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Public Corporation as Private Constitution

Alan R. Palmiter

Wake Forest University - School of Law

March 17, 2008

Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 1111773

The large publicly-traded corporation in the United States derives its essential structure and metaphoric language from the republican form of government laid out in the US Constitution. Public shareholders elect a decision-making body that formulates and supervises an executive bureaucracy, subject to review by a judiciary (typically, in Delaware) that balances shareholder interests and management prerogatives. The analogy to the republican government structure found in the federal Constitution and replicated in all 50 states is unavoidable. Both "specialized hierarchies" create a principal-agent model of separated powers that contains similar sets of voting rights, nearly identical standards of judicial review, and generally parallel recognition of exit opportunities. Thus, an understanding of US corporate governance inevitably compels an understanding and appreciation of the structures of US political governance. Metaphorically, the public corporation is private constitution.

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Review of Leonard Levy: Blasphemy

John Witte Jr.

Emory University School of Law

The Christian Century, Vol. 111, pp. 89-91, 1995

This review offers a sympathetic reading of Leonard Levy’s massive historical study of “Blasphemy: Verbal Offenses Against the Sacred Voices from Moses to Salman Rushdie.” Levy spotlights the crime of blasphemy and the injustice of its implementation, showing clearly sympathy with the victims of blasphemy, but not valorizing all of them as he tended to do in his previous works. He also makes clear that today’s sweeping free speech protections of virtually all forms of anti-religious rhetoric has had the ironic effect of making America not only a free society but also a “numb society” that is “beyond outrage”.

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Blackbeard's cannon salvaged from North Carolina shipwreck

Blackbeard's cannon salvaged from North Carolina shipwreck

2,000-pound weapon will provide more ammo for historical studies

Image: Blackbeard's cannonChuck Beckley / AP
Researchers led by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources’ Underwater Archaeology Branch rest a recovered 2,000-pound cannon on the back of a NOAA research vessel on Wednesday.
updated 10/27/2011 1:38:59 AM ET2011-10-27T05:38:59
  1. A 2,000-pound cannon pulled from the waters near Beaufort Wednesday will give archaeologists and historians more ammunition for separating fact from legend surrounding the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
    The Queen Anne's Revenge Project brought the massive gun ashore and displayed it to the public before taking to a laboratory at East Carolina University. Onlookers cheered as the 8-foot-long (2.4-meter-long, 900-kilogram) gun was raised above the water's surface. "The last people who saw this were pirates," QAR project director Mark Wilde-Ramsing told more than 100 spectators who later gathered in front of Beaufort's Maritime Museum for a closer look at the 18th-century weapon. Dozens of local residents turned out, while some Blackbeard enthusiasts drove in from other parts of the state. "We read about it last night, and I asked the kids: Are we going to skip school tomorrow and go see this?" said Joy Herndon, who made the roughly 230-mile (370-kilometer) trek from Greensboro with her children, Lucy and Kevin. Legend vs. factSeparating the Blackbeard legend from historical facts is one of the goals of the QAR recovery effort, which has so far netted some 280,000 artifacts, said Joseph Schwarzer, director of the North Carolina Maritime Museum. "This is about as close to that particular point in American history, and to piracy, as anybody is ever going to get," Schwarzer said. The recovery effort involves collaboration between the state departments of Cultural Resources and Environmental and Natural Resources, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, East Carolina University.
    The gun recovered Wednesday was the 13th cannon raised from the shipwreck. Other items have included medical supplies, dishes, gold dust, prisoner shackles, African jewelry and small weaponry. Schwarzer said researchers believe the ship was built as La Concorde, a French slave-trading vessel, but was commandeered by Blackbeard and his crew six months prior to its grounding near Beaufort Inlet. Historians theorize that the ship was intentionally scuttled by Blackbeard, who then took off in a smaller boat, because he could no longer afford the expense of four ships and a pirate following estimated at 400. Neal Stetson, 58, said he and his wife drove a half-hour from Newport to see the recovered cannon. "After we moved here, I became fascinated with Blackbeard, particularly all the tales and legends that surround him," said Stetson, who came to the area from Maryland six years ago. "It's amazing and fortunate that they found the wreck." Exhibit attracts thousandsAn exhibit of the items recovered from the ship opened at the Beaufort Maritime Museum in June and has already attracted more than 100,000 visitors, said N.C. Cultural Resources Secretary Linda Carlisle. Only about half the shipwreck has been examined so far, but Carlisle said the state has a goal of finishing the recovery effort by 2013. "We're really concerned about the site itself," she said. "We live through each hurricane season with trepidation." The project could move more swiftly if additional funding was available. Carlisle said it costs about $150,000 annually for the recovery and lab work, but state funding has not kept up with the need. Though some flakes of gold dust are the closest to pirate's treasure yet discovered, the project and museum exhibit has netted the state a valuable influx of tourism dollars, as well as drawn international attention to the state, Carlisle added. The cannon will be preserved at the lab at ECU while the research staff studies both the weapon and the cementlike shell of sand, salt and barnacles covering it, a process that could easily take five years, said Sarah Watkins-Keeney, chief conservator for the QAR project. Blackbeard was an Englishman whose real name may have been Edward Teach or Thatch. After capturing La Concorde in the Caribbean, Blackbeard and his men blockaded the port of Charleston for a time. He was sailing north from Charleston when his ship went aground in what was then known as Old Topsail Inlet, now Beaufort Inlet. After being granted a pardon from North Carolina Gov. Charles Eden in June 1718, Blackbeard was killed five months later by members of the Royal Navy of Virginia at Ocracoke Inlet.

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      The Titanic, the 46,000-ton "unsinkable" ocean liner that struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912 and sank within hours to the bottom of the North Atlantic, is the world's most famous shipwreck. To this day, the voyage, its passengers, even the mysterious Cold War details surrounding its 1985 discovery continue to capture the public's fascination. But the Titanic is not the only wrecked ship steeped in history — if not treasure — discovered on the bottom of the sea. Click the "Next" arrow above to learn about nine more shipwrecks that have enriched our imaginations.
      -- By John Roach
    • An ancient Greek oil ship
      Image: pottery shards
      Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities
      An ancient Greek cargo ship, described by one researcher as a UPS truck of its day, sank with what appears to be a load of oregano-flavored olive oil. At least, that's the result of a genetic analysis of residue in one of the ship's earthenware jars that were hauled up from the 200-foot depths of the Aegean Sea where the ship sank around 350 B.C. The wrecked ship, which was discovered by an underwater robot, contained several hundred of the jars, called amphorae. More than two-thirds were of the style of the one containing the olive oil. Other containers likely held wine, a well-known export from the island of Chios.
    • Diamond geologists find sunken treasure
      Image: Gold coins
      Geologists hunting for diamonds off the coast of Namibia stumbled upon a different sort of riches when they hit upon a shipwreck full of copper ingots, elephant tusks and gold coins. The discovery was reported by Namdeb Diamond Corp, a joint venture between diamond giant De Beers and the government of Namibia. Preliminary analysis indicates the well-worn Spanish or Portuguese ship likely went down in stormy weather in the late 1400s or early 1500s. Judging from the cargo, researchers said the ship was likely looking for material to build cannons or was perhaps trading in ivory. This image shows coins and a brass divider recovered in the wreckage.
    • Santa Margarita loot a long trail of discovery
      Image: Pearls
      Dylan Kibler / AP
      In 1622, a fleet of 28 Spain-bound ships laden with gold, silver, copper and other riches reaped from the New World was snared by a violent hurricane in the Florida Strait. At least six of the boats sank, their loot no longer bound for the crown. Modern day explorers, however, have scoured the waters for the sunken treasure. Riches from the heavily armed Nuestra Se�ora de Atocha started coming to light in the 1970s and the scattered fortunes of a second ship, the Santa Margarita, were hit upon in 1980. In more recent years, divers from Blue Water Ventures Key West have been hot on the Santa Margarita's trail, recovering millions worth of treasure including the pearls shown here.
    • Captain Kidd's ship discovered in Dominican Republic
      Image: possible wreckage
      Indiana University
      The wreckage of the Quedagh Merchant, a ship abandoned by Scottish privateer William Kidd in the 17th century, has been discovered in shallow waters off a tiny island in the Dominican Republic and turned into an underwater preserve. Captain Kidd spent much of his life as a privateer – and captured the Indian-owned Quedagh Merchant which was laden with satin, silks, silver, gold, and other riches. But he abandoned the ship in 1699 to address charges in New York that he was a pirate, not a privateer. According to historians, the men entrusted with the ship looted it, burned it, and set it adrift. It was found just 70 feet off the coast of Catalina Island at a depth of only 10 feet.
      Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge Found?
      Image: cannon
      Chuck Beckley / Jacksonville Daily News
      Archaeologists believe the cannon shown here being hauled up off the coast of North Carolina was part of the notorious pirate Blackbeard's flagship. According to legend, Blackbeard, whose real name was thought to be Edward Teach or Thatch, commandeered the French slave ship La Concorde in 1717 and renamed it the Queen Anne's Revenge. Blackbeard abandoned the ship when it ran aground off the North Carolina coast. Several artifacts recovered from the wreck appear to support the belief that it was Blackbeard's flagship, though the findings have been questioned by some scholars. Ongoing excavations may one day solve the mystery.
    • HMS Victory, famous British warship
      Image: archaeological site in Masada
      AP Photo/Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. |
      A famous British warship sunk by a violent storm in 1744 was discovered 330 feet deep in the English Channel, more than 50 miles from a group of rocky islets long implicated in the vessel's demise. The discovery exonerates the HMS Victory's commander, Sir John Balchin, and a lighthouse keeper near the rocks who was prosecuted for failing to keep the lights on, according to researchers with Odyssey Marine Exploration who found the sunken vessel that carried at least 900 men. What's more, the 110-gun ship is thought to contain 4 tons of gold coins. This image shows one of the ship's bronze cannons with the royal crest of King George I.
    • Court battles over $500 million shipwreck loot
      Image: Found coins
      Odyssey Marine Exploration via A
      The governments of Peru and Spain are caught up in court battles with a Florida-based exploration firm that recovered an estimated $500 million worth of silver coins from a Spanish frigate sunk by a British warship in 1804. Marine Odyssey Exploration announced the discovery of the treasure in 2007, though tried to keep the ship's origins and exact Atlantic Ocean location a secret. The details began to leak in 2008 as the Spanish government laid claim to the treasure if it indeed was from the sunken Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes. Peru has since weighed in with a court challenge of its own, saying the coins were made with Peruvian silver and minted in Lima. In this file photo, Odyssey Marine Exploration co-founder, Greg Stemm, left, examines the loot with a co-worker at an undisclosed location.
      Ore ship found, mystery endures
      Image: Ore freighter ship
      The discovery of an ore carrier some 460 feet beneath the surface of Lake Superior has only raised the intrigue over why the vessel sank on just its second voyage. The Cyprus was hauling iron ore from Superior, Wisconsin to Buffalo, New York, when it encountered a moderate gale on October 11, 1907. But the storm was insufficient to bother other ships that day. At the time, some mariners suspected water entered through the ships newly designed hatch covers, though a labor riot at the time of the vessels construction could have created other flaws. While this remains unsolved, shipwreck researchers have another mystery to resolve: The Cyprus was found 10 miles north of where its sole survivor said it went down. The ship on her maiden voyage is shown in this image.
    • Graf Zeppelin, unused Nazi Germany carrier
      Wojtek Jakubowski / AP
      The Polish Navy is almost certain they've located the remains of Nazi Germany's only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin. The ship was launched in 1938, though it never saw action as Adolf Hitler's interest in the navy waned during World War II. The Soviet Union took control of the ship after Germany's defeat and used it for target practice in 1947, according to historical accounts. The carrier eventually sank but its exact whereabouts were unknown until the Polish Navy found remains with an underwater robot. In this image, Polish Navy Commander Daniel Beczek holds up a photo with three views of the ship: the top is a drawing, the middle is a sonar image made by the navy, and the bottom is a 1930s construction photo.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Russia wants to colonize the moon Posted on October 20, 2011 - 12:06 by Trent Nouveau

The moon may be a harsh mistress, but Russian scientists say they want to establish a colony below the lunar surface.
According to Russian space official Sergei Krikalyov, recently discovered volcanic tunnels could provide natural shelter for the first colonists.
Russia wants to colonize the moonIndeed, scientists believe the moon's volcanic past created a vast underground network of lava tubes - some of which may be accessible by a meters-deep hole recently discovered by Japan's Kaguya spacecraft.
"This new discovery that the moon may be a rather porous body could significantly alter our approach to founding lunar bases," Krikalyov explained in a statement quoted by Reuters.
"If it turns out that the moon has a number of caves that can provide some protection from radiation and meteor showers, it could be an even more interesting destination than previously thought."

To illustrate his point, Krikalyov presented a slideshow showing bunker-like inflatable tents on the lunar surface.
"There wouldn't be any need to dig the lunar soil and build walls and ceilings... It would be enough to use an inflatable module with a hard outer shell to seal the caves."

Boris Kryuchkov, deputy science head at Russia's Star City cosmonaut training center, estimated the first such lunar colonies could be built by 2030.

In the meantime, however, Moscow is focusing on rebooting its lunar program by prepping the Luna-Glob probe for a 2014 launch. The probe is slated to explore the Moon's polar regions, with a specific emphasis on analyzing lunar permafrost.
"Possibly, comets brought water onto the Moon and also the Earth. There are two significant differences between the Earth and Moon: the Earth has a stronger gravitational field and a thick atmosphere. Owing to this the Earth could hold out, water and rivers, lakes and oceans appeared, and later, all this led to the origin of life," Igor Mitrofanov, a fellow at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, told the Voice of Russia.
"The Moon has no atmosphere and has a weak gravitational field. Water on its surface can be only under the conditions of extreme cold. When question arises about manned expeditions and setting up of lunar stations, water resources should guarantee the station with oxygen and water for day to day use and can be used to produce hydrogen, an excellent fuel for rockets. At present, we are engaged in hydrology surveillance for the exploration of the Moon in the future."

Saturday, October 15, 2011

"The Lady of the Lake" haunts White Rock Lake Park. Is the story nothing more than an urban legend? Or does it have some basis in fact?

   One of the best-known Dallas legends is the so-called "Lady of White Rock Lake," a ghostly figure who is said to haunt the park's environs. Everyone it seems has heard one or more versions of the story (which seem to have become more gruesome and embellished over time) but is there any truth to them? Or is the "lady" nothing more than an urban legend that has its counterparts in other U.S. cities? No one seems to know for sure.
      It appears the story has been circulating for quite a while. Students at Woodrow Wilson High School in East Dallas were telling the tale to one another at least as early as the 1930s, although whether it originated with them or not is uncertain.
      A woman named Anne Clark wrote what may be the earliest published account of the legend. Titled "The Ghost of White Rock," Clark's brief story was included in the Texas Folklore Society's 1943 publication, Backwoods to Border. It read:
One hot July night a young city couple, having driven out and parked on the shore of White Rock Lake, switched on the headlights of the car and saw a white figure approaching. As the figure came straight to the driver's window, they saw it was a young girl dressed in a sheer white dress that was dripping wet. She spoke in a somewhat faltering voice.
I'm sorry to intrude, and I would not under any other circumstances, but I must find a way home immediately. I was in a boat that overturned. The others are safe. But I must get home.
She climbed into the rumble seat, saying that she did not wish to get the young lady wet, and gave them an address in Oak Cliff, on the opposite side of Dallas. The young couple felt an uneasiness concerning their strange passenger, and as they neared the destination the girl, to avoid hunting the address, turned to the rumble seat to ask directions. The rumble seat was empty, but still wet.
After a brief, futile search for the girl in white, the couple went to the address she had given and were met at the door by a man whose face showed lines of worry. When he had heard the couple's story, the man replied in a troubled voice. "This is a very strange thing. You are the third couple who has come to me with this story. Three weeks ago, while sailing on White Rock Lake, my daughter was drowned."
      In 1953 a similar but much more detailed account was included in Dallas author Frank X. Tolbert's book, Neiman-Marcus, Texas: The Story of the Proud Dallas Store:
One night about ten years ago a beautiful blonde girl ghost appeared on a road near Dallas' White Rock Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Malloy, directors for display for the world-famous specialty store, Neiman-Marcus, saw the girl. Only they didn't recognize her, right off, for a ghost. She had walked up from the beach. And she stood there in the headlights of the slow-moving Malloy car. Mrs. Malloy said, "Stop, Guy. That girl seems in trouble. She must have fallen in the lake. Her dress is wet. Yet you can tell that it is a very fine dress. She certainly got it at the Store."
By "the Store," Mrs. Malloy meant the Neiman-Marcus Company of Dallas.
The girl spoke in a friendly, cultured contralto to the couple after the car had stopped. She said she'd like to be taken to an address on Gaston Avenue in the nearby Lakewood section. It was an emergency she said. She didn't explain what had happened to her, and the Malloys were too polite to ask. She had long hair, which was beginning to dry in the night breeze. And Mrs. Malloy was now sure that this girl was wearing a Neiman-Marcus dress. She was very gracious as she slipped by Mrs. Malloy and got in the back seat of the two-door sedan.
When the car started, Mrs. Malloy turned to converse with the passenger in the Neiman-Marcus gown. The girl had vanished. There was a damp spot on the back seat.
The Malloys went to the address on Gaston Avenue. A middle-aged man answered the door. Yes, he had a daughter with long blonde hair who wore nothing but Neiman-Marcus clothes. She had been drowned about two years before when she fell off a pier at White Rock Lake.
The point of this story - for our purposes - is not that Mr. and Mrs. Guy Malloy, a hard-working, sober, no-nonsense couple, say very firmly that they saw a ghost. Other folks say they have seen the beautiful girl ghost of White Rock. The point of this story is that she was a very well-dressed ghost. And Mrs. Malloy at once identified her as wearing Neiman-Marcus clothes.
      A contemporary Dallas writer, Rose-Mary Rumbley, confirms this story, more or less, in her more recent book, Dallas Too, which was published in 1998 by the Eakin Press.
      "My good friend Barbara Rookstool," Dr. Rumbley writes, "vows that her daddy, Guy H. Malloy, was the one who created the Lady of the Lake legend." One Friday night, she continues, he worked late on a window display at the Neiman-Marcus store in downtown Dallas. It was after 2 a.m. on Saturday morning when Mr. Malloy, driving home to East Dallas, "first spotted the Lady of the Lake rise from White Rock." Afterward, reports Rumbley, "he told the story of the sighting" and it "has been told ever since."
      "As time passed," Rumbley remarks further, "the story grew," adding, "Malloy just saw her. He never took her home." Although this story does not match Tolbert's account in every detail (Rumbley has it taking place in the 1930s, for instance), the former schoolteacher agrees that the alleged spectre "was wearing a dress from Neiman-Marcus."
      Was there really someone named Guy H. Malloy, who worked as window dresser for Neiman-Marcus? The answer is most definitely "yes." He and his wife Josephine are listed in Dallas telephone books of the time and some of the earlier directories confirm his occupation. But did he, or he and his wife together, really see a ghost? That question is a bit more difficult to answer.
      Another contemporary Dallas author reports that the "Lady of the Lake" has been seen, not in a Neiman-Marcus dress but in a flowing negligee and that she is believed to be the ghost of a despondant young woman who committed suicide by drowning herself in the reservoir. This begs the question: Has anyone ever done such a thing? Again, the answer is yes.
      On Friday, July 5, 1935, Mrs. Frank Doyle found a suicide note left by her sister, Louise Ford Davis, who resided at the Melrose Court Hotel. Mrs. Doyle immediately alerted the police, who sent seven squad cars racing to White Rock Lake, in hopes of preventing a tragedy. But they were too late. "Detective Bryan," reported the Daily Dallas Times Herald, "who was driving along the Garland road, turned on to the lake road [East Lawther Drive] and shortly afterward saw Mrs. Davis' head bobbing in the water."
      "It was estimated," reported the paper, "that she had been in the lake five minutes when he [Detective Bryan] dragged her to shore." Although artificial respiration was employed in an attempt to revive Mrs. Davis, it was in vain and police remarked that if they had been called only "two or three minutes sooner," they might have saved her. The woman's car was parked nearby, a reporter added, and a "sheet and a pair of white gloves were found on the car seat." However, there was no mention of what she was wearing and the contents of the suicide note were not revealed. After a Saturday funeral service in Dallas, Mrs. Davis' body was taken to Albany, Texas for burial.
      On November 24, 1942, another distraught woman, 35-year-old Rose Stone of Mansfield, Texas, also committed suicide by drowning herself in the lake. Her body, dressed in sweater and skirt, was discovered in eight feet of water near the muncipal boathouse by Johnnie Williams, who assisted the park superintendent and city fireman in the search. A note was pinned to her sweater asking that relatives in Fort Worth be notified of her death. Mrs. Stone's coat and hat were found on the shore.
      So is Louise Davis or Rose Stone the "Lady of the Lake?" Is it the spirit of one of these unfortunate women that people have seen over the years, rising from the lake? Or is the alleged ghost the troubled soul of a young girl who fell off a pier and drowned, a girl who lived with her parents on Gaston Avenue and had a preference for clothes from Neiman-Marcus?

Friday, October 14, 2011

Interesting facts about my New Home State Texas

Here is some interesting facts about my new HOME state of TEXAS.  I use to live in New Mexico and would visit my sisters in Texas often.  I never really new much about Texas now I do.

the Republic of Texas.  The map was created in 1846

  • Texas is popularly known as The Lone Star State.

  • The Alamo is located in San Antonio. It is where Texas defenders fell to Mexican General Santa Anna and the phrase Remember the Alamo originated. The Alamo is considered the cradle of Texas liberty and the state's most popular historic site.

  • The lightning whelk is the official state shell.

  • Texas is the only state to have the flags of 6 different nations fly over it. They are: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States, and the United States.

  • Although six flags have flown over Texas, there have been eight changes of government: Spanish 1519-1685, French 1685-1690, Spanish 1690-1821, Mexican 1821-1836, Republic of Texas 1836-1845, United States 1845-1861, Confederate States 1861-1865, United States 1865-present.

  • The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.

  • During the period of July 24-26, 1979, the Tropical Storm Claudette brought 45 inches of rain to an area near Alvin, Texas, contributing to more than $600 million in damages. Claudette produced the United States 24 hour rainfall record of 43 inches.

  • More wool comes from the state of Texas than any other state in the United States.

  • Edwards Plateau in west central Texas is the top sheep growing area in the country.

  • Texas is the only state to enter the United States by treaty instead of territorial annexation.

  • The state was an independent nation from 1836 to 1845.

  • Texas boasts the nation's largest herd of whitetail deer.

  • A coastal live oak located near Fulton is the oldest tree in the state. The tree has an estimated age of more than 1,500 years.

  • Sam Houston, arguably the most famous Texan, was actually born in Virginia. Houston served as governor of Tennessee before coming to Texas.

  • Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state.

  • When Texas was annexed in 1845 it retained the right to fly its flag at the same height as the national flag.

  • The first offensive action of the Texas Revolution occurred in Goliad on October 9, 1835 when local colonists captured the fort and town.

  • On December 20, 1835 the first Declaration of Texas Independence was signed in Goliad and the first flag of Texas Independence was hoisted.

  • The Hertzberg Circus Museum in San Antonio contains one of the largest assortments of circusana in the world.

  • The capital city of Austin is located on the Colorado River in south-central Texas. The capitol building is made from Texas pink granite. It served as the capital of the Republic of Texas in 1840-1842.

  • Austin is considered the live music capital of the world.

  • Texas is home to Dell and Compaq computers and central Texas is often referred to as the Silicon Valley of the south.

  • Professional sports teams include the Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars, Houston Astros, Houston Comets, Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs, and Texas Rangers.

  • Dr. Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. The Dublin Dr Pepper, 85 miles west of Waco, still uses pure imperial cane sugar in its product. There is no period after the Dr in Dr Pepper.

  • The first suspension bridge in the United States was the Waco Bridge. Built in 1870 and still in use today as a pedestrian crossing of the Brazos River.

  • In 1836 five sites served as temporary capitals of Texas: Washington-on-the-Brazos: Harrisburg: Galveston: Velasco: and Columbia. Sam Houston moved the capital to Houston in 1837. In 1839 the capital was moved to the new town of Austin.

  • The capitol in Austin opened May 16, 1888. The dome of the building stands seven feet higher than that of the nation's Capitol in Washington, D.C.

  • Texas comes from the Hasinai Indian word tejas meaning friends or allies.

  • The armadillo is the official state mammal.

  • Texas has the first domed stadium in the country. The structure was built in Houston and opened in April 1965.

  • The Houston Comets are the only team in the country to win four back-to-back WNBA championships. 1997-2000 Cynthia Cooper remains the only player to win the WNBA Championship MVP.

  • The worst natural disaster in United States history was caused by a hurricane that hit Galveston in 1900. Over 8000 deaths were recorded.

  • The first word spoken from the moon on July 20, 1969 was Houston.

  • Texas' largest county is Brewster with 6,208 square miles.

  • Texas possesses three of the top ten most populous cities in the United States. These towns are Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio.

  • El Paso is closer to Needles, California than it is to Dallas.

  • Texas includes 267,339 square miles, or 7.4% of the nation's total area.

  • The state's cattle population is estimated to be near 16 million.

  • More land is farmed in Texas than in any other state.

  • More species of bats live in Texas than in any other part of the United States.

  • Laredo is the world's largest inland port.

  • Port Lavaca has the world's longest fishing pier. Originally part of the causeway connecting the two sides of Lavaca Bay, the center span of was destroyed by Hurricane Carla in 1961.

  • The Tyler Municipal Rose Garden is the world's largest rose garden. It contains 38,000 rose bushes representing 500 varieties of roses set in a 22-acre garden.

  • Amarillo has the world's largest helium well.

  • The world's first rodeo was held in Pecos on July 4, 1883.

  • The Flagship Hotel on Seawall Boulevard in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built entirely over the water.

  • The Heisman trophy is named for John William Heisman the first full-time coach and athletic director at Rice University in Houston.

  • Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other comparable area in North America.

  • The Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North America's only remaining flock of whooping cranes.

  • Jalapeno pepper jelly originated in Lake Jackson and was first marketed in 1978.
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    Famous Female Archeologist

    The Grande Dame of Famous Archaeologists

    The biography of Dame Kathleen Kenyon

    The Grande Dame of Famous Archaeologists
    British archaeologist Dame Kathleen Kenyon was one of the most famous archaeologists to excavate in the Holy Land and was a great figure in the history of archaeology. Photo: Bettmann/Corbis
    In the history of archaeology, many famous archaeologists have made their mark. As it happens, most of them—thus far—have been men. But a few extraordinary women transcended the misogyny of their times and achieved great things in the field (literally). Kathleen Kenyon was one such, and her biography Dame Kathleen Kenyon: Digging up the Holy Land by Miriam C. Davis chronicles the life and achievements of one of the grande dames in the history of archaeology.
    Famous archaeologists of both the 19th and 20th centuries have worked in the Holy Land. It is, as reviewer Magen Broshi points out, the most archaeologically researched piece of land in the world. Throughout the history of archaeology in this region, borders have changed, as have areas of focus with regard to specific archaeological sites. The history of archaeology in Israel/Palestine is dotted with famous archaeologists of diverse nationalities; American, British, French, German and later Israelis have all worked—and are working—to piece together the archaeological history of this region.

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    One of the most famous archaeologists to work in Israel, William Albright, is considered to be the “father” of Biblical archaeology. If this is true, then perhaps Dame Kathleen Kenyon is the “mother” of the field. Her work was certainly prolific enough to rival that of Albright; she conducted excavations in Samaria, Jericho and Jerusalem during the course of her career. Dame Kathleen Kenyon’s excavation methods, including an emphasis on stratigraphy, helped to pioneer a more scientific approach to archaeology.
    Certainly this remarkable doyenne of famous archaeologists deserves her eponymous Kenyon Institute—as the British archaeological research institute in Jerusalem was renamed in 1998—as a nod to her achievements. She deserves a well-written biography as well and that, according to Broshi, is exactly what she has in Dame Kathleen Kenyon: Digging Up the Holy Land.

    Ancient art studio uncovered in Africa

    TWO shells containing a primitive paint mixture have been uncovered in South Africa, revealing what researchers believe may be the remnants of a 100,000-year-old art studio.
    The abalone shells held a paste containing ochre, an earthy iron ore offering yellow or red hues, which may have been used for painting or body decoration, said the study in the journal, Science.
    The shells were found at Blombos Cave in Cape Town near other tools, which suggested the users were scraping off ochre flakes and mixing them with other compounds to form a liquid paint.
    Stone Age artists likely rubbed pieces of ochre on quartzite slabs to make a fine red powder. Any chips of ochre were probably crushed with quartz hammers and mixed with hot crushed animal bone, charcoal, stone chips and some liquid.
    The concoction was then transferred to the shells and "gently stirred", said the study led by Christopher Henshilwood from the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
    "A bone was probably used to stir the mixture and to transfer some of the mixture out of the shell," said the study.
    The discovery suggests that humans of the era understood some basic chemistry and were able to plan ahead to store the paint for future use, whether ceremonial, decorative or protective.
    "Ochre may have been applied with symbolic intent as decoration on bodies and clothing during the Middle Stone Age," said Mr Henshilwood.
    "This discovery represents an important benchmark in the evolution of complex human cognition in that it shows that humans had the conceptual ability to source, combine and store substances that were then possibly used to enhance their social practices."
    Scientists were able to date the quartz sediments in which the shells were found to 100,000 years ago using a process called optically stimulated luminescence dating (OSL).
    The absence of other archeological remains in the area suggests the "site was used primarily as a workshop and was abandoned shortly after the compounds were made", said the study.
    "Sand then blew into the cave from the outside, encapsulating the toolkits."
    The two specimens will be on display at the Iziko Museum in Cape Town beginning on October 14.

    The Big Bang

    Ok so you are thinking so what?  The Big Bang has always and will always be a topic of pros and cons.  Well to fill you in on something about me, I was born and raised in Los Alamos New Mexico.  The "Atomic" City as it were.    I even had friends that were like the characters of the TV show "Big Bang Theory".  I have found science a fun topic to read about even though I have not the mind to have gone into a career about it. That would be my daughter the wonderful Marine Biologist that she is becoming.
    Now imagine growing up in a world of science and being raised a Christian, blows the mind.
    My mom, who I lost over a year ago, did what most people do today and that is raise their family in a religon based setting.  She did her best to make sure we were in the good eyes of God, but then she never really said anything against science.
    So you can say the Big Bang Theory for me is the center of both worlds.
    I had a friend that would argue while we were in Middle school that the world was create only by the Big Bang and that no Unseen mystical being did the work.  My comment back was, "God could have clapped his hands together, and that was the Big Bang."
    The Big Bang to most will always be this being discussion on it was what started it all, but for me it makes me think about what it created.  What is out there and what else is there to discover.


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Melissa and Carrie's Excellent Adventure!

May 2, 2013 e-mail from Buddy to girls:
 Card and floral companies have come up with Mother's Day and Father's Day to line their pockets by guilting kids into buying stuff for their parents, so Mom and I figured y'all should have a Sister's Day and we could gift y'all.
    So here is a little adventure we would like to have y'all share together, kinda like the adventures you would share when you were smaller kids and you had a few less worries and cares. So plan a day and take off to Historic Banning Mills and enjoy the Level 4 "Extreme" canopy tour adventure with  Zip line and sky bridges. Looks like a fun place. There are several good YouTube videos on line you can look up and get the jest of the fun and the location.
    Go to their webpage and you can read about your tour and what to expect.
And of course take pics to share!! Mom and I like to live vicariously in some adventures.
Love Y'all.............Mom & Dad.
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You have very brave and adventurous children.


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Privacy experts: Health data security efforts too reactive

Privacy experts spoke about their data breach experiences Thursday at the Healthcare Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C., agreeing that what they’ve experienced likely is just the beginning for what’s possible in security fissures at healthcare organizations.

Omar Khawaja, a global project manager for Verizon, noted that 61 percent of breaches his group finds are for payment card information, and pointed out that the reactive system presently in place for combating such breaches is problematic.

“What does 911 look like in cyberspace? Who do you call when you have a breach?” Khawaja asked. “It takes months just to contain the breach.”

Bill Turner, Chief Privacy and Security Officer of Brookfield, Wis.-based Allium Healthcare, a technology consulting and staffing firm, said that most of the privacy errors he sees stem from human error. Turner recalled a story about a hospital having in its records that he had passed away, when it was really a man listed above him in the hospital’s logs.


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The Tangled Web of Conflicting Rights

By George Will · Sep. 16, 2012

WASHINGTON – Elaine Huguenin, who with her husband operates Elane Photography in New Mexico, asks only to be let alone. But instead of being allowed a reasonable zone of sovereignty in which to live her life in accordance with her beliefs, she is being bullied by people wielding government power.

In 2006, Vanessa Willock, who was in a same-sex relationship, emailed Elane Photography about photographing a “commitment ceremony” she and her partner were planning. Willock said this would be a “same-gender ceremony.” Elane Photography responded that it photographed “traditional weddings.” The Huguenins are Christians who, for religious reasons, disapprove of same-sex unions. Willock sent a second email asking whether this meant that the company “does not offer photography services to same-sex couples.” Elane Photography responded “you are correct.”

Willock could then have said regarding Elane Photography what many same-sex couples have long hoped a tolerant society would say regarding them – “live and let live.” Willock could have hired a photographer with no objections to such events. Instead, Willock and her partner set out to break the Huguenins to the state’s saddle.

Willock’s partner, without disclosing her relationship with Willock, emailed Elane Photography. She said she was getting married – actually, she and Willock were having a “commitment ceremony” because New Mexico does not recognize same-sex marriages – and asked if the company would travel to photograph it. The company said yes. Willock’s partner never responded.

Instead, Willock, spoiling for a fight, filed a discrimination claim with the New Mexico Human Rights Commission, charging that Elane Photography is a “public accommodation,” akin to a hotel or restaurant, that denied her its services because of her sexual orientation. The NMHRC found against Elane and ordered it to pay $6,600 in attorney fees.

But what a tangled web we weave when we undertake to regulate more and more behaviors under overlapping codifications of conflicting rights. Elaine Huguenin says she is being denied her right to the “free exercise” of religion guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment and a similar provision in the New Mexico constitution. Furthermore, New Mexico’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act defines “free exercise” as “an act or a refusal to act that is substantially motivated by religious belief,” and forbids government from abridging that right except to “further a compelling government interest.”

So New Mexico, whose marriage laws discriminate against same-sex unions, has a “compelling interest” in compelling Huguenin to provide a service she finds repugnant and others would provide? Strange.

Eugene Volokh of the UCLA School of Law thinks Huguenin can also make a “compelled speech argument”: She cannot be coerced into creating expressive works, such as photographs, which express something she is uncomfortable expressing. Courts have repeatedly held that freedom of speech and the freedom not to speak are “complementary components of the broader concept of ‘individual freedom of mind.’”

A New Mexico court, however, has held that Elane Photography is merely “a conduit for another’s expression.” But the U.S. Supreme Court (upholding the right of a person to obscure the words “Live Free or Die” on New Hampshire’s license plates) has affirmed the right not to be compelled to be conduits of others' expression.

New Mexico’s Supreme Court is going to sort all this out, which has been thoroughly reported and discussed by the invaluable blog The Volokh Conspiracy, where you can ponder this: In jurisdictions such as the District of Columbia and Seattle, which ban discrimination on the basis of political affiliation or ideology, would a photographer, even a Jewish photographer, be compelled to record a Nazi Party ceremony?

The Huguenin case demonstrates how advocates of tolerance become tyrannical. First, a disputed behavior, such as sexual activities between people of the same sex, is declared so personal and intimate that government should have no jurisdiction over it. Then, having won recognition of what Louis Brandeis, a pioneer of the privacy right, called “the right to be let alone,” some who have benefited from this achievement assert a right not to let other people alone. It is the right to coerce anyone who disapproves of the now protected behavior into acting as though they approve it, or at least into not acting on their disapproval.

So, in the name of tolerance, government declares intolerable individuals such as the Huguenins, who disapprove of a certain behavior but ask only to be let alone in their quiet disapproval. Perhaps advocates of gay rights should begin to restrain the bullies in their ranks.

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Over 500,000 people took to the streets in Hong Kong today to protest a so-called "anti-subversion" law. These are the largest protests in Hong Kong since June 4, 1989: the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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Installing svn (over SSH) on Debian and OS X

This a quick Howto for installing a Subversion server on Debian/Ubuntu and OS X client to use it. My goal is to use svn over ssh for added security (communication is encrypted and I don't need to open another port).

I assume you have a SSH server already installed and running, plus root access. The svn clients will need an account on the server and read/write access to the svn repository (we'll see how to do that below).

(Don't enter the Debian$ part, it represents the prompt)

Server side
Installing svn:
Debian$ sudo aptitude install subversion
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If you don't do regular maintenance on your server, why don't you do it now:
Debian$ sudo aptitude update
Debian$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

Check if you need to restart any deamons/services to use the latest updates:
Debian$ sudo checkrestart
Check out this post!

Preparing the repository:
Debian$ sudo mkdir /var/svn-repos
Debian$ sudo svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs /var/svn-repos/myproject1

  • You don't have to use "svn-repos" or the /var directory.
  • You'll execute the last command for every project you have.

Debian$ sudo groupadd subversion
Debian$ sudo addgroup user1 subversion (repeat for every user, you want to have access)
Debian$ sudo chown -R root:subversion /var/svn-repos/*
Debian$ sudo chmod -R 770 /var/svn-repos/*

At this time, if you're connected through ssh as user1, you may need to reconnect to make that groupadd command effective for your session.

That's it, you'll now be able to access your repository in svn+ssh:// form. Let's see how do do that on OS X (mostly the same for all other OS):

Client side:
Open a Terminal window and run:
Mac$ svn
If the command is not found, you'll need to install it. (The openCollabNet package is probably the easiest way, you'll need to register but you want to keep your email private you can always use services like to do so).

Now that svn is installed on your Mac, let's try to populate our project:
Mac$ mkdir svn
Mac$ cd svn
Mac$ mkdir trunk
Mac$ mkdir branches
Mac$ mkdir tags
Mac$ echo "test only" > trunk/test.txt
Mac$ svn import . svn+ssh:// -m "Test import"

Now unless your Mac username is the same as your Debian account name, and you are using the default ssh port the connection won't work. You'll need to tell svn how to connect with ssh:
Mac$ nano ~/.subversion/config
Go to the [tunnels] section (Ctrl-W in nano) and add the line:
myssh = ssh -p 55555 -l debian_username
Replace 55555 with your own sshd server port and debian_username with your own login name on the server.
(Note: If you never connect to other svn server through ssh, you can use ssh instead of myssh)
Save and exit (Ctrl-X, y).
Let's try again:
Mac$ svn import . svn+myssh:// -m "Test import"
You will be asked for your debian password and you should see the list of files/folders being imported into svn.

You may need to enter svn commands often or one command may generate multiple connections and ssh will ask for your password each time. You can use ssh-agent to provide automatically provide ssh with your credentials:

On your Debian server, check that ~/.ssh exists and if not:
Debian$ mkdir ~/.ssh

Back in OS X:
Create your public/private keys (by default, it will use RSA, 2048-bit encryption):
Mac$ ssh-keygen
(Just follow the prompt, choose the defaults. You don't have to choose a passphrase, but if you do make it greater than 3 chars. You will have to enter your passphrase each time you start ssh-agent. I prefer to have one.)
Copy your public key over to the server:
Mac$ cat ~/.ssh/ | ssh -p 55555 "cat - >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"
Test it:
Mac$ ssh -p 55555
In OS X or other X environments a login box should be displayed asking for your passphrase.

ssh-agent can now use your key to log on automatically when it needs to. To go back to our example:
Start ssh-agent like this:
Mac$ eval `ssh-agent -s`
Mac$ ssh-add
(It will ask for your passphrase)
Check out your code:
Mac$ svn co svn+myssh:// .

You can add the ssh-* commands to your .profile, but since I don't connect to svn that often I have put it a separate file that I can just source.
Add this to your ~/.profile or a separate file:

function start_agent {
     echo "Initialising new SSH agent..."
     /usr/bin/ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${SSH_ENV}"
     echo succeeded
     chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}"
     . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
# Source SSH settings, if applicable

if [ -f "${SSH_ENV}" ]; then
     . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
     ps ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > /dev/null || {

For code that will work in other environment (like cygwin), see this post.

If you put it in your .profile, you'll need to enter your passphrase the first time you open up a Terminal window in a session. If you chose not to have a passphrase, .profile is the perfect place to put this. If you put it somewhere else (let say ssh_cmd), just do this when your ready to connect:
Mac$ source ssh_cmd
Mac$ svn ...

There is a lot of way to setup svn+ssh access, the steps above were the ones I used based on my own needs. You can also have your users connect through the same account while still keeping track of who's changing what and being able to control access with svnauth, check the offcial documentation here.

I will soon be posting about svn on https which is a better setup for most cases.

  1. Giving every subversion user direct access to the place where you keep your repositories seems like a bad idea to me.

  2. Yes Anonymous, you are correct depending on your situation. In my case, this was for a small team of developpers who had already ssh and sudo access so this didn't increase risk.

    You can also have your users connect through the same account while still keeping track of who's changing what and being able to control access with svnauth, check the offcial documentation here:

    To address changing needs, I have now moved to https instead. I will post those steps soon since it was hell to setup the amount of security I was looking for.

    Thanks for your comment!

  3. Any progress on that svn via https:// writup? :P

    I would find it very useful since I am about to pursue it myself.

  4. Hi ANonymous,

    Yes, I got sidetracked on a big project since Christmas. I think I have a draft somewhere of my steps for HTTPS. I'll try to get to it in the following days ... if I can find the time

  5. This was very helpful, thanks!


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A 69-year-old Seward man died Monday when the boat he and two friends were riding sank in the water.

Three friends — Ronald Cone, 55, of Anchorage; Nathan Cone, 29, of Anchorage; and Harold Moore, of Seward — were boating on the Twentymile River near Girdwood when the 16-foot aluminum boat’s propeller hit and stuck on a log, according to Alaska State troopers.

The current pushed the idle boat backwards into a logjam, and the boat’s rear filled with water, sinking the boat, troopers reported.

Ronald and Nathan Cone swam to the river’s shore. The friends told troopers they last saw Moore floating down the river. Ronald Cone and Moore were wearing life jackets, and the younger Cone wore no flotation device, troopers reported. The men had planned to go moose hunting, having obtained a moose draw permit for the area, troopers’ spokeswoman Beth Ispen said.

Soldotna dispatch received a call at 5:08 p.m. from Nathan Cone about the accident. Two troopers and a U.S. Forest Service officer responded to the location about 4.5 miles upriver from the Seward Highway. Responders retrieved Moore’s body downstream then picked up the Cones, Ispen said.

Medics evaluated the surviving father and son when the group reached the highway, but the Cones refused additional medical attention, troopers reported.

Moore’s cause of death is unknown, pending autopsy, Ispen said.

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Paul Shadura II testifies before the Alaska Board of Fisheries during the second day of their meeting Wednesday March 20, 2013 in Anchorage, Alaska.

On a day when the Alaska Board of Fisheries was scheduled to discuss the results of the Upper Cook Inlet Task Force, members instead heard more than six hours of testimony from the remainder of the 112 members of the public who signed up to speak during the board meeting.

The overwhelming majority of the public testimony Wednesday touched on issues and proposals affecting the Upper Cook Inlet, including the proposal generated by the Upper Cook Inlet Task Force.

Representatives from Fish and Game advisory committees, private and nonprofit interests around the state talked about their support or concerns with several of the 29 proposals regarding Alaska statewide finfish and supplemental issues.

Testimony continued until nearly 4:30 p.m. before the board was able to move on to its originally scheduled discussion on the task force results which will continue today.

Proposal 249, the proposal which was discussed by the Upper Cook Inlet Task Force, received several written and spoken comments throughout the day.

Several members of the Upper Cook Inlet Task Force testified on their position in relation to the task force and praised board members Tom Kluberton, of Talkeetna, and Vince Webster, of King Salmon, for their handling of contentious discussion between the in-river users and the East Side setnet commercial fishery in the inlet.

Representatives from the Kenai River Sportfishing Association — whose proposal was rejected by the Upper Cook Inlet Task Force in favor of using task force sportfishing representative Dwight Kramer’s proposal as a basis for discussion — testified in favor of several of the provisions in their original proposal.

“We have submitted extensive comments on proposal 249, participated in the task force process … today I’ll provide an overview of our proposal to provide the best mix of fishing opportunity in the sport and commercial setnet salmon fisheries in times of low abundance,” said Ricky Gease, executive director of the sportfishing association.

Gease said the sportfishing association supported a series of paired step down measures for both the in-river and commercial setnet fisheries.

Travis Every, an East Side Setnetter, said he was opposed to paired restrictions in the Upper Cook Inlet salmon fishery.

“Paired restrictions are, for instance, when two user groups are exploiting the stock at the same rate,” Every said. “The East Side setnetters exploit the Kenai River kings at 13 percent while the in-river users exploit the Kenai River kings at 22 percent.”

Every said the 2013 forecast of 29,000 chinook salmon could withstand a 39 percent harvest from all user groups and still have a spawning escapement of 17,700 salmon.

“So, ideally, there shouldn’t be any need for an brake tapping for any fishery,” he said.

Ray Beamesderfer, a consulting fisheries scientists hired by KRSA to do an independent review of the new king salmon sustainable escapement goal, said the Alaska Department of Fish and Game had extended their goal below the available data which was scientifically unsound.

“There’s been a couple of comments made during the course of the meeting here, I want to point out both ends of the spectrum,” Kluberton said to Beamesderfer.

He said comments on the Kenai king salmon run reconstruction indicated that salmon escapements began to fall off rapidly below 15,000 fish while another testifier said 13,000 to 17,000 fish was within the Fish and Game’s maximum sustained yield and therefore scientifically defensible.

“Somewhere between those two statements I think is where we’re going to find reality,” Kluberton said. “Can you kind of help us figure out where the middle of that range is?”

Beamesderfer said anytime the Department of Fish and Game went below 26,000 fish it did not have solid data and any goal below that point became an “exercise in expert judgment and opinion.”

Board Chairman Karl Johnstone said it was unusual for board members to get competing science.

“You come in here and you’re advocating that the department’s assessment may not be the best … but I assume you’re being paid to come here, paid for your time and paid your time in you assessment,” Johnstone said. “… If the department had come to you and asked for a review of your assessment would your conclusions be any different than they are now?”

Beamesderfer said his conclusions on the Department of Fish and Game’s data would be the same no matter which organization paid him to review it.

David Goggia, a sportfishing guide, said he opposed the Department of Fish and Game’s escapement goal on the Kenai River.

“We’ve lost 70 percent of our early run,” Goggia said. “If we lower the escapement goal in the late chinook run we will be headed in the same direction.”

Mike Crawford, head of the Kenai and Soldotna Fish and Game Advisory Committee said he heard a lot of people talking about who caught what fish.

“I’m a small business owner in the community myself,” he said. “We hear about disaster loans to commercial fishermen and maybe to fishing guides and lodges … I’m sure that’s not available to the hardware stores or the restaurants or the waitresses or the girl making the espressos at the stand,” he said. “The fishery affects all the businesses on the Peninsula.”

Crawford said he did not want to see the river managed to the bare minimum of salmon escapement.

“Do we really need to run this thing down to the bare minimum every year?” Crawford said. “What happens when there’s environmental issues that cancel out large numbers of fish?”

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"Good morning ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. It looks like we have been cleared by the Alaska Board of Fisheries to begin our decent to our destination. We are currently preparing the aircraft to begin our approach below published minimum safe Kenai king escapement limits. In a few minutes we will start our descent to our Federal King Salmon Endangered Species Designation. I would like to ask everyone to please return to their seats and place their seats and tray tables back into the upright and locked position. Charter boat captains and gill netters, please make sure all carry-on items are stored under seats or in the over-head bins. Stupidity Airlines would like to welcome you to King Salmon Hell and we thank you all for not fishing with us, as we know that you could have decided to not fish with any airlines."

I will see you gill netters 5 - 10 years from now when you all will be forced to sell your permits and gear for pennies on the dollar. None of you will even be able to fish off the mouth of the Kenai River because you wiped out the last Kenai kings. The drifters will get it all! So enjoy while you can. Just reference this webpage, if the Clarion is even still in business because of everyone leaving the area.

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Citizens of Kenai, thank you for the opportunity to serve you as your council member for the past 4 years. Kenai is a city I love and enjoy. I am a 20 year resident of Kenai and a 30 year resident of Alaska, I love the city and the people who live here, my desire is to see the city continue to grow and improve. As your council member I will continue to promote economic development and other projects which will enhance the quality of life in our great city.

I am a strong advocate for economic development and pleased with all the economic activity that has transpired around Kenai during my time on city council. It has been exciting to work with the administration to bring WalMart and Lowes here to Kenai. Other businesses are locating here. The ACS retail store now being built at the entrance to WalMart is only the first of several businesses that are expected to locate around WalMart. A new transmission shop is being built down on Bridge Access and an O'Reilly's Auto parts store is soon to be built along the Spur Highway. This is all good news for the citizens of Kenai as this new retail business will provide additional sales tax and property tax revenue to fund city services. The Council just approved hiring three new firefighters for the Fire Department to add one more person to each shift at the station. These are some of the benefits of new retail economic development.

The Kenai Public Library's expansion project is well underway and will be completed by next summer. This will double the size of the library and provide additional amenities including meeting rooms. This project was funded by a bond issue approved by the citizens, a Rassmuson grant , a state grant and the hard work and fundraising of the Friends of the Kenai Library. It will be a wonderful addition to our community.

As a council member I will continue to work with administration to secure funds and divide the Bluff Erosion Project into phases to allow us to start on the project with placement of armor rock at the toe of the bluff to stop that portion of the erosion process. I will continue to work with administration to promote more development at the Kenai Municipal Airport. We are preparing lease lots for general aviation over by the float plane basin and hope to have more new commercial hangars built in addition to the two built this past year.

I want to see the Bridge Access section of the Unity Trail completed and provide a bike trail along K-Beach Road from Bridge Access to Cannery Road. Our trail system continues to need work. I also want to look at possibilities for bike trails along creek drainages from Airport Way to Coastal Trail and Woodland to Municipal Park. I want to see improved sidewalks in the city and provide for more sidewalks to make downtown more pedestrian friendly and I will work with the administration to accomplish this goal.

I have served in leadership positions on the Kenai Harbor Commission, the Kenai Planning and Zoning commission, the Kenai Economic Development Strategy Team as well as serving as President or chairman of various service organizations here in Kenai

This is an exciting time to live in Kenai, I would like to continue to serve you as your council member and would appreciate your vote on October 5th.

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JUNEAU (AP) -- Goldbelt Inc. will lay off 40 employees including nearly half of its executive staff following a drop in tourism income, company officials said Wednesday.

The urban Native corporation said it would cut 11 executive positions, five jobs at its subsidiaries, 12 jobs in Glacier Bay and 12 jobs at its Seattle subsidiaries.

Salaries for some managers will be cut by 10 percent and some managers will take two weeks unpaid leave during the winter, said Gary Droubay, chief executive officer.

The layoffs come in response to a slow tourist season and come on the heels of a $3.5 million loss in 2000.

The corporation began eliminating positions in early October. The last phase of layoffs were expected to be completed by Friday.

Goldbelt is an urban Native corporation in Juneau with 3,300 shareholders. The corporation operates tourism, cruise and lodging businesses in addition to managing stocks and land.

The corporation owns the Mount Roberts Tramway, Glacier Bay tours, Auk Nu tours and the Goldbelt Hotel.

Glacier Bay Lodge bookings, Auk Nu tour bookings, and Goldbelt Hotel sales were all down 10 percent this year, the corporation said.

A reduction in independent travelers and the ripple effects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks combined to impact the corporation's performance.

''Between the slow economy which was already there and the incident on 9/11 ... were just trying to hold things together right now,'' Droubay said.

The corporation may also have to cancel its winter cruise to Baja, Mexico because of poor bookings, officials said.

Goldbelt employs 600 people. The corporation hires about 350 seasonal workers during the summer, officials said.

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Rudi Völler (right) as world champion in 1990
During Schmidhuber's obligatory service in the Army (1981) comrades frequently came to his bunk bed to talk to the guy who slept right beneath him. Until then Schmidhuber had never heard of him, although he already was a locally well-known, promising football (soccer) player at the beginning of his career. He was very nice: since Schmidhuber did not own a car, his roommate sometimes gave him a ride in his fast Renault Alpine. His name was Rudi Völler.

He is the only guy Schmidhuber has ever met who has been watched by more than 2 billion spectators simultaneously on three occasions: 1. World cup final 1986: vice champion against Argentina (right). 2. World cup final 1990: world champion against Argentina (top left, with Lothar Matthäus). 3. World cup final 2002: vice champion against Brazil, as coach (top right).

It seems hard to top this, since no other audiences match those of finals in world's most popular sport - the only events (other than wars) able to shut down entire nations.

Unfortunately, Völler (in the green shirt) probably has no idea who Schmidhuber is any more.

top: vize world champion as coach in 2002

Some even claim 3 billion spectators (half of humanity) per world cup final, but this is probably exaggerated. Generally speaking, one has to be careful with sources of audience estimates. For example, organizers of Eurovision song contest and Oscar / Grammy awards shamelessly inflate the true numbers by a factor of 10 or more, apparently simply summing up populations of countries where they broadcast, even when relatively few really tune in.

True, Völler lags behind Schumacher in terms of total audience, since the Formula One cumulative viewing audience exceeds 50 billion per year (source: BBC Sport). But Schumacher's peak audiences are clearly smaller than Völler's: They usually fall short of 0.5 billion - essentially it's always the same folks (350 million or so) who are watching him again and again.

To put things in perspective, here are some halfway reliable audience estimates for the top non-world cup events: Lady Di's funeral - 2 billion, Olympic opening ceremonies - 1.5 billion, moonlanding - 500 million (but back then there were fewer TV sets, of course), Formula One - 350 million per race, Superbowl - 250 million.

Schmidhuber's second closest brush with fame came when he briefly and somewhat accidentally shook hands with a Hollywood actor (S. Stallone) as he opened a restaurant in Berlin. Stallone's peak audiences are measured in millions, not billions, but he appears to be quite famous as well. Schmidhuber also had the pleasure to meet several Nobel laureates, but they were not really famous in the traditional sense.


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To send an e-mailing list I use the fork() function in my perl program. Perl 5.6 also supports that for win32!!!!Smile

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I im in big trouble.

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Hi there. I'm writing a plugin for game server bots which are coded in Perl. I need to merge 6 databases containing player names and their IP's into 1 master file. I'm hoping to be able to do so rather efficiently (in terms of resource usage), as it's going to be done at least a few times a day on a server that's relatively stressed at most times.

So, I'm merging 6 databases from SQLite into 1 large one, repeatedly (ipdb1.bat, ipdb2.bat, ..., ipdb6.bat ---> ipdbmaster.bat). I don't want duplicates, but if there is one player nick with multiple IP's, I need those to transfer, like so:

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I NEVER envy anybody because it is a bad thing but Why do some guys over here NEVER have any problems of their own or are never looking for solutions but they are only posting solutions for every else's problems or pointing to errors in every body else's codes.
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I don't have any programming projects to work on, so I answer questions on forums (or correct errors). I also do it for my own pleasure, it beats watching television or other mind-killing activity. Its also better than watching the walls when my insomnia prevents me from sleeping or my chronic back pain is so bad I can't do much of anything else.

When I do have a project to work on I am able to find my own answers 99.99% of the time without needing to post a question on a forum.

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Doll Face Persian kittens are named so because of their adorable round faces and eyes and small round bodies. They stand in stark contrast to their Peke-faced Persian kitten cousins, who are more flat-faced in appearance and larger in stature. These sweet little felines truly resemble China Dolls, and are even more precious!

Doll Face Persian kittens have noses that are slightly longer as well and they have an open and adoring expression on their faces. In the past, these kittens had a longer and leaner body with longer legs. However, over time, breeders of Doll Face Persian kittens have paired them with other types of Persian cats to develop a smaller, Cobby body structure that is more petite. These kittens are commonly referred to as Teacup Persian Kittens.

Breeding and raising absolutely breathtaking Doll Face Persian kittens is our passion here at Treasured Teacups. We hope you enjoy our pictures and information. And, of course, if you are falling in love with our “feline fatales”, be sure to fill out our kitten application form and place your deposit. The sooner you do, the sooner your delightful Doll Faced Persian kitten will be in your arms!


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Peter’s show in June 20th, previously the second date in Hamburg has been switched for a date at Cornwall’s Eden Project.

A specially-created concert featuring Peter Gabriel at the Eden Project on June 20 will mark the arrival of one of the biggest works of art ever made from a single piece of stone.

The spectacular event will be a celebration of the unveiling of Seed, a giant oval sculpture created by the internationally-acclaimed artist Peter Randall-Page.

Gabriel will be performing on the same Eden stage where nearly two years ago he co-hosted the celebrated Africa Calling concert as part of Live 8, against the backdrop of Edens world-famous Biomes.

Pictures from the former china clay quarry at Bodelva, Cornwall were beamed live to billions of people across the globe and the concert was acclaimed in some quarters as the true heart of Live 8.

Concert-goers will for the first time be able to see Peter Gabriel perform in concert at Eden and will be the first to see the sculpture up close in its new home.

Edens creative development director Peter Hampel said:

“We are honoured and thrilled to be able to announce that Peter Gabriel is coming to Eden to help us celebrate one of the most significant events in our history.

Peter is an artist of huge international standing and integrity and we share a common goal to promote the need for a more harmonious relationship between mankind and our planet and amongst all of its inhabitants.

There could be no-one better to help us celebrate a fantastic work of art that will stand forever as a symbol of our generations recognition that we are part of nature, not apart from it, and that to survive we must learn to work with the grain of nature.”


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By Robin Culverwell

HATBORO, Pa. (CBS) — Verizon customers in the Hatboro-Horsham area found themselves with no landline telephone service today after a storm-related power problem.

Wires downed by overnight storms knocked out power at Verizon’s facility on Moreland Avenue in Hatboro, and backup generators worked — until about 6am.

Verizon spokesman Lee Gierczynski says 16-20,000 lines were put out of service — that’s about 10,000 customers, minimum.

“The customers in that area and the surrounding communities lost their landline phone service as well as Internet service as well as Fios Internet and Fios TV service,” he told KYW Newsradio.

Cellular phone service, he said, was not affected, so customers can use mobile phones to get help if needed.

Facility repairs — including replacing a large backup battery which was overheating — should be completed this afternoon, then systems have to “reset” themselves (much like a home computer), and that could take a few more hours.

Gierczynski says customers can expect their dial tones back about 3pm this afternoon.

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