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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Seven American troops and four Afghans died in a Black Hawk helicopter crash on Thursday in southern Afghanistan, the NATO military coalition said. The Taliban claimed their fighters shot down the aircraft.
The crash marked another deadly day for the U.S. in Afghanistan, less than a week after six American service members were gunned down, apparently by two members of the Afghan security forces they were training to take over the fight against the insurgency as international combat troops prepare to exit the country by the end of 2014.
The spike in American deaths and attacks by Afghan allies have stirred fresh doubts about the prospects for the U.S. plan to leave a capable Afghan government in place when most troops depart after more than a decade of war.
Spokesman Brig. Gen Gunter Katz said the NATO coalition is investigating the cause of Thursday's crash in Kandahar province, though U.S. officials said initial reports indicated it was not shot down.
Kandahar is a traditional Taliban stronghold and the spiritual birthplace of the hardline Islamist movement that ruled Afghanistan before being ousted in 2001 by the U.S.-led alliance for sheltering al-Qaida's terrorist leaders.
Among the dead were seven American service members, three members of Afghan security forces and one Afghan civilian interpreter, said Jamie Graybeal, a spokesman for the coalition. He said there were no survivors of the crash. He declined to give any details on the mission of the helicopter, a UH-60 Black Hawk.
U.S. officials said three of the seven American troops killed were special operations forces — two Navy SEALS and a Navy explosives expert. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose the information.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi said insurgent fighters shot down the helicopter in Kandahar province on Thursday morning.
"Nobody survived this," Ahmadi told The Associated Press by phone.
The helicopter was shot down in Kandahar's Shah Wali Kot district, which lies in the northern part of the province, said Ahmad Jawed Faisal, a spokesman for the provincial government said. He declined to give further details.
However, U.S. officials said initial indications are that it was not shot down, though an investigation has been opened. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity the investigation is ongoing.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said it was too early to determine the cause of the crash.
"Based on my information, at this time the cause of that crash is still under investigation," Carney said. "Of course our thoughts and prayers are with those American and Afghan families who lost loved ones in that incident."
The area where the helicopter went down — a stretch of Kandahar along the border with Uruzgan province — is seen as a Taliban stronghold and key transit route. The insurgents regularly attack police checkpoints around the rural villages of the district and plant bombs in the road to catch passing government vehicles.
The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk is a medium-lift helicopter that has served as the U.S. Army's workhorse since the 1980s.
The U.S.-led NATO force in Afghanistan has relied heavily on utility helicopters such as the Black Hawk to ferry troops, dignitaries and supplies around the mountainous terrain, thus avoiding the threat of ambushes and roadside bombs.
Thursday's crash is the deadliest since a Turkish helicopter crashed into a house near the Afghan capital, Kabul, on March 16, killing 12 Turkish soldiers on board and four Afghan civilians on the ground, officials said.
In August last year, insurgents shot down a Chinook helicopter, killing 30 American troops, mostly elite Navy SEALs, in Afghanistan's central Wardak province.
At least 221 American service members have been killed in Afghanistan so far this year.
Associated Press writers Mirwais Khan in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Amir Shah in Kabul, Slobodan Lekic in Brussels and Lolita Baldor and Jim Kuhnhenn in Washington contributed to this report.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Military officials say a sailor from North Texas has been killed in a bombing in Afghanistan.
The Defense Department on Wednesday identified the Navy casualty as Petty Officer 3rd Class Clayton R. Beauchamp of Weatherford, Texas.
DOD says Beauchamp was on patrol in the Shaban District of the Helmand Province when his unit came under attack. Beauchamp was killed Tuesday. Further details on the incident were not immediately released.
He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, 1st Marine Division (Forward), I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — It was once President Barack Obama's "war of necessity." Now, it's America's forgotten war.
The Afghan conflict generates barely a whisper on the U.S. presidential campaign trail. It's not a hot topic at the office water cooler or in the halls of Congress — even though more than 80,000 American troops are still fighting here and dying at a rate of one a day.
Americans show more interest in the economy and taxes than the latest suicide bombings in a different, distant land. They're more tuned in to the political ad war playing out on television than the deadly fight still raging against the Taliban. Earlier this month, protesters at the Iowa State Fair chanted "Stop the war!" They were referring to one purportedly being waged against the middle class.
By the time voters go to the polls Nov. 6 to choose between Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney, the war will be in its 12th year. For most Americans, that's long enough.
Public opinion remains largely negative toward the war, with 66 percent opposed to it and just 27 percent in favor in a May AP-GfK poll. More recently, a Quinnipiac University poll found that 60 percent of registered voters felt the U.S. should no longer be involved in Afghanistan. Just 31 percent said the U.S. is doing the right thing by fighting there now.
Not since the Korean War of the early 1950s — a much shorter but more intense fight — has an armed conflict involving America's sons and daughters captured so little public attention.
"We're bored with it," said Matthew Farwell, who served in the U.S. Army for five years including 16 months in eastern Afghanistan, where he sometimes received letters from grade school students addressed to the brave Marines in Iraq — the wrong war.
"We all laugh about how no one really cares," he said. "All the 'support the troops' stuff is bumper sticker deep."
Farwell, 29, who is now studying at the University of Virginia, said the war is rarely a topic of conversation on campus — and he isn't surprised that it's not discussed much on the campaign trail.
"No one understands how to extricate ourselves from the mess we have made there," he said. "So from a purely political point of view, I wouldn't be talking about it if I were Barack Obama or Mitt Romney either."
Ignoring the Afghan war, though, doesn't make it go away.
More than 1,950 Americans have died in Afghanistan and thousands more have been wounded since President George W. Bush launched attacks on Oct. 7, 2001 to rout al-Qaida after it used Afghanistan to train recruits and plot the Sept. 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans.
The war drags on even though al-Qaida has been largely driven out of Afghanistan and its charismatic leader Osama bin Laden is dead — slain in a U.S. raid on his Pakistani hideout last year.
Strangely, Afghanistan never seemed to grab the same degree of public and media attention as the war in Iraq, which Obama opposed as a "war of choice."
Unlike Iraq, victory in Afghanistan seemed to come quickly. Kabul fell within weeks of the U.S. invasion in October 2001. The hardline Taliban regime was toppled with few U.S. casualties.
But the Bush administration's shift toward war with Iraq left the Western powers without enough resources on the ground, so by 2006 the Taliban had regrouped into a serious military threat.
Candidate Obama promised to refocus America's resources on Afghanistan. But by the time President Obama sent 33,000 more troops to Afghanistan in December 2009, years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan had drained Western resources and sapped resolve to build a viable Afghan state.
And over time, his administration has grown weary of trying to tackle Afghanistan's seemingly intractable problems of poverty and corruption. The American people have grown weary too.
While most Americans are sympathetic to the plight of the Afghan people, they have become deeply skeptical of President Hamid Karzai's willingness to tackle corruption and political patronage and the coalition's chances of "budging a medieval society" into the modern world, says Ann Marlowe, a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute, a policy research organization in Washington.
"With millions of veterans home and talking with their families and friends ... some knowledge of just how hard this is has percolated down," said Marlowe, who has traveled to Afghanistan many times.
It has also been hard to show progress on the battlefield.
World War II had its Normandy, Vietnam its Tet Offensive and Iraq its Battle of Fallujah. Afghanistan is a grinding slough in villages and remote valleys where success if measured in increments.
The Afghan war transformed into a series of small, often vicious and intense fights scattered across a country almost as large as Texas.
In July, 40 U.S. service members died in Afghanistan in the deadliest month for American troops so far this year. At least 31 have been killed this month — seven when a helicopter crashed during a firefight with insurgents in what was one of the deadliest air disasters of the war. Ten others were gunned down in attacks from members of the Afghan security forces — either disgruntled turncoats or Taliban infiltrators.
Many argue that bin Laden's death justifies a quick U.S. exit from Afghanistan. Others say it's important to stay longer to shore up the Afghan security forces and help build the government so that it can stand on its own. An unstable Afghanistan could again offer sanctuary to militants like al-Qaida who want to harm American and its allies, they say.
"Those of us who have been at this for a long time continue to think that it's important, and that we have a chance now of a path forward with a long-term perspective that will produce the results," said James Cunningham, the new U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.
The U.S.-led coalition's combat mission will wind down in the next few years, leading up to the end of 2014 when most international troops will have left or moved into support roles.
Military analysts say the U.S. envisions a post-2014 force of perhaps 20,000 to hunt terrorists, train the Afghan forces and keep an eye on neighboring Iran and other regional powerhouse nations.
Americans aren't likely to know the number until later this year. But will anyone other than families of service personnel take note?
"I have heard others say that the danger that their spouses or children are serving in is just simply not being cared about," said Fred Wellman, a 22-year Army veteran who did three tours in Iraq. "I think a lot of veterans feel it is just forgotten."
Political satirist Garry Trudeau captured the apathy about the war in a comic strip this year showing a U.S. servicewoman stationed in Afghanistan calling her brother back home.
After he complains that his children have the flu and how he's struggling to keep up with their hectic hockey schedule, he asks her where she's calling from. She tells him she's in Afghanistan.
"Oh, right, right ..." her brother replies. "Wait, we're still there?"
Associated Press Writers Kristin Hall in Nashville, Tennessee and Jennifer Agiesta in Washington contributed to this report.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Insurgents attacked a large party in a Taliban-controlled area of southern Afghanistan and beheaded 17 people, officials said on Monday.
A local government official initially said the victims were civilians at a celebration late Sunday involving music and dancing in the Musa Qala district of Helmand province. The official, Neyamatullah Khan, said the Taliban killed the party-goers for flouting the extreme brand of Islam embraced by the militants.
However, provincial government spokesman Daoud Ahmadi said later that those killed were caught up in a fight between two Taliban commanders over two women, who were among the dead. Ahmadi said shooting broke out during the fight but it was unclear whether the music and dancing triggered the violence, and whether the dead were all civilians or possibly included some fighters.
All of the bodies were decapitated, but it was not clear if they had been shot first, he said.
In other violence, two American soldiers were shot and killed by one of their Afghan colleagues in the east — bringing the number of Americans killed this month by Afghan allies to 12. Afghan officials said the killings appeared to be accidental. NATO would not comment on whether the killings were intentional or accidental, but a U.S. Defense Department official said there were indications that it was an intentional killing.
The Taliban has controlled large parts of Musa Qala, a district encompassing more than 100 villages, since 2001. They enforce the same strict interpretation of Islamic law that was imposed on all of Afghanistan during Taliban rule from 1996-2001.
U.S. Marines have battled the Taliban for years in Musa Qala, but the insurgent group still wields significant power in the area as international forces across the country draw down and hand over control to Afghan forces. Helmand province, where Musa Qala is located, is one of the areas that has seen the largest reduction in U.S. troops. The U.S. started reducing forces from a peak of nearly 103,000 last year, and plans to have 68,000 troops by October.
Many Afghans and international observers have expressed concerns that the Taliban will try to re-impose strict Islamic justice as international forces withdraw. Under the Taliban, all music and film was banned as un-Islamic, and women were barred from leaving their homes without a male relative as an escort.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the killings and said they were against Shariah law.
"The killing of innocent civilians by Taliban is an unforgivable crime." Karzai said in a statement.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi, however, rejected allegations that the Taliban were involved in the incident.
"No Talib have killed any civilians. Neither were Taliban commanders fighting each other. We don't know about this thing. Whether it happened or not, we were not involved," Ahmadi said.
The killings contradict the Taliban leadership's orders for their fighters to avoid killing ordinary Afghans, suggesting a breakdown in discipline and a further fracturing of the insurgency.
Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar urged his commanders earlier this month to "employ tactics that do not cause harm to the life and property of the common countrymen." The insurgents' supreme leader has issued such edicts from hiding before, perhaps trying to soften the extremist movement's image, but the order appears to have been widely ignored.
A U.N. report last month said 1,145 civilians were killed and 1,954 others were injured in the first half of the year, 80 percent of them by militants.
In fact, while the Taliban seeks to soften its image, the beheadings recall the days of public executions during their rule.
There are fears that the Taliban will again control southern Afghanistan and impose their strict interpretation of Islamic law on the region as foreign troops gradually withdraw in the next two years. Nearly all foreign troops are to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014 and the U.S.-led NATO coalition hopes that Afghan security forces will be strong enough to take control.
As the drawdown progresses, there has been a surge in attacks by Afghan forces against their allies.
A group of U.S. and Afghan soldiers came under an insurgent attack in Laghman province Monday, said Noman Hatefi, a spokesman for the Afghan army corps in eastern Afghanistan. He said the troops returned fire and took up fighting positions.
He said the two Americans were killed when an Afghan soldier fell and accidentally discharged his weapon.
"He didn't do this intentionally. But then the commander of the (Afghan) unit started shouting at him, 'What did you do? You killed two NATO soldiers!' And so he threw down his weapon and started to run," Hatefi said.
The U.S. troops had already called in air support to help with the insurgent attack and the aircraft fired on the escaping soldier from above, killing him, Hatefi said.
NATO spokesman Lt. Col. Hagen Messer of Germany confirmed that two international soldiers were killed by an Afghan soldier in Laghman province, but would not comment on whether the killing was intentional or accidental.
In Washington, a U.S. Defense Department official said the Afghan soldier fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the Americans and that this seemed to indicate that it was an intentional act. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because an investigation is under way, said he was unaware of any indications that the shooting was accidental.
Insider attacks have been a problem for the U.S.-led military coalition for years, but it has recently become a crisis. There have been at least 33 such attacks so far this year, killing 42 coalition members, mostly Americans. Last year, there were 21 attacks, killing 35; and in 2010, there were 11 attacks with 20 deaths.
The chief spokesman for NATO forces in the country said coalition forces were not pulling back from collaborating with the Afghans because of the attacks.
"We are not going to reduce the close relationship with our Afghan partners," Brig. Gen. Gunter Katz told reporters in the capital.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said that he could not confirm any link between the attacker in Monday's shooting and the insurgency. In previous insider attacks, the Taliban have quickly claimed responsibility and identified the assailants.
Helmand officials also reported that 10 Afghan soldiers were killed in an attack on a checkpoint in the south, and five were either kidnapped or joined their assailants. Daoud Ahmadi, the provincial spokesman, said insurgents attacked the checkpoint in Washir district Sunday evening. Four soldiers were wounded he said. The Afghan Defense Ministry said the checkpoint was attacked by more than 100 insurgents.
Daoud Ahmadi said the five missing soldiers left with the insurgents but it was unclear if they were kidnapped or went voluntarily.
In Ghor province in the east, officials said three students were killed in what looked like a revenge killing by the family of a Taliban commander who died recently in an explosion. Provincial Police Chief Gen. Dilawer Shah Dilawer said it appears the commander's family believed the students or their family members were somehow involved in setting the explosive. He stressed, however, that the investigation was continuing.
Khan reported from Kandahar, Afghanistan. Associated Press writers Amir Shah and Rahim Faiez in Kabul and Robert Burns in Washington contributed to this report.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The roadside bomb that exploded outside Andrew Robinson's Humvee in Iraq six years ago broke the Marine staff sergeant's neck and left him without use of his legs. It also cast doubt on his ability to father a child, a gnawing emotional wound for a then-23-year-old who had planned to start a family with his wife of less than two years.
The catastrophic spinal cord injury meant the couple's best hope for children was in vitro fertilization, an expensive and time-consuming medical procedure whose cost isn't covered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Robinson and his wife were forced to pay out of pocket, with help from a doctor's discount and drugs donated by other patients.
A bill being considered in the Senate would expand the VA's medical benefits package so other veterans, and their spouses or surrogates, don't have to bear the same expense. The department currently covers a range of medical treatment for veterans, including some infertility care, but the legislation specifically authorizes the VA to cover IVF and to pay for procedures now provided for some critically injured active-duty soldiers.
The bill's meant to help wounded veterans start families as they return home from war and to address a harrowing consequence of combat that can radically change a couple's marriage but receives less attention than post-traumatic stress disorder and brain injuries.
"It's common sense: a male veteran cannot have a kid by himself. It doesn't happen. They need obviously to have it with their wife or a partner," said Robinson, of Florence, N.J., who is now 29 and was injured in a 2006 explosion in Al Anbar province. "So for the VA to say, 'Oh, we can only cover this part of it,' it just kind of doesn't make sense."
In vitro fertilization, the process of mixing sperm and eggs in a laboratory dish and transferring the resulting embryo into a woman's uterus, costs thousands of dollars and each cycle can take weeks. It's physically taxing too, requiring hormone injections and other invasive steps, and can take multiple tries to produce a viable pregnancy. For many wounded veterans, it represents the most promising option.
More than 1,830 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have suffered pelvic fractures and genitourinary injuries since 2003 that could affect their abilities to reproduce, according to Pentagon figures provided to Sen. Patty Murray, the bill's sponsor and chairwoman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee.
"Because they served our country, they now can't have a family, which is part of their dream," said the Washington state Democrat, who hopes the committee will act on the bill after returning from August recess. "I think we now have a responsibility to not take that dream away."
Combat injuries can dampen a soldier's ability to have children in any number of ways, said Mark Edney, a Maryland urologist and Army reservist who treats veterans. For men, a blast to the genitalia can harm sperm-producing testicles, while a spinal cord injury can cause erectile dysfunction or ejaculatory problems. For women, shrapnel can injure the pelvis and fallopian tubes, preventing fertilization.
Although expertise exists to help them become parents, Edney said veterans with fertility problems form a "relatively small subset of patients that are just forgotten in terms of policy."
The legislation would likely have helped spouses like Brenda Isaacson, who said the VA's insurance plan covered the cost of recovering sperm from her husband, Chuck — an Army staff sergeant paralyzed by a 2007 helicopter crash in Afghanistan — but not the more than half-dozen IVF attempts the couple underwent before finally having a daughter nearly a year and a half ago. She bristled at being told by officials that infertility services were not medically or psychologically necessary.
"You tell that to a man who's just been wounded — that it's not psychologically necessary to have children — when that's all we'd talked about, having babies," she said.
The proposal comes as technological improvements have made IVF a more common — and reliably successful — way to have children, with the number of births as a result of it and similar procedures rising in the past decade. It's more openly discussed in popular culture, too, from television talk shows to celebrity magazines. And the VA is becoming more sensitive to family health concerns as it encounters younger veterans trying to start post-war lives, said Patty Hayes, the agency's chief consultant for women's veterans' health.
"The culture has changed. There's a lot more veterans who need this," she said, adding that the VA was looking closely at expanding infertility treatment options.
The VA says it already covers some fertility services, including counseling, diagnostic tests and intrauterine insemination — a method of artificial insemination — for the veteran. But that leaves out many veterans and their spouses whose best hope for pregnancy is the more physically rigorous, but also more reliable, IVF process, where the average cycle costs $12,400, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
The process can be especially vexing for military couples coping with life after a catastrophic injury and trying to establish a new normal, said Barbara Cohoon, deputy director of government relations for the National Military Family Association, a nonprofit advocacy group.
"When someone has an injury and they're paralyzed from the waist down, being able to reconnect emotionally and physically as a couple is part of the therapy," she said.
The Defense Department recently made IVF a covered benefit for active-duty service members who are either seriously ill or catastrophically injured, with a policy that allows for coverage of three completed IVF cycles for the soldier's spouse, said spokeswoman Cynthia Smith. She said artificial insemination using donated sperm or eggs is excluded under its policy.
Robinson, the now-29-year-old Marine who suffered the broken neck, said he started exploring ways to have children — something he and his wife had always discussed — during an extensive rehabilitation process.
They tried artificial insemination, which didn't work because of poor sperm quality resulting from his injury. They spent $6,000 of their own money on IVF and got pregnant on the first try — and now have 8-month-old twins Collin and Leah.
"Everyone deserves to have a chance at a family. We were able to save the money and stuff like that. But maybe for someone who isn't able to do that, I would hate to see that they don't have that option," he said.
Tracy Keil used IVF to conceive her twins after her husband, Matt, was shot in the neck in Iraq in 2007 and rendered a quadriplegic, six weeks after they wed. The couple was able to save the thousands of dollars needed for treatment because they live mortgage-free in a custom-made home designed by a nonprofit that builds houses for disabled veterans and their families. She's since become a leading advocate for the legislation, testifying on it this summer before a Senate committee.
"I agree with the fact that they had other hurdles to get over first, especially with PTSD and suicide and traumatic brain injury. They had other things that were just plain more important," Keil said of the VA. "But now we're at the point where those programs are in place and it's time to address this issue."
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Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
Editor's Note: This story is the latest installment in a joint initiative by The Associated Press and Associated Press Media Editors taking a closer look at this latest generation of war veterans as they return to civilian life, and the effect this is having on them, their families and American society.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Faced with tighter budgets after the Iraq War but still in charge of treating tens of thousands of injured troops, the military is getting a hand from a private foundation that is building medical centers specializing in the signature physical and psychological injuries of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Pentagon has a partnership with the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which is raising $100 million to build clinics on military bases. The clinics will form a network aimed at treating and researching traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, two areas the military has focused on since roadside bombs became a common weapon in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Army officials say the foundation, which grew out of the philanthropic efforts of the late New York real estate businessman Zachary Fisher, has been highly effective because it can sidestep government bureaucracy on construction projects and provide a financial boost for medical advances that are desperately needed for injured soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors.
Since 9/11, the charity has built the nation's top specialized hospitals for troops injured in Iraq and Afghanistan: a brain injury center of excellence in Bethesda, Md., and an amputee and burn rehabilitation center in San Antonio, Texas.
"We have felt that buildings often are catalysts for better care and attention," said Marty Edelman, a trustee of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund and a New York-based real estate attorney.
Staff Sgt. Spencer Milo, 27, went to the National Intrepid Center for Excellence in Bethesda to treat persistent symptoms from a concussion he suffered during a suicide bomber blast in southern Afghanistan last year.
"The second you walk into these buildings, you instantly feel calm," he said. "You're in a small group and you really get very, very specific treatment. The first time you get there you sit in a room with every single doctor and you tell them what's going on, so you don't need to repeat yourself. Everyone is consistently on the same page."
At the Intrepid Center, there were no rushed appointments or bouncing from one doctor to the next, Milo said. He also benefited from alternative treatments and therapies that aren't available at other military hospitals, like art therapy, and he was given a service dog to help him in his recovery.
Now the fund is widening its scope beyond the two hospitals with a plan to build between seven and 10 clinics at the nation's largest military installations, with a hub-and-spoke model to channel the latest patient data up to research hubs and push down treatment models to the doctors and therapists.
Clinic groundbreakings have already happened at Fort Belvoir in Virginia and Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and additional clinics will be built at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, Fort Hood and Fort Bliss in Texas, Fort Carson in Colorado, Fort Bragg in North Carolina, and Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington.
The charity raises the money to build the facilities and once completed, turns over control to the military branches, which are then responsible for staffing and operating the clinics.
"We don't pretend to be doctors," Edelman said. "So we build the best facilities that money can buy and we engage the entire American community to support us."
The foundation has a history of stepping into the gap when the government has been slow to react or respond to the military's neediest families. At the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the fund provided grants to the families of U.S. service members who were killed until federal legislation substantially increased survivor benefits.
Edelman said the charity doesn't focus on complaints that the military hasn't done enough to adequately treat the signature wounds from Iraq and Afghanistan.
"I can understand people saying, 'How come the government hasn't already done it?'" he said. "... Sometimes it's hard for it to move quickly, but we can. We don't think about as they haven't, we just think about it as we can.
"We are going to help them do it in the time frame and the level of excellence that the American private sector can do," he said.
Col. Nikki Butler, director of the rehabilitation and reintegration division for the office of the Army surgeon general, said the Army is not dependent on the Intrepid Fund but does appreciate the help.
The Army has already been treating soldiers with traumatic brain injury and PTSD at these installations, she said, but the centers will enhance that care with a multidiscipline approach that includes some new types of providers, like acupuncturists to treat chronic pain.
She said the facilities will be very helpful for some of the Army posts that have outgrown existing space, and each new clinic will have staff members tailored to best suit the population at the local installation.
"You want to be able to treat them holistically, in that patient care setting, rather than sending them all over the place," Butler said. "It may require different types of providers, but I think what you get is efficiency and eventually get less demand on the system and better use of the patient's time and the provider's time."
Butler said partnerships with the NFL and public giving campaigns like this one are helping to shed light on concussion care and behavioral health issues.
"Brain injuries are not easy to see and people don't like to talk about the psychological pieces of it. When you have strong partnerships with other big entities, then I think it's much easier to bring it to light in the public venue," she said. "The public is much more aware than they ever were even five, 10 years ago."
Even as the military shrinks in size and overseas obligations, there will continue to be a long-term need to treat these soldiers, Butler said, noting more than 80 percent of all TBI injuries don't occur in a war zone.
The charitable giving comes at a key time for the defense department, which is facing the possibility of severe funding cuts if Congress can't agree on a budget.
Dr. Bret Logan, director of the TBI center at Fort Campbell, Ky., where one of the new clinics will be built later this year, acknowledged that it's a tight financial year for the government, but the military is prioritizing care for the neediest troops.
"What's important is that you don't become a black hole where people are just dumping money into," he said.
Logan said there's always been a constant stream of individuals and groups who want to help these soldiers, but the Intrepid Fund has found a way to streamline public giving.
"It falls to guys like Fisher and the Intrepid Heroes Fund to get the organization together to find these people," he said. "I think everyone is looking for a way, even now, to help. It's a personal thing for people. The easier you make it for people to help, the more they are likely to do so."
Milo, the Army staff sergeant who was treated in Bethesda, said it's refreshing to see a charity step up to help soldiers who are still fighting and dying overseas.
"A lot of times you come back and people want to turn a cold shoulder to you and pretend like it doesn't happen," he said. "It's nice there are people out there like the foundation and others that do care and want to help us when we come back."
Follow Kristin Hall at http://twitter.com/kmhall/
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.


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Circa 1890
An antique octagonal lantern glazed with clear restoration glass. The body is delicate copper framed with massive wrought iron scrolls. All in a waxy black enamel finish. Relamps through a hinged door.
Current height: 62-1/2"
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Body: 20" h. x 11" w. x 11" d.
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Vaulted ceilings, an open layout, bright wall-to-wall windows, concrete floors, and modern design: With features like these, you'd never guess that this living room moonlights as a media room. The custom electronics (CE) pros at Bekins, Grand Haven, Mich., the masters behind the magic, tackled the challenges of hiding a slew of A/V gear in this retrofit project with gusto.
The biggest of the challenges was hiding a 65-inch Sony KDL65W5100 LCD TV in the center of the room. Rather than compromise on aesthetics, Bekins devised a creative solution to excavate concrete below the cabinet to provide the additional space required for the TV and a lift mechanism. Thankfully, the company was involved in the project early enough to make this happen. In doing so, they achieved the perfect balance of form and function, allowing the custom cabinet to remain at the appropriate height but still afford the Auton lift full range of motion. The TV rises out of its hiding spot when turned on, then retreats when turned off.
If this isn't enough trickery, Bekins also concealed a 184-inch Da-Lite screen in the ceiling. "The residents wanted to be able to put on the TV and watch something casually with a small group but also have the impact of a projection system on a huge screen for larger groups and cinematic viewing," says Dave Ohlendorf, lead programmer of Bekins. To avoid the risk of butchering the ceiling, Bekins created a full-size cardboard template to ensure that the screen casing would fit in the desired spot before the actual installation took place. The only evidence of the mammoth Da-lite screen hidden above is one slim cutaway in the ceiling.
The mystery continues with the equipment rack, which is hidden in a recess by the fireplace. "Each location we suggested was already spoken for by the designers, so we had to work with what was available to us," says Ohlendorf. The builder was able to create a hinged bookshelf behind which the rack and equipment is hidden. "Without this solution, the distance for the wiring runs would have made HDMI very difficult and would have created a whole new set of challenges," says Ohlendorf.
This media room is so covert, even the Lutron Sivoia Roller Shades along the south wall's 15 windows are out of sight. "We had to eliminate as much of the ambient light for the projector and hide the shades in custom sills. You can only see the shades as they are rolling down," says Ohlendorf.
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Swanstone TK-6072169 Caraway Seed Solid Surface Wall Panel Trim Kit for 60" or 72" Tall Panels
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Height | 74 |
Material | Engineered Stone |
Number Of Pieces | 6 |
Product Weight | 23 |
Width | 3.875 |
Solid Surface Wall Panel Trim Kit for 60" or 72" Tall Panels
Swanstone TK-6072 Features:
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For more than 40 years, we've been creating innovative and affordable solid surface products and materials for customers all over the world. It started in 1964, when we introduced the Swan Shell Shower, a doorless, shell-shaped shower that captured the spirit of its time.
The Shell Shower was the first in a long line of original kitchen and bath products from Swan, including the Circle Shower as well as the industry's first non-ceramic tile bathtub wall system.
In 1987, we introduced Swanstone to the world, first with a line of vanity tops and bowls. Swanstone quickly became known for its superior impact strength, heat resistance, and ability to resist scratches and stains. Consumers now had an elegant and durable solid surface material that was also affordable.
Since then, our Swanstone line has expanded to include a wide variety of kitchen sinks, countertops, tub and shower walls, and more. In 1994 we introduced the Swanstone 1/4" sheet program, offering even more flexibility to Swanstone customers. In 1997 we introduced a complete line of Swanstone products for the restaurant industry, including tabletops, countertops, vanity tops, mop service sinks and windowsills.
At Swan, we're committed to a policy of continuous improvement, to providing our customers with the highest quality products and most responsive customer service in the kitchen & bath industry. And we stand behind this commitment with some of the best warranties in the business.
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Notes | Typewritten special pass, numbered 1338, and bearing the stamp of the Humber Garrison, Hull. The pass was to admit Mrs Cawkwell and daughter to the docks and NER riverside quay during the arrival of repatriated prisoners of war. Part of a collection relating to John Cawkwell. |
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Lounge hotel during the week, party hotel on the weekend
With a stay at ME Cabo in Cabo San Lucas, you'll be on the beach and minutes from Puerto Paraiso Mall and close to The Arch.
This 4-star resort is within close proximity of Marina Cabo San Lucas and Plaza Bonita Mall.
Make yourself at home in one of the 151 air-conditioned rooms featuring iPod docking stations and LCD televisions. Your room comes with a pillowtop bed. Rooms have private balconies. DVD players and satellite programming are available for your entertainment, while CD players help you enjoy your music in the comfort of your room. Bathrooms have designer toiletries and hair dryers.
Relax at the full-service spa, where you can enjoy massages, body treatments, and facials. You're sure to appreciate the recreational amenities, including a nightclub, an outdoor pool, and a spa tub.
Enjoy a satisfying meal at a restaurant serving guests of ME Cabo. Thirsty? Quench your thirst at a bar/lounge, a poolside bar, or a swim-up bar.
Featured amenities include currency exchange, express check-in, and express check-out. Event facilities at this resort consist of small meeting rooms and banquet facilities. Free parking is available onsite.
Hotel Amenities
- General
The adult-oriented ME Cabo's location on a beach three blocks from the center of town makes for convenient walking to Cabo San Lucas' vibrant bar scene and restaurants, and its view of Land's End makes lounging in its gathering areas just as rewarding.
This resort's experience-based concept focuses on personal attention. Guests are greeted by staff in designer uniforms for personalized check-in, and experience managers are on hand to assist guests.
ME Cabo's spa provides multifunctional and couples suites and a relaxation center. A fitness room is also on site.
Two swimming pools are artfully designed for views of Land's End, and thirsty guests can refresh at the swim-up bar. Daybeds, Polynesian pagodas, and floating pool beds offer lounging luxury and shade. YHI Spa provides guests with a number of body treatments and massages.
Trendsetting guests visit ME Cabo to lounge during the week, and on the weekends cut loose at the hotel's DJ parties at the House of Nikki Beach and the Passion Club.
- Swimming pool - outdoor
- Poolside bar
- Swim-up bar
- Concierge desk
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Nightclub
- Bar/lounge
- Restaurant
- Valet parking
- Free parking
- Secure parking
- Multiple small meeting rooms
- Banquet facilities
- Event catering
- Multilingual staff
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Express check-out
- Doorman/doorwoman
- Security guard
- Express check-in
- Number of floors - 6
- ATM/banking
- Tour assistance
- Medical assistance available
- Currency exchange
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Patio
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Elevator/lift
- Wedding services
- Full-service health spa
- Beach/pool umbrellas
- Total number of rooms - 151
- Laundry facilities
- Massage - spa treatment room(s)
- Room service
- Pool cabanas (surcharge)
- Pool sun loungers
- Beach towels
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Parking
Free parking, Secure parking, Valet parking
- Room Amenities
- DVD player
- CD player
- Premium bedding
- Balcony
- Complimentary newspaper
- Air conditioning
- Access via exterior corridors
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Multi-line phone
- Voice mail
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Remote lighting/drapery/curtain control
- Wake-up calls
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Designer toiletries
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- Bathroom scale
- In-room massage available
- Electronic/magnetic keys
- Pillowtop mattress
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Welcome amenities
- Window opens
- Clock radio
- iPod docking station
- Satellite TV service
- Dining
Tequila Fusion Mexican Restaurant serves Modern Mexican cuisine suffused with international influences. The menu includes Tequilas, family-style tapas, taquitos and Margaritas. Tacos get their special flavor from 6 homemade sauces. Weekends offer DJs, music, themed parties, culinary events and more. Parties can include up to 160 guests. Tequila Fusion is open for breakfast. Dinner hours are from 6 PM to 11 PM.
Nikki Beach Club - Lunch and dinner are served. Asian and Mediterranean dishes. This hip and hedonistic beach club also features seaside Polynesian daybeds, fire dancers, DJs playing international house music, and weekly fashion shows. Daily happy hour from late morning until early afternoon.
The Deck - Open for lunch. Outdoor grill located by the beach with view of the famous Land's End rock formation.
The Main Bar - Open from mid-morning to late evening. Music and international fare are on offered at this lounge with views of the Sea of Cortes. Specialty tequila and martini menu.
The Wet Bar - Swim-up bar open from mid-morning to early evening.
Room service is available.
- Recreation
ME Cabo features the 654 square meter (7,036 square foot) YHI Spa, offering multifunctional spa suites, facial suites, couples suites, and a Vichy suite. Services include natural traditional treatments along with ancient Temazcal's cleansing ceremony. The spa offers a juice bar and an outdoor cascade shower. A relaxation center includes warm aromatherapy neck pillows, an outdoor relaxation lounge, and a reflexology path.
A fitness room features treadmills and elliptical trainers along with weights.
ME Cabo also offers an aquatic center with access to numerous water sports (surcharges).
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golf - driving range nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Rowing or canoeing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Whale-watching nearby
- Boat launch nearby
- Volleyball nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Horse riding/rental nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Helicopter/airplane tours nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Fishing nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft nearby
- Swimming on site
- Spa
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Steam room in spa
- Reflexology
- Couples treatment rooms
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Sauna in spa
- Spa tub in spa
- Spa boutique
- Garden view from spa
- Massages
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessible bathroom
Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is noon
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: MasterCard, Visa
- Pets
Pets allowed
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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- This property is affiliated with the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) and welcomes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) guests.


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The Collection
Original Release Date: May 11, 2010
Track Listing
1. Only the Lucky
2. Won't You Say You Will
3. Waitin'
4. Feel So Good
5. Yes I Guess I Am
6. When I Get My Wheels
7. Where's the Party?
8. She's so Tough
9. Tunnel o' Love
10. I'd Rather Have Fun
11. Surfin' & Drivin'
12. Sweet South Breeze
13. Magnet & Steel
14. Finally Find a Girlfriend
15. The Blonde in the Blue T-Bird
16. Star in the Dust
17. I Wannit
18. Make It Alone
19. Unloved
20. Just the Wanting
21. Hot Summer Nights
22. I Can't Wait
23. That's That
24. Little Miss, It's You
25. Man B. Goode
26. I Do
27. Hi-Fi Love
28. Hurt Again
29. Drive Away
30. Love at Last
31. Like You Do
32. You're the One
33. Bad News T.F.
34. Baby Let's Run Away
35. Y Me? (The Last Stroll)
36. Tuesday Weld
37. Bad Attitude
38. Fall for You
39. First Date, Last Date
40. Heart
41. Chaminade
42. Motel Broken Heards
43. Waitin' for the Rain
44. Magnet & Steel [Acappella Version] [Version]
45. Bad News Travels Fast
Lindsey Buckingham: Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Vocals (Background), Producer, Engineer, Sleigh Bells
Stevie Nicks: Vocals, Producer
Walter Egan: Guitar (Acoustic), Arranger, Composer, Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals, Producer, Liner Notes, Box
Deke Leonard: Guitar, Vocals (Background), Guest Appearance
Rick Hart: Engineer
Terry Becker: Engineer
Bill Cuomo: Keyboards
Richard Dashut: Producer, Engineer
Skip Edwards: Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
John Golden: Mastering
Michael Huey: Percussion, Drums, Syndrum
Lee Kix: Percussion, Drums, Vocals
Earle Mankey: Producer
Dennis Mansfield: Drums
Tom Moncrieff: Vocals, Producer, Engineer
Gary Rowles: Guitar (Electric), Slide Guitar
Duane Scott: Producer, Engineer
John Selk: Bass, Vocals
Tori Swenson: Engineer, Assistant Engineer
John Ware: Drums
John Zambetti: Guitar (Acoustic), Composer, Guitar (Electric), Vocals (Background)
Annie McLoone: Vocals
Dean Torrence: Vocals (Background), Art Direction, Design
Norman Seeff: Cover Photo
Kosh: Art Direction, Design
Ria Lewerke: Art Direction, Design
David Krebs: Direction
Steve Leber: Direction
Moshe Brakha: Photography
Greg Lewerke: Direction
Edward Schaff: Engineer
Earl Shackleford: Vocals
Stan Lewerke: Director
Becky Stewart: Reissue Design
Dana Abrams: Photography
Jim Goble: Assistant
George Garvin: Coordination
Monte X. Moncrieff: Guitar, Vocals
Bill Paustenbach: Cover Photo
Matthew J. Sheppard: Engineer
John VanHammersveld: Art Direction
Steve Hague: Keyboards, Vocals
Jamie Macklin: Project Coordinator
John Shackleford: Composer
The Professional Band: Arranger


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Boys Don't Cry
Original Release Date: June 5, 2012
Track Listing
1. P.F. Sloan
2. It Could Be the First Day
3. Be Nice to Me
4. Travelin' Boy
5. Soulsville
6. Same Old Tears on a New Background
7. Sara Smile
8. Flyin' Shoes
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10. Just for a Moment
11. Brave Awakening
12. We Will
13. [CD-ROM Track] [Multimedia Track]
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Clifford T. Ward: Composer
Nicky Holland: Oboe
Matt Backer: Guitar
Mark Berrow: Violin
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Richard Edwards: Trombone (Tenor)
Simon Gardner: Flugelhorn
Isaac Hayes: Composer
Ronnie Lane: Composer
Bob Ludwig: Mastering
Rita Manning: Violin
Steve Morris: Violin
Roger Nicols: Composer
Gilbert O'Sullivan: Composer
John Oates: Composer
Steve Pearce: Bass, Double Bass
Frank Ricotti: Percussion, Vibraphone
Jamie Talbot: Sax (Tenor)
Townes Van Zandt: Composer
Paul Williams: Composer
Geoff Foster: Producer, Engineer
Peter Lale: Viola
Patrick Kiernan: Violin
Boguslaw Kostecki: Violin
Bruce White: Viola
David Hartley: Piano, Keyboards, Organ (Hammond), Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer
John Parricelli: Guitar
Julian Jackson: Harmonica
Paul Clarvis: Percussion
Dan Carpenter: Trumpet
Steve Brown: Flute, Percussion, Autoharp, Harp, Vocals (Background), Producer, Engineer, String Arrangements
Emlyn Singleton: Violin
Warren Zielinski: Violin
Bob Knight: Drums
Max Bell: Liner Notes
Cliff Masterson: String Arrangements
Andy Hayes: Design
Helen Atkinson: Engineer
David Lee: French Horn
Mark Tree: Percussion
Vicci Wardman: Viola
Ladonna Harley Peters: Vocals (Background)
Dave Daniels: Cello
Perry Montague-Mason: Violin
Dan Curwin: Photography
Mike Hosey: Design
Susan Harriott: Vocals (Background)
Julian Cox: Bass
Josephine Knight: Cello
Ryan Gilligan: Mixing Assistant, Pro-Tools
James Knight: Saxophone
Tom Rees-Roberts: Flugelhorn
Christopher Tombling: Violin
Jonathan Rees: Violin
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Kirsten Klingels: Violin
Alexa Afia: Violin


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Stanley the Tool
From ErfWiki
Race: Men
Tribe: The (nearly-lost) Plaid Tribe
Faction: Gobwin Knob
Class: Ruler (Overlord)
Special: Leadership, Arkenhammer,Dance-Fighting
Eyebook Username: OverLord1
Eyebook Sound: Quack
Contents |
"Yeah, I hear you. We've had some setbacks. But the thing about a quest for the ultimate power in the world is that it's bound to turn out well."
Strengths: Giving Orders, Taming Dwagons, Knowing What He Wants
Weaknesses: Strategy, Critical Thinking, Human Resource Management
Proposed Canon
Stanley the Tool (originally "Stanley the Plaid") is the Ruler of the Plaid tribe. Also referred to by his enemies as Stanley the Worm. He is the founder of the ideology of Toolism.
Toolism is the belief that Royals are clinging to a dead mandate and the true plan of the Titans is for the possessors of the Arkentools. Specifically, Stanley argues that the Titans have a plan for him, and maybe for the rest of the world too, who cares. His worldview is rather shaken when he discovers himself to be in command of a second Arkentool holder, Wanda.
Pop and early turns
Stanley is a nearly perfect example of the Peter Principle. Before the story started, Stanley started out as a piker-class infantry under the command of King Saline IV of the Plaid. He was probably a truly great Piker, because Saline promoted him to the rank of Warlord. He was probably an adequate Warlord, until he found the Arkenhammer, tamed Dwagons, and became an exceptional Warlord. He would probably have failed as a Chief Warlord, without the advice and support he received from Wanda, but with her aid he eventually became Heir Designate to Saline.Erf-b1-p079
Wanda contacted Stanley after hearing he found the Arkenhammer. Together they planned to attack Wanda's kingdom of Faq. Wanda had intended for Stanley to lose the battle so she could claim the Arkenhammer herself, but Stanley ultimately won and sacked the kingdom. Wanda and Faq's Foolamancer, Jack Snipe joined Stanley's side.Erf-b1-p147
At one point, Stanley took a number of the Plaid's casters, Sizemore Rockwell among them, on a special mission of undisclosed purpose; when Stanley's group returned to Gobwin Knob, they found that it had fallen to an attack from the Gobwins breaking their alliance. With the dwagons, casters, and the bonus from the Arkenhammer, Stanley easily retook the city and became the Ruler of Gobwin Knob.Erf-b1-p079 Ansom believed that Stanley orchestrated this rebellion to come to power.Erf-b1-p034
Despite having the Arkenhammer and the assistance of Wanda, Stanley failed utterly as an Overlord, until Wanda eventually managed to Summon Parson.
Recent turns
With Wanda's encouragement, Stanley decided to start a quest for the other Arkentools.Erf-b1-p147 The exact intention and course of this campaign is unknown, although it is mentioned that he attacked Transylvito faction, Elves and wiped out the Milquetoast Clan.Erf-b1-p034 He had at least one skirmish with Jetstone.
As a result of the campaign Stanley lost 10 of his 11 cities and all of his leadership corps.Erf-b1-p005
During the quest, an alliance formed with the aim to defeat Stanley, known as the Royal Crown Coalition.
Story: Chapter 1
Due to the croaking of Manpower the Temporary Stanley needed to choose a new chief warlord. His adviser, Wanda Firebaugh convinced him to summon the perfect warlordErf-b1-p005, who turned out to be Parson GottiErf-b1-p017.
- Stanley managed to make his way from common infantry to Overlord, a very rare career advancement
- He found one of the Arkentools, the Arkenhammer, and was attuned to it
- He used the Arkenhammer to tame dwagons (and crack nuts, which sometimes turned into pigeons)
- Since the events in Chapter 1, he has begun to rebuild his Dwagon army.
Sizemore Rockwell
In Book One, Stanley is aware of Sizemore's existence, but cannot be bothered to remember his name. Sizemore seems completely resigned to Stanley's abuse as he is to everything else. He perks up even at the brief acknowledgment Stanley gives him when he returns to Gobwin Knob. Sizemore does give Stanley a much-needed morale boost when he and Maggie remake the city of Gobwin Knob with a heavy Stanley Is The Man influence. Obviously, Stanley has no idea of this.
Wanda Firebaugh
Wanda generally believes Stanley to be a fool, but does believe that he has an important fate. She was subservient and loyal to him - In fact, Wanda was probably the creature Stanley trusted and respected most in the whole Erfworld - but secretly continued to play events to bring her closer to the Pliers.
She has used nookie to manipulate Stanley. This might explain her revealing outfits.
Since Wanda's attunement to the Arkenpliers she seems to be happy to go along with Stanley's orders as long as she can play with her Pliers and her personal army. Stanley feels somewhat insecure about this new balance of power.
Parson Gotti
Stanley is aware that Parson is the "Perfect Warlord", and is therefore capable of defeating vastly superior armies by devising radically innovative strategies. But despite this fact, he is deeply ambivalent about allowing Parson to act as Gobwin Knob's Chief Warlord. He knows he can't predict what Parson will do if he gives him the authority to act, but he suspects that while Parson will achieve victory, that victory will come at a higher price than Stanley wishes to pay. He is deeply unhappy that Wanda became attuned to the Arkenpliers as a consequence of Parson's first victory, and is likely to be even more unhappy if Parson's second victory allows Wanda to take control of most of Stanley's Dwagons. Parson dislikes Stanley, who reminds him of every bad boss he ever had in his old life on Earth. He has almost no respect for Stanley beyond his ability to kill him/get him killed. It was recently revealed in LIAB Text 44 that while Stanley recognizes how good a warlord Parson is, he also believes that were he to recognize subordinates it would cause them to slack in their duties. He does have a few complaints such as how expensive Parson's plans tend to be and the occasional mistakes that result from his inexperience.
Stanley is also struggling with his position. He has often commented that he was happiest when he could go out to tame dwagons, fight battles, rock out, and generally be an active part in the dangers of his side. As an Overlord he must avoid any dangerous active role while his subordinates do all the things he wishes he could do.
Jack Snipe
In Book One, Stanley valued Jack only as a foolamancer but could not be bothered to remember his name. When Stanley attempted to flee to Faq he took Jack to aid in his escape. Stanley became irritated when Jack failed to function properly as a foolamancer. For some reason, Jack seems intensely loyal to Stanley, refusing to turn sides when Jillian attacked Stanley.
Following the battle, Stanley seems to value Jack more, possibly because Jack saved his life in the conflict with Jillian and the ten Warlords of Transylvito. Stanley noted that he was "trying to get better about names", presumably as a result of the problems with Jack, and Jack saving his life in that battle. Stanley now attempts to refer to other units by their names and not their function.
The warlord formerly known as Prince
During Ansom's life the two despised each other. They were ideological opposites. Stanley had respect for Ansom's command ability. Ansom had no kind of respect for Stanley.
After decryption they share an ideology (Stanley's). Stanley seems to genuinely like Ansom now and has great respect for his tactical mind. Ansom is devoted to Stanley, but finds him irritating and can't help, despite his feelings of loyalty, seeing a lot of evidence that suggests that Stanley is an incompetent strategist.
The name of the Plaid tribe seems to be purposefully homophonic to "played", which would make Stanley's (and his tribe) original name an indicator of how much of a tool he really is.
The background behind Stanley's rise to power is unclear. At some point, he was appointed heir designate by King Saline IV. Some time after that Stanley left on a special mission taking some casters with him and King Saline IV was croaked by a Gobwin rebellion. The question is why did the Gobwins rebel? Either Stanley orchestrated the rebellion himself or it was planned by someone else. Stanley's lack of strategic thinking make it less likely he worked alone. It is possible that Wanda desired a more easily manipulated ruler and placed Stanley on the throne, perhaps acting in concert with Jack. It is possible that Stanley is actually innocent and had nothing to do with King Saline IV's death. This is admittedly just speculation and we will have to wait for more details to emerge.
Battle style
Stanley's preferred style is Rocking Out. He has for this purpose an order of knights who also can dance fight, the Knights in Stanley's Service, who wear makeup and armor reminiscent of real life band [KISS], and so far the only song they have been seen rocking out to is indeed a KISS song. This is a well known fact even in the alliance, and the forces of Transylvito prepared themselves for this tactic when they planned the trap in the choke point to FAQ, donning costumes reminiscent of the musical West Side Story and dance fighting to a modified version of the Jet theme song and the song "Cool".
Stanley's attunement to the Arkenhammer is what allows him to Rock Out, a style considered Titanic and superior to mere Dance-Fighting. Before he became Overlord, Stanley won many battles for King Saline I.V. and is likely a powerful warlord. He defeated Caesar and his stack with a single swing of the Arkenhammer.
Possible Character Development
Stanley has shown some instances of character growth through the story. He may have been humbled somewhat by the events of Book One. His series of defeats and nearly being killed himself seem to have shaken him. Upon his return to Gobwin Knob, Stanley mentioned that he was trying to get better with names. He even acknowledged Sizemore which he had never done before apparently. Stanley surprised Parson when he uncharacteristically apologized and admitted that he had been wrong to flee with the dwagons.
Stanley became very insecure after the Battle for Gobwin Knob. He seemed suspicious and jealous of Wanda and her new decrypted army. He seemed to miss the days when he could lead armies, fight battles and tame dwagons but now he was stuck in the capital while he watched the action from the sidelines.
Stanley appears to be an ideal case of an individual being promoted to their point of incompetency. He was a very effective warlord but not so effective a strategist or Overlord.
Real World References
Stanley Hand Tools are a fairly widely known company of toolmakers ... albeit better known for knives than hammers...
His name could be a reference to the crown prince of Marvel Comics, Stan Lee.
His name could be a reference to Sir Thomas Stanley, Lord Stanley and King of Mann who famously betrayed the English king Richard III at Bosworth Field (1485) - he was created 1st Earl of Derby (and is the ancestor of current 19th Earl of Derby). It is certainly a reference to Paul Stanley, singer/guitarist of KISS, whose make-up he wears for rocking-out with the Arkenhammer.
In the "Dead Poets' Society", Keating mentions "Stanley 'The Tool' Wilson".
Erfworld launched during the Bush administration when the debate over the Iraq war was reaching its climax. It is possible that Stanley - a militarily ambitious but not intellectually gifted overlord - is in part a satire of George W. Bush.
Preceded by: King Saline IV | Ruler of Gobwin Knob | Succeeded by: None |
Preceded by: Unknown | Chief Warlord of Gobwin Knob | Succeeded by: presumedly Ensign Toast |


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Michael Bolton
The Collection: Timeless: The Classics/Timeless: The Classics, Vol. 2/Love Songs
Original Release Date: April 5, 2005
Track Listing
1. Since I Fell for You
2. To Love Somebody
3. Reach Out I'll Be There
4. You Send Me
5. Yesterday
6. Hold on, I'm Coming
7. Bring It on Home to Me
8. Knock on Wood
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24. Once in a Lifetime
25. Said I Loved You...But I Lied
26. Missing You Now
27. When a Man Loves a Woman
28. Now That I Found You
29. The Best of Love
30. How Am I Supposed to Live Without You
31. Stand Up for Love
32. Georgia on My Mind
33. A Love So Beautiful
34. New Love
35. In the Arms of Love
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