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|Likely photograph of Baard Johnson (carte-de-visite size), ca. 1870.
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To my early Norwegian-American family, having a likeness of each family member was important due to the uncertainty of life, in general. During the mid-19th century, photography--the new art--was taken quite seriously. As surely as family members had their birth and death dates religiously recorded in the family Bible, new photographs were commissioned whenever changes in family size or other milestones dictated the need. Newly married couples, small groupings of the latest-born children, or entire families would dress in their Sunday finest and sit for the local photographer. In addition, many Norwegian emigrants had their likenesses taken at their point of departure in Norway, in order to send mementos to anxious family members and neighbors. Others waited until they had chosen the spot where they wished to establish residency in the U.S., and then proudly commemorated the occasion with a photograph. So, where was Baard? Why did no one in my extended family have any photographic evidence of his existence, when even his young wife had a photograph taken of herself in the early 1870s?
The verso of my suspected g g grandfather's likeness shows that "A. Brandmo" was the photographer. Andreas Brandmo worked out of Montevideo, Minnesota beginning in the 1870s, and he was part owner of the Brandmo and Lodgaard Studio from 1886-1896. Montevideo was next door to many of my ancestors' homesteads in early Chippewa County, and the photographer's distinctive name shows on the verso of many family images passed down through the decades. Though A. Brandmo's decorative stamp changed slightly over the years of doing business, this particular verso appears to contain one of the oldest stamps, by virtue of its simplicity, when compared to Brandmo's other stamps. The paper copy of the verso has a faded pink tint, which barely shows on this online copy.
One dismal, wet afternoon several months ago, while sitting at my desk engrossed in genealogy, I was perusing a stack of small carte-de-visite (2-1/2 x 4-inch) photographs and suddenly felt a figurative light bulb switch on over my head. I had obtained the photos through a cousin, after having seen them for the first time several years before. When I began sorting through the stack, I was intrigued that many of the card-like photos were taken by the same early photography studio (Brandmo) in Montevideo, Minnesota, very near to where Baard and Bertina Johnson had set up their homestead. None of the photographs had identifying markings other than the photographer's stamp. Yes, my ancestors were guilty of the same lack of foresight as yours: they knew the people in the photos, so why did they need to label them? The first time I sorted through the stack, several years earlier, I had quickly picked out the earliest known photograph of my great great grandmother, Bertina Johnson. It was easy to recognize her distinctive face from other photos of her as an older woman. Due to her apparent age in the photograph and her residence at that time (near Montevideo, MN), I estimated the photo to be dated between 1870-1875. None other among the mostly male sea of faces made any impression on me at all, and I assumed most to be neighbors and friends of my Johnson relatives at that time.
However, this particular winter day brought a revelation. Perhaps it was because I had been studying other Johnson family photographs at the time, and certain facial features were burned into my short-term memory. Perhaps I was "in the zone," while indulging in one of my favorite hobbies. Perhaps it was something about the soft light of a gray day filtering the images on the cards in a way that opened my mind to new possibilities. Whatever the cause, as I held up a photo of one young, blond gentleman, I sensed something very familiar. (I've learned to not ignore intuition until facts prove otherwise.) It was also interesting, and unusual, that there were two copies of the same photo: one in very poor condition, and the other in quite good condition. I knew for certain that the stack of small photographs had once been in the possession of Ole M. Johnson (my great grandfather, and the son of Baard). It made sense that if the photo in question was truly Ole's father, then one photo likely would have been displayed or kept in a frame, and thus, became faded over time, while one copy had been put away for safe keeping. This was probably the missing Baard Johnson!
The first thing I did was to line up the candidate photograph of Baard Johnson with his two children, Ole Johnson, and Julia (Johnson) Larson, along with his wife, Bertina Johnson, in order to compare facial features. I found that as a young man, Ole had the same fine, lank hair as did the suspected photo of his father, Baard. The clinker, however, was comparing it to the photo of Julia Johnson (the daughter): both Julia and the "95% Baard Johnson" had the same bold, squared jawline, combined with a strong chin. Even their ears were shaped the same! Convinced, I shared the photographs with some Minnesota cousins who had actually known Ole M. Johnson (Baard's son) personally, and asked them to give me feedback on family likenesses between photos of Ole, his sister, Julia, and the newly discovered photograph of "95% Baard Johnson." I'm pleased to say that I received several thumbs up.
Although there is no way that I know of to completely prove the identity of the man in the photograph in question, my usually-reliable intuition tells me that the search for my missing great great grandfather has ended. I'm posting photographs of the entire family here, so that others may judge for themselves.
No matter what the brick wall, there is always hope that it will crumble!
[Photographer information source: Minnesota Historical Society, Directory of Minnesota Photographers, http://www.mnhs.org/people/photographers/B.htm]
|Baard Johnson? (father, ca. 1870)
|Julia Johnson (daughter, ca. 1888)
|Ole M. Johnson (son, 1886)
|Bertina Johnson (mother, ca. 1870)


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Onscreen fighting can be a be a brutal business. Just ask "Desperate Housewives" star and soup battler Helena Mattsson.
Mattsson got more than she bargained for when she threw borscht on her onscreen prospective mother-in-law (Felicity Huffman).
"I threw the soup on her and of course it covered the floor behind her," Mattsson tells PopcornBiz. "I was supposed to pass her and walk behind her. But I slipped on the borscht and fell on my a--."
While the unglamorous fall for an onscreen Russian ice-queen was very out-of-character and unscripted, Huffman didn't miss a beat. Playing a very suspicious mother-in-law, she made the best of the moment and stayed in character.
"Karma's a bitch." Huffman said as a shocked Mattsson sprawled on the floor. Sounds like cat-fight heaven. But that take of the borscht fight did not make it into the episode.
"It was a bummer they didn't use that take," she says. While she was sore: "It was hilarious."
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At age 17, Vivek Ranadivé arrived in the United States from India with $50 in his pocket. When he moved to California in the mid-1980s after obtaining multiple degrees from MIT and Harvard, he found himself $50,000 in debt.
Now, Ranadivé -- a minority owner of the Golden State Warriors and the CEO and founder of TIBCO Software -- is Sacramento's last hope in keeping its sole professional sports franchise.
In an exclusive interview with NBC Bay Area's Raj Mathai, Ranadivé said his decision to take the lead role in a group intent on purchasing the NBA's Sacramento Kings and keeping them in the state capitol was an opportunity he couldn't pass up.
"Every now and then, you get an opportunity to participate in something that's bigger than yourself," Ranadivé said. "The state of California means everything to me and I felt that if I could be a part of keeping the Kings in Sacramento, that was something I needed to do."
Without Ranadivé -- or another big-time investor -- the group previously led by 24-Hour Fitness founder Mark Mastrov and billionaire businessman Ron Burkle likely wouldn't have been able to keep the Kings in town. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and hedge fund manager Chris Hansen lead a separate group that has agreed to purchase 65 percent of the Kings from the Maloof brothers for $341 million with the intent of moving the team to Seattle.
NBA commissioner David Stern made it clear on March 8 before the Warriors hosted Houston at Oracle Arena that a previous "expression of interest" from the Mastrov group wasn't strong enough financially to warrant consideration.
"I would say that the counter bid, if you call it that, has very strong financial people behind it, but it is not quite there in terms of a comparison to the Seattle bid," Stern said. "It needs to be increased by dollar amounts."
With Ranadivé joining Mastrov and Burkle as the lead partner, that became possible. As a result, he's being viewed as a potential basketball savior of sorts for the city.
"I don't look at it that way, I think Sacramento is a great city, it's our state capitol, and I think the fans of Sacramento will be the ones saving (basketball in) Sacramento," he said. "To me, it's truly humbling to see the level of support that we have seen from the fans."
For the deal to work, Ranadivé must sell his interest in the Warriors -- a team he's been a fan of for long before he joined the ownership group fronted by Joe Lacob and Peter Guber. He admits his emotional ties to the franchise will be tough, maybe even impossible, to let go of.
"I've been a huge Warriors fan and I've asked the Sacramento fans to give me a free pass and some understanding on that," Ranadivé said. "But I believe this is a great cause and, like I said, sometimes there are things bigger than yourself."
Ranadivé said he's also floated the concept to Stern about passing his Warriors' ownership stake into a trust.
"I will always be a Warriors fan and I would love to continue to have that stake," said Ranadivé, who doesn't anticipate having any trouble selling his portion of the team. "I believe that the value has gone up dramatically.
"The team is doing really well. We sold more season tickets in the last few months than had ever been sold by anyone and so I have no doubt there will be a lot of people wanting to buy that stake."
On Monday, Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson announced on Twitter that Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs had also joined the Sacramento group.
The city of Sacramento has plans for a $447 million downtown arena, which would rely on $258 million of public money, but it is reliant on a city council vote scheduled for Tuesday night. Ranadivé acknowledged there will always be criticism when public money is in play, but is confident it is a solid investment for both parties.
On April 3, the Ranadivé/Mastrov/Burkle/Jacobs group and the Seattle group will both meet before Stern and a small group of NBA owners in New York City, where each will make a case for their bid to be accepted. The NBA Board of Governors will vote on the issue at its meeting on April 18 and 19.
If Sacramento keeps the Kings, Ranadivé believes the league should find a way to have a presence in Seattle.
"Seattle should absolutely have a basketball team, without question," he said. "But I would also say it should not be the Kings. It should be from another market."


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The NBCUniversal Foundation Tuesday awarded $100,000 in grants to three local non-profit organizations helping them implement innovative community programs as part of a newly launched initiative called 21st Century Solutions.
The recipients include:
Junior Achievement of Dallas - $50,000
Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas - $25,000
Connecting NBC 5 to the community we serve.
Tom Ehlmann, president and general manager of NBC 5 said, "It is our responsibility to serve our North Texas communities and we do so in a number of ways, from providing daily news and information to alerting viewers when severe weather may damage their homes or threaten their lives. Our partnerships with local non-profit communities are another way for us to reach out and touch the people in our viewing area, especially people in need of help. We are delighted to be able to extend this program, and these grants, to such fine organizations."
John Treviño, president and general manager of Telemundo 39 said, "Innovation, is the driving force for success and these organizations have demonstrated, without a doubt, that they are truly committed to enhancing our local community. We are very proud to support their endeavors and to invest in the future of our North Texas Communities."
Junior Achievement of Dallas (JA) was awarded a $50,000 grant for their JA High School Heroes program, which provides high school students passionate about making a difference the opportunity to teach the JA curriculum to elementary school students in kindergarten through fourth grade.
Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas was awarded a $25,000 grant to fund the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Center for Excellence at Camp Whispering Cedars, a 60-acre Dallas camp where girls can explore the sciences hands-on in the living laboratory of the outdoors.
REACH (Rehabilitation, Education, and Advocacy for Citizens with Handicaps) was awarded a $25,000 grant to fund the Living Academies for Youth with Disabilities whose purpose is to offer students with disabilities the opportunity to acquire and improve life skills. Academies are held in area high schools where the curriculum is first developed in collaboration with students with disabilities.
In addition to the $100,000 awarded in Dallas/Fort Worth, the NBCUniversal Foundation announced grants across the country totaling $1.2 million. Launched in June, the 21st Century Solutions program aims to help communities identify opportunities for positive change and support non-profits that are putting new ideas into action.
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One of my posts two years ago suggested it would be a great time to bring back the Spectrum computer or something like it:
The new Raspberry Pi is pretty much exactly what I asked for (though I don't think it came from my request) . For about £22, you get a computer. You plug in a keyboard and a TV and comms, then start programming. I am amazed it has been so long for someone to do it, but better late then never. Now a new generation of kids can learn how to program by messing about, instead of falling victim to the formal teaching that is provided by schools and university. I have always believed that learning how to hack programs together is the best way to understand what you are doing. You can learn formal methods later if need be. I don't think hacking is the source of bad habits. Rather, it is more likely to show you the workings of the machine so you can exploit it better. I have seen too many taught programmers make good impressions of being mentally crippled after being forced to think in just one way, any fee-thinking and originality purged.
The Raspberry Pi isn't the only tiny computer around though. FXI also have one, the size of a USB memory stick, and pretty impressive capability, albeit five times the price. It is easy to imagine how devices like this could really change how we work. I like to travel very light and haven't carried a laptop for years – even the latest are still heavy and big and just aren't worth the trouble. I won't even use an iPAD because it is still obese, power-hungry, and altogether too primitive.Turning up at a conference with a memory stick containing your presentation has been fine as an alternative, but you are reliant on the conference laptop having the right setup. If you could bring a full PC memory stick and run everything from that, that would be better. At home it will be good to put media straight onto your TV without cluttering the room up with big boxes. A Slingbox has done that for years, and smart TVs now do it built-in, so it isn't new, but this makes it a lot easier and cheaper to provide web and media on more conventional TVs.
On the go, you need some sort of visual display of course but soon we will have visor based head up displays that work with fingertip tracking or virtual keyboards. Then these compact devices will come into their own. You'll be fully connected and IT capable, but carrying hardly any weight.
Both of these new devices are small but capable, and most of the size they still have left is really interfacing to other devices. The processing guts is much smaller still. There is room to shrink further, and it is clear from these that the era of digital jewellery is almost with us. Imagine the enormous environmental benefits too, if we hardly need any resources to provide for all our IT needs.
It is the curse of futurology that you are never really happy with the stuff available today because you know what is round the corner. But when I can easily fit all my IT into my pocket as a memory stick and wear a lightweight visor as my interface, I'll be pretty near content. Can't be long now


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would you like it if koei gave us a poll on different design choices for future playable characters as well a wespons and what character they put in the game.
I would like to see zhuge zhan,liao hua,wang ping and fu qian for shu to expand the later kingdom story line.
and the idea for a weapon i came up with is a horn what vikings and others used before and during battle.
but just say if the fans got more choices by koei do you think it will spoil the game or improve it ?


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Halloween is upon us, and as an American I am conditioned to crave candy and all things sweet this time of year. Even my conditioning has been conditioned, because I also always crave little Butterfingers and other brand name store-bought candies. No longer welcome in my neighborhood clad in Spider-Man leotards and knocking on doors, I find myself at the supermarket emptying my wallet for some mass-produced junk food I end up getting sick of anyway by about November 2nd. But this Halloween, breaking free from the mainstream, I am heading to my local cupcake shop to stuff my face full of cupcakes--and to contribute to the recent cupcake boom.
I refer to the cupcake boom casually, as if I were really aware that there has been a nationwide surge in cupcake production. I actually got that idea from a story I heard on NPR (where a good amount of the smart-sounding stuff I say originates). In it they layed out the economic theory of cupcake production and explained the dangers of the dreaded yet inevitable burst of the cupcake bubble. And apparently, despite the ominous and inevitable fall of the cupcake, new shops are springing up all over the country with the sole purpose of slinging cupcakes. Denver certainly has been keeping up with the trend, and while I get suspicious of trends (actually I just never know what they are) and popularity (I hate that), having an abundance of cupcakes can't really be that bad for anyone, and I'm glad to ride out this bubble to the bitter
sweet end (and refrain from any cupcake puns while I do it). Of the cupcakes I have tried, The Shoppe on East Colfax and Denver is my favorite. St. Paul
The Shoppe is much more than cupcakes, I suppose. It has a cereal bar and a giant TV locked on the Cartoon Network that together evoke serious childhood nostalgia for care-free Saturday mornings (minus the plasma screen) stretched out on the couch, slurping Fruity Pebbles and happily zoning out with the Smurfs, Super Friends, Pee-Wee's Playhouse and the rest. The Shoppe also has pretty good coffee and has all the coffee shop board games. It sells random hipster-friendly goods and has fun, rotating local art for sale on the walls. I like the the Shoppe for many reasons, and it is a great place to hang out for a bit and read, relax or stare out onto Colfax, but let's be real, none of that would matter much if they didn't make some mean-ass cupcakes.
I've had a lot of cupcakes at the Shoppe. My wife and I have been regulars since they opened the doors. Here are some cupcake highlights I can remember, and what I have to say about them:
Death by Chocolate- Likely my favorite. Chocolate mousse-type icing with chocolate chips, chocolate ganache filling.
Tres Leches - A incredibly worthy re-creation of the most delectable of Mexican cakes in a tote-friendly size; the milk literally seeps out once unwrapped.
S'mores - It took me a while to try this one, but it's fantastic: little, crisp graham cracker pieces lovingly yet violently shoved into the chocolate icing. It's like boy scouts all over again.
Red Velvet - The classic cupcake. Done to perfection.
Peanut Butter Chocolate - Also my favorite. Also they have this peanut butter cookie and chocolate icing sandwich thing. Fuck yeah.
Carrot Cake - Another favorite, though be ready, the icing is so wondrously thick and rich you might not be able to handle it.
Coconut - The favorite of the wife. She gets really happy when eating this. And now, instead of flowers, I get her cupcakes when I mess up.
Nutella - OK, this is another favorite as well.
Oreo - Forget dunking in milk. The Oreo is meant to be crushed and sprinkled on a cupcakes.
Pumpkin - I imagine this is here for the Halloween season, and it is amazing. Rich and creamy like the carrot cake one, get to it while you can.
You get the idea. There are a lot of cupcakes and they are pretty much universally great. If you haven't been, you must be at this moment planning a trip in your head. And a great thing is that if you are reading this at 1 AM on a weekend night (you are lonely and The Shoppe can help) they are still open for another hour, so get going. In fact, for being primarily a bakery, The Shoppe keeps some great hours. I see they are open early now, but any bakery-type joint that stays open until 11pm on weekdays and 2am on weekends is right up my alley.
Another good thing is that they besides the normal-sized cupcakes they have mini-cupcakes. Mini-cupcakes are good for those indecisive moments when you are stuck staring at the cupcake display, unable to make up your mind on just one flavor, and there are like 12 people in line behind you. And this is often the case in the Shoppe. This place can get pretty busy and for a good reason. I think that when the cupcake bubble bursts, and it will--because NPR never lies-- The Shoppe will remain standing. And if it doesn't, it won't be my fault, because I sure as hell have done my part, and will keep on doing it as long as the cupcakes stay this good.
See you at The Shoppe. 3103 East Colfax at
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murphydump55 wrote:I'm on the Harry Z bandwagon. I hope he makes it. He has above average speed, he's feisty, he's fearless, he's physical, he's what we need on our 4th line. I'd take him over Glass anyday. His pest-like play will at least provide the sandpaper we lost in Cooke.
So long as he doesn't take stupid penalties like the pre-suspension Cooke.


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Level 58 with a bullet, or is that totem. I'm officially acknowledged in Outland by the quest givers and they have lots for me to do.
Before I begin I would just like to thank a few of my supporters:
Level 58 with 360 XP to spare… Heirloom items FTW!
What's with the D?
Normally it's AV where people are cursing D for being too strong, but my WSG to bring in level 58 left me scratching my head.
- 10 alliance in BG.
- Both flags being held.
- Score is 0/0
- 3 minutes left on the clock.
The solitary DK and myself trying to get the flag back off the 4 Horde, 5 if you include the Hunter's big red kitty, were going no where fast and copping flack from D about not coordinating our attacks. We would have if we weren't getting picked off individually.
I couldn't even get a heal off!
I finally convinced D that 8 on D was just a little too much. It didn't help much, but it helped a little.
I finally got the message across, at 0/0 all it would take was for them to kill our FC and the game was lost.
1 minute later we capped… Soon after we won 1/0.
A strong D is all well and good, but not when the game is deadlocked. That's when you need some balance, a little more O to go with the strong D.
Immediately after that cap someone said.
There, game won for the alliance!
I pointed out that with 2 min left in the clock there was every chance we would still loose. I'm yet to win a WSG where the flag caps are locked.
People keep saying, we have had our two flags longer, we will win.
Yet every time it's a Horde win!
I wonder if it's a Horde win based on kills, flag returns etc, or whether Horde gets the same result.
Is a draw in WSG a lose-lose situation?
Ramps I hate you well
I guess my 1st priority now is getting some instances done. I only have one piece of gear above level 50 and quite a few below 50, so I may be shoveling Sh err snow uphill, but I'll give it a go.
Ramps isn't the only part I hate
Actually it occurs to me that it isn't any specific instance in Outland that I dislike, it's the whole place.
Maybe that's because Gnomeaggedon had to grind the quests, instances and mobs so hard. I lost a lot of sleep in Outland trying to improve, to catch up to my mates and more often than not take down a single boss.
For a while there it was taking us about 3 weeks to clear the instances, the regular instances. I think it took us 5 weeks to clear Shadow Lab for the 1st time (and only after 3 of us did it successfully with other groups 1st).
Whole nights spent trying to get past the 1st boss in Labs. Every guide on the web mocked us with stories of how easy it was, yet we weren't alone at that blockage.
New Toon New Experience?
Ahh well, we will see if it's a different experience for Squidly. I don't have to stay till 70 and neither do I have to grind raiding gear in the gods forsaken place.
Maybe Gnomeaggedon will make a reappearance. Maybe he will help groups get through the heroics. Due to the quirk of achievement timing he has no credit for the Outland Heroic instances (although credited for most of the regulars).
New paths, new adventures, new friends.
Of course 60% of them will probably be DKs… Not sure whether you can call them friends.
Gnomer and Out!
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'70 Super Bee Road Trip - Rumble Bee
Hell freezes! In other news, our long-ignored Hemi Dodge runs, drives, and races. At least it did when we hit the road for Las Vegas
"There are no bad days when you're driving a Hemi through the desert. "—Mike Finnegan
We pulled a week of all-nighters to rebuild a car, then drove it around the block three times and hit the road for a drag race 300 miles away. That's a predictable scenario in our world, but this time it's the surprise twist in what was becoming a plodding tragedy: After a dozen years of neglect, best intentions, and failed promises, my '70 Super Bee lives again.
The saga began in the last issue with the story "No Sleep 'Til Vegas," recounting our day-by-day thrash to prep the Bee, which had not seen public roads since 1993, had not raced since 1996, hadn't run since 1999, and that we'd disassembled a year earlier. Our plan was to back down the race parts to make the Bee more driveable, and in the Aug. and Sept. '10 issues of HRM, we de-cammed its 484ci Dick Landy Hemi from 750 to 673 hp. It seemed reasonable that we'd be able to quickly reinstall a Hemi, TorqueFlite, and Dana 60 into a car that was already set up for a Hemi, a TorqueFlite, and a Dana, but we overlooked the base axiom of car building: It'll cost twice as much and take three times as long. And, for reasons we can't justify or even recall now, it seemed urgent to get the Crusher Camaro on the road simultaneously (see "Road Kill," May '11).
Las Vegas Or Bust
We embarked on that trip after 24 hours of wrenching with just two hours of sleep on the shop sofas and not having tested the car for more than half a mile. We had a new engine combo, an all-new TTI exhaust, an unproven trans, a brand-new Strange S60 rearend, a tweaked suspension, and new cooling, oiling, and fuel systems. All we knew for sure was that the cylinder head gaskets had been puking water from every corner of the engine just hours earlier, and we thought maybe—just maybe—they'd miraculously healed themselves. Right at the last second, we found a number of our own mechanical gaffes, the result of pure exhaustion. We were two hours behind the pack of Mopars we'd promised to meet at Glendora Dodge in Glendora, California, when we finally had reasonable confidence in the car. We raced to catch them in Barstow, 132 miles northeast of HOT ROD headquarters.
Why we didn't break down on the onramp we'll never know. Finnegan and I were too stupid for trepidation and too slack-jawed for emotion. In retrospect, it was big. The Super Bee is my first car; I've had it for nearly two-thirds of my life. I had not driven it on anything but a dragstrip since it was completely revamped 15 years ago. Readers have called me an idiot, a flake, a liar, and a phony car guy, all because I let this Mopar rot for so long. I wouldn't feel vindicated until there were some real miles under the Mickey Thompsons.
What's It Like?
Everyone asked me how it felt to be at the wheel after so long, and the best answer is that it was totally natural, familiar. Like I was 18. The Hemi idled not unlike my old 440, and the 3.73 gears and 30-inch-tall ET Street Radials added up to 3,000 rpm at 70 mph—the same cruise rpm I used to hit every day, but at 55 mph, with 4.10s and 27-inch Pos-A-Traction Torque Twisters. We ran out of time to add a Gear Vendors unit but did manage to install a number of parts I've craved, or even had in stock, for many years.
One of them was the Pro Torque converter. The car used to run an old Mopar "J" converter that stalled to 5,500 rpm and slipped badly at lower rpm so the throttle response felt super mushy. It was also far from coupled at the top end. Joe Rivera at Pro Torque works magic on many race cars—especially turbo stuff—but also does street/strip converters and set me up with a 10-inch unit. It stalled to 4,000 rpm on the transbrake but was not at all soggy off idle. It also seemed very efficient, with no calculated slip at part-throttle freeway speeds (other than when climbing hills, of course; it's not a lockup converter). I've never been happier with a street/strip converter.
Last month we mentioned the great fit of the TTI headers, the 3-inch exhaust, and the DynoMax mufflers. At cruise, the clatter of the roller-cam valvetrain is more noticeable than the exhaust. From behind, the idle has a speedboat burble. With its 10.25:1 compression and 252/258-at-0.050 cam, the Hemi does not sound radical.
A swap to the new generation of Wilwood vented rotors, billet calipers, and billet master cylinder was a win. The Bee finally has good pedal feel and stops well for the first time since I've owned it. Likewise, the Powermaster alternator and starter made the charging and starting systems work like never before. I've always hated the low-voltage issues with the battery in the trunk (not due to undersize wiring, but thanks to a stock alternator) and the hassles of the overheated stock starter—and those problems are gone. The Auto Meter reports 14 volts at both idle and cruise. Best of all for me, the Powermaster 94-amp alternator looks original.
Mark 7's black-anodized, aluminum, 26-inch radiator also looks nearly stock. With the Bee's original shroud and non-clutch-style fan, the Hemi ran at 160 degrees (right on the thermostat) on the highway. It hit 200 at idle but cooled down with rpm; I think the underdrive water-pump pulleys are a problem.
The bench seats were reupholstered with Legendary covers, which are great, but I thought the padding was overstuffed. But after a couple of hours on the road, they settled into butt-happy goodness. I was also pleased with the VFN hood, Hotchkis pins, Strange S-Track diff, cool Earl's black-braided lines and Ano-Tuff fittings, MSD black wires with Top Fuel plug ends, Stage V valve covers, NOS solenoid brackets, our installation of the multisegment Aeromotive regulator, and my ancient Auto Meter Pro Comp gauges. That's not an empty stroke-job—those things in particular literally made me happy.
As for performance, I hate to admit that I was almost immediately disappointed with the acceleration. The 675 flywheel horsepower on the dyno was getting devoured. Using guesstimations based on past testing, I think the exhaust system probably killed 10 to 25 hp versus open headers, and the smaller oil pan with no crank scraper was negative by 10 to 15 hp. I've seen mechanical fans swallow as much as 40, and I couldn't fit the 1-inch, four-hole carb spacer that had made nice gains on the dyno. In real-world conditions, I probably had 575 hp in a 4,000-pound car. But it still felt far better than the over-cammed, 750hp combo with the too-loose converter.
Overall, driveability was awesome. Anyone who thinks they can't use a Holley Dominator carb on the street doesn't have a FAST air/fuel meter, like we do (or did). It took nothing but a jet change to get the Hemi cruising at around a 13.0:1 ratio, and the 11.5 mpg had us bragging. There wasn't a single driving situation where the Dominator was worse than any other carb. We do have to mess with it some more to make it idle below 1,000 rpm.
Everything just worked. We drove the Bee like it'd been sorted out for years and soon caught up with the Glendora Dodge crowd at a gas station in Barstow. The cruise to Las Vegas was effortless, absent of the misadventure that normally creates hilarity. Honestly, we needed the easy way out. We pulled into the Cannery Casino, host hotel for Moparty at the Strip, slugged the valet for the primo parking spot right out front, then fell on our faces and drooled into our pillows. Part one of the journey—success.
Let the Moparty Begin
Part two came Friday morning as we were welcomed by Kelly Painter, brother of promoter Phil Painter, at the gate of The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The annual MATS event includes a cruise, a show, a midway, a swap meet, a drag race, a concert, a giveaway charity car, and a Hotchkis-hosted autocross. It's just for Chrysler products— except for the Camaros and Mustangs in the Pony Car Wars—and we've always wanted to attend, but this was our first time. See more at MoparsAtTheStrip.com.
First on the agenda was dragstrip testing. No surprise, we failed tech the first time due to no neutral safety switch, one of just two NHRA violations on the car (the other being the out-of-date harnesses). We used the throttle microswitch out of the nitrous kit for a makeshift repair, richened up the carb, dropped the ET Street Radials to 20 psi, and hit the lanes for a no-nitrous baseline run. None of this checkout-pass stuff—I trusted the thing after 300 miles. I went right to the transbrake, then 4,000 rpm, and bam, outta the hole.
Allow me to make the statement here that dragstrips are not supposed to have two finish lines. There should be one. At 1,320 feet. Not an extra at 1,000 feet. Which is where I lifted. Stupid NHRA fuel cars. I've not run at a national-event track since the 1,000-foot rule was enacted. It's just wrong. Anyway, the junk coasted to 11.91 at 100 mph. The drag racing part of the day was over, but Kelly invited the Bee to be in the Mad About Mopars show inside the concert venue at the Cannery that night. Cool.
Let's Try This Again
We were quick to the McMuffins on Saturday so we could be at the track by 8 a.m., ready for another run. Short version, the transmission broke—and not even in a grandiose way. This timeslip said 11.84 at 115 mph, but First and Second gears killed themselves, making a metal-on-metal gnash that was ungood from most perspectives, though we were oddly unfazed. It gave us a break to walk the show, eat a taco, watch some racing, realize that there was no time to swap a trans and stay in the race, and be perfectly OK with that. We had offers of trailers, but that's not sporting. Nope, we'd drive as far as the TorqueFlite would take us and lean on the AAA cards after that.
In vain, we drained the fluid out of the trans, laughed at the aluminum paste in the pan, and refilled it with fresh juice. That was during the exact hour when a windstorm hit the track and it snowed a little. As soon as we were done, the sun came out, all the better to see the ATF splatters decorating our shirts. Cold day in Hell— and snow in Vegas—when the Bee was running. It adds up.
Beer-o'clock came early, and the guys tried to give me a hotfoot.
Bench Racing
Why did the trans fail? A hex, because it was the only part of the car we'd questioned during assembling. It was an old manual-valvebody unit that I wanted to use because it had a JW Ultrabell and a brake, but it had been sitting for at least 10 years. Maybe a seal was dry and caused a problem.
Theory two is that I killed it during the first burnout. With a manual-valvebody TorqueFlite, things frag if you let the tires hook during a burnout in First gear. The shock load breaks a roller clutch, which in turn makes the front drum turn at 2.2 times input speed in First gear. That's when a stock iron drum explodes—like seriously grenades with shrapnel through the floor. I always start a burnout in Second, but video shows me lifting off the throttle too quickly and barking the tires as I rolled out of the water box. Was I really in First and brain-farted? I don't know which style of aftermarket valvebody is in the trans, and I don't know if the drum is stock, billet, or aluminum. But I think I got lucky. I could have really gotten a hotfoot.
Next, how fast is the car, really? Can't say, as there was no clean pass. The eighth-mile times indicate that 11.50s might be all it's got on motor alone. That makes sense given the weight and power and also because it's under-geared with 3.73s. We'd picked the cogs presuming nitrous use and with a willingness to give up drag performance for highway cruising. We thought we'd have a Gear Vendors and run through the lights in Second/Overdrive when naturally aspirated. Right now, it's still in Second at the 1,000-foot, which is really weak. It also 60-foots like a water buffalo, posting 1.70s. The tires hook, but the body rises and then settles before there's significant forward motion. We have work to do.
Home Run
As of Sunday, we were truly on vacation. Third gear alone was at least half as good as a Powerglide, and we toured in the Bee like it was a Winnebago. It was the best part of the adventure, as we'd settled into a real comfort with the car, getting to know and enjoy it again, and mostly discarding concern about new rock chips and the ATF on the formerly flawless undercarriage.
Sometimes you get to pick your own accolades, and while we're disappointed that we fumbled at the dragstrip, we choose to toast a different success: The Super Bee is a car again. Nearly everything I hated about it has been transformed into a pleasure, and we overcame the clock and survived the road without a trailer. It didn't make for as snappy a story as the one about the Crusher Camaro road trip a few issues back, but that's because our successes failed to generate the slapstick. Yet, if we'd never done this, I wouldn't have seen MATS or taken an ATF bath, the video guy wouldn't have lit my toes on fire, I wouldn't have seen art cars in Barstow, insulted waitresses in Las Vegas (wait, that was Finnegan), rummaged through an abandoned motel, met a drunk guy on an ATV that looked like Kyle from Tenacious D, run out of gas, eaten beef jerky made by aliens, bought real shoes, blown up a TorqueFlite, or had this story to tell.
The challenge now is to hustle the trans repair, make a few other additions, and get it down a dragstrip in a meaningful way. Any bets? It's got to happen while making other magazine stories, prepping the Crusher for the same track day, and working on other projects we've not yet revealed. I've got to thank Rob Kinnan for handling the entire magazine last month, Mike Finnegan for cramming on the car, and the same for our shop manager, Grant Peterson. With enough friends, money, and time, we can accomplish just about anything. Absent of that trinity, there are employees, Visa cards, and all- nighters. Fortunately for me, employees are friends, my cards have high limits, and sleep is overrated.
You've Gotta See the Video
To see and hear the Super Bee in action in between a bunch of witty dialogue, tune into the video page at HOTROD.com or see YouTube.com/HotRodMagazine.


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Horace Campbell
cc BRQ NetworkThe debates raging at the highest levels of the US National Security establishment and NATO over the military 'stalemate' in Libya conceal an even more competitive effort on the ground in Libya, by petroleum interests keen to divide up the territory to ensure access to the country's vast oil resources, writes Horace Campbell.
The raging debates at the highest levels of the US National Security establishment and various interests within NATO over the current military 'stalemate' in Libya conceals an even more competitive effort on the ground in Libya by petroleum interests who are keen on dividing up the territory to ensure access to the vast oil resources of Libya. At the forefront of this aggressive partitioning effort is the French military, political and oil establishment that has not only recognised the transitional government in Benghazi but has also been the most pushy on advancing military options even in the face of opposition from other NATO members such as Germany, Greece, Spain and Turkey. Although in public the US military and the opportunistic force of the US Africa Command are supporting the military option, in Congressional testimony and in press reports in the United States, the secretary of defense, Robert Gates has stated that any oresident who would commit ground troops to a place such as Libya ought to have his head examined. Gates has also noted that the events in Libya were 'a real formula for insecurity.' These comments were restated by the 'New York Times' in the same paragraph where the paper stated that 'Mr. Obama's decision to join the military intervention in Libya may well be judged a failure if the initial result is a muddle or a partition of the country.'
Who will benefit from partitioning Libya? Why did the same US foreign policy establishment pour cold water on the peace initiatives of the African Union? Why did the head of the CIA proclaim early after the start of the rebellion that Gaddafi and his family will prevail? These questions are urgent in the face of the clear political and ideological weaknesses of the transitional authority of Benghazi who have failed to inspire the urban oppressed inside Tripoli to rise up and demand freedom. Instead, this political leadership continues to call for support from the military forces of NATO, even after NATO bombed their convoy, claiming 'mistaken identity.' Some sections of this rebellion hope to overcome inexperience and disorganisation through the involvement of ground troops and Special Forces from NATO. These 'rebel' leaders have forgotten the most recent history of the Chalabis and those Iraqis who pushed vigorously for US military involvement in Iraq. Those sections of the US military who understand clearly that the United States cannot afford to be seduced into another creeping war are opposed to the current NATO military exercise while those sections of the military/intelligence forces allied to Israel and the oil interests view the Libya operation as forward planning to be able to thwart the maturation of the Egyptian revolutionary process as it unfolds.
The tinderbox of the evolution of the changed politics of Africa and the Middle East contain the seeds of a wider conflagration if peace and justice forces do not actively oppose the partitioning of Libya and the planning for war and counter-revolution. I will join with those forces in Africa calling for the African Union to be more forthright in its initiatives for peace and call upon Brazil, Russia, India, China and Vietnam to press the Security Council to withdraw the open ended mandate of Resolution 1973 that called for 'all necessary measures to protect civilians.' France, Britain and the USA have gone beyond the mandate and Africans at home and abroad must rein in the NATO forces and call on the UN Secretary General to replace NATO with UN peacekeepers that are not compromised by petroleum interests. This secretary general is coming up for re-election and should be aware that European and US political interests are not the same as those who want peace. The partitioning of Libya will not support peace and reconstruction in Africa and it is in the face of this partitioning where the forces of pan African unity and peace must advance the ideas of people centered unity to isolate militarists within and outside Africa.
At the same time while the French political establishment was pretending to support democratization and rebellion against injustice in Libya, the French society was in the midst of implementing laws that targeted the dress of women who followed the Islamic faith. President Sarkozy who has not hidden his racist ideas about Africans and Arabs had given the green light to the neo-conservative and far right elements within France by courting the support of the neo-fascist National Front electorate. In a society where the impact of the economic recession was taking its toll on French workers with manifestations all over the country, Sarkozy was championing anti-immigrant sentiments and claiming that French involvement in Libya was to prevent a flood of Africans from crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Sarkozy is facing re-election in the coming year and is setting out a robust domestic and foreign policy based on xenophobia and French imperialism in Africa and the Middle East.
In his vision of Grandeur, France had proposed a Mediterranean Union to counter the growing influence of the United States in North Africa after Libya moved dramatically to cooperate with the neo-conservatives in Britain and the United States. Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had brought in Gaddafi on behalf of the US oil company Chevron to thwart German and Italian influence, and after 2005 US oil companies were awarded most of the contracts on offer at the first open license auction in Libya. France seethed in the face of this competition and sought to build an alliance with Lebanon in the east and Morocco in the West to counter the United States. France proclaimed to the Islamic world that it could end the Israeli-Palestine struggles. This posture belied the fact that France was the most forceful in opposing the independence of the peoples of the Western Sahara. In order to buy Morocco's support, France opposed all efforts of the UN to bring an end to the colonial status of the Western Sahara also known as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. The United States on the other side remained neutral on the question of full independence for the peoples of Western Sahara because the US wanted cooperation from Algeria in the claims to fabricate terrorism in the Maghreb. With a firm foothold in Tunisia, France wanted to achieve more influence in both Egypt and Libya. In order to curry favor with Libya, Sarkozy had invited Gadaffi to France for a grand state visit with the 'brother leader' shining in pomp and grandeur with a delegation of more than 500 strong.
But the diplomatic issues over the proposed Mediterranean Union paled into insignificance when compared to the urgency of French oil companied to get a bigger share of the oil from Libya. As a former colonial exploiter, the Italians had maintained close ties with the Gaddafi regime even during the years when Gaddafi was accused of being a sponsor of terrorism. Oil was discovered in Libya in 1959 and Italian capitalists were never far from the exploitation of the oil resources. Ten years later, King Idris was overthrown in a coup led by the 27-year-old Muammar Gaddafi, and the Italians showed clearly what their permanent interests were. These interests were based on oil and commercial ties. During the rise of the semi-fascist Berlusconi government, Libya embarked on a radically new chapter in its history of relationship with the former colonial power. Gadded visited Italy on 8 state visits and the Italians emerged with the largest stake in Libyan oil. By the time of the rebellion in February there were estimates that 32 per cent of Libyan oil went to Italy, 14 per cent to Germany, 10 per cent to France and China, 5 per cent to the United States with smaller percentages going to Austria, Canada, Norway, Spain, Brazil, India, Australia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and others. Other writers have written extensively on the skillful ways in which the Libyan National Oil Company learnt from the Malaysians and Indonesians to play different countries in the oil business.
Berlusconi worked hard to ensure that Italian capitalists remained a force within Libya to the point where Italy publicly apologised for the crimes committed by Italians during the colonial era. In 2008, this was a small price to pay when US oil companies were gaining most of the contracts for new explorations. The Berlusconi regime not only apologised for the crimes of colonialism, it returned stolen artifacts and pledged US$5 billion for infrastructural and housing projects in Libya. The Italian prime minister could pledge this US$5 billion with the full knowledge that this was a pittance compared to what was being reaped from the Italian oil companies in the Libyan desert. Moreover, as soon as Libya earned the money, it was recycled back to Europe with Italian companies being the beneficiaries of the wealth of its former colony. This recycle was through the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), a 'sovereign wealth fund' set up in 2006 to spend the country's oil money, which has an estimated US$70 billion of assets. Italy received more opportunities to glean wealth out of Africa. Gaddafi and his family ploughed billions into strategic Italian enterprises. It is not yet known how much stake the Libyans had in Italy's biggest oil company, Eni. The LIA invested in the Italian aerospace and defense group, Finmeccanica; Lafico is thought to retain more than 2 per cent of Fiat and almost 15 per cent of a quoted telecommunications company, Retelit. Before the rebellion, the Libyan state capitalists also owned 22 per cent of the capital of a textile firm, Olcese, with the best known investment as a 7.5 per cent stake in the Serie A soccerside Juventus. There was also s another 7.5 per cent interest in Italy's largest bank, Unicredit.
Anglo-American capital salivated as they worked vigorously to compete with Italy in Libya and Tony Blair, former British prime minister, became the emissary for BP, construction and university enterprises. US hedge fund managers also joined the queue to Tripoli as Gaddafi signaled preference for US oil companies so that after 2005 US oil majors were the most successful in the bids to enter the Libyan oil market. Occidental, in conjunction with different consortiums, had a total of nine successful bids, while Chevron (the company associated with Condoleezza Rice) was not far behind. Other US oil companies, including Marathon, ConocoPhillips, and Occidental were busy bidding even though the Libyan leaders made it clear that the promised compensation for the families of the Lockerbie plane bombing would be paid from monies from US oil companies.
France under Sarkozy watched and seethed as Gaddafi supported a robust African Union while opposing the Mediterranean Union. When the Tunisian revolution removed the Ben Ali family, the political leadership was caught on the wrong side of history by promising early to send reinforcements to crush the revolution. Conservative and counter-revolutionary forces in France represented the revolution in North Africa as the openings of floodgates of immigrants from Africa in order to counter the inspirational images and lessons that were coming from Tahrir Square. When the rebellion in Libya exploded seven days after the departure of the Mubarak family, France jumped in to support the rebellion and was the first and only country to recognise the government in the east.
French forward planners and strategists had been in touch with opposition elements in Libya and it was the calculation of Sarkozy that a quick application of power from the air would tip the balance, and the Libyan rebels would do the drive triumphantly into Tripoli. Britain succumbed to French activism not wanting to be left out and tried to find a middle ground between the Pentagon and France. Inside Europe, German, Turkey, Spain, Greece and Austria seethed and dithered as Italy supported the aerial bombardment while at the same time supporting the Gaddafi family with logistics and other forms of support under the radar. When it was reported that the Transitional Council was starting to export oil from terminals on the East at Tobruk, Italian oil interests not wanting to be left behind traveled to Benghazi to secure the dominance of the Italian companies in the oil business. Eni chief Paolo Scaroni flew to Benghazi, where he 'had contacts with the Libyan National Transitional Council to restart cooperation in the energy sector and get going again the collaboration with Italy in the oil sector.' After the start of the bombing campaign on March 18, an interim government was formed by the council on 23 March 2011. This interim government has so far been officially recognised by France, Qatar, The Maldives and Italy.
The Italians had to move swiftly because the US Treasury had made clear that opposition oil sales would not be subject to the sanctions imposed on Col Gaddafi's government. With the full understanding of the potential from France to seek to have oil from the east sold in the Euro currency, US Treasury officials have cautioned leaders of the Transitional Council that the dollar should be the currency for the oil trade. Of course, the US Treasury was too sophisticated to say this openly, instead used language that 'the rebels would have to create a payment mechanism' that was acceptable.
The Obama administration was caught between three competing interests. The first was represented by the oil forces that have experience in working on both sides of partitioned societies. Their position had been echoed quite early by the head of the CIA who had contradicted Obama when he said that Gaddafi had to go. James Clapper told the US Senate that Gaddafi's superior military force would prevail over the long term. Also, Mr Clapper said one possible outcome could be the splitting of Libya into three autonomous states. The same CIA that was deploying Special Forces to Libya to fight beside the 'rebels' was sending a signal to its assets in the Gaddafi circles that the CIA would still be keeping in close touch with them. The head of the CIA predicted that Gaddafi would prevail even while the head of Obama's NSC was on the phone every day calling on Moussa Koussa to defect. The anticipation was that this defection would trigger internal opposition to Gaddafi. Moussa Koussa predicted a Somali type partitioning if there was no political solution to the uprising.
The second position of the Obama administration came from the sectors of the Pentagon who did not want to fight for oil companies. The opposition to the US involvement came clearly from chairperson of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mullen and Robert Gates, who had testified before Congress that he US military capabilities were too high to be involved with the training of the opposition army. Yet, nearly a week after boasting of their satellite capabilities, the NATO forces bombed a convoy of tanks that had been used by the transitional authority in the East. After boasting of their capabilities there were attacks on the rebels involving at least two deadly friendly-fire airstrikes. Rear Admiral Russ Harding from NATO Joint Force Command 'apologised' and said 'it was hard to tell rebel fighters apart from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's troops – after all, they generally wear the same uniforms and have similar weaponry and vehicles.'
The third position of the US administration came from the Humanitarian hardliners, Samantha Power, Susan Rice and Hilary Clinton. These were the forces who have been trumpeting the call for the exit of Gaddafi even though the US does not have a mandate for 'regime change' under the UN resolution. The Obama administration in the absence of leadership to oppose the partitioning of Libya gave publicity to professors who warned that, 'Humanitarian wars, like all wars, tend to escalate.' From inside Africa Mahmood Mamdani underlined the farce of this so called humanitarian bombing and pointed to the farce of the NATO position. He rightly noted:
'Iraq and Afghanistan teach us that humanitarian intervention does not end with the removal of the danger it purports to target. It only begins with it.
'Having removed the target, the intervention grows and turns into the real problem. This is why to limit the discussion of the Libyan intervention to its stated rationale – saving civilian lives – is barely scratching the political surface.
'The political and diplomatic leadership offered by the Africa Union must now be supported in light of the partitioning of Libya between Western oil companies, especially in the struggles between France and Italy.'
At the outset of the uprising in Libya the Africa Union was divided over its response, primarily because many of the leaders feared rebellions in their own societies while others had been compromised by their close and fawning relationship with Gaddafi. As the rebellion changed its form and character from urban street protests to armed confrontation, peace forces in Africa sought answers to the question of the ideological and political orientation of the would be revolutionaries. Answers were not far off when there was no organisation, no clarity of ideas or clear leadership lines as emerged from the ranks of the workers and students in Egypt. Because of the treatment of millions of workers from sub-Saharan Africa who worked in all parts of Libya, there was soon clarity that those fighting to remove Gaddafi were not anti-racist in their own ranks. African workers who were caught in the crosshairs of this battle between Gaddafi and his opponents were labelled as 'mercenaries' and persecuted. Tales of this persecution percolated across Africa as those who were fortunate to leave reached their homes from Nairobi to Accra.
Despite this information, the peace and justice forces opposed the massacres by Gaddafi and called for humanitarian assistance in the cities that were under siege. It was this call for assistance that persuaded the African Union Peace and Security Council to support efforts by the United Nations to offer humanitarian assistance even while deliberating a collective African response. When France called the meeting in Paris to give diplomatic cover for the impending military bombing campaign, the AU Commission chairman Jean Ping refused to participate in the meeting, stating in public that he was not going to Paris for a photo opportunity.
This was a clear criticism of the stamp of approval given by the Arab League to the Paris meeting. Days after the massive bombing campaign of the British, French and US forces; even the Arab League recoiled from its earlier endorsement of the open ended UN Security Council Resolution. Those members of the UN Security Council such as Brazil, Russia, India and China who had abstained during the discussion of 'all necessary measures to protect civilians' belatedly opposed the bombing campaign without offering concrete alternatives for humanitarian assistance.
The Peace and Security Commission of the African Union did not retreat but worked patiently to deliver an alternative to the NATO military campaign that led to the (permanency of the military stalemate between the forces of Gaddafi and those of the Transitional National Council in reality) a de facto partition of Libya. Initially when the rosy images of NATO military missions were being sold to the world, the forces of NATO opposed the request of the African Union to fly into Libya to mediate. However, as the partitioning became clearer with the implications for creeping war, sections of the US National Security Council overrode the objections of France and gave permission for the AU mission to fly to Libya. This they did on 10 April 2010. At once, the Libyan leadership that had been desperate in the hour of isolation accepted the African Union plan. The plan called for: The cessation of hostilities, stoppage of the aerial bombardment of Libya, opening of safe corridors for delivery of humanitarian aid and talks between Libyan authorities and the rebels.
The roadmap had been drawn up following a meeting Saturday 9 April in Nouakchott, Mauritania, after which the delegation proceeded to Libya. The delegation included presidents Jacob Zuma of South Africa ,Denis Sassou N'Guessou (Congo), Amadou Toumani Toure (Mali), Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz (Mauritania), Ugandan Minister of Foreign Affairs Henry Okello Oryem, AU Commission Chairman Jean Ping, and the AU Commissioner for Peace and Security, Ramadan Lamamra. After discussions in Tripoli, the delegation flew to meet the leaders of the Transitional National Council in Benghazi. The political leaders of the rebellion rejected the African Union saying it did not meet their basic demand that Muammar Gaddafi, his sons and his inner circle leave immediately. These same leaders did not demonstrate what mechanisms other than Western military involvement that they were going to mobilise to ensure the immediate departure of Gaddafi and his lieutenants. The French press gave publicity to this rejection as France continued to be the only state that gave diplomatic recognition to the Transitional National Council.
Despite the rejection of the AU mediation efforts, the permanent members of the Security Council, especially Russia and China, along with the other non-permanent members such as Brazil, Nigeria and South Africa can collectively act to end the disproportionate bombings and the so called 'mistakes. If Gaddafi is to be removed because of his oppression of the Libyan people, it is the task of the Libyans to lead their own rebellion.
Obama must lead the opposition to the partitioning of Libya and support the United Nations to pursue diplomatic and political alternatives to the NATO bombing campaign. Obama was reminded by one section of the media that hope is not a strategy.
A strategy for peace will undermine the forward planners who are deadly afraid of the outcomes of successful revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East.
* Horace Campbell is professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University. He is the author of 'Barack Obama and Twenty First Century Politics: A Revolutionary Moment in the USA'. See www.horacecampbell.net.


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During the harvest season, July through October, our website is updated daily and often hourly to post the fruit and the varieties that we will be picking that day. The fruit that we are picking are monitored by our orchard manager and he also is responsible for keeping our website up to date with the most accurate conditions on each type of fruit to be picked.
Since weather conditions differ dramatically from year to year; predictions or estimates are often inaccurate so we refrain from predicting ripening dates. We all know that we are unable to predict weather so I have also learned over the years that I cannot predict the date fruit will be available.
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