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The 1st Sergeant
(from Kautz NCO Guide)
419. The duties of first sergeant are peculiar to his position, and require capacity and knowledge superior to those of other sergeants. Whilst he does not rank as high as some others, nor receive as much pay, his position is one of the most responsible and most honorable that non- commissioned officers can occupy.
420. The first sergeant is selected by the captain of the company from the other sergeants, without regard to rank, and commissioned by the commanding officer of the regiment. He may be reduced, like other non-commissioned officers, by the commanding officer on the recommendation of the company commander, or by sentence of a court-martial. The pay of first sergeants of artillery, cavalry, and infantry is twenty-four dollars per month, with one ration and an allowance of clothing.
421. He has the immediate supervision of the company. He gets his orders from the captain or officer commanding the company, and sees that they are performed in the company. He is, in fact, the foreman; the men are the artisans. He lays out and superintends the details of the work which the captain has directed to be executed.
422. Orders received from the commanding officer or other officer by the first sergeant should be communicated to the company commander at once, before being obeyed, if there is time. Under any circumstances, they should be reported to him as soon as possible. Whenever the orderly call sounds, the first sergeant repairs to regimental or post head-quarters to receive the orders or instructions, and, if they are at all unusual, they should be communicated to the company commander without delay.
423. An hour is generally established for assembling the orderlies or first sergeants, usually at noon, for the distribution of orders and announcement of details, and for communicating any alteration in the ordinary routine. The published orders should be copied in the company order- book; and it is best, also, to make memorandums of any other orders or instructions received.
424. He keeps the rosters, and makes all the details; he superintends the company clerk, and assists him in making out all the required papers. These duties are fully explained in "The Company Clerk," and are, therefore, omitted here.
425. He should memorize the roster of the company in alphabetical order, so that he can at all hours form the company and call the roll, day or night. Much natural shrewdness is required in this duty, to associate in the memory the name, face, and voice of the soldier and his proper position in the ranks; for the men are frequently in the habit of answering for absentees, and if they find that the sergeant can be deceived in this respect they are very likely to practice it on him.
426. There should be a uniform method of forming the company; and there is no reason why there should be a difference in the different corps or in different regiments. The company should be sized. In all the odd-numbered companies the tallest men are placed on the right, diminishing in size to the left, and in the even-numbered companies the tallest should be on the left, diminishing to the right, — the principle being that in each division the tallest men should be on the flanks, and the shortest in the center: the regimental front will thus present a level line, and there will be an apparent uniformity in size of the entire regiment.
427. At all roll-calls the first sergeant takes his place six or eight paces, according as the company is small or large, in front of and opposite the center of his company, facing towards it. If the company is forming without arms, the men fall in and take the position of parade rest, and the first sergeant takes the same position. (Reg. 335.)
428. They should fall in in two ranks, whether with or without arms. With arms they fall in at a shoulder arms instead of at parade rest. The company is formed in the interval between the musician 's call and the last note of the assembly when every man should be in ranks; and those who fall in afterwards should he punished for being late.
429. When the music has ceased, the first sergeant commands "Attention!" whereupon the company, if at parade rest, take the position of the soldier, and if with arms, the sergeant adds, "Support arms." The roll is then called, commencing with sergeants, Adams, Smith, etc., in the order of rank, until all are called; then "corporals," Brown, Jones, &c., to "farriers;" then "buglers, or musicians;" and finally "privates," Ames, Brown, Cox, &c., in alphabetical order. As each name is called, they answer, "Here;" and if with arms at a support they come to a "shoulder" and finally to "order arms," immediately on answering to their names; if with sabres or pistols drawn, they return them to their scabbards.
430. After the roll has been called, the first sergeant turns to the officer superintending the roll call, and reports the absentees by name. If none are absent without proper authority, he reports, "All present or accounted for." If the officer should then take command of the company, the first sergeant takes his post on the right of the company and acts as right guide.
431. The first sergeant makes out the morning report and signs it, and then submits it to the commanding officer of the company for his signature, after which it is handed in to the regimental or post commander To make it correctly the sergeant should be constantly posted on the changes in the company, as the report is valuable only in proportion to its correctness. It should be a correct statement of the company in order that the commanding officer may each day be able to know the condition of his command.
432. The sick report must always be made up in the morning before the morning report, in order that the report may be accurate as to the number of men for duty. For duty means all the men available for the legitimate duties of the soldier; and the column "for duty" should show the effective strength for actual service of the company for each day. Some understanding is necessary with regard to the men on extra and daily duty, as to whether they are included in the effective strength or not. An order from post or regimental head-quarters would regulate this point.
433. The first sergeant should be quartered with the men, and, when possible, has a separate room or tent. He has general supervision of all the company property, — the quartermaster and commissary sergeant assisting him in the details. He keeps rosters of all the property issued to the men and non-commissioned officers, and sees that the surplus property is cared for and properly stored.
434. He must see that the quartermaster and commissary sergeants do their duty with regard to the property and that they hand in to him statements of all the property received and issued, lost or destroyed, in order that the records of the company may be correctly kept.
435. He sees that all the other non-commissioned officers do their duty; he holds the chiefs of squads responsible for the condition of their respective squads, and reports to the captain when any one neglects his duty in any respect.
436. He is usually empowered by the captain to confine soldiers and arrest non-commissioned officers for offenses. In these cases he always reports the confinement or arrest to be by order of the captain or company commander He should, however, report the facts in the case to the captain or company commander at once, in order that he may be prepared to sustain him in the act, or correct it if he does not approve of his action.
437. He makes all the details from the company, and sees that a record is kept on the roster. He parades the details, inspects them, and sees that they are properly equipped for the duty they are to perform, and then turns them over to a non-commissioned officer to be marched to their posts, or marches them there himself. He generally marches on the guard detail himself. (Reg. 376.)
438. After parading and inspecting it, and having ascertained that the guard are all in proper condition, he marches them to the usual place for mounting the guard, where the sergeant-major receives them. The detail is formed in two ranks, the supernumeraries being in a third rank. When he arrives on the ground, he forms his detail on the left of other details that may have already arrived, faces it to the front, and brings it to "rear open order," and, after commanding "front," reports his detail, "all present" or "corporal or private so-and-so absent," as the case may be, and then takes post in rear of his own supernumeraries in rear of the guard, where he remains at parade rest until the guard marches off, when he marches his supernumeraries back to the company-ground. (Reg. 383.)
439. Supernumeraries, usually one or two, are detailed to take the place of members of the guard from the company who fall sick during the tour. The supernumerary receives credit for a tour if he takes the place of any one on the guard, no matter at what time of the tour. The supernumeraries are therefore, the next for guard after the detail is made. (For the manner of keeping the rosters and making the details, see "Company Clerk," Par 20.)
440. The most responsible duties of first sergeant are those which involve the issue and care of public property and keeping an account thereof. These are principally the issuing of arms and ammunition, and camp and garrison equipage to the men; the keeping of a record to whom and when issued, and the charging of articles lost, or procuring affidavits or certificates if the articles are not lost through the fault of any one; the issuing and keeping an account of clothing; the drawing and issuing of the rations, including the care and disposition of the company savings, and disbursement of the company fund if — as sometimes happens — it be entrusted to him; and, finally, the care of the company property, usually accumulated for the use of the company by purchases with the company fund.
441. These duties are materially facilitated by numbering the men in the company as nearly as possible in alphabetical order; and a man should not be permitted to change his number as long as he remains with the company. (Reg. 90.)
442. The company should be provided with a complete set of marking-implements, so that each article may be marked with the letter of the company, and the number of the man who uses it, and, in some cases, his name or initials. These implements are purchased with the company fund, and usually consist of a set of stencil-plates, a brand of the letter of the company and punch of the same, and a set of numbers for both, to mark articles of wood or iron. The completeness and perfection of these articles add greatly to the security of the company property and to the protection of individuals in the company.
443. Ordnance. — The design is that a company shall draw its full allowance of ordnance; and it is expected to appertain to the company as long as it is serviceable. The regimental armorer keeps it in repair; and such repairs as cannot be made by him may be made by sending to the nearest arsenal. The Ordnance Department requires that the old arms shall be inspected, condemned, and ordered to be turned in before new arms can be drawn.
444. A strict account of the arms, therefore, is necessary, and tends to keep them in good order; for if the soldiers find that they are to pay for every loss or deficiency, they will take as much care of them as if they were their own personal property. The arms should bear the letter of the company and be numbered, and each soldier should have his corresponding number issued to him. If the arms cannot be so lettered and numbered from the arsenal, it can be done by the regimental armorer.
445. The surplus arms not issued to the soldiers are kept in repair, and are boxed up and placed in store usually at the post to which the company belongs. The storing is done by the quartermaster sergeant, if there is one to the company. If there is not a company store-room to which he alone has access, the boxes are turned over to the quartermaster for storage, who gives a storage receipt therefore. The boxes should be marked with the letter of the company, the name of the officer accountable for the property, and a list of the contents.
446. When ordnance is sent to the arsenal for repairs, it is boxed up in the same way, and marked for the arsenal to which it is to go. Triplicate invoices are made out, one of which is sent direct to the officer in charge of the arsenal, and the other two to the quartermaster to whom the ordnance is turned over for transportation, who gives transportation receipts for the same. The invoices should be minute as to the nature of repairs required on each article.
447. A record of the articles issued to each soldier is kept; and where an article differently numbered is issued to him, it should be noted, or else the number should be changed, if there is no other article of the same kind similarly numbered in the company. The foregoing applies to all articles of ordnance, including horse-equipments, &c. (See "The Company Clerk," Par. 41.)
448. Clothing. — Clothing is accounted for differently from any other property. It is issued to the soldiers, and their receipt is taken on receipt-rolls, which become the vouchers for the officer accountable for the property.
449. The quartermaster is required to keep the clothing on hand, from whom it is drawn on requisitions signed by the company commander The amount of clothing required for each issue is ascertained by actual inspection; and the actual wants of the soldier should determine his allowance.
450. An officer should be present at the issue to witness the signature of each soldier If there is no officer, a non-commissioned officer must do it. The articles drawn are entered on the receipt roll, opposite the soldier's name, under their respective headings, and he signs his name opposite, and opposite to it is the signature of the witness, repeated to each signature of the men.
451. These receipt-rolls are made in duplicate, one of which is retained by the officer accountable for the clothing, and the other is forwarded, as a voucher to his returns, to the Quartermaster-General.
452. The money value of each issue is computed and entered in the clothing-book on the page appropriated to the soldier, with the date of issue, and his receipt or signature witnessed as on the receipt-roll. The price is obtained from the General Order, published periodically, giving the price of the clothing for the army.
453. Frequent inspections should be had of the men's clothing, in order that the soldiers may be prevented from disposing of their clothing improperly; and as it is both contrary to law and Regulations for soldiers to sell their clothing, such offenses should be rigidly punished. (Act March 3, 1863, sec. 23, and Art. 38.)
454. Camp and Garrison Equipage.—This kind of property, although borne on the return with clothing, is differently accounted for, being reported on hand as company property until worn out, when it is inspected and condemned and ordered to be dropped. Soldiers are not required to pay for its loss, except when lost or destroyed through their fault or neglect.
455. A record of the issues to the soldiers is kept the same as of ordnance. (See Form 5, "Company Clerk," Par. 41.) The property used in common by squads is issued to the chiefs of squads, whose duty it is to look after the property and report any loss or destruction of it, in order that it may be charged to the proper person if lost or destroyed through the fault or neglect of any one.
456. Cavalry and artillery companies have also a certain amount of quartermaster's property, which is accounted for on a separate return, in the same manner as camp and garrison equipage. Where there is a quartermaster sergeant in the company, he is usually entrusted with the transportation and storage of all surplus company property.
457. Rations — If there is a commissary sergeant in the company, the immediate labor and duty of drawing the rations and distributing them is entrusted to him; otherwise this is superintended by the first sergeant.
458. The ration is a legal allowance, and the soldier cannot arbitrarily be deprived of it. Yet it has been frequently withheld from the soldier in part, under various pretenses, particularly where the provisions were not on hand for issue at the time.
459. This is manifestly unjust; and no circumstances can justify the retaining of such rations, even where the full rations cannot be issued; for in such cases the deficiency should be commuted in money.
460. Every regimental or post commissary can provide for the full issue, or, in lieu thereof can pay the money-commutation; and commanding officers should be appealed to where they neglect or omit to do so.
461. When there are no funds on hand with which to commute back rations or such portions as are not on hand for issue, the commissary should give certificates to the companies of the amounts due, which may be issued subsequently, or commuted. This commutation-money on the savings of the rations forms the principal source from which the company fund is derived; and by a judicious management of this fund the comfort of the men may be materially enhanced.
462. A prudent administration of it depends very much on the first sergeant, as the company commander is greatly dependent on him for its proper disbursement. He calls the attention of the company commander to the requirements of the men, suggests what is needed, ascertains where it can be most economically obtained, makes the purchases, and submits the bills to the company commander for payment.
463. The savings of the rations can be sold to the commissary only. (Reg. 1188 and 1234.) There are other sources of revenue to the company that go to increase the company fund. At posts on the frontier, and at permanent stations, the cultivation of a garden, whilst it increases the savings of the ration, may also produce a surplus, which may be sold and the proceeds added to the company fund. So also with the proceeds of any sale of company property.
464. The cooking of the ration is an important duty, and greatly depends on the knowledge and experience of the non-commissioned officers; for in the absence of a commissary sergeant the sergeants and corporals take turns in superintending the cooks. (See Cooks, Par. 269.)
465. Company Property. — By this is meant, in addition to the public property issued to the company, all those articles purchased by the company fund, or manufactured in the company. Such are the company desk and mess-chest, mechanics' tools, marking-implements, mess- furniture, company library, etc.
466. By an economical administration of this kind of property the comfort and harmony of a company of soldiers are greatly increased. They feel that the acquisition of such articles is intended for their good, and each man performs his part in taking care of them.
467. The company desk is a necessary article of furniture for every company, in which the records of the company are kept. It is in the personal charge of the first sergeant, and should be made with compartments and drawers for the books, papers, and stationery necessary for a company and requires to be kept with method and order, to facilitate the making out of the various papers required for a company. It should be portable, and have a lid to turn down on which to write, so that it may be set up at any time or place for use.
468. A mess-chest is another necessary article of furniture; and the ingenuity of soldiers has been taxed from time immemorial to make this article, as well as the company desk, in the greatest perfection.
469. Different circumstances and conditions require different modifications; and none have yet been invented to suit every case in which it is liable to be used. Large chests are inconvenient on account of transportation, and a small one does not contain sufficient.
470. A number of small ones, according to the size of the company, small enough to be easily handled by two men, and conveniently arranged for carrying the small rations and the mess- furniture, have been found to be the best.
471. The mess-furniture may be from the simplest kind which is usually used in the field, to a 64
complete hotel establishment, according to the location and circumstances of the company. At permanent posts they can be well situated in this respect, and have every convenience necessary. When required to move, if not able to take the mess-furniture with them, it can be sold, and a new supply obtained at their place of destination.
472. Tools and implements of various kinds are found to be very useful in a company. In the field, against the enemy, the supply must necessarily be very limited; but in time of peace a full supply of almost every kind may be accumulated for the general benefit.
473. To enumerate some of them, they are suggested in the order of their importance: — A set of marking-implements, a set of carpenter's tools, a set of blacksmith's tools, a sewing-machine, shoemaker's tools, tinner's tools, garden-implements, seine or fish nets, &c.
474. A cow, to furnish milk in the coffee, may often be conveniently kept, and several pigs may be fattened every month or two on the slops from the kitchen. A small library of well-selected books is quite an acquisition to the company, gives occupation and entertainment to the men during their leisure hours, and has a tendency to keep them about their company quarters.
475. The foregoing will give some idea to what extent and perfection the administration of a company can be carried. The company is a small colony, which can live in peace, harmony, and comfort or be disturbed by internal commotions and discomforts unendurable, depending, perhaps, more on the first sergeant than on any other person in the company. Much depends upon the captain; but without a competent sergeant to execute his plans, any benevolent designs on his part for the improvement of the company would be difficult to carry into execution.
476. There is no material difference in the duties of the first sergeant in the three arms of infantry, artillery, and cavalry, except some few modifications incident to the different kinds of arms used and the peculiar nature of the service.
477. In artillery and cavalry, some additional responsibility in the increased amount of property, different tactics, the less compact rather more straggling nature of the duties to be performed and the consequent difficulty of less discipline of the men, are the principal features which the first sergeant has generally to overcome, or should at least be familiar with before he attains to the charge of the company.
478. The first sergeant, although he should be familiar with all the duties of the sergeants and corporals, is seldom called upon to perform any duty that would remove him from the duties of his own position. He is, therefore, not liable for guard-duty, or fatigue or detached service, unless the entire company is on the same. He is, however, not absolutely excluded from any special service of short duration that it may be desirable, under peculiar circumstances, to entrust him with.
479. The most important task of the first sergeant relates to the government of the company and the preservation of good order and military discipline. This depending chiefly on innate qualifications, definite rules, cannot easily be given. A complete control of temper, good judgment, and a strong sense of justice are essential; whilst a due application to duty and attention to the necessities of the men are also of the highest importance.
480. Whilst he is not expected to preserve the same distance between himself and the men that exists between them and the officer, his position, indeed, not allowing of it, he should, however, never descend to familiarity, but should always endeavor to preserve a certain amount of restraint, and select his intimates from the first sergeants of other companies or non- commissioned officers of merit of other grades.
481. A quiet, imperturbable temper, combined with firmness and resolution, will of itself enforce obedience and command respect. Excitability and passion cannot easily be divested of prejudice and injustice, and have a tendency to excite similar feelings in the men.
482. Partiality and favor to individuals should be avoided above all things. The men should be treated with the greatest equality. Harsh and violent treatment, even towards the worst of soldiers, are questionable, if not reprehensible means for governing them.
483. It is rare, indeed, that the practice of summary chastisement indulged in by some orderly sergeants with the unruly characters that are to be found in almost every company, can be regarded as successful. Individual instances, however, exist of very good government where the sergeant rules almost exclusively by physical force; but good judgment in forbearing to a point where the offender has placed himself beyond the consideration of kindness by his conduct, will be found to be the true secret of success in a physical-force policy.
484. Constantly present with the company, always on hand for every emergency, ever consulting the interests of the men and encouraging them in their duties, he cannot fall to attach them to the company, and make them cheerful and content, and faithful on duty.
Capt. Darryl Hutchinson
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The financial crisis is putting the directors' and officers' (D&O) insurance market under extreme pressure.
D&O claims are common when markets crash. Directors become the target of lawsuits as stocks and investments crumble and angry investors (and there are plenty of them) look for someone to blame.
As more companies collapse, regulators and shareholders are filing more claims of negligence or misrepresentation. Allegations of accounting fraud increase and liquidators may also sue former boards for mismanagement. Class actions are at an all-time high and these are no longer restricted to the USA. The Netherlands, Germany and the UK are building the legal mechanisms to encourage collective redress.
The economic slip comes at a bad time for the D&O insurance market. For the past five years capacity has been flooding in and insurers have been competing to offer the best cover at the lowest price – which makes life dangerous now the claims are coming in.
The soft market is particularly risky for new entrants that have yet to build up their reserves. Plus, several of the big D&O insurers – AIG, XL and Hartford – have been hit by their own financial problems.
This market pressure means serious readjustments are to be expected. But, so far, prices across most commercial D&O lines have remained stable. This is partly because of a glut of capacity and insurers attempting to win business from the troubled AIG.
The most dramatic changes are in D&O cover for the financial services industry. On some of the most distressed risks – such as banks with US exposure – premiums have increased by as much as 200%. Some insurers are stopping writing cover altogether while others see sky-high premiums on financial D&O as a bet worth taking. Overall D&O cover for financial institutions is being restricted.
At the same time, buyers are looking for more, not less cover. Directors themselves are jittery and some are demanding dedicated "A-side cover" to protect their personal assets in the event that the company chooses not to indemnify them if a claim is brought.
The changing risk appetite could affect other sectors. Insurers will do much more due diligence on the clients they take on with conservative insurers only wanting the best risks. Some are trying to claw back certain terms that in the past were standard fare, such as restricting the breath of cover relating to regulatory investigations. Those insurers would prefer to go back to the days of tightly worded policies with extensions sold as add-ons.
There are also questions over whether the insurance industry has properly risk managed D&O, which could have solvency implications for the sector. Insurers with a lot of exposure to the financial services sector could face significant losses on D&O business.
There is likely to be much more focus on capital management in the future with insurers spreading their exposure across a portfolio of risks. Reinsurers will pressure them to do this. This will mean writing a combination of low-risk, low-premium business as well as the high-risk, high-premium lines. Corporate buyers, concerned about the stability of their partners, will also want to spread their risk among carriers.


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MAN BEHIND THE BRAND: Fu of FU e=fu8 Underwear
Posted on May 3, 2012 by Michael Kleinmann
With a unique take on underwear branding, Fu of FU e=fu8 underwear aims to infuse the men's underwear industry with his brand of luck mixed with the pleasure principle, which is what the formula on the waistbands of his NYC made underwear represents.
"Fu, my name, actually means 'luck' in Chinese," Fu told The Underwear Expert. "And eight is also considered a very lucky number in that culture. I wanted to take the concept of the pleasure principle, which I'd remembered from a Janet Jackson song but which actually goes all the way back to Freud, and combine it with my name in a fun way."
As he sees it, there are two camps in men's underwear: the namesake brands — Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors — and then there are the ones with "some cute logo or formula," says Fu — think 2(x)ist, C-in2 or 2wink. But, Fu explains proudly, "My underwear line is the only one on the market that actually has my real name and an actual formula."
Another thing which, perhaps more importantly, sets FU e=fu8 apart from other brands is the fact that it's actually produced in New York City's Garment District. While many underwear companies may be headquartered in NYC, very few actually produce their actual underwear in Manhattan itself. FU really does. Why? "Partly for logistical reasons, and partly because of my love for New York City," Fu explained. "I looked into doing it overseas, but it just wasn't feasible because they want thousands of orders made. Well, what if their product sucks? The thing is unless you have a friend or an employee over there micromanaging things, there's no way to know whether or not the foreign manufacturers are going to be doing it the way that you want it, so you might end up doing the same work twice."
For Fu, getting the look right is not something to compromise. "I find the brand's image to be very, very important. Underwear is all about aesthetics. For a guy, the beauty of it all starts with putting on a great pair of underwear. If it fits right, it will just give them that confidence," Fu observed. "The whole thing with the image is that even if it's well made, well cut, people will rarely see your underwear 24-7, so we have to put a lot into the waistband just in case someone sees that."
As for his promotional images, Fu has been very careful to get models who can wear FU e=fu8 well. He believes strongly that when considering which underwear to purchase you have to think "I would want to look like that [if I put them on.]"
Looking ahead, Fu wants his underwear to be "available in some of the major department stores and specialty boutiques. I have some friends who are out in the major cities like Dallas who want to carry it. I'm hoping that its going to be a universal thing, at the level of Calvin Klein and 2(x)ist."
"Right now I have [almost ten] different cuts, styles and colors available," Fu said. Eventually I'm going to be doing jockstraps, too, of the more innovative kind, like what Timoteo is doing."
Fu has an unnerving confidence in his product, and it could be his biggest asset. Confidence, after all, is key in any business. "What I do is classic, well-made underwear, with the fly and the pouch. They're classic and they stand the test of time, because it's comfortable and it looks good on everyone. And, it's utilitarian."
Fu's design sensibility it seems is as simple and equally complex as the pleasure principle from which Fu derives his brand's name. And, if with his underwear, Fu really could inspire men to take heed of his creed to "carpe diem, and make the most out of their precious time; to spend it pursuing things that bring and enhance their life's pleasurable experiences," as he says on his website, then Fu should count himself a lucky man. We'll be watching Fu and FU e=fu8 to see how his brand evolves.
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Igris-Halam (Igrish-Halam) ou Igris-Halabe (Igriš-Halab), foi um rei do antigo estado da cidade de Ebla. Seu nome significa "(O deus de) Halabe foi embora (o oponente)", portanto, o nome pode ser uma comemoração de uma vitória Eblaita que levou à incorporação de terras além da cidade de Halabe. Seu reinado foi caracterizado pelo enfraquecimento eblaita e tributo ao reino de Mari, com quem Ebla travou uma longa guerra. Sua batalha com Iblul-Il de Mari em Sairi foi fundamental nesse pagamento de homenagem.

Ele governou por 12 anos e foi sucedido por seu filho Ircabe-Damu, que era um governante mais vigoroso.

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Update: This petition closed on 7 January 2018. On 16 January 2018, we sent the letter displayed below to the Minister of Transport. Thank you to everyone who participated.
On 6 October 2017, Transport Minister, Joe Maswanganyi increased the vehicle licensing transaction fee payable to the RTMC by 71.43%, with effect from 1 February 2018.
This increases the transaction fee from R42.00 to R72.00 and applies to all vehicle licensing transactions, regardless of the actual licensing fee applicable to the vehicle itself.
Although a R30 increase in the transaction fee is not a hugely significant sum of money, the percentage of the increase is. If similar percentage increases are applied over a period of five years, then you will be paying R1066.00 per transaction by 2023. The current inflation rate (as at August 2017) is 4.8% and therefore, this increase is almost fifteen times the current inflation rate.
Isn't this just a proposed increase?
No – it is a prescribed (proclaimed) increase.
Doesn't the Minister have to consult motorists first?
No. Regulation 3 of the Road Traffic Management Corporation Act, No 20 of 1999 prescribes that "The Minister may, by Notice in the Gazette, amend the transaction fees [set out in regulation 2] on an annual basis". This means that the Minister of Transport is authorised to amend the transaction fees each year without consulting anyone.
What is the money collected from transaction fees used for?
The RTMC is funded by various revenue streams, including but not limited to the transaction fees due to it on vehicle licensing transactions. When this transaction fee was first introduced, its purported purpose was to help fund the development and provision of the National Traffic Information System – (NaTIS or eNaTIS) through a third party contractor. In 2016, the Constitutional Court set aside the unlawful extension of the contract with Tasima (Pty) Ltd which took place in 2010 and finally, in 2017, the control of eNaTIS was seized by the RTMC. In so doing, a significant cost saving in monies payable to the third party contractor was finally realised.
Just what the transaction fees are actually used for at this stage is unclear, since the RTMC Act does not prescribe that any of its revenue streams must be ring-fenced for a specified purpose beyond the RTMC's general mandate but let's not forget that, just like all State Owned Enterprises, the RTMC pays remuneration packages which make one's eyes water to its employees, executives and board.
Can't I just refuse to pay the transaction fee?
The transaction fee, just like the fuel levy, cannot be separated out of the total payable. If you don't pay the total payable, all that will happen is a short-payment will be recorded and your vehicle will not be licensed.
What can motorists do about this?
Unilateral powers are bestowed upon the Minister of Transport, not just by the RTMC Act and its Regulations, but by all manner of road traffic law in South Africa. This has been interpreted to mean that the Minister of Transport may do as he or she wishes, but history has proven that any administrative decisions taken by official must be rational and may not be taken on an arbitrary basis. Motorists can and should demand that responsible decisions are taken and are based on sound reasoning.
You can add your particulars to JPSA's petition to the Minister of Transport to rescind his administrative decision and, if any increase in this fee is warranted, to bring it in line with the inflation rate as is determined by the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Time is limited. The closing date for this petition is Sunday 7 January 2018. Don't wait! Act now!
Please note that in order to ensure the legitimacy of signatures, you will be required to confirm your signature of this petition by email. This process is automated and we will not add you to any mailing list unless you ask us to keep you informed.
The wording of this petition is included below the section where you enter your particulars. Please read it carefully before clicking "sign now". Your name, city and province will act as your digital signature when the petition is submitted to the Minister.


Windows 10 testers, better known as Windows Insiders, won't receive a free Windows 10 license, despite earlier rumors. Microsoft won't provide a free Windows 10 license to testers when the operating system has reached RTM status, according to Microsoft manager Gabriel Aul on Twitter.
His comments caused some confusion with users. First Aul answered whether the Technical Preview could be upgraded for free to the RTM version with a "Yes". But when users continued to ask it soon became clear that this is only for systems with a valid Windows 7 or Windows 8.x license. This means Windows 10 Technical Preview users won't receive any perks compared to regular Windows 10 upgraders.
It is not the first time there's confusion about Microsoft's public statements about upgrades and licenses. In March Microsoft caused a stir by announcing that even pirated / non-genuine installations of Windows 7 and 8 may upgrade to Windows 10. This was explained by users that pirated versions would be converted to a legal version of Windows 10 for free, however Microsoft later added that non-genuine Windows versions can be updated but remain unlicensed.


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Q: ExpressionChangedAfterItHasBeenCheckedError - Shared Service Why do I get the following warning in console ? Everything seems to be working as expected but Angular complains. What would be a solution for this issue ?
StackBlitz is here
I know a possible solution is to communicate event via  parent child communication instead of using service but that is not an option for me since this is an isolation of a problem in a larger code base.
Error Message
ERROR Error: ExpressionChangedAfterItHasBeenCheckedError: Expression has changed after it was checked. Previous value: 'ngIf: false'. Current value: 'ngIf: true'.
    at viewDebugError (core.js:20439)
    at expressionChangedAfterItHasBeenCheckedError (core.js:20427)
    at checkBindingNoChanges (core.js:20529)
    at checkNoChangesNodeInline (core.js:23400)
    at checkNoChangesNode (core.js:23389)
    at debugCheckNoChangesNode (core.js:23993)
    at debugCheckDirectivesFn (core.js:23921)
    at Object.eval [as updateDirectives] (AppComponent.html:6)
    at Object.debugUpdateDirectives [as updateDirectives] (core.js:23910)
    at checkNoChangesView (core.js:23288)

app.component.html

    Welcome to {{ title }}!

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    Welcome to {{ title }}!

  <app-employee></app-employee>

AppComponent
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {

  title = 'expression-changed';
  mainSectionContent:MainSectionContent;
  contentAnnounce$:Observable<MainSectionContent>;

  constructor(private mainContentService:MaincontentService) { }

  ngOnInit(): void {
    this.contentAnnounce$ = this.mainContentService.contentAnnounce$;
    this.contentAnnounce$.subscribe(mainSectionContent =>
      {
        this.mainSectionContent = mainSectionContent
      }
      );
  }
}

EmployeeComponent
export class EmployeeComponent implements OnInit {

  constructor(private mainSectionContentService:MaincontentService) { }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.mainSectionContentService.announceContent({
      mainheading:'Employee Manger',
      mainsubheading:'To manage PrivilegeManager Employees',
      sectionheading:'Employee List',
      buttontext:'Create Employee'
    });
  }
}

MaincontentService
@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class MaincontentService {

  private contentAnnounce = new Subject<MainSectionContent>();
  contentAnnounce$ = this.contentAnnounce.asObservable();

  constructor() { }

  announceContent(content:MainSectionContent){
    this.contentAnnounce.next(content);
}
}

A: The case is that ngOnInit of EmployeeComponent is called after *ngIf="mainSectionContent?.buttontext?.length > 0" already checked.
First parent component is checked, then goes child EmployeeComponent, that changes value, already used to render parent component in same event loop iteration.
This looks like a hack, but you have to call announceContent after first loop passes. You can try call it just after the first event loop finishes:
  ngOnInit() {
    setTimeout(() => {
        this.mainSectionContentService.announceContent({
        mainheading:'Employee Manger',
        mainsubheading:'To manage PrivilegeManager Employees',
        sectionheading:'Employee List',
        buttontext:'Create Employee'
        });
      },
    0);
  }

A: I used to face the same problem, but this works in a angular native way, you can use ChangeDetectorRef of angular/core class follow the code below:
constructor(private cdf: ChangeDetectorRef){}

And add this line after you received the data in controller, in your case:
this.mainSectionContent = mainSectionContent
this.cdf.detectChanges();

What this does is asks the angular service to recheck the changes on DOM.

A: Ok this ExpressionChangedAfterItHasBeenCheckedError: error has been going on for a while now and it seems the only and best hack-around is to use the:
setTimeout(() => {...changes...});

---or---

Promise.resolve(null).then(() => {...changes...});

But to archive that you have to implement this on every component or area, you want to make those changes. That could be a real hassle.
So I think the best is to bind class display: none on that HtmlElement you want to hide.

app.component.scss | css
.d-none {
  display: none
}

app.component.html

    Welcome to {{ title }}!

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    Welcome to {{ title }}!

  <app-employee></app-employee>

app.component.ts | Anywhere
ngOnInit() {
  this.mainSectionContentService.announceContent({
    mainheading:'Employee Manger',
    mainsubheading:'To manage PrivilegeManager Employees',
    sectionheading:'Employee List',
    buttontext:'Create Employee'
  });
}

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Simply Lora's Beauty: What's in a Name?
What's in a name? I've been asking myself that a lot lately and I finally decided a name is important. Important enough to change when necessary. Even when that change affects urls, forwarding recipes, CNames, txt record changes, and includes the risk of ruining a good thing. I said all that to say, Lora's Beauty blog can now be found under the 'simple' url of simply.lorasbeauty.com. Lora's Beauty online store will remain www.lorasbeauty.com; no change there.
You can still access the blog from the old url lorasbeauty.blogspot.com, you'll 'simply' (ok, last time I'll do that) be redirected to simply.lorasbeauty.com. With this change, my hope is to create a more professional, interesting, and insightful area to share not only happenings in the Lora's Beauty Online Store, but also things I find intriguing. They will include, but are not limited to, recipes, links, books, furniture remodels, and photographs.
So, what's in a name, simply (sorry, couldn't resist that one) everything!


Ok, this post is only minimally related to my garden but I had to share anyway. I love pomegranates! When they come in season I buy a bunch and put them in a bowl on the dining table where I can admire them and get inspired to use them in various ways. Perhaps I'll actually plant a tree someday, but in the meantime I'm happy to buy them.
I have to say, I'm not trying to be self sustaining in all things from the garden. California produces some of the most amazing produce and I'm perfectly happy to take advantage of the best that's out there and I think that the commercially grown pomegranates are fantastic. Hmm, I was about to say wonderful, but that's actually the variety name of the fruit grown by the largest commercial grower in the state. Chances are, if you are buying pomegranates from a store anywhere in the U.S. you are buying that producer's fruit. But, I still think their fruit is, um, really good.
Actually, back in my Master Gardener days, I had the opportunity to taste a lot of different pomegranate varieties side by side. Do you know what my favorite variety was? Just take a wild guess. Can't figure it out? Well, it happened to be what the big guys are growing. That made it so much easier to put off planting my own tree.
Anyway, after admiring that bowl of ruby fruit for about a week I started looking for recipes. I came across a recipe for a Turkish salad that had walnuts, green olives, pistachios, and pomegranate seeds. That sounded great to me, but my husband is not crazy about walnuts, so I started improvising and here's what I came up with. It is different enough from the original recipe that I feel quite comfortable calling it my own.
Chop the olives and sweet peppers (remove the seeds and ribs) into bits about the same size as the pomegranate arils. Remove the seeds and ribs from the chile pepper, or not as you prefer, the heat is concentrated in the seeds and ribs if that is an issue for you. Mince the chile pepper. Combine the pomegranate arils, almonds, chopped olives, peppers, and parsley in a bowl.
Smash the garlic with some coarse salt to make a puree. Whisk together the garlic, additional salt to taste, olive oil, lemon juice, pomegranate molasses, and black pepper. Pour over the salad and toss gently to blend.
Last night I piled the salad on top of pork loin that I had sliced thin and pounded out like scallopini, seasoned with a bit of salt and pepper and a sprinkle of flour and quickly panfried in olive oil. It was a winning combination. I'm going to try the leftover salad on top of some panfried eggplant slices tonight, if I don't just eat it by the spoonful for lunch today. My husband and I sat at the dinner table last night thinking of other things the salad would be good on/with. He thought fish, I thought baked goat cheese... I think I'm going to have to make some more! What do you think?
Oh, and as an aside, if you are looking for ways to use pomegranates and pomegranate juice, the big grower's website is loaded with recipes. Just google Pee-Ooh-eM, or pomegranate, you'll find them. Full disclosure, I have absolutely no affiliation with the aforementioned big pomegranate growers, I just like their stuff.
I ordered my seed garlic from Filaree Farm back on July 21 and received it last week. You have to order early if you want to have a large variety to choose from, they sell out of their most popular strains early. They were already sold out of a number of interesting varieties when I placed my order, but there was still a lot to choose from and I think I found some interesting strains. The catalog and website have tons of information about garlic and I've quoted extensively below.
Here's a photo of the garlic bed all ready to be planted. I had to do a little work to deter the moles from getting in, arrrgh... I laid out my drip lines 8 inches apart and planted the cloves 4 inches apart, one row on either side of a line. I worked in some crab meal, sulfate of potash, humic acid, and a slow release turkey poop fertilizer before planting.
This year I chose 4 softneck and 4 hardneck varieties. Certain strains of hardneck garlic, such as rocamboles, do best in climates that are colder mine so I avoided those. What I ended up with are 2 Silverskins and 2 Artichoke types, both softnecks. For hardnecks I got 3 Turban types and one Purple Stripe. You can read the Filaree Farm descriptions about these various types below. I took photos of the cloves after I separated them all, you can see them above the descriptions that I copied from Filaree Farm.
Last year my crop was heavily infected with rust and I ended up with bulbs that were about 1/3 normal size. I've been using it for cooking, it tastes fine, although all those little cloves can be a pain to peel.
Silverskins are the type most often found on supermarket shelves due to their very long storage life. They are the highest yielding variety and do well in a wide range of climates, from hot southern to wet maritime and cold northern climates as well.
Plant growth is more upright than other types. Leaves are often narrow and pale green despite healthy plants. Silverskins rarely produce flower stalks in mild climates, but may when stressed by cold winters or drought conditions.
Bulb wrappers are fine and smooth, usually all white. Three to six clove layers are common. Total cloves per bulb vary from 12 to 20. Outer cloves are usually flat and wide while inner cloves are tall, narrow and concave. Silverskins have long been the most popular garlics for braiders because of the smooth, shiny skin and symmetrical shape. Silverskins are the last to be harvested and may lodge (fall over) a week or more before harvest due to their weak necks.
Sicilian Silver (Silverskin) - Even baked you'll experience full complex flavor. Raw it starts mild, then explodes! Original source unknown.
Mexican Red Silver - Enjoy baked with its light flavor and low heat. Relish raw when it's hot and strong. From Mexico via J. Swenson.
Artichoke strains are very vigorous and large bulbed. Plants are shorter than hardneck varieties with more spreading rather than upright leaves. The leaves are broader than any other variety and a deeper green than most. While Artichokes do not normally produce a seed head, they often produce large bulbils that protrude from the lower third of the stem. When stressed Artichokes can produce hard necks and seed heads. Cloves planted from these bulbs will usually revert to soft necks the following season.
Artichokes are named from their configuration of several overlapping layers of cloves, reminiscent of the true Artichoke. Many Artichoke strains have 3 to 5 clove layers containing 12 to 20 total cloves. Outer cloves are fat and roundish but irregular in shape, often with 3 flat sides and a paper tail at the tip. Inner cloves vary in shape from small, narrow & squarish to small & round. Bulb wrappers are coarse and thick, often with light purple blotches or a yellow stain.
Some Artichoke strains produce large round, symmetrical bulbs while other have a knobby, asymmetrical appearance. Clove skins adhere fairly tightly, one reason for their longer storage life. Many Artichokes exhibit a mild flavor, a characteristic preferred by those who eat their garlic raw for health reasons. A few strains, however, do produce a bite which can be intensified by cold winter growing conditions.
Madrid (Artichoke) - Originally bought in a Madrid marketplace by a California grower. 8 to 10 plump cloves. Mild flavored with just a bit of heat.
Thermadrone (Artichoke) - Commercial strain from France. Impressive, large long storing bulbs.
Turbans are closely related to Asiatics, being a subgroup of the Artichoke variety. They are weak bolting garlics, and earlier maturing than any other garlic. They have a very short period of natural rest, and often begin to sprout by planting time in October. The bulbil capsule is a unique turban shape on some strains. Cloves appear ophio style with light glossy pink to brown colors.
Turban garlics usually attain good size even though plants appear small. The heavily striped bulbs are very attractive and ideal for early season marketing before standard Artichokes reach local markets. Turbans may grow softneck in mild winter climates.
China Stripe (Turban) - Delicate purple stripes adorn this attractive bulb. Mild flavor. Purchased in Beijing market by G Czarnecki.
Early Portugese (Turban) - Early maturing, forms 8 solid cloves per bulb. Bulb wrapper lightly striped. Sweet taste with just hint of heat. From Salt Spring Seeds via Flora Baartz.
Red Janice (Turban) - Matures slightly later than other Turbans and stores longer. Bulbs have heavy solid stripes over purple blush. Exceptionally fragrant, sweet and a little spicy baked. Starts hot raw and heat continues to build. Originally from Nmarazeni in Republic of Georgia.
Named because of the bright purple streaks and blotches on both bulb wrappers & clove skins, these are the most attractive looking garlics. They are also very flavorful, usually winning "best baked garlic" taste tests conducted by Rodale, Sunset Magazine, Martha Stewart and others.
Most strains have 8 to 12 cloves per bulb (more than Rocambole) so clove size is slightly smaller. Cloves are noticeably tallish and crescent shaped. They store slightly longer than Rocamboles & peel almost as easily.
Purple Stripe plants are distinctive from Rocamboles because their leaves grow at wider angles to the stem. Flower stalks may make perfect 270 degree curls that leave bulbil capsules floating and bobbing in the air like birds in flight. Plant height & shape vary of individual strains vary significantly.
These include four beautiful strains that appear Purple Stripe in all respects except that bulb and clove colors are a royal purple tinged with subtle, shiny gold and/or silver hues. Cloves are not as tallish and elongated as standard Purple Stripes and there are fewer cloves per bulb. They mature slightly sooner than standard Purple Stripes.
Purple Glazer (Glazed Purple Stripe) - Similar to Red Rezan. Fat cloves with almost satiny clove wrappers. Originally Mchadidzhvari #1 from Republic of Georgia.
I planted the Turbans as a group as they are the earliest to be harvested. The Silverskins are the last to be harvested, so I planted them in another group. Artichokes are shorter growing so I put them in a group in a couple of outer rows where they won't be overshadowed. Glazed Purple Stripes mature at about the same time as the Silverskins so they were planted with that group.
Once again I'm starting my Harvest Monday post with a box of tomatoes. But, what a relief, there was only one box of tomatoes to photograph this past week. Whew! I also picked a small bowl of cherry tomatoes that never got before the camera lense.
There are still a few tomatoes left to harvest, but now there's more tomatoes headed straight for the compost rather than the harvest box. The rain we had the week before last caused a number of tomatoes to spoil and I'm really not all that sorry about it. It won't be long before the plants come out and the favas get planted.
The Palace King cucumbers are still coming in and there's a bunch of Marconi Purple sweet peppers ready to harvest. I picked a few last week to add to the tomatoes and cucumbers that I gave to my neighbor. And the basil is still doing well. I think another batch of pesto is in order.
The Pimento de Padron peppers are still coming in at a steady pace. I also picked another basket like the one shown below that I didn't photograph. For some reason there seem to be more hot Padrons now so I'm more careful to pick them when they are small, the larger they get the more likely they are to be hot. The Red Florence fennel seeds are ripening nicely as well.
The Piracicaba Broccoli is producing a steady supply of shoots. I picked 2 bunches like the one shown below. It was about 80F on the day I picked this bunch and it started to wilt right away. A wash and a bit of a soak in some cold water perked it up quickly. I really like that the broccoli leaves are just as delicious as the buds. To prepare the shoots, I simply trim off any stem ends that are tough (usually not much), then I cook the shoots with leaves still attached in salted boiling water for about 2 minutes, drain and toss with my best extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper, sometimes a drizzle of balsamic vinegar. Normally I like to steam my veggies, but there are usually a few aphids or a tiny cabbage worm or two hiding in the buds and boiling removes them better than does steaming.
Also harvested this week were 3 Diamond eggplants, a handful of Petaluma Goldrush beans that I allowed to dry on the vine (seed for next year), and about 8 snap beans. I'm giving up on the snap beans, I planted the seeds at the end of July and I've harvested about a dozen beans, and doesn't look there's much more to come. I'm going to try some potatoes in that spot instead. Potatoes supposedly grow in the winter here if they are protected from the frost and I'm willing to experiment since that spot would most likely be empty all winter anyway.
Check out other Harvest Monday posts at Daphne's Dandelions. Show us what you've been harvesting lately also!
It's Harvest Monday, hosted by Daphne of Daphne's Dandelions. Head on over there to share your harvests and see what other garden bloggers are getting from their gardens.
Daphne, I'm sorry to say that I've got one more post full of tomatoes to torment you. But, this week I'll start off with something different. I cleaned out the tomatillo plants and here's the result - a rather heavy basketful of Purple and Plaza Latina Giant tomatillos. Don't ask how much, I haven't weighed them. It's a good thing that tomatillos keep really well, I haven't had time to deal with them.
Well, onto the tomato harvest. Cherry tomatoes, 7 pounds.
Todd County Amish, 10 pounds.
Blue Beech paste tomatoes. I canned 8 pounds from this box before taking a photo, so this is only 12 pounds of the 20 that I picked last week.
Caspian Pink and Hillbilly, 15 pounds total.
Aunt Ruby's German Green, Chocolate Stripes, and 3 little Black Sea Man, for a total of 24 pounds.
So the total tomato harvest last Monday, a frenzy of picking before the big storm hit, came to 93 pounds.
Thursday I harvested all the ripe Piment Doux Long des Landes sweet peppers. There's one ripe Aji Panca and some green ones that got knocked off the plants when I was staking them back into an upright position. And I found a couple of ripe Habanero Long Chocolate. About half of the Doux Long des Landes were cut into strips and sauteed with garlic and thyme until soft and then topped a pizza.
And on Friday I harvested Palace King Cucumbers, Pimento de Padron peppers, and Piracicaba broccoli shoots.
Harvests not photographed this week included a few more cucumbers, more broccoli shoots, and a box of tomatoes that pushed the tomato harvest for the week up to at least 100 pounds. Oh, I forgot, I also harvested a couple of Diamond Eggplant - for pizza!
And what have I done with that bounty? Canned tomatoes, dried tomatoes, frozen puree, frozen sauce, frozen paste, gifts of tomatoes... I even made a small batch of Sweet Tomato Jam, interesting - good with cheese. There's one more tomato preserving trick to try. A friend of a friend chops fresh tomatoes and freezes them raw to use for gazpacho. There might be a little bit of room left in the freezer for that.
Such strange weather lately, 4 inches of rain last Tuesday and by Friday we had sunny days and temps in the 80'sF. It felt so strange to have that much rain and warm weather. We generally have storms like that in the winter when the temperatures are in the 50sF. Warm temperatures and significant rainfall are just so foreign. There are green shoots starting to appear on the brown hillsides already, that's definitely early, I'm hoping for a bit more rain to keep the green growth. Actually, there is a bit of a chance for rain today.
One of my final tomato preserving projects of the season was to make tomato paste. I started with 10+ pounds of Blue Beech paste tomatoes.
The tomatoes were washed, cut in half lengthwise, and layered cut side up in my largest roasting pan. Those got baked in a 300F oven for about 2 hours, cooled, and then pureed with a food mill. The puree was then simmered on the lowest flame that my stove can produce for a few hours. I stirred it every so often. Once the puree was reduced by about a third I ladled it into shallow trays that fit on the racks of my dehydrator. At this point the puree still weeps a watery juice.
It took a few hours to reduce down to a very thick paste. The edges of the puree dry more quickly and can get leathery so I stir the puree a few times during the drying process.
The final result is a very thick paste that doesn't weep any watery juice at all. I like to stir the paste together in a bowl and chill it before packing it into containers for the freezer.
The final result was 27 ounces, 5 ounces per container and one little 2 ounce log rolled in plastic wrap. The paste has such a high sugar content that it doesn't freeze as hard as a rock. I can usually pop it out of the container while frozen and cut off chunks without thawing the entire contents.
Whew, that was a blast!
Thursday update: I checked the rainfall total for Wednesday through 5:00 PM and it showed an additional 1.4 inches of rain which fell mostly Tuesday evening (barely a trace of rain all day yesterday) so the storm total was 4.05 inches!
The amaranth that had been reaching for the sky is now blocking the main path.
The pole beans were well anchored except for one side of one trellis.
The top heavy Portuguese kale is no longer upright, lucky for it the broccoli plants had less of a tendency to lean over.
The seed heads on the Red Florence fennel are growing horizontally now.
Looking back from the other direction makes the landscape look a bit askew. The direction that the wind was blowing from is obvious.
Eggplant and pepper plants with a decided lean.
Tilting tomato towers. It's a good thing that I firmly anchored one row of towers, these ones weren't so well done and are leaning onto the other row.
I was being watched the whole time I was photographing the garden by this small family of quail, there's a male hiding behind the first bird.
Yesterday would have been a great day to get caught up on my tomato preserving. Unfortunately I only had time to put up one batch of canned tomatoes before I had to hit the road for Palo Alto, it was not a fun drive.
It's Harvest Monday hosted by Daphne at Daphne's Dandelions, time to report on what came out of the garden in the previous week. This was Tomato Week in my garden, likely the peak of the 2009 harvest. I decided to weigh each box of tomatoes, just out of curiosity.
17 pounds of Gigantesque (misspelled in previous posts because of a typo on the seed packet).
20 pounds of Blue Beech Paste, plus a few more not photographed.
About 5 pounds of Chocolate Stripes. This tomato has only ok flavor but I'm not going to pass judgment on it since the plant really suffered this year and I don't think it is showing its true potential. I'll try it again next year.
Palace King cucumbers and Pimento de Padron peppers.
15 pounds of Caspian Pink and Hillbilly.
9 pounds of Isis Candy, Galinas, and Black cherry tomatoes.
6 pounds of Paul Robeson. This is usually one of my absolute favorite tomatoes, but this year the plant suffered, the foliage died, the tomatoes got sunburned and didn't size up well. I rescued what I could and turned it into puree which ended up tasting pretty good.
15 pounds of Todd County Amish and Black Sea Man.
Thursday: a couple pounds of Diamond Eggplant. This was made into Imam Bayildi - Eggplant stuffed with a tomatoey onion filling - heavenly!
And I've been collecting ripe caper berries from my pink flowering Caper bush for seed saving.
Also harvested but not photographed this week was a couple more pounds of Diamond eggplant (made Caponata with most of that) and another picking of Pimento de Padrons and a few more cucumbers.
And, I forgot to mention when I originally put this post up, a huge bunch of Piracicaba broccoli.
Rain is on the way today, an unusually big storm for this time of year, so I have to get outside and pick MORE tomatoes.
Join in the harvest fun and head on over to Daphne's Dandelions to report on your own harvest and see what other gardeners are harvesting also.
I like to photograph the whole garden at times so that I can go back and see the progression over time and I haven't done so in a while so here goes. It's a long post with lots of photos.
The beans are climbing their trellises but are not as vigorous as I would have expected. I think that the oak trees are sending their roots into this bed and sucking up a lot of nutrients, this bed has been requiring more water than the other beds as well.
One of the pole beans is Petaluma Gold Rush, chosen by Slow Food for its Ark of Taste. I planted out the last of my beans this summer and fortunately it looks like the plants will produce enough beans to save for planting next year. I got my original seeds through the Seed Savers Exchange but the member who offered the seeds is no longer offering seeds through the exchange and these seeds do not seem to be available anywhere now.
There is a pot with two chiles in it at this end of the bed. Those little yellow chiles are Pimento de Chiero. They are quite hot and have a wonderful fruity aroma. Most of the heat is in the ribs and I found that I can remove the ribs to reduce the heat but not lose the wonderful flavor and aroma.
Sharing space in the pot with the Pimento de Chiero is a Datil pepper. Slow Food has added this pepper to their Ark of Taste also. None of my peppers have ripened yet.
Also at this end of the bed are a few bush beans, Rolande filet beans and a tricolor mix from Renee's seeds. These plants are also not very vigorous. There are a few beans setting so I might get a handful one of these days.
The Red Florence fennel is nearly done blooming and has tons of seeds. The Vida Verde amaranth mix is towering above the fennel now and is even getting taller than the bean trellises.
Here's one of the amaranth flower heads.
Carrots are growing at the base of the amaranth. I pulled all of them after I photographed them, the crowns were full of aphids being attended by ants, yuck. The aphids don't damage the carrot roots but I just don't want that kind of infestation in the garden.
Scallions, some of them are getting a bit big.
Carrot seedlings growing under the protection of overturned nursery flats. I seem to have to protect the seedlings of everything these days.
My only surviving Diamante celery root.
On to the pepper/squash/eggplant bed. The brown stuff in back is the tomato bed.
Looking down at the pepper and tomato beds. You can see how some of the tomato plants are getting crispy, the leaves rustle in the breeze... But there's still lots of tomatoes left on the greener plants.
The Magadalena Big Cheese and Berrettina Piacentina squashes are running rampant in one corner of the garden. You can see them climbing up the garden fence.
Magadalena Big Cheese squash. I wonder if this is true to type, the photo on the Native Seeds Search site shows a larger more round squash.
The Berrettina Piacentina female blossoms are huge.
A few close ups of peppers. This is Piment Doux Long des Landes, a sweet pepper from France.
Marconi Purple sweet peppers. They start purple and ripen to red.
Aji Angelo, a baccatum chile with medium heat. I've only tasted one so far and it seems like it would be good in salsa.
The Palace King cucumbers have grown to the top of their trellis. They seem to be slowing down a bit now and I've seen the first spots of powdery mildew on a few leaves.
Pancalieri a Costa Bianca frisee nestled in near the squash.
And next to the frisee are a few beets that survived the rats. I'm trying to get a few more going under the nursery flats. There's Chioggia and Dewings Early Blood Turnip shown. The Burpee's Golden beets that I've been trying to grow just don't seem to make it. I think one surviving plant is hidden in there somewhere.
Diamond Eggplant. This variety is from the Ukraine and is great for cool or short season areas. It is one of the best eggplant I've ever grown, not only because it does well in my cool climate but because it is delicious. Even the mature eggplant that I've picked have had few seeds and have not been at all bitter. I'll be growing these again next year.
The plants are a bit scruffy looking and had a lot of the lower leaves chewed off by rabbits, but they are still producing a lot of good quality fruits. There were some spider mites on the leaves earlier but they don't seem to have done too much damage to the plants. I've also noticed powdery mildew on the caps of some of the fruits, but that also doesn't seem to be problematic.
The Thai Round Petch Parisa plants are huge, covered with flowers and fruits. My husband announced to me one day that he wasn't really crazy about those little eggplant... There's only just so much eggplant curry that I can eat. Oh well.
I'm skipping a closer look at the tomato bed this time around. There are plenty of photos of tomatoes on my harvest posts and you get a good idea of the state of things from the big view.
The snow and snap peas are getting going. I managed to protect them as seedlings with a light weight row cover. It's still rolled up around the base of the plants just in case... The Opal Creek Golden Snap are in the foreground, they are larger plants than the Kefe Beinwil snow peas.
Although, the Kefe Beinwils are already starting to bloom.
The kales pretty much survived the summer aphid infestation. One of the Cavolo Laciniato plants has started to bolt. I cut the top off and have been harvesting side shoots for the chickens. They do love kale.
The Piracicaba broccoli is still pumping out the side shoots.
I'm trying a new kale this winter, Cavolo Laciniato (Smooth Leaf Kale).
And I'm still trying to get a Romanesco broccoli plant going. I don't think I'll be getting anything like the harvest I got last winter.
And here's some chervil sprouting that I sowed at the base of the kale plants.
And now I have to get back to tomato preserving. Come back Monday for the harvest post to see my treasure trove of tomatoes!


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Looking Awry
Curated by WHW, 'What, How & for Whom' (WHW) Zagreb-based curator collective: Ivet Curlin, Ana Devic, Natasa Ilic and Sabina Sabolovic
November 12 - December 20, 2003
291 Church St. New York, NY 10013
Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 12, 6-8 pm
Curator talk: Saturday, November 15, 6:30 pm
Gallery talk: Wednesday, December 10, 6:30 pm
Artists: Igor Grubic (Croatia), Adrian Paci (Albania), Maja Bajevic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Aydan Murtezaoglu (Turkey)
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The works of Igor Grubic, Aydan Murtezaoglu, Maja Bajevic and Adrian Paci have many points in common: they deal with personal topics and private perspectives revealing suppressed and invisible identities within the specific turbulent social context of countries in transition. They demonstrate both their embedment in social reality and a shift away from it. Through minimal intervention into everyday reality they open the depths of deepest collective and individual frustrations, fears and desires, and indirectly touch upon problems of sex and gender, authenticity and fiction, center and margin, and issues of cultural translations.
Looking Awry* presents works that are invested in the potential of repetition, re-actualization, re-staging and re-enactment of certain ordeals, which in order to be comprehended or resolved, need a new, "awry" look, or a look "with sober eyes" as Marx called it.
These works embody and materialize excessive disturbances which desire brings into objective reality and in that sense they are not realistic, but point to the Real, which cannot be symbolized. In the artists' analysis, the point is not to deconstruct the fascinating presence of images, but to recognize the unbearable presence of the Real, revealed when we "look awry" at the picture. In that sense the title of the exhibition functions also as the key to read the works and as an instruction for the viewer.
Croatian artist Igor GRUBIC's work, Velvet Underground, presents photographs of people behind prison bars and costumed as children's stuffed toys along with a phrase that in legal terms informs us about the crime and punishment of a particular inmate. There is also an unedited record of childhood memories directly from an inmate. The placement of the texts and images suggests that these are the autobiographical notes of the costumed inmates. The charming illiteracy, grammatical and logical ineptness [which borders on inarticulateness] expresses an honesty which indicates that the costumed bodies must be the inmates. However, the masked inmate is actually the artist himself. The person in the stuffed toy costume, and his telling of his childhood memories, do not suggest a liberal redemption of a crime that originates in childhood traumas. This prevents the viewer from directly participating in nostalgia for the lost object or forming a self-complacent realization that even criminals were once children and are also someone's child. The work expresses an uncanny combination of nostalgia for the lost object and childhood, for the naive, non-corrupted perspective of a child a subject who can still experience immediate enjoyment and the anxiety that we feel at the limits of freedom imposed by prison, captivity, and punishment. The immediacy of this identification is frustrated by the realization that it is not about the opposition between prison and freedom/childhood, or the nostalgia for the lost valley of childhood, but about the unpleasant knowledge that we are separated by an irredeemable gap from the naive gaze of the other, of the subject who can still immediately enjoy despite the tragedy of the human condition, and that the identification of the viewer with the object of the picture is out of the question. The artist as a prisoner communicates his own trauma of prison and his frustration by the regime of punishment, all the while appropriating other people's stories, behind which he stays hidden.
Turkish artist Aydan MURTEZAOGLU's photograph (above) shows the artist from the back, sitting on a bench on the bank of Bosphorus and facing the cityscape of Istanbul, which is slanted left. In another work in the exhibition, the artist again turns her back to us while standing on a roof overlooking the city. She holds on to an antenna and bends towards the right while trying to keep her balance against the strong wind. The slanted city seemingly refers to the trauma of the city's 1999 earthquake and of the regime used to cope with the tremors of the renovation process. The angles in the tilted image invoke typical political leanings of left and right. Again, the artist herself is the protagonist, but while Grubic hides behind a mask, Murtezaoglu turns her back on us. The viewer's gaze is possible only over her shoulder. We cannot assume her perspective, but only decode a slanted view. Her back guards the city, and the artist is like a sphinx, not only an outside viewer but also a participant in the social situation. In a way similar to Grubic, who speaks about his own status, assuming the prison as the location and another person's childhood as his starting point, Murtezaoglu also speaks about the status of artists in Turkish society, in which she intervenes by her modest gesture of manipulation performed in Photoshop®.
Adrian PACI, an Albanian artist who has been living in Milan for years, deals with the circumstances of our limited perception in his work, and with the shortages and impossibilities of experiencing important aspects of everyday reality. In his video Vajtojca, the artist stages his own death. The video depicts the ritual of mourning a deceased person, customarily performed by professional wailers in Albania. The mesmerizing singing of a wailer is highly suggestive, and there are moments when it seems that the singing creates an experience of the other side, but in fact since the wailers are hired professionals, the performance is not authentic. The enchanting quality of the voices delays the realization that the corpse on the altar is breathing, and when he stands up, we feel relieved for a moment, although we are aware of the fact that the death is staged. The living corpse the artist himself is a metaphor of several identities of artist, dissident and father. It is a minimal intervention into reality that fails in its efforts to make known the ultimate secret of death, and opens itself to the domain of social interaction and the traumatic permissiveness of multiple identities.
The work of Maja BAJEVIC is related to her personal biography and the political and social circumstances in Yugoslavia during the 1990s. The dissident position of Bajevic, who has been living in Paris since the early 1990s, exists as a result of her connections to Sarajevo and her critical distance to the city and to the new dominant ideology, as well as to the political and national condition after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her work Back in Black consists of a double projection of a video taken in the nostalgic atmosphere of a café decorated by various portraits of Josip Broz Tito, the legendary president of Socialist, non-aligned Yugoslavia, a country in which the national, gender and class questions were supposedly solved once and forever. As on a stage, the masked persons tell dark, cruel and cynical jokes about wartime Sarajevo. The socks on their faces initially recall an armed and masked robber from the early ages of terrorism, when faces were still hidden, but the function of the mask is not to hide the face, but to make it recognizable to make it identical and replaceable and to prevent easy and naive identification. This is also the function of the jokes: their dark humor eludes understanding, and they do not suggest that humor is the vital energy that triumphs over all the dificulties, nor does it create a distance from reality; humor denotes the very Real that cannot be symbolized. The cruelty of jokes is the only truth, the unutterable, the trauma that is not being discussed, and post-war Sarajevo acknowledges it in the form of jokes.
All the works function in a socially determined context: the dissident position of Paci and the symbolic death of the exiled, the war from the inside and outside, the social tissue of urbanity and the position of Murtezaoglu [who does not show her face] as woman and artist, and in the work of Grubic the prison as an impossible and dreaded place for providing justice. The slanted gaze also refers to the situation in countries in transition, which is always ambiguous and equally oriented to renewing the golden history [nostalgia for the security of the Socialist age] as to the projections of a golden future [of real capitalism] in which everybody will have equal opportunities in these countries normalization should guarantee the security of the future, as well as it guarantees the oppression of the status quo. The past and the future are a burden for the present, the present in which it is possible only to re-enact what was before, hoping that minimal shifts in this process will open a new perspective, pregnant with changes.
©WHW November 2003
*The title has been taken from the book by Slavoj Zizek in which he analyzes cinema from the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Looking Awry - An introduction to Jacques Lacan through popular culture [October, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1992].
"for sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, divides one thing entire to many objects; like perspectives, which rightly gaz'd upon show nothing but confusion; ey'd awry distinguish form: so your sweet majesty, looking awry upon your lord's departure, finds shapes of grief more than himself to wail; which, look'd on as it is, is nought but shadows of what it is not."
[Shakespeare, Richard II, II/1]
What, How & for Whom' (WHW) is a non-profit organization for visual culture and curator's collective based in Zagreb, Croatia. WHW was formed in 1999 and among their projects are the following international projects/exhibitions: 'What, How and for Whom, on the occasion of the 153d anniversary of the Communist Manifesto', 'Broadcasting: Project, dedicated to Nikola Tesla' and 'START'. Besides exhibitions, WHW projects encompass different formats of lectures and public discussions conducted by international artists, curators and cultural theoreticians, publications and a book edition on contemporary curatorial practice and cultural theory, radio and Internet broadcasts and interventions, screenings and live acts. Since June, 2003, WHW has been running a city-owned gallery in the centre of Zagreb.


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Франсуа́ Бозізе́ Янгувонда́ (;  14 жовтня 1946 року, Муїла, Габон) — центральноафриканський державний, політичний і військовий діяч; міністр оборони (1979—1981) та інформації та культури ЦАР (1981—1982), президент Центральноафриканської Республіки (у 2003—2013 р.р.). Прийшов до влади в результаті військового перевороту, під час якого було повалено президента Анж-Фелікса Патассе. Після дворічного «перехідного періоду» Бозізе в 2005 році виграв президентські вибори.

Біографія

Військова і політична кар'єра
Франсуа Бозізе народився 14 жовтня 1946 року в Муїла на території Габона. За етнічною належністю — гбайя. Поступив на військову службу. У 1975 році він отримав звання капітана, а у 1978 році імператор Жан-Бедель Бокасса призвів його в бригадні генерали. Після повалення у наступному році диктаторського режиму Бокасса в країні до влади прийшов Давид Дако, який призначив Бозізе міністром оборони. Під час правління Андре Колінгби генерал Бозізе у 1981—1982 роках був міністром інформації і культури ЦАР, але пізніше Колінгба звинуватив його в підготовці державного перевороту і в липні 1989 року він був заарештований в Котону (Республіка Бенін). Був поміщений у в'язницю і зазнав тортури, але у грудні 1991 року суд в Бангі виправдав його.

22 серпня 1993 року Франсуа Бозізе висунув свою кандидатуру на президентських виборах, але програв у першому ж турі, набравши 1,5 % голосів. Тоді Президентом ЦАР став Анж-Фелікс Патассе.

Довгі роки Бозізе вважався прихильником Патассе, допомагаючи йому придушувати армійські заколоти у 1996 і 1997 роках. Саме за ці заслуги, Бозізе і був призначений главою Генштабу збройних сил Центральноафриканської Республіки.

Бунтівник
28 травня 2001 року відбулась невдала спроба державного перевороту проти президента Патассе. 26 жовтня генерала Бозізе було відсторонено з посади начальника генштабу армії за звинуваченням в причетності до спроби перевороту. 3 листопада влада спробувала його заарештувати, але Бозізе чинив опір, в результаті чого спалахнули бойові зіткнення. Під час п'яти днів боїв генерал зі своїми по прихильниками залишив свою базу на півночі Бангі і відступив до кордону Чаду. У тому ж місяці Патассе позбавив його генеральського звання.

25 жовтня 2002 року війська Бозізе зробили спробу повалити Патассе. У Бангі зав'язалися бої із застосуванням артилерії — спочатку у південно-західній частині міста, в районі аеропорту, а потім на півночі; бій також йшов біля президентського палацу. У битві з бунтівниками, крім урядових військ, брали участь лівійські солдати і 1000 бійців, спрямованих на допомогу президенту командувачем Визвольного Руху Конго Жан-П'єром Бемба. В ході шестиденних боїв в столиці заколотники були розбиті. Але, вибивши їх зі столиці, союзники почали грабувати Бангі і творити насильство по відношенню до її жителів, що послужило приводом для звинувачення президента Патассе в зловживанні владою і зраді батьківщині.

У лютому 2003 року конголезці на чолі з Жан-П'єром Бембі відтіснили війська Бозізе майже до самого кордону з Чадом.

Президент
15 березня 2003 року прибічники Бозізе за підтримки артилерії увійшли в столицю країни. Вони зайняли аеропорт і резиденцію глави держави, потім — телебачення і радіо. Президент Патассе в цей момент знаходився у сусідньому Нігері на саміті організації Країн Зони Сахеля. Франсуа Бозізе заявив, що «повалення колишнього режиму дозволяє створити умови для проведення реальних демократичних перетворень».

Внаслідок перевороту почалася громадянська війна, в країну знову були введені війська ООН.

5 грудня 2004 року в країні відбувся референдум, за підсумками якого була прийнята нова конституція, що встановила змішану республіку.

У другому турі президентських виборів, що пройшли 8 травня 2005 року, перемогу здобув Франсуа Бозізе, який набрав 64,60 % голосів.

На початку березня 2004 року Центральноафриканська Республіка знову потрапила на перші шпальта світових газет, після того, як стало відомо, що Бозізе вирішив надати притулок поваленому гаїтянському президенту Жану-Бертрану Арістіду. Проте Арістід надовго в ЦАР не затримався.

У 2007 році громадянська війна завершилася угодою з повстанцями.

1 грудня 2010 року Франсуа Бозізе підписав Указ про повну реабілітацію колишнього диктатора Жан-Бедель Бокасса, відповідно до якого повалений імператор був «відновлений в усіх правах». Бозізе назвав Бокассу «великим гуманістом» і «сином нації, визнаним усіма як великого будівничого» і підкреслив «Я хочу говорити про Бокасса. Він побудував країну, а ми зруйнували все, що він побудував».

На президентських виборах, які відбулися 23 січня 2011 року, Бозізе був переобраний, набравши 64,37 % голосів.

Повалення
У грудні 2012 році повстанці звинуватили Голову Уряду в недотриманні умов мирних угод, підписаних у 2007 році і захопили багато великих міст в центральній і східній частинах країни. 11 січня 2013 року в столиці Габону, місті Лібревіль було підписано угоду про припинення вогню. Повстанці відмовилися від вимоги відставки президента ЦАР Франсуа Бозізе, в свою чергу він до 18 січня він повинен був призначити представника опозиції на посаду прем'єр -міністра країни. 17 січня прем'єр-міністра Фостен-Аршанжа Туадера змінив Ніколас Тьянгайе — кандидат, названий опозицією.

24 березня 2013 року бойовики повстанської коаліції «Селека» захопили президентський палац в Бангі. Бозізе втік із захопленої столиці в Камерун, де йому надали політичний притулок

Лідер повстанців Мішель Джотодіа проголосив себе президентом, пообіцявши незабаром організувати вибори

10 серпня 2015 року партія Ква Ква На оголосила, що Бозізе повернеться в країну і буде змагатися за посаду президента на президентських виборах в жовтні 2015 року 8 грудня 2015 року Конституційний суд оприлюднив список затверджених кандидатів в президенти. Бозізе, який був ще в вигнанні, був позбавлений права балотуватися

Примітки

Посилання
 Jean-Marc Aractingi, La Politique à mes trousses(Politics at my heels), Editions l'Harmattan, Paris, 2006, Central Africa Chapter (ISBN 978-2-296-00469-6).

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'I want to see what my daughter would have looked like without tubes': Reddit to the rescue after grieving father's plea for someone to Photoshop his daughter's picture after she passes
Published: 16:12 EDT, 15 July 2014 | Updated: 11:55 EDT, 16 July 2014
A father whose baby passed away at six-weeks old had one simple request: A portrait of his daughter, Sophia, without hospital tubes attached to her tiny body.
Nathen Steffel, from Ohio, posted his plea on Reddit last Thursday and received an overwhelming response, with commenters submitting retouched photos and sketches of Sophia.
'My daughter recently passed away after a long battle in the children's hospital,' the father-of-two wrote. 'Since she was in the hospital her whole life, we never were able to get a photo without all her tubes. Can someone remove the tubes from this photo?'
Nathen Steffel, from Ohio, had one simple request after his daughter, Sophia, passed away at just six weeks old: A portrait of her without hospital tubes attached to her tiny body
After a few days, Mr Steffel received 'a whole lot of love and support from complete strangers,' he told Today.
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Sophia was born May 30 at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, and died from complications from a hepatic hemangioma, a liver tumor, at just six weeks old.
After she was born, Sophia was moved to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, which has a team of liver surgeons and experts.
Mr Steffel posted his plea on Reddit last Thursday and received an overwhelming response, with commenters submitting retouched photos and even drawings for the grieving father
'My wife and I were so grateful so many people took the time out of their own lives to either send a nice message of sympathy or an awesome drawing. They couldn't have made this father any happier,' he said
Sophia was born May 30 at Nationwide Children¿s Hospital in Columbus, and died from complications from a hepatic hemangioma, a liver tumor, at just six weeks old
On her one-month birthday, Sophia's mom, Emily, updated family and friends on Facebook, writing: 'She has sure had her ups & downs but she has come a long way and we are soooooo proud of her.'
Sophia was on a waiting list for a liver when she passed away July 10, Mr Steffel, who has two sons with Emily, explained on Reddit.
Many commenters answered Mr Steffel's plea, submitting retouched photos of wide-eyed Sophia.
Mr Steffel pictured with his newborn daughter Sophia
On her one-month birthday, Sophia mom, Emily, updated family and friends on Facebook, writing: 'She has sure had her ups & downs but she has come a long way and we are soooooo proud of her'
The Steffel family at Nationwide Children¿s Hospital in Columbus, before Sophia was moved to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
'I was overwhelmed with the response I got,' he said.
'My wife and I were so grateful so many people took the time out of their own lives to either send a nice message of sympathy or an awesome drawing. They couldn't have made this father any happier.'
It seemed the Reddit community was happy to help. 'I couldn't sleep without at least trying,' one wrote.
Mrs Steffel pregnant with Sophia, her third child
Mrs and Mr Steffel married in March 2013 after nearly nine years together - they met at a football football where Mrs Steffel was playing in the band
WHAT IS HEPATIC HEMANGIOMA?
A hepatic hemangioma is a tangle of blood vessels in or on the surface of the liver, and is the most common type of benign liver tumor, not caused by cancer.
While hepatic hemangiomas are most common in people between ages 30 to 60 - with women more susceptible than men - babies can develop a type of hepatic hemangioma called benign infantile hemangioendothelioma.
This is a rare, noncancerous tumor that has been linked to high rates of heart failure and death in infants, who are usually diagnosed by the time they are six months old.
Treatment for infantile hemangioendothelioma depends on the child's growth and development.
Options include inserting a material in a blood vessel of the liver to block it; tying off a liver artery; medications for heart failure; or surgery to remove the tumor.
In extremely rare cases, a liver transplant surgery may be necessary. This only occurs in cases of extremely large liver hemangiomas, or multiple liver hemangiomas that do not respond to other treatments.
Father pleas for someone to Photoshop baby's picture after she passes away