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This past week, we saw the passing of Bishop John D'Arcy, the Bishop Emeritus of South Bend, Indiana and, of course, a former Auxiliary Bishop of Boston.
It was only two weeks ago that I was able to celebrate Mass with him at his family's home. At that time, he was just preparing to return to South Bend. Of course, he realized the situation was terminal however it was much more accelerated than we expected. I was so pleased that I was able to celebrate Mass and spend the morning with him, having breakfast and a nice conversation.
We want to express our condolences to the D'Arcy family and the people of South Bend.
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Last Friday, I went to the studios of CatholicTV Network to participate in the annual telethon to raise funds for this very important ministry.
I made a personal appeal to viewers and thanked them for their support.
It is always edifying to see how many volunteers from parishes, Knights of Columbus and different archdiocesan groups are always there to answer the phones and to help promote the telethon.
With Jay Fadden and Father Reed
We are all very encouraged by the wonderful progress that the network has made in its expansion into different parts of the country. Even the responses from the telethon indicate how widely viewed the Catholic television network is. There were people calling in from all over the country to pledge their support.
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Sunday I was happy to join the parish of St. Francis in Dracut for the celebration of their 50th anniversary. It is a very active parish and they had a beautiful celebration to mark the 50th anniversary.
Father Brian Mahoney is the pastor there and we were joined by a number of other priests and former pastors, including Father Brian Kiely who was responsible for building the present church and rectory in 1996.
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That evening, I departed for Dallas for the National Catholic Bioethics Center's workshop for bishops. The National Catholic Bioethics Center was headquartered in Boston for a number of years and was called the Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral Research and Education Center at the time. In recent years, they have been headquartered in Philadelphia.
Dr. John Haas is the president of the NCBC and Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans is the present chairman. I am also a member of the board.
This was the 24th workshop sponsored by the NCBC since they were initiated in 1980. At one point, the workshops were held every year now, however, they are only held every other year. It is a way of providing ongoing formation for bishops in the areas of medical moral ethics.
Pope Benedict addressed the group twice, in 1984 and 1991, when he was Cardinal Ratzinger. This year we were addressed by Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the present Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
One of the very nice features of this workshop for bishops is that, in additional to the bishops from the United States, the Knights of Columbus invite the bishops from Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and Canada to attend. So, it is one of the few meetings where we really have an opportunity to be with bishops from other parts of the hemisphere. All of us find this a very enriching experience.
I was very happy that two of my classmates were there: Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia, who has recovered so nicely from his recent knee surgery, and Bishop Paul Schmitz, who is the Bishop of Bluefields, Nicaragua.
The Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Viganò, celebrated the Opening Mass and the opening address was given by Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, who is the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa and is also the president of Caritas Internationalis. Cardinal Rodriguez's opening talk was on "Faith at Work Through Charity," particularly drawing on his experience being the president of Caritas Internationalis.
During the course of the workshop, we discussed a number of topics. A very enlightening session was held by Dr. E. Christian Brugger on what is called POLST (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment). He mentioned some of the dangers in the movement to promote this practice. His presentation was very, very interesting. Dr. Brugger said the safest thing is for people to have a medical proxy, someone whom they trust and who shares their beliefs and understandings. There was also a good deal of discussion about ethics committees for hospitals and Catholic institutions as well as an interesting session on studies concerning same-sex parenting.
Then, as I mentioned, Archbishop Müller, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith delivered the keynote address.
The National Catholic Bioethics Center has a very well-trained and articulate staff. Among those is, of course, Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk who has been so helpful in many areas, particularly in informing people of the Church's position on stem cell research. Many of you will also remember that he joined us here in Boston for the Town Hall Meeting discussing the problem of physician assisted suicide.
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On Thursday, I was happy to visit the offices of Combined Jewish Philanthropies for a lunch with Barry Shrage, the president of the CJP, and Jeremy Burton, the executive director of the Jewish Community Research Council.
It was an opportunity for me to thank them for all the support they provided in the campaign against physician assisted suicide in Massachusetts. It was interesting to see just how united all the different branches of Judaism are on this issue.
We also talked about other ways that our organizations, such as Catholic Charities and our Catholic schools, can collaborate with the activities of CJP and the JCRC.
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Next week, of course, is Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent.
It is my hope and prayer that, during this Year of Faith, Lent may be a very special time of spiritual renewal for the Church, particularly as we deepen our knowledge of the contents of our faith and our commitment to the new evangelization.
Until next week,
Cardinal Seán


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Will Charlie Rangel Stand Trial?
So Rep. Charlie Rangel was unable to finalize any sort of settlement today before the House ethics committee revealed and read the violations (13!) against him, publicly. Does this mean the window has closed, and a trial's inevitable?
The thirteen violations center around four areas of misconduct:
The charges involve four areas: Mr. Rangel's solicitation of contributions to a school to be named in his honor at City College of New York; his errors and omissions on his House financial disclosure forms; his acceptance of rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem, including one for his campaign office; and his failure to report and pay taxes on rental income on a beach villa he owns in the Dominican Republic.
No one seems to really know if this means that Rangel has abandoned the opportunity to reach a settlement, or if that's even possible anymore since, as one giddy Republican on the ethics committee said, "we are now in the trial phase."
The Wall Street Journal, however, is sticking with its reporting that a deal has, in fact, been hammered out — the problem is that one of the five Republicans on the committee would have to agree to it:
It is not known whether the Republicans on the ethics committee think the plea deal includes a tough enough penalty for Mr. Rangel. At least one of the five Republicans on the panel must vote with all five Democrats to approve any settlement.
Ha! Good luck getting that to happen. This is pure election-season gold for Republicans. See you at the trial in September, everybody.
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I never know if they are true or not, but in case you haven't received them yet, here are this year's Darwin Awards -- the annual honor given to the person who improved the "gene pool" the most by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way. As always, competition this year has been keen.
And the candidates this year are.............
* IN Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.
* A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally zoned when he ran," accidentally jogged off a 100-foot-high cliff on his daily run.
* Buxton, NC: A man died on a beach when an
8-foot-deep hole he had dug into the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beach-goers said Daniel Jones, 21, dug the hole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom Thursday afternoon when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach on the outer banks, used their hands and shovels, trying to claw their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, VA, but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.
* Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, CA, as he fell face-first through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth (to keep his hands free) rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the floor.
* Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed in Selbyville, Del, as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger.
* Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover township, NJ, and his wife Bonnie was also injured, when a quarter-stick of dynamite blew up in their car. While driving around 2 AM, the bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see what would happen, but apparently failed to notice the window was closed.
* TACOMA, WA Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-jumped from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the middle of traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30AM. Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's cable lay nearby. One end of the cable was secured around Bingham's leg and the other end was tied to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy river water and was rescued by two nearby fishermen. "All I can say" said Bingham, "is that God was watching out for me on that night. There's just no other explanation for it." Bingham's foot was never located.
* Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt (Paderborn, Germany) fed his constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugg ed-up pachyderm finally let it fly, and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds of poop! Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on him. "The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his head on a rock and lay unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on top of him" said flabbergasted Paderborn police detective Erik Dern. "With no one there to help him, he lay under all that dung for at least an hour before a watchman came along, and during that time he suffocated. It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that proves that "S*** happens!"
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"What we need is an army of the kind."
Cleveland Amory
Kindness One, my trusty motorcycle with the sidecar, has already transported me from Los Angeles to the cornfields of Nebraska.
In truth, though, it is not Kindness One that has been doing the heavy lifting. It's the people I've met along the way.
People have filled the bike with gas, fed me and opened their homes on these first legs of my around-the-world journey that began Aug. 10. I have no money, no food, no place to stay, relying on the goodness in others to help me on my journey.
Kindness, compassion and connection continue to lift me. I arrived in the Nebraska town of Lexington and crossed paths with some bona fide cowboys. I approached them and explained my trip.
They offered to let me stay the night at their farm 18 miles away. I hopped onto Kindness One and drove to a beautiful place where the sense of peace was intoxicating.
What I wasn't expecting was a crash course in the art of becoming a cowboy. My training included being kitted up in full cowboy regalia. I wore a Stetson and cowboy boots. Then it was off around the farm to learn how to ride a horse, fire a 1927 gun at rattlesnakes (luckily for the snakes, I missed) and—wait for it—pregnancy-test a cow, which meant putting my hands where the sun does not shine.
I learned how to throw lasso and was finally driven back to the farmhouse in an ATV by an 8-year-old girl, not something that happens every day.
After chowing down at a barbecue, I spent the night, once again blown away by the spirit of America.
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Historia vol.55 n.2 Durban Nov. 2010
The death of the animal in South African history
Dan Wylie
Rhodes University
Fred Stenson, The Great Karoo
Doubleday Canada, Mississauga, 2008
496 pp
Sandra Swart, Riding High: Horses, Humans and History in South Africa
Wits University Press, Johannesburg, 2010
344 pp
Fred Morton, When Rustling Became an Art: Pilane's Kgatla and the Transvaal Frontier 1820-1902
David Philip, Cape Town, 2009
Never before in human history have so many animals been subjected to horrific slaughter, unconscionable abuse, and unthinkable living conditions. These conditions have a unique history that requires both material and philosophical analysis, and it is a history that needs to be attended to in its specificity so that we might learn better how to transform it...1
Thus Matthew Calarco in his contribution to Paola Cavalieri's collection, The Death of the Animal (2009). Running through the conversations comprising this book is a thread of dissention at the Socratic, rationalistic approach taken by analytic philosophy to the question of rights for animals. J.M. Coetzee's character Elizabeth Costello utters sentiments similar to Calarco's in Coetzee's parallel collection, The Lives of Animals (1999)2; and in response, philosopher Cora Diamond also proposes a (re)turn to the experience of the visceral:
The awareness we each have of being a living body, "alive to the world," carries with it exposure to the bodily sense of vulnerability to death, sheer animal vulnerability, the vulnerability we share with them. This vulnerability is capable of panicking us. To be able to acknowledge it at all, let alone as shared, is wounding; but acknowledging it as shared with other animals, in the presence of what we do to them, is capable not only of panicking one, but also of isolating one...3
Coetzee himself translated analytic philosophising about the presence and meaning of the death of animals into bodily, personalised, emotive terms in his novel of a characteristically bleak South African landscape, Disgrace (1999).4 Almost always, apparently, it paradoxically requires the imaginative empathy of the novelist to ground the fate of sentient beings, humans and animals alike, in the phenomenological experiences of actual worlds. Here, for example, Canadian novelist Fred Stenson, in his novel of the South African War, The Great Karoo, evokes the death of the animal in terms which almost smoke off the page:
The mounted regiments were on the downwind side, because the regiments of foot did not find horse smell as homey as horse soldiers did.
The other animals in this human town were pets and mascots: rock dassies, springbok captured in infancy; a baboon on a chain...; ostriches, who could fight out of any hobble but were addicted to oats. These were sometimes coerced to race.
On the other side of the railway tracks, farther down the prevailing wind, was the true animal town. Paddocks of cattle, sheep, goats, and bullocks; mules and free-pool horses. Between the paddocks, garbage carts rolled to the refuse pits, where vultures walked, fussy and unhurried, like shoppers in a market.
Near the dump was the African camp: shelters built of garbage that were homes to the men who did the work of Irene and those who needed rest between convoys. For food, the Africans cooked heads, hooves, and offal cast out by the butchers.
Directly beside the railway tracks, meat-fragrant smoke rose from the ovens behind the giant mess tents. Butcher's tent. Knackers' yard. Biltong smokers converting trek ox into dried meat.5
Fred Stenson is a substantial Canadian writer, with several prizes accruing to various of his fifteen books. The Great Karoo is his eighth novel, a densely-researched account of the involvement of Canadian mounted units in the 1899-1902 South African War. The novel follows the mixed fortunes of Frank Adams, one of a bunch of youthful, over-zealous plains-Canadian cowboys, from their arrival in Cape Town harbour, together with such of their personal mounts that had survived the appalling sea journey, through the trek north to Kimberley and the capture of Pretoria, to the final muddled pursuits of De Wet and De la Rey. Some unnerving skirmishes aside, the unit is frequently behind the action; much of the war is spent in gruelling journeys overland and in prolonged boredom. The unit is at odds with itself, with the Britishers sporadically put in charge, and with the strategies pursued by Kitchener and other generals; the Canadian comrades team up, squabble, fight elusive Boers, desert, rejoin. Some die. Adams discovers that falling for a Boer woman is a bad idea. He crosses paths with various historical personages: his closest companion, Ovide Smith, whose burial site in the Free State Stenson found; John McCrae, later famous for writing the World War One poem "In Flanders Fields"; Colonel 'Mike' Rimington, under whose Scouts the Canadian Mounted units ultimately worked.
The Canadian contingents have been less well served by historians than the Australian ones, which were made notorious largely by the film Breaker Morant. Lord Pakenham's go-to history, The Boer War (1982),6 mentions the Canadian mounties only a few times in passing. Stenson has done a sterling and intricate job of following (I assume accurately) the units' complex routes back and forth across the South African countryside, also evoking at length the conversations, gestures, and ethical dilemmas of its wide range of characters. Too wide, perhaps, and too detailed: I kept feeling the narrative pace would have been well served by losing 100 pages of very well-written but ultimately redundant conversations. While a certain thinness of landscape description reveals Stenson's perhaps understandable lack of familiarity with the nubby textures of South African environments (hadedas aren't exactly black), Stenson knows horses, and it is around the horses, more than anything in a war they regard mostly as "a mangle they had been turned through, for no good reason" (p 123), that the characters' lives revolve. It is through the suffering and losses of the horses, "sacrificed for nothing" (p 123), the treasured original Canadian steeds, the ragged and often hopelessly unsuitable remounts, that the harsh futilities of warfare emerge most starkly and movingly, though Stenson's prose is admirably restrained, as hard-jawed and undemonstrative as his bereaved characters. On the march to Johannesburg in July 1900,
The oxen were clapped out too. Every day, a few would stop. Unable to lie down in their yokes, they would stand still, and no amount of abuse from the drivers could move them. If the whipping went too far, the cowboys among the Rifles would force it to stop - for, like any cow, an ox can put its brain to sleep. In that state, you can beat it to death and achieve nothing.
Several times a day, a man would drag his horse off the line and shoot it. Pete Bolton shot his early to get it out of the way. Eddy had been forced to give up his giant horse to a gun crew and was given a small Argentine who was no match for his weight. When the Argentine pony fell twice in an hour, Pete shot it as well...7
Quite apart from fictionalising with considerable persuasiveness the grim and confusing daily grind of the war, and uncovering the history of units almost lost from memory, Stenson has thus also embarked on exhuming one brief but important segment of the history of the animals on which the progress and shape of South African history has profoundly depended.
Companionship with, and compassion for, horses in the South African War was hardly confined to Canadian cowboys and scouts: British Tommies loved their horses, and Banjo Paterson poetically lamented the fate of Australian mounts. And here is the Boer general, Viljoen, expatiating on his pony "Blesman":
He remained my faithful friend long after he had got me out of [trouble]; he was shot, poor little chap, the day when they made me prisoner. Poor Blesman, to you I owe my life! Blesman was plainly in league against all that was British; from the first he displayed Anglophobia of a most acute character. He has served me in good stead, and now lies buried, faithful little heart, in a Lydenburg ditch.8
This is just one such citation in Sandra Swart's chapter on horses in the South African War in her excellent study of horses in South African history, Riding High. In this chapter, rather than try merely to enumerate the horses drafted (and lost) for what utilitarian purpose in the war, she has focused on the emotional histories of the horse-human entanglement. This is part and parcel of the book's wider project, not only to talk about "the horse as a commodity and as a device used by humans to effect change or to wield and display power" (p 196), but to recover something of history from the horse's point of view ("horsetory", as she characteristically quips), the agency of horses, the view from the saddle, the history of horse sounds and smells. This is not only to turn history in the direction of what novelists usually do - recreate the sensuality of an 1850s Cape Town street in which the smell of horses was as pervasive as petrol and diesel is today, for example, or write the "biography of a horse called Somerset" (p 199), who had a far more varied, interesting and potentially illuminating life than the mere appellation "Dick King's horse" would allow. Swart also wants to extend already well-developed models of "social history from below" from human oppressed groups to animals: "Horses share similarities with other under-represented groups: marginality from the centres of power and record keeping" (p 198). Their silencing is not unlike that of women, as in a 1930s Afrikaans quip that "it is always very difficult to foresee what a chestnut horse or a woman will do" (p 198).
Swart, a professor of History at Stellenbosch University, has gone a long way towards telling this subaltern story, and showing that the horse was "certainly instrumental, if not critical, in the process of colonisation and oppression" (p 197). Swart begins at the beginning: "one of the first European settlers in southern Africa was a horse" (p 18) - a mid seventeenth-century shipwreck survivor. Shortly thereafter established at the Cape, Jan van Riebeeck struggled to get the VOC to send him any horses at all. It was hard to get them there alive, and as hard to keep them alive afterwards: "terrifying diseases" (p 23), of which there was no local knowledge, decimated the imports; horses were like "hothouse flowers", expensive to maintain and, until the development of adequate veterinary sciences and skills, desperately vulnerable. This would remain the case well into the twentieth century. As Swart points out, "Animal afflictions contributed to shaping human settlement patterns, land use, trade and military capacity" (p 22). But in time, success there was: by 1744 the colonists had 5 749 horses, imported from various parts of the world and subjected to the first local cross-breeding efforts (including with zebras), an enterprise that would become ever more refined. Many of these horses were being used for transport, helping structure the very nature and course of roads: another book needs to be written on the transport horse-companies that plied the country for more than two centuries.
Swart moves on to nineteenth-century breeding programmes and the obsession with "blood", paralleling similar concerns for purity of lineage amongst the country's human races. Each of Swart's subtitles in this chapter is a play on language - bad blood, blue blood, fresh blood, blood weeds - as a "clash of horse cultures" (p 51) saw the intertwined developments of veterinary science, social differentiation enhanced by what horses you might own or breed, and "horsing about" for entertainment as opposed to utility. The story of horse-racing, such a lucrative industry today, also needs a book to extend what Swart elects to leave out.
Of the various breeds emerging from this riot of experimentation were those allegedly best adapted to South African conditions - the Cape horse, the Boerperd - of which the most famous is certainly the Basotho pony. A simple graph demonstrates the parallel growth of Moshoeshoe's adherents and subjects and of horse ownership in the nascent Basutholand. The role of the horse in embodying a national consciousness is fascinating, though more complex than the tourist mantras that Lesotho is now a "nation of horsemen". Horses, saddles and guns nevertheless came to play significant roles alongside cattle in Moshoeshoe's modified mafisa system by which he attracted and rewarded adherents; the phrase bohkina pere - to knee-halter a horse - came to describe also the selection of certain non-permanent chiefs. As that phrase indicates, the "Basotho pony" was no less creolised a creation than the heterogeneous languages and peoples Lesotho eventually embraced.
Swart's sensitivity to language is just one pleasure of her multi-faceted book, and her chapter on the emotional responses to horses during the South African War richly incorporates memoir and poetry. While hundreds of thousands of horses died in that war, 131 000 were still on state books at the end of it. Thousands were sick and were destroyed; the rest, a shambolic mix of remounts, of breeds imported from all over the world and thus totally transforming the country's gene pool, were sold off to farmers - their fate being the subject of the next chapter. The first half of the twentieth century saw a radical shift in the role of horses, rendered increasingly if unevenly obsolete by mechanisation, but simultaneously "mobilised as potent symbols in a growing class-based, gendered identity configuration, evident in the growing Afrikaans press, in popular novels and in everyday discourse" (p 170). Again, Swart here has opened windows on a world of imaginative representation which has direct bearing on political movements and on the practical treatment of animals, and which will reward being extended by further research.
The crisis in horse over-population of the first half of the century was merely exacerbated by the exigencies of the Second World War; new communities, uses and discourses had to emerge, and Swart devotes a chapter to just one facet of this period of "seismic" readjustment: the case of the imported American Saddlebred, or Saddler, and its conflictual relationship with supporters of a more home-grown breed, the so-called Boerperd, whose "celebration of nativism from the early 1970s was a particular intra-ethnic, class-based reaction to the elite dynamics displayed by the Saddle-horse movement" (p 193). This line of enquiry culminates in Swart interviewing AWB leader Eugene Terre'blanche in prison, his relationship with the horse being legendary and iconic (he absolutely did not fall off his horse, he told her; TV made that up).
The ways in which Swart is thus able to demonstrate the intimate intertwining of human and animal stories and histories, uses, abuses and symbolisations, is exemplary, innovative, and deeply exciting. To point out that Riding High is patchy - which is to say, chooses to focus on key moments and issues rather than attempt comprehensiveness - is only to say that there is much more work crying out to be done: Swart includes only brief commentary on allegedly "wild" horses, on racing today, on the use of horses in the Natal wars or amongst the Xhosa. Horses remain important in many interstitial situations throughout the country: witness Fanie Jason's recently-exhibited photos of horses in working-class Cape Town suburbia (Woodward). Yet the range of historical possibilities broached by Riding High is terrific, and it is to be hoped that the methods are swiftly applied to studies of other species in South Africa's heavily animal-populated landscapes, both domestic and wild.
There is one species that might be regarded as even more important to symbolic and ethnic consciousness, even more densely present in our sundry artistic representations and our economic systems - that is, of course, the cow. Cattle have had a longer history in southern Africa than the horse, have long been recognised as integral to most if not all indigenous societies' symbolic systems and economies, and have rightfully been accorded more attention by anthropologists and environmental historians. (One can never look at an Nguni cow in the same way again after reading Marguerite Poland's study of Zulu hide-pattern culture, The Abundant Herds (2003),9 for example.) Yet we still lack, I believe, a study of the cow in South African cultures of the stature and nature of Swart's study of horses (or, for that matter, of her study of the Africanis dog).
If cattle have for centuries been central to ritually-and politically-sanctioned forms of exchange and power, they have also been at the centre of illegitimate exchanges - rustling. Historians and other writers are gradually getting to grips with the realisation that criminality, however defined, is not only a blight of the present (as every newspaper will imply), but has always been an integral part of how society and its very legal structures have evolved.
Fred Morton, a professor of history recently retired from universities in Iowa and Botswana, unpacks in delirious detail the machinations suffusing politics, land ownership, and cattle in one smallish area, that between the Pilanesberg in the northwestern Transvaal and the Botswana border, and over one relatively short span of time of eighty years, 1820-1902. In When Rustling Became an Art, his charmingly-titled study of the succession of Kgatla chiefs (primarily Pilane [ruled 1825-1848], Kgamanyane [1848-1875], and Linchwe [1875-1920]), Morton retrieves another allbut-lost sector of South African history from the shadows:
[The Kgatla] achievement has been overlooked as attention has been given to large, resilient kingdoms on the edges of the trans-Vaal - the BaSotho, Bapedi and AmaSwati, BaNgwato and Ba Kwena. But these states had geography on their side, and were not obliged to move. Mountains and sandveld gave them their power to withstand invaders, whereas the Kgatla lived in open range with grass coveted by all and with only a few hills for defence. Without the luxury of natural barriers to fend off outsiders, the Kgatla built their fortunes by studying the forces contending for power in their midst (before and after the discovery of diamonds and gold), accumulating knowledge and new skills, and imagining a future in which the Kgatla could prosper.10
Sandra Swart calls Morton's study an "amiable" book; while Rustling is nowhere near as witty, even funny, as is Riding High, it is highly readable, despite the intricacy of the politics of mobility it has to navigate. The two books do overlap and complement each other: though the political economy of cattle rustling is Morton's central concern, the horse is there, too, as economic resource, as the primary vehicle of the invading Boers, as acquired symbol of chieftainship, as gift or bribe. To cite just one example: the following was related of the BaKwena chief Sebele at the battle of Mochudi in 1875:
Sebele apparently was chilled and frightened by the horror of the scene because he slipped from his saddle. The BaKwena retreated. While in his fright Sebele's saddle girth broke and the saddle fell on the ground. He struggled to cling to the horse's mane. When he finally gripped it he bowed on his horse's back (Its name was "Bronc") and made away on it, the horse galloping at high speed.11 (Cited in Morton 116)
That horses and cattle could be integrated in a single economic system is evidenced by this letter, sent from Linchwe to Louw du Plessis of the Dorslanders:
I have the honour to thank you for all the trouble you took with regards to Mr Krieling's horse. Referring to the report that I would help Khama, I have to inform you that it is a blatant lie. I already have my hands full with Secheli and have no desire to be attacked from both sides. I will have the bull that is still with you fetched at a later stage...12
The letter gives us just a whiff of the complexity of the politics Morton deftly unpacks. From the aftermath of disturbances Morton still lumps under that unwieldy and tenacious non-concept, the "mfecane", through the early Boer incursions and carving out of farms to be bought and sold without consulting the people who already lived there, the discoveries of diamonds and gold, the insertions of missionaries and white traders, endlessly fluid conflicts with every neighbouring group, the establishment of the first Boer Republic and the first British invasion, the establishment of the Bechuanaland Protectorate and of Rhodesia, and finally the manufacture of the 1899 South African War - through all of this and the attendant radical changes in economic labour-wage-and-tax dynamics, the Kgatla survived, and even prospered, on a canny mix of force, movement, negotiation, propaganda, compromise, and deceit. Morton wants to make the Kgatla out to be better than the rest: even their rustling was judicious, never motivated by greed (he only partly tongue-in-cheek tabulates the "Kgatla Rules of Rustling" [p xviii], which are admirably pragmatic in a Machiavellian kind of way). A case of special pleading, perhaps, but Morton is far from uncritical of his subjects: when Kgamanyane, having been flogged in public by Paul Kruger at his farm Saulspoort, decided to shift his people and cattle temporarily to Bechuanaland, he was no divinely-inspired "Moses", Morton writes. Yet something sticks of the "general rule... that those who flee oppression deserve to be admired less than those who stay, resist and deal with the consequences. The Africans who remained in South Africa developed the organisations, ideas and methods that posed the truly heroic challenges to white minority rule" (pp 90-91). In Morton's portrayal, the Kgatla stayed the course (to use a horsing metaphor) with exemplary cunning, if not unmitigated success, until, in the early twentieth century, kgosi Linchwe ran out of friends, and had to settle for being granted Saulspoort, so long a bone of contention, in 1922. In short, they modernised themselves as swiftly as anyone else in the region.
I cannot here even begin to convey the intricacies of the story, which Morton, as far as any outsider can, relates from the Kgatla point of view, using the Kgatla terms for invaders, strangers, and concepts. Suffice it to state that the Kgatla were throughout the period a real force to be reckoned with, in the face of finally insurmountable odds. In 1852, when Boers visited the Kgatla capital, they encountered a settlement more sophisticated and ordered than the ones they lived in themselves. Much of the time, the Kgatla leaders were more than a match for their neighbours, black or white: in fact, until the early twentieth century, there simply was no comprehensive rule in the region, whatever the Boers or the British might have asserted legalistically. During the 1899-1902 war, where Morton's story intersects those of both Stenson and Swart, Linchwe's Kgatla sided with and were armed with Martini-Henry rifles by the British, and rewarded themselves by capturing cattle from abandoned Boer homesteads - some of them Boers with whom they had negotiated friendlier deals not long before. This is just one circumstance in which Morton's analysis shows how divisions between "black" and "white" communities and their ambitions were highly unstable and porous.
The nexus of land control, the capacity and opportunity to grow crops, and the wealth of cattle remained foundational. Even in the 1930s, the Kgatla retained some 30 000 cattle and Isang Pilane, elder and advisor to the then very young kgosi, could identify almost all of them "by their markings as well as their brands, the progeny of those beasts, and who owned which cattle or who borrowed which cattle from whom" (p xxiii). And like his predecessors Isang, though "as mean and ruthless as they come" (p xxiii), was entirely modern: he had "more than a westernised appearance, church-going habits and easy manner at his disposal - he knew English and Afrikaans, knew Roman-Dutch law, and he understood the white men's institutions better than most whites knew themselves" (p xxiii). Now he travelled by limo, not horse.
But he still rustled cattle. The art of rustling remained fundamental to the people's security, and some cattle had changed hands, stolen or sold, many times: following Sandra Swart's suggestion about the horse Somerset, I enjoin someone to write the biography of one Kgatla bull, say, which can quite plausibly be envisioned migrating in its lifetime through almost every major power bloc in the region, revealing even more of the system than Morton does. For if there is one thing missing from Morton's still essentially human-political account, it is, oddly enough, the actual art of rustling: just how the individual raiders got in, controlled the cattle, escaped, retained and distributed the booty - is never quite captured. Perhaps the historical material - like that for so many conspiracies - simply does not exist: to recreate the ground-level textures and moment-to-moment dynamics we await, apparently, the intervention of another novelist.
And there is that other still-missing dimension: the terrors and pleasures experienced by the cattle themselves. The fright of being rustled in the nineteenth century was arguably much less than that experienced by the millions slaughtered every year today for human food - what Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello controversially calls a "holocaust" - and generally less fatal. In any event, the actual cow's bellow is still a voice that has not found its proper South African advocate - at least not one of the stature of Swiss writer Beat Sterchi's devastating novel, The Cow (1988).13 Such an advocate of course now has to operate in a very different environmental situation, philosophical atmosphere, and rights-orientated culture, as Tony Yengeni and friends discovered when proposing to ritually slaughter a bull in their suburban yard. One might expand here on these lines from Francis Carey Slater's empathetic, Xhosa-derived poem, "Lament for a Dead Cow":
No more will her slow shadow
Comfort the sunburnt veld, and her sweet lowing
Delight the hills in the evening.14
The emotionality of human-anmial relations is real but still marginalised. A "history" like Morton's, however nuanced and well-expressed, remains largely beholden to the assumption that behaviours can and ought to be explained as politically, philosophically or economically rational. The philosopher in J.M. Coetzee would not have it otherwise:
Regarding rights for non-human animals, enshrined in law, as a way of making the world a better place, let me simply put the question: if one actually wishes to bring about such rights, which is likely to be the more efficacious way of arguing for them: in the manner of the academic philosopher or the manner of the parliamentary politician, that is to say, mixing true reasoning with verbal trickery, selective deployment of evidence, appeals to emotion, ad hominem attacks, and the denigration and browbeating of opponents?15
Point taken - but Coetzee the novelist might say: Unhappily, neither people nor animals behave rationally much of the time. So let the novelist also have a go at restoring the non-human animal to its proper place in South African history.
1. M. Calarco, "Toward an Agnostic Animal Ethics", p 83, in P. Cavalieri, The Death of the Animal: A Dialogue (Columbia University Press, New York, 2009), pp 73-84. [ Links ]
2. J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals (Secker & Warburg, New York, 1999). [ Links ]
3. Cited by C. Wolfe, "Humanist and Posthumanist Antispeciesism", p 51, in Cavalieri, The Death of the Animal, pp 45-58. [ Links ]
4. J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace (Secker & Warburg, New York, 1999). [ Links ]
5. Stenson, The Great Karoo, pp 209-210.
6. T. Pakenham, TheBoer War (Futura, London, 1982). [ Links ]
7. Stenson, The Great Karoo, p 205.
8. Swart, Riding High, p 127.
9. M. Poland, The Abundant Herds (Fernwood Press, Vlaeberg, 2003). [ Links ]
10. Morton, Rustling, p xxviii.
11. Cited in Morton, Rustling, p 116.
12. Cited in Morton, Rustling, p 124.
13. B. Sterchi, The Cow, trans. M. Hamburger (Faber, London, 1988). [ Links ]
14. See M. Chapman, ed., The Paperbook of South African English Poetry (Ad Donker, Parklands), p 73. [ Links ]
15. J.M. Coetzee, "On Appetite, the Right to Life, and Rational Ethics", in Cavalieri, The Death of the Animal, pp 119-121. [ Links ]


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The Red Bulls fell 2-0 at New England, stretching their winless skid at Gillette to 18 games dating all the way back to 2002. Here is reaction from both sides to the game, courtesy of the Revolution PR staff. Red Bull quotes are in bold.
New York Red Bulls head coach Hans Backe
Tonight was a tough time for us. We could have been two down and responded well in the second half. With a little bit of luck we could have scored, picked up two, three decent chances from some plays. It was quite close. We could have gotten a tie, but we are without six regulars. I cannot expect much more from these guys. They did what they could do with the energy they showed in the second half. Of course, we are too short-handed.
(Thierry Henry) has a problem with his calf. Every time he does turf games he picks up a calf issue. So we cannot play him on these kinds of turf.
Yeah, it's annoying (to play without guys because of injuries.) We haven't played two games in a row with a full-strength team, and if you look now with the guys – with [Jan Gunnar] Solli out, [Markus] Holgersson out, [Heath] Pearce out, [Rafa] Marquez out, [Teemu] Tainio out, [Thierry] Henry out – that is six starters. So in a way, you can say that the depth this year is very good. These guys played quite well a month ago, and I think we won five in a row with almost the same team. But, at the end of the day, you cannot pick up wins as we did earlier.
On getting a lot out of his "depth guys:"
Hopefully when it comes into October, November we'll play off some things like that. They have got good minutes, competitive minutes in this league, and that will help us if we pick up injuries. I think now it's just about looking for three, four more weeks and probably all of the guys will be back then.
As I said, the way they responded in the second half – with a little bit of luck, we could have tied the game at a 1-1 game.
New York Red Bulls defender Stephen Keel
It's a tough loss on the road. I think with a win, we would have been first place outright. We've got to go back, figure out what we can do better, and we have a big game on Sunday with Seattle coming in. We have to turn our efforts there. As far as injuries: every team has injuries, so that's no excuse. We've got to bounce back and get three points at home.
I think if you look at our roster, I think pretty much every guy has played significant minutes and contributed to winning. We have experience, and some of the experience levels are just out of this world. That obviously helps, and that will help us moving forward.
We knew it was going to be a battle and they're a quality team. We knew it was going to be a fight from the beginning, so we wanted to stay compact. We wanted to keep a clean sheet and give ourselves a chance.
New York Red Bulls forward Kenny Cooper
Obviously we're disappointed and I think we all are. You never want to lose to a local rival and you never want to lose any game, so I think we're all disappointed. We go back home now and have three home games on the run, and we'll get in front of our fans and hopefully bounce back then.
We had some good attacks and some good quality going forward in the second half and had some good opportunities. I had a couple myself that I should have done better with. We could have made it 1-1, and they ended up going down and getting another. Again, not the result I think any of us wanted, but we'll learn from it and hopefully we'll put things right next week.
On his shot that hit the post:
It was a good counter attack and I think Joel (Lindpere) put me in and Connor (Lade) showed great energy moving forward. (Lade) made a great overlapping run and space opened up, so I was able to get a shot off. Close but no cigar.
New England Revolution head coach Jay Heaps
It was a hard-fought match by us. I thought our first half was really good. The second half, when you're up a goal and you're at home, I thought we worked hard in the first half and I thought they had a pretty good run of play, some chances. But overall, in the end, I thought we had more chances to score. I thought the game should've been over before half. But credit New York for fighting. It was nice to get the second goal for the win.
Frank Dell'Apa … Can I ask Frank Dell'Apa? Frank Dell'Apa first. Haven't seen you forever, Frank. Enough of the NBA stuff. Now on to the real stuff … what happened with Ray Allen?
I'm not satisfied at all. I don't want to use last year as any type of measuring stick. We're a different group. We have different mentality, just like we're a different mentality than the teams that were really good around here in '05, '06, '07. I think we have a different style of play and we have different personalities, so to compare I think would be short-sighted on our end. From where I am, unfortunatey we've let a couple of games get away from us. I don't love that, but I love that our team works hard at home, plays well at home and makes it hard for teams to play against us here. But in the end, we still have room for improvement, aren't satisfied at all and don't want to use last year as any type of measuring stick.
(My dream debut for Jerry Bengtson would be to) put him in the 60th minute and have him score! I wish … It's not an easy transition. He literally signed his contract and joined our team in less than 12 hours. I think we have to manage expectations and make sure that he acclimates well. He's done that. He's coming in, getting to know the team. But to throw him out there for more than that would've been unfair to him. But that's the kind of game we want him to fight for headers. He was all by himself on an island with one striker and Saer (Sene) out wide just to open up the defense. But I think you're going to see more goals like he scored where it's a poachers goal. He's offside on the first part of the build up, but then he comes back onside and he fights off the goalkeeper and scores. Those are his kind of goals and we need someone who puts those away.
It's not so much of what I observe from a technical standpoint. It was more of what he did, come in, talking to his teammates. Fernando (Cardenas) and he have struck up a nice relationship. So you want to see how they react with each other. You have to manage the team in the locker room and you can't expect a player coming in to start. I never liked it when I was a player and I think you earn your way in, and minutes like tonight will get him more shots.
I thought Bobby (Shuttleworth) did an excellent job tonight. He communicated, he did well on crosses. Quite frankly, Bobby's been playing really well in training and in the reserve games. I take a hard focus on rserve games nad Bobby's had a really good run in those. And so it was a combination of things with Matt. First of all, we wanted to get him a rest. This is the longest he's gone without a break. But also Bobby's been playing well enough to get out there and we also wanted to shore up some air balls. We all know the few gaems we've given up some poor goals and we wanted to have a little more … Bobby has a commanding presence in the air and that's what he showed.
(Goals allowed the last few games) were mistakes. It's good. I think A.J. (Soares) and Stephen (McCarthy), particularly A.J., manned up tonight and did an excellent job on every time he came across. I thought Kevin Alston had a really good game making plays and coming across. And Chris Tierney, he had a tough assignment on Dane Richards, and I thought Chris Tierney, for 90 minutes, absolutely shut down their play.
Definitely not in Toronto, but with Seattle, I was happy with our first half. That's not true. I was happy with how we started that game and felt as if we scored another in that game against Seattle, it would have been our game. But we made two mistakes right before half. Tonight we didn't make those mistakes. We stayed focused and you could see our backline was communicating a bit more and there was a little more energy. I think you could see that tonight when the ball would go up the field and we would take those five, 10 yards to make sure we ate up some space and the lines between the midfield, forwards and defense was tight and that was important tonight.
New England Revolution goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth
(I found out) Friday. I'm working every week to try and play so any opportunity I can get I'm going to try and take it.
I think this was a really big win for us. I think as a group, we really needed this for our morale going into the rest of the season trying to push up the table.
I can't say enough about the guys and what they did tonight. We kept a tight line; they really didn't have that many chances. The one that (Kenny) Cooper hits the post doesn't matter. Other than that, I can't think of a chance they had really. We kept everything in front of us and stayed sharp.
I was kind of screened a little bit (on Kenny Cooper's shot that went off the post), so I didn't get a great look at it but once it came off his foot I was kind of just wishing, "Please don't go in, please don't go in."
Last season was pretty tough for me personally. I didn't get a win all (last) year, so first game of the season to get a shutout and a win, it feels good and I'm sure it feels great for the guys.
I think the Reserve League is very important for a guy like me. Especially me not getting a game for the first half of the year, I've probably played four or five reserve games, an Open Cup game, and it's been the thing where I'm not playing in first-team games but I'm able to stay sharp in the Reserve League games so that when I'm called upon I can contribute and be ready to play.
New England Revolution defender Chris Tierney
(The defensive performance) was great. If you look at A.J. (Soares) and Stephen McCarthy, I thought they were awesome. (Kenny) Cooper's a handful and they did a really good job dealing with it, so we're really pleased with those two guys. Kevin (Alston) was strong and Bobby (Shuttleworth) did very well, everything he was asked of. So I thought overall, they had a lot of the ball but we kept them in front and limited them to a few half chances. Cooper hit the bar – that was a good chance – but otherwise I thought we were good, we were solid.
You've just got to respect (Dane Richards') speed and try to keep him in front. We were talking about it before. I figured if I jammed him early, don't let him get a head of steam going then he couldn't hurt me. So I tried to be up tight on him, be close to him and make them try to play elsewhere, which I thought I did a decent job. He's so fast, he's going to get his chances in behind, but I thought overall A.J. (Soares) covered well for me when he did sneak in. I think all of us did pretty well back there.
I actually thought I'd kind of screwed that one up, to be honest. I was looking to Saer (Sene) on the overlap, but (Brandon) Barklage did a good job jumping out so I hit the panic button a little bit. But I just squared one to Lee (Nguyen) – it wasn't a great ball or anything – but Lee's just top class, takes a touch and smashes it lower corner. We'll take it.
I love playing with Lee (Nguyen). He's as technical as you get in this league. He's been awesome for us all year and I think we have a good understanding of when one goes, one covers. What he doesn't get enough credit for is how hard he works. You see his work rate. He's not only creating for us offensively and controlling the game, but he's always tracking back and getting in tackles. He's top class. I can't say enough about him.
New England Revolution midfielder Lee Nguyen
Thankfully, (Chris Tierney) played me a ball with enough pace on it to give me time to take a touch towards goal and take a shot. It was just a nice setup from the beginning to the end.
I think we just kind of sat back and invited them to come play and come at us (during the second half.) I think we've got to learn from that and keep going. Try to go for a second goal, third goal.
Jay (Heaps) put (Jerry Bengtson) on for that exact reason, to help us get forward and hopefully try to get a second. You can tell that they were trying to press us and it kind of left them vulnerable for the counterattack. So with his pace he was able to get behind the defense and get that second goal for us which was crucial.
Just to get that second goal, it took a lot of pressure off our center backs.
(Winning) was huge, especially at home. We need to get three points and now going into the next game it's going to give us confidence and hopefully we can make it a couple wins in a row and push up the leaderboard.


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Canal House Cooks Every Day by Christopher Hirsheimer & Melissa Hamilton
If you are, like me, a fan of the Canal House Cooks Lunch email series, then you will be relieved and thrilled to know that (at last!) the recipes are now available for all those delightful and delicious-looking dishes that pop up in our inbox every Mon-Fri this past year. For Canal House Cooks Every Day, the latest book by Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton, is just that: a beautiful, 384-page book that is mostly based on the emailed dishes, only this time we get the recipes, too! If you're not familiar with their emails or Canal House Cooking, then you're in for a real treat when you discover them through this lovely volume of over 250 recipes.
Quick Facts
• Who wrote it: Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton
• Who published it: Andrews McMeel
• Recipes and projects for right now: Vin Santo-Roasted Pears; Cauliflower with Bread Crumbs, Pancetta and Prunes; Chicken Roasted Over Potatoes and Lemon; Ginger Spice Cake with Dried Cherries; Pork Stew with Guajillo Chile Mole.
• Recommended? Yes! This books is beautiful and a pleasure to browse, but it will equally find its place on your kitchen counter, propped open to favorite recipes that you will find yourself returning to again and again. The occasional splatter or spill will only add to it's beauty and authenticity.
• Other highlights: Canal House Cooks Every Day is beautifully designed, with a deep red cloth cover that is embossed in metallic gold and blue. Its pages are thick and semi-glossy, and can be marked with a sky-blue grosgrain ribbon that's attached to the binding. Speaking of which, the binding is sturdy and allows the pages to fall flat, making it easy to prop open on your kitchen counter. The photographs by Christopher Hirsheimer, as can be expected, are beautiful and the occasional illustrations by Melissa Hamilton are lovely as well.
But a beautiful cookbook isn't worth its weight if it doesn't give us decent, delicious, well-written and well-tested recipes, and Canal House Cooks Every Day does not fail us here. The book is arranged by season and then months within that season, which is how many of us are cooking these days. It's a delight to just open it up to November and discover what's possible for right now. There's also a recipe index in the front if you want to easily explore the book by categories and a more thorough index in the back.
• Who would enjoy this book? Anyone who loves to cook, quite honestly.
• For a preview of Canal House Cooks Every Day, go here.
• The Canal House website.
• A Canal House Q&A on The Blender.
→ Find the book at your local library, independent bookstore, or Amazon: Canal House Cooks Every Day by Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton (Andrews McMeel Publishing, October 2012)
Related: Recipe Review: Canal House Cooking's Serious Ragu
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(Images: Cover photo Andrews McMeel; all other photos Dana Velden )


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CCR Cyberspace 200/300 Team Wins GISLA Award
Posted: 06/06/2014 by AFIT Public Affairs
Cyber 200/300 Professional Continuing Education (PCE) team won for the 2014 (ISC)² U.S. Government Information Security Leadership (GISLA) Award in the "Workforce Improvement" category! CWO Elbert Peak & Maj Rich Shoaf were in Washington D.C. and accepted on our behalf. Great job team!
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Chief Warrant Officer Peak and Major Shoaf hold the 2014 GISLA Award


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Every 4 years, the world stops and watches in awe as one city in the world hosts the Olympic Games. The top athletes convene in one city to prove to the world their abilities and the world engages in friendly war, for once. In 2008 the Summer Olympics were hosted by China, who made several efforts to be sure their display would be considered "green." This February the Winter Olympics are being hosted in Vancouver, Canada.
It seems like a no brainer that Vancouver, who often makes the list of Greenest Cities (in fact 90% of the city is run on renewable energy), would have no issues making sure this year's Winter Olympics is nothing short of Green. And sure enough, they started off with a bang! Making big steps to prove to the world they are Greening the Winter Olympics with LEED certified buildings and expanding the public transportation system, to name a few. In fact Vancouver is trying their hardest to be recognized as the "Greenest Olympics Games Ever."
Obviously, these are terrific achievements and set a great example to the rest of the world. However, there are some serious things to consider. Because of an unseasonably warm winter this year (Gasp! Could Climate Change be to blame?!), British Colombia has seen less snow and required the committee to truck in loads of snow. We don't need to explain twice how this impacts the environment, with all the carbon emissions it has created. Although, the committee has reported it will be purchasing offsets for these emissions, they only plan on offsetting less than half. This begs to question, do the Vancouver Olympics really deserve Gold for their Green?
David Suzuki has put together a "Green Scorecard" for the Winter Olympics. And although they may score high for their LEED certified buildings and a Green Olympic Village, the imitation snow has left many wondering if they deserve such high regards. This scorecard gives them a Bronze medal, even though the UN and the Vancouver Olympics themselves are rewarding a Gold medal. However, even winter athletes are demanding that more attention be paid to the climate. With Climate Change directly affecting their sports, they want the Olympic committees and the host cities to commit to higher standards in the future.
So what could be done to be sure Olympic Games are as environmentally aware as they should be? Grist writer, Jonathan Hiskes, makes an excellent suggestion. In order to really and truly change the impact of the Olympic Games, why not make it stationary? And we kind of have to agree. Centralizing the Olympics close to where most athletes are based would cut down on building and travel costs, which are the biggest environmental offenders. Even though worldwide cities would lose tourist cash and a chance to show off to the world, the environmental impact would be enormous. If the Olympics are setting examples, as they claim, this would be one hefty example to make. Lollapalooza did it and survived, so why can't the Olympics?


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Q In the past few years the freeway bridge over St. Joseph's trailhead to Rancho San Antonio in Los Altos on Interstate 280 has sunk. Bone rattling jolts are every day occurrences to thousands of drivers. Southbound, it's a good thing a call box is located just a few hundred yards from this dangerous grade separation. In just a few weeks I saw three cars with flat tires making calls for help at that box alone.
The bumpity bump, double whammy, rock-em-sock-em jolt or whatever you want to call the effect this bridge has on every passing vehicle may soon be the cause of a serious but preventable bang-ding-ow. This is a hazard. Can something be done?
Joseph Kleitman
Los Altos Hills
A And …
Q Have you heard from anyone else about this?
Matt Elgin
Palo Alto
A Hah! This bumpity bump, double whammy, rock-em-sock-em jolt has surprised many others.
Q This overpass on 280 has risen to such an extent that I'm treated to a loud bang and my entire car skips and shudders when I cross it. Considering that I drive an SUV with some pretty large tires, I can only imagine what it must feel like in a smaller car — and what damage it must be doing.
Mike Guthrie
A Memo to Mrs. Roadshow, this stretch is now off limits for our Prius.
Q The expansion area of the overpass has either sunken or raised to the degree that it's about a 2-inch lip. Smacking this at 65 mph produces a severe shock to my car, and watching other motorists pass over it causes them sometimes to swerve, other times to brake and at all times to ponder the damage to their vehicle or simply to wonder what the hell was that.
Paul Schumacker, Craig Emery, Kevin Collopy, E. Mendez and zillions more
A After weeks of badgering, Caltrans says repairs will come sometime next year. The sooner the better. Until then be careful when driving 280 north of Foothill Expressway where the bridge is settling.
Q Is it me or are there an absurd number of electric vehicles with Clean Air Vehicle decals but no license plates on. The DMV requires one before they can even apply for the stickers, but these owners disdainfully ride in the carpool lanes with their stickers while us slobs wonder why they think they don't need their proper plates?
Frank Toy
San Jose
A I have not noticed this, but …
Q There was an interesting comment on the Burlingame Voice that mentioned never seeing front license plates on Teslas. Now I notice this all the time. Is there an exception for this model?
Pete Garrison
A No.
Q How many California license plates were issued between 6AAA000 and 7AAA000, and how long did it take to go from the 6 to 7 series?
Robert Benjamin
A It took 5 years and 8 months for the 6 series to run out. There are approximately 2,443,000 plates in this series.
Look for Gary Richards at Facebook.com/mr.roadshow or contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com or 408-920-5335.


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AC/DC release catalogue on iTunes
Rock band AC/DC has released their music on Apple music store iTunes.
They had previously voiced strong opposition to the digital service.
Until now its members maintained their songs should not be made available for individual download because they were all integral parts of various albums.
But the Australian band's 16 studio albums, four live albums and three compilations, which have sold more than 150 million physical copies worldwide, are now available in the iTunes store.
AC/DC's music videos were already viewed about 600,000 times a week online, their record label, Columbia Records, said.
"This iTunes, God bless 'em, it's going to kill music if they're not careful," lead singer Brian Johnson told Reuters on the release of their last album, Black Ice, in 2008.
"It just worries me. And I'm sure they're just doing it all in the interest of making as much... cash as possible. Let's put it this way, it's certainly not for the... love."
Money talks
Alice Enders, from media analysts Enders Analysis, said she believed the band's decision was ultimately a commercial one.
"AC/DC probably now understand that their future sales reside on iTunes given the steep decline of the CD in the US, long its top market," she told the BBC.
"If you can't get your music in front of people in the retail outlet, then you have no choice but to embrace digital sales."
The band has just released their first live album in 20 years and have a 40th anniversary tour planned for 2013.
But Ms Enders pointed out the band's recordings were still not available on Spotify.
"It's not embraced access services yet," she said.
Royalty issues
AC/DC is among the last of the high profile "refuseniks" to make themselves available on iTunes.
The Beatles back catalogue was released for download in 2010 after years of disputes between rights holders.
Some musicians are taking legal action against their record labels over the royalties they earn from download sales.
James Taylor, Eminem and Sister Sledge are among those who have filed complaints.


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Cemetery snippit – the Judy graveyard
March 31, 2009
From The Page News & Courier, Friday 20 Jul 1928:
"SOME MORE OLD TIMERS AROUND HONEYVILLE" (in the Jacob's Well column)
"Some of the old slave colored people are sleeping in this old graveyard. Old uncle Mat Ford, wife and daughter sleep there. In the South corner of the graveyard is the dust of a Union soldier that was killed by Katie Judy in 1863. We have never heard much about this unknown soldier."
Location: "about one mile Southeast of Honeyville, near Honey Run."
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Melanie Grace Thornton permalinkJanuary 20, 2011 9:19 pm
Noah Thornton is my great, great grandfather and I am so proud to be a part of his lineage. This piece of history revealed additional information that my 80 year old father C. Lee Thornton, Jr. and I didn't know about this Union Soldier. Thank you! 🙂


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From MeritBadgeDotOrg
- Have a knowledge of incubators, foster-mothers, sanitary fowl houses, coops and runs.
- Understand, through experience, rearing, feeding, killing and dressing birds for market.
- Be able to candle and pack eggs for market, describe the differences, in candling, which distinguish the bad eggs from the good; and tell how eggs are graded.
- Raise a brood of not less than 10 chickens.
- Report his observation and study of the hen, turkey, duck and goose.
- Comply with the 4-H Club or Home Project Project Requirements in Poultry Management.
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Measures against a new ransom trojan variant claiming 2048-bit PGP-RSA encryption of the hard drive
This type of ransom trojan is dropped by other malware or downloaded from the Internet. It displays a certain message and informs the user that the system is locked. To unlock it again, the user needs to pay money.
The following message will appear if the trojan is executed:
The ransom malware claims that all local files have been encrypted with a 2048 PGP Key.
It is in fact a RC4 encryption, and with available original files (from backup or other source), it is possible to decrypt all files.
Malware Behavior
The trojan comes by another dropped malware or by visiting malicious websites and downloading from it.
It makes a copy of itself in the following folder:
The following modifications will be done in the registry by the ransom malware:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "D8812EB1"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\%userprofile%\\Application Data\\%random%\\%random%.exe
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System] "DisableRegistryTools"=dword:00000001 "DisableRegedit"=dword:00000001
All the locally present files except in "Windows" and "Program" on the system will be locked with the RC4 method. They will assume the following syntax:
locked-*original file name*.*4 random characters*
Please refer to this link for more information about this ransom malware.
Avira provides a decrypting tool, which is named "Avira Ransom File Unlocker".
Avira Ransom File Unlocker" is a tool written in .NET 2.0 to decrypt files encrypted by a ransom malware type that claims the files have been encrypted with a 2048 PGP key. It is in fact RC4-encrypted, so with available original files (from a backup or any other source), it is possible to decrypt all files.
The tool will not change or delete the encrypted files, to avoid data loss in case the decryption did not work most likely due to a new variant of this kind of malware.
To decrypt the encrypted files, the user has to select an encrypted file from the hard drive and the original version of this file from the hard drive or from another source.
It is imperative that the original version is an exact copy of the encrypted file before the system was infected, otherwise the tool would not work correctly.
Update with version 1.0.1: You will now get an error message if you have added 2 encrypted or 2 decrypted files as "Locked file" and "Original file".
- Avira Professional Security [Windows]
- Avira Free Antivirus [Windows]
- Avira Antivirus Premium 2013 [Windows]
- Avira Internet Security 2013 [Windows]
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Those early estimates that Texas would lose 90,000 defense industry jobs if Democrats and Republicans continue their high-stakes game of political chicken …
The right figure is a lot higher. A lot.
A new George Mason University report estimates that, if automatic budget cuts approved in a bipartisan deal last year go into effect, 2,137,708 jobs will be lost in the entire United States over the 2012-2013 fiscal years, 159,743 of those in Texas alone.
The report also mentions that in addition to the initial job cuts listed above, the total spending of Department of Defense and non-DOD agencies would be reduced by $115.7billion in FY 2013, causing a greater reduction in the nation's GDP, which would in turn continue the domino effect.
The so-called "sequestration rules" approved by Congress allow the president to exempt military personnel accounts from the automatic-cut process. If that happens, "then a greater burden falls on the other accounts — including operations and maintenance and [research and development] accounts," said Frank Kendall, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.
"Everyone thinks this is a bad idea, and almost everybody thinks we should do something to avoid it," Kendall said of Congress. "I haven't talked to anyone yet who knows how to do that."
Texas Sen. John Cornyn, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, blamed Democrats for the stalemate.
"This is the most predictable crisis imaginable, one that will cripple our ability to ensure national security in the face of continuing threats around the globe," he said. "But Democrats are using the threat of these devastating military cuts as a bargaining chip to push through tax increases, a cynical, inside-the-Beltway strategy that won't solve this problem in a common-sense way."