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SubjectRe: [patch 2.4.28-pre3] 3c59x: resync with 2.6
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:13:07PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> Backport of current 3c59x driver (minus EISA/sysfs stuff) from 2.6 to
> 2.4. This should ease further maintenance in 2.4.
> ---
> I've been chasing some 3c59x driver problems on both 2.4.x and 2.6.x
> kernels. The 3c59x driver was pretty far out of sync between the two
> trees, so I thought it made sense to sync them back up.

Ah, if someone's looking at the 3c59x driver then please look into the
NWAY autonegotiation code - even maybe update it to use mii.c.

Currently 3c59x is rather buggy - it's a fairly simple bug. Consider

# mii-tool -v
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-HD, link ok
product info: TDK 78Q2120 rev 11
basic mode: autonegotiation enabled
basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok
capabilities: 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-HD
advertising: 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-HD
link partner: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control

and then wonder why we end up like this:

eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #0 link partner capability of 45e1.

Obviously completely bogus. Luckily, there isn't that much traffic
to this card _and_ it's connected to a switch so it doesn't interfere
much with other network traffic. However, it is _dog_ slow when doing
large transfers to/from it.

FYI, it's:

04:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c575 [Megahertz] 10/100 LAN CardBus (rev 01)

aka 3CCFE575BT. The BT version only has a HD-capable MII transceiver,
whereas the CT version has a FD-capable MII transceiver fitted.

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Subjectbio too big - in nested raid setup
I am having troubles with nested RAID - when one array is added to
the other, the "bio too big device md0" messages are appearing:

bio too big device md0 (144 > 8)
bio too big device md0 (248 > 8)
bio too big device md0 (32 > 8)
From internet searches I've found no solution or error like mine,
just a note about data corruption when this is happening.

My setup is the following - one 2TB and four 500GB drives. The goal
is to have a mirror of the 2TB drive to a linear array of the other four

So.. the state without the error above is this:

# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md1 : active linear sdb1[0] sde1[3] sdd1[2] sdc1[1]
1953535988 blocks super 1.1 0k rounding

md0 : active raid1 sda2[0]
1953447680 blocks [2/1] [U_]
bitmap: 233/233 pages [932KB], 4096KB chunk

unused devices: <none>

With these block request sizes:

# cat /sys/block/md{0,1}/queue/max_{,hw_}sectors_kb
Now, I add the four drive array to the mirror - and the system starts
showing the bio error at any significant disk activity.. (probably
writes only). The reboot/shutdown process is full of these errors.

The step which messes up the system (ignore re-added, it happened the
very first time I've constructed the 4 drive array a hour ago):

# mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/md1
mdadm: re-added /dev/md1

# cat /sys/block/md{0,1}/queue/max_{,hw_}sectors_kb
The dmesg is just showing this:

md: bind<md1>
RAID1 conf printout:
--- wd:1 rd:2
disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda2
disk 1, wo:1, o:1, dev:md1
md: recovery of RAID array md0
md: minimum _guaranteed_ speed: 1000 KB/sec/disk.
md: using maximum available idle IO bandwidth (but not more than 200000
KB/sec) for recovery.
md: using 128k window, over a total of 1953447680 blocks.

And as soon as a write occures to the array:

bio too big device md0 (40 > 8)
The removal of md1 from md0 does not help the situation, I need to
reboot the machine.

The md0 array bears LVM and inside it a root / swap / portage /
distfiles and home logical volumes.

My system is:

# uname -a
Linux desktop 2.6.32-gentoo-r1 #2 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 24 12:06:13 CET
2010 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3220 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

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BANNER ELK, N.C. --- Marcelo Tatai (Sao Paulo, Brazil) rallied for a thrilling victory in a third-set tiebreaker to register the deciding point, and lead the Lees-McRae College men's tennis team to a 5-4 win over Barton College in Conference Carolinas play on Saturday afternoon.

Lees-McRae's (2-10, 2-5 CC) tandem of Alexander Hayes (Mexico City, Mexico) and Skylar Warren (Asheville, N.C.) opened doubles play with an 8-3 win over Barton's (4-9, 1-5 CC) duo of Max Leppert and Renato Mendes. PA Desilets and Antoine Massicotte answered for the Bulldogs with an 8-5 victory against Tatai and Pedro De Sousa Nunes (Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil), before Graham Battle (Boone, N.C.) and Hang Lak Choi (Newton, N.C.) defeated Jorge Pradilla and Eric Simmons, 8-4.

Hayes defeated Leppert, 6-3, 6-0 in the second flight, as Mendes posted a 6-3, 6-4 win over Warren at No. 3 singles. After Mendes posted a 7-5, 7-5 victory against Battle and Choi defeated Simmons, 6-2, 6-1, Desilets rallied for a 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 win over Nunes in the first singles flight to even the tally at 4-4. Choi then delivered the deciding point for the Bobcats, rallying for a 1-6, 6-2, 7-6 victory over Massicotte to give Lees-McRae the 5-4 win.

Lees-McRae returns to the courts on Tuesday when the Bobcats host Carson-Newman College at 2 p.m.

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DPC09: Looking forward to the Dutch PHP Conference

This time next week I'll be full of new ideas and enthusiasm as the Dutch PHP Conference 2009 will have ended. Last year was the first time I attended the event and I have memories of a great crowd and some fabulous sessions, also my first experience speaking at a conference (yes really, a year ago!). This year it looks like the event will be better than ever with an extra day and a schedule absolutely rammed with fabulous content. And best of all, I work for Ibuildings, so I get to attend (I'm not speaking this time around).

Conferences are a great opportunity to meet some like-minded people, find a peer group to drink socialise with, and of course get to hear all the sessions that are around and chat to the speakers. Amsterdam is a great place to do this, its well connected and there are speakers and attendees from right across Europe and beyond. Since I know the PHP community quite well, I'm looking forward to getting to spend time with this cool crowd - and of course all my developer colleagues will be there as well so a party spirit is guaranteed :)

There's a few other things going on around the main conference - with social events and add-ons like the Oracle Installfest. I hear there are still tickets remaining so if you're feeling a bit left out - come and join us! If you're there, do stop and say hi to me - I know more people this year than I did last but its always nice to meet new faces too. Next stop, Amsterdam!

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  1. Your missing a t from the http:// in the link to the conference webby.

    I am sure you will have a great time. Cya at phpnw in July.

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Monday, May 11, 2009

Lost Cars Month - Panorama

While this shambles its way across the country, embarrassing itself in half-empty sheds nationwide (as Molly Shannon's Marcy Darcy would say, "Don't even get me started!"), what better time to devote a week to the real Cars, the New Wave darlings who didn't necessarily want to be New Wave. This week, we'll focus on the band's lost gems, alongside some lost solo projects along the way.

Why not begin with my favorite Cars album, Panorama? The Cars' third album was their most challenging, mostly jettisoning the band's trademark happy skip/shuffle Crickets bounce and peppy melodies for a darker, more aggressive tone. Gone were the handclaps and shiny background singalongs, replaced by David Robinson's increasingly synth-aided drums (by Heartbeat City he'd be drummer in name only) and Greg Hawkes' menacing keyboards while Elliot Easton's always-innovative guitar solos and Ric Ocasek's Iggy Pop meets Buddy Holly vocal theatrics stayed pretty much the same, with a few minor tweaks.

Ocasek's lyrics for the Cars can mostly be pared down to a one sentence logline - Ric wants something he can't have, whether it's affection, a girl, acceptance, etc. I mean, just look at some of the opening lines on most of the songs on Panorama:

I'm gonna get what's comin' to me
All I need is what you got
I wanna shake like Liguardia
It's my party, you can come
(well, consider the song's title, "Don't Tell Me No")
Do you have to be so hard to get?

Ric definitely stuck to a theme with the Cars - that would change after this album. But we're getting ahead of ourselves...

Panorama's first single, "Touch & Go" was a perfect summation of this theme, but its start/stop faux reggae beat prevented it from reaching any higher on the charts than a puny #37. Two follow-up singles, "Don't Tell Me No" and "Gimmie Some Slack" failed to chart. But the album's true teasures are its bookends, the fantastic opening title track and the album's closer, "Up And Down".

"Up And Down" is one of those shoulda-been tracks that had the potential to be an AOR monster, alongside "Moving In Stereo" and "Bye Bye Love". But alas, it was not meant to be, as Panorama eventually faltered, leaving the Cars shaken up (har), wondering what the next move would be.

But first, Ocasek had a few things to get off his chest. We'll deal with that next Monday.

"Panorama" and "Up And Down" were not released as singles.

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Guest Post by Simone : The Journey of Friendship

posted on: Wednesday, 17 August 2011

the journey of a friendship.
we met via our blogs...and a friendship was born.
i believe i was her first commenter.
children of the same age. a boy and a girl.
i'm the city girl. she's the country girl.

sharing. talking. confiding.
we email. we facebook. and now we even text.
i'm think i've told her things even when i haven't. and vice versa.
she's part of my day even when we aren't in touch, i'm talking to her in my head.

there are things that she thinks she isn't. but she so is.
good things, so many of them. i think she's marvellous.

one of those friends that you know you need in your life.
you're grateful - so grateful - and happy that they are there.
thanks lovely girl.

have a wonderful holiday, hope it's all the things you want it to be.
read-swim-run-eat-rest. breathe.
see you in September xx

Thank you for such a fabulous guest post Simone and for bringing some 'Bottom of the Ironing Basket' love here. I have to admit, I felt more than honoured and touched to read this - thank you from the bottom of my heart (and ironing basket!)...and may I just say? Ditto! Likewise! The same!
Lou xxx

  1. Oh ~ this made me smile. I am so glad you two found each other! Hope you are both having a lovely holiday. xo

  2. You are so welcome, I always love being over here :) X

  3. Fantastic that friendship can be found in the blogosphere. I feel very happy to be part of it all! Lx

  4. Such a lovely post. Simone has such a poetic way of writing and her images are always stunning.Happy hols to you both :-)

  5. What a beutiful and sweet comment.

  6. This is such a lovely and heartfelt message. The greatest perk of blogging is the friends that you meet. You are both lucky to have one another and to have such a wonderful friendship.

    I hope you both enjoy your holidays!

  7. So beautiful!

  8. What a beautiful post and wonderful words from Simone. I agree with her. You seem to be a wonderful person. Enjoy your holidays in my home country. Hugs, Manuela

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Tuesday, 13 September 2011

This and that.

On Saturday while at work, my back began to hurt, a burning pain, very low down and if I try to move this way or that the pain gets worse. I'm off to see the doc this afternoon. In the meantime, I couldn't get settled in my den so yesterday I made a nest for myself downstairs in the sitting room, I put a movie on for company and set about some Christmas crafting. I made a start and almost finished a little stitchery. Sorry, no closer looks, it's a secret.

On Sunday, while I was lying on the floor in a patch of sunshine, (Seriously, it does help.) I was digging through the back of my little chest (The one in the picture above, covered in all sorts, with a drawer left hanging out!) and came up with some sequin craft / art. So I asked for my tray and lay there following the sunshine across the floor, to finish these two pretties.

This morning I'll finish yesterdays stitchery and maybe make a start on another. I'm off to hunt for a pattern.

Lynda said...

I think you strained your back making the curtains. You were warned!

Gari said...

I hope you're feeling better. What a great thing, though, to keep working on something (Christmas already?) even though you are laid up. Great job.


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Performance – Fri, 26 Aug 2016 14:16:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 20661858 Assessing the Struggle Fri, 03 May 2013 12:05:49 +0000 I feel like I know my body pretty well, and my diet and routine are disturbingly the same each and every day….so when my performance on the bike Struggling on a bicyclechanges, it makes me start to wonder what’s going on.

For the past couple weeks I’ve felt off, and I’m not biking up to what my usual standards generally are.  Not like it’s a drastic difference, but enough to  have me wondering.

When I first started feeling it, I thought I was coming down with something.  But it’s over two weeks later and my body still feels the same.  So what do you do when this happens?  Well, if you’re like me, you analyze and assess things hoping to find what’s causing it.

If you’re ever experiencing this yourself, here’s a list of what I went through in case you’d like to try it out.  Oh, and If any of you have other ideas, please share them with us as well.

Assessing the Struggle

Diet – This is probably one of the biggest things to consider.  Proper fuel is necessary in order to achieve performance on the bike (or anything else).  Even a change in diet is enough to set you off until things adjust.

Weather – Increased temperature can heat you up and make things feel harder when out on the bike.  Even worse is increased humidity…or a combination of both.  Sometime the temperature might be the same, but the added humidity makes things feel increasingly tough.

Stress – Our bodies weren’t meant to be stressed, and if you’re like me….a bike ride is a perfect cure.  But if you are stressed, it can take a toll on your bike performance.

Equipment – How many times have you been out riding, find yourself struggling and then look back to make sure your back brake isn’t rubbing on the rim?  Yeah, I’ve had rides like that where I felt something must be dragging me down….and then realize that it’s not an equipment issue.

But it could be.  Make sure your bike is tuned up and humming properly or it could be a cause of decreased performance.

Metabolic Cycle – I’ve never really looked into this very far, but I’m a firm believer that each of our bodies goes through up and down cycles.  A slight decrease in performance could simply happen because you’re fluctuating on a low cycle.

Burn Out – This is a big one.  Sometimes if you train and train and train, your body gets burnt out….and if it persists, you can even start seeing negative progression or illness.  There are many ways to avoid this, but adding recovery rides to your routine and taking structured time off the bike can help.  Avoid over-training and burn out…it will help keep you feeling good on the bike.

Sleep – Are you getting enough sleep?  Well if you’re a Parent like I am….you know what lack of sleep is all about.  I honestly can’t remember the last time I had a solid 8 hours of continuous sleep.  Your body may not need as much sleep as you think it does, but getting enough is still very important.

Wind – I already mentioned weather, but wanted to put wind in another category.  It has always been my nemesis, and it’s often been the culprit for some hard pushing out on the bike.  A strong wind can cut down your typical average speed by a couple miles per hour or more.

Okay, so after my self-analysis, I determined that my slight lack of performance was due to burn out and weather.

Overcoming the struggle on a bicycle

I really can’t remember the last time I took a week off from riding.  Yes, one of the hardships of living on a tropical island.  I’ve felt for a few weeks now that my body needed some time off, but I’ve been pushing it because with Mocha Spoke opening soon I knew my days would start getting very full.  I figured I’d rather wait to take time off until I was insanely busy.

The temperatures haven’t really increased, but I realized that the humidity has.  It’s definitely one of the causes for what’s been going on.  I’m actually feeling better now, but will be taking some days off from riding very soon.

How about you?  What do you do if you’re ever feeling like it’s a struggle out there on the road?

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Does a More Expensive Bike Make a Better Cyclist? Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:10:58 +0000 You’re out riding, and you see a guy (or girl) on a pimped out $6,000 road bike….what’s the first thing that goes through your head?  Probably a few different things (and feel free to let me know what those things are with a comment below), but one possible thought is “man, this person must be a really good cyclist to have a bike like that”.

Possibly….but it could also just mean that he or she has a lot of money available to sink into a bike.

Okay, so lets flip it and put a really good cyclist on a cheap no-name road bike….what happens?  A lot of discomfort, perhaps….but I’m thinking that they’re still going to kick my butt as long as it’s in good working condition.

There is no doubt that buying a good quality bike is worth the money and will alleviate a lifetime of unnecessary repairs and grief.  But once you buy a good quality bike, what is the increased performance/amount spent graph look like?

I debate this question quite often.  Maybe I use it as a way to justify the thought of me walking into a bike shop and dropping a few thousand on a bike, so that I can upgrade to a new one.  Maybe it really would help with my performance.  It’s a tough call.  I’d be very interested in hearing your thoughts on this one.

What I do know, is that Canadians are buying less bikes, but ones of better quality.  Momentum Magazine has listed that:

Companies that supply bicycles to independent Canadian bike shops have reported an increase in overall sales for 2009, but a decrease in the number of bikes sold. Combined with a 23 per cent spike in the average price of bikes that were sold to retailers, the Bicycle Trade Association of Canada (BTAC) says this indicates a trend towards consumers buying higher quality bikes in the independent bike shop sector.

It looks like Canadians have got the first part right, and realize that it makes good sense to buy quality… where are the studies showing me performance vs price?

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Nuts and Bolts – Mac Mondays #3 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:08:00 +0000 Bike RepairBike Repair for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad is a reference guide to help you fix 34 bike problems.  Riders identify the problem area(s) on their bikes, pick the appropriate bike part, chose the problem and follow the step by step solution to fix or adjust the problem area.  Most of the solutions have high quality photos with instructions and part identifications to help you repair your bike quickly and easily.  The problems section covers: wheel, rear derailleur, front derailleur, chain, handlebar/headset, crankset/pedals, brakes, disk brake, shifter, suspension and others.  Bike Repair also has a list of bike parts and it notes maintenance for each part (just in case you haven’t experienced a problem in a specific area, yet).  The only thing missing is a preseason/pre-ride tune-up checklist to help you have a better ride.

I have a problem with... Pick your problem Solution About Bike Repair

The best things about Bike Repair are that you don’t need to be connected to the internet to get solutions to problems (information and solutions are stored on your device) and the solutions presented contain a few simple phrases and tasks that make it easy to fix your problem.  Bike Repair is just like carrying your bike manual to help diagnose problems that can and do occur.  Available in the iTunes App store for $1.99.

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7 Bicycle Fitting Tips to Make You More Comfortable (and Faster) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:35:01 +0000 As you know, I’m in the process of getting myself professionally fit on my road bike via a virtual fit with Victor from Bicycle Lab.  I am having Victor guest post today to share his wisdom on setting yourself up properly on your bike.  The results of my fit will be posted soon.

7 Tips to Make You More Comfortable (and Faster)

By Victor Jimenez (the Bicycle Lab)

Though there is no substitute for seeing an experienced bicycle fitter. There are a lot of simple things you can do on your own.

Adjust Your Seat Height

A properly adjusted seat height is the most important aspect of bicycle fit. A rough starting point is with your foot at the bottom of the pedal stroke you should have around a 30 degree bend in your knee.  This will give you a pretty close approximation of your saddle height from the bottom bracket to the top of the saddle.

Adjust the Cleats on Your Shoes

While you can play with this on your own. I strongly encourage you to have the cleat position professionally evaluated. If set up incorrectly you will be waisting power and in some cases cause muscle strain and injury. But if you choose to adjust on your own. The basic idea is to set the rotation of the cleat so that the center lines up with your natural gait.  The fore and aft adjustment is dependant on your style of riding, body asymmetries, among other variables.

Raise Your Handlebars

Yep you read correct.  A higher bar height will open up your torso to hip angle and help with saddle comfort. Lower-back, hamstring, and hip flexibility are key to this positioning in this area. Improve your flexibility and improve your position. Raising your bars is also a good thing to do when you are not riding as much. Your flexibility will change as your fitness changes.

Level Your Saddle

Your saddle should generally be level or the nose pointed slightly up. If the saddle is uncomfortable in this position there may be something else in your position that needs to be adjusted.

Level Your Bars

The drops of your handlebars should be roughly level or slightly up. This helps keep all the hand positions open.

Tilt Your Aerobars Up Slightly

By tilting your aerobars (if you use aerobars) up slightly most people will find a more relaxed position for their upper body. Aerobar set up is a complex issue, because of differences in design and use.  For more information on Aerobar set up, please contact me.

Put Insoles in Your Shoes

Most cycling shoes have no arch support at all. There are many off the shelf brands to choose from or even better get a custom made pair that is molded to your feet.

Victor Jimenez is a bicycle fitting specialist and the owner of Bicycle Lab. Bicycle Lab specializes in one-on-one bicycle fitting and building high end custom road and triathlon bicycles. Classes and clinics on cycling skills and techniques are also offered to individuals, teams and coaches. Bicycle Lab is based in Carrboro, North Carolina. Victor can be reached at victor@bicycle lab or  Go to and sign up for the cycling tips newsletter.

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Fit To Get Fitted Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:23:27 +0000 When I upgraded to my new Trek Madone last April, one of the things I was hoping to get out of it was a spectacular fit that provided me with hour upon hour of comfort to go along with increased performance from the bike.  It’s been a great road bike, and really can’t complain too much about the fit and comfort….but then again, it’s in my nature not to settle.  I have this strange little personality trait where I just have to keep striving to make something better.

So here I am.  One year of riding on my Madone.  Comfortable.  At one with my bike.  Why would I ever think of changing things?  Like they say, if it ain’t broke…why go and fix it.

To be honest, if I would have known of a professional bike fitter when I bought the bike last year, I would have hit them up for a fit.  But, to my knowledge there was no such professional around these parts.  So I had the bike shop give me their fit and was sent off happy enough with my new ride and the way it fit.

Then I met a guy on Twitter.  His Twitter ID was @BicycleLab and he oozed great cycling wisdom from many of his Tweets.  I told him that I wished there was someone doing what he does over here, and he came back to me with some fantastic news.  He told me that if I had a camera, video camera, and tripod he would be able to give me a virtual fit.  Upon learning more….and given the fact that I already considered this guy a cycling guru, I decided to enlist his services.

Victor Jimenez from the Bicycle Lab has over 20 years of experience in custom fitting bikes to their owners.  He started off with a high end retail bicycle shop, and taught clinics on bicycle fit, repair, frame selection, and riding skills to enthusiasts.  Today, Victor focuses on helping cyclists obtain the most out of their sport and is passionately committed to helping the bicycle become more utilitarian here in North America, and worldwide.  Basically, he just truly wants to help people.  Once you meet him, there is no denying that truth.  Bicycle Lab is a small business that offers one-on-one bicycle fitting and mechanical services. They also design and build custom road and triathlon bikes under their own Karma Cycleworks brand.

Okay, so back to the fit.  They say that change is one of the hardest things for us as human beings to adjust to.  That it is the cause of great stress in our lives.  But to get the most out of life, we have to try new things and experience various circumstances and situations.  Yet, so many stay contained within their comfort zones.  Fearing the unknown.  Fearing to make a change.  These same feelings likely play a part in our relationship with our bikes as well.  “I’m comfortable on my bike…why would I want to mess with it?”

I know that my body type is far different than any other guy out there riding a 53” Madone, so why haven’t I tweaked it to mold to my body?  I haven’t been convinced that I have the utter most ideal fit on my bike…and I’m not going to let these questions linger any longer.

I want to see what will happen.  I want to know I am set up perfectly on my bike.  That the fit cannot get any better. The time has come and I’m ready to put it all in the hands of the Bicycle Lab.

Stay tuned…..

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Hmm, comfort food at its best.  Do try the homemade marinara sauce.  It’s delicious in this easy recipe. I also made my Creamy Celery Crunch Casserole and some small boiled potatoes.  With those rich flavors and so many tasty veggies and the bland potato, I was in foodie heaven, I think.  I am on a moderate carb diet and my body handles glucose in the potatoes quite well, as long as I have enough protein, etc. with it.  I don't eat potatoes often though - just on the odd occasion.  I am also doing intermittent fasting at the moment, which means 2 meals a day for me, so my carbs can actually be a bit higher than if I ate three squares and had snacks.  By the way, with intermittent fasting, if one gets hungry a protein and cheese snack will be fine in between, as insulin response will be next to nil.  My hubby does that quite successfully.  He likes sausage and cheese.

NOTE: Now I've discovered that the "bread" crumbs can be made out of almond meal - homemade ground almonds in a coffee bean grinder using sliced almonds that I buy at the equivalent of Costco.  That's a whole lot cheaper than using my precious Honeyville Grains almond flour, which I prefer to keep for baking only.  Love, love, love topping my casseroles with a "breaded" topping.  So delicious.  You'll never miss breadcrumbs again.

6 cups diced rotisserie chicken (1.5 L)
21/cups Marinara Sauce, (below...whole recipe) (625 mL)
1 tsp dried oregano, OR basil, OR (5 mL)
  use fresh herbs up to 2 tbsp (30 mL)
11/cups grated Mozzarella cheese (375 mL)
“Bread” Crumb Topping:
3/cup “Bread” Crumbs (175 mL)  OR simply use ground almonds or almond flour!
1/cup Parmesan cheese (60 mL)
1/cup butter, melted (60 mL)

Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C).

In large bowl, combine cooked, diced chicken and Marinara Sauce.  Place in bottom of 9 x 13-inch (23 x 33 cm) baking dish.  Sprinkle with oregano, OR basil, OR fresh herbs and Mozzarella cheese.  Sprinkle with Crumb Topping below.  Bake 20 to 25 minutes, or until hot and bubbly.

“Bread” Crumb Topping:  In medium bowl, combine “Bread” Crumbs, Parmesan cheese and melted butter.

Yield:  6 servings
1 serving
551.0 calories
47.3 g protein
36.2 g fat
7.1 g net carbs

Sometimes homemade tastes best.  This sauce is very easy to prepare.  I made it specifically for my Italian Chicken Marinara Casserole above. Pureeing the sauce ever so slightly deepens the flavor.

2 tbsp olive oil (30 mL)
1/cup finely chopped red onion (60 mL)
28 oz diced canned tomatoes (840 g)
1/ cup water (125 mL)
Liquid sweetener equal to 2 tsp sugar (to balance flavors - optional) (10 mL)
1/tsp salt (2 mL)
1/tsp dried basil (2 mL)
1/tsp dried oregano (2 mL)
1/tsp dried thyme (2 mL)
1/tsp black pepper (0.5 mL)

In frying pan in olive oil, cook onion over medium high heat until turning brown.  Add tomatoes, water, liquid sweetener, salt, basil, oregano, thyme and pepper. Simmer gently about 5 to 10 minutes, or until thickened.  In food processor, pour mixture and pulse until the sauce is a bit finer in texture, but not juiced.

Yield:  21/cups (625 mL)
1 tbsp per serving
12.3 calories
0.2 g protein
0.7 g fat
1.4 g net carbs

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Chapter Excerpt

Chapter 1

But your spine has been smashed,
My beautiful, pitiful era,
And with an inane smile
You look back, cruel and weak,
Like an animal past its prime,
At the prints of your own paws.

--Osip Mandelstam, "Vek"1

One of my goals is to destroy the myth that the cruelest era of repression began in 1936-37. I think that in future, statistics will show that the wave of arrests, sentences and exile had already begun at the beginning of 1918, even before the official declaration, that autumn, of the "Red Terror." From that moment, the wave simply grew larger and larger, until the death of Stalin . . .
--Dmitrii Likhachev, Vospominaniya2

In the year 1917, two waves of revolution rolled across Russia, sweeping Imperial Russian society aside as if it were destroying so many houses of cards. After Czar Nicholas II abdicated in February, events proved extremely difficult for anyone to halt or control. Alexander Kerensky, the leader of the first post-revolutionary Provisional Government, later wrote that, in the void following the collapse of the old regime, "all existing political and tactical programs, however bold and well conceived, appeared hanging aimlessly and uselessly in space."3

But although the Provisional Government was weak, although popular dissatisfaction was widespread, although anger at the carnage caused by the First World War ran high, few expected power to fall into the hands of the Bolsheviks, one of several radical socialist parties agitating for even more rapid change. Abroad, the Bolsheviks were scarcely known. One apocryphal tale illustrates foreign attitudes very well: in 1917, so the story goes, a bureaucrat rushed into the office of the Austrian Foreign Minister, shouting, "Your Excellency, there has been a revolution in Russia!" The minister snorted. "Who could make a revolution in Russia? Surely not harmless Herr Trotsky, down at the Café Central?"

If the nature of the Bolsheviks was mysterious, their leader, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov--the man the world would come to know by his revolutionary pseudonym, "Lenin"--was even more so. During his many years as an émigré revolutionary, Lenin had been recognized for his brilliance, but also disliked for his intemperance and his factionalism. He picked frequent fights with other socialist leaders, and had a penchant for turning minor disagreements over seemingly irrelevant matters of dogma into major arguments.4

In the first months following the February Revolution, Lenin was very far from holding a position of unchallenged authority, even within his own Party. As late as mid-October 1917, a handful of leading Bolsheviks continued to oppose his plan to carry out a coup d'état against the Provisional Government, arguing that the Party was unprepared to take power, and that it did not yet have popular support. He won the argument, however, and on October 25 the coup took place. Under the influence of Lenin's agitation, a mob sacked the Winter Palace. The Bolsheviks arrested the ministers of the Provisional Government. Within hours, Lenin had become the leader of the country he renamed Soviet Russia.

Yet although Lenin had succeeded in taking power, his Bolshevik critics had not been entirely wrong. The Bolsheviks were indeed wildly unprepared. As a result, most of their early decisions, including the creation of the one-party state, were taken to suit the needs of the moment. Their popular support was indeed weak, and almost immediately they began to wage a bloody civil war, simply in order to stay in power. From 1918, when the White Army of the old regime regrouped to fight the new Red Army--led by Lenin's comrade, "Herr Trotsky" from the "Café Central"--some of the most brutal fighting ever seen in Europe raged across the Russian countryside. Nor did all of the violence take place in battlefields. The Bolsheviks went out of their way to quash intellectual and political opposition in any form it took, attacking not only the representatives of the old regime but also other socialists: Mensheviks, Anarchists, Social Revolutionaries. The new Soviet state would not know relative peace until 1921.5

Against this background of improvisation and violence, the first Soviet labor camps were born. Like so many other Bolshevik institutions, they were created ad hoc, in a hurry, as an emergency measure in the heat of the civil war. This is not to say the idea had no prior appeal. Three weeks before the October Revolution, Lenin himself was already sketching out an admittedly vague plan to organize "obligatory work duty" for wealthy capitalists. By January 1918, angered by the depth of the anti-Bolshevik resistance, he was even more vehement, writing that he welcomed "the arrest of millionaire-saboteurs traveling in first- and second-class train compartments. I suggest sentencing them to half a year's forced labor in a mine."6

Lenin's vision of labor camps as a special form of punishment for a particular sort of bourgeois "enemy" sat well with his other beliefs about crime and criminals. On the one hand, the first Soviet leader felt ambivalent about the jailing and punishment of traditional criminals--thieves, pickpockets, murderers--whom he perceived as potential allies. In his view, the basic cause of "social excess" (meaning crime) was "the exploitation of the masses." The removal of the cause, he believed, "will lead to the withering away of the excess." No special punishments were therefore necessary to deter criminals: in time, the Revolution itself would do away with them. Some of the language in the Bolsheviks' first criminal code would have thus warmed the hearts of the most radical, progressive criminal reformers in the West. Among other things, the code decreed that there was "no such thing as individual guilt," and that punishment "should not be seen as retribution."7

On the other hand, Lenin--like the Bolshevik legal theorists who followed in his wake--also reckoned that the creation of the Soviet state would create a new kind of criminal: the "class enemy." A class enemy opposed the Revolution, and worked openly, or more often secretly, to destroy it. The class enemy was harder to identify than an ordinary criminal, and much harder to reform. Unlike an ordinary criminal, a class enemy could never be trusted to cooperate with the Soviet regime, and required harsher punishment than would an ordinary murderer or thief. Thus in May 1918, the first Bolshevik "decree on bribery" declared that: "If the person guilty of taking or offering bribes belongs to the propertied classes and is using the bribe to preserve or acquire privileges, linked to property rights, then he should be sentenced to the harshest and most unpleasant forced labor and all of his property should be confiscated."8

From the very earliest days of the new Soviet state, in other words, people were to be sentenced not for what they had done, but for who they were.

Unfortunately, nobody ever provided a clear description of what, exactly, a "class enemy" was supposed to look like. As a result, arrests of all sorts increased dramatically in the wake of the Bolshevik coup. From November 1917, revolutionary tribunals, composed of random "supporters" of the Revolution, began convicting random "enemies" of the Revolution. Prison sentences, forced-labor terms, and even capital punishment were arbitrarily meted out to bankers, to merchants' wives, to "speculators"--meaning anyone engaged in independent economic activity--to former Czarist-era prison warders and to anyone else who seemed suspicious.9

The definition of who was and who was not an "enemy" also varied from place to place, sometimes overlapping with the definition of "prisoner of war." Upon occupying a new city, Trotsky's Red Army frequently took bourgeois hostages, who could be shot in case the White Army returned, as it often did along the fluctuating lines of the front. In the interim they could be made to do forced labor, often digging trenches and building barricades.10 The distinction between political prisoners and common criminals was equally arbitrary. The uneducated members of the temporary commissions and revolutionary tribunals might, for example, suddenly decide that a man caught riding a tram without a ticket had offended society, and sentence him for political crimes.11 In the end, many such decisions were left up to the policeman or soldiers doing the arresting. Feliks Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka--Lenin's secret police, the forerunner of the KGB--personally kept a little black notebook in which he scribbled down the names and addresses of random "enemies" he came across while doing his job.

These distinctions would remain vague right up until the collapse of the Soviet Union itself, eighty years later. Nevertheless, the existence of two categories of prisoner--"political" and "criminal"--had a profound effect on the formation of the Soviet penal system. During the first decade of Bolshevik rule, Soviet penitentiaries even split into two categories, one for each type of prisoner. The split arose spontaneously, as a reaction to the chaos of the existing prison system. In the very early days of the Revolution, all prisoners were incarcerated under the jurisdiction of the "traditional" judicial ministries, first the Commissariat of Justice, later the Commissariat of the Interior, and placed in the "ordinary" prison system. That is, they were thrown into the remnants of the Czarist system, usually into the dirty, gloomy stone prisons which occupied a central position in every major town. During the revolutionary years of 1917 to 1920, these institutions were in total disarray. Mobs had stormed the jails, self-appointed commissars had sacked the guards, prisoners had received wide-ranging amnesties or had simply walked away.13

By the time the Bolsheviks took charge, the few prisons that remained in operation were overcrowded and inadequate. Only weeks after the Revolution, Lenin himself demanded "extreme measures for the immediate improvement of food supplies to the Petrograd prisons."14 A few months later, a member of the Moscow Cheka visited the city's Taganskaya prison and reported "terrible cold and filth," as well as typhus and hunger. Most of the prisoners could not carry out their forced-labor sentences because they had no clothes. A newspaper report claimed that Butyrka prison in Moscow, designed to hold 1,000 prisoners, already contained 2,500. Another newspaper complained that the Red Guards "unsystematically arrest hundreds of people every day, and then don't know what to do with them."15

Overcrowding led to "creative" solutions. Lacking anything better, the new authorities incarcerated prisoners in basements, attics, empty palaces, and old churches. One survivor later remembered being placed in the cellar of a deserted house, in a single room with fifty people, no furniture, and little food: those who did not get packages from their families simply starved.16 In December 1917, a Cheka commission discussed the fate of fifty-six assorted prisoners--"thieves, drunks and various 'politicals' "--who were being kept in the basement of the Smolny Institute, Lenin's headquarters in Petrograd.17

Not everyone suffered from the chaotic conditions. Robert Bruce Lockhart, a British diplomat accused of spying (accurately, as it happened), was imprisoned in 1918 in a room in the Kremlin. He occupied himself playing Patience, and reading Thucydides and Carlyle. From time to time, a former imperial servant brought him hot tea and newspapers.18

But even in the remaining traditional jails, prison regimes were erratic, and prison wardens were inexperienced. A prisoner in the northern Russian city of Vyborg discovered that, in the topsy-turvy post-revolutionary world, his former chauffeur had become a prison guard. The man was delighted to help his former master move to a better, drier cell, and eventually to escape. One White Army colonel also recalled that in the Petrograd prison in December 1917 prisoners came and left at will, while homeless people slept in the cells at night. Looking back on this era, one Soviet official remembered that "the only people who didn't escape were those who were too lazy."20

The disarray forced the Cheka to come up with new solutions: the Bolsheviks could hardly allow their "real" enemies to enter the ordinary prison system. Chaotic jails and lazy guards might be suitable for pickpockets and juvenile delinquents, but for the saboteurs, parasites, speculators, White Army officers, priests, bourgeois capitalists, and others who loomed so large in the Bolshevik imagination, more creative solutions were needed.

A solution was found as early as June 4, 1918, Trotsky called for a group of unruly Czech war prisoners to be pacified, disarmed, and placed in a kontslager: a concentration camp. Twelve days later, in a memorandum addressed to the Soviet government Trotsky again spoke of concentration camps, outdoor prisons in which "the city and village bourgeoisie . . . shall be mobilized and organized into rear-service battalions to do menial work (cleaning barracks, camps, streets, digging trenches, etc.). Those refusing will be fined, and held under arrest until the fine is paid."21

In August, Lenin made use of the term as well. In a telegram to the commissars of Penza, site of an anti-Bolshevik uprising, he called for "mass terror against the kulaks [rich peasants], priests and White Guards" and for the "unreliable" to be "locked up in a concentration camp outside town."22 The facilities were already in place. During the summer of 1918--in the wake of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty which ended Russia's participation in the First World War--the regime freed two million war prisoners. The empty camps were immediately turned over to the Cheka.23

At the time, the Cheka must have seemed the ideal body to take over the task of incarcerating "enemies" in "special" camps. A completely new organization, the Cheka was designed to be the "sword and shield" of the Communist Party, and had no allegiance to the official Soviet government or any of its departments. It had no traditions of legality, no obligation to obey the rule of law, no need to consult with the police or the courts or the Commissar of Justice. Its very name spoke of its special status: the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage--or, using the Russian abbreviation for "Extraordinary Commission"--the Ch-K, or Cheka. It was "extraordinary" precisely because it existed outside of "ordinary" legality.

Almost as soon as it was created, the Cheka was given an extraordinary task to carry out. On September 5, 1918, Dzerzhinsky was directed to implement Lenin's policy of Red Terror. Launched in the wake of an assassination attempt on Lenin's life, this wave of terror--arrests, imprisonments, murders--more organized than the random terror of the previous months, was in fact an important component of the civil war, directed against those suspected of working to destroy the Revolution on the "home front." It was bloody, it was merciless, and it was cruel--as its perpetrators wanted it to be. Krasnaya Gazeta, the organ of the Red Army, described it: "Without mercy, without sparing, we will kill our enemies in scores of hundreds. Let them be thousands, let them drown themselves in their own blood. For the blood of Lenin . . . let there be floods of blood of the bourgeoisie--more blood, as much as possible . . ."24

The Red Terror was crucial to Lenin's struggle for power. Concentration camps, the so-called "special camps," were crucial to the Red Terror. They were mentioned in the very first decree on Red Terror, which called not only for the arrest and incarceration of "important representatives of the bourgeoisie, landowners, industrialists, merchants, counter-revolutionary priests, anti-Soviet officers" but also for their "isolation in concentration camps."25 Although there are no reliable figures for numbers of prisoners, by the end of 1919 there were twenty-one registered camps in Russia. At the end of 1920 there were 107, five times as many.26

1. From Stekla vechnosti, pp. 172-73.
2. Likhachev, Vosppminania, p. 118.
3. Pipes, pp. 336-37.
4. See, for example, Service, Lenin.
5. Popies, pp. 439-505; Figes, pp. 474-551.
6. Geller, pp. 23 and 24.
7. Jakobson, pp. 18-26.
8. Dekrety, vol. II, pp. 241-42, and vol. III, p. 80. Also Geller, p. 10; Pipes, pp. 793-800.
9. Jakobson, pp. 18-26; Decree "On Revolutionart Tribunals," in Sbornik, December 19, 1917, pp. 9-10.
10. Hoover, Melgunov Collection, Box 1, Folder 63.
11. Okhotin and Roginsky, p. 13.
12. RGASPI, 76/3/1 and 13.
13. Jakobson, pp. 10-17; Okhotin and Roginsky, pp. 10-24.
14. Dekrety, vol. 1, p. 401
15. Hoover, Melgunov Collection, Box 1, Folder 4.
16. Anonymous, Vo vlasti Gubcheka, pp. 3-11.
17. Hoover, Melgunov Collection, Box 1, Folder.
18. Lockhart, pp. 326-45.
19. S. G. Eliseev, "Tyuremnyi dnevnik," in Uroki, pp. 17-19.
20. Okhotin and Roginsky, p. 11.
21. Geller, p. 43.
22. Ibid., p. 44; Leggett, p. 103.
23. Initially, the Cheka were put in charge of the camps in conjunction with the Central Collegium for War Prisoners and Refugees (Tsentroplenbezh). Okhotin and Roginskii, p. 11.
24. Leggett, p. 108.
25. Decree "On Red Terror," in Sbornik, September 5, 1918, p. 11.
26. Ivanova, Labor Camp Socialism, p. 13.

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From cluttered garage to organized (hopefully) wood shop!! #6: Clutter cleanout complete... time to ORGANIZE!!!!!

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I have worked really hard these last few days. It is difficult when an injury prevents me from working too hard, or too long, or putting my body through certain motions… but I have finally finished going through just about every crevasse in the entire room! First things first – before the big reveal – I found some pretty cool items that I would like to post pictures of… In one of my previous blogs, right around the beginning of the whole process, I found a reall...

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Evolution of my Small Woodshop #1: Feeling crampy

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In the beginning…............. Beer Fridge – CheckTools – CheckWorks bench area – checkMatted floor – check Free Cabinets – awesome! Coffee Table build – feeling the campiness of the small woodshop – something has to be done To be Continued…...

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Dave's Workshop #12: It's a 'Project', but not a Project

09-05-2015 08:47 PM by Dave Rutan | 6 comments »

I’ve been neatening up the shop lately because a bunch of little things have built up and it was just time to adjust some stuff. It’s basically a cleaning up, cleaning out and reorganizing on a small scale. Here’s a few of the things I’ve done: [Below] I keep my narrower plywood scraps above the oil tank. I went through them and weeded out the really narrow ones that I know I’ll never use. The very thin plywood that I usually find as drawer bottoms I keep und...

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Lumber Storage/Shop improvements #2: Continuing on with the lumber storage

04-18-2015 01:28 AM by McDade | 2 comments »

Wow that first post got a little wordy (I should really learn to take more/better pictures) well moving right along. So we have the upper shelf section done now with the design I am going for I want to tuck my vertical storage underneath it and behind my movable sheet goods cart. Depth here is going to be an issue (I have bid shop envy) as we still only have 2’ to work with so lets consider what kind of space that cart will take up. I have decided the base of my cart will be a 2...

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Sandpaper Storage Rack

02-17-2015 05:13 PM by GlassImpressions | 3 comments »

I filmed the build on my YouTube Channel. Please check it out! Please like, share, and if you enjoyed the video subscribe! My solution to storing my sandpaper was not ideal. As you can see in the pictures, the paper has curled from the previous storage method. I make a simple tray style rack to store each grit of paper separately. Materials: MDF, Hardboard, Glue, Label Maker Construction Methods: Rabbits, and grooves, glue. I filmed the build on my YouT...

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Hints and Tips #5: A 'Quick' Way to Store Nails, Screws, Etc.

02-05-2015 04:26 PM by Dave Rutan | 6 comments »

I’m always trying to figure out how to use the many things we throw out in our day to day lives. In no way can I be considered a fanatic about this, but I try to consider any containers we put out for recycling. I use our Nestle Quick canisters to store the standard screws and finish nails in my shop. They are a good size, they are sturdy plastic and they are oblong, which allows the smaller of the two available sizes to be carried in a normal cloth nail apron! Originally the ...

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10-30-2014 09:20 PM by Dave Rutan | 1 comment »

Above: A while ago I built this stand for my drill press. It’s got a deep drawer and two shelves behind double doors. It got really tiring having to open the doors, bend over, and reach in to grab either my electric (corded drill,) or my handy hand drill. So today I put a thought into action. I looked up drill holders and found this really basic design to keep things at hand. Above: A simple chunk of 2×4 with two holes drilled into it and a little cutting and I got thi...

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Every woodworker has a pile of lumber just sitting around. This weekend use some of it up to make a decorative pencil holder. Link to Video and Link to my Website

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I was tired of walking around tripping over shovels, rakes, brooms, and whatever else was laid around. I didn’t want to buy one of those plastic corner tool storage things from the local big box store so I made one a few years ago. After yard duties have evolved, so has the collection of tools. Now I have axes, mauls, and sledge hammers. It was time to build another tool storage. This was made from a single pallet, so it has that “rustic” look. Tools used: circular saw, dril...

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Stop having a lot of clutter on your desktop. This simple made desktop organizer will hold paper, bills, pens, and pencils. Made from 1/2 a pallet, and a crappy looking pallet to begin with. Please view the video HERE. As always, your likes, comment, shares and most importantly, your subscriptions are appreciated.

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There’s a clerk at my local big box home improvement store that has been asking me for more than a year if I was ever going to make a ‘57 Chevy. So I finally asked her if she meant a 3D toy or a plaque. “Why a plaque”’ says she. I showed her a catalog of patterns and this is the one she chose.
Since they were thin I was able to stack cut two at once. A little clean up, mounting in the frame, and it’ll be ready for delivery.

Learned a couple good lessons about planning your cuts before you make them. Had a couple parts that I was really sweating breakage because I got the order wrong. But it all was good in the end.

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As an avid scrollsaw junkie; I do know how tough that was to do!

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Very nice work scroll work. The 57 Chevy is one of my all time favorite cars. The design still looks great after all these years. I was 17 yrs. old when they came out.

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I had a ‘56 when I was in high school in ‘67, bought it for $175.00 and sold it a year later for $250.00. Sure wish I had that car now!!

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Looks good to me!!! I was a 58 Chevy guy. Owned 9 of them over the last 40-50 years.

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Great job! My dream car in high school was the ‘55 but the ‘57 came in second. Great cutting and the presentation is awesome.

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Caution! Scroll sawing can be contagious! Nice job.

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This turned out nicely. Your scroll sawing is very clean.

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That’s fantastic, Dan.

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Published On: Apr 29 2014 09:55:15 AM CDT   Updated On: Apr 30 2014 04:22:29 AM CDT
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A public school in New York is taking heat for nixing a kindergarten show in favor of college prep time for its youngest students.

"These are 5-year-old children! This is outrageous!" parent Ninette Solis wrote in her petition to reinstate the student performance at Long Island's Harley Avenue Primary School.

"The kindergarten show is a positive experience and beneficial to the children’s development. … This helps them build confidence in themselves. The show also helps develop public speaking skills while allowing the children to celebrate a big accomplishment."

Her petition had more than 3,100 signatures as of Tuesday morning.

School officials made no qualms about the move, citing tougher early education standards in a letter to parents.

"The reason for eliminating the Kindergarten show is simple," the leader reads. "We are responsible for preparing children for college and career with valuable lifelong skills and know that we can best do that by having them become strong readers, writers, coworkers and problem solvers."

Parents and education experts have called the decision "tantamount to child abuse" and "just plain sad."

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Braves done in by homers, Phils' defense

Braves hurt by homers, Phils' defense

ATLANTA -- Ryan Howard hadn't homered against the Braves all season and his success rate against Rafael Soriano was nonexistent. But with one mighty swing of his bat, the Phillies first baseman deflated the growing sense of optimism that had developed in Atlanta over the course of the past week.

While he didn't have to experience the immediate frustration created by the walk-off shots he'd surrendered during the previous two weeks, Soriano certainly once again found himself dejected at Turner Field on Friday night.

Howard's ninth-inning leadoff homer off Soriano provided the Phillies a chance to celebrate a 3-2 win and further distance themselves from a Braves bunch that had seemingly positioned itself nicely after Mike Gonzalez prolonged his recent success by working out of an eighth-inning jam.

"We did everything but win the game," said Braves manager Bobby Cox, who saw his team drop six games behind the Phillies in the National League East race with just its second loss in its past nine games.

After Gonzalez escaped the eighth after allowing Ben Francisco to advance to third base with just one out, he saw his effort go for naught courtesy of the left-handed slugging power supplied by Howard, who had gone homerless in 39 at-bats against the Braves this year before drilling Soriano's 2-1 slider over the center-field wall.

While striking out the next three batters -- including one left-handed hitter -- Soriano showed the dominant form Cox had envisioned when he stuck by the book and inserted his closer into the ninth inning of a tie game at home. "It was just the little breaking ball that he hit out and then he struck out the side," Cox said. "I don't think Howard had ever had a hit off of him."

While Howard had been hitless in three previous career at-bats against Soriano, he has also had managed just one hit -- albeit a homer -- in 12 career at-bats against Gonzalez, who recently has looked like the Braves' best option to utilize as their closer.

"Everybody has a bad month," said Soriano, who has now allowed three game-winning homers (including two walk-offs) -- all against left-handed hitters -- in a span of his past eight appearances.

Meanwhile, Gonzalez hasn't allowed an earned run over his past 12 appearances and Francisco's opposite-field, eighth-inning leadoff double accounted for just one of the three hits the veteran left-handed reliever has surrendered in his past seven innings.

"We played in the wrong park tonight. If we're in Philadelphia, we've probably got five homers, at least four. The long fly balls just weren't traveling. I knew Utley's was out and I knew Howard's was out."
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Gonzalez escaped that eighth-inning threat by getting Shane Victorino and Chase Utley to produce consecutive pop flies. But while Victorino wasn't able to deliver the clutch hit in that situation, he proved to be a difference maker when he robbed Brian McCann of a potential go-ahead RBI double with two outs in the fifth.

Just two days after mastering the art of catching a fly ball with a beer tumbling into his view at Wrigley Field, Victorino found only the center-field wall as his hindrance as he crashed into while hauling in McCann's long drive. Then to further frustrate the Braves, he raced into right-center field to deny Garret Anderson of what had the makings to be a sixth-inning leadoff double off Joe Blanton.

"He's a good center fielder," McCann said. "He covers a lot of ground and you've got to hit it over his head."

The Braves, who had won seven of their previous nine games against the Phillies this year, gained some hope when Adam LaRoche delivered a one-out single off Brad Lidge and then was replaced by Matt Diaz, who promptly stole second base.

But Lidge, who has allowed four earned runs in his the two previous innings he'd completed this week, pitched around a walk to Greg Norton and then breathed a sigh of relief when left fielder Raul Ibanez ended the game by catching Nate McLouth's long opposite-field drive along the warning track.

"We played in the wrong park tonight," Cox said. "If we're in Philadelphia, we've probably got five homers, at least four. The long fly balls just weren't traveling. I knew Utley's was out and I knew Howard's was out."

Utley's two-run, fourth-inning homer accounted for the only damage Jair Jurrjens incurred during a seven-inning effort that was matched by Blanton, who limited the Braves to two runs (one earned) in seven innings.

Jurrjens, who has allowed just those two earned runs in 19 2/3 innings against the Phillies this year, ended his 103-pitch effort by retiring the final seven batters that he faced.

"Any time a guy is pitching good and he comes out of the game like that, it can be to your advantage," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. "It depends who they're bringing in."

Blanton's night started inauspiciously with McLouth drilling his third pitch into right field for a leadoff double. Chipper Jones followed two batters later with an RBI single. But while seeing a number of long drives fall short, the only other run Atlanta managed came courtesy of Ryan Church's fourth-inning, two-out RBI double.

"Blanton pitched a great game, as did JJ," McCann said. "You knew it was probably going to come down to who hit the long ball."

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Published On: Nov 22 2013 01:36:26 PM CST

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By Brennan Nardi

Describe one way a child's life is enriched by being a Little.
It means so much to so many of our Littles, just knowing they have a friend who sees them because they want to see them, not because they have to see them. A Little's life is enhanced by the power of the care and support they receive from their Big. And of course, in the process, the Big is equally inspired by the power of their relationship with their Little.

How much time, money and resources does it take to be a Big?
I wish that people would stop over thinking the whole idea of being a Big. If Madison is home and you're pretty sure you're not leaving, please consider becoming involved. We have two programs that both require a two year commitment. In one, you meet at school over the lunch hour or after school. In our traditional program the day and time is flexible; ideally we'd like for you to meet once a week especially in the beginning to really cement the friendship. However, we know that reality exists, so we always tell our Bigs to focus on quality over quantity. It's perfectly fine to meet three times in a month because one of your activities involved going to Devil's Lake. Activities should not all require money. We are blessed to have tons of free activities that we encourage our Matches to take advantage of around Dane County. Ultimately, the most meaningful part of the relationship for Littles is that their Big cared enough to be there consistently. It didn't matter what they did together what mattered was that the Big was there.

What's the best (or worse/or both) advice you've ever received?
The best advice I ever received was the suggestion that I join a service club. Early on in my career my mentor, Karl Kellor, said to me that real grown-ups join service clubs and learn to golf. Karl was right about joining a service club. I've been a member of Downtown Rotary for almost twenty years. It's one of the great investments of my time because I continue to learn through our programs and we do a lot of great things in our community. Now the golfing part, well, I’m not sure about that piece of advice. Maybe when I'm retired I'll try it.

What goal are you currently working on?
My number-one goal is to increase the number of children who graduate from high school in Dane County and help all of our kids break the cycle of poverty. Mentoring is a highly successful strategy to accomplish this because we attack the root cause of poverty. Rather than temporarily treating a symptom, our Bigs are working with children to define a path that leads them out of poverty. We want the kids in our program to have children of their own who have the opportunity to be kids all the time, not just a few hours a month. We accomplish our goal one child at a time. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Dane County has a one hundred percent graduation rate for Littles; a majority of whom go on to higher education following high school. We invite families to join us by becoming donors and becoming Big Families—yes, families can mentor together.

What's your favorite work of art?
I love anything by Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Mary Cassatt. These particular artists speak to me because their works deal with real life, community and children. Additionally, art is a great way for me to learn about my Mexican heritage.

What do you wish you could tell your twenty-year-old self?
Like most women I would tell my twenty-year-old self to learn to take care of herself first so that I could effectively take care of everything else on my plate. Specifically, make the time to acquire the habit of daily exercise and time to pray.

Who's been your greatest inspiration?
I am inspired every day by the young people in our program who—with the help of their Bigs—are making great choices. I am especially proud of Keraa McCants who, with the help and guidance of her Big Sister Ann Staniforth, made a lot of really good choices and is currently a freshman at Edgewood College. Keraa inspires me because she doesn't take anything for granted. She has a phenomenal work ethic and is determined to take full advantage of her college opportunity.

What's top on your bucket list?
I don't have a traditional bucket list. My goal is to someday be a very active grandma—someday far off into the future. In the meantime, I strive to live fully in the moment, be grateful for the opportunities I do have, to travel and to try as many new things as possible.

What's the best reason to stay up late?
To share a laugh while watching Jimmy Kimmel with my daughter, Ariana. Or simply to catch up on the day, while playing with our two doggies as a familia.

What would you change about Madison?
I would love for Madison to recognize that the issues we are facing in regard to our children achieving academically is not a race issue but simply an issue of economic disparity that exists in our community. We all need to stop looking for an instant solution. It will cost serious money, in the short-term, to address the complex issues that we see. That investment, though, will lead to huge dividends in the future. Let's stop talking and start investing our time our talent and, yes, our treasure so that we can start providing a richness of opportunities to everyone in our community. Our kids deserve our support.

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Many nations have begun to tighten their credit reins in an effort to curb rising prices.

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In a box: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (shown here during a June 17 meeting of the China Strategic Economic Dialogue at the US Naval Academy) is keeping interest rates low to nurse a fragile US economy. But he faces pressure to also confront inflation.

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With inflation a rising threat, nations around the world are trying to navigate a delicate task: containing that price pressure even as the linchpin US economy reels from the opposite challenge of a credit bust.

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But signs of how difficult this will be are all around. Rising unemployment in America, for example, shows that the risk of recession is real – and could potentially spread worldwide.

Global inflation is growing harder to ignore. Oil, which has become the main symbol of global inflation, traded at a new record Monday. And European inflation has reached highs never seen under the euro currency. By one new survey, 3 billion people – 42 percent of the world's population – are experiencing double-digit annual rises in consumer prices.

That's why many nations have begun to tighten their credit reins in an effort to curb inflation. This Thursday, forecasters expect the European Central Bank to join the battle by raising its interest rate. Sweden and Indonesia may do the same that day. Even the US Federal Reserve has been forced to consider a tighter policy.

"It's conceivable that the synchronized tightening by all these emerging economies and the European Central Bank [could] cause a global recession, which would bring oil prices down," says Ed Yardeni, an economist who heads Yardeni Research in Great Neck, N.Y.

For their part, central bankers are hoping to contain oil prices without causing a slump.

Mr. Yardeni predicts the world economy will trudge through the mess, with recession confined mainly to the American economy.

About the only thing economists see eye to eye on these days is that the path forward is lined with more challenges and uncertainties than a year ago.

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On Monday, the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, sounded a cautionary note in its annual report.

"In the aftermath of a long credit-driven boom, it would not be surprising to see turmoil in financial markets, slowing real growth, and temporarily rising inflation," the report said. That mix "does appear to point to a deeper and more protracted global downturn than the consensus view seems to expect."

In this environment, a crucial question is: How many nations need to tighten monetary policy, and by how much?

Conflicting analyses

Some economists worry that the world's central banks have not yet awakened to the magnitude of the inflationary threat. Others say that the interest-rate moves under way, and those likely in the months ahead, will bring prices under control, assisted by the general weakening of economic growth.

Where the two sides agree is that monetary policy worldwide has been generally loose – and that this has been a major factor propelling fuel and food prices.

"However you want to measure … it's quite clear that monetary policy is very stimulative," says Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at Global Insight, a forecasting firm in Lexington, Mass.

For the first time, he says, an oil spike is being caused by rising demand in emerging-market nations. Many forecasters had expected that oil prices would retreat alongside slumping US demand, as had happened in the past.

This puts developing nations, and their central banks, in an important position in the current cycle.

"In the end, I think a lot of this has to fall on the emerging markets," Mr. Behravesh says. "They not only need to rein in their money-supply growth, but they also need to remove their subsidies" on energy use, he explains. Both policies have been inflationary.

From South Africa to India, many central banks have already raised interest rates. And some nations have reduced subsidies to consumers – including a major move by China recently.

Many nations are wary of changing policies too fast, given the risk of social instability as well as recession. But failing to act could also trigger a near-term slump – or an inflationary spiral that inflicts even greater damage on world economic growth.

Economists at investment bank Morgan Stanley found that about 50 nations show consumer prices up 10 percent or more from a year ago.

They warn that some central banks feel constrained, because they are focused on maintaining currency exchange rates against the US dollar. A weak dollar has caused loose monetary policy in nations with such "dollar-pegged" currencies.

Printing more currency

Central banks in these nations have to print more of their own currency to buy US dollars to hold exchange rates steady, explains Paul Kasriel, an economist at the Northern Trust Co. in Chicago. "That's not the only factor working here, but that is a factor," he says.

This is one reason that the Federal Reserve faces greater pressure to consider raising interest rates, even though the Fed has until recently been cutting rates to help the US economy out of a slump.

Mr. Kasriel says that other nations, not the Fed, should take the lead in fighting inflation. His reasoning: Even though the Fed's short-term interest rate is very low, at 2 percent, that doesn't mean that Fed policy is currently stimulative. Because of the economy's slowdown, the US money supply has actually been shrinking lately – and so has bank credit, a broader measure of the monetary situation.

"This is a full-blown credit crunch" domestically, Kasriel says, not an inflationary situation.

"If the Federal Reserve were to raise interest rates [now], that would send the economy into a deep recession," he says. But "it has to pay lip service to inflation."

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