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If it smells like someone's cooking up something good, they just might be. Chefs all over the metro area are getting ready for this weekend's Taste of St. Louis.
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Besides edible offerings, the event features a Culinary show, musical performances and a hot sauce showcase. More than 400-thousand people turned out for last year's Taste.
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AP Interview: UN aid official demands Syria access
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Aid workers must be given access if parts of Syria come under a cease-fire to allow chemical weapons experts to try to bring the country's stockpile under international control, the head of the U.N.'s World Food Program said.
Ertharin Cousin told The Associated Press in an interview Monday that an agreement under discussion now envisions a cessation of hostilities so chemical experts can travel across the country, including to many conflict areas where WFP and other humanitarian workers have been unable to bring in desperately needed aid.
"So this is an opportunity for us to hopefully overcome the hurdle that today we've been unable to achieve," Cousin said.
The United States and Russia brokered an agreement for Syria to give up its chemical weapons but U.N. diplomats say they are at odds on details of a U.N. Security Council resolution spelling out how it should be done and the possible consequences if Syria doesn't comply.
Cousin urged the international community to demand that the Security Council make any cease-fire a broad one.
"When you talk about a cessation of hostilities to allow access for the chemical (weapons) workers, that cessation in hostilities should also allow access for humanitarian workers," she said.
WFP is currently feeding 3 million people inside Syria and 1.2 million in neighboring countries. Cousin said the goal is to step up supplies so that 4 million internally displaced people and 1.5 million refugees are getting food by the end of October.
While the agency is working in all 14 Syrian governorates, Cousin said there are pockets in many of them that humanitarian workers can't reach because of fighting.
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"Assad's forces are starving people to death in those areas," the coalition claimed. "The specter of famine looms in the horizon as more than 2 million people remain under siege."
Cousin said WFP hasn't had access to an opposition-controlled area in Ghouta called Muhammadiyah, which is besieged by government forces. She also pointed to an area in the Kurdish-dominated Hasaka region in the northeast controlled by the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front and an opposition-controlled area on the outskirts of the northern city of Aleppo where the agency has had trouble operating.
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"The reality of it is there's enough complicity to go around," she said.
WFP has tried to identify third party monitors who can access these difficult areas, Cousin said.
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Support for the monarchy is the result of brainwashing on an Orwellian scale, argues novelist Will Self
I haven't seen The King's Speech yet. This isn't just because I'm a republican. I'm not such a zealot that I think ideologies which I have no sympathy with cannot still form the backdrop to compelling drama—I loved Bruno Ganz's portrayal of Hitler in Downfall, so why shouldn't I enjoy Colin Firth's Georgian shtick? No, I haven't seen it because whatever the disavowals of its makers, it serves royalist interests in an infuriatingly ingenuous way. It doesn't matter if it portrays the Windsors as individuals, the net result is that its audience is more inclined to acquiesce to an institution that has a stultifying effect on our political culture.
Even watching the trailer, I could feel it wreaking this sinister effect on me: as Colin-cum-George stammered in front of an expectant crowd I could feel tears pricking my eyes; this was, I realised, exactly the sensation Winston Smith must have had as he looked up at the poster of Big Brother and realised he loved him. But at least Orwell's protagonist had rats applied to his face before giving in. We Britons are conditioned from birth to accept there's only one form of government being held up for us—constitutional monarchy—no matter how many others we can see.
Monarchism is the default setting for the way we think about our constitutional settlement. Those of us who question it are subjected to the usual blah-blah about the evolutionary character of the British constitution: the way our law is based on concrete precedent rather than Frenchified abstract principle, the way our democracy has grown incrementally and organically from Runnymede to the present day, the way our Queen's prerogative exists as a means of negatively inferring the real source of executive power, and so on. The overall message is: see that noble oak over there? That's our system of government. What kind of a foul oik are you to chop it down with your regicidal axe?
Another favoured argument of the default royalists is: Ooh, I know it's not a perfect system, but what would you have instead? I mean, imagine having a head of state like Sarkozy/Bush/Gaddafi (delete where appropriate). This is another appeal to inertia. The political classes often agonise as to why there's so little popular interest or enthusiasm for politics but part of the answer, surely, is this unreal counterfactual constantly waved in the air. We cannot, after all, have any of these heads of state because we aren't France, the US, or Libya.
After years of espousing republicanism, I know that trying to dig out the suppressed premises from this Duchy Originals mulch is a wearying and thankless task. Besides, the default royalists don't really want to debate the issue at all. That's the nature of the default: a get-out-of-thinking-about-it card for constitutional change in general, not simply the monarchy. "Oh, a republic—we've had one of those already," the default royalist smiles her patronising smile, as if truly representative rule, embodying popular sovereignty at every level, were some kind of teenage fad. And so the West Lothian question comes into being, and so we slide towards greater European integration with less democratic accountability, and so we have a pig's ear of a second chamber.
I'm not going to engage here with the true-blue royalists who actually believe that the congenital characteristics of the Windsor family make them fit to be our heads of state; they're too silly to waste words on. Far more influential are the politically savvy but lazy who, while acknowledging the royals are about as dysfunctional a mob as ever took part in a reality television show, nonetheless insist that monarchy is a necessary cynosure for the patriotic feelings of the citizenry. The not especially covert assumption here is a ghastly, patronising, de haut en bas attitude: we all know they're ciphers, but Mr & Mrs Little-People need decorative mugs, street parties and all that palaver. It's an attitude that makes a mockery of our pretensions to democracy.
It is, of course, the ever-closer convergence between the home life of the Windsors and shows such as I'm a Celebrity and Big Brother that has allowed the monarchy to adapt, survive and grow even stronger: Diana Spencer was their preeminent saviour, their Peter Bazalgette. Post-Diana, the Windsors are the foremost example of people who are feted in the media for accidental reasons, and not by virtue of any talent, let alone determination to succeed. People unconsciously understand this: for them, marrying into the Windsors is the genealogical equivalent of winning the lottery: the odds are virtually nonexistent, but wouldn't it be amazing.
This abandonment to Goddess Fortuna masks the extent to which the monarchy infantilises the public and squats like a fat toad atop the still-existent hierarchy of class in British society. Think on it: without royal titles, the existence of other forms of ennoblement become utterly redundant. The great success of the establishment in co-opting those who might otherwise be critical of it rests in the handing out of such baubles to commoners. No monarchy means no more of those most egregious solecisms, "Labour lords," let alone the equally ridiculous spectacle of religious leaders sitting in the upper chamber. And frankly, if you can think of a more asinine sight in the known world than John Prescott or Peter Mandelson caparisoned in ermine, answers on a card please. In the current political climate, we could all do with a rich belly laugh.
Lastly, to return to the King's Speech principle. In the last few months (Andrew's blunders aside) the Windsors have pulled off two spectacular PR coups: the upcoming commoner marriage, and, equally influential, the Duchess of Cornwall's walk-on part in The Archers. The Windsors—or their savvy advisers—understand full well the virtues of soft marketing. I've known plenty of people who should know better who've relapsed into the default position purely because they've been exposed to the Windsors' soft offensive: they've pitched up for a garden party, accepted a gong, or stood for the loyal toast, because not to do so would seem somehow ill-mannered, and therefore un-British. But you have to ask yourself, if your principle of government is determined by not wishing to violate social etiquette, how can it ever hope to cope with rude truth of the contemporary world?
Also in Prospect's monarchy special:
Simon Jenkins: What's the point of the monarchy?
David Kershaw advises the royals on their brand management
Vernon Bogdanor on crown and constitution
Prospect/YouGov poll reveals the nation's feelings about the monarchy in 2011
Edwina Currie, Alex Salmond, Bonnie Greer, Yann Martel and other public figures say whether the monarchy is good for Britain
April 27, 2011
But is't the Kings Speech a plea for repubicanism? The premise of the film is 'that' speech is the one which is going to bind us together. Instead of it falling to someone chosen by the people, who is capable it falls by accident to a person one never choose to put in this position,who is there by birth but is totally unsuited to make it. This poor man is traumatised but just about gets through it and saves the nation. But boy, weren't we lucky for the Aussie to be there to help him or it would have been curtains for us all. Isn't the rational coclusion to be drawn – strewth the hereditary principle almost did for us and we'd be better off getting someone suited to being a figurehead. Or did I misread it
April 27, 2011
terence patrick hewett
Perhaps Will thinks we will not notice the pomposity, the vanity and the general uselessness of own his good self.
April 27, 2011
caterina de middleton
Brilliantly put (although, a bit pretentious in vocabulary) !
April 27, 2011
I do like how people who don't necessarily understand the vocab of Will Self will just criticize it as being 'pompous/pretentious'.
Normally I don't like Douchey Self but this article's good.
April 27, 2011
Mr. Anonymous
Wow – that article was pure drivel. I seriously hope you didn't get paid for it…
April 27, 2011
Arthur Pitchfork
The trouble is, you spell out the case FOR a monarchy all too well in your third and fourth paragraphs. In any case, what Earthly paradise do you envisage being ushered in by your elected head of state and non-pig's ear second chamber? The US has representative rule "on every level" (just about) – is this what you wish for us – gridlock, pork-barrel politics and bankruptcy? Or I suppose we could try the current Russian model, so painlessly arrived at.
April 27, 2011
Barry Larking
Perhaps the most interesting thing about Will Self is his reputation. My own conversations with republicans, atheists and rationalists has resulted in the certaint knowledge that they would press the button, light the gas ovens and generally eugenically cleanse people like me and millions more off the plane without a backward glance. At the last count there were over 170 countries on the planet, the great majority republics. Surely Mr Self has the air fare?
April 28, 2011
Vox populi, vox dei.
Ignore the doubters. They are colossally stupid and are not worthy to cringe in your shadow. Unlike the Windsors (vulgar beyond belief) you ARE a national treasure.
Arise, Sir Will – I want your babies (and so does Mrs Catchpole).
April 29, 2011
Everybody said it before me..basically Will's will isn't in it is it?.
It's like that 'Defend the Indefensible' bit of Radio 5′s Fighting Talk (A Good? Bad? hard to tell! radio show) He's putting up the aragument but he's too many points behind and his heart's not in it.
You can't knock Constitutional Monarchy because you can't knock the Queen—well you can , if you're a numptie I suppose.
I can see how it's annoying to see the recreation of duty, service, quiet diginity, in the 'Wills and Kate' construct–and it could all go wrong; it has once before— but some things are just good-diddley-obviously-good and a Constitutional Monarchy as exampled by the present Queen is one of them.
I think the Olympic, faux-celebration of the apotheosis of the official (but already dessicated) Religion of Destination Event Consumerism, should be given it's space — (as long as it isn't a space anywhere near me)— before a proper appreciation and National celebration of the Queen's personal contribution to the History of Britain takes place nationwide.
It's pointless waiting until she's passed away.
Such an event would serve many purposes—not least in allowing Will Self to convert a lot of otherwise moribund media cash into support for a National Treasure (himself) by writing a proper scathing attack on the Institution of the Monarchy — I'd hate to think the detumescent duty shift above might prevail in the centuries to come as an example of his usually properly corruscating thingamyjig?… style!
April 29, 2011
Lay off the (fat)toads – they are far more useful to our society: they eat garden pests and enhance our biodiversity. Can this be said of the Windsors? A lazy comparison, Mr Self.
April 29, 2011
Aniruddha G. Kulkarni
As an Indian, I am envious of the Brits…We Indians imitate either them or Americans in almost all our ways…Why did then we abolish hundreds of monarchies that existed before 1949?
Think about it, they would have given us even more entertainment than we currently get from politics, cricket and cinema.
April-May is a typical busy wedding season in India. Imagine ODI cricket world cup followed by hundreds of royal weddings across the country…Tourists would never want to leave…
April 29, 2011
The Gadflyista
Thanks, Will- was vry refreshing amid all the royal wedding grotesqueries.
Readers might also be interested in this satirical anticipation of the royal wedding:
Featuring craven celebrity courtiers. royals both living and dead, media moguls with sights already set on another royal tragedy, and finally, we the British people, both the mad and the maddening. Though of course, this take on things only represents one possibility, and yet another is where we decide to turn-away from the whole sorry circus altogether."
April 29, 2011
John Ellis
Totally in agreement with Will. I would add more but I see it as bread and circus: did you ever see a more Ruritanian set of clothing as stood on the balcony of Buckingham Palace? At least a President would stick with a suit.
April 30, 2011
Joannah Yacoub
While I agree with much of what you say, I am surprised, Mr Self, that you have not mentioned the one reason why it would be currently unwise to dispense with the monarchy. Great Britain does not have a written constitution in the sense that France or America have. We have a body of law, set by precedent as well as statute, but the judiciary is "crown", not governmental and therefore theoretically independent. The same applies to the Civil Service and the military. They are beholden to the crown which is seen as the embodiment of the British Constitution. The first move a dictator makes is to subordinate the military, judiciary and civil service to his governance, thus disempowering them. The first major nail in Thatcher's political coffin was her proposal to make the Civil Service answerable to Government and not Crown. it is an unsatisfactory institution but until legislators get together and write a formal constitution which becomes equivalent to the State and to which everybody is beholden, we could run the risk of dictatorship if we abolished the monarchy. I have lived in countries where the constitution has been subordinated to the interests of government and politicians and the result isn't pretty. If you look at the shower who represent us, I'm sure you can see the dangers, so even if I agree with you, I couldn't go along with you for that reason and that alone.
April 30, 2011
Jo Huddleston
Just don't fancy getting or having a president. The Quing/Keen doesn't drop grand-children into daft law for the sake of a media-flashy presidential year.
April 30, 2011
Patricia Hoad
Sorry, Mr. Self, I'll go with Rasputin.
May 1, 2011
Not my place to judge
Mr. Self,
If you can't accept the autonomy and integrity of the political thoughts of your fellow citizens you are just as much of a barrier to Republicanism as our current government and monarchy.
A Republican.
May 1, 2011
Tim Sharp
I enjoyed reading that – and there is plenty to be annoyed and bemused about when it comes to the monarchy if you have half a brain cell – I think that Republicans (I'm one) need to be able to carry the argument beyond the awful bad taste of it all and come up alternatives that are likely to inspire the majority of people in the UK who can't be a***d either way. Firstly that is by not being a bunch of eccentrics ourselves (we're not) and secondly we need some very tight positive arguments that can be communicated clearly and insprirationally. I'm a Republican because I think that the country is grown up enough to make its own choices about who the head of state is.
May 3, 2011
Well said. And let's not forget that we are still paying for the privilege of maintaining this physical embodiment of the landed gentry. We are paying for the privilege of endowing people with a sense of entitlement that still stifles social progress everywhere in this country. We are still paying for the wealthiest people in the world whilst they "make a living" from the vast tracts of land that they own through nothing other than an accident of birth. We are paying to hold a group of people at a humiliatingly elevated status that makes apparently normal people talk about "marrying a commoner". We're paying so that an essentially arbitrarily chosen group of people can live in luxury and pretend to be better than us.
Can't help feeling it's a bit of a raw deal.
May 3, 2011
james pinson
The other bromide wheeled in support of the monarchy is the political stability it gives the British. Even putting aside the Scottish lack of enthusiasm for the institution and a probably instinctive sense that royality is a conjuring trick that assures the least democratic system imaginable there is the curious British denial that for most of the 20th century the United Kingdom was in a state of civil war. 'The troubles' was all about resistance to constitutional monarchy and a botched idea of 'the union'. I say this without the need to even take sides. Constitutional monarchy simply has been the cause of extreme, violent unrest in the UK on a scale that can be put alongside the Lebanon. No amount of kilt wearing, blue blooded English can convince the Scotts of this mirage. This circus is strangely English.
May 6, 2011
Angel Bacon
After publishing this absurdly narrow-minded , rent-a-north-london-punk rant ,
the only question that remains is this :
Prospect – What's the point ?
For we delighted subjects, who spent last weekend rejoicing in the Royal Wedding
( and all who sailed in her – go Rowan go ), dipping back in for televised highlights
( how did they choose – it was so seamlessly darling – as if touched by divinity )
from the pretty young spectator's glorious
T shirted quip : " I'LL MARRY HARRY "
to the clergyman cart-wheeling for joy
( before our news screens were eclipsed by the latest Middle Eastern snuff movie – whatever happened to the watershed ? )
it would have been sensational ( as we assume the on-line ed. had hoped Self's
slap-stick drawl would be ) for Prospect
to commission instead an insightful
piece about the rich and beautiful tapestry that is Britain,how each silken thread glistens with the story of the tireless
good works that our Royals do, our Gracious Queen a noble inspiration to us all , and
so onwards and mood-lifting upwards ( cue proms : There'll always be an England – and England shall be free – If England means as much to you – as England means to me .. )
I want to hug a cultural hoodie , really I do. After all , they didn't ask to be published – they are but victims of our culturally rootless media, fighting for world domination ; but here , Will Self's piece reads like some Groucho club drunk,
or cerebral-cortex challenged teenager
in need of appropriate parental attention , still fishing for boundaries about just where he can leave his whiffy plimsolls,
and will brook no reassurance nor argument..
However, for Self to describe the Windsors as dysfunctional ( whatever that means )
might be the pot-head calling the copper-bottomed kettle synthetic ? It is not our
Royals who are dysfunctional, but these pesky self-appointed cultural commentators ,
perhaps, along with Prospect embracing it's new proprietors' grubby politics a little too greedily? Today, Prospect publishes
another novelist, telling the Cambridges what they should think and do about ( the, generally speaking, rubbish that now
passes for ) British contemporary art
Were the radiantly beautiful young couple in need of any advice from me , which obviously they are not ( such gleeful smiles – that kiss – och – cupid not so stupid) I would suggest they avoid dear old Prospect for the
time being , and observe HRH's comment :
' Change does not always mean progress '
May 8, 2011
Blah blah etc
I thought the general unwashed had tried removing the royals? – wasn't the result that the lord high protector banned christmas and invaded ireland – or was i just brainwashed by evil royal lizzards to think that?
October 31, 2011
So all those people who devote themselves to performing largely unsung, often volunteer, community service and, not sharing Will's view, are thrilled to meet the Queen and possibly receive an OBE can go [insert Selfian verb] themselves?
PS: When did Bonnie Greer become a "public figure"?
November 1, 2011
David Le Page
The fashionable thing is privatisation. The Tories love privatisation. So why not privatise the monarchy? Sell them to Hello Magazine, or something. Remove their constitutional privileges. They're welcome to continue the pomp etc, privately, and have the means to do so – the fans of "decorative mugs and street parties"need not be deprived.
November 1, 2011
Excellent article, simply excellent.
January 6, 2013
"We Britons are conditioned from birth to accept there's only one form of government being held up for us—constitutional monarchy—no matter how many others we can see."
This coming from a journalist?
Since when was the media predominately controled by and it's authors supporters of anything other than a monarchy?
From the pulpits of the supporters and upholders of the divine rights of kings to the desks of anchormen today the media loves the monarchy because it caters to their own 'evil', their own inequity their own indulgences and more to the point their own participation in taking the work of others labours by violence and deception, for what else has the media and it's authors done but deceive to achieve? deceive to succeed? in essense deceive as monarchs deceive in order to have, to take, from the works of another?
What media co owner wishes to lay the bricks to their own home? And what monarch?
What editor in chief wishes to shape the metal of the rim of the wheel of their car? And what monarch?
What journalist, what author wishes to cut the wood that makes the frame of their bed? And what monarch?
In short, if that's at all possible at this point, Will Self's tears are crocodilian at best.
March 24, 2013
david gandy
It is so predictable of those who disagree to attack the author when they are unable to refute his argument.
March 27, 2013


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Municipal leaders sometimes enter office with misconceptions about city government and its functions, said Ken Smith, executive director of the Alabama League of Municipalities.
"A lot of times when people run for office they come into it with ideas about what they want to do," Smith said. "Sometimes they're things a city can do; sometimes they're something a city can't do."
Prospective candidates have until July 17 to sign up to run for mayor or city council. To qualify for the election,s candidates must complete a city election form, a statement of economic interest and, if more than $1,000 is spent on their campaign, fair campaign practices forms. It's the first step in an election process that could evolve into a learning experience for newcomers.
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Jerry Smith recounted when, as a councilman, he did an about-face on one city matter that ultimately taught him a great deal about serving as an elected official.
Jacksonville officials were trying to decide how they wanted to pay for the development of the new high school. Some wanted to pay for the project by selling the then-city-owned hospital and the mayor was against it, until he looked into the matter a little more.
Jerry Smith said elected officials must learn quickly about things most residents never have to seriously consider. The new topics officials may have to face can range from managing bond debt to capital projects or municipal procedures.
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Roosevelt Parker, Sr., Mayor
Andy Hatley, Ward 1
Herbert Palmore, Incumbent, Ward 2
David Reddick, Ward 2
Benjamin Little, Incumbent, Ward 3
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Arthur Cottingham, Member at large
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Johnny L. Smith, Incumbent Mayor
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Kyle Warmack, Place 2
Truman Norred, Incumbent, Place 3
Jonathan Tompkins, Place 5
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William Walter, Place 5
Steven E. Baswell, Incumbent Mayor
Justin "Butch" Mitchell, Place 2
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Leon Smith, Incumbent Mayor
Freddie L. Hinton, Place 1
Charlotte Hubbard, Place 2
Ken Rollins, Place 2
Mike Henderson, Place 3
Chris Spurlin, Incumbent, Place 4
Greg Thrower, Place 4
Steven Waits, Incumbent, place 5
Rick Freeman, Mayor
Brent Morrison, Mayor
Mary Bramblett, Incumbent, District 2
Kinney Kelley, Incumbent, District 4
Diane Studdard, Incumbent, District 5
Billy Baker, Incumbent, District 6
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Lots of cuts today. Here are the notables (some have to go through waivers):
BUF: Porter
CGY: Irving, Byron, Carson, Karlsson (Karlsson and Irving on waivers, but will still compete for spot with each other)
CAR: Nodl
CHI: J.Hayes, Pirri, Stanton
COL: Elliott, Sgarbossa
CBJ: Erixon, Jenner
FLA: Santorelli
MIN: Kampfer, Palmieri, Dowell, Veilleux
MTL: Blunden
NJ: Frazee
NYI: Strome, Reinhart
STL: Chorney
TB: Taormina, Wyman, Johnson
TOR: Connolly (!), Aucoin (picked up by NYI off waivers)
VAN: Joslin
So far Matt Dumba still around. Ditto Morgan Rielly. Ditto Rickard Rakell
Travis Zajac signed for what? Good thing there was a lockout…
Hey, if Zajac gets maximum term and at $5.75 - what must be close to 75% of a player's maximum annual salary… does that mean Jamie Benn gets eight years at the maximum per year?
Richard Clune, plucked off waivers from the Kings by the Preds, they see as a nice Tootoo replacement. If you need a player who specializes in PIM, he could be a dark horse there.
Brad Richards has recovered enough from the flu to get started in training camp. Now we can see the line combos as they were meant to be.
Here is my fantasy hockey mailbag over at The Hockey News. Later today I will have an article posted there on fantasy's Top 10 rookies.
Also today, a Puck Daddy piece.
Dallas has cut Brett Ritchie and Radek Faksa.
Players who were injured while playing overseas are 'suspended' by their teams. I guess that's what insurance is for. Anyway, the Isles suspended Josh Bailey and Jesse Joensuu. And with the claim of Thomas Hickey, the Isles cut Ty Wishart.
Florida rearguard Dmitri Kulikov is not close to signing a contract, and he remains in the KHL. The door is open for Colby Robak.
Ottawa has cut Stefan Noesen.
The Flyers cut Andreas Lilja - if Meszaros is ready to play this weekend, Lilja will be sent down.
Calgary news - Jarome Iginla is back on the ice after being sidelined with a groin injury. Mikael Backlund is having a strong camp and really making a play on that second-line center job that's wide open thanks to Roman Cervenka being held out with a blood clot.
Cam Atkinson missed practice Wednesday with a "minor lower body issue". The Jackets don't seem too concerned, but we'll know more in time. Now wouldn't that just throw off all the "sleeper" talk in a hurry? Too bad I committed all three of my keeper teams to him. All I ask? Give me 45 games Cam. If I'm wrong, I'd rather be wrong that way then be wrong because of injury.
Emerson Etem and Patrick Maroon were among the cuts by Anaheim Wednesday night.
Today's Anze Kopitar update - still not cleared for contact, but he is skating and experiencing no ill effects from his skating.
Good move by the Blues to extend GM Doug Armstrong for five years. He's patiently rebuilt a winner and St. Louis fans were patient with it.
Colorado has cut Stefan Elliott and Michael Sgarbossa. Still there - Tyson Barrie. Rough season for Elliott, a former 'can't miss' prospect. It's only been four bad months though, I'm certainly not ready to write him off.
Toronto has found a taker for Matt Lombardi. No surprise that it's Lombardi's former team the Coyotes. His arrival hurts Martin Hanzal, because I'm sure they'll want to try Lombardi out on the second line. Lombardi had his best season in Phoenix (53 points) and this certainly puts him on the fantasy map. The move doesn't help anyone in Toronto - things were crowded up front there, so Lombardi would have been in tough just to get into the lineup every night. The Leafs get a conditional fourth rounder for him.
Sam Carchidi, Philly beatwriter, says that Scott Laughton "looks like a lock" to make the opening day roster for the Flyers. No way he plays six games though, in my opinion. Laughton is too raw. He's no Sean Couturier from a year ago. At this point he is centering Matt Read and Wayne Simmonds, two very hard workers, which bodes well. But…I just don't see it. I saw him play in Oshawa a couple of times this year. He has 33 points in 32 games for the Generals.
In a scrimmage game, both Beau Bennett and Eric Tangradi saw time with Malkin and Neal. Bennett scored in the 6-5 win while Tangradi did not. For what it's worth.
Pierre-Marc Bouchard is looking pretty good here. This is yesterday:
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Into the Storm
Destroyermen, Book I
Taylor Anderson - Author
Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the US Walkera Great War-era destroyerfinds itself retreating from pursuing Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, desperately leads the Walker into a squall, hoping it will give them coveronly to emerge into an alternate world. A world where two species have evolved: the cat-like Lemurians and the reptilian Griksand they are at war.Gripping and riveting... Anderson is a new talent to watch.
With its power and weaponry, the Walkers very existence could alter the balance of power. And for Reddy and his crew, who have the means to turn a primitive war into a genocidal Armageddon, one thing becomes clear. They must determine whose side theyre on. Because whichever species they choose is the winner.
S.M. Stirling, author of The Scourge of God
An essay by author Taylor Anderson.
Sometimes, you get something in your head and it just won't go away; a tune, a phrase, an image, a story…I have at least a passing interest in virtually everything, but I suppose I'm most passionately devoted to history, the outdoors, sailing, flying, cannons (and pretty much anything that flings a projectile,) and literature of every description. I enjoy everything from Homer to Patrick O'Brian, but the stories that stick in my head the most, that I find most enduring and thought provoking, are science-fiction/fantasy. For pure enjoyment and escape, that's what I always turn to.
I spent many years, in a variety of pursuits, forced to deal in historical absolutes: What type of firearm would so-and-so have most likely carried at such-and-such a time? How was it made? What was it capable of? How did he make it work, and what was the jargon he would have used? What type of drill was required to fire a certain type of artillery piece at a given time by a particular army? These are the questions I had to answer.
I've always enjoyed writing, but my early attempts were always either purely historical, or a variety of carefully researched historical fiction. The question I had was, how can I combine many of my various interests into one, single pursuit? I am a (probably) rare species of historian who will readily admit I sometimes ask myself "what if?" so the answer was obvious: science fiction/fantasy, with a heavy dose of history. Why I chose the time period I did, (early WWII,) is still sort of a mystery to me. It is not the period I am best at. Perhaps it was the lure of more challenging research, or maybe it was the influence of my parents, who remember the period well. Maybe it was the ships.
About a fifteen years ago, a good friend named Tom Postulka, gave me a well-worn copy of United States Destroyer Operations in World War II, by Theodore Roscoe. Ironically, Tom was a submariner, (probably why he was willing to part with the book,) but he used to come in my shop and we would visit for hours, discussing our many shared interests; history, old guns—and science fiction/fantasy. Tom has been gone for about a decade now, and I miss him a lot, but I still have the book he gave me. It is an excellent, inspiring read and I highly recommend it, but the part that resonated most with me was the section concerning the odyssey of the Asiatic Fleet and the old "four-stacker" destroyers that comprised the bulk of its surface component.
The flush-deck "four-stacker" destroyers depicted in the Destroyermen series were rakish, bold-looking little ships, but they would be virtually unrecognizable as "destroyers" today. Built during, and shortly after WWI, few were still recognized, or even designated, as destroyers anymore by the time WWII began. The term "destroyer" is actually a derivation of the designation "Torpedo Boat Destroyer," and that's what destroyers were originally intended to do: Screen battleships and cruisers and destroy torpedo boats and their "unsportsmanlike" torpedoes, before they could get close enough to harm anything "important." It's ironic then, that the primary armament of the early American "destroyers" was torpedoes, and the guns they were supposed to destroy torpedo boats with were few, and relatively light. This is testimony to the fact that, even while they were building the first "torpedo boat destroyers," the role of the "destroyer" was already changing.
Even when new, "four-stackers" were already obsolete and undergunned by the standards of any modern navy, but that didn't stop almost 300 from being built. Actually, it's a good thing there were so many because the United States didn't build nearly enough "modern" destroyers between the wars. Many "four-stackers" were used-up to the point that they literally wore out. There were still enough left in mothballs for Roosevelt to give/lend/lease fifty to England during WWII to use, primarily, as convoy escorts. Others performed that duty for the United States and Canada throughout the war. Most of these were at least updated to some degree, to carry more and better depth charges and anti-aircraft weapons. Many others were converted into fast transports, seaplane tenders, minelayers, etc.
Typically however, those relegated to the comparative "backwater" of the Asiatic Fleet toiled away with few modifications, if any. They had no anti-aircraft capability to speak of, no radar, and primitive sonar. With the exception of their radios and oil-fired boilers, they were half a century out of date. They were still fast, though . . . theoretically. If in top condition, they could hold their own in a footrace with any modern destroyer...while delivering their practically useless torpedoes.
After Pearl Harbor, these out-dated relics and a few slightly more modern ships, were all that stood between the Japanese and a quick, decisive victory in the Pacific. They were strategically sacrificed, placed as roadblocks for the Japanese juggernaut, in hopes they might slow it just enough…and as it turned out, they did. Even if all they accomplished was to force the enemy to take time to destroy them, they slowed the Japanese advance ever so slightly--but long enough to let the Allies catch their breath.
Some few made it out, escaping to Australia with the wolves at their heels. Some were sunk, their surviving crews enduring the nightmare of Japanese prison camps for the rest of the war. Some were never heard from again …
As a historian, I've always been stirred by the "epic stand against overwhelming odds." As a Texan, the Alamo probably stands out most in my mind as an indisputable example, but there have been others. The Spartans at Thermopylae, the men who stuck it out at Valley Forge during the darkest days of the American Revolution, the defenders of Hugemont in the center at Waterloo, the small garrison at Rorke's Drift, the Battle of Britain, the Marines and civilian contractors on Wake Island, the magnificent defiance of the destroyers attached to Taffy 3. Doolittle's B-25's, that flew from the pitching deck of a carrier to drop the first bombs on Tokyo. All these are prime examples.
Perhaps less well known are the nameless men who fought to the last on the Bataan Peninsula, or finally broke through at Omaha beach. The countless thousands over the years who pushed forward in the face of withering anti-aircraft fire, sleeting machine gun bullets, massed musketry, or the shriek of canister and grape…and the crews of the outdated "four-stackers" who fought and perished alone, surrounded by enemies, overwhelmed and forgotten even by history.
Of the various "stands" I have cited, not all resulted in utter annihilation, and the motives of the participants were not all the same. Some knew they were doomed and chose to stay, others were just following orders, but the ultimate similarity is that they did their duty, as they saw it, regardless of the cost. One such "stand," largely ignored, is the one made by the U.S. Asiatic Fleet and the ABDAFLOAT Allies.
I was drawn to this footnote of history by the drama, tragedy, and apparent sheer chaos of it all. Picture a wild mish-mash of decrepit relics from various countries and another age, armed only with criminally faulty ammunition and torpedoes. Add to the list an almost total lack of air cover, different languages and naval doctrines, no support, few spare parts, and little hope they would ever be relieved. Place this force in the path of the most powerful and modern navy in the world, and you have what almost seems the storyline for a novel, rather than recorded history.
A story began to evolve in my head that just wouldn't go away. A story that would encompass many of my diverse interests. I had to write it, but I had to write it about the people. Destroyermen in general were often considered some of the most resourceful men in the Navy, and those assigned to the long neglected Asiatic Fleet would have, of necessity, been doubly so. Destroyermen were also fiercely devoted to their "little ships" and again, those in the Asiatic Fleet often formed much longer—and deeper attachments. It might have been a "love-hate" relationship because of the vessel's condition, but in many cases, the ships were not just their duty stations, they were their homes.
I imagined the effect something like the ordeal the Asiatic Fleet endured would have on those involved, then imagined what it would be like for them when, or if, they emerged. Particularly if they emerged on another world. In those days, surface actions were mainly line-of-sight affairs. One had to see a target to hit it. Radar existed, but only one ship in the Asiatic Fleet had it, and it had been sent away for repairs. Just as in the days of sail, it was not uncommon for ships to seek refuge from their enemies in a squall. But what is a squall?
I have seen squalls that were simply rainstorms, marching across the sea or countryside. The leading edge might be intense, but after that, it's only rain. Even that type of squall might aid a ship on the run; spotting planes couldn't see them through rain-lashed canopies, their outlines would be blurred, at least, in the range-finders and sights of an enemy ship. I've seen other squalls however, that when they overwhelm you, you can barely breathe. It's as if your boat has capsized and you are utterly disorientedas if you've entered another world, where everything you've known; sunlight, sky, air, has ceased to exist.
It was only a short leap to associating my fascination with four-stackers and the heroic stand of the Asiatic Fleet, with whatever world might lay beyond such a squall. Such a world had to be at least as frightening and disorienting as the squall itself. Perhaps a "different" earth--but not completely different. That might be even harder to accept, in a way. Ordinarily, in stories involving an "alternate universe," the differences between the "other" world and this one range from subtle—an acquaintance's eyes are green instead of brown—to overwhelming—magic is commonplace, and laws of physics and nature have no meaning. I find virtually anyone's vision of an alternate universe, history, or reality, highly entertaining, but in this instance, my "vision" for an "alternate" earth, is exactly the same as ours—except for that cataclysmic event 65 million years ago. That's the obvious diversion point, and 65 million years of further, un-interrupted evolution (except for natural phenomena) have left a world that is poignantly familiar to the destroyermen who pass through the squall in some ways, and traumatically, wildly, different in others. How they, the people, cope with that is the essence of the Destroyermen series.
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2010-W 1/2 oz Proof Gold Buchanan's Liberty (w/Box & CoA)
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James Buchanan's First Spouse coin is unusual, as he is the only president never to marry. James Buchanan's presidency was rife with turmoil. He is known as the president who did nothing to stop the Civil War. Feeling the issue of slavery could be resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court, James allowed Americans to divide themselves. Buchanan denied states the right to secede, but admitted the federal government could not legally stop them. Buchanan then took a "policy of inactivity" and left the largest mess ever seen by the U.S. to his successor, Abraham Lincoln.
The figure of Liberty on the obverse is a reproduction of the one found on the Liberty Head Quarter Eagle that was minted from 1840 through 1907 and designed by Christian Gobrecht. On the reverse we see a young Buchanan in the family's small country store doing bookkeeping. It was designed by David Westwood and sculpted by Joseph Menna.
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Parking their Jeep on a cliff overlooking a valley, D.O. and Erik Rhodes need a quick stop for a sip of water. Shirtless, sculpted D.O. wants more than a quick break for water, the surrounding nature has turned him on and he starts to make out with Erik. D.O. wants a taste of Eriks thick hard dick. Engulfing Eriks cock with his mouth, D.O. works the big man over allowing him to fuck his face. The Jeep is the perfect playground for these stunning men, and D.O. opens the rear so he can stand up in the back end and give Erik a perfect view of his immense and gorgeous cock. Looking up at the ripped abs of D.O., Erik takes his time to pay tribute to the man and his meat lapping at it, licking it and gulping it down repeatedly, and then giving his mouth to D.O. to use at his will. Its not too long before Erik is doing the same with his meaty, round ass bending over the roll bar of the jeep so D.O. can tongue, rim and finger his taught manhole. D.O. is an expert in preparing Eriks hole for a good fucking, and thats exactly his intent. Erik holds on tight to the roll bar as D.O. begins an all-out fucking on the big mans ass, sliding it in and pulling it out, and then going back for more rhythmic strokes. Watching the smaller ripped D.O. find every way to deliver his stiff staff to Eriks eager hole is worth the price of admission. Putting Erik on his back on the hood of the Jeep, D.O. props Eriks legs in the air to really deliver the goods, and spread his cheeks so wide that he can deliver every last thick inch of his tool. He pounds Erik with a fervor inspiring a huge load which Erik is in position to receive on his face and in his mouth. After catching D.O.s load, Erik jerks out a huge one himself.
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The season is titled "Espiritu Alma" or "Spirit and Soul". The Fall Formal concert will be Nov. 3 at 2 p.m. at Wallace Fine Arts Center at Gadsden State Community College. Four Jacksonville students have places in EYO.
Heavy syncopation and stressing what happens off of the beat create a characteristic sound, according to Mike Gagliardo, EYO Director, along with the use of certain keys and scales to create distinctive sounds. Latin American music, which is very tuneful, expresses the emotions of its people with dramatic moments.
Jacksonville students who were selected after auditions to perform in EYO are Hannah Underhill, First Violin; Elizabeth Keefer, Viola; William Wesley Cain, Alto Clarinet and Bass Clarinet; and Victoria Metcalfe, French Horn. Wendy Hosmer Snellen of Jacksonville has composed a suite of six pieces of Puerto Rican guitar music for the concert, transcribed for the orchestra.
To many listeners, the march is the most irresistible of rhythmic patterns. Marches can lead to fairyland and all sorts of occasions with modern composers' work, as well as to the battlefield. The "San Lorenzo March" by C.A. Sylva, the official march of the Argentine army, will be in the line-up as well as "Tribute; Those Who Serve", the band version, by American composer James Grant. "Pirates of the Caribbean" is by German composer Klaus Badelt and Robert Sheldon's "Danzas Cubanas" containing three Latin-style dances, will also be heard. The orchestra will play Music from "Evita" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, British composer, reflects the life of Eva Peron, who was given the title "Spiritual Leader of Argentina" by the Argentine congress.
This stay in Puerto Rico should add much flavor to the experience. One performance on the island by the students will be in Ponce, most likely in conjunction with the municipal band that performs weekly there on Sunday nights, said Gagliardo. They will be visiting Borqueron Beach, Old San Juan, El Yungue National Forest, La Guancha Boardwalk and other sites.
Other area students in EYO are Madeline Dewsnup, White Plains High School, Second Violin; Kaitlyn Jones, Alexandria High School, Flute; Lauren Reaves, Alexandria High School, Oboe; Lindsey Cain, Alexandria High School, Trumpet; and Nick Wyville, Alexandria High School, Percussion, Principal.
Tickets to the concert are $12, $15, and $19, depending on the seating. For more ticket information, please visit www.wallacehall.org, or purchase tickets in person at the front desk of the Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts. For more information on the EYO, please visit www.culturalarts.org/eyo or call 256 543-2787.


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