a 1978 issue of Puget Soundings magazine, former Summit at Snoqualmie owner Webb Moffett wrote that Parker enlisted the support and financial backing of Chauncey Griggs, owner of a Tacoma lumber company, to build rope tows in the Cascades.
Moffett would eventually buy the operations from Parker and Griggs for $3,500.
Rope tow operations popped up in the Cascades in places such as American River, and Cayuse and Chinook passes, Moffett wrote, but they faded away when they couldn't keep up with resorts that were installing chairlifts. Mount Rainier National Park wouldn't allow permanent lifts, so its rope tow operations also vanished leading to a new resort, Crystal Mountain, just outside the park.
Meany Lodge defied this trend.
Even when Burlington Northern canceled its railroad stop at the lodge in 1960 and the Mountaineers bought Tom-Cat to tow in skiers, people kept visiting.
Despite my bloody right hand, it was easy to see the appeal. Not the least of which is the skiing.
After bandaging my hand, I followed ski instructor Art Freeman on some of his favorite runs: steep runs through the trees, narrow lines and a single-track return known as Psychopath because the slope it traverses is so steep.
I couldn't help but wonder what these runs must have been like on the long wooden skis visitors used in 1938.
To return to 2013, visitors are instructed to toss their packs in Tom-Cat and start skiing down the trail at 3 p.m.
After about 2/3 of a mile, when the road starts uphill, the skiers and snowboarders stop. Once again, they wait for the roar to rise from the woods and Tom-Cat to appear with its long tow ropes.
This time about 40 people grab on. The ride out can be tough, especially for snowboarders. Ten times, Tom-Cat stopped for a fallen visitor.
"The rule is, you fall three times and you ride inside," said longtime lodge volunteer Linda Harkness.
When a snowboarding Boy Scout took his third tumble, he had to walk to the snowcat between the two long lines of visitors. But this was no walk of shame. He was offered high-fives and "good tries," and he smiled as he climbed aboard.
Moments later, Tom-Cat was back to the future.
Visitors said their goodbyes, loaded their cars and headed home. Some, perhaps, will never again ride a rope tow, choosing instead to be whisked up mountains by chairlifts with padded seats, foot rests, safety bars and room for six.
But others — those who call themselves Meaninites — will be back next weekend and the weekend after to visit a time and place that still seems just about perfect.
Old-Fashioned Skiing
By Craig Hill; Staff Reporter News Tribune


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Bessy Conway; or, The Irish Girl in America.
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Bessy was mistaken in supposing that Herbert had forgotten her. He never lost sight of her for any length of time, and often when she thought him far away and oblivious of her existence he was nearer than she imagined. Many a time he was dogging her steps when he did not dare to approach her, for, with all his effrontery to others, he never could get rid of a certain feeling of respect in the presence of Bessy. Ever since that unlucky day, as he called it, when he forgot himself so far as to overstep the line which he had hitherto marked out for himself in his intercourse with her, he had shrunk from encountering again the withering scorn of her glance, and the aching void thus left in his heart he had endeavored to fill up by the feverish excitement of the gaming table and the uproarious mirth of the drunken carouse. He knew well that every step he took in the career of dissipation separated him just so much farther from Bessy. The thought was torture to him, and yet he made no effort to overcome the evil habits that were gathering strength from day to day. He hated himself, hated the life he was leading, for somewhere in his soul there were yearnings after something better; he hated the companions of his hollow and noisy pleasures; he hated the world and laughed to scorn the so-called virtues of its votaries; all his heart was seared and scathed save only the one green spot where Bessy Conway was enshrined. Her image, it is true, had waxed dimmer to his eyes as months passed into years and saw them still farther separated, but he
had never entirely forgotten her -- the image was never wholly effaced.
Whether it was Ned's relationship to Bessy that kept him hovering about The Castle Inn nobody but himself could tell. Ned's faculties, never of the clearest, had become so obtuse that he could see no farther than his nose, as Paul used to say, and he had got a notion in his head that Henry Herbert was the best friend he had in the world. With the mulish obstinacy of a drunken man he rejected all counter evidence, and would hear nothing against Herbert whether it came from Ally, or Paul, or any one else. Of late, Ally had given up all hopes of ever seeing his eyes opened with regard to Herbert, and was in the habit of saying: " Unless God does it, I can do no more -- that fool of a man won't let me open my mouth to tell him the truth."
"Never mind, Mrs. Finigan!" Paul would say when she thus opened her mind to him, "God won't desert you, anyway, because you're doing all for the best."
"Ah! but, Paul dear! I'm waitin' a long time now, and you see yourself what a state that man has brought himself to. He's drunk most of his time, and he's neither fit for one thing war the other, oily sittin' there like a log o' wood, dosin' away his life-time, an' me tryin' so hard to keep on the business and make all ends meet. And worse than all that, Paul!" --and she fairly burst out crying - "I'm afeard it's a sudden death he'll get sudden and unprovided both --for there's times and you'd think there wasn't a drop of blood in his body but what's up in his head. Many a time I see him as black as a nigger almost in the face with the fair dint of liquor. Och, Paul! Paul! wasn't it the devil himself --Lord pardon me! -- that brought Mr. Herbert across us! I'm afeard he'll never quit that unfortunate fellow till he sees the last of him - he's the villain of all I ever met!"
"God help you, Mrs. Finigan, ma'am! It's you that knows nothing about it." Then lowering his voice he went on as if
to himself, "humph! - ay! it's about time --I see there's no chance of a change -- maybe I was wrong not to do it before now. "
"Do what, Paul ?"
"Oh! nothing at all, ma'am, only a little business I have up here on Thursday evening, God willing. You needn't say anything about it to Ned or any one - you understand!"
Oh ! yes, Ally understood that part of it very well, and gave her assurance that she would keep silence on the head of it. Paul strutted away, his brain filled to overflowing with 'thick coming fancies" gradually assuming shape and form as plans and projects. Paul was a clear-headed man, and a long-headed man, too, and now his keen wits were all at work on a grand design to which he devoted as much thought as Raphael or Michael Angelo to one of their glorious conceptions.
Absorbed as he was in thought he passed Oliver street by, and taking delis way down Catharine street turned into one of the quiet shady avenues of the old Seventh Ward, following which he soon reached Dr. Delany's house, where he stopped. His timid knock at the basement door was answered by Onny who, of course, was ever so glad to see him and cordially invited him in. No, no, Paul hadn't time then, he'd come around soon, but he only wanted to speak a word with Bessy. Laughing pleasantly and saying she hoped he'd remember his promise, Onny went in and sent out Bessy.
"Why, goodness me, Paul, is this yourself? won't you come in?" said Bessy all in a flurry.
"No, no, Bessy! I haven't a minute to stay. I'm a good while out, and the old woman will be wondering what keeps me. Do you know what brought me now?"
Of course Bessy did not know, so Paul told her. "I want you to be at Ned Finigan's a Thursday evening about seven o'clock. Can you do that?"
"To be sure I can the mistress never refuses to let me out
whenever I want to go, for she knows it isn't often I ask her. I'll be there, please God. But what's going on now, Paul? Is anything wrong at Ned's?"
"'Deed and there is, then, - plenty wrong -- but you'll know it soon enough. Say nothing of this to any one, even Onny. I'll be biddin' you good-bye, now, and mind I'll depend on you."
"You may, I'll not disappoint you."
"Dear me!" said Bessy to herself as she closed the door after him, "what has he got in his head now? If he isn't the queerest creature living! - sometimes I'm afraid of him, he looks so odd. But then he's good -- every one knows that --well ! I'd like to know what he's at now, for I see it's something past the common. I'm afraid it's about Ned - he says he's 'plenty wrong there' - ah! that's just it - God help poor Ally!"
Do as she would, however, she could not get rid of the impression that herself was somehow concerned in the business which Paul appeared to have on hands, and she felt restless and unhappy she knew not why. If her anxiety increased every moment and she looked forward to Thursday evening with a feverish impatience never felt before.
Thursday came at last, and it seemed to Bessy the longest day she had ever seen. But long and tedious as it was, it passed away, and the gathering shades warned her that the hour so eagerly expected was near at hand.
It was dark when she reached the Castle Inn, for the Autumn was already far advanced and the days were wearing short. It was a raw, cheerless evening, and as Bessy walked along Prince street after leaving the stage, she felt s chill creeping over her, and a sinking at her heart that left her hardly able to move a limb. She had never felt anything like the sensation that came over her, and she said within herself: "Lord save us! I often heard of people being bewitched - maybe it's what I got a blast of an evil eye. Christ and his Holy Mother preserve me!"
A low smothered laugh reached her ear at the moment, so near that she started and looked up. She was not far wrong in her supposition, fanciful as it seemed, for Henry Herbert was by her side, his eyes fixed on her with the strangest look - half fond, half mocking.
"My goodness Master Henry! you frightened me!" she said almost unconsciously. His appearance and her own thoughts were so strangely connected, she could not tell how or why.
" Did I?" he said very softly. "Well! it's rather hard -- very unfortunate, indeed, that I should frighten you. But then it is so long, so very long, since we met -- yet even so, why should the sight of me alarm you? - now don't run away from me - don't, I beseech you! I am sober enough now, Bessy! so you needn't fear me! -- fear me!" he repeated bitterly, as if to himself, "why should she ever fear me? I'd be mad, indeed, when I harmed you -- Bessy! I see you're trying to escape --now, will you just listen to me for one moment?"
"For God's sake, Master Henry don't talk to me at all!'' said Bessy in a low nervous tone. "Go away, I beg of you for I don't want Ned's people to see you with me, and it's there I'm going now."
"So am I, too, Bessy! so where's the harm if we walk together?"
"It is a harm," said Bessy passionately, "and a great harm too. I'll turn back, if you don't go on, and leave me alone."
"Well ! I'll see you there, at all events," said Herbert, "so I'll do as you tell me. But mind, I must speak with you this night, so no more tricks, Bessy. If I miss seeing you at The Castle, I'll go to-morrow to Mrs. Delany's, -- choose which you will."
"I'll see you at Ned's, then, sir," said Bessy hastily, " in presence of Mrs. Finigan."
"Ah, Bessy! Bessy!" said Herbert reproachfully, as he turned away, "when will you learn to trust me?"
"NEVER !" was the word that rose to Bessy's lips, but Herbert was gone, and the word was unsaid, at least unheard by him.
It might have been an hour later when Paul Brannigan marched up to the Castle Inn with an air as defiant as if he meant to take the fortress by storm. He had with him a smart-looking young lad, with smooth intelligent features.
Ned was sitting half asleep in his armchair behind the bar, whilst Ally was dealing out the fire-water to the nimble little waiter who, in white jacket and apron, kept running to and fro, hither and thither, at the bid of all comers.
"What will you take, Mike?" said Paul to his young companion, as though that was the special object of his visit. "But sure I needn't ask, I know you take nothing stronger than lemonade. Mrs. Finigan, ma'am! will you let us have two glasses of the nicest lemonade you can make?" Having seated Mike, he went back and whispered to Ally:
"Did Bessy come yet?"
"Yes, yes, more than an hour ago. She's with my mother abroad in the little room."
"Very good, very good. And the other person?"
"Not come yet - husht ! there he is now. Be off as fast as you can!"
It was Herbert, accompanied as usual by Dixon. Sending the latter in before him, Herbert in his turn asked Mrs. Finigan in a whisper if Bessy Conway had come.
"She did, Mister Herbert," said Ally quietly, " she's inside there," pointing to the place.
"Tell Mr. Dixon I'll be with him in a moment," said Herbert to the waiter, and he disappeared. His exclamation of angry astonishment was heard by those outside, when going in to where he thought Bessy was alone, he found Mrs. Murphy, whom he knew to be no friend of his.
"Bessy!" said he, " can I not speak half a dozen words with you without witnesses?"
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"There's nothing you can want to say to me, Master Henry!" said Bessy calmly, "but Mrs. Murphy may hear. She's my friend and well-wisher."
"God he knows that's true," observed Bridget with a kind look .
"Even that does not entitle her to hear my private affairs," said Herbert.
"If they're so very private, Master Henry!" said Bessy, with her quiet smile, " I have no right to hear them either."
He looked at her a moment without speaking, then suddenly snatched her hand and drew her to the further end of the room. " Bessy!" said he lowering his voice and speaking with a sort of nervous trepidation that at once riveted her attention, "Bessy, I have just heard of my father's death."
" My goodness! is it possible?" cried Bessy with strong emotion, "and me talking to you as I did little thinking of the trouble that was on your mind! Indeed I'm sorry, Master Henry! very sorry!"
"So am not I," Herbert replied. "There was little love between us -- he never treated me as a father ought, and, to tell the truth, I was only an indifferent son I know not where the fault lay -- I suppose we all had our share of it - but that is not the question now -- what I want to say to you is this, Bessy Conway! my father's death has removed one obstacle to our marriage - at least to our going home married - it will make me more independent, too, and I ask you once more -- for the last time, Bessy! -- will you be my dear wife? will you share my fortunes? - mind I will never ask you again - so do not - oh! do not refuse me now !" He pressed the hand he held between both his own, and looked imploringly in her face, as utterly forgetful of Bridget's presence as if no such person were in existence.
Bessy was not so oblivious, however, and she forced herself to speak calmly though her heart and brain were throbbing.
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"Lord bless me! Master Henry, what a time for you to talk of such things? "
"Answer me, Bessy!'' he said with increasing vehemence, "will you or will you not accept my offer?"
"Master Henry!" said Bessy in a faint voice, "let go my hand - I want to sit down-"
Bridget hastened to bring her a chair, and seeing her pale and trembling, told Herbert sharply to go about his business and not be bothering the decent girl.
"Woman! be silent!" he said with a look and gesture so wild that it frightened Bridget resolute as she was. "Bessy!" said he then, bending over her as she sat with a face of passionate entreaty, "Bessy! my fate and yours depend on your answer -- you may save me, body and soul, from ruin -- you can make me what you will -- but give me a mooring - do not cut the only link that holds me to virtue - do not send me adrift on this wide cold world - we will go home to Ireland -- you will be a lady -"
"For the love of God say no more, Master Henry!" said Bessy making an effort to rise; "Mrs. Murphy! hadn't we better go?"
"Am I again refused?" said Herbert, his wrath beginning to boil over.
Bessy was moving away leaning on Bridget's arm, but she stopped and raised her tearful eyes to his with a look that went to his heart, it was so beseeching, so sorrowful.
" Bessy !" he said in a softened tone, " I cannot -- will not believe you cruel -- answer me, at least, one way or the other?"
"Master Henry!" said Bessy with as much composure as she could command, "before I could consent to what you ask, there's many things would have to be cleared up."
"What are they?" he joyfully exclaimed, catching eagerly at this shadow of hope.
Before Bessy could answer, Ally made her appearance to say that Mr. Dixon was angry at being kept so long waiting.
" I'll see you soon again," Herbert whispered as he passed Bessy. To his great surprise she and Mrs.. Murphy followed him into the larger room accompanied by Ally, and all three coolly took their seats at a table where Paul was sitting with his young friend, their lemonade untasted before them. It so happened that at the moment there were no others in the room, and as Herbert took his seat opposite Dixon at a small table, he said with an unnatural attempt at gaiety:
"I say, Dixon! we had no idea coming in, that before we left we should have
'The sky of this life open o'er us And heaven give s glimpse of its blue.
Now for ' the cup that is smiling before us,' or, at least, with a smile - what will the ladies have?"
There was an emphasis on the word ladies that was quite perceptible, and Paul answered in precisely the same tone:
" The ladies are with us -- we'll see to them."
"Ho! ! ho! old scarecrow!" said Herbert laughingly, as he went to the door to speak with Ned; "you're there, are you ?"
"If your eyes are good, you needn't ask," retorted Paul quickly; "I hope you're not forgetting your crony abroad?"
"My crony! who do you call my crony?"
"Why Ned Finigan, to be sure, don't leave him out on our account, for there's nobody-barring yourself-has a greater wish for him than I have."
"You're a bitter old coon," said Herbert consciously as he left the room.
"Go yourself," whispered Ally, and Paul went accordingly. In a few minutes he returned alone and, in answer to the inquiring looks of the woman, shook his head significantly, smiling all the time.
"He's on the hook," said he; "see what a fine take Mr. Herbert has."
"Come along, Ned," said Herbert again making his appearance, "come along in and sit down. An' 'we'll show the stoop to friendship's growth.' Ahem!"-he looked exultingly at Paul.
" Ned !" said Ally raising her finger threateningly.
" Never mind him, Mrs. Finigan, ma'am !" said Paul cheerfully; "we have only lemonade, they have brandy, so that makes a difference. He scarce condescended to answer me when I asked him, and it the first time, too, but then he's so used to Mister Herbert now, that a body could hardly expect him to turn his back on hire."
" What brings you in her?" said Ned gruffly to his wife. "Have you nothing to do but sit up there cosherin'?"
"Why, I want to keep you company, Ned," the wife rejoined, " man and wife ought to be together, you know!"
" It's a pity we hadn't Luky Mulligan here," said Paul very composedly across the table to Mrs. Murphy.
"What do you say that for?" asked the shrewish matron bristling up.
" Why, I'm sure Mr. Herbert there would be glad to see him, for I know they're great friends entirely "
" I don't doubt it," said Bridget with a scathing look at Herbert, they say. " Birds of a feather always flock together." Every eye was turned on Paul, and Herbert made a mocking gesture at him, as though to say: " Do your worst-I defy you!"
" What do you mean by that ?" said Ned, whose ear, fuddled as he was, caught the name of Luky Mulligan
" He means to crack a joke," said Herbert, " but his jokes are rather bitter for most people's liking."
"What sort of a joke were you cracking, Mr. Herbert!" said Paul turning round on his chair to Ax his eye on him, " the night you gave Luky Mulligan the money at the corner of Roosevelt and Chatham over two years ago ?
" An impudent fellow, dem my eyes!" ejaculated Dixon.
" Eh! what's that?" said Ned waking up a little. "You don't mean Mr. Herbert, do you ?"
" It's just himself I do mean," said Paul; " ask Mr. Herbert -'the best friend you have in the world -- ahem! what he gave that money for-"
" If he's wise he won't, you miserable wretch ! for I'd kick any man that asked me such a question."
" Well, I'm sorry to hear, Mr. Herbert," said Ned hesitatingly, "that you had any knowledge of that ill-conditioned vagabond . "
" Knowledge of him !" exclaimed Paul. " If it was only havin' knowledge of him, you'd never hear me say a word about it, for I know the pair of them were very thick at home in Ireland, and as Mrs. Murphy there says, its only natural for birds of a feather to flock together. But there's a little secret in it that I want you to hear before it goes any farther. As Mr. Herbert won't tell us himself, we'll find another that will Mike! my man, I believe solve can read us the riddle. Tell us what you heard passing that night between this gentleman and Luky Mulligan !"
" Ned Finigan!" said Herbert standing up, "I think this joke is going somewhat too far. I certainly didn't expect that you would allow me to be insulted in your house and in your presence."
" Well! it's not my wish, Mr. Herbert!" said Ned, much embarrassed, " nor neither is it my fault-it's this fool of a man that's doin' it all, you see-it's some of his pranks he's playing "
" Come on, Mike !" said Paul.
" Come away from here, Dixon !" said Herbert, in a state of nervous excitement, " I shan't stay a moment longer."
Dixon stood up, but being curious to hear as well as another he pretended to look for his hat though knowing very well where it was. Meanwhile Mike was telling what had passed between the two worthies in regard to the marriage-money.
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"Mr. Herbert!" cried Ned, "Mr. Herbert do that! -- Mr. Herbert that has done so much for us ?"
" There's for you!" said Ally, " there's for you, Ned! -- what do you think of that now ?"
" Oh! the villain! -- the marderin' villain !" -- screamed Bridget starting to her feet and shaking her clenched fist at him, " the black drop's in him -- he couldn't be good, an' the ould skin-flint of a father he had -- he has done for us, as well as Ned ! Oh ! the curse of a heartbroken mother on you !"
"Mrs. Murphy dear! have patience!" said Bessy trying to make her sit down again," I wouldn't speak hard of the old man now when he's dead-sit down, won't you ? he feels bad enough you may be sure !"
There was not much appearance of it if he did, for he stood looking round on each speaker with a supercilious sneer snarling his lip. At last he addressed Mike
" And who may you be that have such good ears of your own ? "
" My name is Mike Milligan, Mr. Herbert !" said the lad modestly' yet with an air of selfrespect, " I was then a newsboy, vending the Daily Herald-and many a one I sold you, sir! -- now I'm a clerk in a wholesale house in Pearl street, thanks to the teaching and good advice of my dear friend Paul Brannigan-"
"Well! Mr. Clerk in a wholesale house in Pearl street, I shall invest a small sum of money in a cow-hide some of these days for your special benefit --"
"I wouldn't if I were you," said Mike very dryly, "better keep your money, sir, for something else -- give it to some old woman to say a prayer for you."
" Very well, my lad ! very well ! I'll have my eye on you, depend on it."
Mike answered by a gesture indicating perfect indifference. The clamor of Bridget's scolding voice, and the various exclamations of the others, were little heeded by Ned. He was concentrating his thoughts for a grand attack on Herbert, but what with the anger and the quantity of liquor he had been imbibing, he could hardly make himself intelligible. He stood up and, made an attempt to look very fierce, his eyes starting from their sockets, his limbs tottering under the weight of his bloated body, and his whole frame trembling.
" Mr. Herbert !" said he sputtering and stammering at every word, " Mr. Herbert! what did you do that for, eh? I took you -- for a friend -- (hiccup) I see I was wrong -- it was Luky Mulligan's friend you were -- sailing under false colors -- I thought you were a gentleman, Mr. Herbert ! -- but I tell you plainly -- you're no such thing -- you're a scoundrel, sir! -- get out of my house !"
" Certainly, Mr. Finigan, certainly !" said Herbert with comic gravity, " much obliged to you, Mr. Finigan!"
" Very ungrateful, 'pon honor !" ejaculated Dixon. " That's your thanks, Herbert, for all the money you spent here !"
" And all the hours I endured his company," pointing contemptuously to Ned, " all the nonsense I heroically listened to -- well! no matter, Dixon ! In the language of Scripture I have my reward."
" What's that ?" said Ned with a sudden flash of animation.
" REVENGE!" cried Herbert sternly, " Revenge! !" and he looked around with the smile of an exulting demon, his face pale with the intensity of passion, as he pointed to the ungainly figure of the landlord.
" Blessed Mother !" murmured Bessy Conway pale as death; without heeding her Herbert went on, Paul motioning to the others to keep silent.
" Neither man nor woman ever injured me with impunity. Look at Ned Finigan now and think what he was the day he made a show of me before the passengers of the Garrick."
"Ha! ha! He bears my mark on every feature and on every limb ! I made him what he is-I Henry Herbert-alas ! poor fool ! If I didn't hate you as I hate the devil I could pity you for the wretched thing you are -- I'll leave you now to your own pleasant thoughts -- as for you," turning to Paul with a dark scowl of hatred, " as for you -- your time will come !"
" I defy you !" said Paul calmly and firmly, " you can do me no harm while I walk in the way of God's commandments ! If that unfortunate man had kept from the liquor and avoided your company you couldn't have injured him either. The Lord look to him this day "
"You may well say that, Paul !" said Ned, falling helplessly into his seat, and looking all the misery that his tongue could not express; " I'm done, Paul ! I'm done ! -- there s not so poor a creature on God's earth! -- sure enough he has his revenge ! -- but oh ! what did I do to him, compared with what he has done to me ! I don't blame him, though, so much as I blame myself -- I know I was doin' wrong-poor Ally and yourself and Peery and Bridget -- everybody that wished me well told it to me many a time-but I wouldn't hear to them -- now -- no -- now -- it's too late -- the devil has his grip on me -- oh ! this business -- this business."
" Nonsense, man !" said Dixon half jest, whole earnest, " don't blame the lousiness-you have made money at it- you're a rich mall -- dammit ! you re very ungrateful !"
"Rich !" murmured Ned; " rich! ay, rich indeed ! What's riches to me now? I'd give all I'm worth in the world to be is
" Able to carry me up the companion ladder !" put in Herbert with his mocking laugh.
"Take him away!" said Ned, "take him out of my sight, or I'll be tempted to raise my hand to him, and if I do I'll kill him -- as sure as God's in heaven I will!"
Bridget and Ally were load in their threats, predicting for Herbert all sorts of woes temporal and eternal. Bessy. overwhelmed with grief not unmixed with shame, made an effort to steal away unnoticed, but Paul caught her hand and drew her back to her seat. His next move was rather singular and startled every one present. He walked deliberately and locked first one door then the other.
" Now," said he, " I'm going to tell a story, and I don't want to be disturbed, you see! Sit down, Mr. Herbert and Mr. Dixon, sit down and make yourselves comfortable. I used to be a great hand at telling stories, and maybe if I could think of a good one now, it would put you all in better humor "
One looked and another looked. They could hardly believe their ears, and so strange was the proposition, so odd the manner in which it was made, that Herbert and Dixon laughed heartily, declaring that the dwarf had lost his senses Down they both sat, and Herbert rapped the table with his knuckles !
" The story by all means! -- His lordship's story!" Paul grinned and nodded and cleared his throat.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Quit Sugar and Thrive
Well, this morning I found some time and some novel reasons to reconsider eating any more of the white stuff. Although you'll mostly hear me demonize nutrition-less white refined cane/beet sugar, I also recognize and advocate keeping all sugars, even natural sugars, to a minimum. With that being said, I'd like to share bits and pieces of nutritional information and recipes from a book that I can't wait to share with you.
Ever heard of the Thrive Diet?
Written by a professional Ironman triathlete, author Brendan Brazier offers a plan to help you achieve top notch health and reduce all types of stress. He uses a whole foods plan and helps you understand how and why refined crap-food can be the source of stress. He provides super-easy recipes with wonderful, nutrient-rich ingredients.
Here's his take on the almighty sweet tooth:
"A sweet tooth also helps us maintain a positive outlook: The modern brain craves sugary or refined starchy foods (those foods whose fiber has been removed and therefore whose sugar component of the carbohydrate is relatively high) because they release serotonin, a chemical found in the brain's pituitary gland. The release of serotonin has a powerful elevating effect on our mood. Continually low levels of serotonin can lead to chronic fatigue and clinical depression. People who have a regular supply of serotonin being released into their bloodstream feel better, and are therefore more productive and feel less stressed, than those with low levels of serotonin. Serotonin is plentiful and free flowing when stress is low; however, as stress rises, serotonin production declines. Cravings for sugary or starchy food are most likely an attempt by the brain to make it "feel" better. This is why such foods are referred to as comfort foods--they are the foods that are craved after a particularly trying day. Ice cream and donuts, which are high in sugar required to produce the subconsciously desired serotonin hit, are common comfort foods. Giving in to these cravings will satisfy the brain, but this satisfaction is short-lived. And so you eat more serotonin-releasing foods, which eventually leads to more stress, since these refined carbohydrates offer very few nutrients--not having enough nutrients in our diet is a form of nutritional stress and therefore produces a stress response. Simply by having lower levels of cortisol (meaning less stress), the body will naturally produce more serotonin. Natural light and healthy food are the best ways to naturally raise serotonin." -The Thrive Diet, p. 18-19
He also states that the "common cause of nutritional stress [is] the overconsumption of refined food."
We've probably all faced the following situation: We are seated at a restaurant and we're ravished. We feel like we'll just drop unless we get some food in our body. The server brings a basket of bread and even though we don't want it, it's there and we're starving. We eat it anyway. Brazier describes what happens when we eat it: "I would wolf down the French bread typically served before the meal. My stomach would be physically full, yet I would still be hungry. Since white bread is void of any useful nutrients, my body wanted me to continue eating despite that I felt full. To digest, assimilate, and then eliminate the white bread requires a large energy expenditure. The net energy gain from it is very low." p.36-37
He goes on to describe how and why high net-gain nutrition is so important. He lists important staple foods, the role of exercise for life-long health, and meal plans for home and travel. His recipes include: pizza crusts (using beans and quinoa), energy bars, smoothies, pancakes (the chocolate banana pancake is made with hemp flour, buckwheat flour and dates), soups, salads, salad dressings, crackers, sauces, drinks and a banana coconut pie for dessert.
I'm eager to own this book (I'm borrowing the one I have now), and dirty the recipe pages while experimenting with hemp flour, ground sunflower seeds, hemp oil, miso, etc.
5 comments:
- Caitlin said...
Just wanted to write in and let you know you inspired me with your blog to give up sugar myself. As of today it's been 3 months exactly. I can't believe how much better I feel energy wise, but I do still get a slight version of the afternoon slump, and was wondering if it's because of the coffee I drink every morning which I haven't been able to give up. Did you give up coffee as well?
Thanks, and thank you for your blog that led me on this path! :)
- April 1, 2010 at 2:16 AM
- Leslie R. said...
There is an online recipe for Brendan Brazier's black-eyed pea salsa. I make that every time we have people over and it is delicious!
- April 2, 2010 at 9:43 AM
- Amber Shea said...
Thrive is a good book. I've liked the recipes I've tried too, though many of the ingredients are mega-expensive.
- April 2, 2010 at 3:25 PM
- My Year Without said...
Caitlin-Congratulations on your 3+ months without!!
To answer your question, I have given up coffee and then gone back to it after weeks without. I LOVE the flavor and having a warm mug of something in the morning.
A lot of people have that afternoon slump feeling. I've heard lots about it--even the healthiest of us seem to have that midday crash...many people in other countries nap. I also nap. I have to nap at least 15 minutes, sometimes 30 minutes, almost every afternoon. It is amazing how re-energizing it is for me. (I work from home, so it's not a problem for me) However, I recognize that it is not convenient for everyone to do this....I also have some long-term sleep cycle issues I'm working on. A nap is my favorite cure of the midday crash--I've tried more coffee but that doesn't do what a nap can do for me. I've often wondered what a napping room in the workplace would do for entire workforces......
Leslie-Yes! Here is the link for anyone who would like to try it, as well: http://www.vegetariantimes.com/features/editors_blog/125
Amber-I'm about to find out...I have many ingredients on a grocery list, like hemp flour, but have no idea what to expect as far as expense. Thanks for the heads up!
- April 5, 2010 at 6:59 AM
- Farty Girl said...
LOVE that blurb you posted! Thank you. It makes so much sense. Many of us have experienced those uplifting feelings post-sugar. And many of us have crashed. And many of us have wanted more sugar, thinking for some reason sweet stuff is how we love ourselves. We say, "I deserve this. I've been good." So not true! :)
- April 11, 2010 at 12:29 PM


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There's a photo in the Homes new book on Cavalier origins (p. 56) of Cannonhill Richey - a ruby result of a helf-brother/half-sister mating with Plantation Robert as the common parent, and father of the first champion, Daywell Roger - a very early (early 1940s) and influential Cavalier. Apart from having a rather more domed head (I think his father Plantation Robert was a King Charles or a KC son), he is the spitting image of my Oliver - certainly in head size, which in Oliver is a bit large for today's fashion. Yet Oliver has CM and SM. It's what happens at the base of the skull which seems to be important, not the actual size or look of the head. Clare Rusbridge has said that you cannot say that a Cavalier has CM/SM (or not) simply by looking at their head - it's what's happening inside the head which is important.
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It's probably in your pocket now or sitting on a table next to you, throbbing with latent power.
Yes, it's your smart phone, those pocket-sized super computers we carry around like cyber security blankets.
As well as offering a world of communication, information and accessibility, the smartphone houses a very handy camera.
The smartphone and digital photography have revolutionized professional and amateur photography. I once overheard a professional photographer talking about the digital revolution say, with some chagrin,
"We used to spend thousands to take hundreds, now we spend hundreds to take thousands."
While some old school professionals may gnash their teeth, for most of us the rise of the smartphone camera has made photography all the more accessible.
Whether you're using a smartphone camera, a whizz bang digital DSLR or a Box Brownie, photography is a story-telling medium. It's the way we curate our lives and capture memories and, whatever device we use, the same rules of photography apply.
We still need to consider light, framing and composition, camera angle, looking for pattern, line, shape, vanishing points, shadows and reflections and applying the rule of thirds to compose our photos.
Our photos should tell one story. Avoiding clutter in our pictures will focus viewers attention on our meaning. Another incentive for keeping images simple is that many digital images are viewed small these days, either on phone screens, via social media icons or as thumbnails.
While we strive to apply these universal elements to our photography, it must be acknowledged that not all cameras are made equal and that smartphones have some definite positives and some distinct limitations.
Accessibility and Speed
They say the best photos are the ones we take. Having that shiny little phone in our pocket offers great opportunities for capturing those impromptu moments.
The ability to take many photos quickly, gives you lots of options. You can review your pics and edit on the go. Shooting a series of rapid-fire shots of a moving subject can create an interesting animated sequence.
Your masterpiece never has to hang around unseen as you can upload your photos directly to social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and now the ABC Open mobile site.
Light and easy
Small size and simple interface allows for ease of movement and quick-draw documentation.
We can play with interesting angles and intimate spaces for photography and focus on composition and creativity.
Of course, all this easy access and lack of bells and whistles has a downside. Smartphones are relatively simple cameras with limited flexibility.
They don't perform well in low light. Although equipped with a powerful flash, its small source means harsh shadows.
Due to their slow shutter speed, smartphones aren't suited to shooting high speed events like sports or car races.
The digital zoom is also pretty woeful. Avoid zooming in and just get closer.
The accessibility, speed and ease of the smartphone can also translate into snap happy syndrome: the tendency to try and photographically 'hose down' every moment without much thought. We've all seen and barely survived that slideshow.
Some handy tips
To make the most of the positives and reduce the limitations, here are some tips for getting better results with your smartphone camera.
Firstly, start by checking the built in specs in your preferences / set up. Ensure you have the camera set to take best quality images at the highest pixel rate.
Some phone cameras also offer a High Dynamic Range (HDR) option which takes several exposures in the one photo, giving your picture greater tonal range and allowing more options in post production. This can offer great results but also takes up more space on your phone.
If you're using the native camera application, touch the screen where you want the camera to focus. You can also adjust your exposure this way. Pressing on the brightest part of your screen will make the rest of the photo darker and vice versa. This is especially useful when you're shooting into or around the sun or in low light.
Hold still when you take the picture. Leaning on something solid or keeping your elbows tucked into your sides will provide stability and avoid motion blur.
To avoid blurring your pictures with a heavy-handed finger, set the self timer to take the photos while you concentrate on holding the camera as still as possible. The shutter clicks when you lift your finger off the shutter button, so do it gently. Another option here is to use a tripod.
I recently discovered that on some smartphones, when the headphones are plugged in, the pause/play button acts as a shutter release button when the camera mode is selected. I took several stunning photos of my leg trying to turn down my music.
As mentioned, smartphone cameras don't deal with low light well. They add a stack of pixellated grain to your shots. Run a mile (or at least into a brighter spot) before photographing in the dark.
Another solution in low light is to use the built-in flash. A good tip is to add a piece of translucent sticky tape over the camera light to help diffuse it.
If you want to avoid that 'deer caught in the headlights' look, or are photographing objects like food, try using the light from an external source like a lamp. Even the torch light option from another smart phone can add a more subtle glow of illumination to your pictures.
On bright sunny days, avoid deep shadows on faces by moving your subject into the brightest shady area you can find.
If you can't move your subject, move yourself, so that you're not shooting into the sun. The small sensor in the smart phone cameras will best handle bright overcast, open shadow, or even a bit of fog.
Be courteous and legal about who and where you photograph. The instant access to the smartphone camera can see us taking photos in all sorts of public places.
It's important to respect people's privacy by asking their permission to use their photo, particular with photos of children and if you are sharing these shots on social media. ABC Open have a special tips sheet regarding this.
Download your shots regularly to your computer and take advantage of that icon 'Delete photos on the camera after download' so you always have room on your camera to take more.
If you prefer to use your phone as a portable photo gallery, you'll have to delete the unwanted photos manually.
Apps and Add ons.
There is a thriving industry in add-ons and accessories that will enhance your smart phone photography experience.
There are also many cool apps and post processing tools that allow you to transform your happy snaps into instant nostalgia through the use of filters and film stock types.
One nifty control on some smart phone cameras is the Lens Blur effect, allowing you to create a depth of field effect within your existing photos.
Other accessories include attachable mini lenses, tripods, water proof housings and a variety of holders that allow you to attach your phone camera to anything from bike handles to broom sticks to achieve some fantastic angles and out of this world framing.
The Smartphone camera offers us the opportunity to capture intimate moments quickly and easily. The power to do this is literally in our pockets.
Getting the best out of Smartphone cameras is about understanding their potential, limitations and the possibilities available in the world of apps and add ons.
Beyond all this, the key is in recognising the beauty in the moment and taking the time to capture it with a click of a finger.
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Thanks for the tips. If you have an Android smartphone, checkout this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neuromorphic.retinet.smile which lets you annotate your pictures as you take them, annotate already taken pictures (JPEG), text search your pictures, and share pictures with annotation as photos or videos.
Another tip to improve your pictures taken at night is to take off your case as it seems to make a weird reflection on your piccys.
I have been using an SLR camera for a couple of years now and do love the results however the phone camera is more convenient and discreet. I recently photographed the Australian Body Art Carnivale (at Eummundi) using SLR, point and shoot as well as a phone camera. All gave different results but it's much easier for me to use apps to manipulate camera photos than to use photoshop.
Sorry LizD but I have to disagree. Take a look here http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/profile/417118/ then tell me you can take photo's like this with your iPhone, I can tell you from experience it is technically impossible to do many things on an iPhone that a DSLR can do. While iPhone's are handy & yes you can do amazing things using apps/software but try a very simple shot zooming in on eagle sitting in tree tops, even using the Sony detachable lens QX100 for your smart phone you will still need to crop the image to make out what it is.
The iPhone is absolutely my best camera option! Whatever you can do with a whiz-bang big boomer can be replicated using apps. And it's cheaper!
These are great tips Jeff - thanks! I recently discovered that on my smart phone that I can activate multi-shot mode (taking many photos in quick succession) by holding my finger down on the shutter button - either on the volume button on my phone or on the shutter button on the screen. This is especially fun when snapping action shots.
Great tips Jeff.
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Access press releases, request specific images from the collection, download images from exhibitions, and join the press mailing list.
Access press releases, request specific images from the collection, download images from exhibitions, and join the press mailing list.
|Release Date
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|September 14, 2005
|The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik to Present Free Lecture on In The American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon
|September 12, 2005
|Jubilee Theatre Actors to Present Dramatic Reading of God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse at the Amon Carter Museum
|August 31, 2005
|Amon Carter Museum Presents Laura Wilson: Avedon at Work
|August 23, 2005
|Amon Carter Museum Presents Edward Hopper in Four Acts
|August 20, 2005
|Amon Carter Museum offers New Walking Tour of the Cultural District at www.cartermuseum.org
|August 2, 2005
|The Spirit of 291 Exhibition Celebrates Centennial of Alfred Stieglitz's Gallery that Revolutionized American Art
|April 19, 2005
|Medical Students Study Art at the Amon Carter Museum to Sharpen Clinical Observation Skills
|March 29, 2005
|Amon Carter Museum Gallery Teachers to Instruct TCU Extended Education Class
|March 9, 2005
|Amon Carter Museum Presents Focus Exhibition on Works by Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe
|March 3, 2005
|In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon Opens at Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum 20 Years After 1985 Exhibition
|February 23, 2005
|Amon Carter Museum Receives Support for Digitization Project
|December 17, 2004
|Amon Carter Museum's Nora Christie Named Texas Outstanding Museum Education Art Educator of the Year
|November 19, 2004
|Rare American Illustrated Books Highlighting the History of Color Printing Featured in Amon Carter Museum Special Exhibition
|November 9, 2004
|Amon Carter Museum Presents Innovative Teaching Award
|October 7, 2004
|Amon Carter Museum to Exhibit Important Revolutionary War Portrait of George Washington
|October 4, 2004
|Amon Carter Museum Board Announces Dr. Rick Stewart's Decision to Begin Transition to Chief Curator
|April 28, 2004
|Hudson River School Master Sanford Gifford Featured in Major Retrospective Coming to the Amon Carter Museum
|January 16, 2004
|Amon Carter Museum 2004 Exhibition Schedule
|December 11, 2003
|Amon Carter Museum Presents "Sights Once Seen: Daguerreotyping Frémont's Last Expedition Through the Rockies"
|October 8, 2003
|Amon Carter Museum Library Opens to Public
|September 15, 2003
|Amon Carter Museum Announces Acquisition of Two Important Paintings
|September 15, 2003
|Amon Carter Museum Presents Wildlife and Western Heroes: Alexander Phimister Proctor, Sculptor
|July 15, 2003
|Amon Carter Museum Presents the America of Currier & Ives
|March 31, 2003
|Winslow Homer Watercolor Exhibition Highlights Spring Schedule at the Amon Carter Museum
|February 11, 2003
|"Casting A Spell: Winslow Homer, Artist and Angler" Opens at the Amon Carter Museum April 12
|February 6, 2003
|Amon Carter Museum Launches Online Collection Guides on Two Major Photographers
|January 21, 2003
|Amon Carter Museum Announces Appointment of New Librarian
|January 17, 2003
|Amon Carter Museum Exhibitions and Public Programs
|October 7, 2002
|"Eliot Porter: The Color Of Wildness" Reveals Artist's Groundbreaking Contribution to Medium of Color Photography
|October 7, 2002
|Eliot Porter's Color Photographs Played Key Role in Developing the Environmental Movement


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Electroneu needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 353 designs submitted by 47 freelance designers.
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Cool New Game DropMix - Dennis Burger's Review
Do you fancy yourself a DJ or Music Producer? Me neither, but DropMix takes aspects of both and combines them into a game that looks like a lot of fun.
DropMix takes popular songs and splits them into the individual instrument tracks. For example, one track might be the vocals, one for guitars, percussion, keyboards and so on. Then, you can mix the individual instrument tracks from different songs, into one. The software automatically matches the key and tempo.
Dennis explains the basics.
The base game comes with an electronic playing board and sixty playing cards with NFC chips imbedded inside, each of which contains one musical thread from a pop, rock, electronica, or hip-hop classic from the past few decades. Your hand might consist of the horn line from Cake's "Short Skirt Long Jacket," lead vocals from the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back," the drums from Run DMC's "It's Tricky," guitar from Rick James' "Super Freak," and a wild card containing your choice of instruments from "Bangarang" by Skrillex. Along with your draw pile of 25 other cards, you face an opponent with 30 unique musical threads, and you take turns laying down tracks in specific color-coded spots on the board, scoring points accordingly. You can play 1-on-1, 2-on-2, or even in a party mode where the rules are a little looser. No matter how you play, you generate a fascinatingly distinctive musical soundtrack that's all tempo- and key-matched every time you do.
Even though I'm not a huge fan of the music used in the demo, Dennis explains that there are expansion packs that are from different genres.
I think it could be a pretty fun game. Read the entire review at HomeTheaterReview.com


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Hope to challenge your creativity. Logo to be used on web-site, printed materials CD/DVD labels, downloadable audio/video training programs; club memberships, product reviews, etc.
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MIPSsim support is deprecated and scheduled for removal in late 2012 (for the 3.7 release)
MIPSsim is a proprietary software emulator product of MIPS Technologies. It emulates a fairly simple system with two 8250-class UARTs and a simple network controller. MIPSsim consists of several simulators that differ in performance, degree of details and debugging features. One for example maintains every bit in the system as having three states: 0, 1 and uninitialized. It's cycle accurate simulator may be slow but allows accurate predictors of performance.
One of the difficulties of a SoC designer is to evaluate the impact of the SoC architecture and its configuration on the final system. When the final system includes the Linux Kernel, the MIPSsim simulator can be the good candidate to solve the problem.
Analyzing the traces of several simulations its possible to (in)validate an architecture and to configure the SoC to obtain the best system performances. And in the case of the cache configuration, the impact of this analysis can be very important due to the cost of the cache ram.
This page intends to explain briefly how to quickly run a Linux kernel on MIPSsim configured to simulate a 4KSd where throughout this document the 4KSd should be considered a placeholder for another core made by MIPS Technologies.
This document has been validated on the following platform:
- Ubuntu 7.10/8.04
- Redhat Enterprise 5
- Fedora 8
Support status
MIPSsim is supported by a stock Linux/MIPS kernel since several years. MIPSsim is a proprietary product that is not available to the general public. However Qemu supports a MIPSsim target as well. That said, MIPSsim is an extremly simple platform and virtually everybody is better served by the other targets supported by Qemu and the Linux in general. At the same time it also appears MIPS Techologies has been shifting away from MIPSsim for a while and as such MIPSsim support in the kernel is considered obsolete and will eventually be removed probably whenever its continued support is getting in the way of more useful work.
Configuration of the different components.
Kernel Configuration
To configure the kernel, the best way is to use the MIPSsim default configuration and to modify it:
make mipssim_defconfig
Using menuconfig/xconfig you must choose the endianess correpsponding to the core configuration.
Excepted that, there is no other mandatory modification.
This configuration uses the virtual UART, you must not modify the section "Serial Drivers" excepted if you want integrated your own virtual UART.
MIPSsim Configuration
In order to allow the kernel to calibrate the delay you need to enable interruption from the internal timer. In the configuration file you must have this line:
set TIMER_INT_ENABLE 1
The second part of the MIPSsim configuration is the configuration of the Device Manager. This one is in charge to simulate hardware devices. MIPSsim is provided with some virtual devices. In order to run the Linux kernel on MIPsim you have to enable a RAM, an UART (to get the console) and a RTC. The default configuration of those last devices are those you have to use.
Your device configuration files should look like:
MemIntf(EB, SparseMemRam, 0, 0x0, 64M, MIPS_SparseMemRam) MemIntf(EB, RTC, 2, 0x1fd00070, 0x00000002, MIPS_Rtc) MemIntf(EB, UART, 3, 0x1fd003f8, 0x00000008, MIPS_Uart) SparseMemRam(0,,,0,0,0,0,0) RTC(2,,0,0,1) UART(3,UNBUFFERED,0,0,1)
An important point here is the delay you can add to the SparseMemRam accesses modifying the last number of the line:
GDB Script
The GDB script must set the configuration file, the MIPSsim library and the target MIPS core. By example for a 4KSd the gdb script can look like this:
set mdi library libMIPSsim_MDIc.so set mdi configfile 4KSd.cfg set mdi target 19 set mdi device 01 target mdi load run
Run the Simulation
First make the kernel:
make CROSS_COMPILE=mipsel-linux-
Set environment variables depending on your configuration:
export LM_LICENSE_FILE=@license-server export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/MIPSsim/libraries
Then run the simulation:
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DNSSEC - Enable DNSSEC and DLV security extensions for DNS and prime validating resolvers with DNSSEC keys.
DNSSEC (DNS SECurity) is mechanism which provides integrity and authenticity of DNS data. It became more important after new Kaminsky DNS poisoning attacks were found in early 2008. The most widely used recursing nameservers support DNSSEC. We currently support it for bind and unbound.
- Name: Adam Tkac
- Name: Paul Wouters
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 30
- Last updated: 2009-03-03
- Percentage of completion: 90% (commandline tool dnssec-conf finished 100%, system-config-dnssec finished 70%)
Detailed Description
Important servers already support DNSSEC. Main problem is key distribution. A full validation path would start at the root (".") but it is not likely that the root will be signed very soon. There are two methods for working around not having a signed root:
- Using Trust Anchor Repositories (TAR's or "batched TAR") for TLD keys
- Using DNSSEC Lookaside Verification (DLV or "live TAR") for enduser domains within an unsigned TLD.
This feature adds support for both TAR and DLV support, using the following approach:
- supply initial set of DNSSEC keys for TLD's (and perhaps some "very important domains") as long as the root is not signed. This is done via dnssec-conf)
- allow easy way to enable/disable DNSSEC via commandline tool dnssec-configure from the dnssec-conf package (completed)
- allow easy way to enable/disable DNSSEC via GUI tool system-config-dnssec tool (70% completed)
- allow configuration of any DLV Registry, with the default set to ISC, using the above two mentioned tools (completed)
- support for automated Trust Anchor Rollovers from DNS information via the autotrust package using secure RFC5011 update mechanism. This is in addition to updates supplied via the dnssec-conf package. (completed)
Benefit to Fedora
Our servers (and clients) will be able to use DNSSEC, and be safer against cache poisoning, Kaminsky attacks, spoofing and other known DNS attacks. Fedora machines will also be able to use signed TLD's and individually signed domains in DLV without any additional administration. For example, right now that already gives you DNSSEC for the entire .gov domain, plus a handful of TLD's and a few dozen in-arpa domains including the ENUM zone.
- create and add a package dnssec-conf which will supply initial set of DNSSEC keys to machines. (completed)
- Do not yet enable DNSSEC in default bind and unbound configurations. But make it trivially easy to enable DNSSEC via dnssec-conf. (completed)
- create commandline tool (dnssec-configure from the dnssec-conf package) that will easily enable/disable DNSSEC and which allows to switch between DLV Registries and supplied DNSSEC keys (completed)
- add the "autotrust" package which implements RFC 5011 - "Automated Updates of DNS Security (DNSSEC) Trust Anchors". This package includes a daily cronjob that will try to update any configured DNSSEC trust anchors from the dnssec-conf package, and any manually installed trust anchors by the administrator. (completed)
- create system-config-dnssec GUI tool to enable / disable the most important features (70% done)
- Change the default configurations to enable DNSSEC for Fedora-12 (todo for F-12)
How To Install
yum install bind-utils yum install bind (or unbound or both) yum install dnssec-conf dnssec-configure --dnssec=on --dlv=on service named start (or service unbound start) yum install system-config-dnssec then navigate to System->Administration->DNSSEC (system-config-dnssec is not yet finished)
How to Test
dig +dnssec +multiline -t ns gov. @localhost
You should see the AD bit in the reply, as well as the RRSIG signature record:
$ dig +dnssec +multiline -t ns gov. @127.0.0.1 ; <<>> DiG 9.5.1b3-RedHat-9.5.1-0.9.b3.fc10 <<>> +dnssec +multiline -t ns gov. @localhost ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 14948 ;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags: do; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;gov. IN NS ;; ANSWER SECTION: gov. 259188 IN NS G.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM. gov. 259188 IN NS A.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM. gov. 259188 IN NS C.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM. gov. 259188 IN NS E.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM. gov. 259188 IN NS D.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM. gov. 259188 IN NS F.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM. gov. 259188 IN NS B.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM. gov. 259188 IN RRSIG NS 7 1 259200 20090309210102 ( 20090304210102 31802 gov. N1azd+3+CfHD4YIMukC/cGlNBTvaG6gDOa7KmSy+MmjI hWiJv+1bHuj3caDrJ98vR4KuyS7xCb/q5J7ParrjtLYV YWxnB6dDdX8cyhB9NjAuwOmCrmXIM9/3uedKwpbuQK1z ktWuHp0xbQT1bkxKnqZswASqbqB96lvfryWsAH01M9b9 AOA/FP/iefWLGD/JaDCEfy2DtD2tke7hXNIQZICegoye oK1VhiOgkRYv6iEdYIH/pBztsP+DfaD5+hdBjQp2/P5b 7LflyjK2S26ZSZ3LAxDgWZGDvCFngCozSaoLq16RO4DU vVPg33HHycdslVP2s+mtthkW9wcAC9+IMA== ) ;; Query time: 122 msec ;; SERVER: 188.8.131.52#53(188.8.131.52) ;; WHEN: Wed Mar 4 18:07:11 2009 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 451
If you want to see more DNSSEC related records run:
dig +multiline +dnssec -t any gov. @localhost
To verify that forged/broken data is properly refused, you can test against some test zones:
dig +multiline +dnssec forged.test.xelerance.com @localhost
This should produce a ServFail answer. To force getting the known bad answer, run:
dig +multiline +dnssec +cd forged.test.xelerance.com @localhost
This should produce the forged/broken answer despite its known forgery.
User Experience
Easy configuration and priming of DNSSEC aware resolvers.
Related Packages
Contingency Plan
Disable DNSSEC by default
Release Notes
Bind and unbound (recursive DNS servers) do not have DNSSEC validation enabled in their default configuration, but are ready to be configured and primed for DNSSEC using the dnssec-configure command of the dnssec-conf package. With DNSSEC enabled, when a domain supplies DNSSEC data (such as .gov, .se, the ENUM zone and other TLD's) then that data will be cryptographically validated on the recursive server. If validation fails, due to attempts at cache poisoning (eg via a Kaminsky Attack) then the enduser will not be given this forged/spoofed data. DNSSEC deployment is gaining speed rapidly, and is a crucial part and the next logical step to make the internet more secure for end users. And now Fedora makes this extremely easy to deploy. On the next version of Fedora, DNSSEC validation will be enabled per default.


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In the pages of our nation's history, and in Texas, in particular, there has never been a person of a more spotless character than John Alexander Formwalt. He was the second son of Jacob and Rebecca (Troup) Formwalt born in Knoxville, Tennessee on April 22, 1820. His great-grandparents were of German birth and came to America in colonial days.
When a young boy John received his primary education in the subscription schools of the time and pursued his studies there until he was twelve years old. At age eighteen he went to a private school taught by an Englishman in the mountains of Alabama.
In the year 1840, young John A. Formwalt made his first visit to Texas. He stayed in Red River County for six months and then returned to Tennessee, having made the trip on horseback. He spent some years in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, where he worked as clerk and bookkeeper for a mercantile firm, but when his abilities and reliable character came to be recognized he was elected to the office of county clerk. He remained in that position from 1847 to 1849, when he was forced to seek a change of climate because of failing health.
This was in 1849, when the California gold fever was intense; and with others he journeyed to the Pacific slope, where he engaged in mining for nearly two years. He returned to his home in Mississippi and a year later, selling out his interests there, he emigrated to East Texas. He made the trip with ox teams and reached Anderson County after traveling for three months! When there, he purchased and operated a farm for two years and then moved to Palestine in the same county, where he was appointed postmaster, serving in that capacity for three years.
He resumed farming and in 1859 purchased a section of land near Thorp Spring in Hood County close to the town of Granbury. He was a very important man in the development of Hood County and was known to take an active part in its affairs and was recognized as a "wide-awake," progressive and valued citizen.
Major Formwalt was a Democrat, though he never was a politician. He was first appointed to the office of Justice of the Peace to fill a vacancy and was subsequently elected to the same office three times. He was a Master Mason in good standing for 25 years or more, and in religious belief he was a Presbyterian. He was very generous with his contributions to educational interests; and school, church and social interests found in him a friend.
Married twice, first at Pontotoc, Mississippi, in December, 1845, to Miss Courtney Lane McEwen, daughter of Colonel D. K. McEwen, he was the father of seven children. Courtney died in 1880, and having preceded Major Formwalt in death, her grave marker has the designation "Consort"
Courtney L.
Consort of J. M. Formwalt
Born May 11, 1825
Died Dec. 20, 1880
Consort of J. M. Formwalt
Born May 11, 1825
Died Dec. 20, 1880
After Courtney died, and on December 25, 1882, John married Mrs. Burdett, widow of John Burdett and daughter of Judge Jowers, of Palestine, Texas.
In Memory of Maj. J. A. Formwalt Born April 22, 1820 Died Jan 18, 1914
Both Major Formwalt and Courtney L. Formwalt's memorials are on this tall, impressive monument located in a shady, beautiful spot under an old, magnificent cedar in Granbury Cemetery in Hood County.
Major Formwalt was always a leader and after Civil War broke out, he enlisted as a private in Captain William Shannon's company to serve in the Confederate Army; but in the following spring Colonel A. Nelson, to whom this company reported, noticed the qualities of leadership that this young private possessed, and sent Formwalt to the Brazos settlement to raise a company. He soon accomplished this. Formwalt was elected its captain, and he and his men immediately reported to Colonel Nelson's Tenth Regiment of Texas Infantry. This noted regiment, upon the promotion of Colonel Nelson, was subsequently commanded by Colonel Roger Q. Mills, and Major Formwalt participated in all the many desperate battles in which his command took part.
Major Formwalt was captured January 11, 1862, at Arkansas Post, and suffered imprisonment at Columbus, Ohio, for five months, when he was exchanged. After that time his service was in the Army of the Tennessee. At the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, in the assault led by Generals Pat Cleburne and Hiram B. Granbury, Formwalt, as senior captain, led his regiment to the charge and fell, severely wounded, being one among many other heroes whose blood was shed that day. He was not mortally wounded, however, and was afterward promoted to the rank of major.
Not long after the war ended, Major Formwalt returned home, began a mercantile business in Granbury but soon returned to the farm which had been badly wasted during the years he was gone. His wife and children had faced many hardships and dangers known only to those who were within the territory so frequently invaded by the Indians. Much of his property was wasted and gone, but he resumed the labors of a civilian and soon again became prosperous.
"Though spending his later years in judicial office, the military title of Major is far more fitting to Mr. Formwalt than that of judge, for, possessing the bluntness and courage of the Scottish chief, he combines with it the grace and courtesy of the faithful Christian gentleman. Deeply imbued with sentiments of patriotic devotion to his country, had his life been spent under favoring circumstances, honor and glory might alike have attached to his name and fixed it well upon the pages of his country's history; but as the fatality of events have decreed he is now serving his neighbors in the humble office of magistrate at the age of seventy-six years, but with buoyant step and figure erect appears not to exceed sixty. It has already been fitly written:
'The march of the soldier is ending;
On the hilltops over the river
The campfire lights are ascending
To our God, the merciful giver,
Where comrades assembling in glory
At the heavenly gates are waiting;
While mortals in song and in story,
Their valorous deeds are relating.' "1896
Granbury Cemetery, Granbury, Hood County, Texas
Photographs taken by Judith Richards Shubert (c) 2009
History of Texas, 1896, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co.
Hood County Texas Genealogical Society
In honor of Memorial Day, the topic for the June 2009 edition of the GYR Carnival is Veteran's Memorials. Sharing photos and/or stories related to all-things veteran's in honor of our fallen heroes.


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