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The evolution of President Abraham Lincoln's thinking about emancipation is clearly marked out in his speeches and public documents. The evolution of his views about suffrage for black people is harder to trace. The two issues are intimately linked, and to modern eyes they seem one and the same. In Lincoln's time, though, the issues of emancipation and suffrage pulled in different directions, and their history is tangled.
Lincoln did not make a public call for the vote for black men until the last few weeks of his life, and even then his proposal was tentative and compromised. But he had been laying the groundwork for something stronger and more sweeping for a long time. How he laid that groundwork, both in the public mind and in his own, says something about how moral changes come about in our country.
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Lincoln entered the Civil War assuming that his paramount responsibility was to restore the Union. Although he was always an opponent of slavery, the promise under which he had been elected was not a pledge to end slavery but a pledge to prevent the admission of more slave states into the Union. It was a policy he believed would compromise the vitality of slavery and ultimately destroy it — and it was a policy Lincoln declined to surrender, despite considerable pressure to do so, as states began to secede from the Union in 1861.
Lincoln understood that the federal constitution of his day did not give him the power to abolish slavery directly, whether by ordinary lawmaking or by proclamation. Only a constitutional amendment, something he was unlikely to gain, could accomplish that end. He did, however, understand that wartime exigencies might make it possible for him to abolish slavery, since the British had used emancipation as a weapon of war against the United States at the time of the revolution, and the French, the British and the Spanish had all used it against each other. But Lincoln was very cautious about using his war powers to abolish slavery. In the first place, he understood that the Supreme Court was dominated by Southern sympathizers. He could not use his war powers to abolish slavery unless emancipation genuinely were required by military necessity. This limited the scope of the emancipation he could proclaim. He could not, for instance, emancipate the slaves in states loyal to the Union, where the war powers argument could not apply. Furthermore, he could not argue merely that emancipation would serve the interest of Union victory but had to argue that the Union could not be restored at all without emancipation.
Lincoln also had to respond to powerful practical constraints. He was wary of testing the loyalty of the four Unionist slave states — Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware. In April 1861,the 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was attacked by secessionist mobs as it transferred between train stations in Baltimore while en route to defending Washington, D.C. The regiment had to fight its way out of the city, after which the mayor destroyed the railroad bridges connecting Baltimore to the North. Only Maryland's failure to rise in support of Lee's invasion in September 1862 made Maryland's Unionist loyalty clear.
By then it was clear to Lincoln that there could be no Union without emancipation, and that he, like almost everyone else but Frederick Douglass, had been kidding himself if he believed that the Civil War was about anything other than emancipation. Looking back on his second inaugural address, Lincoln conceded that the understanding of both sides at the beginning of the Civil War had been clouded by self-serving and wishful thinking. The Union had believed that the Civil War was a war about the restoration of the Union and about whether elections could be repealed by force. The Confederacy believed that it was a war about independence and states' rights. But both sides somehow knew, though they did not acknowledge it even to themselves, that the war was ultimately about slavery.
But when did the burden shift from mere emancipation to equality? The connection between the two issues was extremely fraught. The broadening of the voting franchise in the Jacksonian era was accompanied by a dramatic rise in the intensity of racism. So long as racial inequality was merely one among many kinds of inequality that the society tolerated, racism did not need to assume the especially vicious form it assumed during the long descent to war. But as the franchise broadened, giving the poor white an increasing chance of claiming political equality with the rich white, both the poor and the rich white had a stake in intensifying racial inequality.
The rich white used race to appease the poor white, while the poor white used race to extort acknowledgment from the rich white, a state of affairs George Fredrickson long ago named "herrenvolk democracy." Indeed, as Edmund Morgan showed almost 40 years ago, in the colonial era, the poor white only achieved what freedom he had because the rich white had black people to exploit in his stead. Democracy may contradict slavery, but only slavery made it possible.
Herrenvolk democracy is unstable. The poor white, like Pap Finn in Twain or Ab Snopes in Faulkner, always suspects that the rich white either seeks to subject him as he subjects black people, or seeks to elevate black people at his expense.
Andrew Johnson, the most powerful "poor white" in American politics during Reconstruction, for instance, irrationally feared that the freedmen and their former masters would ally themselves against the white non-slaveholders of the South. The rich white, in turn, could not be certain that, without a great deal of angry manipulation, race loyalty really would succeed in trumping class loyalty and keeping the black and white poor from making common cause.
Because herrenvolk democracy was not confined to the South, Lincoln could not have connected emancipation to the franchise without complicating, and perhaps even foreclosing, emancipation itself. Lincoln faced this for the most part by not facing it; if he had to articulate the future he imagined for the freed slaves publicly, he might never have been able to emancipate them at all. Sometimes he employed strategic indirection, suggesting that freed slaves might allow themselves to be colonized in Liberia, Haiti or Central America. But all of these plans were desultory, and even in Lincoln's first mention of colonization, in his Peoria speech of 1854, it is clear he thought colonization was a brutal and impractical idea.
Lincoln also had to address his own feelings about race. Frederick Douglass reported that he never sensed from Lincoln that visceral distaste for black people that he often sensed from white people, even from abolitionists. But Lincoln felt the force of racism and admitted — modestly in the Peoria speech, somewhat more harshly during the debate with Stephen Douglas at Charleston, Ill., in 1858 — that his own feelings balked at racial equality. But even here, he made concessions to racism because he did not see how to defeat it; racism in Lincoln's mind was a bad but intractable habit, something like alcoholism, something that does not just go away once one realizes that it is destructive. Lincoln addressed popular racism, including his own, with the same delicacy and indirection he had used to keep Maryland in the Union.
When, under pressure from Douglas in their 1858 debates, Lincoln denied having any intention of promoting social or political equality across racial lines, he was probably speaking the truth. But the transformation of his views over the war years was possible because he had long since committed himself to arguments that, whether he acknowledged it or not, could not help but raise the question of racial equality.
In articulating the rationale of the Emancipation Proclamation, the president chose grounds that made clear that emancipation could not be the limit of his intentions. Lincoln's explicit rationale for emancipation was to enable him to recruit freed slaves into the Union Army. This apparently modest argument had the advantage of turning on a bona fide military necessity. Furthermore, unlike the argument about making economic war on the Confederacy, this argument had the merit of making emancipation irreversible. Those you have freed in order to make economic war can be re-enslaved in order to rebuild a peacetime economy. But you cannot re-enslave men into whose hands you have put rifles. In addition, in rejecting the idea of provoking a disabling slave insurrection in the Confederacy as an aim of the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln put aside a course of action that would have made it harder for former slaves and former masters to live with each other as peaceful citizens after the war. Most important of all, grounding emancipation upon the idea of recruiting black soldiers made a trumping case for political equality for black men.
In a letter read at a Unionist meeting in Illinois in August 1863 known as the Conkling letter, Lincoln went so far as to contrast what the republic would owe to anti-emancipation Unionists with what the republic would owe to freed slaves who, at risk of life and limb, had saved it with clenched teeth and steady aim. It was black soldiers, far more than white half-hearted Unionists, who proved, in the words of the Conkling letter, "that among free men, there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet." The Conkling letter does not promise the vote. But it does make clear who deserves the vote and who is unworthy of it; it makes it clear that the black soldiers had put the res publica before their lives while squeamish white Unionists stayed home.
What Lincoln implied in the Gettysburg address, but did not say in so many words until the Reconstruction speech he delivered only two weeks before his assassination, was that the Civil War was not merely a test of republics' political stability, of whether the minority can always destroy the constitutional order if it does not have its way. Nor was the war a test of the possibility of self-rule, or of the principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The key issue upon which the war turned, Lincoln argued in the first sentence of that speech, was equality, for no republic can flourish unless it risks its survival by facing up to what equality requires.

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I hesitate to write about Lumpy, I grew up spending my summers in Estes Park and started my climbing career 7 years ago at Lumpy. Since then, I have seen it grow immensely in popularity and is headed the way of Eldo (i.e. crowded as hell); however, this growth is mainly from the weekend warriors, on the weekday climbing is more reasonable.
Getting There
Take US 36 to Estes, head across the lake and go straight at the first stoplight you meet. At the second stoplight, head straight, the road curves left here and passes the Stanley Hotel. Take a right 1/4 mile after the Stanley on Devil's Gulch Road. Head straight on this road for a mile or so (Lumpy Ridge should be quite obvious in front of you) until it begins to curve right. When it curves right, there will be a wooden gate that says McGregor Ranch. Take the road through the gate for a half mile, to the Lumpy Ridge parking lot.
Trail Realignment
There appears to be a line of cord uphill/north of the old Black Canyon Trail. It is likely the new trail location as part of the changes to be made with the land deal swap/reversal of easements (which includes the new parking lot to the east). Now, the fences have moved (as of 2009).
New Trailhead
There is a new, 100-car, paved trailhead for Lumpy Ridge. The old Twin Owls trailhead is in the process of being reverted closer to its former state. The new trailhead adds on 0.6 miles to routes from Twin Owls and west (Batman, Book, Pear, Sundance, etc.) Note, for those new to the area, the trail listed as Black Canyon Trail is used to access The Book, The Pear, Sundance etc.) The water source at the old Twin Owls lots is still on as of 7/07.
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This was called Thataa-ai-atah by Arapaho Indians which means "little lumps".
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Batman and Robin 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b Trad, 4 pitches Batman Pinnacle
Kor's Flake 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b Trad, 6 pitches, 800' Sundance Buttress
Osiris 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b Trad, 5 pitches The Book : The Pages Wall Area
White Whale 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b Trad, 4 pitches, 600' Left Book
Pear Buttress 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c Trad, 5 pitches The Book : J-Crack Slab Area
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The 37th Cog in Melvin's Wheel aka Melvin's Wheel 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c Trad, 3 pitches The Bookmark
Loose Ends 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a Trad, 5 pitches The Book : J-Crack Slab Area
Mainliner 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a Trad, 5 pitches, 700' Sundance Buttress
J-Crack 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a Trad, 4 pitches The Book : J-Crack Slab Area
Sidetrack 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a Trad, 6 pitches, 900' Sundance Buttress
Romulan Territory 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a Trad, 3 pitches The Bookmark
Turnkorner 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a Trad, 7 pitches Sundance Buttress
Climb of the Ancient Mariner 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a Trad, Sport, 3 pitches The Bookend
Cheap Date 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b Trad, 1 pitch The Book : The Pages Wall Area
Idiot Wind 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b Trad, 7 pitches, 1050' Sundance Buttress
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Here's how RW members rated this race (164 votes).
In short: Well organised, worth doing and extra large socks!!!In full: This is the second time i've done this race and the standard set for organisation is one of the best around, so I am never surprised that this race fills up THREE MONTHS in advance of race day and sales on ebay for entries hit the £60.00 mark.The course itself is not flat as some people think and the gradual climb after half way can be a real test. Yet it is still possible to get a PB if you know your way around. The finish was a bit confusing with the goody bags being situated half way up the road.though the sleeping bag sized socks made an interesting conversation topic for the journey home [they make excellent dusters]. Nevertheless, will be back next year if I remember to enter in time.Date of review: October 5, 2006
In short: Hot weather, dodgy socks but good day out!!!Date of review: October 2, 2006
In short: Beautiful weather relatively traffic free glorious views over lakeDate of review: September 22, 2006
In short: Great scenery, last 3 miles was hard , still managed a PB, particularly enjoyed the water and sponge stations which helped to stay cool.Date of review: September 16, 2006
In short: really enjoyed those flat welsh hills!Date of review: September 16, 2006
In short: A beautiful location and atmospehere for your first half marathon!Date of review: September 16, 2006
In short: Not as flat as I was told it would be and heat made it a lot harder. Still a great race to do however.Date of review: September 15, 2006
In short: Should have been a fast one In full: Did not feel up to it due to marathon week before and felt it but should have been a fast course, maybe next year.Date of review: September 14, 2006
In short: Great all round - organisation, friendly, scenery, course, value. In full: A big thanks to the organisers, police, marshalls and medics. The only way to improve this race would be for the weather to be a bit more runner-friendly. Personally I'd rather have wet that hot. Hmmm .. and it seems niggly to mention the socks ...........Date of review: September 13, 2006
In short: Amazing location, excellent organisation, friendly and really enjoyable!!Date of review: September 13, 2006
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Roane State gets $2.86M training grant; will support advanced materials work
Roane State Community College was among 41 community colleges and organizations chosen for Dept. of Labor community-based job training grants. Roane State will get $2.865 million for training in emerging advanced materials (carbon fiber and solar energy).
The plan is to set up training classes in the Halcyon Commercialization Center, a part of the Science and Technology Park at ORNL. According to an e-mail distributed by Roane State President Gary Goff, "We will be offering a non-college credit training curriculum in carbon fiber for many of the Innovation Valley manufacturing firms. We will also be offering a non-college credit training curriculum in solar energy to meet the needs of Confluence Solar, a large solar panel firm locating to Clinton, as well as other solar energy manufacturing firms."
Tom Rogers, director of industrial partnerships at ORNL, said the lab, as well as Innovation Valley and the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce helped with the grant planning.
Roane State and Pellissippi State Community College have been important as ORNL works to transfer government-sponsored technologies, he said.
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Jonathan GoodAssociate Professor of History Faculty Senate Chair, 2013-14
Academic DegreesA.B., Dartmouth College, 1994M.A., University of Toronto, 1995Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2004
Teaching and Scholarly Interests: Ancient and Medieval history, late-medieval England, saints and saint cults, chivalry, national identity.
Contact Information:firstname.lastname@example.com Good teaches Reinhardt's Western Civilization survey courses, History 111 and 112, and upper-level courses on Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation, and Irish history. He also serves as faculty advisor to Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor society, and is a co-founder of the Georgia Medievalists' Group. In 2009 he received Reinhardt's faculty research award, and in 2012 he received the Jane England Teaching Excellence Award.
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"'Mémoire touchant le Canada': A Plan to Save New France," The James Ford Bell Library Essays 4 (forthcoming)
Review of Stephanie Trigg, Shame and Honor: A Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), Reviews in History no. 1495.
"The Alien Clothworkers of London, 1337-1381," in The Ties that Bind: Essays in Medieval British History in Honor of Barbara Hanawalt, eds. Linda E. Mitchell, Katherine L. French, and Douglas L. Biggs (Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2011), 7-20. The Cult of Saint George in Medieval England (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2009).
"Richard II and the Cults of Saints George and Edward the Confessor," in Translatio, or the Transmission of Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Modes and Messages, ed. Laura Hollengreen (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008), 161-78.
"Argent a Cross Gules: The Origins and English Use of the Arms of Saint George," The Coat of Arms 213 (Spring 2007): 9-18.
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Tonic-Sol-Fa to perform at the Midwest
Tickets in the balcony still remain for Wednesday night's performance by Tonic-Sol-Fa, the popular Minnesota-based harmony group. The group's stop at the Midwest Theater Wednesday evening at 7:30 is part of their 2012 holiday tour, according to Mark McGowan, one of the four members in the acappella group.
The group has been described as the "Rat Pack meets Glee" and will present their version of classic holiday songs as well as new twists to their classic up-tempo tunes. Tonic-Sol-Fa has appeared on the Today Show, shared stages with Garrison Keilor and Jay Leno and has been a favorite on PBS with their annual Christmas holiday specials.
The main floor is sold out but balcony tickets are available for $18 for members, $22 for non-members by calling the Midwest Theater at 632-4311 or by logging on to MidwestTheater.com
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After months of evaluating the possibility of privatizing transportation for Bay District Schools, Superintendent Bill Husfelt will recommend that the board not privatize at this time.
Husfelt says that privatizing transportation at this time would not be in the best interest of Bay District Schools. A total of five transportation companies submitted proposals and a review committee selected the top three for oral presentations.
However the Superintendent believes that privatizing would not solve the aging bus fleet problem, the leave buy-out for current employees would be more costly than the initial savings and that a restructuring of the current transportation operations would be the best option for now.
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Auburn freshman right-handed pitcher Keegan Thompson added another honor to his ever-growing list Wednesday as he was named a Freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball.Thompson, a freshman from Cullman, Ala., was one of the Tigers' most consistent starters on the mound, making 12 starts and putting together a 5-3 record with a 2.01 earned run average in 89.2 innings pitched. The right-hander led the team with 73 strikeouts while walking just 23 opposing hitters, and he held opponents to a .192 batting average. Offensively, he made 33 starts between first base and designated hitter, batting .244 with 13 RBIs. Thompson was previously named to the SEC All-Freshman team.
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Boxing has lost yet another another legend.
What are your best memories of Emanuel Steward guys ? For me there are three - his now memorable yelling during the 9th round of Ward vs. Gatti I, his "OH MY GAWD" during the 6th round of Ortiz vs. Berto and of course his chit chat with Lampley when the camera was pointed on Ms. Jackson's more than revealing dress during Mayweather vs. Ortiz fight...."That dress" !
How do you think Wlad will cope with the situation in the ring ?
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this is bad, people say boxings dying because of MMA, bullshit, its slowly fading because things like this happen, and people are to forget the ancestors of the sport.
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this is bad, people say boxings dying because of MMA, bullshit, its slowly fading because things like this happen, and people are to forget the ancestors of the sport.
boxing is not dying. mma has absolutely nothing to do with boxing and vice versa.
i do agree that old timers passing on is bad for the sport. but in manny's case....he's passed on what he knows to sooooo many ppl and they are carrying on his legacy i'm sure. there are a ton of guys who have worked with him that we have never even heard of that will emerge in the future as disciples of manny whether they claim it or not. there is lineage in all of this just like martial arts. i myself have never fought pro...but i have worked with several trainers that i learned several things from over the years. i've also befriended old timers just to benefit from their knowledge. i know if i've done this....i cannot be the only one. i won't say the sport is dying....because even in manny's passing....his legacy still lives on in the lives he's touched both near and far.
ppl forget....but he didn't bring andy lee up from the amateurs. lee was the product of KRONK GYM IRELAND!!!! he sought out manny from ireland to make that connection happen. what that tells me is that this man's reach was that great during his life time. there's no question that his memory will live on.
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The Kansas City Chiefs are 0-2 to start the season, losing to the Atlanta Falcons and Buffalo Bills by a combined score of 75-41 in games that weren't as close as even that margin would suggest. The Chiefs have been outmatched on both sides of the ball and fans are starting to express their frustration with an organization and team they feel isn't doing enough to put a winning product on the field.
Scape3d, a reader of SB Nation's Arrowhead Pride, explained why he feels the Chiefs have struggled so mightily the past few seasons:t
ALL starts at the top...and I mean the very top; Clark Hunt. There's plenty of blame to go around. Pioli and Romeo and all the way down to all the players on this team, for their lackluster, soul-less display on the field these past games (including pre-season). If you don't have a good, interested and passionate owner, you don't have a football team with a chance of success.
Clark Hunt is the problem. He's not a football fan, he's a soccer fan. There's nothing wrong with soccer but when the owner of a potentially great football team in one of the best football cities displays no interest in creating a winning franchise, there's a problem. There's plenty of anger toward Hunt due to the Chiefs being well under the cap and insinuating that's he's simply money-hungry. I'm not so sure about that, I think he and his family are fine enough on the money front. I really believe it's lack of interest.
Meanwhile, DisplacedChief writes that he still has faith for a team he feels has good talent but just isn't executing to their full attention.
We're still a good team with good players. We just haven't played like it. Whether you lose by 1 or 40, a loss counts against the record the same way. So even though we've gotten creamed, we have two losses and 14 games left to play. It won't be easy and it may not even be practical but there is plenty of time to bounce back. I'm not ready to throw in the towel just quite yet. (Talk to me again in December.) Romeo is the same guy that most of us loved at the end of last season. We don't scream for his job. We challenge him to fix the problems.
The Chiefs made the playoffs in 2010 yet a slow start in 2011 led to the dismissal of Todd Haley as the head coach. Another bad start has fans feeling frustrated and disappointed over the lack of progress yet again.
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RALEIGH — For three years, Robert Caldwell worked to get to where he is now. After spending two years as a starter for College of the Desert in Palm Desert, Calif., the Spartanburg, S.C., native found his way back to the East Coast for his final two seasons with N.C. State.
After spending his entire junior season as a special teams player, Caldwell is now fully entrenched as the Wolfpacks middle linebacker. Hes still looking for that elusive first sack at the Division-I level, but Caldwell does lead State with 7.5 tackles for loss and tackles overall with 48.
Saturday brings a bigger opportunity: trying to slow down Heisman candidate quarterback Jameis Winston and Florida States potent offense.
Q: How difficult of a task is this for you this week, especially as a middle linebacker, going against Jameis and that offense?
Caldwell: Its going to be a tough challenge. Theyve got a lot of key players and they show a lot of effort, regardless of who theyre lined up against. A lot of it for me is going to be about playing my gap and being mentally locked in. Those boys are physical, so weve got to play downhill.
Q: The FSU war chant was playing on repeat while you were practicing. How much emphasis has been put on being prepared for that this week?
Caldwell: Its going to be tough. Its a big stadium and theyve got a great fan base, so we expect it to be tough. Weve just got to block it all out and when were on the field its just us.
Q: Other than him being a great pocket presence, Winston can also roll out and beat you with his legs. What is the game plan against that this week?
Caldwell: Well, I cant really tell you the game plan. (Laughs.) I wouldnt necessarily say weve done anything differently, but we just focused more on our keys this week to pressure him and contain him when the play does break down.
Q: Coming from a smaller college to a D-I school and finally getting the chance to start this season, what has this season been like for you?
Caldwell: This has been a dream come true. The coaches have trusted me all season and its really been a blessing. I cant put it into any better words than that. God blessed me with an opportunity and Im just trying to make the best of it.
Q: How much different has this coaching staff been from the previous one?
Caldwell: The whole coaching staff is great. Theyre confident and theyre always there for you. If it wasnt for coach (Dave) Doeren, I wouldnt be where I am right now.
Q: How did Doeren help?
Caldwell: I was slacking a little bit in the offseason and he pulled me to the side and said, You need to man up. Its either you do what you need to do or youre off this team. I really look at him as a role model because he made me change my mindset and I became a starter because of that. I really appreciate what he did for me.
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This new addition to our percussion line-up complements the powerful toms and drums percussion of H.I.P.P. and Felt Force One with a veritable scrapheap of metal and iron objects and instruments. From clinging and clanging to smashing and booming, this collection covers a lot of sonic ground. Without compromise and fully dedicated to capturing the specific sound of these metal and iron soundscapes, we set out to create an all-new exciting collection of performed percussion and multi sampled sessions. As usual, we coupled this with an intuitive yet stylish UI to give you full access to this vast source of Sonokinetic marked samples. This sampleset consists of a slew of inspired 'live' performances by an amazing percussionist, extended with deep sampled instruments like TamTam, Anvils, Cymbals and thundersheets.
Other less conventional 'musical instruments' like Car doors, oil drums, little metal scrap, and all kinds of iron objects found on junk yards (and carefully selected for sonic character) complement this collection we proudly call: "Fe".
A live performance always beats a computer generated percussion track. This is why we hired one of the best percussion players available and locked him in the studio on several occasions, spanning several weeks (cause sometimes some muscle recovery was needed). Banging on a car door and oil drums with sawn-off broomsticks, attacking different pieces of heavy metal with big hammers, and of course playing more conventional percussion instruments and cymbals with regular drum sticks, felt tips (several KIA along the way) and brushes, we produced a multitude of sounds, sure to meet your every iron-loving need. A real challenge which took a lot of resources, dedication and blisters to complete, we're proud to announce this collection as a new standard for non-standard percussion libraries.
Also unique to this library is the addition of non standard time signatures, all performances (except Heavy Iron Hammered, for practical reasons) are provided in 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/8 and 7/8 time signatures, for all your soundtracking needs and an occasional inspirational boost!
Whether your next project needs the clanging thud stemming from the blacksmith's anvil or the deafening drones of the largest available Orchestral Tam Tam, we've got you covered with this one. This instrument combines performance loops and multi samples all in one interface, making it an essential element in your cinematic scoring template. Filling the backlines and accompanying your drums and 'wooden' percussion tracks with the sparkle and clangs they need to make them stand out and impact audiences in an epic way.
Performance percussion has been around since the dawn of sampling and is one of the most accepted loop-based materials for composers. In August 2010 we got in touch with renowned composer Michael Wandmacher* who had a request for sampled performed metallic elements that you would think would be available but, upon research showed to be lacking from the samplefield in this particular form. We decided to team up for preproduction and get a content description together for this kind of sampled percussion.
"Fe" is flexible and versatile. Drop it into your ready-made DAW score and it fits right in. Selecting the best suitable performances based on time signature and speed, you'll be adding the power of metals with intuitive ease.
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- Time signature selector and automatic BPM group selecting (HOST slave)
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- Kontakt 4 & 5 patches + aif accessible pool
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Format: All files in 48 kHz, 24bit NCW format.
Programmed for Kontakt 4.2.4. & Kontakt 5
The main Fe UI consists of an instrument group selector on the left, a sample behavior control in the middle, and a sound control unit at the right.
Instrument patches can be selected by clicking their button. By default we saved the instrument to load the "Oil Drum" patch. It purges only the samples that are needed for the instrument you like to use. When an instrument patch is selected it shows the time signatures available for that particularly group. Fe will automatically select the correct time according to your host set BPM. Performance samples (loops) are time stretched to the set speed in your host (DAW).
Fe provides the most commonly used time signatures for your scoring. When pressed it selects the available group for that instrument in the set speed. "Multi" loads the multi sampled instruments. Each instrument is provided with 4 round robin settings per key.
FE DISPLAY: This section displays BPM (set by host) and the selected time signature.
Performance loops are spread over one octave. Multi samples have a varying wider spread. Some instrument patches come in different performances. For instance, "Heavy Iron" has a key switch to toggle between a performance played with sticks or hammers
Purge: By default Fe is set to "Purge" enable. If you wish to load all available samples for all groups deactivate this function. It will load approximately 3,8 GB of samples. If enabled only the instrument patches that are selected are loaded into memory. All instruments have a limited amount of ram usage between 200 to 400 MB per patch.
Releases: By default Fe is set to "Releases" enable. This function lets you toggle on and off the release sounds that are automated in each instrument. When triggered it will play the release sound.
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Various studies have shown that too much television can cause all kinds of problems for children, from health issues such as obesity to attention problems that can hurt academic performance. It is important as parents to set limits on children's screen time.
Sarah Keith with The Parenting Center at Children's Hospital joins the Eyewitness Morning News with a look at how to avoid potential problems with children watching too much television.
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A University of Arizona fraternity has been shut down after repeated violations involving hazing.
Campus officials worked with the national office of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and told members the house will lose their charter.
University officials hope this sends a strong message. The lights are still on at the Pi Kappa Phi house but the chapter is no longer recognized as a fraternity on campus.
They're not the first ones to get the boot. In fact, this is the fourth one in the last year.
In January 2012, the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity was kicked out over allegations of hazing.
In April 2012, Delta Chi got the boot.
Last September, the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity was out, also over multiple forms of hazing.
"It's sad when we have to close chapters," Asst. Dean of Students Johanne Ives said. "So for students listening.. anything they can learn from this.. not to let this happen in their own chapter. Intervene [and] make sure to live up to values founders are setting for them."
The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is accused of hazing, violating the Student's Code of Conduct and abusing alcohol.
Members declined to talk on camera.
University officials say they have been under investigation for months. Repeated sanctions and a history of repetitive behavior finally led to strict action taken against them.
"The last thing we want to do is remove recognition for a chapter," Ives said. "Keeping students safe and providing a positive experience is our first priority."
Tucson News Now asked students if this impacts their view of Greek life on campus.
"I'm kind of scared to pledge.. not sure what will happen," UA Freshman Jenna Heldt said.
When asked if fraternities haze on campus, student Brian Connors said, "No, at least not in ours, we don't. At the end of the day we know we're all going to be friends."
"We think hazing is a difficult topic," Ives said. "Students may say they don't see hazing. Students may not identify what they do as hazing."
According to campus officials, hazing includes everything from forced consumption of alcohol or water, to push ups, sit ups, paddling or forcing members to do errands for others.
Students can anonymously report hazing incidents at 626-HAZE.
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The relationship between manga and anime is a fruitful one; anime studios may pick a popular manga to adapt into a television show, a manga might be written as an adaptation of a popular anime work. Often times, these different works are based around some of the same core ideas and characters, but they are completely different. Studios might make changes in storylines, in tone, or in other stylistic elements because the manga isn't completed yet, or the manga might shorten certain storylines in order to fit them more appealingly into a print format. But what happens when you toss the Japanese fiction market into the mix? That's the source of one of Vertical Inc.'s brand new releases, From the New World.
Originally, From the New World was a high-fantasy fiction novel published in 2008. Written by Yusuke Kishi, the novel won the 29th Japan SF Grand Prize. Yusuke Kishi's work has been published in English by Vertical Inc – his novel The Crimson Labyrinth was originally published in English in 2006. I'm not privy to the decisions book publishers make regarding fiction adaptations, but it was clear that this property was deemed a likely success in the shonen market. Four years after the book was originally published, it received a manga adaptation, and an anime adaptation shortly thereafter.
As a comic, From the New World is a really interesting piece of fiction. Humans have developed telekinesis and other psychic powers a millenium into the future. As children, they learn to develop those powers. In the background, however, more disturbing things are happening. Children who step out of line or who don't make the grade often go missing. There are rumors of a "Dupe Cat" that hunts down the weak. And very strange and creepy things start happening after the students go off on summer vacation.
Most readers will come to From the New World via the anime simulcast on Crunchyroll. I had the opportunity to read the first volume of the manga, and then watched the first 7 episodes of the anime, for comparison. Which leads me to a question: how do you review From the New World? Is it enough to discuss the manga, or should we also discuss the anime adaptation? Both are now available in English for the first time.
What fans of the property will realize is that while there is a lot that is similar in the two adaptations, there is a lot that is different as well. Stylistic choices and costume redesigns abound. The storylines between the two follow a similar path, but take different steps to get there. By the time we reach the end of volume 1 of the manga, we have skipped a few scenes from the anime, and the cast is still largely together in one place.
The manga is also quite a bit more explicit than the anime. There are a few scenes in the manga that, to be frank, give it its +16 year old rating. How this plays into the storyline will probably come up at some point, but at this point into the anime, we already have some more contextual information about the scenes in question. I'm certain this content was written to titillate. I'm certain this will even drive some of the sales of the manga. Whether the explicit content at the end of volume 1 can be used to drive forward the story will have to be seen in volume 2, but at this point, it seems gratuitous to me.
The tone of From the New World is almost like a mix of the moe fan-favorite K-On! and another Vertical release, Knights of Sidonia. There are elements of that unfettered joy that permeate the first volume, coupled with the unhinging fact that, although we can't see what's happening, we know that a lot of things are going wrong. The image of hypercute girls stacking cards juxtaposed against the body horror of the Morph Rats is a really interesting element of the series, and lends to its unsettling nature. The world building is fantastic, but there is a lot that isn't revealed in this first volume.
As a physical product, From the New World is the Vertical compact size – the same size as their release of Keiko Suenobu's Limit. It's slightly smaller than Knights of Sidonia, and approximately a half an inch smaller in width and height compared to the standard Tokyopop/Viz tankōbon. Check out MW_alt for images.
Overall, I think that this type of high-fantasy is extremely rare in manga being localized currently, and I like what I've read so far, despite my misgivings about the explicit content in the first volume. And as for the anime along with the manga? Well, think of them as complementary. Both the anime and the manga bring their own information to the table. Without the anime, I would be a bit confused about some of the content in the manga. Without the manga, I would have put together much less about the storyline. Together, they create a fuller picture of this fantastic and strange new world that Kishi has imagined.
If anything, reading From the New World has convinced me to check out Kishi's other fiction, and to watch some anime (something I hardly ever do). I think it's a good start to what could potentially be a very strong series.


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Five Gloucester High School teachers got pink slips late last week in the wake of a budgeting shortfall, prompting some parents and officials to complain the cuts reflected a "cultural" bias.
But the most controversial loss may already be restored.
Announced last Tuesday, Mayor Carolyn Kirk's $36.4 million proposed outlay for the school's coming fiscal year was about $1 million — or 3 percent — more than the previous year, but $1.3 million less than the 6 percent hike the School Committee said it needed.
The Friday notifications were necessary to meet a contractual deadline, "to cover our bases," said School Committee Chairman Jonathan Pope.
The proposed budget is now in the hands of the City Council's subcommittee on Budget and Finance, which could recommend revisions. In addition, Pope has said there might be school money freed up by healthcare savings or employment attrition.
School Superintendent Richard Safier said the reductions were not related to the budget, but to performance or inadequate enrollment in classes. He said more notifications due to "other headaches with the budget" might be forthcoming in situations — for instance, in situations where teaching positions could be combined. He said the contractual deadline for those notices is June 15.
One of the pink slips last week went to Jack Andrews, who teaches the highly regarded woodworking program that constructs an entire house each year.
"There was an enrollment problem," said Pope, explaining there were two teachers for 21 pupils.
After a Monday afternoon meeting with teacher's union president Andrea Pretzler – and because enrollment in the course was increasing almost overnight — Safier said he hoped to be able to retain the position. He said the reduction of Andrews was based solely on class size, while the other four eliminations, which went to "non-professional" status teachers, were based on performance.
Noting that some advanced placement classes had only a handful of students, city councilor Bruce Tobey said he was concerned that "some folks who are setting educational policy" – he specified the School Committee and superintendent – "see Gloucester as a leafy suburb with a school system like Lincoln or Manchester Essex that misses completely one of the things that makes this a great place."


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Next week begins a three-day planning workshop called the Kings Beach Vision Charrette, to help develop a plan for successful long-term environmental, community and economic benefit for Kings Beach. The public is invited to any of the public workshop sessions and its participation will be instrumental in shaping the future of Kings Beach.
Below is a schedule for the public sessions where there will be opportunities for input:
July 16, 2013
There will be two Public Presentations and Open Houses, each covering the same material. The first is from noon until 1:30 p.n. and the second is from 5:00 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. The midday presentation begins at 12:15; the evening presentation begins at 5:15.
July 17, 2013
There are no public sessions scheduled. County Planning staff will meet with the TRPA, the County's Community Plan Area Team, and community design consultants.
July 18, 2013
The Public Presentation and Open House will be from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. The presentation begins at 5:15 p.m.
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Illinois lawmakers return to Springfield claiming there may be a glimmer of hope for dealing with a pension debt that now exceeds $16,000 for every man woman and child in the city of Chicago, but the numbers on the Chicago Firefighters pension fund are shocking.
Trustees reportedly sell $130 million in assets a year just to cover current pension checks. They debate exactly when those pension checks will start bouncing, but all agree the fund will be flat, busted broke in a few short years, and time is running out.
"It makes me nervous, makes me scared," says 36th Ward Alderman Nick Sposato. "I have a lot of friends that put their lives on the line daily and they're hard workers and they're counting on that. They don't have Social Security to look forward to."
Alderman Nick Sposato was a firefighter for 18 years before he won a seat in the City Council. He was stunned when we told him that the Firemen's Annuity & Benefit Fund now has assets worth only 23% of its future obligations, worst by far of all the major pension funds.
Mayor Emanuel campaigned on a promise to fix this financial nightmare, even popping into firehouses for frank and off-the-record meetings with the rank and file. Sources told FOX 32 News Emanuel stopped the practice after several sessions became too frank.
There was also frank talk in Springfield late Tuesday sparked by a new pension reform proposal that backers said would save taxpayers billions of dollars at the State Universities Retirement System.
"People who are working on fixed incomes are very, very scared about this," says Northern Illinois University's President John G. Peters. "And we all have their fate in our hands."
Supported by State Senate President John Cullerton, the proposal was being touted as a potential model for the rest of the pension mess. Future new hires would get a new kind of retirement benefit, partly a traditional pension and partly a 401K style fund whose investment they could direct. Among the risks for taxpayers: a cost of living adjustment tied to one-half the rate of future inflation.
Supporters claim it would shave 28% off the state universities' unfunded pension liability, saving taxpayers billions of dollars. Will it break the stalemate in Springfield? It's too early to tell.
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Geurts requests charges be dismissed
The mother of a two year old Gering girl indicted earlier this month in the toddler's death is asking that charges against her be dismissed.
Bell Island, the attorney for 25 year old Charyse Geurts, has submitted a motion to quash, claiming the charging document is in error.
Geurts is charged with being an accessory in the murder of Juliette Geurts and providing false information to Police. Geurts turned herself in to Police last week and posted a $5,000 cash bond. She then appeared at a Friday hearing and entered a not guilty plea. No additional hearings requiring Geurts to attend are scheduled at this time.
26 year old Dustin Chauncey, Geurts' boyfriend at the time, is charged with child abuse resulting in death and involuntary manslaughter. Chauncey was recently sentenced in Colorado to four years in prison on unrelated firearm and drug charges and authorities are working through the necessary interstate compact requirements to bring Chauncey back to face the charges.
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Las Vegas Metro police said they found increasing use of a department-issued gas card by an officer seen using it on a Ford Mustang while he was off duty.
On Thursday, Metro announced it arrested officer Joshua Logan, 29, on charges of felony fraudulent use of a credit card and misdemeanor theft. Logan was booked into Clark County Detention Center on Wednesday.
Police also announced the arrest of 31-year-old Leticia Rosas in connection to the investigation. She was also charged with fraudulent use of a credit card and theft.
In police documents, a Metro logistics analyst observed earlier this month a fleet gas card issued to Logan was used 54 times in the recent quarter, which was a jump from 11 times the quarter before that. The card was also used in locations throughout Henderson and Las Vegas during different times of the day.
Metro noted Logan was assigned to the Bolden Area Command, which is situated west of downtown Las Vegas.
Metro policy states the cards are to be used for department vehicles during work hours.
In the documents, police tracked down a recent purchase to a gas station near Logan's residence in Henderson. Investigators viewed through security video Logan making a purchase to fill up a black Ford Mustang, police said.
Metro later found the Mustang was registered to Logan's mother, according to documents.
On Tuesday, police performed surveillance on Logan, who was seen picked up in the Mustang by a woman later identified as Rosas, according to documents.
Police said officers saw Logan drive the car with Rosas inside, pull up to a gas station and fill up the vehicle with the Metro-issued credit card.
According to documents on Rosas' arrest, she was also seen driving the black Mustang at different times and using Logan's credit card when fueling. In one such event, Rosas, through security video, was seen filling up the Mustang with a sport-utility vehicle following her.
In the documents, police said the amount of gas purchased exceeded the tank capacity of the Mustang, leading investigators to believe the credit card was also used to fuel the SUV.
During a traffic stop earlier this week, Rosas, who was driving the Mustang, told police she lived with Logan and he allowed her to use his vehicle, according to investigators.
Police also observed the credit card being used by a woman identified as Logan's ex-wife. In documents, Logan's credit card, through security video, was seen making a gas purchase on Oct. 16. Rosas or Logan were not seen in the surveillance footage.
Rosas was also booked into Clark County Detention Center on Wednesday.
Metro placed Logan on unpaid administrative leave pending an investigation.
According to Metro, Logan has been with the police department since August 2008.
"If they say it's against the law he shouldn't be doing it, but I don't think it's all that serious either. It's just gas," said Logan's neighbor on Evan Piccone Drive, Stella McCray.
She and some other neighbors say they're glad Metro Police are holding their own officers accountable.
Other neighbors who chose not to speak on camera said Logan is a good neighbor and seems like a nice guy. They say he is one of three Metro police officers who lives on the block.
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