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FOOD- THE EATER- Fine framework: Local's built a strong foundation
"Let this serve as an outline of the good; for we must presumably first sketch it roughly, and then later fill in the details. But it would seem that any one is capable of carrying on and articulating what has once been well outlined, and that time is a good discoverer or partner in such a work; to which facts the advances of the arts are due; for any one can add what is lacking."
–Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, Chapter 7
Belmont's relatively recent addition, The Local, is well-outlined. It's got an upper deck in the back, front and side patios, a beautiful bar dining room on the main floor, and a cozy upstairs room with several more tables. It's got lots of exposed brick, lots of warm wood (much of it rough-milled or reclaimed), local art on the walls, and no TV. Deep cuts of intelligent jazz seem to come from an aficionado's iPod, sometimes overbearing on the front patio. The menu is simple yet adventurous, packed with local ingredients, and priced to move. The waitstaff is helpful, well-informed and mostly cheerful. The crowd is Belmont-perfect: University professors, recent and long-ago graduates, friends of the waitstaff—believers in an urban utopia and in the concept of the Local.
We had good meals at the Local, but also found that the outline is still waiting for some "advances of the arts" and the "good discoverer" of a bit more time as far as food on the plate goes. That won't keep us from going back to enjoy what's already done well there– the frites, for example, and the oysters– and greasing the works in anticipation of a long run for a strong framework, outlined below.
I. Appetizers
A. Shrimp and Mussels Romesco
1. A pair of shrimp and a half dozen mussels with two slices of somewhat waxy Spanish-style chorizo, beautifully presented and delicious, although the shrimp and chorizo seemed like an afterthought. More mussels, bag the shrimp, and try Mexican chorizo instead?
B. Stuffed Eggplant
1. Tastily roasted thin slices of slender eggplant filled with a wonderful medley of small-cut lightly sautéed yellow and zucchini squash and leavened with a good balance of ricotta, served somewhat like a sandwich with the eggplant slices for bread. The whole thing, garnished with a sprinkling of chopped tomatoes that could be played up to join with the delicious roasted garlic cloves as a bolder acidic counterpoint to the slightly bland (in a good but too-dominant way) eggplant centerpiece.
C. Tagliatelle Pasta Special
1. It's nice to be able to order a variety of pasta dishes in entrée or appetizer portions. This special evolved thanks to the neighbor's garden yield of broccoli rabe and red peppers, plus tomatoes and fresh corn, each kernel crisp and fresh yet toasted golden at the tip, in a light cream sauce that wanted zing– soave or pinot grigio?– and definitely welcomed our request of grated parmesan and milled black pepper.
II. Salad
A. Crisp Fried Oysters with Baby Spinach
1. Deep golden brown– beyond tempura, beyond cornmeal, textured like only the most beautiful chicken livers of my old Kentucky home– served over the freshest of baby spinach greens with a cool Pernod cream flavored more with lemon zest than juice. Enhanced pleasantly by apple-smoked bacon.
III. Entrees
A. Steak Frites
1. A New York Strip. I confess I enjoy mine cooked medium: pink, not red. It arrived well-done. Chef's punishment for someone who doesn't prefer rare? Probably just a mistake. It was edible, even surprisingly tender for being well-done. The caramelized onions had lost much of their body in an acidic, sweet and thin but effective tamarind sauce.
2. The frites, which we enjoyed both with the steak and the Local burger (see Entrée C), were exemplary, served Belgian-style in a cone, perfectly salted, well-crisped in peanut oil.
B. Local "Rag Mountain" Trout
1. The trout was filleted and baked on a cedar plank. The fish was as fresh as fresh gets, with no untoward fishiness; neither was the cedar too aromatic. An orange-colored spice sprinkled on the fish seemed to be a sort of ghost Old Bay, with a hint of scent but not much flavor; the sauce, pleasingly drizzled over the butterflied fish, was the same thousand-island-ish remoulade that had accompanied a mostly wonderful andouille-stuffed quail appetizer that won't fit into this outline.
2. Accompanied by Crawfish Twice Baked Potatoes, a single potato, alone, naked and dry at the other end of the plank. The center was good, with several tasty crawfish tails in a buttery, if bland, mash. I love potato-skin, but this thick husk was too much. This dish could needs something to bring the potato and the trout together– ratatouille? Lemony sautéed arugula?
C. Horseradish-encrusted Yellowfin Tuna Special
1. It sounded wonderful, but the execution fell short of the ideal. There was too much membrane in the fish, as with the ham sandwich of yesteryear, which when you take a bite you pull out the whole slice of ham. We love our tuna raw; if it's cooked, we love it when the chef can give us the perfect crust outside and the velvety raw freshness inside, but it didn't work out this time.
D. The Local Burger
1. This is a really good burger: organic beef, manchego cheese, apple-smoked bacon and caramelized onions. Include some housemade mayonnaise and that elusive fresh-baked bun that isn't too tough (instead of an unremarkable but serviceable Kaiser), and you'd have a truly great burger.
2. Frites!
IV. Dessert and Conclusion
A. Strawberry Shortcake—Vanilla Cake filled with Strawberries and Sweetened Whipped Cream
1. The description says it all, but the dry and unremarkable cake held the other ingredients back.
2.Coffee: nothing to write home about.
B. Conclusion
1. The outline is brilliant and we hope it will stoically and patiently await advances in the already highly capable kitchen.

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CHARLOTTE � Three of the four home teams in this week�s NFL conference semifinals are favorites.
The one that isn�t?
The Carolina Panthers.
That�s despite the fact that Carolina actually beat the opponent (San Francisco 49ers) it plays on its own home field earlier this season.
Do the Panthers feel disrespected? Is the underdog role perceived as a slight? Will being the underdog be used as motivation?
The answer to all three questions is almost certainly an emphatic �Yes.�
But you�d never know it from the Carolina locker room on Monday as it prepared for Sunday�s 1 p.m. NFC semifinal at Bank of America Stadium.
�After you look at what happened last night to Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers, you understand,� Panthers veteran wide receiver Steve Smith said of Sunday�s 23-20 49ers win in frigid Green Bay. �As a veteran, you can�t take it as a shot at us. And, at the end of the day, it happens on the field � so none of that really matters.�
Another frequently outspoken Panthers player, defensive back Mike Mitchell, echoed Smith�s sentiments.
�It�s the NFL playoffs and you�ve just got to go play,� Mitchell said.
Mitchell then repeated the clich� he used over and over when talking to media about Sunday�s game.
�If it�s not about blocking and tackling, I don�t have anything to do with it,� Mitchell said.
Head coach Ron Rivera had a spin on his team being a home underdog, despite its 10-9 win in San Francisco and 7-1 home record this season � losing only in the season-opener to No. 1 NFC seed Seattle.
�It�s kind of funny,� Rivera said. �Being the underdog puts pressure on them, doesn�t it?�
The translation of each of those comments is fairly clear.
While the Panthers recognize and even understand why the defending NFC champion 49ers may be a favorite on the road, they also realize they�ve beaten this team before.
But, as Rivera has made clear all season long, his favorite catch phrase of the season works for every game.
�This is as important game,� Rivera said. �We all know that. But it�s no more important than all the other games this year. That�s why we�re here.�
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Would you be able to unprotect the april fools day article and talk page ? For some reason User:Conservative decided to protect them both. On a more positive note, I hope your and your family had a happy and reflective Easter. [[User:Dvergne|Dvergne]] 11:45, 1 April 2013 (EDT)
Would you be able to unprotect the april fools day article and talk page ? For some reason User:Conservative decided to protect them both. On a more positive note, I hope your and your family had a happy and reflective Easter. [[User:Dvergne|Dvergne]] 11:45, 1 April 2013 (EDT)
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Financial crisis of 2008
There was just two months work in this article reverted without explanation. The article is 5 years out of date and in need of updating. It is loaded with Prof. Jensen's hope that government Keynsian stimulus's are the solution to the crisis -- which has now been emphatically rejected by both the European Union and the United States through sequestration. Can we get meaningful discussion on any problems, or can the reversion be restored and I can continue, along with my work in Category:Budget terms, Fannie Mae, and other articles related to the crisis. Thank you. OscarO 22:20, 6 March 2013 (EST)
Hello I have seen that only administrators can upload pictures. So can you please uploud a picture of the dictator Alexander Lukashenko? Like this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Lukashenko_2007.jpg --Alex00 12:34, 11 March 2013 (EDT)
- There are limitations on use of that photo, which make it not worth the trouble for the relatively obscure figure.--Andy Schlafly 12:49, 11 March 2013 (EDT)
Arinze won't become pope
I notice to you the post that I have written on the talk page of cardinal Arinze, explaining why he won't become pope at all, I assume that since nobody answered me and you kept uphelding that Arinze will be elected on the main page's head... you didn't read it. --Swordsman 12:52, 13 March 2013 (EDT)
CPAC straw poll results
Mr. Schlafly, your headline for the CPAC straw poll contains the line "...as the older RINOs strike out.", is this meant to imply that you believe that the other candidates under consideration were RINOs? If that's the case, I couldn't help but notice that of the other 22 candidates on the ballot, only 2 appear on our RINO list here at Conservapedia (Chris Christie and Mitch Daniels). Would you like me to add the other names to the list? --DonnyC 19:58, 16 March 2013 (EDT)
- No, the headline doesn't mean that every non-winner is a RINO. It means the RINO faction of the party struck out, including critics of Rand Paul and folks like Mitt Romney.--Andy Schlafly 22:03, 16 March 2013 (EDT)
Bullied and banned by liberal sysop for speaking the truth.
On the Steubenville rape case page, I, BenCG, correctly pointed out that the rape case was stalled by local Democrat officials, only to have justice brought by the Republicans at the state level. Apparently I offended the liberal sensibilities of liberal evolutionist and atheist User:Brenden. I can understand dealing with liberal bias and ignorance on Wikipedia. But to have to deal with it on Conservapedia at the behest of liberal sysops is disgusting. Brenden refuses to accept the facts surrounding the Steubenville rape case and, like an atheist, refuses to accept credit given to Republican AG Mike DeWine for his good, Godly work in bringing the perpetrators to justice. BenCG2 14:16, 18 March 2013 (EDT)
- BenCG, your edits to the Steubenville rape case were in no way in good faith. I trust anyone with some sense can tell that the entire point of the article was not to complain about politics, but rather to explain the disgusting crime that took place. BenCG, instead of lying and manipulating people, why don't you go do something productive?brenden 00:07, 23 March 2013 (EDT)
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Hi Andy, would you be able to change my username to DickV so as I conform with the first name, last initial policy ? Cheers. 09:22, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
- That's unnecessary at this point - the policy is for users who have not made substantive edits.--Andy Schlafly 09:28, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
Andy, the users who have not made substantive edits are the ones that get burned by the rule! You probably know that Mr. V, along with another of others, are occasionally beaten up for the appearance (emphasis on appearance) of hypocrisy in blocking people over the naming rule while not himself complying with it. He was simply lucky that no one was zealous in applying the rule when he was new. He is making a good-faith effort to fix this appearance of hypocrisy. Please let him do so. SamHB 22:47, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
- I must admit I always assumed Vergne was the surname. Still if someone wants to change their name it can do no harm can it? --DamianJohn 22:51, 19 March 2013 (EDT)
- So will you change my username please ? Dvergne 23:17, 22 March 2013 (EDT)
Hi Mr. Schlafly,
I am a relatively new user here at Conservapedia, but since I am very familiar with how MediaWiki works, I was able to "adapt" to here easily. I have a few questions about Conservapedia which probably only you could answer.
- Are there any plans for the MediaWiki version of this wiki to be updated? The version currently is 1.16.0, but the latest version of MediaWiki is 1.20.3!
- Is Conservapedia:Image upload requests still being monitored? If not, I would appreciate it if you or another user with the upload tag could take a look at my upload request.
- Finally, is there a page protection policy here? After searching through the help pages and guidelines, I couldn't find one. I think we need one since I noticed that Evolutionary biology careers is fully protected with no reason given, and there has been an outcry on the talk page.
Thanks, DashP 14:27, 20 March 2013 (EDT)
Dear Mr. Schlafly,
Regarding this edit, may I suggest that you discuss any such reorganization of the article on the talk page first (as did I) before you make it. Also, some people may view marking the edit as "minor" may be misleading. Many thanks, Wschact 15:00, 24 March 2013 (EDT)
Best Wishes to you & yours
May many blessings be yours on this day of remembrance. :-) Taj 02:36, 31 March 2013 (EDT)
- Happy Easter from me too --Alex00 08:11, 31 March 2013 (EDT)
- Happy Easter, Mr. Schlafly! GregG 09:12, 31 March 2013 (EDT)
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Dear Mr. Schlafly,
Can you please edit the template to move the
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noinclude element? This way, pages using the template are not categorized as Templates, which is what is happening now. Thanks, GregG 22:16, 31 March 2013 (EDT)
- Good suggestion, improved accordingly.--Andy Schlafly 23:05, 31 March 2013 (EDT)
Would you be able to unprotect the april fools day article and talk page ? For some reason User:Conservative decided to protect them both. On a more positive note, I hope your and your family had a happy and reflective Easter. Dvergne 11:45, 1 April 2013 (EDT)
- Done per request.--Andy Schlafly 11:52, 1 April 2013 (EDT)


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$3 million in stolen equipment recovered, 2 men arrested
GPS tracking device led to stolen goods
The Crawford County Sheriff's Department, with the help of other law enforcement agencies, seized more than $3 million worth of stolen property, including bulldozers and trailers.
"The positive side is that we've stopped a guy that's been stealing hundreds of thousand of dollars worth of equipment," said Crawford County Sheriff Ron Brown.
Brown said Toby and Carnie Yancy, son and father, respectively, were arrested earlier this week and face several charges, including theft by receiving.
Brown said Toby, the son, is the leader of the heist.
"It appears what he's been doing is just driving around just loading up and stealing anything," said Brown. "From getting it off the side of the interstate to going and cutting the lock on a storage facility and dragging out the equipment."
Officers are investigating to find out if Toby Yancy was using his trucking company as a cover for the crimes.
"We have located some bank records of a checking account for Yancy Trucking," said Brown. "But, as far as if he's been making legitimate deposits, we haven't even gotten that far yet."
A GPS tracking device inside one of the stolen trailers led officers to the Yancy home, where they discovered the stolen equipment.
"It's going to be several weeks before we're comfortable that we've got everything," said Brown. "But, we won't get everything. He's been doing this for at least, two to two-and-a-half years. There's no telling what he's gotten, sold and discarded."
Carnie Yancy posted bond on Friday. His son, Toby, remains in custody at the Crawford County Jail.


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Like winning Powerball, seeing a UFO and Thanksgiving dinner being served on time, the odds of Bill Belichick providing an injury update are astronomical. The clandestine coach continued his tightlipped ways yesterday when addressing the status of All-Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski, who broke his left forearm in the closing minutes of Sunday's 59-24 romp over the Indianapolis Colts at Gillette Stadium.
Like winning Powerball, seeing a UFO and Thanksgiving dinner being served on time, the odds of Bill Belichick providing an injury update are astronomical.
The clandestine coach continued his tightlipped ways yesterday when addressing the status of All-Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski, who broke his left forearm in the closing minutes of Sunday's 59-24 romp over the Indianapolis Colts at Gillette Stadium.
"No, I don't really have anything," Belichick said during a conference call. "Our medical people are looking at all our players, trying to access their situation, as they always do on Monday. I'll catch up with them if they've had a chance to see them all at the end of the day."
Belichick later added: "Whatever the injury information is, we'll release it in a timely fashion, when we're required by the league, just like we always do."
On the practice report from yesterday the Patriots listed Gronkowski as not having practiced due to forearm/hip injuries.
Gronkowski reportedly had surgery yesterday. The standard recovery time for such an injury is four to six weeks, although it can often be as little as three weeks and as long as eight.
There are six weeks remaining in the regular season.
While Patriot fans are panicking over the situation, the Patriots themselves are being pragmatic.
"He's such a great player, and it sucks that he gets hurt, but it's part of this game," quarterback Tom Brady said during his weekly paid appearance on WEEI. "So he's got to do his best to get back as soon as possible, and we've got to go out there and win some games without him."
Gronkowski is tied for 15th in the NFL in receptions (53), he's 11th in receiving yards (748) and tied for first in receiving touchdowns (10). He's universally regarded as the best blocker at his position in the league.
You don't replace a player like that, you just try to patch things together as best as possible. With five tight ends on the roster, the Patriots have plenty of options heading into Thursday night's game against the Jets in New Jersey.
Daniel Fells, who was a healthy scratch Sunday, and Michael Hoomanawanui are competent blockers. Visanthe Shiancoe, who has appeared in the last two games after missing significant time with a hamstring injury, is a solid receiver.
"(Gronkowski) does a lot for us, but there's a reason why you have other guys on the roster, too," Brady said, later adding, "Everyone's got to get out there and start trying to make up for having Gronk out.
"So that's just part of it, and you've got to find ways to adjust, and no one really cares. No one cares what's going on with us. We've got to go out there and still go out there and win."
Then there's Aaron Hernandez. Arguably the Patriots' most versatile player, he has missed the past three games and six overall with a high ankle sprain.
The feeling is Hernandez is close to returning. His presence would obviously mitigate the loss of Gronkowski.
"I don't know," Belichick said when asked if Hernandez would play Thursday. "We'll have to see how close he is or isn't to playing. Probably make a decision later on in the week, maybe even a game-time decision."
The Patriots don't play again for 10 days after facing the Jets. So holding out Hernandez, who has already had one setback, for another game might be tempting.
Belichick dismissed that line of thinking.
"I think that a player's availability for the game would be judged on its merits, period, for this game," he said.
Gronkowski was injured while blocking on an extra point that closed the scoring in a 35-point win for the Patriots. Why he was even on the field in such a situation has become a hot topic.
"Just one of his roles and jobs in the game," Belichick responded.
And if you're looking for some good news in a bad situation, the unwanted time off should help Gronkowski with regard to the painful hip injury he has been playing with for most of the season.


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The successful 6 June 1944 D-Day landings were only the opening scenes in a naval drama that continued to unfold on the beaches of Normandy. As Operation Neptune's planners had recognized, once U.S., British, and Canadian troops began getting ashore, the Allies were in a frantic race with the Wehrmacht to build up strength at the point of contact.
For the Western powers this came down to moving huge numbers of men and amounts of materiel across the English Channel while protecting the convoys from German air and naval attacks. At the same time, they needed to interdict the enemy's movement of vehicles, equipment, and personnel to the invasion area from elsewhere in Europe. The winner of this contest would be in the best position to decimate its opponent's forces, and either (in the German case) push the invaders back into the Channel or (in the Allies' case) punch a hole through the enemy's defenses and break into the open French countryside.
Rush to Build Up
By 7 June, D+1, Allied naval commanders realized their buildup was going much slower than planned. Many of the ferries and landing craft the navies had planned to use for the offload of merchant ships and LSTs had not made it across the Channel, leading to a backlog of cargo in the vessels off the Normandy coast. Knocked-out craft and vehicles crowding several landing sites, as well as continued German small-arms, mortar, and artillery fire, impeded the flow of materiel across the beaches. Adding to the problems on Utah and Omaha beaches, the U.S. Army had insisted on a selective offload—cargo and materiel discharged by order of priority. This was extremely difficult since the units ashore whose job was to straighten out the logistical mess lacked ship manifests to determine which vessels contained what cargo.1
By 10 June Royal Navy Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, overall naval commander of Operation Neptune, had convinced U.S. First Army commander Lieutenant General Omar Bradley that selective offload was taking far too long and the Allies were falling behind schedule. To further speed up the operation, Ramsay ordered LSTs to unload directly on the beaches. A drawback to this plan, however, was that the landing ships would be stranded high and dry for 10 to 12 hours before the next high tide floated them free to return to England for more cargo.
Nonetheless, mostly as a result of the discarding of the selective offload and the addition of more ferries and lighters, Allied buildup rates increased markedly. By 18 June, the Americans had landed 314,514 troops, 41,000 vehicles, and 130,000 tons of supplies. British efforts were just as impressive, with 314,547 troops, 54,000 vehicles, and 114,000 tons of supplies offloaded.2
The improvement was also due to the construction of artificial ports, code-named Mulberrries, off Omaha Beach opposite Vierville and St. Laurent, and Gold Beach off Arromanches. By D+10 the harbors, components of which had been shipped or towed over from England, were well on their way to being fully assembled. Seabees of the 25th Naval Construction Regiment built and maintained the Omaha Mulberry, where ships started unloading on 16 June. The vehicle discharge rate immediately soared to 78 in 38 minutes, while the time for unloading an LST fell to just over one hour, compared with up to 12 hours for one of the beached landing ships. For the Gold Mulberry, two roadways leading from pierheads to the beach were already in use on the 16th. There, the daily rate of discharge had risen from 600 tons on D+6 to about 1,500 tons on D+10.3
Managing the Beaches
The Allies' eventual ability to rapidly build up troops, supplies, and vehicles in Normandy owed in large part to the men and officers stationed on the beaches themselves. These beachmasters had begun landing on D-Day—many amid some of the heaviest fighting—to organize the chaos at most of the landing sites and otherwise facilitate the movement of troops, vehicles, and supplies inland. In the days and nights immediately following the assault, German artillery and aircraft attacks did not make their jobs any easier.
On the U.S. beaches, the main responsibility for shoreline operations rested with the Army, which assigned two Engineer Special Brigades to Omaha and one to Utah. In turn the Navy assigned one Naval Beach Battalion to each brigade. The beach battalions were closely associated with their parent brigades to the point they had no direct links to other Navy units. According to the CO of the 2nd Naval Beach Battalion, Commander John F. Curtin, the 1st Engineer Special Brigade, which his unit served under at Utah, "not only had the knowledge, skill, and experience necessary successfully to carry on the operation, but, as well, consistently [was] motivated by a spirit of cooperation and help, which did much to facilitate the performance of duty by the Navy."4
The Engineer Special Brigades' responsibilities included unloading vessels, driving transport vehicles, and manning anti-aircraft guns. Among other tasks, Naval Beach Battalion Sailors controlled the beaching of craft, cleared remaining beach obstacles, surveyed and mapped the shores, and repaired craft. Both organizations included medical sections for treating the wounded and facilitating their transfer to offshore ships for transport back to England, as well as communications units to help maintain a smooth flow of traffic onto and off of the beaches.
The British assigned specialized units from several services the responsibility of managing the eastern beaches. Thus, operations at Gold, Juno, and Sword were variously managed by Royal Navy Beach Commando units, Army Beach Groups, RAF Beach Squadrons, and RAF Beach Balloon Squadrons. The British operation focused on traffic control and establishing Beach Maintenance Areas, which featured storage dumps for petroleum, ammunition, and rations and assembly areas for incoming troops and vehicles.5
Defending the Anchorages
Initially, the German Navy had the potential to slow the Allied buildup. Between 7 and 9 June, E-boats operating out of Cherbourg and Le Havre were able to sink several vessels, including the LST-376 and LST-314, and damage others in the Bay of the Seine. Torpedo boats sortieing from Boulogne added to the Allied losses on the night of 9-10 June, and in the early hours of the 11th, Cherbourg E-boats sank the tug USS Partridge (ATO-138) and damaged the LST-538.
The Allies, meanwhile, struck back. On the night of 8-9 June, German destroyers set out from Brest but were met by the British 10th Destroyer Flotilla, which sank two of the enemy tin cans and damaged a third. After several German Navy vessels were sighted in Le Havre, the Allied air forces bombed the harbor on the evening of 14 June, sinking three fleet torpedo boats, 10 E-boats, and 15 mine and patrol craft. The Kreigsmarine lost numerous additional minesweepers and other vessels when Boulogne's harbor was similarly hit the next night.6
The result of these and other Allied actions effectively eliminated any significant German Navy surface threat by the end of June, and the Kriegsmarine turned to human torpedoes as their next line of defense. The Neger consisted of two G7e torpedoes, one mounted atop the other. Instead of a warhead, the upper torpedo featured a plexiglass-covered cockpit in which a pilot could control the fish; the conventional bottom torpedo was detachable. In early July this weapon managed to sink three minesweepers and fatally damage a Free Polish cruiser, the Dragon. The German Navy, however, paid a heavy price for their use—in two nights of operations 30 Negers were lost—and by mid-August it had largely ceased deploying them.7
Germany's U-boats, its most dangerous World War II naval vessels, posed a serious threat to Neptune. Prior to D-Day, some 46 submarines waited in Bay of Biscay pens to attack the Allied invasion fleet and its transports. U-boat operations, however would be severely limited by the capabilities of these boats. All were medium Type VIICs, larger subs being unsuitable for combat in the relatively shallow Channel. Moreover, of the 36 U-boats that set off for the invasion area when the landings began, only nine were equipped with snorkels, extendable tubes that allowed a boat to operate her diesel engines and recharge her batteries while submerged. The boats without the breathing gear had to periodically surface and as a result were quickly spotted, attacked, and sunk by Allied surface and air patrols.
For several days after 6 June, the snorkel boats were able to do some damage to Allied shipping, sinking three merchant ships and damaging a fourth. And a week after D-Day, a trio of U-boats sank the LST-280 and the frigate HMS Mourne as well as damaged beyond repair a second frigate, HMS Blackwood. Allied patrols, however, were generally effective in preventing the subs from penetrating the immediate area of operations. By mid-July it was clear that the U-boat effort had failed; in all, between June and August the snorkel boats sank 7 escorts, 3 LSTs, and 13 transports, while the Allies destroyed 18 of the submarines.8
The Luftwaffe also failed to mount significant opposition to the invasion build-up. In large part the weak response was due to Operation Pointblank, the U.S. and British preinvasion bomber offensive to attrite the German air force and destroy aircraft-related industries. Moreover, during and after D-Day, the Allies were able to blanket the skies over the Channel and Normandy with U.S. and British warplanes.
The most significant threat to Allied shipping came in the form of oyster mines dropped by German aircraft at night. Set off by the pressure-wave created as a nearby ship moved through the water, the mines sank four destroyers and two minesweepers and damaged 25 miscellaneous vessels in the Utah sector during the first ten days of Operation Neptune. Between 22 and 29 June, oyster mines caused the loss of five warships and four other vessels off the British beaches. Allied minesweepers had a difficult time detonating the bottom-dwelling oysters, and antiaircraft guns were inadequate defense against the mine-laying planes because the area where the explosives could be dropped was so extensive. Only after the Allies broke out of Normandy, forcing the enemy aircraft to operate from airfields and mine depots great distances from the transport area, did the mine problem become negligible.9
Supporting the Advance
After playing a key role on D-Day, the warships of the Allied Expeditionary Force stood by and provided naval gunfire support (NGFS) to Allied ground forces until the troops had advanced out of range. Initially, a number of factors complicated the mission. First, the offshore fire-support areas were extremely congested, which prevented some ships from positioning themselves in the most favorable positions for firing on assigned targets and avoiding shells from enemy batteries.
Second, many ships had difficulty establishing and maintaining contact with their shore fire-control parties. For example, on D-Day the USS Emmons (DD-457) did not hear from her fire-control party, which was due to land at H+30, until she received a brief message at 1930. But then, no further word was heard from the group, although the destroyer repeatedly tried to contact it for two days. The Satterlee (DD-626), on the other hand, reported "uniformly excellent" communications with her ground spotters. "It was as if the Shore Fire Control Party was in our C.I.C."10
Finally, because Allied aircraft observers were initially taking off from English airfields, their on-station time was very limited. This situation, of course, improved as Allies advanced southward and established airfields in France the spotters could use.
Despite these limitations, Neptune's warships did manage to provide dramatic examples of how useful NGFS can be in support of ground force operations. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who commanded the German defenders, reported on 11 June that "the effects of heavy naval bombardment are so powerful that an operation either with infantry or armored formations is impossible in an area commanded by this rapid firing artillery."11
Between 11 and 18 June, the battleship HMS Nelson used her nine 16-inch guns to engage in 20 bombardments against enemy batteries and troop concentrations. On 30 June, German armored vehicles some 17 miles south of Gold Beach came under devastating fire from HMS Rodney's 16-inchers as the British closed down Operation Epsom, one of their failed attempts to capture Caen.12
U.S. Navy ships also actively bombarded enemy positions and forces following D-Day. On 7 June, the USS Nevada (BB-36), Tuscaloosa (CA-37), and Quincy (CA-71) were among the ships that helped U.S. troops advance inland from Utah Beach by shelling enemy-held bridges and German batteries and troops. Meanwhile, other Navy ships battled with remaining enemy guns near Omaha and served as floating artillery for U.S. Rangers south of Point du Hoc.13
In the subsequent days and weeks the Navy supported the U.S. First Army's advance into Normandy's infamous bocage (hedgerow) country, but as the troops pushed southward, they encountered fewer targets suitable for naval gunfire. At the western end of the beachhead, however, were many targets. For days Allied ships dueled with large-caliber German guns ensconced in thick casemates. Moreover, the entire heavily fortified Cotentin Peninsula was within range of naval gunfire, which supported the U.S. VII Corps' drive to seal off and then advance up the landmass. That assistance climaxed on 25 June when the Nevada, Quincy, and Tuscaloosa, as well as the British light cruisers Glasgow and Enterprise and the USS Texas (BB-35) and Arkansas (BB-33) participated in a massive bombardment of Cherbourg. Three days later its defenders capitulated, and the Allies had captured their first deep-water port in France.14
Weathering the Storm
Beginning 18 June, nature proved a much more formidable adversary to Operation Neptune than the German defenders. At midnight that day, the winds picked up to 22 knots, with gusts measuring as high as 32 knots. By the afternoon of the 19th, offload operations were halted as landing craft and small vessels struggled to find shelter. Some made it ashore, but many were smashed against each other. Meanwhile, the Mulberry off Omaha Beach, more exposed to the storm's fury than its British counterpart, started to break up. The commander of a Royal Navy craft that had sought shelter in the American Mulberry described the scene there as "one of unutterable chaos."
The winds finally receded on the evening of 22 June. The next day Allied commanders surveyed the beaches and to their horror found roughly 800 craft of various types driven ashore and either completely wrecked or severely damaged. Off Omaha, losses included 5 LSTs, 1 LSI(H), 13 LCI(L)s, and about 50 LCTs, while one LCT capsized and sank off Arromanches.
The devastation obviously affected offload operations. The Allied navies immediately initiated emergency measures to salvage landing craft. Admirals Ramsay and Kirk concluded that the Omaha Mulberry was unsalvageable and repair efforts should focus on the British artificial harbor. Despite the negative effects of the storm—which, according to one estimate included more than 140,000 tons of supplies not being delivered on time—unloading commenced soon after, and the Allies were able to quickly regain their prestorm offload rate.15
Assessing the Operation
On 24 June (D+18), with the British and American armies firmly established ashore, Operation Neptune drew to a close. That day, postassault chains of command began replacing Neptune's naval hierarchy. Rear Admiral James Rivett-Carnac took control of the entire beach operation on Gold, Juno, and Sword as Flag Officer British Assault Area. Omaha and Utah fell under the command of Flag Officer West Rear Admiral John Wilkes. Offload operations along the beaches, meanwhile, continued unabated. For months, as German forces tenaciously defended and systematically sabotaged French ports, the Allied armies would depend on the beachheads for men, materiel, and vehicles.16
Operation Neptune had undoubtedly accomplished its objectives. Allied ground forces came ashore in France, secured their beachhead, and pushed inland. By 24 June, the navies had landed 715,000 men, 111,000 vehicles, and 291,000 tons of supplies in Normandy. Neptune's successes, however, came at a cost. The Allied navies suffered hundreds of men killed in action throughout the course of the operation and more than 2,000 more wounded. The navies also lost 24 warships and 35 merchantmen, as well as more than 100 vessels damaged.17
Nonetheless, with the successful landing of forces in Normandy and the eventual opening of ports in France, the Allied armies could pursue the war aims originally set down by the Anglo-American Allies in December 1941—to liberate northwestern Europe and defeat Nazi Germany.
1. "Report on Operation Neptune," vol. 2, pp. 185-6, ANCXF Operation Neptune Reports, Joint Forces Staff College Library, Norfolk, VA (hereinafter JFSCL; Christopher Yung, Gators of Neptune: Naval Amphibious Planning for the Normandy Invasion (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2006), pp. 198-201.
2. Yung, Gators of Neptune, pp. 201-2.
3. Brian Schofield, Operation Neptune, (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press), p. 119.
4. The Invasion of Normandy: Operation Neptune, Historical Section, COMNAVEU, Administrative History of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe, 1940-1946, vol. 5, pp.571-72 (London, 1946), http://www.idiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/rep/Normandy/ComNavEu/ComNavEu-563.html; narrative by Commander John F. Curtain, USNR, CO, Beach Battalion in Operation Neptune, 25 July 1944, http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/rep/Normandy/BeachBn-Curtin.html.
5. The Invasion of Normandy, vol. 5, pp.571-72, http://www.idiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/rep/Normandy/ComNavEu/ComNavEu-563.html; "Beach Organisations for the Invasion of Normandy, 1944," RAF Beach Units, http://www.rafbeachunits.info/html/beach_organisation.html; Yung, Gators of Neptune, pp.142-3; "Report on Operation Neptune," vol.1, p. 71, JFSCL.
6. Max Schoenfeld, "The Navies and Neptune," in Theodore Wilson, ed., D-Day: 1944 (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1994), p. 116; Friedrich Ruge, "German Naval Operations on D-Day," in Wilson, ed., D-Day: 1944, pp. 113-14; Samuel Eliot Morison, The Invasion of France and Germany, 1944-1945, vol. 11, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1957), pp. 174-75.
7. Schoenfeld, "The Navies and Neptune," pp. 116-17; "Human Torpedoes," German U-boat, http://www.uboataces.com/weapon-human-torpedo.shtml.
8. "Report on Operation Neptune," vol.1, p. 14, JFSCL; Yung, Gators of Neptune, 192-3; Jurgen Rohwer, "U-boats," in David G. Chandler and James Lawton Collins Jr., The D-Day Encyclopedia (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), pp. 577-78.
9. Schoenfeld, "The Navies and Neptune", p. 116.
10. "Amphibious Operations: Invasion of Northern France, Western Task Force," 2-17, COMINCH Reports, JFSCL; USS Emmons (DD-457) Action Report, 22 June 1944, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD (hereinafter NARA); USS Satterlee (DD-626) Action Report, 21 June 1944, NARA.
11. S. W. Roskill, The War at Sea, 1939-1945 (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1961), p. 62.
12. Ibid.
13. Samuel Eliot Morison, The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War (Boston: Atlantic Monthly, 1957), pp. 406-407, Morison, The Invasion of France and Germany, pp. 156-60.
14. Morison, The Invasion of France and Germany, p. 167; Yves Buffetaut, D-Day Ships: The Allied Invasion Fleet, June 1944 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994), pp150-53.
15. Morison, The Invasion of France and Germany, pp. 177-78; Commander Kenneth Edwards, Operation Neptune (London, Collins: 1946), quoted in Vice Admiral B. B. Schofield, Operation Neptune (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1974), p. 122; Schofield, Operation Neptune, pp. 122-23.
16. Office of Allied Naval Commander, Expeditionary Force, "Operation Neptune—Naval Orders [ONs],"10 April 1944, ANCXF Operation Neptune Naval Orders, Second World War Operational Archives Shelves, JFSCL, specifically, ON 19 which covers beach operations; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces in Europe, The Invasion of Normandy: Operation Neptune, vol. 5, Administrative History of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe, 1940-1946 (London: Historical Section, COMNAVEU, 1946), pp. 224-25, http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/Admin-Hist/147.5-ComNavEu/ComNavEu-3.html.
17. Schoenfeld, "The Navies and Neptune," p. 119; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, The U.S. Navy Medical Department at War, 1941-5, U.S. Naval Administration in World War II, p. 729, http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/Admin-Hist/o68B-Med/068-Med-17.htm; "D-Day and the Battle of Normandy: Your Questions Answered", in D-Day Museum, Portsmouth, UK, http://www.ddaymuseum.co.uk/faq.htm.
'Quite a Few Heated Words'
Hanson W. Baldwin, military editor, The New York Times
[Rear Admiral Alan] Kirk and [Lieutenant General Omar] Bradley and [Rear Admiral John] Hall all met on Omaha Beach on D+3. . . . Bradley was insistent they had to get more Army supplies [ashore], and Hall was sort of angry, and Kirk, you know how decisive he was and almost feisty in insisting that Hall get to it. There were quite a few heated words. I was trying not to listen, to stand out of earshot, but they were standing right next to a row of bodies of American GIs that had been brought down to the beach and covered with ponchos. I always felt this was most dramatic. Here they were, arguing about this, and here the dead are.
Hanson Weightman Baldwin, U.S. Naval Institute Oral History
Naval History & Heritage Command - Haversacks containing C2 explosives are stacked to the left front of this Utah beachmaster command post that featured a blinker light and megaphone, as well as a gasoline generator (background, far left)to power them.
'We Kept Pretty Busy'
Signalman Second Class Paul S. Fauks, USN, 7th Naval Beach Battalion
As soon as we could, we moved from the beach itself to an abandoned German pillbox that had housed an 88-millimeter gun. . . . We stood watches to coordinate ship-to-shore communications and kept pretty busy as the flow of men and supplies being landed grew progressively larger. For example, a blinker-light message might say, "This is LST so-and-so. I'm supposed to land. Would you give me directions which beach to come in to?" And we'd get an answer from the beach people and send it out to the ship. We stayed pretty busy with that, getting a little sleep whenever we could."
"My Only Job Was to Stay Alive" Paul Stillwell, editor, Assault on Normandy: First-Person Accounts from the Sea Services (Naval Institute Press)
Courtesy Richard T. Drew, www.atlantikwall.co.uk; www.normandy1944.org.uk
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Able to rain 105-mm shells on Utah Beach, the Azeville Battery was one of the Americans' early targets near the western end of the Normandy beachhead. On the night of 8-9 June, a 14-inch shell from the USS Nevada (BB-36) heavily damaged one of the battery's four casemates. Above: Entering through the front opening in a downward trajectory, it killed the five-man gun crew. The shell then penetrated a thick wall (above right) and ricocheted upward into a plotting room, where it wiped out a second crew. Continuing through a metal machine-gun portal (right), the shell exited the rear of the casemate. The well-traveled projectile was found in 1994, still unexploded.


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U.S. dairy products leaving U.S. shores are on an unprecedented roll. Since the spring of 2010—an uncanny 28 months—exports have averaged between 12% and 15% of U.S. milk production.
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the festival of michaelmas was celebrated yesterday at our waldorf school, marking the beginning of autumn and the shortening of days. what a lovely sight it was to see all of the children on the playground...running in their golden robes of silk! all of the students at the school were invited to watch the fourth grade's performance of the traditional michaelmas play, and maya came home singing songs of micha-el. what a lovely way to commemorate this change of seasons. happy michaelmas to all!


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The state Legislature has passed a budget, Controller John Chiang has given his blessing, and Governor Jerry Brown has signed off.
Mission finally accomplished, right? Not necessarily.
Now it's time to see what the courts do.
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Over the next few months, there will be a flurry of law suits declaring that the legislature and governor acted unconstitutionally or illegally in their budget actions and justifications.
Each time that the courts agree, the precariously balanced budget will tilt to the negative. It happens every year, which is why a budget that seems to be balanced in July often is out of whack by the following winter or spring.
The first shot has already been taken. The mayors from several cities with redevelopment agencies have filed suit that the state can not deny agencies their $1.7 billion generated annually.
They say that Proposition 22 enacted by the voters last year specifically prevents state government from raiding local treasuries. If the mayors and their agencies prevail, suddenly the budget will be out of balance by $1.7 billion.
There will be other suits on everything from shutting down parks that are supported with federal funds to the constitutionality of reducing mental health funding to withholding previously promised funds from public schools.
Every time the plaintiffs prevail, the size of the gap will balloon until we find ourselves several billions in the hole again as we approach the end of the fiscal year.
How can this happen? California's budget does not exist in a vacuum. Many financial commitments are determined by previous laws or court decisions; others must be made in concert with the design of federal law.
Last year, for example, federal courts forced the state to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to health and human services and several hundred million dollars more for state prison spending. The money can add up fast.
All this reminds us of the adage proffered by that wise philosopher-and-sometimes-baseball player Yogi Berra who once said,"It 'aint over 'til it's over."
With respect to the new state budget, it won't be over until the responses to the last law suit are handed down. And with respect to a balanced budget, that could be strike three.


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This awesome video is the brainchild of Tyler Rhodes, an animation student at Virginia Commonwealth University. With the help of some elementary school students, he simulated multiple generations of evolution in the cutest way imaginable, complete with this visual proof.
Rhodes's animation uses drawings — and, perhaps even more adorably, sound effects — provided by students at William Fox Elementary School and the Patrick Henry School of Science & Art. Scientific American explains how Rhodes provided the kids with a drawing of a simple salamander-like creature, then let the kids redraw the creature to simulate the random mutations of evolution. Rhodes compares it to a game of telephone, only using visual imagery instead of a phrase. To simulate natural selection, Rhodes subjected the kids' drawings to some pretty hardcore survival of the fittest:
Tyler would 'kill off' 98% of the organisms and start the process again, this time working from the sketches that 'survived'. In subsequent iterations he would throw out curveballs like desertification or a volcanic explosion (subsequent to the sketching), which would help the group decide which animals were best suited to survive. They would then take these environmental changes into account when sketching their next creatures.
After six generations, the kids' drawings had rapidly diverged into from the original salamander, simulating how such a creature might evolve to survive in its rapidly changing environment. This animation brings the kids' drawings to life, and Rhodes says he hopes it illustrates how evolution is far more tree-like than linear. Evolution is also apparently just ridiculously cute.
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Water resource managers can now estimate daily baseline streamflows in a matter of minutes for any location along Pennsylvania's waterways. The Baseline Streamflow Estimator, called "BaSE," provides users with estimated daily mean streamflow, minimally altered by human activities, for locations on Pennsylvania streams that don't have streamgages. Pennsylvania is one of the first states in the nation to have such a tool.
"BaSE provides water-resource managers with nearly 50 years of daily mean streamflow for ungaged sites in a matter of minutes that they can use for their projects. These daily values can then be used to generate a number of streamflow statistics that may be needed for decision making," said Marla Stuckey, USGS hydrologist and project lead in Pennsylvania.
Water-resource managers use daily mean streamflow to evaluate withdrawal, allocation, and wastewater permit applications and to assess the health of the Commonwealth's streams. Historically, it has been difficult, costly, and time intensive to estimate daily mean streamflow for stream locations that were not gaged, or monitored. Now, BaSE allows users to estimate daily mean streamflow values and daily hydrographs by entering a few basic basin characteristics in an easy-to-use tool. The output is a summary spreadsheet, containing information about the location of interest, including daily mean streamflow for every day from 1960 to 2008.
BaSE relies on a methodology that uses flow-duration curves, which illustrate the percentage of time, or probability, that a flow value in a stream will equal or exceed a particular value. Flow-duration curves are generated for reference streamgage locations with monitored streamflow and the curves are transferred to ungaged locations to estimate daily mean streamflow.
BaSE chooses the most appropriate reference streamgage for the ungaged location and applies newly developed regression equations to convert the transferred flow duration curve to streamflow at the ungaged location.
A USGS Scientific Investigations Report describing BaSE can be found online.


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ANTIOCH — An armed robber who struck at a market early Friday morning, then fled from police before crashing his car, was arrested after a brief struggle, police said.
The robbery was reported about 12:54 a.m. Friday at the Bonfare Market, 907 West 10th St. Officers responding to the market saw a vehicle leaving the area, but lost sight of it.
Moments later, police found the vehicle crashed and on fire on Highway 4, just behind the 600 block of West Tregallas Road. Officers set up a perimeter and found the suspect, a 22-year-old Antioch resident, in a yard in the 2700 block of D Street.
At one point, the suspect apparently tried to get away by offering cash for a ride to a passing motorist. Antioch resident Tommy Ly, 22, was headed home from his job at a local movie theater when he saw the burning car on the side of Highway 4.
Ly didn't see any fire trucks, he said, and wanted to see if he should report the wreck, so he exited the freeway and headed up West Tregallas Road, near a post office branch.
"All of a sudden, this guy comes running up out of nowhere and flags me down," Ly said. "He was really frantic and super sweaty."
The man said his car had broken down, and pulled out a "fat wad" of cash, Ly said, offering to pay him for a ride. Ly said no, but the man pleaded with him, then looked up and suddenly took off running again. The man did not show a weapon during their brief interaction, Ly said.
Ly looked up, too — and saw several Antioch police cars headed straight for him. Officers jumped out of their vehicles and began searching the area, he said. Police were following up on Ly's report Friday afternoon.
The suspect was arrested after a brief struggle and taken to a hospital for treatment of unnamed injuries. Police did not release his identity, but said he would be taken to County Jail in Martinez on suspicion of robbery and assaulting a police officer.
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REVIEW: Personal struggles can't silence Carpenter
Country-folk star played Barrymore Friday
MADISON, Wis. —Mary Chapin Carpenter has just gone through a divorce.
If fans didn't know that when they came to her show Friday night at the Barrymore, they would have found out very quickly once the show began.
But her personal struggles didn't have any effect on the concert on the East Side Friday. Carpenter is on a 39-city tour, and came back to Madison to support her new CD "Ashes and Roses."
The divorce, along with the death of her father and a health scare, had a direct impact on the writing on the latest album. In the concert, she even admitted to having a "narrative arc" on the CD, and that "by the middle of the CD, things start looking a little brighter….but this one is from the beginning of the CD."
But the sad songs didn't weigh too heavily on Carpenter, or her audience. Her return to Madison was enthusiastically welcomed by a packed crowd of 40- and 50- something's at the Barrymore.
After starting with a number of songs off her new album, Carpenter went back to many of the songs that made her a huge success in the 1990's. She ran off a number of her classics, including "Shut Up and Kiss Me," "Passionate Kisses," and "Down at the Twist and Shout." The audience also reacted positively when she played "Girls With Guitars," a song she's never recorded, but wrote for Wynonna Judd, who turned it into a hit record.
Carpenter has lost some of her higher range since her high point in the 1990's, but she hasn't lost her connection with her audience.
Carpenter kept a running dialogue with the audience throughout much of the 1 hour, 40 minute concert. She gave a lot of background to her songs that many artists don't do. That conversation helped her blend her sad, but beautiful, songs with more of her upbeat music.
Carpenter was backed by a tight five piece band, who played everything from piano to mandolin.
Opening up for Carpenter was Tift Merritt, a singer-songwriter from Raleigh, NC that matched up well with Carpenter's sound. Merritt sang her 45 minute set without the backup of a band, but with a powerful voice that should help her get attention with her next album, "Traveling Alone," which will be released in October.
Carpenter finished with a three song encore that seemed to encompass a lot of what she was trying to get across in the concert. Two of the songs in the encore came from her multi-platinum album "Come On, Come On" in 1992. She played "I Feel Lucky" and "The Hard Way" back-to back. And Friday's concert definitely talked about the hard road Carpenter has had to travel the last few years. But her strong performance made Carpenter, and her fans, feel lucky she's continuing her journey.


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Taipei-based carriers are optimistic about a surge in travel by Taiwanese to Japan due to the depreciation of the Japanese yen, despite fallout from the sagging domestic economy.
China Airlines Ltd (CAL, 中華航空), the nation's largest carrier, on Monday said that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policy of driving down the value of the yen is expected to benefit local airlines operating flights to Japan this year.
According to CAL's statistics, seats on round-trip flights from Taiwan to Japan on New Year's Day and over the Lunar New Year holiday — from Feb. 10 to Feb. 17 — are already between 90 percent and 95 percent booked.
Japan has long been a favored tourists destination for Taiwanese and as a result, local airlines see Japan-bound flights as being very lucrative.
However, CAL officials said the sluggish economy has taken a toll on Taiwanese tourism to Japan, citing as an example the downturn in bookings for flights to Japan during non-holiday periods ahead of the Lunar New Year compared with the same period last year.
They ascribed this to Taiwan's dull economy and smaller year-end bonuses for most workers, which has led many to refrain from taking overseas vacations.
However, the airline officials foreceast that since the cheaper yen will make it more affordable for Taiwanese to travel to Japan, ticket sales to the country are likely to increase.
On average, Taiwanese make between 1.3 million and 1.4 million visits to Japan each year, exceeding Japanese tourist arrivals to Taiwan, which are slightly more than 1 million per year.
TransAsia Airways Corp (復興航空), the nation's third-largest carrier, also predicted further growth in the number of Taiwanese tourists in Japan thanks to the cheaper yen.
More than 90 percent of the seats on the airline's fights to Hokkaido, one of the most popular Japanese tourist destinations for Taiwanese, for this month and next month have been booked, TransAsia officials said.
However, the yen's depreciation against other currencies may have negative long-term repercussions too, such as pulling Japanese businesses from Taiwan back home, and could hurt Taiwan's role as Japan's gateway to the Chinese market, analysts said.
Yuanta-Polaris Research Institute (元大寶華研究院) president Liang Kuo-yuan (梁國源) said that according to market estimates, when the US dollar trades above ¥90 for an extended period, overseas Japanese businesses are inclined to return home because of lower capital costs, which would hurt Taiwan's efforts to further its economic cooperation with Japan.
The US dollar traded above ¥86 on Monday in Asia trading.
For the whole of last year, the Japanese currency closed out its biggest annual decline in seven years after reaching a post-war high in 2011 that eroded the competitiveness of Japanese exporters.
Liang said the yen's depreciation needs to last for a long time before it will lure overseas Japanese businesses home. Otherwise, they will stay put, even if the US dollar trades above ¥100.
Gordon Sun (孫明德), the director of the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research's (台灣經濟研究院) macroeconomic forecasting center, said the weakening yen affects each industry differently.
For example, Taiwan's petrochemical, rubber, metal and mechanical industries might be adversely affected by the weakening yen because of heightened competition from Japan.


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Miami Herald: "Green seal not worth paper it's printed on"
By Erika Bolstad
McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- Take a look at the notepad on your desk, your ATM receipt or the package of disposable plates you bought for your Memorial Day barbecue. Many paper products are labeled as being sourced from sustainable forests, and many consumers make buying decisions based on those labels.
But are the labels trustworthy? An environmental group, ForestEthics, plans to file a complaint Wednesday with the Federal Trade Commission that says one of the largest organizations that certify forestry practices misleads consumers about the sources of the products that carry its seal of approval.
The complaint argues that the Sustainable Forestry Initiative's claim that it's an independent, nonprofit public charity is deceptive and misleading because it's "substantially governed and financed by the timber industry."
ForestEthics accuses the Washington, D.C.-based Sustainable Forestry Initiative of violating the FTC's Green Guides for environmental marketing claims, which were revamped in October. The complaint claims that the Sustainable Forestry Initiative misleads well-intentioned companies and consumers into thinking they're making environmentally sound choices about wood and paper products, said Todd Paglia, the executive director of ForestEthics, based in Bellingham, Wash. It's a fake eco label, Paglia said.
"We're asking the FTC to apply its Green Guides, which speak clearly to an entity like SFI," Paglia said. "Which would mean they either need to disclose in very clear and unmistakable terms that they are funded by the logging industry and that they are not independent. On their website, and on all their materials. And on their label."
Many consumers make purchasing decisions based on such seals, making them a valuable designation for marketers. Advertising Age estimated last year that sales of environmentally friendly products in the United States exceeded $40 billion last year.
ForestEthics has worked to discourage large companies that make major wood and paper purchases from using the Sustainable Forestry Initiative designation or to consider it only at a minimum level in purchasing decisions. Such companies include Office Depot, Southwest Airlines, Cricket Communications and Hewlett-Packard.
Often companies switch to a designation by a separate organization, the Forest Stewardship Council. ForestEthics has pushed both organizations to be more accountable, but it says the Forest Stewardship Council is more independent. The Forest Stewardship Council now certifies all of Hewlett-Packard's HP Everyday paper products in the Americas, the company said last month in announcing the change.
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative didn't respond to a request for comment for this story. The organization said earlier this month in response to a ForestEthics publicity blitz that it was "committed to complying with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Green Guides and the guidelines on environmental labeling and advertising issued by the Fair Business Practices Branch of Industry Canada's Competition Bureau."
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative and ForestEthics have clashed before, and in April the Sustainable Forestry Initiative sent ForestEthics a cease-and-desist letter threatening a lawsuit. The Sustainable Forestry Initiative has a section of its website devoted to disputing the ForestEthics claims, including the environmental group's assertion that companies are dropping the SFI label.
"ForestEthics is rarely successful at getting companies to stop purchasing SFI products because companies that get informed soon realize that sourcing SFI products from well-managed forests is a great way to support conservation, responsible forestry, communities and jobs," Sustainable Forestry Initiative said on its website. "Most companies also realize domestic forest products are low-risk and they are annoyed by the bullying and the unethical and misleading practices in which Forest Ethics engages."
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative also points out that the FTC didn't act on a similar 2009 complaint by ForestEthics. The Sustainable Forestry Initiative accused the environmental group of undermining its work and instead promoting the certification process of the Forest Stewardship Council.
"We invite ForestEthics to stop its campaign of misleading attacks and to devote its resources to working with SFI and millions of stakeholders across North America who are improving conditions in our forests day in and day out," Sustainable Forestry Initiative said in a statement on its website.
A spokesman for the Forest Stewardship Council said the organization was unaware of the ForestEthics FTC complaint, and declined to comment Tuesday.
Consumers are increasingly skeptical of green marketing, according to the research firm GfK, which tracks spending on environmental products in its Green Gauge survey. The September GfK survey found that compared with 2008, consumers are less likely to pay more for environmentally friendly alternatives, such as energy-efficient cars and light bulbs.
But consumers file plenty of complaints about false claims. The FTC recently revised its guidelines for environmental marketing claims, which govern what companies may say about recycled content, carbon offsets and other general environmental claims.
Shortly thereafter, the FTC enforced the rules in an action against paint companies that it said had made false and unsubstantiated claims that some of their paints contained zero volatile organic compounds.
In January, four national retailers agreed to pay penalties totaling $1.26 million to settle FTC charges that they'd violated the Textile Products Identification Act by labeling and advertising products sold in stores and online as made of bamboo, though they were made of rayon.


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SAN FRANCISCO — Steve Perlman claims he has a way to put a virtual base station right next to your smartphone. Artemis Networks, the serial entrepreneur's latest startup, aims to give users a five-bar connection all the time, letting carriers pack on their limited spectrum more data than they thought possible.
The Artemis pCell technology creates then tracks a virtual eNodeB base station in a tiny, centimeter-sized zone around the cellular antenna of a mobile device. It uses a mix of distributed antenna and software-defined radio techniques that Perlman claims essentially turns conventional thinking about cellular networks on its head.
Perlman demoed in his lab here eight iPhones laid side-by-side, each receiving separate high-def video streams from a single Artemis pCell. The same cell later sent four ultra high-def streams to four TVs.
"We're delivering what 5G cellular networks hope to do in 2025 with 4G spectrum and LTE devices today," said Perlman, one of the early developers of Apple's Quicktime, who later went on to found Web TV Networks, Movea, and OnLive.
By publicly announcing the technology, Perlman hopes to drive it broadly into the market. But even supporters see a big challenge proving the ideas in big networks and getting carriers try the startup's technology on their precious spectrum.
"I am pretty confident that the technology will work in a low mobility environment — people in a stadium at a ball game for instance," said Pieter van Rooyen, another serial entrepreneur familiar with the Artemis technology.
"I think in a high mobility environment with lots of users, it could be challenging due to many users' channels changing quickly, and only extensive large scale deployment will tell the limitations in this case," said van Rooyen, an architect at Zyray Wireless, a startup that pioneered multiple antenna technologies for 3G baseband chips. It was acquired by Broadcom in 2004.
"The big challenge is to commercially deploy it," said van Rooyen who met Perlman 12 years ago and tracked his work in the area. "There's been a large number of broadband wireless plays and very few of them have been successful, not because their technology wasn't successful but there's lot of barriers getting carriers signed up," he added.
Carriers are far along in testing a new generation of small-cell base stations aimed to add capacity, especially to urban networks clogged with mobile data. Perlman claims his approach, while radically different, will provide more capacity at lower cost.
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The Newberry Library of Chicago, IL will be offering an all-day, FREE series of genealogy programs on Saturday, October 13, 2012 between 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM.
You can look at the following link that will provide you with the "flyer" I received about this day:
October 13, 2012 Newberry Library "Free" Genealogy Programs
Also, after the following break line and in Italics, is the text I received in the e-mail that gives further descriptions of this day's events:
Greetings from the Newberry!
We'd love to share the information about our FREE fall workshop with your patrons. The basics are below and I've attached a flyer as well. Please feel free to distribute it to anyone who may be interested. Note advance registration is required to assure we have enough seats. Thanks for your assistance in spreading the word!
High Tech – Low Tech: Old-fashioned Genealogy Meets the 21st Century
Saturday, October 13, 2012
9:30 am – 2:30 pm
Newberry Library Ruggles Hall
The genealogical fundamentals of evidence, analysis and documentation don't change whether you're using online tools or not. Join Marsha Peterson-Maass, Matt Rutherford and Thomas MacEntee for a free full-day workshop discussing these low tech fundamentals plus ways to use high tech online tools to make your research easier.
9:30 – 10:45 Low-Tech Fundamentals (Peterson-Maass)
10:45 – 11:00 break
11:00 – 11:45 Repositories and Archives (Rutherford)
11:45 – 1:00 (Brown bag lunch)
1:00 – 2:30 Building a Research Toolbox (MacEntee)
Bring a bag lunch and join informal discussions with the speakers and Newberry staff during the noon-time break.
Cost: Free
Registration: Advance registration is required. Register online ( http://www.newberry.org/10132012-genealogy-workshop-high-tech-low-tech )or by calling the Public Programs office at (312) 255-3700.
Directions to the library and parking information is available at: http://www.newberry.org/directions
The programs certainly look interesting. The speakers are top-notch. And best of all, you can't beat FREE!
If it fits your schedule and the programs have a match to your research interests, then by all means give it a try!
Thanks to Ginger Frere of the Newberry for sharing this upcoming program date with me.
Tony Kierna
Genealogy Coordinator
Schaumburg Township District Library


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