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~peech of f enator Mike Mansfield (D., Montana) FR I JUN 1 2 1959 PM
After four weeks of negotiating in Geneva we have little to show
for our efforts. If the usual procedure is followed, we can expect agitation
to the effect that we are wasting our time and that our representatives ought
to come home. For them to do so at this time, in my opinion, would be a
mistake. It has taken four weeks to bring to a head the basic business of the
conference. That basic business is Berlin, even though the question of
Berlin is related to other questions affecting Germany as a whole and Central
Europe. However, we must not lose sight of the fact that it was the Berlin
Crisis which brought the Geneva Conference into being in the first place and
not the larger questions of German reunification or European security.
In the light of disturbing reports of impending failure at Geneva,
I should like to recall that just four months ago I addressed the Senate on
the German situation. In subsequent discussions on the floor other Members
analyzed this situation in detail and discussed possibilities for meeting the
problems which it posed. I recall, particularly, the observations of the
distinguished chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations (Mr. Fulbright),
the remarks of the Senator from Connecticut (Mr. Dodd), the bold plan of the
Senator from Indiana (Mr. Capehart) and the critical and constructive comments
of the Senator from New York (Mr. Javits).
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 40, Folder 31, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
When I spoke on the German situation last February, I was moved
to do so by one principal consideration. We were committed at that time, as
we are now, to stand fast in West Berlin. It seemed to me, however, that
we were committed to that position in support of policies which, conceived
more than a decade earlier under another Administration, had become
inadequate, if not obsolete, in the light of current conditions and the current
needs of this nation and other Western states. It seemed to me that those
policies no longer held realistic hope of leading towards a stable peace and
the greater security of freedom in Germany and Europe. They promised -these
inadequate and obsolete policies -- at best only a desperate and costly
rearguard action to maintain a surface status quo which was becoming ever
more separated from the underlying realities of the evolving situation in
Germany, Europe and the world. At worst, those policies promised a
disastrous diplomatic retreat or a catastrophic war -- limited or unlimited
-- a war by accident or miscalculation.
These thoughts, Mr. President, were spoken freely in the Senate
last February 12. and in four subsequent speeches. They were spoken with
the intent of being constructive. They were spoken out of a desire to cooperate
responsibly with the Administration. They were spoken in the hope of
encouraging a wide utilization of the most powerful device of freedom -- the
device of full and free discussion -- in order to recast and to strengthen our
policies to meet the impending crisis in Germany,
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 40, Folder 31, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
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In that spirit, Mr. President, I advanced nine essentials for a
positive Western policy on Germany, These proposals were not, for the
most part, original except in their restatement in the context of my remarks.
Nor were they set forth in a package, on an ali-or-nothing basis. On the
contrary, some of them were already implicit in our policies, and all of
them were obviously subject to modification and elaboration. Nevertheless,
they were set forth, as one Senator's views, of a possible way around the
dangerous impasse towards which the world appeared to be headed in Germany.
Let me recall in summary form at this point these nine suggested
essentials of policy, as they were stated and developed in subsequent speeches,
( 1) f:tand fast in Berlin, not as a slogan, not as an end in itself
but as the basis for a Western initiative for peace in Europe.
(2) Call upon the German leaders of the East and West Berlin
communities to begin serious negotiations for unifying the public services and
municipal government of that city.
(3} Enlist the conciliatory services of the Secretary-General of the
United Nations in the effort to bring about the interim unification and neutralizabut
of all Berlin;
ti.on, not just of West Berlin/ guarantee by U.N. or other international
means the free use of the routes of access to the entire city until such time
as it became once again the capital of a unified Germany.
( 4) If this or a similar approach to interim unification and
neutralization of all Berlin is not obtained, then continue the Western
presence in West Berlin, whether or not the Russians chose to leave the
other sector of the city.
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 40, Folder 31, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
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(5) If forced to maintain the Western presence in West Berlin in
such circumstances, however, consider seriously withdrawing the garrisons
of French, British and American forces from the city and replacing them
with West Germans supported by NATO guarantees.
(6) Call upon the Germans in authority in West and East Germany
to talk, to talk a great deal on the whole range of problems involved in
harmonizing the political, economic and military systems of the two zones
as an essential preliminary step to the unification of Germany.
(7) Call upon the East German communists and the Russians to
permit the exercise, without the threat of terror, of basic political freedoms
in the Eastern zone, as a preliminary to reunification.
(8) 8eek agreements between the ~oviet Union and the Western
allies to guarantee for a period of years the kind of unified Germany which
might emerge from German discussions and see to it that a reunited Germany
is neither subjected to military pressures by its neighbors or becomes a
source of aggressive military pressure on them.
(9) To that end consider agreements for the control and limitation
of armaments in Germany and Central Europe along the lines of the Eden
Plan, the Rapacki Plan and similar plans, predicating them on satisfactory
agreements being reached at the Geneva Conferences on the Prevention of
8urprise Attacks and the Suspension of Nuclear Testing.
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 40, Folder 31, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
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Mr. President, when these proposals were advanced initially there was
a great deal of comment on them both at home and abroad. Some of it was
critical and some of the criticism was little short of an expression of shoc~~ed
Yet the proposals were not too far removed from the chane;es which
Mr. Dulles was seeldng to bring about in VJ estern policy during his last trip
abroad, shortly before he was strici:en. Since that time, Mr. President, we
have, in fact, witnessed a major evolution of United States and Vlestern policy
with r~spect to Germany in the direction of these proposals.
This nation went into the present Geneva Conference with a Eeneral
approach which represented a sharp modification of the policies to which we
had clun.:; for years. The new approach has made it evident that while we would
stand fast in Berlin, we would do so not as an end in itself, but as the basis for
moving towards a reasonable settlement of basic Berlin, German and European
problems. Beyond standing fast, we have sugeested at Geneva a specific plan
for bringing about negotiations for the reunification of the public services and
municipal government of that city. We have called for a phased reunification
of all Germany based upon extensive contact and extensive talk on the part of
the German authorities of the East and Vi est prior to free, all-German elections.
Vle have soueht the restoration of the right of open political activity for all
Germans, free of terror and le gal reprisals, in both zones. V!e have expressed
our willingness to see:< a ereements between the Soviet Union and the Vl!estern
n ations to ~;,uarantee a unified Germany and its neiehbors a eainst a c e;re ssion.
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 40, Folder 31, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
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We have noted our willingness to consider limiting the level of arrr~aments in
both parts of Germany and a reduction in foreign forces in that country- -a
position v•hich seems to me to encompass the basic philosophy of the Eden
and Rapacld Plans.
There is really only one sharp difference, Mr. President, between
the proposals which I suggested last February and the proposals which are
listed in what has been termed the VJ"estern Package at Geneva. We did not
see fit to deal initially with Berlin as the most pressing of the German problems
and I am sure Mr. Herter and his associates have had r;ood reasons
for p roceeding as they h ava until now. Nor have we--Mr. Hammarskjold
apparently concurring- -seen fit to call upon the conciliatory services of the
United Nation.s Secretary General to bring about an interim neutralization of
all Berlin under international auspices.
One other of the nine essentials of policy listed last ~ ebruary is not
embraced in pre sent policy; that is, the possible substitution of V'! est Germans
for the British, French and l 1merican garrison in V/ est Berlin. That proposal,
however, was obviously not associated with a peace settlement. On
the contrary, it was intended as an alternative if the efforts to ne :::;otiate a
settlement in good faith were to fail.
Mr. President, I have taken the time of the Senate to review in
juxtaposition discussions and events that occurred in the past, and have
since tal~en place at Geneva. I have not undertaken this comparison out of
any desire to vindicate a position. I have not had occasion to alter that
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 40, Folder 31, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
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position significantly in the past and I see no need to justify it now. It was
presented, in February, as one Senator's views. It is still one Senator's
No, Mr. President, that has not been my purpose. My purpose
today as it was last February is to contribute constructively to the policies
which this Administration conducts on behalf of all of us, on behalf of all the
people of this nation--the policies upon which the peace and the well-being of
the United States so greatly depend.
Specifically, Mr. President, I wish, today, to call attention to the
fact that when I initially advanced the nine proposals they were not criticized
by a man who by the nature of his position has an enormous influence upon
the prospects for peace in the world. The Senate may recall that Premier
Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union commented publicly on the remarks
which I made on February 12. I refer, Mr. President, to a news story which
appeared in the Washington Star, February 19, 1959.
Mr. Khrushchev is reported in this story as hailing as 11worthy of
attention" certain of these proposals. He went on to say that "One could
reach agreement with people who have adopted such sober attitudes. 11 He
went on to say, further, "Supporters of the cold war are attacking Mansfield
and accusing him of making concessions to the U.s.s.R. Nobody is making
any concessions to us. Mansfield is just thinking soberly and sensibly."
It was the recollection of that comment by Mr. Khrushchev which
led me to make this statement, today, at a moment when the Geneva
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 40, Folder 31, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
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Confer~nce may be in dancer of failure. 'ilhat I wish to point out is this: I£
the Soviet Premier believed a few months ar:;o that the proposals which I had
made were "sober and sensible, 11 and, if, as I have just noted, proposals of
a very sin:ilar nature have been introduced at Geneva by the \"!estern delega-tiona,
then, perhaps, Mr. Khrushchev should also rezard the latter as "sober
and sensible. 11
True, l\lir. President, in comparing the statement which I made on
February 12 with the \!estern proposals which were presented in Geneva, one
rr.ay find that the "i' s 11 are not always dotted in precisely the same way and the
"t' s" are not always crossed exactly alE~e. But the intent is very similar.
Therefore, if the Goviet Premier believed that a basis for bonafide negotiations
resided in r.<1y staterr.ent, he rr.ay rest assured that it is also ~:: resent in the
·~;! estern proposals. Unless he has changed his rr.ind since that time or unless
he has not ceen adequately inforrr.ed, I believe Mr. Khrushchev will find that
these "v"!estern proposals at the Conference are equally, if not rtJore so, "v-torthy
of attention." I believe he will discover that the Secretary of Gtate 1 Mr. Herter 1
has presented these 1:,roposals not out of any attemp t to secure a hollow propa-zanda
victory, not out of any desire to exacerbate the cold war, ~:::ut in a sincere
effort to express in a practical fashion, the desire of the peor:le of the United
States to find a secure and equitable settlement of the fundamental problems of
a divided Berlin, a divided Germany and a divided .Surope. J,t the least, I
:respectfully suc;;est to Mr. :C~hrushchev that these proposals are worthy of a
more careful treatment at the hands of the Soviet Premier than they received
at the hands of the Soviet dele ::;ation which tended to dismiss them as completely
unacceptable or too involved or too complex.
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 40, Folder 31, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
- S-Mr.
President, I call the attention of the [ oviet Fremier to these
matters in the hope that, as he recogniz~s that the larger interests of the
Russian people, the people of the United .States and all peoples require peace,
no less will he recognize that the wish for p~ace must be translated into the
acts of peace. Specifically, it must be translated into agreements. What is
done in this connection at Geneva is essential to what may come later at a
If the West were to go to the summit, or, indeed, if the foviet Union
were to go to the summit with the two positions as far apart as they now are,
as a realist, Iv"r. Krushchev must know that little if anything would be accomplished.
That is why I hope the Soviet premier himself will consider the
Western proposals. I hope he will study them. I hope, on the basis of his
personal study, he will be specific, he will instruct his aides at Geneva in
terms of "this we can accept and this we must talk about further". It seems
to me, in the light of President Eisenhower's desire and effort to be reasonable,
in the light of the new approach which the Western nations have pursued
at Geneva, some such action on Mr. Krushchev's part is essential at this
point to advance the cause of peace. He can do much to clarify the areas of
agreement which already exist and to delineate the areas of disagreement
which must be reconciled by direct talks of Heads of States. Unless this is
done now, what, indeed, can we or the Russians expect to achieve by a meeting
of a few days duration at the summit? If there is, in fact, something else
to be achieved then it would be helpful if the Soviet Premier made clear what
it is.
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 40, Folder 31, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
I urge this course, in all sincerity, on the Soviet Premier. I urge
him to take it before positions solidify into the brittle crusts of propaganda,
before decisions are made that cannot be revoked. In this connection Let me
say that it may not be possible to stop the E:oviet Union from making a separate
peace treaty with East Germany, if that is its intention. Nor can that nation
be stopped from withdrawing its forces from Berlin, if it so desires, before a
broad settlement is reached. If either of these irrevocable steps is taken,
however, the tasks of peace-making will be infinitely compounded. The
breach may no Longer be closable in this generation or the next. The seeds
of inevitable war may well be implanted.
The moment calls for patience, not impetuosity. It calls for forebearance.
This is not the time for the West or for the Soviet Union to entertain
the idea of picking up their respective marbles and going home.
We have stated and we will continue to reiterate, as the President and
Secretary Herter have on so many occasions, that there will be no summit
meeting unless a degree ci progre ss is achieved. The President noted on
June 3 that he would be prepared to define liberally what he meant by progress.
I commend him for his willingnes a to stay in the game and for his statesmanship
in giving every possible encouragement to our Secretary of !:tate in the
difficult negotiations now being conducted in Geneva.
If we are firmly convinced that there is no basis for a settlement, then
we should be prepared to break off the conference, cleanly, honestly, and
without futile recriminations. We should not do so, however, until every
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 40, Folder 31, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
possible facet is explored and every possible move is made. I am certain
that it is fue intent of the President and Secretary Herter and his colleagues
to strive to arrive at equitable agreements. I am Likewise certain that if
and when the time arrives when the representatives of the West are convinced
that there is no point in continuing the talks at Geneva, that they wiLL make
their decision known and return to their respective countries. Certainly,
however, that point has not yet been reached. Let us be in no hurry. Let
us be patient and Let us explore every reasonable and honorable channel in
the hope that an agreement is still possible and that the deepest desire of
mankind can, at least in part, be realized. No nation at this critical time
has the right to be more interested in saving face than in safeguarding
Mike Mansfield Papers, Series 21, Box 40, Folder 31, Mansfield Library, University of Montana
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[This message edited by HippyQueen at 8:51 PM, January 8th (Saturday)]
3/1/11 - heading for D.
6/4/11 R- Turned out to be false.
7/29/11 another D-day and decision
"So, So what, I'm still a rock star, I've got my rock moves and I don't need you" ~ Pink
Life is great!
GoArmyLife, when you've gotten to 50 posts, a new forum opens up called Investigative Tips and you can ask them there. I don't know how to remotely access anything but you need to do what feels right for you. Ask him for his skype password and if he gets upset, then that means he is either in the fog or he potentially has something to hide. Check out the Healing Library in the yellow box in the upper left corner and also, if you haven't done so already, check out the military section in I Can Relate. Maybe they have some useful tips for you. But I think you should ask and honestly, you need to feel comfortable. I can only imagine how much harder this all is with the distance. He may be having times when he doesn't feel like talking so why not set up dates to talk about things? that way he is prepared mentally for it and it's not a surprise to him. (((GAL)))
forgiven and in R :)
"To err is human.
To forgive,
The other issue is a social network that he frequents. I googled his screen name and found that his profile says he's single and there are a lot of flirty texts with various girls. There's definitely some some kisa going on, all of these girls seem to have a "crisis". I believe that he really doesn't understand the boundaries being crossed here, he doesn't think any of it can be real. Its just fantasy/fiction/hobby. Anyone have any ideas on how to get the point across without smashing the computer and screaming?
The hard thing is learning how to trust him again. We have full transparency now. I still find it hard to trust him. He carried on all over the internet on personals, social sites, sex sites, craigs list, backpages, etc....I found numerous profiles, emails, etc.....He claims he only talked to these women online and never met up with any of them. I just dont know even after almost a year if I believe him. I know I have to start trusting him again but I am scared he is going to hurt me.
The one thing I do know is all these online sites are disgusting. Craigs list is basically just a prostitution ring. I read many emails from women to my husband offering sex for money.
I found my WH's online dating sites and profiles (where he claimed that he was already divorced and had no kids- WTF?!?).
When I confronted him about it, he said that he did it because he was lonely, and that he was just "messing around." Again, WTF?!?!
He has since been texting all day and night, during work hours. I was told not to text him at work because he would lose his job. He also said he hates it when his phone goes off, and when I just keep texting him. But apparently it is okay for his whores.
Couple comments:
I recently read that about 35% of divorce litigation involves internet/pornography usage.
That 35% does not reflect all the marriages which have detriorated due to inappropriate internet activity, but remain painfully intact due to the kids or for financial reasons.
Very sad.
~Citizen Cope
I've confronted him and he's sad sorry and he'll do whatever blah blah blah. But he still says that "nothing happened" He doesn't understand that an A can happen with his penis is in his pants. (He had a ons in August and confessed the next day because the guilt was killing him). His avatar has sex online with other avatars. There's close relationships all over the place.
How do I convince him that this isn't ok, that it is just as much cheating as the ons was?
I am over a year into R so our marriage is actually now in a good place. I wouldn't say that I trust him fully but I am not sure if I ever will. It just was to much. Site after site, profile after profile, emails, usernames, chats, pictures, you name it. As far as I am concerned he ever even thinks of looking at that crap again and it is over. I deserve better. I deserve a man who finds me special, who only wants to be with me, who would never talk to another woman. We all derserve that.
Oh and every now and then he has these thoughts that maybe he is not really an addict/he wasn't so bad because he didnt REALLY do anything. Yeah right.
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M: 6yrs
D-day 11/14/10 (found 5 years worth of emails/chats etc.)
..that feeling you get in your stomach, when you heart's broken. It's like all the butterflies just died.
Yes, you love this man, but he has put you at risk many times. What is he doing, besides saying he's sorry, to show you that he's going to change these things about himself? He has some very intensive work ahead, and if he's not in therapy, he needs to go- NOW. I'm sorry for your pain.
"There would be no grand absolution, only forgiveness meted out in these precious sips. It would well up from his heart in spoonfuls, and he would feed it to me. And it would be enough."
He claims he was contacting the girls(who were all around 22 years old...much younger than me),because he felt like I wasnt giving him any attention...he claimed it was to see if he could get them to send him pics of themselves. But,they're on craigslist advertising,so what kind of ego boost do you get from a girl who's already posted their nude pics on craigslist?? I read the emails he sent them. He told them all he was married. One he asked for a pic,she sent one of her face. He said,"damn youre cute! Where are you at? Any body pics?" She told him where she lived and no,no body pics. With another girl he told her she had a beautiful body and he wanted to text & exchange pics. The other girl he told he was "looking for a hottie to play with",and he mentioned the town he works in.
But he is now telling me he never would have met up with any of them,he was just looking for an ego boost. So why ask where they live? Why tell them the town you work in??
There were 65 men in his contact list. Several pics were exchanged,including one of his face. As far as I could tell,he only had physical contact with one of them. He says he placed two ads on craigslist(Ive seen one,but the other one wasnt in his inbox(craigslist sends a confirmation email w/the ad placed after its been posted). There were over 200 messages in his inbox,dating back to June. Anyway,he was advertising for a quick "blo n go" after work. He mentioned in several of the emails to these men that he could only spare about 5-10 minutes(so he woulodnt be too late getting home from work..he works second shift and I always wait up on him). He told them daytime meetings would be harder because "its hard to get away from the wife."
He ended up picking OM up near the library and taking him back to where he works(factory),and giving him a BJ in the back parking lot! He could have been seen. He could have lost his job. But this was more important. I ended up contacting the other man who told me my husband told him he was "happily married",he just "has a taste for some dick." The OM gave me details that my husband did not give me. Of course.
Its now been 6 months. I am in constant pain. He has changed who I am. I used to laugh and smile. Now I cant do that. My doctor has me on Zoloft,but its not helping much. When I ask him details,he tells me I know everything already. I dont believe that AT ALL. I have searched,but cant find any other email accounts. Ive searched the dating sites,and have found nothing. Ive accessed his cell phone history(it will only let me go back 6 months),and found several phone numbers I dont recognize. I did a search on the numbers,but still he claims not to recognize their names. They just magically appeared in his history. He claims he doesnt have a clue who they belong to. He says he never gave out his number to anyone. I also got the joy of seeeing just how much time he was spending on the internet(using his phone at work). We're talking HOURS. And he works at a factory,where he runs machines..yet he has all this time do play on his phone.He has been an open book since D-day..at least as far as I can tell..and Im looking(snooping)all the time. He is sorry. I do believe that. And he says he loves me and wants to be with me,and only me. I want to believe that,but I dont know if I can. He has changed since I found out(he was caught,BTW,he didnt tell me.He forgot to log off of his email account and that's how I found out. He had just placed another ad on cragslist. That was the first thing I read). He has been loving,understanding,patient(for the most part),and I do believe he really wants to get past this,and to help me past this.
We have not been to counseling. We cant afford it. I have asked him if he would read some of the things Ive found on here,and he said he would. Ive also asked him if he would start posting here,and he says he will. But has yet to do so. I dont think its because he doesnt want to,I think it's because he is ashamed. And he should be.
Also,he says he has always been bicurious,has always wanted to "see" what it was like. He says he has satisfied his curiousity and has no desire to do anything like that again.
I realized this is all jumbled together. Im sorry. There is just so many details and its all still mixed up in my mind.
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An Arvilla, ND, woman was treated for neck and hand injuries after an accident on Highway 2, one mile west of Arvilla.
Brekka Lund, 26, was heading eastbound on Highway 2 coming from Devils Lake at about 9:15 a.m. Wednesday.
After Lund crossed the westbound lanes to turn onto 32nd Ave., she stopped at a median crossover to wait for eastbound traffic to pass. According to the Highway Patol, Lund pulled out of the median and merged onto the eastbound lanes but did not see a 2005 Kenworth flatbed truck driven by Douglas Sannes, 59, of Fargo.
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On New Year's Eve in 1972, a plane carrying baseball star Roberto Clemente crashed about a mile off the shore of Puerto Rico. The right fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates was en route to Nicaragua to deliver aid to earthquake victims. He was 38 years old.
The story of his life and his humanitarian efforts are told in the "Beyond Baseball: The Life of Roberto Clemente" exhibit, which opens Saturday at the Orange County Regional History Center.
Clemente "was a Hall of Fame baseball player, but everything he did off the field that made him that special person is what this exhibition takes a good look at," says Michael Perkins, the history center's curator of exhibits.
Clemente, who played his entire 18-year Major League Baseball career with the Pirates, kept his native Puerto Rico in mind.
"He went back every winter, played baseball in a league or various leagues for teams much of the winter, along with opening a variety of different camps and teaching clinics for children to learn to play baseball, help them out all the time," Perkins says. "He was truly a person who gave of himself well above and beyond the ordinary."
One of his Caribbean projects was the creation of Sports City, an athletic complex in Carolina, Puerto Rico, which develops skills in underprivileged youth and discourages drug use. He also worked for recognition for his fellow Latin American players. After his death, he was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
After the crash, the New York Times reported that Clemente had heard that earlier supplies had fallen into the wrong hands, and he was going to Nicaragua to try to keep that from happening again.
The Times quoted a TV producer as saying that Clemente didn't just lend his name to the earthquake-relief effort.
"He took over the entire thing, arranging for collection points, publicity and the transportation to Nicaragua," he said.
The "Beyond Baseball" exhibit has relevance in Orlando for reasons beyond Clemente's caring nature. Central Florida's large Puerto Rican population gives the exhibit extra resonance.
"Roberto Clemente is a key person to the Puerto Rican community and for good reason because he was an amazing man," Perkins says. "It's great to share that story with people who are not necessarily familiar with it."
The exhibit is bilingual, something "we're very excited" about, Perkins says. "It has Spanish text along with the English, word for word."
Central Florida's history with spring training gives the exhibit another tie to the community.
"We used to host a variety of spring training teams all around, even here in Orlando," Perkins says. "It gives everyone a nice reminder of all the baseball that used to be played in Florida in the spring, particularly locally."
The story is told primarily through large visuals and several stories. Among the images is a photo of Clemente with New York Mets manager Yogi Berra before a spring training game in St. Petersburg.
"Beyond Baseball" is a Smithsonian traveling exhibition. The history center has supplemented it with items from the Baseball Hall of Fame and the city of Pittsburgh. But mostly, it's the story of Clemente.
"We hear a lot about guys today who may get their own and check out. He was absolutely the opposite of that," Perkins says. "He was completely committed to Puerto Rico and humanity and making the world a better place."
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•Graffiti artist Hector "Nicer" Nazario will paint a mural of Clemente in Heritage Park in front of the history center from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Jan. 28. Children will be selected to paint three sections of the work, which will be added to the exhibit.
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"There was not a single piece of legislation passed today," said a frustrated Sen. Del Marsh, R-Anniston, the president pro tempore of the Senate.
When the 35-member Senate convened at 10 a.m., nearly all of the 11 Democratic senators were absent. Several members of the Republican supermajority also were not in the chamber.
Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey gaveled the Senate into session, but Democratic Sen. Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, challenged the presence of a quorum. An official roll call from 10:12 a.m. showed 16 senators present — Singleton and 15 Republicans. That roll call also counted the vacant seat in Senate District 35 as a senator present in the chamber, for a seeming total of 17, still too little for a quorum.
Both parties claimed trickery by the other side. Marsh said he'd noticed early on, before the roll call vote, that few Democrats seemed to be in the chamber. He said he'd asked Singleton and Sen. Quinton Ross, D-Montgomery, to stay in the chamber to maintain a quorum. He claimed Ross walked out just before the vote.
Lt. Gov Kay Ivey said she saw a quorum in the chamber before the roll call.
"There were 18 in the chamber a moment before I banged the gavel," she said.
The Star found Ross in his Senate office shortly after the quorum debate broke out. He said he'd been called away from the chamber to do work related to his day job. Ross is an administrator at a technical college in Montgomery.
"I didn't realize that they didn't have a quorum," Ross said.
The two parties have been in trench warfare in the Senate since the passage, three weeks ago, of a school tax-credit bill called the Alabama Accountability Act. Democrats say last-minute changes to the bill amounted to a breach of faith. The Supreme Court dismissed a court challenge to the bill and Gov. Robert Bentley signed it into law — but Senate Democrats have filibustered Republican action in the Senate since.
Asked if Senate Democrats had an advance plan for a walkout Tuesday, both Ross and Senate Minority Leader Vivian Davis Figures, D-Mobile, said no.
"Everybody was genuinely running late today," Figures said.
The Senate session began at the same time as a joint House/Senate hearing on Medicaid reform, one of the major issues facing legislators this year.
Figures was quick to point out that Democrats wouldn't have planned a walkout because they had no chance of killing the quorum, due to their small numbers.
Marsh said the supermajority should always be able to get a quorum no matter what the Democrats do. He said he'd make sure there will be a quorum in the future — because blame will fall on Republicans if they don't.
"We have 22 people in the body," he said. "There's no excuse for us not to have a quorum."
The Senate adjourned without action, with a plan to meet again at 10 a.m. Wednesday. The move appears to have burned one day of the 30-day session for both the House and Senate.
State law allows each House to convene for only 30 days. Even a moment in session counts that day toward the total. If one house meets, the other house is required to meet on the same day.
There was no quorum dispute Tuesday in the House of Representatives, which met later in the day. The House voted to reconvene at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday and "call it a week," said Speaker Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn.
Wednesday will be the 15th day in session for both houses.
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On Facebook, Nebraska women stand in cornfields wearing sundresses, cowboy boots and great big smiles.
They hunt and fish, sporting both camo and makeup. They sunbathe on top of livestock trailers.
A bubbly, ambitious 20-year-old named Andrea Norris is the face, founder and curator of Real Nebraska Girls, a page on the social media site that is half hot-girl photo feed, half online community for young Nebraska women.
Many of the site's users — mostly country girls — enjoy conventional girly-girl activities like getting dressed up for a night out with friends, as well as less-conventional ones — say, four-wheeling.
Like many young women her age, Norris has grown up on the Internet and is drawn to online communities. She likes taking photographs of herself and feels almost compelled to share them online. It's a way of defining who she is, where she fits in.
But until Real Nebraska Girls, Norris — who spends her free time riding horses, hunting and hanging out with friends — couldn't find anyplace online for women like her.
Apparently, others felt the same way.
In just a few months, the page has attracted thousands of fans. It's become an online catalog of pretty women (and has been criticized for that) as well as a community, both on and offline. Men and women visit the page to look for people they know and pay compliments (mostly) to friends and strangers. Some women featured on the site have become real-world friends, and Norris frequently chats online with heavy users of the site, even those she hasn't met. This summer, the group plans a meetup at Country Stampede, an outdoor music festival in Kansas.
Norris, of Lincoln, said she hopes the site shows that women in Nebraska have many facets. One user, for example, recently submitted two photos — one in a dress she modeled during Los Angeles Fashion Week and another of herself bowhunting. The user wrote that she was equally as comfortable posing in an off-the-shoulder dress as she was stalking game. Real Nebraska Girls, these photos imply, are beautiful and laid-back, refined and down-home, successfully navigating various worlds and ways of life.
Others argue that a photo of a girl in a bikini or short shorts or even a pretty dress doesn't say any of these things.
"That site's not about female empowerment," said Megan Hunt, an Omaha blogger and the owner of several online ventures.
Norris says she started the site as an alternative to similar but more provocative sites — the Sexy Farmgirls Facebook page, for example. Norris launched on Dec. 4, promoting her site as a classier alternative. She first asked her Facebook friends to join, but soon the site had drawn fans from throughout Nebraska and across the United States. Photos and comments poured in.
From the beginning, Norris policed the comments, deleting inappropriate remarks and banning the occasional troll. But she said the comments on the site have been largely positive from the first. That's likely due in part to her diligence, but also to the fact that she had a connection to so many of the page's followers.
In addition, Nebraska's like a big small town. Everyone seems to be separated by just a few degrees, said Katie Jo Bosak, whose photographs frequently appear on the site.
Users think twice about posting anything mean, she said, because their target might be a friend of a friend. That's part of why Bosak feels OK about submitting her own photographs.
"It's a lot more personal than I think people realize," Norris said.
Personal doesn't mean small. In the four months since Norris started the page, Real Nebraska Girls has grown to have more than 21,000 fans.
Norris receives photos from friends and strangers — pageant queens and roller derby girls and lots and lots of country girls, most of whom initially stumbled across the site. She posts several each day, often adding her own captions: A recent example: I know i have posted a lot of bikini photos this week, but hey its Spring break! Hope y'all don't mind!
(Judging from comments, no one seemed to mind).
Most of the photos receive at least a hundred Facebook likes. Some get more than a thousand, plus dozens of comments and shares.
This came as something of a surprise to Norris, a pastor's daughter and customer relations manager at a car dealership who shares a love of God, guns and good times with many of the women who submit photographs.
"The fact that girls want to be on the page is crazy to me," she said. "It's awesome."
Kelsie Bard was among the first members of the Real Nebraska Girl community. Bard was Facebook friends with Norris when she started the page, though the two had never met. Bard first submitted one of her senior photos, in which she's wearing a sparkly pink strapless prom dress covered in mud. Her smile is enormous.
Bard selected that photograph because she felt it captured her personality, as much as a single photo could. Bard, like Norris, is a 20-year-old Lincoln woman. But she's also spent a lot of time on her grandmother's farm near Hastings, helping out with the chickens and the cows.
"I am half-city, half-country, but I love to be myself," she said, "and this is one of the ways to express it."
Many of the photographs Norris posts are in the same city-meets-country vein. Women in trendy outfits lean against fences or tractors or pose dramatically in the center of a desolate gravel road.
Bosak, 25, said these kinds of photos show that there is more than one way to be a woman.
"I think girls are stereotyped so much," the Genoa, Neb., woman said. "There's so much more to me and my friends. I can hunt and fish and change my own oil, and I'm an X-ray tech during the day."
Bosak said it was gratifying to realize that so many young women in Nebraska also loved to hunt. And she said it was fun to look through the photographs and see other interests reflected — women submit photos with pets, musical instruments and farm implements. They submit photographs taken in Omaha and Scottsbluff.
Bosak believes this diversity challenges the stereotype that Nebraska is just hicks and cornfields.
Why, then, are so many of the women photographed in cornfields?
"Well, it's kind of hard to take them without the cornfields," Bosak said. "They're everywhere."
Bosak, Bard and Norris are of the generation who live their lives online. Norris has had a Facebook account since high school. Sharing photos and participating in discussions online is part of the social fabric of their lives, she said.
"People just want to be a part of something like a group," Norris said.
Hunt, the Omaha blogger, said people experience a rush when they post something online and receive positive feedback.
"I think it's very, very validating to have strangers on the Internet approve of you," she said. "That's something I do as a blogger."
But Hunt doesn't agree that Real Nebraska Girls is challenging stereotypes. In fact, she said, it's the opposite.
"I think that they're definitely curating a stereotype, and that's too bad," she said.
Hunt said she was glad that women who hunt or ride four-wheelers felt like they could be themselves and meet like-minded Nebraskans on the site.
But she said plenty of other women felt excluded. Hunt — a mom, business owner and activist — has submitted photographs to the site, but none have been posted. In one, she said, she was with her daughter. In another, she was giving a speech.
She has a theory about that.
"It's not for women," she said. "It's for men."
Norris doesn't entirely disagree. Men do like the site, she said. At the urging of some male fans, she created another page — Real Nebraska Guys.
With 5,000 members, it does OK. But it doesn't get the traffic of its sister site.
"Girls are funner to look at, I guess," Norris said.
She says she doesn't mean to exclude anyone. She scans through the 50-plus submissions she receives each day and thinks about which would appeal most to her target demographic — men and women between the ages of 18 and 28. She doesn't accept photos of women submitted by men. She doesn't accept lingerie shots or photos in which women don unbuttoned or unzipped shorts. Anyone who submits a photograph must sign a waiver indicating that they are 18 and older or, if alcohol is present in the photo, 21 and over.
To an extent, those who submit determine the site's content, she said. If she receives a lot of country road shots, then she'll post a lot of country road shots.
"It's not just me," she said. "It's kind of like Nebraska supports it."
"One of the things that makes me most proud about being from Nebraska is that not only can I hunt with the best of them, but living here has prepared me for things like walking the runway at L.A. Fashion Week. Being a Nebraska girl isn't just about being country." – Claire Eckstrom
Norris takes the Nebraska part of this seriously. Early on, Norris noticed that many followers were Nebraska expatriates. She started posting photos sans women specifically for them — value meals from Runza and Amigo's, the green signs proclaiming Nebraska "the good life," and the glass-enclosed Holy Family Shrine on Interstate 80 between Lincoln and Omaha.
She began to think of ways to grow the site and its reach. She contacted Country Stampede, an outdoor music festival in Kansas, and asked if she could be a partner this year. Wayne Rouse, the festival's founder, took a look at the page and agreed.
He thought it was fun and not too provocative.
"It just looked like a really wholesome website that depicted Nebraska girls (doing) everything from hunting, driving a tractor, fishing," said Rouse, who grew up in Neligh and McCook.
The partnership resulted in the Real Nebraska Girls campground and a bikini foam party at the festival, and Rouse will offer stage-area tours to anyone who shows up wearing a Real Nebraska Girls tank top. He also gave Norris tickets to give away in a photo contest. She's expecting several hundred women (and their male admirers) to attend.
Norris isn't making money on Real Nebraska Girls or Real Nebraska Guys. She spends time each evening planning the next day's content (a friend takes care of the Real Nebraska Guys page). She uses a timer to post photographs and statuses throughout the day, and she still frequently posts photos of herself, too. Some are silly — like one of her bundled up for work in her warmest camo on a cold spring day. Some are sexy — in one, she wears a tight-short skirt and midriff-baring top and gazes coyly into the camera. She's planning some kind of breast cancer research fundraiser for the fall, though she's still figuring out the details.
She's learning as she goes.
"I think the first year, it's more or less an experiment," she said.
Norris didn't expect to be doing this at 20. She had planned to study fashion design at a college in California. She was accepted, she said, but when she went to visit, she changed her mind.
"It didn't feel like home."
She decided to stay in Lincoln, work, and decide what she wanted to do.
As the site has grown, she's more certain that she was right to stay put.
"Sometimes I feel like I have to prove something because I didn't go (to college)," she said.
She's not sure where the site will go or whether she'll attend college. But she's enjoying the community she's built, she marvels that it's attracted visitors and fans from across the country and a handful of other continents, and she's looking forward to Country Stampede (though she said she's disappointed she won't be old enough to legally drink).
She suspects this isn't her last online venture.
"I think eventually I want to do something in social media," she said, "because I guess I'm good at it."
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VDA's per-device basis will bite you in other ways as well. For example, extra licenses must be purchased for 100 percent home users who aren't given a company-owned device. Extra licenses must also be purchased for users of thin clients.
Per Device or Per User?Microsoft has never been a company that looks kindly on per-user licensing. OSes being what they are, this historical aversion makes sense. Until only recently, you could install an OS in one place and get the reasonable assurance that OS stayed on that machine. But today's workforce and technologies are evolving to the point where the OS no longer makes operational sense to be tied to a specific device.
Think about these real situations: "Occasional home access" means I can connect to my VDI-hosted desktop through devices that I own, such as my personal computer or mobile phone. But what if my company owns my phone or lets me borrow a piece of its equipment? If I access my VDI-hosted desktop through a company-owned phone, or a company-owned loaner laptop, or even a kiosk in the company lunchroom, that device needs licensing as well.
VDI by definition is intended to deliver a desktop to anywhere, but if I can't control where that may be, staying legal could be impossible.
The language of VDA is a step above the previous VECD, but Microsoft's insinuations of "we're going to make this smell like per-user, without actually making it per-user" in its licensing language is infuriating. Per-device plus a "sometimes at home" option is per-user licensing. The entire concept that an OS that used to be locked to a device for purely technical reasons can now be additionally extended to everywhere just intrinsically reeks of per-user.
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Pauls response has my head in a whirl. Microsofts efforts to wrap up virtualization in legalese is killing product acceptance and evolution. Grow up and stop being greedy.
wrong on many counts.
1. VDI previously required SA ($30-$55 a year) + VECD ($23 a year. Now it requires just SA. There always was a recurring cost. Now it's a lower recurring cost.
2. Given that SA gets you up to four extra copies of a $300 OS for no more than $55 a year, this isn't exactly a "bite" from Microsoft.
3. The price for the license permitting machines without SA to access VDI has been cut $10 from the previous VECD license that granted similar rights.
4. MS has significantly expanded per-user licensing over the years. E.G. Exchange used to be only per device, now it is per device or per user. (Imagine paying extra to access Exchange from your smartphone, your portable, etc.). Organizations are free to use either user or device licensing with many servers, choosing the one that offers the lowest cost.
5. I don't get the argument for user licensing of the OS. Since every device needs an OS, doesn't it make sense to license it that way? Per-user licensing could require that MS anticipate each user accessing multiple devices, which could cost much more, particularly for people who only use one device.
6. MS's position that this is de facto per-user licensing is a fair one. If you are the primary user of one device with SA (in other words, you've already paid once to access VDI), you can access the OS/VDI from other devices that are not licensed with SA.
7. Users with home computers licensed for the same OS running in VDI (e.g., Win7 Pro at home and running in the VDI) don't require any VDA license; they have remote connection rights (in the EULA) that permit this. (MS doesn't promote this, but it's there)
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