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OTTAWA — Call it the Apple Pie Budget.
Following a year of abrupt and controversial reform, "Economic Action Plan 2013" emerged, as expected, as a relatively cautious affair — modest in its ambitions, conservative in its spending, with a great deal of language calculated to soothe and mollify irate taxpayers.
This puts the Harper Conservatives foursquare back where they began in the 2005-06 campaign — self-consciously prudent, centrist and relentlessly focused on winning retail votes. The plan contains some significant risks, particularly in the mid-to-long term. But as a political document it is clever indeed.
For starters, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has quashed any remaining uncertainty about his determination to eliminate the federal deficit, currently about $26 billion, in time for the 2015 election. "Our government is committed to balancing the budget in 2015," Flaherty said early in his speech to the House of Commons. "Period." That will comfort fiscal hawks in the Tory caucus who have long insisted the plan to return to balance in this mandatemust be ironclad, and who were overruled last year.
Achieving this, if the budget plan can be believed, will be relatively painless. Savings are to accrue from measures that will be familiar to anyone who has worked through an organizational downsizing: a five-per-cent, $42.7-million reduction in public-service travel costs "through the use of technology," consolidating computer purchases, more efficient use of websites, and the like.
Canada Revenue Agency is expected to trim $60.6 million from its budget by fiscal 2015-16, by reducing "management administrative support" and leveraging "increased public use of automated tools to reduce spending on information technology." It will achieve this, the budget book promises, while closing tax loopholes, to the tune of $316 million this year and $806 million next. Fisheries and Oceans Canada is to sustain a cut of $33 million in 2015-16, through measures such as "reducing management overhead."
In the one significant restructuring here — unmentioned in the budget speech — the Canadian International Development Agency is being merged with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. This will further fuel the narrative, beloved of the Harper government's critics, that Canada no longer cares about helping the poor overseas. But set against thebouquets thrown to Main Street, that is unlikely to cause more than a ripple of discontent.
Front and centre is the "new Canada Job Grant," a plan to fund skills training to the tune of $15,000 per worker, assuming an employer kicks in $5,000, with the province and feds equally sharing the other $10,000. Next is the "new Building Canada Plan," a 10-year, $53-billion blend of "new and existing funding" to renew roads, bridges, subways and other public infrastructure. Finally there's $1.4 billion in targeted manufacturing tax relief and modest spending on innovation and economic development.
All this is to be effected, like the savings, in the stingiest of fashions, relatively speaking: Total program spending for 2013-14 will be $252.9 billion, less than a $2-billion rise from last year's $251 billion. But operating spending actually drops this year, from $80.5 billion to $76.5 billion. The budget contains the smallest increase in discretionary spending, Flaherty noted in his speech, in nearly two decades. This is the Conservatives, reveling in being conservative.
The devil, as always, is in the detail: the Job Grant has yet to be negotiated with the provinces, and will not be introduced until 2014-15; the 10-year infrastructure plan, like all such long-term plans, isback loaded; and the entire edifice assumes that the tepid global economy won't slip back into recession. In the year of projected return to a balanced budget, fiscal 2015-16, the estimated surplus is a mere $800 million. That is, relatively speaking, a rounding error.
Meantime, downside risks are substantial: They include a weak recovery in the United States, continuing economic turmoil in Europe, and soft Canadian crude oil prices, due to the so-called bitumen bubble. There appears to be at least a tacit assumption that U.S. President Barack Obama will approve the Keystone XL pipeline project: "Looking forward, analysts expect the gap between Canadian prices and global benchmarks to gradually narrow towards historical norms, reflecting expectations of additional north-south pipeline capacity in the United States."
That, of course, remains to be seen. Hence, the political risk: If, come 2015, revenues are even weaker than expected, the Tories may need to impose draconian cuts to keep their balanced-budget promise — or break that promise. Neither option will be palatable in an election year. Flaherty insisted the prospect doesn't worry him. But two years is a long time.
In that sense, it's apple pie — but with prayer as the secret ingredient.


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FINAL: ATL 2, RSL 1 (Findley 10; Burgos 33, Poku 91+)
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One year ago, Real Salt Lake made it to the final of the US Open Cup before suffering a shock 1-0 loss to D.C. United. This year, RSL suffered another such shock in its first Open Cup match – a 2-1 loss to the NASL's Atlanta Silverbacks that was not as close as the scoreline indicates.
The MLS squad, which was missing at least six regular starters, including Nick Rimando, Kyle Beckerman and Javier Morales, were back on their heels for all but the first few minutes of the match. RSL managed to fend off chance after chance by the Silverbacks but saw their Open Cup run end prematurely when Atlanta midfielder Kwadwo Poku hit a 25-yard line drive into the net in stoppage time to give the lower-division team the win.
RSL's lone goal came in the 10th minute on a blooper-reel play. Atlanta goalie Derby Carrillo stepped out of the box to clear the ball, but his kick – which looked like something out of a martial arts movie – whiffed altogether.
Salt Lake forward Robbie Findley, starting for the first time since knee surgery in December, almost walked the ball into the net to give his team the early lead.
But the visitors, who dominated play before the goal, were dominated themselves for the remainder of the match. RSL looked out of sorts for almost the entire game. In the 33rd minute, the Silverbacks equalized on a shot from distance by midfielder Junior Burgos that went off RSL goalkeeper Jeff Attinella's fingers, hit the post and bounced into the goal.
Atlanta's late goal eliminated RSL, giving them two weeks to think about the fact that they are winless (0-3-2) in five matches heading into their next game, June 28 at Chivas USA.
FINAL (PKs): CAR 1 (3), CHV 1 (2) (Schilawski 29; Finley 40)
WakeMed Soccer Park, Cary, N.C.
Chivas USA battled the Carolina RailHawks for 120 minutes to a 1-1 draw, but came up agonizingly short in a wild penalty shootout and were eliminated from the 2014 US Open Cup in their first game.
In an even affair, former New England Revolution striker Zack Schilawski put the home side up in the 29th minute when he split Chivas USA's center backs to collect a through pass from Nazmi Albadawi and finish past Chivas USA goalkeeper Dan Kennedy.
The Rojiblancos equalized just 11 minutes later, as Ryan Finley – starting in place of leading scorer Erick Torres – connected on a diving header off a cross from Tony Lochhead.
Finley went on to rattle the crossbar early in the second half, and though both Kennedy and Carolina counterpart Scott Goodwin had plenty of work to do, neither team broke through.
The Goats took an early lead in the penalty shootout, but Kennedy, attempting to replicate his PK heroics from the 2013 tournament, had his attempt saved. The RailHawks leveled things, but both sides missed their fifth and sixth penalty shots before Goodwin stopped Marky Delgado and Daniel Jackson finished his chance to give Carolina a 3-2 triumph and book a home date on June 24 against either the LA Galaxy or Arizona United.
Chivas, who were missing Oswaldo Minda and Marvin Chavez on World Cup duty and resting Mauro Rosales, now have a two-week break before hosting Real Salt Lake on June 28.
FINAL: COS 3, NY 0 (Stokkelien 7, 73, Noselli 78)
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Joel Skinner, who spent last season as the bench coach for the A's, has been named as the manager of the White Sox Triple-A affiliate in Charlotte, N.C. Skinner spent nine seasons on the Indians' Major League staff, with stints as the third-base coach, interim manager and bench coach. Skinner appeared in 564 games as a catcher with the White Sox (1983-86), Yankees (1986-88) and Indians (1989-91).
Other moves are Tim Laker will be the Minor League roving hitting instructor, Andy Tomberlin will be the hitting coach at AAA-Charlotte, Brandon Moore will be the hitting coach at AA Birmingham, and Bobby Thigpen will be the pitching coach at AA-Birmingham. Van Schouwen has a rundown of the Sox developmental instructors.
Other White Sox links:
- James explains how the draft provisions in baseball's next CBA could be moving the rest of the league to the White Sox way and gives us Kenny Williams tickle index.
- J.J. can't understand why is there speculation that Alejandro De Aza won't be the Sox leadoff hitter in 2012. Damn right. And Kenny better not have any Chone Figgins plans.
- THT's Jeffrey Gross looks on the White Sox off-season.
- Fangraphs' Dave Cameron says John Danks is a left-handed Edwin Jackson.


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Scuffle at local DMV center caught on camera
Man arrested, security guard injured
The video of a scuffle at a local Department of Motor Vehicles office has gone viral.
Authorities said a security guard was injured, and a man was arrested after a fight broke out at a busy DMV office at Teutonia and Florist avenues. The video shows a security guard from a private company being body slammed.
A witness told WISN's Shelby Croft that he was in a long line at the DMV when the fight broke out. Cuss words were caught on tape as the guard attempts to escort a man out of the DMV, and the two end up fighting.
"You come at me, I'm spraying you," the security guard can be heard saying. "Get outside. Get outside now!"
"Both of them was in the wrong, the security guard shouldn't have put hands on him, the man was just trying to get out," said the witness.
Police said the man refused to turn his music down, so security was called in.
"I'm getting out of here," the man can be heard saying as the two fought.
No one stepped in to help the security guard as he struggled with the man.
"It's just a different generation," the witness said. "People would rather tape it, the help, you know, that's just the way of life right now."
"Yeah, I heard about it, but I don't know too many details about it," a security guard from the same private company said during his later shift. "I'm not really allowed to make a comment on it, really."
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William Moseley and several crew members on the Italian set of The Silent Mountain were in for quite a shock earlier this week--literally!
"I was struck by lightning on the arm and am doing fine now," the actor, known for his role as Peter Pevensie in the Chronicles of Narnia film series, tweeted Tuesday. "It was very traumatic. We [were] just starting to film."
"It came through the roof and struck nine other crew members," Moseley, 25, wrote. "I feel very lucky to be alive. I've learnt a lot from this experience."
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"We have two weeks left of filming and I know it will be a great and productive time," he added. "The crew have been wonderful."
He continued: "I am looking forward to all of you seeing the film. I believe it will be very special. Thank you for all of you kind words."
Fortunately, Moseley was back to work quickly. Later in the day Tuesday, he tweeted a picture of himself in what appeared to be a soldier's uniform filming in Italy. "A picture from the location of The Silent Mountain, filming in the Dolomite Mountains," he wrote. "Hope you're all having a good day."
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We asked Jim Jensen, UB professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering, to tell us about his work in, and thoughts on sustainability.
What kinds of sustainability related research/projects do you pursue at UB?
My research work has been in two areas. First, my students and I are developing and testing sustainable drinking water treatment methods for developing countries. These methods include using natural plant materials, ceramic water filters, and water lenses to make water safe to drink. Second, I'm supporting a number of students in sustainability projects around campus ranging from refillable water containers to high-velocity air hand-dryers.
How are students involved in your sustainability work?
I see my role as guiding students as they learn about sustainability and seek sustainable solutions to global and local problems. All my research is conducted with undergraduate and graduate students. I teach a course in sustainability. In addition, I support Ken Shockley, professor of philosophy, as he works with students to develop UB's newest Undergraduate Academy in sustainability.
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If God will help us in our future duty, he will first humble us for our past sin. He that hath not so much sense of his faults as unfeignedly to lament them, will hardly have so much more as to move him to reform them. The sorrow of repentance may exist without a change of heart and life; because a passion may be more easily wrought, than a true conversion. But the change cannot take place without some good measure of the sorrow. Indeed, we may here justly begin our confessions; it is too common with us to expect that from our people, which we do little or nothing in ourselves. What pains do we take to humble them, while we ourselves are unhumbled!
…I must needs say, though I condemn myself in saying it, that he who readeth but this one exhortation of Paul to the elders of the church at Ephesus, and compareth his life with it, must be stupid and hard-hearted, if he do not melt under a sense of his neglects, and be not laid in the dust before God and forced to bewail his great omissions, and to fly for refuge to the blood of Christ, and to his pardoning grace. I am confident, brethren, that none of you do in judgment approve of the libertine doctrine, that crieth down the necessity of confession, contrition, and humiliation, yea, and in order to the pardon of sin!
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Columbus laboratory installation
Columbus was transported to the Station inside the Shuttle's cargo bay. It was installed on the starboard side of the Harmony module on 11 February 2008 during the first spacewalk of the mission. NASA astronauts Rex Walheim and Stanley Love participated in the spacewalk. ESA astronaut Hans Schlegel assisted NASA astronaut Alan Poindexter coordinating the spacewalk from inside the International Space Station. ESA astronaut Léopold Eyharts operated the Station's robotic arm together with NASA astronaut Leland Melvin.
Columbus activation and commissioning of experiment facilities and systems
Once Columbus was attached, Hans and Léopold were the principal astronauts involved with activating and commissioning the laboratory. Columbus was first connected to the Space Station's systems for power, data and thermal control. The pressurised laboratory was entered for the first time on 12 February 2008. On-orbit activities involved reconfiguring internal facilities from the launch configuration to their on-orbit configuration.
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Installation of European external payloads on Columbus
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EuTEF housed many different experiments including a variety of exobiology experiments. SOLAR carries out in-depth studies of the Sun.
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ESA astronaut Léopold Eyharts became the second ESA astronaut to join a long-duration Expedition crew shortly after arriving with the STS-122 flight. He remained on the Space Station for nearly 7 weeks, flying back on the STS-123 flight on 23 March 2008. Eyharts replaced NASA astronaut Daniel Tani as Expedition 16 Flight Engineer 2.
Undertake a European experiment programme
Léopold and Hans undertook a number of experiments for the European scientific community, including runs of the first experiments in the experiment facilities in Columbus. Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko carried out additional European experiments. Léopold also carried out a number of educational activities.
The experiments requiring the weightless environment inside the International Space Station are in the areas of human physiology and biology, fluid science and radiation dosimetry. The experiments that need exposure to the open space environment outside the Station cover a number of scientific areas including exobiology, solar science and material science, in addition to various monitoring and sensor technologies.
Return of Control Moment Gyroscope
During the third STS-122 spacewalk a failed Control Moment Gyroscope was placed in the Shuttle's cargo bay to return to Earth. The Control Moment Gyroscopes are used to control the Space Station's orientation.
Replacement of Nitrogen Tank Assembly
During the second STS-122 spacewalk, ESA astronaut Hans Schlegel and NASA astronaut Rex Walheim removed and replaced a Nitrogen Tank Assembly on the P1 truss section.
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Delivery of supplies and equipment
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TV uber-producer Ryan Murphy believes that that when it comes to normal, everything's relative – literally.
Murphy – who's risen to the loftiest ranks of television producers by delivering a string of small-screen hits in "Nip/Tuck," "Glee" and "American Horror Story" – is delivering his first comedy in the traditional sitcom format, NBC's "The New Normal." The show centers around urbane gay couple Bryan and David (Andrew Rannells and Justin Bartha) who bring their surrogate - struggling waitress Goldie (Georgia King) - and her eight-year-old daughter Shania (Bebe Wood), into their family. Also along for the ride but far less willingly is Godie's opinionated, tolerance-challenged grandmother Jane (Ellen Barkin).
And while Muprhy knows some people are going to find the show just as controversial as his previous series have often proven, he hopes they'll recognize that at it's heart, it's really as normal as modern life gets.
On how the colorful – and frequently controversial characters – were conceived:
"The pitch was talking about the characters and the different kinds of families and where are we today, and we certainly pitched the gay couple, but we also talked about what it was like to be a single mother with a young daughter, what is it like to be a woman in your 50s who is completely starting over and dating again. So we talked about the whole spectrum of the characters, and I don't think it ever came up about "Are people ready for it or not?' I think that we fell in love with the characters…I think all the characters are lovable, and I think that everybody has people in their family who are representative, hopefully, in all of these characters. I certainly think the most controversial character will probably be Ellen Barkin's character, but I remember Thanksgivings when I was growing up when my grandmother would actually say these jaw‑dropping things very similar to that, and then we would call her out on it, so it felt very familiar to me, and I think hopefully familiar to other people."
On working to evoke the socially minded '70s-era comedies created by Norman Lear, including "All In the Family," "Maude" and "Good Times":
"When I was growing up, I remember one of the most memorable times that I would have with my parents was watching 'All in the Family' and being young and hearing people talk that way and then having a discussion about 'Was that good? Was that bad? What was that?' So I like that about the show. I think people will talk about some things that the characters say, obviously, but I think that's a good thing…I have not ever met Mr. Lear. Obviously I think he is a true genius, and I think he has had such an impact on me when I was growing up, beyond even discussion. He sent me a very sweet note when 'Glee' premiered. I guess he liked the progressiveness of the show or something, and I would love to meet him just to say thank you, because I think he made so many wonderful programs."
On the autobiographical elements of the show providing both authenticity and outrageousness, including a scene in which Bryan first informs David he wants a baby because he wants to buy stylish baby clothes:
"The show is loosely based on my life and came about because my partner and I have been having conversations about surrogacy and meeting with people and talking about it. So I guess if you saw that scene, one would think that [Bryan just wanted a baby as an accessory], but I think if you watched the show and you watched the scripts, we're really writing hopefully a great depth to this couple, and it's not easy to be a gay couple having a child. We deal with those issues. For me, obviously as somebody who very much does have that dream, I don't feel that way. I would never feel that way.
On the boycott of the show from the conservative organization One Million Moms even before the show aired, due to its non-traditional families:
"I have obviously been through this before. I wasn't surprised when I read that. I think every person in a group has a right to protest something and not like something. I always find it to be interesting when people take that position before they've seen it. I also think if they watched the show, I actually think they would love it because for the first time they're represented. Ellen Barkin's character is a member of Moms – That's true. Writing that in the script. I think the show is funny, but I also think the show in many ways is about tolerance, and I think it's about a discussion of tolerance, and I think their points of view are delivered with sensitivity and a certain amount of veracity by Ms. Barkin, so I think they actually, if they watched it, they would like it...[Barkin's character] will talk about those issues that the Million Moms talk about. We haven't written all the episodes yet, but I'm sure she will protest people and events, and I think that's great fodder for the Bryan and David characters and Goldie character to talk to her about that."
On casting "The Book of Mormon" stage star Andrew Rannells and "The Hangover's" Justin Bartha as the show's gay couple:
"I had seen 'The Book of Mormon' twice, and I just was like, 'I want to work with Andrew Rannels – I don't know how, I don't know when.' And we started coming up with this idea, to be quite blunt, I heard that Andrew wanted to do television, and I knew that he would be snatched up like that! So even before pilot season began, I had a meeting with him, as I think several people in town did. And I said, "We're working on this – What do you think?" So it really came from me being wildly attracted to his talent, and the same for Justin Bartha. I was a huge fan of his, and we had a meeting, and I loved him. I just think that both actors are capable of really great, grand comedy and can turn it on a dime and are exceptional dramatic actors.
On the fact that he's currently executive producing three series on three different networks:
"It's a privilege to be able to have an idea and go into a group of executives and say 'I really want to write about this' and' I really am interested in this,' and for them to say yes and give you the money and make it. In the case of 'Glee,' there are two other creators – Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, who are fantastic – who are really stepping up on that show in a major way, and I'm thrilled about the fourth season. I love the direction the show is going, so that's great. In the case of 'American Horror Story,' we started writing that season in January this year, so by the time we started shooting, we had half of the scripts done, and it's a cable show so the order is shorter – it's 13 this year. So that has been a tremendous luxury that we got an early pickup from [FX] and we started the discussions about 'American Horror Story' five episodes after the first season aired. And then in 'The New Normal,' Ali Adler, who I worked with on 'Glee,' is just absolutely brilliant and really runs that ship…The three shows, the writing is housed in the same building at Paramount, so it's easy to just sort of go back and forth between the rooms, and sometimes it's tiring, and I work on the weekends. But I love it. I believe in the three shows, and I love the three shows, and they're so very different that going from room to room, the energy is different and that kind of is a re-invigorating experience."
Ryan Murphy: "The New Normal" Offers Up Thought-Provoking Laughs
The high profile producer hopes new show evokes the socially minded sitcoms of the 1970s.
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Oracle issued an emergency patch for its WebLogic Server almost two weeks after a white-hat hacker disclosed a vulnerability that allows criminals to remotely execute commands on the webserver with no authentication necessary.
The vulnerability in the Node Manager component of Oracle WebLogic Server can be exploited by carrying out commands over a network without requiring a username and password, Oracle warned late last week. The company went through the unusual step of issuing a patch outside its normal update cycle.
The out-of-band release came 12 days after Evgeny Legerov, CEO of Russian security firm Intevydis, disclosed a WebLogic vulnerability that sounded almost identical to the one described in the Oracle advisory. Legerov recently blogged his intention to do away with so-called "responsible disclosure" practices, in which researchers privately notify software makers about bugs in their products to prevent criminals from exploiting the defects before they're fixed.
Intevydis was dispensing with the practice "because it is enforced by vendors and it allows vendors to exploit security researches to do QA work for free," he wrote.
The vulnerability carries a Common Vulnerability Scoring System severity score of 10 on Windows versions 9.0 and later of WebLogic. Versions for non-Windows operating systems, by contrast, carry a rating 7.5.
Oracle's advisory strongly recommended users apply the emergency patch, along with a cumulative WebLogic patch issued in January.
"This vulnerability may be remotely exploitable without authentication, i.e. it may be exploited over a network without the need for a username and password," Oracle warned. "A knowledgeable and malicious remote user can exploit this vulnerability which can result in impacting the availability, integrity and confidentiality of the targeted system." ®


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Va'al wrote:They're all supposed to be Deluxe class though, so they will be the same size as Onslaught.
So still a little bigger than older Scout size.
As I said, I'd like to see them scaled next to something from the Classics/Generations/RtS lines, in robot mode.
Optibotimus compared them to FoC Jazz, and they're all a bit taller than him (Swindle is a head taller, specifically).


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The Night of the Long Knives , sometimes called "Operation Hummingbird " or in Germany the "Röhm-Putsch," was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political murders. Leading figures of the "left-wing" Strasserist faction of the Nazi Party, along with its namesake, Gregor Strasser, were murdered, as were prominent conservative anti-Nazis (such as former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and Gustav Ritter von Kahr, who had suppressed Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch in 1923). Many of those killed were members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary Brownshirts.
Adolf Hitler moved against the SA and its leader, Ernst Röhm, because he saw the independence of the SA and the penchant of its members for street violence as a direct threat to his newly gained political power. He also wanted to conciliate leaders of the Reichswehr, the official German military who feared and despised the SA—in particular Röhm's ambition to absorb the Reichswehr into the SA under his own leadership. Finally, Hitler used the purge to attack or eliminate critics of his new regime, especially those loyal to Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen, as well as to settle scores with old enemies.
At least 85 people died during the purge, although the final death toll may have been in the hundreds, and more than a thousand perceived opponents were arrested. Most of the killings were carried out by the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei), the regime's secret police. The purge strengthened and consolidated the support of the Reichswehr for Hitler. It also provided a legal grounding for the Nazi regime, as the German courts and cabinet quickly swept aside centuries of legal prohibition against extra-judicial killings to demonstrate their loyalty to the regime.
Before its execution, its planners sometimes referred to it as "Hummingbird" (German:Kolibri), the codeword used to send the execution squads into action on the day of the purge. The codename for the operation appears to have been chosen arbitrarily. The phrase "Night of the Long Knives" in the German language predates the massacre itself and refers generally to acts of vengeance. Germans still use the term "Röhm-Putsch" to describe the murders, the term given to it by the Nazi regime, despite its unproven implication that the murders were necessary to prevent a coup. German authors often use quotation marks or write about the so-called Röhm-Putsch to emphasize this.
Although the German public did not complain much when SA activities were directed againstJews, Communists, and Socialists, by 1934 there was general concern about the level of civic violence for which the "brown shirts" were responsible.
Hitler and the Sturmabteilung (SA) Hitler posing in Nuremberg with SA members in the late 1920s; Hermann Göring is pictured beneath Hitler, wearing his medals. Julius Streicher is to Hitler's right
President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Over the next few months, during the so-called Gleichschaltung, Hitler dispensed with the need for the Reichstag as alegislative body and eliminated all rival political parties in Germany so that by the middle of 1933, the country had become a one-party state under his direction and control.
Hitler did not exercise absolute power, however, despite his swift consolidation of political authority. As chancellor, Hitler did not command the army, which remained under the formal leadership of Hindenburg, a highly respected veteran field marshal, albeit increasingly frail and senile. While many officers were impressed by Hitler's promises of an expanded army, a return to conscription, and a more aggressive foreign policy, the army continued to guard its traditions of independence during the early years of the Nazi regime.
To a lesser extent, the Sturmabteilung (SA), a Nazi paramilitary organisation, remained somewhat autonomous within the party itself. The SA evolved out of the remnants of the Freikorps movement of the post-World War I years. The Freikorps were nationalistic organisations primarily composed of disaffected, disenchanted, and angry German combat veterans founded by the government in January 1919 to deal with the threat of a Communist revolution when it appeared that there were a lack of loyal troops.
A very large number of the Freikorps believed that the November Revolution had betrayed them when Germany was alleged to be on the verge of victory in 1918. Hence, the Freikorps were in opposition to the new Weimar Republic, which was born as a result of the November Revolution, and whose founders were contemptously called "November criminals".
Captain Ernst Röhm of the Reichswehr served as the liaison with the Bavarian Freikorps. Röhm was given the nickname "The Machine Gun King of Bavaria" in the early 1920s, since he was responsible for storing and issuing illegal machine guns to the Bavarian Freikorps units. Röhm left the Reichswehr in 1923 and later became commander of the SA. During the 1920s and 1930s, the SA functioned as a private militia used by Hitler to intimidate rivals and disrupt the meetings of competing political parties, especially those of the Social Democrats and the Communists.
Also known as the "brownshirts" or "stormtroopers", the SA became notorious for their street battles with the Communists. The violent confrontations between the two contributed to the destabilisation of Germany's inter-war experiment with democracy, the Weimar Republic. In June 1932, one of the worst months of political violence, there were more than 400 street battles, resulting in 82 deaths. This destabilisation had been crucial in Hitler's rise to power, however, not least because it convinced many Germans that once Hitler became chancellor, the endemic street violence would end.
Hitler's appointment as chancellor, followed by the suppression of all political parties except the Nazis, did not end the violence of the stormtroopers. Deprived of Communist party meetings to disrupt, the stormtroopers would sometimes run riot in the streets after a night of drinking. They would attack passers-by, and then attack the police who were called to stop them. Complaints of "overbearing and loutish" behaviour by stormtroopers became common by the middle of 1933. The Foreign Office even complained of instances where brownshirts manhandled foreign diplomats. The stormtroopers' behaviour disturbed the German middle classes and other conservative elements in society, such as the army.
Hitler's move would be to strengthen his position with the army by moving against its nemesis, the SA. On July 6, 1933, at a gathering of high-ranking Nazi officials, Hitler declared the success of the National Socialist, or Nazi, brown revolution. Now that the NSDAP had seized the reins of power in Germany, he said, it was time to consolidate its control. Hitler told the gathered officials, "The stream of revolution has been undammed, but it must be channelled into the secure bed of evolution."
Hitler's speech signalled his intention to rein in the SA, whose ranks had grown rapidly in the early 1930s. This would not prove to be simple, however, as the SA made up a large part of Nazism's most devoted followers. The SA traced its dramatic rise in numbers in part to the onset of the Great Depression, when many German citizens lost both their jobs and their faith in traditional institutions.
While Nazism was not exclusively – or even primarily – a working class phenomenon, the SA fulfilled the yearning of many unemployed workers for class solidarity and nationalist fervour. Many stormtroopers believed in the socialist promise of National Socialism and expected the Nazi regime to take more radical economic action, such as breaking up the vast landed estates of the aristocracy. When the Nazi regime did not take such steps, those who expected an economic as well as a political revolution were disillusioned
Conflict between the army and the SA SA leader Ernst Röhm in Bavaria in 1934
No one in the SA spoke more loudly for "a continuation of the German revolution", as one prominent stormtrooper put it, than Röhm. Röhm, as one of the earliest members of the Nazi Party, had participated in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt by Hitler to seize power by force in 1923. A combat veteran of World War I, Röhm had recently boasted that he would execute 12 men in retaliation for the killing of any stormtrooper. Röhm saw violence as a means to political ends. He took seriously the socialist promise of National Socialism, and demanded that Hitler and the other party leaders initiate wide-ranging socialist reform in Germany.
Not content solely with the leadership of the SA, Röhm lobbied Hitler to appoint him Minister of Defence, a position held by the conservative General Werner von Blomberg. Although nicknamed the "Rubber Lion" by some of his critics in the army for his devotion to Hitler, Blomberg was not himself a Nazi, and therefore represented a bridge between the army and the party. Blomberg and many of his fellow officers were recruited from the Prussian nobility, and regarded the SA as a plebeian rabble that threatened the army's traditional high status in German society.
If the regular army showed contempt for the masses belonging to the SA, many stormtroopers returned the feeling, seeing the army as insufficiently committed to the National Socialist revolution. Max Heydebreck, a SA leader in Rummelsburg, denounced the army to his fellow brownshirts, telling them, "Some of the officers of the army are swine. Most officers are too old and have to be replaced by young ones. We want to wait till Papa Hindenburg is dead, and then the SA will march against the army."
Despite such hostility between the brownshirts and the regular army, Blomberg and others in the military saw the SA as a source of raw recruits for an enlarged and revitalised army. Röhm, however, wanted to eliminate the generalship of the Prussian aristocracy altogether, using the SA to become the core of a new German military.
Limited by theTreaty of Versailles to one hundred thousand soldiers, army leaders watched anxiously as membership in the SA surpassed three million men by the beginning of 1934. In January 1934, Röhm presented Blomberg with a memorandum demanding that the SA replace the regular army as the nation's ground forces, and that the Reichswehr become a training adjunct to the SA.
In response, Hitler met with Blomberg and the leadership of the SA and SS on February 28, 1934. Under pressure from Hitler, Röhm reluctantly signed a pledge stating that he recognised the supremacy of the Reichswehr over the SA. Hitler announced to those present that the SA would act as an auxiliary to the Reichswehr, not the other way around.
After Hitler and most of the army officers had left, however, Röhm declared that he would not take instructions from "the ridiculous corporal" – a demeaning reference to Hitler. While Hitler did not take immediate action against Röhm for his intemperate outburst, it nonetheless deepened the rift between them.
Growing pressure against the SA Franz von Papen, the conservative vice-chancellor who ran afoul of Hitler after denouncing the regime's failure to rein in the SA in his Marburg speech.
Despite his earlier agreement with Hitler, Röhm still clung to his vision of a new German army with the SA at its core. By early 1934, this vision directly conflicted with Hitler's plan to consolidate power and expand the Reichswehr. Because their plans for the army were mutually exclusive, Röhm's success could only come at Hitler's expense. Moreover it was not just the Reichswehr that viewed the SA as a threat. Several of Hitler's lieutenants feared Röhm's growing power and restlessness, as did Hitler himself. As a result, a political struggle within the party grew, with those closest to Hitler, including Prussian premier Hermann Göring, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, SS Chief Heinrich Himmler, and Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess, positioning themselves against Röhm.
While all of these men were veterans of the Nazi movement, only Röhm continued to demonstrate his independence from, rather than his loyalty to, Adolf Hitler. Röhm's contempt for the party's bureaucracy angered Hess. SA violence in Prussia gravely concerned Göring, Minister-President of Prussia. Finally, in the spring of 1934, hearing of the growing rift between Röhm and Hitler over the role of the SA in the Nazi state led the former Chancellor, General Kurt von Schleicher, to start playing politics again.
Schleicher criticized the current Hitler cabinet while some of Schleicher's followers such as General Ferdinand von Bredow and Werner von Alvensleben started passing along lists of a new Hitler Cabinet in which Schleicher would become Vice-Chancellor, Röhm Minister of Defence,Heinrich Brüning Foreign Minister and Gregor Strasser Minister of National Economy. The British historian Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, who knew Schleicher and his circle well, wrote that Bredow displayed a "lack of discretion" that was "terrifying" as he went about showing the list of the proposed cabinet to anyone who was interested. Although Schleicher was in fact unimportant by 1934, increasingly wild rumours that he was scheming with Röhm to reenter the corridors of power helped stoke the sense of crisis.
As a means of isolating Röhm, on April 20, 1934 Göring transferred control of the Prussian political police (Gestapo) to Himmler, who, Göring believed, could be counted on to move against Röhm. Himmler envied the independence and power of the SA, although by this time he and his deputy Reinhard Heydrich had already begun restructuring the SS from a bodyguard formation for Nazi leaders (and a subset of the SA) into its own independent elite corps, one loyal to both himself and Hitler. The loyalty of the SS men would prove useful to both when Hitler finally chose to move against Röhm and the SA.
By May, lists of those to be "liquidated" started to circulate amongst Göring and Himmler's people, who engaged in a trade, adding enemies of one in exchange for sparing friends of the other. At the end of May, two former Chancellors Heinrich Brüning and Kurt von Schleicher received warnings from friends in the Reichswehr that their lives were in danger, and they should leave Germany at once. Brüning fled to the Netherlands while Schleicher dismissed the tip-off as a bad practical joke. By the beginning of June, everything was set, and all that was needed was permission from Hitler.
Demands for Hitler to constrain the SA strengthened. Conservatives in the army, industry, and politics placed Hitler under increasing pressure to reduce the influence of the SA and to move against Röhm. While Röhm's homosexuality did not endear him to conservatives, they were more concerned about his political ambitions. Hitler for his part remained indecisive and uncertain about just what precisely he wanted to do when he left for Venice to meet Benito Mussolini on June 15. Before Hitler left, and at the request of Presidential State Secretary Otto Meißner, Foreign Minister Baron Konstantin von Neurath ordered the German Ambassador to Italy Ulrich von Hassell - without Hitler's knowledge - to ask Mussolini to tell Hitler that the SA was blackening Germany's good name.
Neurath's manoeuvre to put pressure on Hitler paid off, with Mussolini agreeing to the request (Neurath was a former ambassador to Italy, and knew Mussolini well). During the summit in Venice, Mussolini upbraided Hitler for tolerating the violence, hooliganism and homosexuality of the SA, which Mussolini stated were ruining Hitler's good reputation all over the world. Mussolini used the affair occasioned by the murder of Giacomo Matteotti as an example of the kind of trouble unruly followers could cause a dictator. While Mussolini's criticism did not win Hitler over to acting against the SA, it helped push him in that direction
On June 17, 1934, conservative demands for Hitler to act came to a head when Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen, confidant of the ailing Hindenburg, gave a speech at Marburg University warning of the threat of a "second revolution". Privately, von Papen, a Catholic aristocratwith ties to army and industry, threatened to resign if Hitler did not act. While von Papen's resignation as vice-chancellor would not have threatened Hitler's position, it would have nonetheless been an embarrassing display of independence from a leading conservative.
In response to conservative pressure to constrain Röhm, Hitler left for Neudeck to meet with Hindenburg. Blomberg, who had been meeting with the President, uncharacteristically reproached Hitler for not having moved against Röhm earlier. He then told Hitler that Hindenburg was close to declaring martial law and turning the government over to the Reichswehr if Hitler did not take immediate steps against Röhm and his brownshirts.
Hitler had hesitated for months in moving against Röhm, in part due to Röhm's visibility as the leader of a national militia with millions of members. However, the threat of a declaration of martial law from Hindenburg, the only person in Germany with the authority to potentially depose the Nazi regime, put Hitler under pressure to act. He left Neudeck with the intention of both destroying Röhm and settling scores with old enemies. Both Himmler and Göring welcomed Hitler's decision, since both had much to gain by Röhm's downfall – the independence of the SS for Himmler, and the removal of a rival for the future command of the army for Göring.
In preparation for the purge both Himmler and his deputy Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the SS Security Service, assembled a dossier of manufactured evidence to suggest that Röhm had been paid twelve million marks (EUR 48.3 million as of 2011) by France to overthrow Hitler. Leading officers in the SS were shown falsified evidence on June 24 that Röhm planned to use the SA to launch a plot against the government (Röhm-Putsch). Göring, Himmler, Heydrich, and Victor Lutze (at Hitler's direction) drew up lists of people in and outside the SA to be killed. One of the men Göring recruited to assist him was Willi Lehmann, a Gestapo official and NKVD spy. On June 25, General Werner von Fritsch placed the Reichswehr on the highest level of alert. On June 27, Hitler moved to secure the army's cooperation.
Blomberg andGeneral Walther von Reichenau, the army's liaison to the party, gave it to him by expelling Röhm from the German Officers' League. On June 29, a signed article in Völkischer Beobachter by Blomberg appeared in which Blomberg stated with great fervour that the _Reichswehr_stood behind Hitler. Hitler felt confident enough in his position to attend a wedding reception in Essen, although he appeared somewhat agitated and preoccupied. From there he called Röhm's adjutant at Bad Wiessee and ordered SA leaders to meet with him on June 30


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Last year I didn't go to ACTFL because my proposal wasn't accepted and I didn't get to score AP exams to be able to fund the trip.
This year I knew I wasn't even going to try to go, but the reason is much happier. I'll let Zoe tell you:
So, here we go again! :)
The general malaise has lasted a lot longer this time and my blog and my grading have taken the hit for that. I'm feeling pretty good most days now so I hope to pick it up before I drop off the blogosphere again to take care of the new little one (due June 14). But I have a lot of drafts sitting on my dashboard of ideas for upcoming blog posts.
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|Easton Express 07SEP1959, pg16
"Alford Infant
Charles Alford, 1, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Alford, 226 Reynolds St., Easton, died Saturday night at Betts Hospital. The child was admitted the day before with pneumonia.
He was born in Easton on Aug. 10, 1958.
Surviving, in addition to his parents, are a twin brother, Clarence Jr.; two sisters, Maxine and Roseann; his maternal grandfather, Dempsey Theadford, and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Willie Alford, all of Easton.
The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Pittenger Funeral Home, Wilson."
Little Charles has a memorial posted on FindAGrave, but no picture of the tombstone has been submitted yet. His memorial is listed as being in Easton Cemetery (plot 17). The memorial appears to have been created by his twin brother (or father), Clarence.
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Everyone has a life story that can be told in cars. My first car, a 1967 Pontiac Catalina, was roughly the size of the battleship Potemkin. My father wanted me to have a comfortable ride for my weekly commute from Baltimore to Richmond to finish college.
The old Pontiac was indeed a smooth ride, but my father had not considered that the car would be parked three days a week on an urban campus in a community of street parking and narrow alleys. Parallel parking was a skill I had not mastered by age 20. By the time I had my diploma, the car was missing much of its chrome, having lost it in various demolition derbies with dumpsters and telephone poles.
After I was employed and married, my husband decided it was not fitting that it cost more to replace a tire on the Pontiac than the car was worth, so he bought me a used Ford Pinto. The windows rattled, and there was that exploding gas tank problem.
The same month I made the last payment on the Pinto, I traded it in on my first new car, a Chevrolet Chevette, the Ford Focus of its day. I drove it for years after the last payment, and then one day I made a left turn from a right lane and was t-boned.
No one was hurt, but the Chevette was totaled. I visited it at the junkyard every day for a week before it disappeared. I called to it and cried through the chain link fence, apologizing for killing it, begging its forgiveness. It had nothing to say to me. For some sins, there is no absolution.
In despair, we began the search for a replacement. It was June, and every halfway decent used automatic in town had already been snapped up as high school graduation presents. I left lot after lot in tears, refusing to be paired with cars even a high school boy wouldn't want.
Just when it seemed my marriage would not survive the trauma of another car salesman, we found a Toyota Corolla. It was six years old and cost the same as my Chevette did new.
My husband was annoyed. It was supposed to be his turn to get another car, not mine, and the marriage did not survive past the last car payment. I drove the Toyota back into single life, and for the next six years was at the mercy of every unethical mechanic in the world. They'd bring out greased bundt pans and cracked Magic 8 balls, claiming they were my clogged or dysfunctional car parts that needed costly overhauls. What did I know?
By the time I paid for two head gaskets, even the Toyota felt sorry for me. It drove itself through a red light and not only were we t-boned by a work van, but we were spun around twice and hurled into two other cars parked at a dirty bookstore. Everyone in the bookstore fled, even the drivers of the damaged parked cars, leaving only my eyewitness account that the Toyota had indeed committed suicide to spare me any more expense.
Now I had to buy a car without a man for guidance. I searched the used car lots at night, when all the salesmen had gone. I found a Tercel and returned to the lot the next day to buy it. Then I noticed the car next to it, a Mercury Tracer, the same color as my Chevette and with a similar body shape. I felt the forgiveness I had never received from the Chevette. It had come back to me, reincarnated as a Tracer, but I recognized my old car's soul immediately. When I sat in the driver's seat, it gave me a hug.
That car is 13 years old now and has 200,000 miles on it. I drove it for seven years. After I hooked up with the Tracer, I asked God to send me a man to take care of it so I wouldn't be at the mercy of mechanics. He said I would know him by this sign. The first guy who offered to change my oil, without my asking, was the Chosen One. A year later, the Chosen One appeared and changed my oil. During the next six years, he would either change or oversee the replacement of every single part of the Tracer's motor.
Recently I bought my second new car ever, a Mazda Protégé. It cost almost four times what the Chevette did, but it plays CDs, and you can lock it with a remote even when you're across the street.
When we went to "just look," I learned the Chosen One had a character flaw. Although he can fix cars, he cannot haggle. We were ushered into three different arenas of clipboard-armed babbling salesmen before we drove out with a car, and each time we left a room, with handshakes all around, the monthly payment was higher.
I'm looking at four years of macaroni and cheese, but I like my new car. I still feel a mystic bond with the Tracer for rescuing me at my lowest ebb, and I see it every day because the Chosen One drives it now. I still cry about the Chevette. I can see it in my mind's eye, brand new on the lot, and crushed, behind a chain link fence. The Protégé, with any luck, is my last car. It will drive me into senility.
That's my life as told in cars.
Mariane Matera is a Richmond driver and essayist.


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The Extra Large Single Door Dog Crate is perfect for crate training your dog while staying well ventilated and easy to clean.
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The Beast is a boss found in Upper Blackrock Spire. It appears to be a Core Hound that has been captured by the forces of Nefarian for use in his breeding experiments. (Experiments on other core hounds could account for the creation of Chromaggus, a core hound-like dragonkin who is the penultimate boss found in Blackwing Lair.)
At some point before he is encountered by a party, the Beast had swallowed Finkle Einhorn, a gnomish adventurer who has survived in the Beast's stomach for an unspecified period of time. Skinning The Beast will free Finkle.
Essentially, a tank will need to keep aggro on The Beast at all times as he hits extremely hard and can kill a cloth wearer in 2 or 3 hits. The rest of the raid will want to DPS him. As long as the Main Tank can keep aggro (best to say the Main Tanks, since it is unlikely that aggro can be consistently held, due to The Beast's oft-cast fears and random charges) and you have sufficient healing, this fight should be a simple one. He may drop [Finkle's Skinner], which increases skinning by 10, so anyone in the group with a skinning skill of 300 should roll on this if they don't have it already, otherwise it can be greeded. It is vital to have a player in the raid who can skin The Beast, as they can receive the [Pristine Hide of the Beast] and also reveal Finkle Einhorn, who is the start of a quest chain.
NOTE: With the release of the Burning Crusade,Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysm, it is possible to raise your profession level to a maximum of 525, thus making it a simple task for any skinner who has been to at least Outland to skin The Beast.
NOTE: Despite being a Boss Mob, The Beast is tamable by Hunters who have the 51-point talent in Beast Mastery. A tamed version of this particular Core Hound retains it's status as a Level ?? (Boss).


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And he's the episode of them:
The cunning ones kneel before six masters, but serve only one.
Oh god man, Dat last episode.Best way to end a series. Ever.Spoiler:
4th Wall breaking galore,
Batmite confirmed for best character,
and best of all, Music Meister playing soft piano rendition of "If Only", during that final farewell party where EVERYFUCKINGBODY is in attendance.
Whoa. Space Ghost on Batman Brave and the Bold? That was shocking. Did DC buy rights to Hanna Barbera heroes?
Doesn't Warner Bros own DC and essentially own most of the Hanna-Barbera catalog?
It's been that way for well over a decade now.
During the '80s, Ted Turner purchased MGM; he eventually sold it, but kept their film libary along with all of the animation. He also gained control of the Fleischer/Famous catalogue as part of that; maybe part of Van Bueren's library as well though I'm not sure about that. In 1991, he bought Hanna-Barbera and its library along with most of Ruby-Spears catalogue, which allowed him to start Cartoon Network not long afterwards.
Then in the later '90s, Ted sold out to Warner Brothers, which already owned DC as well as MAD Magazine. So Warner Brothers controls their animation libary, the MGM library, and Hanna-Barbera.
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Ah didn't know that. Very interesting. Hope for a Birdman scene!
Bold Beginnings was great :D
Very cool to have Space Ghost guest star
My favorite part is Plasticman stretching his own butt to remove the bomb XD
Four Star Spectacular was a great :D
All 4 shorts were great My most favorites are Flash and Creature Commandos
Good to see The Creature Commandos and Mazing Man first time animated
Mazing Man imaging Batman panicking was very funny XD
I also like that it has less Batman
They should do these shorts more often on the previous seasons or have them for DC Nation
Kamen Rider OOOs
'Mazing Man is just DC's Forbush Man, correct? Or do I have that backwards?
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Awesome Final Episode :D
Great to see Ambush Bug first time animated and voiced by Fonzie
My favorite parts Batmite changing the show and Ambush Bug making Batman and Aquaman punch him XD
The Lincoln Teaser was good
I'm so sad that it's Batman The Brave The Bold Last Episode,They brought so many Great DC Heroes and Villlains in the show and even ones that have never been animated before
Good Night Batman The Brave And The Bold you were such a awesome show ;-;
Kamen Rider OOOs
That little speech at the end by Batman was just wonderful; there's no other words for it.
And I really loved the metahumor of the whole thing; Cousin Oliver, Ted McGinley (with blatant references to people criticizing his Jefferson character on Married With Children as ruining the show no less), Ambush Bug, and the whole reference to fanboys freaking out over the lighter tone.
I really, really hope that Ambush Bug gets to be part of DC Nation; it's too good a fit to pass up.
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Book I: Stirrings in the Darkness
Stirrings in the Darkness is the first book of The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar.
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[edit] Foreword: An Unwanted Guest
The player finds Barliman Butterbur at The Prancing Pony. He informs that the person the player is looking for is staying at the inn. Butterbur is nervous about him staying at his inn, but he can't turn down good money. He whispers that the man goes by the name Strider and that he is a Ranger. He gives the player directions to his room.
[edit] Chapter 1: Unravelling the Thread
Strider tells the player that they need to unravel the threads of the plans of the Captain of the Nine. There is a Blackwold camp just east of Bree where he believes that Amdir, a Ranger whose alligance changed to Angmar, and Skorgrím, leader of the Dourhands, went. He wishes for the player to help him and his company end Amdir's life at night fall.
At the camp Strider and the Ranger Lenglinn circle around the camp while the player and the Ranger Torthann attack the camp from the front. After defeating the brigands Torthann and the player encounters Skorgrím. After driving the dwarf out of the camp the party is reunited with Strider and Lenglinn. Togther they make their way deeper into the camp where they witness the Nazgûl changing Amdir into a wraith. The party manages to scare the Nazgûl away and then slay Amdir before the transformation could be completed.
[edit] Chapter 2: To a Constable's Aid
Strider is curious of the nature of Skorgrím. He mentions that dwarves are by nature honourable and cannot be dominated by the will of any. Strider requests the player to go speak to Constable Underhill in Combe, report what has happened and investigate the Blackwolds old hideout.
[edit] Chapter 3: Blackwolds Broken
Constable Underhill informs you that the leader of the Blackwolds was William Skunkwood, but he has died. He agrees to investigate the old hideout and make certain that the brigands are not regathering their strength. The old hideout was a cave near Staddle Falls not far from Staddle.
Constable Underhill discovers that Skorgrím and some Dourhand Dwarves are attempting to persuade the new Blackwold leader to join the forces of Angmar. He refuses to do so and Skorgrím orders the Dwarves to kill them. Underhill rushes to his aid. He manages to slay the Dwarves, but Skorgrím escapes. The Blackwold confesses that Éogan, their leader that took over after Skunkwold, wanted to join Angmar for riches. After Éogan's death, the rest of the Blackwolds agreed to have no part with Angmar and ally themselves with men from the South. The Dourhand Dwarves were not pleased and slayed the rest of his men. After finishing his tale, the last leader of the Blackwolds dies from his wounds.
[edit] Chapter 4: Dark Designs
Constable Underhill tells you to report what you heard and saw to Strider back at The Prancing Pony. He is thankful for the news, but his attention is turned towards the Nazgûl. They attempted to attack four Hobbits from the Shire.
[edit] Chapter 5: The Other Riders
Strider says that there were only five Nazgûl that attempted to change Amdir and attacked the four Hobbits under his protection. The Nazgûl number nine which means there are still four hiding somewhere. He asks the player to speak to the Ranger Lenglinn. Strider sent him to watch over Mr. Underhill in Buckland. Yet, that Hobbit is now in his care. Strider gives the player directions to Lenglinn's camp.
The player learns that the remaining four Nazgûl did ride into Buckland on black horses. The Ranger attempted to block their way but was gravely wounded.
[edit] Chapter 6: In the Black Riders' Wake
Lenglinn points out that crebain started to show up in the Black Riders' wake. He informs the player that they are the eye of the Enemy and are watching over both Buckland and the Shire. He requests the player to dispatch of them so that they cannot report back to their master.
[edit] Chapter 7: Horn-call of Buckland
With the crebain problem solved, Lenglinn and the player are able to speak. He states he doesn't know Mr. Underhill but was told by Aragorn to watch over a Mr. Baggins. He is relieved to hear that he is now safe with Aragorn. He asks the player to go to Crickhollow and discover if the Nazgûl learned of anything.
At Crickhollow, the player finds a Hobbit named Fredegar Bolger. Fredegar says that Black Riders did come into Baggins' home while he was inside, but he managed to slip out back. He continues that he reported to the Shirriffs that Frodo left for the Old Forest before they showed up. He also states that he made no mention of the Enemy's Ring. Just when he noticed his mistake telling the player about the Ring some crebain fly out and attack the Hobbit. The player is able to defend him, but two manage to escape and head off to the Old Forest.
The player returns to Lenglinn to report that Frodo was not captured. The player also asks about a Ring that belongs to the Enemy. Leglinn does not answer, but is greatly concerned to hear that two crebain managed to hear about the Ring and escape. He asks you to report what happened to Aragorn in Bree at the Prancing Pony.
Aragorn is distressed to hear the news and elects to head out of Bree with the four Hobbits with haste.
[edit] Chapter 8: Master of the Wood
Aragorn tells the player to search for Tom Bombadil in the Old Forest near Withywindle. Aragorn hopes that he will help you search for the crebain that overheard the Hobbit's words if you mention that he sent the player.
[edit] Chapter 9: Lilies for the River-daughter
Tom Bombadil agreed that he would help find the missing crebain. Yet, only after the player helped him with the important task of picking water lilies for the River-daughter. He informed the player that there are some growing not far from Old Man Willow.
[edit] Chapter 10: Into the Barrow-downs
Once the water lilies are collected Tom Bombadil informs you that the crebain are in the Barrow-downs with a lady named Andraste. He tells the player to follow the Old Barrows Road to reach them.
The player defeats both the birds and their mistress Andraste. She reveals that the master of the Nine had gone off to Othrongroth.
[edit] Chapter 11: Othrongroth
The player decides to spy on the Witch-king of Angmar in Othrongroth. Tom Bombadil agrees to take you to the Great Barrow.
The player spies the Witch-king and Skorgrím as they enter into the barrow and the player enters inside without the aid of Tom. After fighting some Dourhands and wights, the player listens in on the Witch-king talking to Skorgrím. The player learns that they came here to meet Ivar and then will travel to the north to meet up with Mordirith. The player learns no more as the Witch-king spots the player and summons more wights along with the Wight-lord Sambrog to deal with the player as they make haste to carry out their plans.
The wight-lord informs the player that Skorgrím will go to the north to gather up a great army while the Witch-king will go to Agamaur to awaken a great power that lies in the waters. Before Sambrog can slay the player, Tom Bombadil suddenly appears and vanquishes the wight-lord. Tom skips out of Orthongroth as the player follows him.
[edit] Chapter 12: The Black Rider's Designs
The player returns to the Prancing Pony to inform Strider of all you have learned, but you find the room in was staying in locked. Speaking with Barliman Butterbur you learn that Strider left some time ago with Mr. Underhill and three other Hobbits. He also tells you that Gandalf is now staying at the inn and that Gandalf instructed him to have anyone looking for Strider to speak to him.
The player finds Gandalf in his room and informs him about the Witch-king's plans. Gandalf is disturbed by the news and requests the player to travel to Agamaur as he has other pressing business to take care of.
[edit] Comparison with Published Works
The story in this book take place during the events just before "At the Sign of the Prancing Pony" through midway of "A Knife in the Dark".


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Nice, Sonic! This is also a very fine Dufay recording: Note please, this is volume two, which is superior imo, to volume one. The instrumental accompaniment is far more discreet here, than on volume one.Edit: I find that Van Nevel recording to be really excellent. One of his best.
Hi SanAntone - the book was first published in 1966 (and reprinted in 1986, but not really a 2nd edition); the author is Richard L. Crocker, born in 1927 and still alive (check the link for more detail, if interested). The book is well written w/ a LOT of detail on early music (believe the author's specialty) - there is a lot on theory, musical evolution, sheet music examples, etc. - I scanned this material quickly (really hard for me to understand - not my training or inherent aural skills); concentrates on the major composers of their times, again well done - I have the paperback and the printing is small and not easy to read; I'm looking at the book on my iPad (a very easy read and a cheaper Kindle option). The book is highly rated on Amazon (except for a 2* commenter who probably was overwhelmed by the musical detail and theory) - I would likely do a 4* rating w/ the reservation that some knowledge of music annotation and theory would help. Dave
Interesting because my reaction to Marcon's Bach is quite similar to yours. Johanssen however I find more rewarding, even if his style is somewhat restrained. Try the triosonatas and the CD: Der junge Bach played on the Schnitger organ in Cappel.
Actually, I enjoy Johanssen's disk of trio sonatas as one of my very favorites...
Hi Gordo!Nice to see you posting. Cheers!
Like faulting L'oiseau de feu for not being Petrushka!
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Fairest of all: Snow White succeeds in its beauty
Snow White and the Huntsman reinvents the legendary story in a film of astonishing beauty and imagination. It's the last thing you would expect from a picture with this title. It falters in its storytelling, because Snow White must be entirely good, the Queen must be entirely bad, and there's no room for nuance. The end is therefore predetermined. But oh, what a ride.
This is an older Snow White than we usually think of. Played for most of the film by Kristen Stewart, capable and plucky, she spent long years locked in a room of her late father's castle, imprisoned by his cruel second wife (Charlize Theron). When she escapes and sets about righting wrongs, she is a mature young woman, of interest to the two young men who join in her mission. But the movie sidesteps scenes of romance, and in a way, I suppose that's wise.
The Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) is a heroic, mead-guzzling hunter who is assigned by the Queen to track down Snow White and bring her back to the castle. After encountering her, however, he is so impressed he changes sides. There is also Prince William (Sam Claflin), smitten by her since childhood, and the two men join in an unstated alliance. Full ReviewRead more on: Snow White and the Huntsman


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Month late: Scrap yard to debut 'METAL' program
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It's "troop" leader....
It's so relaxing, searching for that piece of meal of just the right dimensions, or having that perfect potential, kind of like beach-combing, or gazing at pebbles in a stream. I can't wait.
Thank you, protestors, for appealing this to Cycle Systems.
@Hey now: Thanks for the sharp eye on the spelling of troop. Fixed now!--hawes spencer, lazy editor
@hawes - never would I use the term lazy and your name in the same area...
I do like the idea of further recycling the metal there but I can see so much potential to do other things for the community too. How about contests of local artists creating items which proceeds could go to charity? Or perhaps the winner would be one of the "Art In Place"?
I'm all for making it easier to buy some of the cool things that get taken to Cycle Systems BEFORE they get melted down (and shipped to China) but Cville Native's idea seems backwards to me. It would be a much better idea to take most of the "Art in Place" monstrosities to the scrap yard than to mine the scrap yard to make more ugly public art.
Glad they've seen the light. Now, if we could just get an attitude adjustment of the "lady" at the window. Surly and self-important.
I think that lady doesn't get fired because she knows about how CS takes in and smashed air conditoners, etc without checking for refrigerant.
They just make you sign a disclaimer (when you leave) which is in English, a strange language not practiced by a good number of their peddlers.


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Md. police pursuit leads to arrests of Pa. gun store robbers
Detectives: Men stole 29 guns, drove them to Baltimore
A robbery at a gun store in Pennsylvania led to a police pursuit and the recovery of the more than two-dozen stolen guns in Baltimore City, police said.
Surveillance video from the gun store showed a car ramming into the front of the store in Saxton, Pa., early Monday morning. At one point, the videos showed a man running through the store. Police said two of the men left with 29 handguns.
According to court records, 25-year-old's Michael Faircloth and Garrett Sherlock then drove to Baltimore, where police spotted the car in the 700 block of North Carrollton Avenue around 4 p.m. Tuesday.
"They saw the vehicle matching the description. At that time, they set up surveillance on the vehicle, and the vehicle fled the location," said police Major Dan Lioi.
A high-speed pursuit ended at the corner of North Chapelgate Road and Baltimore National Pike, where the suspects crashed. Police said the men had to be cut out of the vehicle and taken to Shock Trauma, where they were listed in serious condition Tuesday night.
"Under the driver's seat of the vehicle was a loaded firearm, and in the rear trunk of the vehicle was a duffle bag which contained 28 additional firearms," Lioi said.
According to police, each gun had a street value of $300 to $500. Police said they also found cocaine in the car.
Police Commissioner Anthony Batts praised the work of the officers involved.
"If we hadn't done this good work, these guns -- no doubt in my mind -- would have resulted in taking young lives on the streets of Baltimore, but we have taken them off," Batts said.
Department officials said there has been an increase in gun arrests so far this year.


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Deluge Restaurant, tucked away in the swanky Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel, offers an alternative to the neighborhood's traditional fare. It features upscale, contemporary Asian and American dishes in a unique, surprising setting that's more akin to Manhattan than Shanghai.
Deluge is just one of over 75 restaurants participating in Queens Restaurant Week, which kicks off this week through October 15. Featured restaurants offer special $25 prix fix lunch/dinner menus, and an opportunity to enjoy some of the borough's finest fare without breaking the bank.
Hotel dining experiences can be both pricey and intimidating. Part of Deluge's appeal is its unpretentious ambiance, attentive (albeit sometimes uninformed) wait staff and elegant décor. Although the impressive interior waterfall that wowed entering patrons when the restaurant first opened back in 2007 is gone ("We're going green," explains one server), Deluge's white-tablecloth atmosphere is eye-catching.
The airy, ground-floor space combines old world flair with chic, modern decorative touches - including beautiful wrought-iron chandeliers and intimate, cabana-style seating for couples and small parties.
The restaurant's regular menu is as diverse as Queens itself. Now under the direction of Executive Chef Kevin Wong, it is globally inspired and divided into two parts.
One menu is Western-influenced and includes everything from onion rings and Braised Short Ribs to Linguini with Clams and Shrimp, while the other is composed mostly of Asian cuisine such as Peking Pork, Drunken Chicken (which is, oddly, served cold) and Moo Po Tofu.
The dishes on both menus are generously proportioned, heavily sauced and tastefully presented. The French-cut and breaded Sa-Cha Lamp Chops are tasty and tender. The Thai Basil Marinated Pork Lion is served with a somewhat bland sweet ginger potato purée.
Regular entrees are $15-$25, which makes the special Restaurant Week menu an incredible steal.
The yummy Lychee Martini, made with fresh Lychee puree, is a sweet, delicious accompaniment or perfect after-dinner drink. It's one of 15 specialty cocktails served up at Deluge and recommended by the wait staff.
Deluge's Restaurant Week menus do not feature items on the regular menu, but still focus on contemporary Asian and American fare, including Jelly Fish Salad, Citrus-Ginger Scallops and decadent Chocolate Mousse Cake, to name a few.
At just $25 for three courses, it's arguably among the best bang for your Restaurant Week buck - and a good excuse to visit a unique Flushing destination.
The lunch menu is served from 11:30 a.m to 5 p.m. and dinner from 5 to 10 p.m. Visit www.delugerestaurant.com for the entire menu.
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