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Colorado College freshman Jaccob Slavin made Team USA for the World Junior Championship tournament in Malmo, Sweden, Dec. 26-Jan 5.
The coaches and staff whittled down its roster to 24 players, settling on the final seven defensemen, which included the Erie, Colo. native.
Slavin skated as the seventh defenseman in a 3-2 exhibition win over Finland on Sunday. He recorded three assists in three exhibition games.
Miami sophomore Riley Barber was named as captain along with alternates Andrew Copp of Michigan and Matt Grzelcyk of Boston University.
Denver blue-liner Will Butcher made the squad while Pioneers wing Quentin Shore is still in the running. The coaches will make one more cut from 14 to 13 forwards soon.
"We are pleased to have settled on our three goaltenders and seven defensemen for the tournament," said Jim Johannson, general manager of the 2014 U.S. National Junior Team and also the assistant executive director of hockey operations for USA Hockey. "Due to a medical matter, we are still evaluating our forwards and expect to make a final decision by our first game on Dec. 26."
CC rookie defenseman Gustav Olofsson will play for team Sweden in Group B. Both rookies will miss CC's Jan.4 home game against ECAC member Brown.
The U.S. begins defense of its gold medal in Group A pool play against the Czech Republic Thursday (Dec. 26) at 5:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m. ET).
In the U.S., the game will be televised live on NHL Network (DirecTV 215, DISH 477) and streamed live on NHL.com.


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Law in Peepular Culture
Top 3 'Peeps in Law' Entries
Posted Apr 13, 2009 12:01 PM CDT
By Molly McDonough
Updated: Thanks to all those who submitted dioramas to the ABA Journal's Peeps in Law gallery.
There were 45 submissions from across the country and throughout the legal profession, including law-themed scenes by law students, law firms, ABA entities and even a judge in Missouri.
With so many good entries, we had more trouble narrowing the field to a short list of favorites than we thought we would. But we were up for the challenge. So, Peeps fans, here are our top three:
Following a reader poll, the winner of Peeps in Law '09 is 1L Peeps Study Group by the staff of the Ross-Blakley Law Library at Arizona State University. Their prize is bragging rights and our peepternal gratitude.
by Frank Salamone
"I love looking at photos of the Supreme Court over time to watch it evolve. However, the photos are often very serious and intense. It was fun to do this lighthearted take on the Court's annual photo."
[To see the official court annual photo to compare, click here.]
Minnesota U.S. Senate Trial Peeps
by Nancy, Nikki, Robert and Roberta Muehlhausen
"Now marking the tardiest U.S. Senate race in Peep history, Al Franken Peep and Norm Coleman Peep have argued for months about ballots. Now Peep Judges Elizabeth Hayden, Denise Reilly and Kurt Marben are left to decide Minnesota's next Senator—all while Pamela Howell's 'missing trunk ballot' testimony is allowed-not allowed-allowed-not allowed again, angering Lizard People across the nation, and putting the media and Peep-le across the state to sleep."
by Staff of the Ross-Blakley Law Library, Arizona State University
"A diligent group of law student peeps study for their upcoming final exams in the Arizona State University Ross-Blakley Library. All are wannapeep Peep Masons and Ally McPeeps. They are studying hard, hoping to learn it all before their brains turn to marshmallow. Alas, too late for 1L C. Little - he has had a meltdown! Since the law librarian is watchful, and the 1Ls are courteous library citizens, they are using their best inside peep cheeps."
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UNM linebacker Dallas Bollema is in his final season with the Lobos.
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[Source Description: 9 December 1968: From The Protean Radish: independent left paper, "I Love a Parade", From the Records of the Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs (#40124), University Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.]
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The Protean Radish reported on a 7 December march in Chapel Hill of about 125 people "in support of GI rights to free speech." After the march, about 15 people proceeded to "Fayettenam" (Fayetteville) to talk with GIs.


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By Dan Guttenplan
Sports Editor
---- — Ed Gaudiano laughs as he considers a question regarding how Amesbury coach Thom Connors has evolved since he served as an assistant on the Newburyport staff from 1994 to 2000.
"He's gotten a lot more ornery on the sideline, I think," says Gaudiano, who has coached Newburyport since 1988. "He's a great game-day coach. He has some good calls on the sideline. He knows how to manage a game. He's always had that. I think that's what he does best."
Gaudiano will coach against his former assistant for the 11th time on Thanksgiving Day. Connors took over the head job at Amesbury in 2002, and has since led the Indians to a record of 57-63 over 11 seasons. Gaudiano's Clippers have posted a 6-4 record over Connors' Indians on Thanksgiving, although Connors' teams won the only two battles in which a playoff berth was decided by the winner of the game in 2007 and 2008.
That will be the stakes tomorrow when Amesbury (8-2 overall, 4-0 CAL) hosts Newburyport (6-4 overall, 3-1 CAL) at Landry Stadium for the 90th meeting between the schools. Amesbury has already clinched a share of the Cape Ann League Division 3 championship. Newburyport can split the title with a win, and advance to the Eastern Mass. Division 3A postseason for the second year in a row. Last year, the Clippers fell to Hamilton-Wenham one game shy of the Super Bowl at Gillette Stadium.
Gaudiano holds an overall career record of 160-107, which includes a 14-10 mark against Amesbury. He believes the Thanksgiving rivalry offers plenty of motivation for the players, without even factoring playoff berths, league titles or former coaching allegiances.
"I can't remember what went on last week, but I know in 2007 and 2008, we didn't win those games," Gaudiano said. "One year, our quarterback Joe Clancy couldn't play, so that was an interesting game. But I don't think this game needs that hype. It's still Thanksgiving, it's still a league championship, and Amesbury already has a share. We'd like our share too."
As the offensive coordinator under Gaudiano, Connors was a member of two Super Bowl champion teams in 1995 and 1997. The Clippers went to another Super Bowl and lost in 1998. In 2001, Connors left the Clipper staff to take a year off from coaching. He took the Amesbury job in 2002; the Indians have since won one Super Bowl title (2008). The Clippers have yet to win a title since Connors was a member of the staff.
The playoff schedule
The winner of tomorrow's game will play the winner of the Thanksgiving showdown between North Reading (8-1, 4-0) and Lynnfield (7-2, 4-0) in the opening round of the Division 3A playoffs Tuesday night. Should Newburyport or Amesbury advance in that game, the local team will play in the Division 3A Super Bowl Saturday, Dec. 1, at 8 p.m. at Gillette Stadium.
The trends
Amesbury has won its last seven games, a streak that extends back to Sept. 21. The Indians have averaged 35.3 points per game during that stretch. It is Amesbury's first seven-game winning streak since its Super Bowl season in 2008.
"I think our senior class really stepped up and matured from their junior year to their senior year," Connors said. "Starting last spring, they really came together. It's been a fabulous year. It's been special, and that was always the expectation. It's been one of the best years I've had in my coaching career."
On the other hand, Newburyport lost its last game to Winthrop Nov. 11. Before that loss, the Clippers had won four in a row. The Clippers struggled to a 3-3 non-league record this season due, in part, to the absence of quarterback Connor Wile. The senior set program records for single-season passing yards and touchdowns as a junior, but suffered an injury to his shoulder during last baseball season.
"I think it's fair to say we haven't established momentum in our season," Gaudiano said. "Hopefully, it's our turn to get momentum. If we've done anything all year, besides not getting momentum, it's that we've been in and battled every game. We're used to that. I hope we get a hard-hitting game. We've learned to keep battling, and if we're in the game in the fourth quarter, we have a chance to win."
By air or by feet
Typically a pass-heavy offense, Newburyport shifted to more of a run-based philosophy this season due to Wile's injury. The Clippers have picked up 1,368 yards on the ground compared to 832 in the air. By comparison, Amesbury has picked up 1,902 yards on the ground and 1,148 in the air.
Both coaches stressed that their respective defenses will have to account for both the pass and run.
"I'm looking at them as a very good football team," Connors said. "They have good size up front. They run the ball and block well. They have speed in the backfield. They have the ability to throw. I watched Connor (Wile) for the last three games, and I know he's ready to play at full strength."
Gaudiano believes his team's defense needs to center its game plan around Amesbury quarterback Matt Talbot.
"Offensively, Amesbury gives us more problems by the nature of the things they're doing than we've seen all year," Gaudiano said. "They have a great balance between the pass and run. They have an ability to spread the field. They have good athletes; it's dangerous. We consider Talbot first. He's a guy who can pass and run. (Devlin) Gobeil has proven he can catch the ball. They have guys who can beat you out in space, and they have a real good fullback (Perry Mroz) who keeps you honest."
Even higher stakes
The mayors of Newburyport and Amesbury have placed a wager on the game, according to Amesbury Mayor Thatcher Kezer.
"I'm looking forward to a cherry pie from (Newburyport Mayor Donna Holaday)," Kezer said. "That's our wager, a cherry pie, an American red cherry pie."
Kezer said an Amesbury player suggested the switch from an apple pie, which had been the winning prize in the past.
"I've had to give away a few apple pies the last couple of years, so I'm looking forward to hopefully being on the receiving end of the pie exchange this year," Kezer said.


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The Whitley County Sheriff's Department has arrested a Williamsburg man for drug charges after he turned himself in to authorities on Thursday.
Samuel R. Cox, 44, of Williamsburg, was charged with two counts of second-degree trafficking of a controlled substance and one count of first-degree trafficking of a controlled substance, according to Whitley County Sheriff Colan Harrell.
Cox was one of several individuals that the sheriff's department had been investigating for drug-related activity for several months, according to Harrell.
Williamsburg man arrested for drugs
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Man indicted for sexual abuse
A London man has been indicted for an alleged eight years of sexual abuse of a child under 12 years old.
Police Roundup - Jan. 29, 2013
According to Laurel County Sheriff John Root, the department has stepped up its enforcement along U.S. 25 between Corbin and London.
Police Roundup - Jan. 7, 2013
A London man was arrested Saturday after deputies found him in a hotel room with a juvenile, drug paraphernalia and painkillers, according to Laurel County Sheriff John Root.
Police Roundup - December 7, 2012
A London man was arrested Wednesday for driving under the influence after he pulled his truck into a private drive and passed out with the engine running, according to Laurel County Sheriff John Root.
Woman pleads guilty in baby trade
A woman charged with trading her newborn baby for a used pickup truck pleaded guilty in Laurel County Circuit Court Tuesday, according to a court official.
Police Roundup - December 5, 2012
Two London women were arrested Tuesday after it was learned they used their positions at a local dentist's office to obtain prescriptions illegally, according to Laurel County Sheriff John Root.
Corbin man jailed for robbery
An early morning robbery landed a Corbin man in jail on multiple charges Saturday.
Five face federal drug charges
Five people face federal charges after an ongoing federal investigation into oxycodone distribution in this area.
Man indicted for murder of girlfriend
A man charged in the murder of his 25-year-old girlfriend has been indicted by a Laurel County Circuit Court Grand Jury, court documents indicate.
Police Roundup - Nov. 20, 2012
Johnny D. Brown, 39, of Laurel County faces charges of burglary, fleeing and evading, theft of a firearm, theft under $500 and criminal mischief.
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Possession of Marijuana, No Tail Lights
Police arrested Melikia K. Richardson, 27, of the 16900 block of Sunset Ridge Drive in Country Club Hills, around 6:25 a.m. near 167th Street and Westwind Drive in . She was charged with possession of marijuana, driving with no tail lights, operating an uninsured motor vehicle and driving with a suspended license. Her bail was set at $2,000.
Violating an Order of Protection
John N. Kassis, 57, of the 15200 block of South Mallard Lane in Homer Glen, was arrested around 10:55 p.m. at the . He was charged with violating an order of protection.
Warrant Arrest
Laura E. Brashler, 25, of the 17500 block of Gougar Road in Lockport, was arrested around 9:40 a.m. at the Cook County Circuit Court, 10220 S. 76th Ave., Bridgeview, on a warrant out of for driving on a suspended license.
Mortgage Scam Nets Homeowner
A man stopped into the after he realized he'd been scammed by a consulting firm that offered to restructure his mortgage.
An employee from the firm, US Consulting Corporation, called the 27-year-old man's home in February. He was notified in March that he was approved for the service, at which time he paid the $2,490 fee, the report said. He filled out all the required documents using his W2 and other tax forms.
On March 5, he called to follow up on the process and all the phone numbers he previously used had been disconnected. He was able to reach the woman with whom he'd been corresponding by dialing her cell phone and she told him she went to work that day and the doors were locked, according to the police report.
Police said the company is listed as being untrusted on several forums and is not accredited through the Better Business Bureau "because of licensing and complaint issues." The business website, usconsultingcorp.com, was shut down as of March 27.
Vandals Damage White Water Canyon
Sometime between March 18 and March 20, someone entered the pool area of White Water Canyon Water Park, 8105 W. 171st St., , and damaged $3,500 worth of equipment near the pool's water pump pit.
"Unknown offenders damaged approximately 60 feet of white PVC fencing, which was around the water pump pit, by pulling three posts out of the ground and throwing the PVC fencing into the water slide pool area," the report said.
A clear plastic filter cap was also broken and thrown in the pool. The case remained under investigation on March 25.
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Jimmie Driftwood
Comprising Jimmie Driftwood's complete recordings for RCA, cut between 1957 and 1961, this three-CD set opens with Driftwood's most famous song, "The Battle of New Orleans," and the ten other songs that comprised the classic country-folk collection Newly Discovered Early American Folk Songs. The material here, when compared to the music of the Weavers or the Kingston Trio, seems like a field recording from 100 years earlier, with Driftwood's rural Arkansas pronunciation, twangy intonation, and spare backing. The Wilderness Road is every bit as good and even more entertaining, since Driftwood seems even more comfortable with the recording process. Disc Two opens with Driftwood's September 1959 sessions for The Westward Movement, a series of songs about the beginnings of the great American migration west, which features a somewhat more sophisticated sound. The second half of the disc is made up of Tall Tales in Song, Driftwood's series of songs about myths and tall tales from history and local legend. The last five songs come from a Time-Life LP, How the West Was Won, and deal with such figures as General Custer, Jesse James, and Billy the Kid. Disc Three opens with the Grammy-winning album Billy Yank and Johnny Reb, which returns Driftwood to his more familiar backing band (including John D. Loudermilk), accompanied in surprisingly restrained manner by the Anita Kerr singers. The last half of the disc includes Sea Shanties, Driftwood's final album from 1961. The sound throughout is excellent, and the music is all priceless, whether one's taste runs toward country or folk. The booklet transcends Bear Family's usual standard, with extremely detailed notes and essays (some by the man himself), as well as the usual full sessionography. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
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Robinson, Rosanna Lesley (1995) The dynamics of space use in some Lake Malawi fishes. PhD thesis, Rhodes University.
Behaviour and space utilisation of rock-dwelling cichlids were observed at Thumbi East Island, Lake Malawi. 1. Males offive species of the mbuna complex held long-term territories. Pseudotropheus elongatus "aggressive" vigorously defended a feeding area and sometimes a spawning site interspecifically, but did not feed in the peripheral part of their territory. Spawning sites of Pseudotropheus zebra, Pseudotropheus tropheops -"orange chest", Labeotropheusfuelleborni, and Petrotilapia nigra were interspecifically-defended, while larger mating territories were defended against conspecific neighbours. Feeding areas were shared with many fish and often extended beyond the defended area. There was considerable variation in behaviour and space use within and between species and between times of day. 2. Non-territorial P. zebra used larger ranges than territorial conspecifics, and fed more on plankton, but individuals had preferred benthic feeding areas, often in conspecific territories. These 'floaters' were often aggressive. Both size and relative brightness independently predicted the outcome of aggressive interactions between floaters, and a site-specific dominance hierarchy was suggested, with some individuals appearing to be semi-territorial. 3. Males and females of 21 and 13 species respectively were found to establish temporary breeding territories. Overall breeding seasonality was bimodal, but reproductive timing and territory characteristics differed among species. Temporary territories had a considerable impact on the behaviour and habitat use of all resident mbuna species, even causing abandonment of territories. 4. Non-breeding Protomelas taeniolatus had limited home ranges, and showed little aggression. During the highly-synchronised reproductive season, males defended spawning sites and females fry-guarding territories. Most chases were directed towards the commonest fish, but predators were chased further and faster. Female behaviour changed over the guarding period. Females generally continued territorial defence after the brood had disappeared. Most broods contained fry of different sizes and species. Significant benefits were found for guarding females with clustered territories, but females did not appear to choose sites adjacent to conspecific parental females. 5. Territoriality in fish is taxonomically widespread and may serve several functions according to species, sex and developmental stage. It also varies according to genotype- and phenotype-limited strategies and short term costs and benefits. Territories may be simultaneously multifunctional.
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National Politics
War Genie Out of Bottle
A series of events during the first week of May 1861 signaled that Tennessee was getting on a war footing. And an incident on May 5 in Strawberry Plains showed just how sensitive life had become in the Volunteer State.
On May 7, Tennessee Gov. Isham Harris mobilized state militia and sent word to the Confederate States of America administration in Richmond that Tennessee was all but aligned with the Confederacy.
This decision was made by the governor despite a statewide vote in April not to join the secession. The Tennessee Legislature ratified an agreement to enter a military league with the Confederacy, however, backing Gov. Harris's move.
And even earlier, the governor had refused to send troops called for by President Abraham Lincoln after Confederate forces fired upon and seriously damaged the federal Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor.
In early May, both Union and Confederate supporters in East Tennessee were out in the countryside stumping their positions on the issues.
It was a time of long speeches and short tempers.
Oliver P. Temple recounts in his history of the "Civil War in East Tennessee," that "there was not at that time a county in East Tennessee....in which there was not made daily one or more Union speeches."
Passions were high in the wake of the Legislature's actions and the overtures made by the governor to Richmond. U.S. Congressman T.A.R. Nelson of Washington County and Sen. Andrew Johnson of Greeneville sponsored a canvass of East Tennessee sentiment on the growing secession crisis.
Thousands turned out in Greeneville to hear Johnson rail at pro-secessionists. Temple drew a sizeable gathering in Thorn Grove on the same day.
On May 5, a huge crowd assembled in Strawberry Plains to hear speeches by Rep. Horace Maynard of Knoxville, Temple, and John Fleming, a Knoxville lawyer.
The gathering on land owned by A. K. Meek, a veteran of the War of 1812, was adjacent to a rail line. Just as the speeches were about to begin a train of boxcars which had slowed as it passed the crowd pulled into the station depot. The rail line was no more than 100 yards from where the crowd gathered.
The Whig newspaper, owned by fierce Unionist William G. Brownlow, reported that the rail cars were filled with Alabama Confederate troops.
A couple of armed soldiers climbed to the top of the boxcars to see what was happening at the nearby meeting.
Meek said that without warning, one of the soldiers threw a rock at him and the other fired a shot at the old man.
This brought about a general gun battle from both Confederate soldiers inside the boxcars and Union supporters in the grove where they had been seated waiting for the speeches to begin.
Brownlow picks up the story: Bullets whistled around the stand in considerable numbers, near which I was at the time, fired by both those in and on the train.
Such of the Union men as had pistols, and the few who happened to have guns, returned the fire. . . . The Union men continued to fire until the train was away beyond reach of small arms. The soldiers also continued their fire on the assemblage until they passed out of range.
The bullets actually whistled over the heads of our crowd around the stand, cutting off leaves and springs, to the consternation of the ladies and men.
This brief exchange of gunfire lasted only minutes and no one in the crowd was injured. It was later reported, but not confirmed, that at least one soldier on the train was either wounded or killed.
On May 6, 1861, Tennessee and Arkansas legislators signed ordinances of secession. In the Volunteer State, this bold act preceded the June 8 vote set by the Legislature for the people of the state to decide whether or not it wanted to secede.
And on the same day, CSA President Jefferson Davis declared that a state of war existed between the CSA and the United States. Great Britain said that it recognized the CSA as belligerents and not as a nation.
A week later, British Queen Victoria affirmed Great Britain's strict neutrality in the coming War Between the States.
This was at first blush a blow to the Confederacy, which had hoped to convince England to support the CSA's defiance.
The war genie was now out of the bottle. Returning her would prove deadly, costly, and long.
Mystic Chords of Memory
On March 4, 1861, a tall man in a new black suit and a tall hat walked out to the East Portico of the Capitol and looked out at the thousands of faces staring at him. The crowd, estimated at 10,000, had just helped elect him 16th president of the United States of America.
Abraham Lincoln was 52 years old, graying a bit on the sides of the temples. He had won a sizeable majority over Stephen Douglas, his Republican opponent, and three Democratic candidates. And, despite the fact that he did not get a single vote in a Deep South state, Lincoln felt good about his victory. The American people, of whom he had supreme confidence, had spoken, and he was their clear choice.
Though the victory was clear 150 years ago today, the nation and its people were not. The issue of slavery, around since the beginning of America, an issue that bedeviled the Founding Fathers, an issue that was a dark side to the land of bright hopes and the new shine of freedom, formed over the election like a mushroom cloud.
For more than a decade, Americans had debated how to deal with the "peculiar institution," as it was called by the nation's newspapers. Slavery had become an integral agricultural tool in the cotton South, whose very survival was tethered by an umbilical chain in agrarian links that were as historical as they were broad.
A side irritant was the right of states to make decisions left to the central federal government, such as the right to own and sell another human being. Slaves were property and as such, slave owners wanted the right to have their property returned if found and caught in another state. That was called the Fugitive Slave Act. It was a deep thorn in the side of northern abolitionists, as was the whole idea of slavery. Abolitionists, supported by powerful voices in the U.S. Congress, wanted no part of the dark stain of slavery. A last-hope compromise to set slavery aside for now, leaving it where it was on the vine, but not allowed to grow in territories not yet states, but soon to be awarded statehood, died with nothing much more than a whimper, a whisper, in the winds of discontent.
There stood Lincoln, resplendent in his new clothes, smiling that transcendent smile of peace and tranquility.
Scenes of mighty discord, defiance and a rising destiny churned in the chaos beneath his brow, however.
But here on this spring morning, now beginning to warm a bit, Lincoln, the new people's man, had just ridden down Pennsylvania Avenue with outgoing and despised bachelor President, James Buchanan.
Buchanan fiddled away chances to solve some of the slave issues, but badly misunderstood the American mood. He did nothing in the final days, weeks, months of his presidency, hoping for some divine intervention that never arrived.
And now Lincoln was on the threshold of a new page in his life, and that of the nation he was about to lead. He stood before the man who more than most had turned slavery into a national issue. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney had ruled in the first birthing pangs of the Buchanan administration that slave states had the right to the return of their slave property, and that Congress had no Constitutional right to change that position.
Make no mistake, the Taney court ruled that slavery was legal and slaves were property.
In the midst of this, Lincoln offered himself as the candidate who had promised to leave slavery alone where it stood, but would not allow it to advance one more state, not one more territory.
With the inauguration, Oliver P. Temple, an astute East Tennessee political figure, said that a "Stygian darkness" covered the nation's capitol.
The nation stood on the precipice of a great war, despite the efforts of many to direct the country away from that catastrophe.
In his first inaugural address after being sworn in by Taney, who some said looked more like a cadaver than a man, Lincoln reached inside his pocket and produced his speech. The script had been well-worked several times, and even watered somewhat by William Seward, former U.S. senator from New York who ran against Lincoln and was now the president's Secretary of State.
The new president wasted little time in going to the heart of the issue.
In the third paragraph of his first address to the people, he said his detractors could not find a word in any of his previous speeches, or in this one, where he spoke of ending slavery.
Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States, that by the accession of a Republican Administration, their property, and their peace, and personal security, are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed, and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Next, the president quoted Article Four of the U.S. Constitution to assure the Southern states of his sincerity.
There is much controversy about the delivering up of fugitives from service or labor. The clause I now read is as plainly written in the Constitution as any other of its provisions:
"No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due."
The law, Lincoln said, was the law. It protected both the slave owner and the freed slave equally. The U.S. Congress had sworn to uphold the Constitution, and he did so as well on this day. For Lincoln, it was a simple execution of the laws of the land.
But then, he got to part of his speech that provided the real controversy: the split up of the Union.
Disunion of the states was "now formidably attempted," Lincoln said, warming to the crucial subject on his mind.
I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper, ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever -- it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.
Then he posed a perplexing question that should have made those favoring secession, the so-called "fire eaters" of the South, sit up and at least think of the logic put forth by the new president.
If the states were not a government, but rather an association of states under contract with each other, would it not take all the states who made and signed the contract to unmake the contract?
Next, the new president gave his audience a history lesson:
. . . The Union is perpetual, confirmed by the history of the Union itself. The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution, was "to form a more perfect Union." But if [the] destruction of the Union, by one, or by a part only, of the States, be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity.
Logically, then, Lincoln said it follows that no state can on its own merely decide to leave the Union. That would be insurrection or revolution.
He told his audience that he fully intended to faithfully uphold and defend the laws of the Union, and that at this moment he viewed "the Union is unbroken."
The 16th president said there was no need for violence or bloodshed, and indeed there would be none unless it was forced upon the national government.
But, he warned, he did not intend to allow states to take over federal property, either.
The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion -- no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
And then in a breathtaking stroke of his pen, Abraham Lincoln wrote words that towered above the crisis in one of the most cogent paragraphs of his or any other time:
Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? Will you hazard so desperate a step, while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to, are greater than all the real ones you fly from? Will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?
Quite plainly, the president said, the essence of secession is anarchy.
One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute. The fugitive slave clause of the Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break over in each. This, I think, cannot be perfectly cured, and it would be worse in both cases after the separation of the sections, than before. The foreign slave trade, now imperfectly suppressed, would be ultimately revived without restriction, in one section; while fugitive slaves, now only partially surrendered, would not be surrendered at all, by the other.
In the next few paragraphs of his speech, Lincoln outlined Constitutional methods for changing the government: it could be done by amendments, by revolution, or the people could vote to tell the president to split the states apart.
But none of these political facets had been fashioned.
He pleaded with the audience to "think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing of value can be lost by taking time."
And then he closed his speech with some of the most famous words ever written:
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."
I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Much of the First Inaugural Address used here was taken from the Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler. The entire address can be read on the Library of Congress web site: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr00.html#inaugural
February's Line in the Dirt
Shortly before the secession crisis wracked the nation, Knoxville and East Tennessee seemed bound toward a bright future. Both experienced economic expansion and population growth, making the city a metropolis for many mountain counties and towns hunched along the Tennessee-Kentucky-North Carolina-Virginia border.
The East Tennessee-Georgia Railroad had been completed. Gas lights lit the way along Gay Street. The city was a growing hub for livestock, a reach that stretched even into Georgia and Alabama.
Knoxville's citizens were informed by four newspapers and its politics was split between conservative Whigs and only slightly liberal Democrats, a mirror of the nation to a degree. The national Democratic Party was generally more aligned with southern feelings. Northern Whigs were definite and noisy about the issue of abolitionism.
Despite a cholera breakout in 1854 and the financial panic of 1857, Knoxville was on its way, despite the heavy unrest in the nation as reflected in Congress and the nation's capital. Politicians were at each other's throats on the national scene, which whipped up unrest in America's villages, towns and cities.
Knoxville Manufacturing Co. began building rail locomotives and large steam boilers.
With the completion of the East Tennessee-Georgia rail line, Knoxville connected to Chattanooga, Savannah, Charleston, and even to Memphis and Nashville through rail spurs.
And then with the East Tennessee-Virginia rail line completion about three years prior to the outbreak of war, spread Knoxville's commercial network to Richmond, Va., becoming a singularly valuable asset, which was not lost on war planners on either side of the issue.
But with the collapse of national political parties in the late 1850s, East Tennessee's political leaders began to see a darkening cloud on the horizon. Ingternecine fighting broke out among Democrats leading up to the coming national election for president.
Northern democrats leaned toward Stephen Douglas, who backed state sovereignty on the divisive slave issue. This not only lost him any northern Democratic vote, but it sank him in the South as well.
Abolitionists democrats were left out cold and began to make up another political framework.
Southern democrats abandoned Douglas altogether and backed John C. Breckenridge, former vice president, who was for secession and the slave oligarchy of the Deep South. There was simply no mistaking which side he was on.
John Bell of Nashville offered himself as the Constitutional Party candidate, a kind of middle of the road democrat with a twinge of Whig. Bell's entry into the national contest siphoned off votes from Breckenridge and insured a Republican victory in the 1860 election.
As this national scene set itself in place politically, the South was a troubled land. Abraham Lincoln, the brilliant orator and lawyer from Illinois, had but one serious opponent, William H. Seward, Mayor of New York and U.S. Senator, with broad appeal nationally. But, he was not the candidate whom northern abolitionists could support both spiritually and with their hearts and minds. Lincoln was seen as the man to beat, and the South viewed Lincoln as malevolent.
There were other disturbing factors afoot as well. A group of Southern politicians wanted secession to succeed, and began favorable propaganda in the North about Lincoln and just the opposite in the South.
As the election grew closer, political parties in East Tennessee held fast to their beliefs: the conservative Whigs-turned Republican backed Lincoln. Mainly the Whigs were city-dwellers and the rural area, made up of wealthy farmers, sided with the South. Reason: Cotton was king in the South, and Knox County's farmers, some of whom owned slaves, were heavily connected with Deep South plantations and businesses leaders.
The fractured Democratic Party was all over the map, but in the end cast not a vote for Lincoln, and split over the three serious candidates, leaving Douglas swinging in the wind.
Lincoln's election threw Tennessee and East Tennessee into a broiling political cauldron. In February 1861, Pro-secessionist Tennessee Gov. Isham Harris pushed the legislature to authorize a referendum on a convention to decide whether or not the state would leave the Union.
The Harris secession convention referendum was overwhelmingly defeated, with East Tennessee voters turning out in huge numbers to defeat the proposal.
January and February 1861 became a time in which events began to move so quickly in East Tennessee it seemed history overtook reality daily.
Leaders from the first states to secede after the election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860--South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas--met in convention in Montgomery, Ala., in February, 1861. On Feb. 18, 1861, they named Jefferson Davis provisional president of the fledgling Confederate States of America.
A line had been drawn in the dirt. Those who wanted secession got their wish. Those who had been trying mightily to compromise the nation away from war, were pushed aside.
War now was almost inevitable. It would come sooner rather than later, at a terrible cost.
The Union Dissolves
On Dec. 20, 1860, South Carolina took the first step in dissolving the Union. America was about to become a war zone, the likes of which no one had ever seen before, nor since.
The South Carolina Secession Convention called by the state legislature wasted little time in considering an act of secession.
By a vote of 169-0, the Legislature enacted an ordinance dissolving the union between South Carolina and the United States.
It was as if a switch had been flipped, and very quickly, the South and the North were no longer speaking the same language.
The secession crisis of the 1860 winter was now a full-blown issue, threatening a war.
Leading up to Abraham Lincoln's election Nov. 6, 1860, there had been a war of words. Now, the imminent threat was reaching a point of no return to a scale of unknown proportions.
Following South Carolina in quick succession, Mississippi seceded , January 9, 1861, to be followed by Florida, January 10, Alabama, January 11, Georgia, January 19, Louisiana, January 26 and Texas, February 1.
A revolution was afoot, and it was a tidal wave.
A decade of political and public power struggles over the issue of expanding slavery into the territories, not yet aligned as states, preceded the road to war.
Lincoln's very platform to election specified that he would leave slavery alone where it existed, but he would not sanction the "peculiar institution" in the territories.
Just 44 days after Lincoln's sweeping election, South Carolina took the bold step of launching the Civil War with that first act of secession.
Before the war would end four long, bloody years later, some 620,000 Americans would be dead, along with a president.
An American War and Peace
On Nov. 6, 1860, in a time of political crisis, the nation elected Abraham Lincoln the 16th President of the United States.
What followed was a period of intense upheaval. In four years, Lincoln would be dead of an assassin's bullet and the nation bitterly divided. One month after Lincoln's election, South Carolina announced its intention to secede from the Union.
In quick succession, six more states followed South Carolina out of the United States--Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas.
The die was cast. The Union, brought forth on the battlefields of Concord, Charleston, Cowpens, Kings Mountain, Guilford Courthouse and Yorktown, was now under assault from Americans instead of the British.
When the sad chapter of the nation's historic war closed, more than 600,000 Americans were dead, missing or wounded, some grievously enough to die from those wounds.
The American South lay in waste, whole cities were turned into rubble or stripped bare and destroyed. The Northern armies raided farms of anything of value, burned homes and barns to black ashes; and destroyed crops. The South's economy was bankrupted and citizens were left destitute.
The war had turned fathers against sons and brothers against brothers. From November 1860 until April 1865, the better angels of human nature took flight, leaving behind disruption, devastation, and psychological wounds which to this day have not completely healed.
America had changed forever and now the state and nation confront the 150th anniversary of that signal event in our history.
Over the next four-plus years, this blog will attempt to tell the story of the Civil War as seen through the various perspectives of the state, the region and the nation.
During each year of the war, sites and battles will be re-enacted not so much in celebration as in remembrance of the 150th anniversary. This blog will commemorate the battles but it will also tell stories of the people who endured the hardships and heartaches of the war. What was it to be a citizen of that time? How did families cope with such great loss? What happened to cities and towns as they watched their economy sway, falter and die, and how did they rebuild?
This, then, is the beginning of A House Divided: A Chronicle of the Civil War in East Tennessee and the Nation.
It began with Lincoln's election after a decade of civil and political unrest in the nation. It ended at a small courthouse in Virginia some four anguished years later.
Nearly every person in America at the time, some 31 million, was touched by the war in some manner. And, worse, 4.5 million of that population was slaves, whose lives were unequivocally caught in the war's tentacles and whose very future depended on the outcome.
Saturday, Nov. 6, marks the 150th anniversary of the election of the man considered by most historians to be the nation's greatest president.
Yet, Lincoln's victory was an odd sort of political outcome. He was elected without a majority of the popular vote (not quite 40 percent of the eligible voters casting tickets, or ballots as we know them today), but in one of the largest turnouts in U.S. history (80 percent voter turnout).
Lincoln's victory also created a landslide in the Electoral College, winning 180 electoral votes to 123 of all the other candidates combined.
Opposed to slavery but willing to let it die of its own weight in the South, Lincoln swept the abolitionist-agitated northern states, captured a majority of the Midwest, mid-Atlantic and all of the New England counties.
However, nine Southern states, seven of them in the Deep South, didn't even have Lincoln's name on the ticket. He won but two of 996 counties then on the books in the South.
Lincoln's opponents, former Vice President John C. Breckenridge, a staunch secessionist Democrat, won most of the Deep South, Stephen Douglas, a popular sovereignty Democratic candidate, and John Bell of Tennessee's Constitutional Union Party, managed few votes against a fledgling Republican Party that was but six years old.
Dr. Charles Hubbard, Lincoln scholar and professor of history at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, says it was that split of the Democratic vote that virtually assured Lincoln's election, and thereby sealing the fate of the nation.
A South already in agitation over issues such as Lincoln's slavery policies, abolitionists, split party politics, and the prospects of losing so much wealth in a single election of a president, was frothed and spoiling for a fight. Most of the South's riches were land and slaves. A good field hand at the time could bring from $1,500 to $1,800.
And at the time of the Civil War, there were about 4.5 million slaves in the nation. As wrong as it was, trading in slaves was a big, big business in the South.
"The democrats with a national constituency lost any chance they had of winning the election by splitting their votes three ways," says Hubbard. "And that left Lincoln with a sectional party in the North that was a very fractured party."
The party was fractured over slavery and immigration, pitting one ethnic group--Germans and Irish Catholic as an example--against each other in the North. The Republican Party riding the high tide of Lincoln's popularity in the North, was only beginning to experience its first wobbly steps of leading the nation on the American political scene.
Ironically, it was the fire-eating Southern Democrats for the most part who were most opposed to Lincoln, but who were unable to join together with Northern Democrats under Douglas, or Bell's Constitution Union Party to defeat Lincoln.
Lincoln's climb from obscure Illinois lawyer to the White House is one of America's most iconic historic stories. He was elected in the midst of political turmoil that had been raging for most of the decade of 1850.
Although northern tariffs on the Cotton South in 1860 were onerous and the cause of many a Congressional argument, as well as some fistfights, it was the question of secession driven by the institution of slavery that ramped up the dangerous rhetoric of war and pushed into reality.
Though he never campaigned as such in the South, or East Tennessee, Lincoln's positions on governance, the Union, slavery, freedom and liberty, were well known throughout the nation. In 1858, he had faced Douglas in a series of campaign debates, the first of its kind, that captured America's attention through just about every newspaper printed in the country at the time.
The seven debates in Illinois centered squarely on the future of slavery in the nation. The campaign between Lincoln and Douglas was for the U.S. Senate, with Lincoln as the Republican candidate and Douglas the incumbent for the Democratic Party. Lincoln used the debates to confront Douglas on his 1854 bill, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the 1820 Missouri Compromise, an act hammered out by pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in Congress.
The compromise outlawed slavery from expanding in western territories and above the 36-30 north parallel, with the exception of Missouri, which was a slave state. In other words, slavery was to be contained in the South.
At this juncture in American history, territories pushing for statehood had to be entered either as a "slave state", or a "free state," in order to maintain a "balance of power" within the Union. It had to do with the powerbrokers in the U.S. House and Senate, and keeping that political power even on the scales.
Any movement by the federal government to bring in a new "free state," without the addition of a "slave state" created howls, protests, fights, and eventually war.
Douglas espoused "popular sovereignty," or states rights, which proposed that the states had the right to decide the question of slavery within its borders.
The Kansas-Nebraska act written by Douglas threw the nation into an inferno of confusion and consternation. The new territories and repeal of the old compromise triggered the vast disruptions 48 months before Lincoln's election.
Bleeding Kansas, a series of pro-slavery and anti-slavery border wars across the state and into Missouri between 1854 and 1858, was unleashed by the act. The killings and the political turmoil left in its wake presaged what became America's war and peace.
Douglas' bill also set in motion other powerful political forces that split both the Democratic and Whig parties, Lincoln's old political affiliation, and birthed the Republican Party. Such firestorms divided the United States into two major political camps, North (Republican) and South (Democratic), completely consuming other third political parties, such as the Know-Nothings and the Wide-Awakes.
Kansas was admitted to the Union Jan. 29, 1861, as a free state with a new anti-slavery constitution, upsetting the balance of power, and ensuring the South would break from the Union. Nebraska did not become a state until 1867, two years after the end of the Civil War.
The debates fleshed out the issue of the day: slavery and its complicated nature. Lincoln said he was for equality, but not necessarily for freeing the slaves. He just did not want to allow slavery to advance beyond its Southern borders.
Under Lincoln, slavery would stay where it was and then over time die out by attrition and more modern advancements in agricultural practices as well as a changing society.
Douglas accused Lincoln of being a "Black Republican," an abolitionists and one who wanted to overthrow state laws.
Douglas lost the debate, pillared by Lincoln's brilliant prose and speeches, but won another term in the U.S. Senate from Illinois. Two years later Douglas and Lincoln would meet again on the presidential battlefield.
Lincoln was born Feb 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Ky., near the town of what is called Hodgenville, Ky., today. His birthplace is about 200 miles north of Knoxville, and East Tennessee, a section of the nation Lincoln held dear throughout his presidency.
Lincoln's great-Uncle Isaac Lincoln acquired a land grant from the Watauga Association in Carter County and is buried near Elizabethton. The president's father, Thomas, is said to have worked for his uncle Isaac around 1798 for at least a year. Here, he met his future wife, Nancy Hanks, the mother of Lincoln.
He had another relative, Mordecai Lincoln, in Greeneville. Mordecai was a Justice of the Peace, and has the distinction of performing the marriage ceremony of Andrew Johnson and Eliza McCardle. Johnson became Lincoln's vice president in his second term, and then succeeded to the presidency when Lincoln was assassinated.
Tennessee did not fare well during the Civil War. The state experienced more battles on its homeland than any other state but Virginia. In addition, the mountains and valleys were rife with "bushwhackers" carrying out old vendettas, or raiding farms for either the Confederacy or the Union. It was truly a civil war for the people of East Tennessee and mountain families.
But East Tennessee was important because of its rail connections to the North and South, and because of its huge agricultural production. And a majority of its people were Unionists.
War in East Tennessee would unfold in a variety of violence.
And right from the beginning, Knoxville was occupied by the Confederate Army, and its battles would be and was as devastating as in any other place in the nation.
The Barbecue Vote
A new trend in American politics got underway on this day 150 years ago.
Stephen A. Douglas, a Democrat, challenging Abraham Lincoln for the presidency of the United States, held what is identified as the first campaign barbecue in Chicago.
The barbecue was for his supporters and newspapers of the time estimated the crowd between 20,000 and 30,000, quite possibly the largest in American political history.
To feed the masses, Douglas had Chicago chefs cook up an ox, hog, a sheep and a calf.
Cooks dug a ditch 16 feet long, eight feet wide and five feet deep in order to cook the meat.
Cooking began in the morning and by 2 p.m. newspaper reports indicate the hungry gathering grew hungrier by the minute. Eventually, they attacked the tables when it was discovered there was not quite enough barbecue to serve everyone.
Then the scene became one of every man for himself. Meat was grabbed and tossed. A melee broke out over the choicest parts of the barbecue feat piled upon the groaning tables.
Barrels of crackers were overturned and with the crowd swarming like starved beasts, the barbecue was concluded.
Lincoln represented the new Republican Party and was seemingly content to let Douglas have the barbecue vote.


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Output and Operating Characteristics per National Semiconductor Datasheet: The LM3875 is a high-performance audio power amplifier capable of delivering 56W of continuous average power to an 8 load with 0.1% THD+N from 20Hz to 20kHz.
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Recently, Arnold Ligtvoet from RaptoBike sent me a link to an interesting project that he is involved with. The goal is to develop a velomobile that is both practical and fast, and the team that is working on the VeloTilt certainly has the credentials to make it happen. The development team consists of Will Schermer- the idea and funding guy, David Weilemaker- design and aerodynamics, George-emile Tokaya- design and ergonomics, Bram Smit- FFWD, design and construction, Jan Reus- composites, and Arnold Ligtvoet- commercial development. Wielemaker and Tokaya are both members of the Delft Technical University HPT team and were designers of the Velox2, which reached a speed of 129.6 Km/h (80.1 mph) at Battle Mountain, NV, so a lot of what they learned from that experience is going into this project.
In a presentation during the Velomobile Seminar in Dronten, NL last month, the team pointed out a few issues with current velomobiles:
- Not always easy to enter and exit
- Fall over when cornering too fast
- Limited cargo space
- Not easy to maintain
- Require a large storage area
They also outlined the design goals for the VeloTilt project:
- Tilting for safe cornering and fun to ride
- Easy entrance
- Usable for people from 1.6 to 2 meter ( roughly 5' 4" to 6' 7")
- 70 liters of luggage space
- Excellent braking
- Speed 55km/h with 150 watts of power
- All technical parts easily accessible
- Storage in .8 x 1 meter space
You can see CAD renderings of the design at its current stage in this blog post, where you will also find all of the presentation slides from Dronton. The front wheel drive tilting trike features 20" side mounting wheels, with dual disc brakes in the back and a drum brake in the front. Risse shocks are used on the rear wheels, and the front is driven by a 3-speed hub and 9-speed derailleur. The overall dimensions are 248 cm long by 76 cm wide by 105 cm tall (roughly 8' 1" x 2' 6" x 3' "5), and the vehicle can be stored upright on its end as seen here.
It is a pretty interesting project, so I look forward to learning more about it as it develops. I will definitely pass along any further info about the project as it comes to me, so stay tuned.


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Class for parents of teens in the Issaquah School District.
Feb 12th and 26th, 7 -8:30 pm, Free
Pacific Cascade Middle School. This two night class will help prepare parents for parenting teens with Love and Logic strategies.
For more information please contact Julie Siefkes, PCMS Parent Education Chair at 425-890-2948.


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I wasn't surprised Andrew Bynum was ticketed for speeding Wednesday.
Obviously he had just heard he was the subject on Page 2 and was rushing to buy The Times. Nice to see one young person still reads the paper.
I wasn't surprised Andrew Bynum was ticketed for speeding Wednesday.
Obviously he had just heard he was the subject on Page 2 and was rushing to buy The Times. Nice to see one young person still reads the paper.
I had written about the need for Bynum to report back to work as a grownup after his four-game suspension. Obviously I'm not clairvoyant.
I was unaware he had been stopped by the police a day earlier as well and given a "fix-it" ticket for improperly functioning taillights and having no license plates.
Kids are known for lapses in judgment, so maybe he hasn't grown up as much as I had hoped. The guy owns 13 cars at last count and he's picking the one with the bad taillight and no license plates?
I am guessing it's the toughest decision he has to make every day: Which car do I take? Can you imagine keeping track of 13 different sets of keys?
When I wrote about Bynum, I thought we'd have to wait until his return Saturday to see if he's matured.
But after Bynum was stopped twice by the police in a span of two days while on suspension, I was curious to know whether he was holding himself accountable as an adult.
I emailed Lakers PR czar John Black, asking about Bynum's availability only to be told players don't like to talk after shoot-arounds.
I told Black I could understand Bynum's concern not wanting to lose his voice if he has to go to court and plead not guilty.
But given the last eight months, Bynum's childish behavior in Dallas, his disregard for the handicapped and taking their parking places, his recent meetings with the police, and knowing he wasn't playing against the Knicks, how about a hint of accountability?
Black said he would let Bynum know the media wanted to speak with him. So I started driving to the Lakers' practice complex. I drove the speed limit; didn't think it would be a good idea to get a ticket and then cross-examine Bynum.
I also kept an eye on the carpool lane, figuring he might go flying by. From what we know of Bynum, is it so far-fetched to think he wouldn't be driving by himself in the carpool lane?
Later I learn every one of his 13 cars has tinted windows and windshields, so I wouldn't have seen him. That might explain why we've never heard of him being ticketed for driving in the carpool lane by himself.
When I arrive in El Segundo, Black tells the assembled media Bynum declines to speak. Black didn't say if Bynum was lying on his tummy on the floor and kicking his feet in the air when declining to speak.
But from what I've been told, Bynum doesn't like to talk about the mistakes he's made. I wonder if he'll run for office some day.
On a positive note, TMZ reports Bynum wasn't going as fast this time as the last time he was ticketed — for driving 110 mph. I must have written something really good that day.
I ask Enabler and Coach Mike Brown about Bynum's behavior and he says, "If a mailman was speeding, do you think he would be fired?"
If he cheap-shots someone at work, then storms out of the building while taking off his shirt, becomes a public embarrassment with published pictures of his mail truck parked in handicap spaces on two occasions, then yes, he best be a basketball player.
Meanwhile, I wait for Bynum after everyone's gone because I can't believe he's so childish as to hide behind a PR guy. As it is, he'd have to stoop pretty low to hide behind most of the shrimps now working in PR.
The guard at the Lakers' complex is a little surprised. "Bynum's usually the first one gone," he says.
When Bynum appears he keeps on walking even after I ask him to stop. I'm betting it's not the first stop sign he's rolled through.
Here I am, 60 or so, trying to walk and talk to a 24-year-old who is pouting and saying nothing in return. Good thing I just came off a weekend with the 2-year-old twins; it wasn't like this was my first experience with a baby.
I elect not to spank him. He gets in his car, a convertible BMW with a license plate, and peels off rubber. It's the most noteworthy thing I can remember him doing in his Lakers career.
And yet for the past six years I've been the guy's biggest advocate, everyone else wanting him shipped off.
But no more. It's become pretty clear this guy doesn't care what anyone thinks of him, or where he parks.
There's nothing appealing about an entitled athlete who really doesn't have much more to offer than the fact God gave him the size to earn millions the rest of his life because of the value placed on big people in this sport.
Plaschke might be right, and dummy me.
I spent a lot of time trying to get to know Bynum last season, mining for something that might suggest he was going to be as special as I thought.
But there's not much there. It's like dealing with the Dodgers' James Loney.
Both Bynum and Loney seem to reside in worlds removed from their teammates, content within themselves as if kids playing video games. And both failing to meet expectations; seemingly caring little about it.
They offer so much promise, but the conclusion might be the same: The Dodgers and Lakers better off without them.
I know this: Given Loney's recent highway mishap and Bynum's penchant for doing as he pleases in a car, this place might be a whole lot safer without them.


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The Lambayeque department, located on the north coast of Peru, is a region of great archaeological importance. Ancient ruins dot the landscape, built by pre-Inca civilizations such as the Moche, Sicán and Chimú cultures.
These sites have been a battleground throughout the last century, their buried treasures sought by both tomb raiders (huaqueros) and archaeologists. Those artifacts that have been saved -- an almost innumerable amount of stunning items -- have been careful housed in Lambayeque's modern museums.
The four main museums are spread across the department's principal cities: Chiclayo, Lambayeque and Ferreñafe. It's easy to visit all four museums independently from Chiclayo (the standard base for tourists); the hard part is deciding which of the four museums to visit if you're short on time...
Museo Tumbas Reales de Sípan
The Museo Tumbas Reales de Sípan (Royal Tombs of Sípan Museum) has become the principal museum in the department of Lambayeque and one of the main museums in Peru. Inaugurated on November 8, 2002, the impressive building was designed to reflect the pyramid-like sanctuaries of the Moche culture.
The multi-level interior, meanwhile, is a world-class showcase for the region's many pre-Columbian artifacts. The centerpiece is the Señor de Sipán collection (from the site of the same name, also known as Huaca Rajada, outside Chiclayo), featuring exquisite items taken from the tomb of the Lord of Sipán.
Visitors enter the museum on the top floor before descending to the second and first levels. Tour guides are available for an extra fee -- if you are unfamiliar with the cultures of the north coast, a guide will help you get the most from the museum. Photography is not permitted within the museum.
- Website: www.museotumbasrealessipan.pe
- Address: Av. Juan Pablo Vizcardo y Guzmán N. 895, Lambayeque.
- Opening hours: 9.00 am to 5.00 pm Tuesday to Sunday.
- Entrance fee: S/.10.00 (US$3.70); S/.20 with guide (US$7.40)
Museo Arqueologico Nacional Brüning
The Brüning Museum is also located in Lambayeque, just a few blocks from the Museo Tumbas Reales de Sípan. It's smaller and less glamorous than its more modern neighbor, but is well worth a visit even if you've already seen the Tumbas Reales collection.
Like Tumbas Reales, the Brüning Museum collection features metal, ceramic and textile artifacts from the ancient civilizations of Peru, including the Moche, Chimú and Lambayeque cultures. The museum's "Gold Room" is the real highlight -- the artistry and wealth of the precious objects is truly, and quite literally, dazzling.
The Brüning Museum has one distinct advantage over the Museo Tumbas Reales: you can take photos of all the artifacts on display.
- Address: Avenida Huamachuco, Lambayeque
- Opening hours: 9 am to 5 pm every day
- Entrance fee: S/.8 (US$3.00); S/.20 with guide (US$7.40)
Museo Nacional Sicán
The Museo Nacional Sicán is located in the town of Ferreñafe, about 12.5 miles north of Chiclayo. The museum is both a center of study and collection of artifacts from the Sicán (or Lambayeque) culture, a civilization that existed in the area between 750 and 1,375 AD.
The modern building was opened to the public in 2001, the result of more than two decades of archaeological excavation and study by the Sicán Archaeological Project. Many of the ceramic and gold objects were found at the Bosque de Pómac Historical Sanctuary, a vast complex of adobe pyramids and treasure-laden tombs.
The museum offers visitors an excellent insight into Sicán society, culture and religion, with many life-sized figures providing a clear image of Sicán ritual and dress. You'll also see reconstructions of various tombs and scale models of important Lambayeque archaeological sites. As with the region's other museums, the Museo Nacional Sicán collection includes exquisite gold artifacts such as ceremonial masks, earplugs and headdresses.
- Address: Av. Batán Grande, Ferreñafe
- Opening hours: 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Tuesday to Sunday
- Entrance fee: S/.15 (US$5.50)
Museo de Sitio de Huaca Rajada-Sipán
The small Museo de Sitio de Huaca Rajada-Sipán is located at the archaeological site of Huaca Rajada (Señor de Sipán). Opened in 2009, the museum is worth a quick peek before or after seeing the site itself. However, if you've already been to Brüning or Tumbas Reales in Lambayeque (where most of the prime artifacts end up), the onsite museum won't offer many surprises.
- Address: Huaca Rajada, Sipán, Chiclayo
- Opening hours: 9.00 am to 5.00 pm Monday to Friday
- Entrance fee: S/.8 (US$3.00)
Which Lambayeque Museum Should You Visit?
If you're short on time -- or if visiting four museums in a few days seems like academic overkill -- then the Museo Tumbas Reales de Sípan should be your first choice. It has an excellent collection, a well-conceived layout and top-quality guides.
It's also worth visiting the Brüning Museum while you're in the town of Lambayeque. It's only a few blocks from Tumbas Reales, the Gold Room is spectacular and you can take photos.
If you're especially interested in the Sicán culture, or if you're planning a visit to the Bosque de Pómac Historical Sanctuary, then a trip to the Museo Nacional Sicán is a good idea. Otherwise, you'll see a number of Sicán artifacts in the Brüning and Tumbas Reales museums, making the trip to Ferreñafe unnecessary.
If you're going to the Huaca Rajada (Señor de Sipán) archaeological site, you might as well have a quick walk around the Museo de Sitio de Huaca Rajada-Sipán. It's interesting enough and has a decent collection, but it's no substitute for Brüning or Tumbas Reales.


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MYRTLE BEACH — A Myrtle Beach woman was charged with assault after another woman, who was working as a shot girl at Broadway at the Beach, reported she was attacked while selling drinks, but she didn't spill of the drinks any during the incident, according to a police report.
Maria Cristina Antunez, 38, of Myrtle Beach was charged with third-degree assault and battery after officers were called about 1 a.m. Saturday to Celebrity Circle, police said.
Officers learned from a 23-year-old victim that she was employed as a "shot girl" and was about to sell an alcoholic shot to a man, according to the report. The victim said Antunez walked up and asked what was going on and told the victim that the man was her boyfriend and he would not be buying a shot from her.
The victim said she replied "OK" to Antunez, who continued to talk about their looks. The victim said she told Antunez she was old and Antunez attacked her, according to the report. Security grabbed Antunez and the victm and took them to their office.
A surveillance video showed the victim speaking to Antunez and as the victim tried to walk away Antunez grabbed her by the hair and started punching her in the face several times, according to the report.
The victim held the shot tray, which had 10 to 20 shots on it, away from her body and doesn't spill any of the shots, the officer wrote in the report after watching the video.
Officers noted in the video, the victim tried to get away from Antunez with her other hand, but was not able to do so until security guards stopped the assault, according to the report. The victim had a swollen and red eye and officers also got statements from two witnesses.
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Well, its hard to say, but i would vote No. Reason: For gay people to marry is their own choice and decision, but since its their choice to be not normal. And I believe that it shouldn't be forced on to a kid that has no clue about the world to be suddenly have different parents than normal. Not that is bad, but I personally would prefer to be raised by a common and normal Male and Female couple. Its just natural... My way of thinking about this is to have it be the kids choice (of which he will be too young at the time to make that choice). So that being the case, I belive that they should
be able to adopt... that is at least my opinion. But really, its a hard topic.
First of all, I don't believe that people are necessarily choosing to be "abnormal." You may be naturally attracted to women, and I might be naturally attracted to men. It happens on an individual basis, and I don't think there's all that much choice in it, unless you mean the choice of denying your own attracting and lying about who you really are to fit into society's "norms."
As to the argument that kids adopted by homosexual parents don't have a choice, kids who are born to heterosexual parents don't have any choice in that matter either. You could end up with a mom that thinks she has to drown you in a bathtub to save your soul. Couples that go through the adoptive process have thorough background checks run on them, and they're not given children unless they have reasonably proven that they will love and care for the child to the best of their ability. There are no such restrictions for a 17 year old guy who gets his 16 year old girlfriend pregnant. I know that's generally an argument for adoption, but like I said before, there are not enough couples willing to adopt children already. Why should anyone deny a child the chance to have parents that will love them, just because they might be of the same sex?
Also, if there's the issue of male or female influences, there are always people kids can look up to. When my parents split and my dad lived thousands of miles away, I had a teacher, my band director, who would be there for me no matter what, even in situations where I wouldn't have been able to count on my dad. Plus, like I believe someone said before, no one is outrageously concerned for the welfare of children who suffer the death of a parent and thus are only raised by a parent of one sex, not receiving the opposite sex's influence. You can get that influence from lots of places.
And I agree with Ashley. It would seem more likely to me that children raised by homosexual parents would likely be much more tolerant of homosexuals, and I can't find anything wrong with that.
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Next year, composer Steve Reich will debut a new work entitled "Radio Rewrite" at London's Southbank Centre. The piece, to be performed by 13 musicians on March 5, 2013, is based on two Radiohead songs, Kid A's "Everything in its Right Place" and In Rainbows' "Jigsaw Falling Into Place."
Reich began work on "Radio Rewrite" after meeting Radiohead in Poland last year. London Sinfonietta chief executive Andrew Burke told The Guardian that Radio head multi-instumentalist and composer,
Jonny Greenwood played [Reich composition] "Electric Counterpoint" [in Poland]. Steve saw this guy was seriously interested in his music and Steve became seriously interested in theirs. I don't think Steve will be quoting these songs directly. I don't think that's his style… How he uses the songs as a starting point for what he does is going to be part of the excitement.
"Radio Rewrite" is Reich's first piece since 2010′s "WTC 9/11." Read FADER's 2011 interview with Reich about "WTC 9/11," here.
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Mitch McCoy had 16 kills to lead Newport Harbor to a 15-12, 15-12, 15-9 sweep of Santa Margarita in a Sea View League boys' volleyball match Tuesday at Santa Margarita.
McCoy, a junior outside hitter, connected on 16 of 21 kill attempts and added the Sailors' only ace of the first two games. Newport Harbor (3-2, 3-0 in league), had a 69% attack percentage, out-hitting Santa Margarita by 11 kills, 47-36.


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Last week, Strap of the trio Travis Porter was caught with his namesake in an airport. Here's hoping that incident doesn't slow the group's stride. While they haven't had any hits as huge as "Make It Rain," both Music Money Magnums and Differenter 3 had their fair share of incredible songs. The Will-A-Fool-produced "All About A Sack," which you can download below, is their latest contribution to the strip club canon.
Download: Travis Porter f. Skooly and Jose Guapo, "All About A Sack" (Prod. by Will-A-Fool)


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As promised, my homemade pumpkin pie spice.
You'll notice that it's very similar to the apple pie spice [5]…just adds ginger and a bit more cinnamon.
And just like I said the other day, "why buy a jar of spice that you only need 1-2 teaspoons of when you can mix up your own with what you've got already?!"
Over time, you accumulate all the spices you need to make up your own mixes!
Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice
Yield – almost 3 Tablespoons
Preparation Time – 5 minutes
Cooking Time – 0 minutes
- 1 1/2 Tbsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp ground cloves
- 1 tsp allspice
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- Place all ingredients in small, sealable container and mix together. Use as directed in recipes that call for pumpkin pie spice.
- Store in a dry place, up to 6 months.
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President Taft at West Point 1908
President William Howard Taft at West Point, being escorted out of his carriage. Taft was both a President of the United States (27th) and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Taft was elected in 1908 but only served one term in office.
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By Debra A. Parker
The Moore American
MOORE — A Moore man was among the drivers killed Dec. 11 in a six-car pileup in Norman.
As of Tuesday, police had not determined what factors contributed to the driver of a 2000 Yukon drifting across two lanes of traffic before colliding with a Kia Soul.
Army Spc. David Tompkins, 27, of Moore, driving the Yukon, was transported by EMSSTAT to Norman Regional Hospital, where he died. David Jester, 29, of Norman, driving the Kia, died at the scene, according to a news release from Norman Police Capt. Tom Easley.
After the crash, officers secured a search warrant to retrieve data from the vehicles black boxes, Easley said Tuesday.
The collision remains an open investigation under the direction of Master Police Officer S. Praizner and other members of the department's Collision Investigation and Reconstruction Team.
Services for Tompkins were Friday at Trinity Baptist Church.
Services for Jester were Saturday at John M. Ireland Funeral Home chapel.
The six-car pileup Tuesday morning near Flood Avenue and Tecumseh Road left two dead, two more injured and blocked traffic for more than five hours.
Flood was closed to traffic from the intersection, north to the Interstate 35 merge ramp for more than five hours.
About 7 a.m. Tompkins was traveling south on Flood Avenue and reportedly crossed into the northbound lanes colliding with other vehicles, police said. Five additional vehicles were involved in the subsequent crash, police said.
David Lee Gibbs, 48, of Norman suffered injuries in the collision, as did Robert Thomas Lorrah, 38, who also is a Norman resident. Both were taken to the hospital and treated before being released Tuesday afternoon, Easley said.
Two other drivers also were involved but did not report any injuries. Those drivers are Brian Scott McDonald, 21, of Alex and Nicholas Heath Taylor, 31, of Norman.
Easley said Wednesday that a representative of the Office of the State Medical Examiner transported Jester's body to their facility in Oklahoma City.
"They told me they took the body so that they could identify my son," Jester's mother, Rita, said.
Easley said Tuesday that no children were involved in the accident. He said Wednesday that there was no information available on the use of seat belts or regarding factors that could have contributed to the accident such as fog, wet pavement or the use of electronic devices.
"I don't have any of that," Easley said. "That's why we investigate these things."


text: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:34 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/14/12 12:53 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: >> >> Note that if you don't need a lot of storage you can often use 300G >> 15k SAS drives which are around $300 each. 20 of those in a RAID-10 >> gives you ~3TB of storage which is plenty for most transactional >> applications. > > > I'm actually using 25 x 146gb 15k SAS2 as we didn't need space, just speed, > so the 20xraid10 is 1.4TB. most of our database tests to date have been in > the 50-100GB range. and they shread at IOPS. the controller and/or IO > channels seems to bottleneck somewhere up around 1.2GB/sec sustained write, > or at about 12000 write IOPS. > > afaik, the HP P411 raid card is a LSI Logic megasas2 card with HP firmware, > the hardware is equivalent to the LSI 9260-8i. the HP firmware is somewhat > less annoying than the LSI megacli stuff. And don't forget that if you need way less than the 1.5 to 3TB mentioned earlier, you can short stroke the drives to use the fastest parts of the platters and reduce seek times even more. And yeah, anything is less annoying than megacli. The fact that their GUI / BIOS interface is just as horrific, if not moreso, than megacli is a huge turn off for me with LSI. If you've ever used the web interface on the OOB ethernet interface on an Areca, you're hooked. The fact that it can send emails on its own etc is just frosting on the cake. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general