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War of Independance: The French Connection: Marquis de LafayetteThe United States was a nation forged in war as the colonists fought for their independence from Britain in the Revolutionary War or War of Independence between September 1, 1774 to September 3, 1783. It was a war in which the French played a significant part in supporting the American colonies, supplying weapons and also the military expertise of Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette who served as a major-general in the Continental Army under George Washington. Wounded during the battle of Brandywine, Lafayette still managed to organize a successful retreat following the British victory. He also served with distinction in the battle of Rhode Island. In the middle of the war he returned to France to negotiate an increase in French support. On his return, he blocked troops led by Conwallis at Yorktown while the armies of Washington and those sent by King Louis XVI under the command of General de Rochambeau, Admiral de Grasse, and Admiral de Latouche de Tréville prepared for battle against the British.World War 1 (WW1) The French Connection: Escadrille Américaine (Escadrille N.124): French Air Service: Lafayette here we come!In 1917 when the United States entered the First World War on the Western Front on the side of the Anglo French Allies the men of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) landing in France adopted the slogan "Lafayette here we come!" However even before the formal entry into the war, the Escadrille Américaine (Escadrille N.124) of the French Air Service, the Aéronautique Militaire, composed of American volunteer fighter pilots had been formed on 21 March 1916 and deployed on April 20 in Luxeuil-les-Bains in France. The squadron designation was changed to Escadrille de Lafayette following German objections to the use of the word "American" in the title at a time when the USA was neutral. To many it was known to many simple as the Lafayette Escadrille . Raoul Lufbery a French-born American citizen, became the squadron's first, and ultimately their highest scoring fighter ace with 16 confirmed victories before the pilots of the squadron were inducted into the United States Army Air Service. Besides being an expert pilot Lufbery a colourful character who had two pet lions "Whiskey" and "Soda". He was killed in action in 1918 and is buried at the Lafayette Memorial du Parc de Garches in Paris.Before 1917 Americans were in action in the French Foreign Legion and also working as volunteer ambulance drivers. It was as a Legionnaire that in 1916 the American Alan Seeger wrote the iconic war poem: Rendevouz with Death"I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shadeAnd apple-blossoms fill the air—I have a rendezvous with DeathWhen Spring brings back blue days and fair. It may be he shall take my hand And lead me into his dark land And close my eyes and quench my breath— It may be I shall pass him still.I have a rendezvous with Death On some scarred slope of battered hill, When Spring comes round again this year And the first meadow-flowers appear. God knows 'twere better to be deepPillowed in silk and scented down, Where love throbs out in blissful sleep, Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath, Where hushed awakenings are dear... But I've a rendezvous with DeathAt midnight in some flaming town,When Spring trips north again this year,And I to my pledged word am true,I shall not fail that rendezvous."Seeger had his rendezvous – he was killed in action at Belloy-en-Santerre on July 4, 1916, after being hit several times by machine gun fire. He died cheering on his fellow Legionnaires in a successful attack. Seven years after his death on Independence Day 4 July, the President of the French Council of State, Raymond Poincaré, dedicated a monument in the Place des États-Unis to the Americans who had volunteered to fight in World War I in the service of France. On either side of the base of the statue by Jean Boucher – a monument and statue financed by public subscription are the words of Seeger a tribute to his fellow American volunteers killed in action. "They did not pursue worldly rewards; they wanted nothing more than to live without regret, brothers pledged to the honor implicit in living one's own life and dying one's own death. Hail, brothers! Goodbye to you, the exalted dead! To you, we owe two debts of gratitude forever: the glory of having died for France, and the homage due to you in our memories." In the interval between the War of Independence and the United States' entry into the First World War the country was no stranger to conflict. In fact there had been fighting on American soil as early as 1622 when the first European settlers clashed with the Native Americans in what were to be known as "The Indian Wars". The last recorded action in this long drawn out insurgency campaign was in 1924.While Europe was devastated by the Napoleonic Wars this conflict spilled across the Atlantic in the War of 1812. Later the USA would be riven by the Civil War between the North and South that lasted from 1861 to 1865. It was during the Civil War that in 1862 Congress in Washington instituted The Medal of Honor – the United States' highest decoration for gallantry. The criteria for the award are that the recipient display are:"Conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against any enemy of the United States; while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party." The brief Spanish American war of 1898 gave Cuba its independence and for $20 million the United States acquired Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam. Between 1916-1917 soldiers of the US Army were in Mexico pursuing the troops of the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa and halt his forays into the United States. World War IIn 1914 the United States Army comprised 98,000 men, of whom some 45,000 were stationed overseas. The Regular Army was backed up by the 27,000 troops in the National Guard. As early as December 1914 General Leonard Wood helped to form the National Security League and began arguing for conscription to increase the size of the US Army. The US President Woodrow Wilson responded to this pressure by increasing the standing army to 140,000 men. When the USA declared war on Germany in April 1917, Wilson sent the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) under the command of General John Pershing to support the Allies in France. In the fighting in World War I the price the AEF paid in deaths was modest compared to the losses suffered by Britain, France, Russia or Germany – some 116,708 men were killed in action and 205,690 wounded. The influenza pandemic during the autumn of 1918 took the lives of more than 25,000 men from the AEF while another 360,000 became gravely ill. Other diseases were relatively well controlled through compulsory vaccination. It was a conflict that saw the US Marine Corps in action on European soil – in World War II they would fight exclusively in the Pacific theatre. By the end of the war, 119 men had been awarded the Medal of Honor for supreme courage 90 from the Army, 21 from the Navy, and eight from the US Marine Corps. Of the men awarded the Medal of Honor for 33 it was a posthumous award. Among the recipients were Sergeant Alvin York, and the fighter ace Edward "Eddy" Rickenbacker while the first US Marine Corps pilot to win the Medal of Honor was Ralph Talbot. Alvin YorkSergeant Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964) is an iconic American hero from World War I. He was born in a two room cabin in Tennessee. As a young man like Audie Murphy took on responsibility for supporting the family from a very early age. A man of deep religious convictions he was troubled by the prospect of serving in the Army and killing. He won the Medal of Honor on October 8, 1918 leading an attack with only seven men on a German machine gun position they killed 28 German soldiers, captured 32 machine guns and took 132 prisoners. This action occurred during the U.S.-led portion of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, which was part of a broader Allied offensive under the overall command of Marshal Ferdinand Foch to breach the Hindenburg Line. York himself described the situation that led to the action:."The Germans got us, and they got us right smart. They just stopped us dead in our tracks. Their machine guns were up there on the heights overlooing us and well hidden, and we couldn't tell for certain where the terrible heavy fire was coming from... And I'm telling you they were shooting straight. Our boys just went down like the long grass before the mowing machine at home. Our attack just faded out... And there we were, lying down, about halfway across [the valley] and those German machine guns and big shells getting us hard. " The film "Sergeant York" based on York's diaries directed by Howard Hawks and starring Gary Cooper in the role of York began being screened in the United States in July 1941 five months later the Japanese launched the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 7. The patriotic impact of the film was such that many young men left cinemas to enlist in the US Army as soon as the film was over. In 2008 "Sergeant York" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". US Marine CorpsUnlike the US Army, the US Marine Corps could draw on a deep pool of experienced officers and NCOs and therefore did not expand as rapidly as the Army. The Corps had entered the war with 511 officers and 13,214 enlisted personnel, and by 11 November 1918 had reached a strength of 2,400 officers and 70,000 men. It was in France that the Marines enhanced their already established reputation with actions like Belleau Wood. It was at the beginning of the attack that Gunnery Sergeant Major Dan Daly gave the Corps one of its iconic quotations. The "Gunny" - a recipient of two Medals of Honor and veteran of the Philippines, Santo Domingo, Haiti, Peking and Vera Cruz, urged the men of the 73rd Machine Gun company forward with the words: "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever? In a brutal battle that saw attack and counter attack U.S. forces suffered 9,777 casualties, included 1,811 killed. Many are buried in the neighbouring Aisne-Marne American Cemetery. There is no clear information on the number of Germans casualties, although 1,600 were taken prisoner. The Marines' ferocity and toughness earned them the respect of the Germans, who rated them as "Storm Troopers". The Marines and American media reported that the Germans had nicknamed them "Teufel Hunden" as meaning "Devil Dogs". However like the story that in World War II a German officer had called the US 82nd Airborne Division "Devils in Baggy Pants" these nicknames have a long and unsubstantiated history.AEF (American Expeditionary Forces: WW1) By July 1918 there were over a million US soldiers in France. General Pershing deployed US troops in support of the French during the Aisne Offensive in May and at the Marne in June. US troops also took part in the Allied attacks at Le Hamel and at the Canal du Nord. The offensives at St Mihiel in September and Meuse-Argonne in October passed into the annals of American military history. The Battle of Saint-Mihiel saw the AEF with 14 divisions (550,000 men) and French Army of four divisions (48,000 men) under the command of U.S. General Pershing attacking positions held by the German 5th Army containing 10 divisions. The US Army Air Service the forerunner of the USAF played a significant role in this action. In two days of fighting the Americans lost 7,000 casualties and the Germans 2,000 dead and 5,500 wounded. St Mihiel stands out as a well planned all arms battle in which tanks, aircraft, artillery and infantry worked in concert. Interestingly it was the first time that the terms D-Day and H-Hour were employed by the Americans. The triumph of American arms did much to enhance the reputation of the AEF with its French and British Allies. Afro American Troops in WW1During World War I few Americans knew that about 200,000 Afro-Americans served in the US Army in Europe, but only 42,000 were classified as combat troops. Completely segregated, they fought alongside the French Army during the war. World War IIETOFor American servicemen and women who served in the United Kingdom and fought in Europe and North Africa in World War II this was the European Theater of Operations or simple the ETO. To the war weary population of the UK it was a "friendly invasion" though when dressed in their smart uniforms and with bigger wage packets the GIs began to date the local girls British men characterised the Americans as "Over paid, over sexed and over here" to which came the reply that British soldiers were "Under paid, under sexed and under Ike". Ike – General Eisenhower the Supreme Allied Commander upon whose shoulders would be the weight responsibility for launching the D-Day landings in Normandy. There was always going to be tension between these Allies. To the British the Americans appeared to have arrived late for the war while the Americans saw themselves as saving a floundering Britain from defeat. There was truth in both these assertions but underlying both countries was a determination to see the defeat of a brutal tyranny that had enslaved Europe. On the other side of the world the US Army had fought a heroic defence of the Philippines – invaded within days of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The long fight across the south west Pacific would see the US Marine Corps on its "island hopping" campaign liberating islands - sometimes tiny atolls – held by suicidally determined Japanese defenders. On the Philippines the US Army would live up to General MacArthur's promise and return to liberate the islands. The war against Japan would finally end on September 2, 1945 with the formal surrender in Tokyo Bay four months after the end of the war in Europe. USAAF 8th Air ForceLong before the first GI struggled ashore at Omaha on June 6, 1944 the United States' Army Air Force 8th Air Force had been taking the war to Nazi Germany. The first operation launched from newly constructed airfields in East Anglia on 17 Aug 1942, when the 97th Bombardment Group, part of VIII Bomber Command flew 12 B-17Es on the first heavy bomber mission of the war from RAF Polebrook, attacking the Rouen-Sotteville marshalling yards in France. Eventually the USAAF would have squadrons operating from airfields as far west as the New Forest and as far north as Hull but the bulk were concentrated in Norfolk and Suffolk. The USAAF 8th Air Force concentrated on daytime missions over Europe employing a policy of tactical and strategic bombing. The latter hitting targets like the German aircraft industry, oil production and ball bearings factories. The 8th Air Force made a major contribution to the shortening of the war in Europe but paid a heavy price losing 18,418 aircraft and 23,805 men in the ETO. It is therefore fitting that the American Air Museum is located at Duxford - a former RAF fighter station that was used by USAAF fighters during World War II. Duxford Currently has the largest collection of American combat aircraft outside the United States in the ultra modern American Air Museum designed by Foster and Partners. The collection includes a vintage B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, B-25 Mitchell, P-47 Thunderbolt, and aircraft from the Cold War era such as a B-52 Stratofortress, SR-71 Blackbird and F-4 Phantom, with many suspended from the ceiling as if in flight. Not far from Duxford is the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial at Madingley The cemetery contains 3,809 headstones, with the remains of 3,812 servicemen including airmen who died over Europe and sailors from North Atlantic convoys. The inscribed Wall of the Missing includes four representative statues of servicemen, sculpted by American artist Wheeler Williams. The wall records the names of 5,127 missing servicemen, most of whom died in the Battle of the Atlantic or in air operations over north west Europe. Africa and Italy: WW2American servicemen had been in action in Europe as early as August 1942 when a small, symbolic, force of US Rangers were attached to the British and Canadian troops who landed at Dieppe in Operation Jubilee. They would become the first American soldiers to be killed in action and also the first to take the war to Nazi Germany on land. On November 8, 1942 in Operation Torch, American forces landed in three location in Morocco and Algeria. In the fighting that followed in February 1943 they would suffer a humiliating defeat in Tunisia at Kasserine Pass but in less than a year in Sicily and Italy US troops and their commanders would demonstrate courage and flexibility. The airborne and seaborne landings on the Italian island of Sicily in July 1943 code named Husky saw the British and Canadian 8th Army and American 7th Army landing in two locations. A rivalry between the two commanders generals Montgomery and Patton would last through the war in Europe. By the close of the fighting that ended with the capture of the key Axis evacuation port of Messina the Allies had suffered 24,820 casualties (5,837 killed, 15,683 wounded, 3,326 captured and the Germans around 20,000 casualties while Italian posses were 147,000 of whom many were prisoners. Valuable lessons had been learned that would pay dividends on D-Day about one year later. The American performance in Sicily showed that they were now an effective and flexible force and the next step would be the invasion of mainland Italy. This was a three phase operation with troops of the 5th Army under general Mark Clark landing at Salerno on September 9, while six days earlier the 8th Army crossed the Straits of Messina. The 5th Army was held close to the beaches by two German Panzer Corps and it was not until September 16 that it broke out and linked up with the 8th Army. The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had described Italy as the "soft underbelly" of the German and Italian Axis – for the soldiers the peninsula would be remembered as the "tough old gut". Heavy fighting on the German Gustav Line with the dominant feature of the monastery of Monte Cassino held the Allies south of Rome and in an attempt to break the impasse Anglo American forces landed at Anzio. They achieved total surprise but once again were held in a beach head. The German 14 th Army under General von Mackensen launched fierce attacks against Anzio and it is appropriate therefore that the American dead of Sicily and Anzio are buried close by at the Sicily-Rome Cemetery and memorial that has the graves of 7,861 of American military war dead and the names of 3,095 who have no known grave. When the breakthrough came in June 1944 General Clark was keen that the US 5th Army should liberate Rome which they did on June 5, 1944. His moment of personal glory was eclipsed one day later by the news of the D-Day landings. In Italy fighting would continue to the last months of World War II and it was on April 15, 1945 that Private First Class Sadao Muemori of Company A, 100th Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team that was made up of a Nisei or Japanese Americans would win the posthumous Medal of Honor, for his courage in an action near Seravezza. Back in August 1944 French and American troops were diverted from Italy as part of Operation Dragoon, the landings along the southern French coast between Toulon and Nice. It was here that a young Audie Murphy who had already seen action in Italy, would win the Distinguished Service Cross action in which he seized a German machine gun and used it against its original owners. His one man assault on the German position was driven by anger at the death of his friend Lattie Tipton – killed by the machine gunners. Audie MurphyAs Sergeant York would be a hero of World War I so Audie Murphy would become a hero of the war in Europe. The child of a poor share cropper following Pearl Harbor Murphy had a struggle to enlist in the Army because of his modest height, he then had to push to be posted to the infantry. However by 1945 he had received a battlefield commission and won the Medal of Honor in fighting The citation for Audie Murphy's Medal of Honor reads:"Second Lt. Murphy commanded Company B, which was attacked by six tanks and waves of infantry. 2d Lt. Murphy ordered his men to withdraw to a prepared position in a woods, while he remained forward at his command post and continued to give fire directions to the artillery by telephone. Behind him, to his right, one of our tank destroyers received a direct hit and began to burn. Its crew withdrew to the woods. 2d Lt. Murphy continued to direct artillery fire, which killed large numbers of the advancing enemy infantry. With the enemy tanks abreast of his position, 2d Lt. Murphy climbed on the burning tank destroyer, which was in danger of blowing up at any moment, and employed its .50 caliber machine gun against the enemy. He was alone and exposed to German fire from three sides, but his deadly fire killed dozens of Germans and caused their infantry attack to waver. The enemy tanks, losing infantry support, began to fall back. For an hour the Germans tried every available weapon to eliminate 2d Lt. Murphy, but he continued to hold his position and wiped out a squad that was trying to creep up unnoticed on his right flank. Germans reached as close as 10 yards, only to be mowed down by his fire. He received a leg wound, but ignored it and continued his single-handed fight until his ammunition was exhausted. He then made his way back to his company, refused medical attention, and organized the company in a counterattack, which forced the Germans to withdraw. His directing of artillery fire wiped out many of the enemy; he killed or wounded about 50. 2d Lt. Murphy's indomitable courage and his refusal to give an inch of ground saved his company from possible encirclement and destruction, and enabled it to hold the woods which had been the enemy's objective" When asked after the war why he had seized the machine gun and taken on an entire company of German infantry, he replied simply, "They were killing my friends." His picture appeared on the cover of LIFE magazine's July 16, 1945 issue as the "Most Decorated Soldier", and so he became one the most famous and widely regarded as the most decorated American soldier of the war. After the war he became a successful film actor for over two decades, appearing in 44 films. He later had some success as a country music composer. He died in a plane crash in 1971 and was interred, with full military honours in Arlington National Cemetery.D-DayThe build up of American troops, vehicles and aircraft that had begun in 1942 came to an end on the night of June-5-6, 1944. The "friendly invasion" was now serious and British, Canadian and American soldiers were about to make the "Second Front" in Europe a reality. The ideal conditions of tides and moon state would come on two days a month the planners gave those dates in June as the 5th and the 6th. On June 5 the weather conditions were terrible – but there was going to be a window of good weather on June 6. The decision to go or hold for another thirty days rested on the shoulders of the Supreme Allied Commander, 54 year old General Dwight Eisenhower. He took the decision with the simple words "OK let's go" and Operation Overlord – the Normandy landings by sea and air were on. About 1500 Americans were killed during the initial assault on Omaha and Utah beaches, another 3500 wounded, captured, or missing. About 210,000 allied soldiers became casualties during the weeks before the "breakout" of and the dash toward Berlin began. Of those, about 37,000 from the allied forces were killed in action during June and July. Another 16,000 allied aircrew were killed during the same period. It took almost another year before the German army was destroyed, the concentration camps liberated, and victory in Europe. For Americans who had family killed or wounded in the war, in battle or in the camps, June 6 is a special kind of memorial day. A visit to the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France is a moving and powerful reminder of the sacrifice of young American lives paid to liberate Europe. The cemetery site, at the north end of its half mile access road, covers 172.5 acres and contains the graves of 9,387 men and women, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. On the Walls of the Missing, in a semicircular garden on the east side of the memorial, are inscribed 1,557 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified. The cemetery is located on the site of the temporary American St. Laurent Cemetery above Omaha Beach and was established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 becoming the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II.Ardennes 1944 - 1945On December 16, 1944 under low cloud and over snow covered fields the German Army launched a counter attack that caught the Allies off their guard. Some 1,000 German tanks and assault guns and 250,000 troops of Army Group "B" emerged from the wooded hills of the Belgian Ardennes and crashed through an 85 mile wide front into the the US First Army. Nearly 9,000 US soldiers facing annihilation on the Schnee Eifel were forced to surrender and vehicles, weapons and equipment were abandoned. But the Americans – sometimes isolated and surrounded showed extraordinary courage and endurance and the assault was slowed and finally halted. The key to the defence was the small Belgian town of Bastogne – for the Germans its capture would allow their men and vehicles to fan out from the road junctions at the core of the town. The men of the 101st Airborne Division – who had already seen action on D-Day and in Operation Market Garden were rushed to the town and held it against repeated German assaults. The Ardennes that initially appeared to have the makings of a German victory became a costly defeat and by the close of the fighting the Germans had lost about 100,000 men – the Americans 19,000 killed and 47,000 wounded and the British 10,000. It would be the greatest pitched battle fought by the Americans and one in which 45 year old George B. Turner would become the oldest enlisted man in the US Army to win the Medal of Honor.The Cost and the Courage..In the months between D-Day and VE Day – Victory in Europe the US Army would lose 12,0824 men and women either killed in action or from wounds received in the fighting, while over 12,000 would be recorded as missing in action. During World War II some 464 men would be awarded the Medal of Honor of whom 324 would be soldiers, 82 US Marines, 57 US Navy personnel and one from the Coast Guard. The gold lettering on the white marble crosses in American Military Cemeteries record the last resting place of the 266 men who received the Medal of Honor as a posthumous award. The American dead from the two world wars are buried in 21 superbly maintained cemeteries across Europe and in North Africa A jumble of medal ribbons at the back of a drawer, faded photographs of young people in uniform, neatly written entries in a pocket diary, letters tied with ribbon – our parents and grandparents, quietly modest about their war service, have sometimes left us only clues about a time when life was counted by the day and sometimes by the minute...Television programmes like "Who Do You Think You Are?" and now more particularly "Is there a War Hero in your family?" are making us aware that people we knew as easy going relatives or friends, sometimes as mere teenagers once lived life at the very edge.To guide us on our own journey of rediscovery about these remarkable lives we have in "Spirit of Remembrance" a unique resource for both research and also guidance across the fields of destruction that shaped these young lives. TE LawrenceThinker, scholar, writer, soldier and media savvy guerrilla leader, Thomas Edward – universally known simply as TE – Lawrence stands out as a very modern figure in World War I. In Britain he would be celebrated as "Lawrence of Arabia" for his leading political and military role in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire..Before the war Lawrence had established a reputation as a scholar and historian. In war he brought to his role as a liaison officer with the Arab tribes an understanding of the hero-figure's psychological impact on contemporary Arab culture. With "Spirit of Remembrance" there is a unique opportunity to see the wind blasted crags and shifting sands that were the battleground for the Arab Revolt and understand something of the character of this enigmatic and gifted man. The Cold War and Beyond...
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Reporters Without Borders is appalled at the groundless verdict handed down yesterday by a court in northern city of Vinh against eight bloggers and cyber dissidents. They were among a total of 14 Catholic activists sentenced to between three and 13 years' imprisonment. The press freedom organization is in a position to prove the innocence of the blogger Paulus Le Son, accused of participating in the activities of the Viet Tan opposition party in Bangkok in 2011. "We have proof that the Vietnamese authorities use false pretexts to convict bloggers that criticize them," it said in a statement. "Paulus Le Son did not attend a Viet Tan event between 25 and 30 July 2011 for the simple reason that he was attending a training course organized by Reporters Without Borders in Bangkok. The course, aimed at bloggers from various countries in South East Asia, was on the management and e-reputation of social networks. "This verdict serves only to illustrate the paranoia of the authorities who not only monitor citizens' every movement, but are also fed incorrect information by the intelligence service. "The seven other bloggers were convicted on similarly fallacious grounds. None of them has worked to overthrow the government. In reality, they are paying the price of the relentless victimisation conducted by the government to silence dissident voices, which mostly affects bloggers, in particular Catholic networks." The organization continued: "We strongly dispute the convictions of Paulus Le Son and the seven other bloggers and call for their immediate release." Paulus Le Son participating to a training organized by Reporters Without Borders, Bangkok, July 2011. The verdict was announced by Judge Tran Ngoc Son after a two-day trial. The 14 activists - of the original 17, three were convicted in May last year of anti-state propaganda - were accused by prosecutors of maintaining ties with Viet Tan, a US-based exile group regarded as a terrorist organization by the Vietnamese government. Three were charged under Clause 1 of Article 79 of the criminal code with organizing an attempt to overthrow the government, for which penalties range from 12 years in prison to the death penalty. The 11 others were charged under Clause 2 of Section 79 with participating in an attempt to overthrow the government, for which the penalties range from eight to 15 years in prison.Paulus Le Son (real name Le Van Son) was among the three charged under Clause 1 of Article 79. According to the indictment, he was the only one not to have acknowledged his mistakes. The prosecutor's office, which published some of the charges, called for a sentence of between 15 and 16 years' imprisonment for him and between 12 and 13 years for Dang Xuan Dieu and Ho Duc Hoa, the two other bloggers facing the same charges. In the end, all three were sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment, followed by five years of house arrest. The five other bloggers (Nguyen Van Oai, Nguyen Van Duyet, Nong Hung Anh, Thai Van Dung, Tran Minh Nhat) received prison sentences of between three and eight years, followed by house arrest of two to five years. Another accused blogger, Nguyen Dang Vinh Phuc, received a suspended sentence. An atmosphere of considerable tension surrounded the trial. Several members of the families of the accused who attended the start of the trial were forced to leave after they shouted that their loved ones were innocent. Outside the court, several hundred police officers kept friends of the accused away from the building. Police stopped the cars bringing the bloggers to court at the edge of the city and the accused were forced to walk to the courtroom. Scuffles broke out and witnesses said several women, including Nguyen Thi Hoa, the mother of defendant Nguyen Dinh Cuong, were beaten by the police. Madame Hoa lost consciousness and was taken to hospital. About 3 p.m., the bloggers Nguoi Buon Gio (real name Bui Thanh Hieu), Nguyen Lan Thang and Truong Van Dung, who arrived to report on the trial, were taken to the police headquarters for questioning. Bui Thanh Hieu was held in custody for three days. Such arrests of bloggers during trials are increasingly common. The trial was the second in Vietnam in less than two weeks at which netizens were convicted. Vietnam is included on the list of "Internet Enemies" compiled by Reporters Without Borders. It is also the world's third biggest prison for bloggers and cyber dissidents, after China and Iran. Photo of the logo : TuoiTreOnline-
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I think if its not shown by E3 then its safe to say its been scraped.
@bigboss1911: I kind of thought last E3 was it's last chance for current gen (and it wasn't mentioned). And I feel like if they were planning on moving it to the PS4 it would have been mentioned here. But I am pretty sure that if it isn't mentioned at E3 it is definitely dead. But not seeing it here has made me lose faith in ever seeing it at all.
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They'll probably save it for E3, I hope.
Yeah, pretty much has to be something they're saving for E3. The fact that Sony reps and Ueda had reiterated in the past 6 months that it is still in development really means it can't suddenly be dead. If they had pulled a "no comment", then sure, almost certainly cancelled, but it's more likely that they're saving it for E3 because it's a little more niche.
Also, anybody notice this whole announcement was REALLY light on any Japanese-developed games? I feel like they went out of their way to avoid anything even remotely as out of touch as RIIIIIDGE RACER or Genji: Days of the Blade. Ono was the only part of the whole thing that was a little bit weird.
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By signing running back Larry Johnson this week the Cincinnati Bengals confirmed for me, once and for all, that the reason they are now among the AFC elite is largely because of the team's brilliant, progressive and fiscally ingenious approach to player character.
For the most part, the Bengals couldn't care less about it.
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The Ministry of Labour and the relevant government agencies continued their efforts to raise the percentage of national manpower in various sectors, especially those where foreign labour is concentrated, according to a report by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency.
The agency provides information regularly on the labour market in the kingdom, and urged the private sector to provide employment opportunities for qualified job seeking citizens, as well as regulating the use of foreign labour within the limits of real demand where there is not enough specialization among Saudis.
These efforts led to an increase in the percentage of Saudis in the private sector, which stood at 13.3% at the end of 2008 versus 13.1% in 2007. The number of Saudis working in these enterprises at the end of 2008 stood at 829,057, compared to 765,621 at the end of 2007, an increase of 8.29% or 63,436 people.
Saudi Arabia's Minister of Civil Service Mohammed Al-Fayez revealed to the Shura Council that 180,000 jobs are illegally occupied through 140 false categories and 124,000 job vacancies. The Minister indicated that there are certain false or uncertain categories, as there are 180,000 citizens working illegally and the system is being circumvented, which means that recruitment is being done without adherence to standards or specific qualifications and without competition.
Al-Fayez denied the existence of any administrative posts being occupied by non-Saudis in any department monitored and subject to the civil service system, although a recent ministry report revealed that there were more than 7,000 jobs occupied by non-Saudis.
The minister presented statistics to the Council which showed that over 124,000 vacancies were available, contradicting the ministry's report for the fiscal Hijri year 1428-1429, which underlined the availability of more than 180,000 jobs, of which 29,000 were within the ministry's domain, while 71,500 jobs were taken by non-Saudis.
The Management Committee at the Shura Council is studying the minister's answers as a prelude to making recommendations to address the constraints and observations revealed by the service report and the minister, including the call for recruitment for vacant posts required by government agencies.
Regarding the proposal to increase the retirement age to 65 years, al-Fayez said that the ministry was against it, given that the kingdom's population is mostly young, thus the retirement age may need to be lowered to make way for the younger generation.
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Cast scroll spell with any character classEnter the inventory screen and press the Right Mouse Button when over any potion. Select the "Drink Potion" option and quickly pick up the potion with your pointer when you hear the drinking sound, but before the number indicating the number of that particular potion on the inventory screen decreases. If done correctly, you will be able to move the potion to an empty inventory square. Once the potion is placed there, select any scroll and place in the square that the potion was originally located in. Return to the game, and your character will cast the spell from that scroll. |
Multiple items for the price of oneIn any shop, choose a character who has a Gem Bag, Scroll Case, Potion Case or Ammo Belt. For example, if you want to buy all the Scrolls Of Protection From Undead from a certain shopkeeper, have the character with the Scroll Case select the scroll with by double clicking so you buy more than one Item. Select all the scrolls the shopkeeper has to offer. The price will reflect every scroll you are going to buy. After that, go to the character's inventory. Double click on the Scroll Case. This opens the case for only those items allowed. Go back to the shopkeepers inventory You will see the multiple scrolls you selected by the small number in the upper left hand corner of the item. However, the price will reflect only the cost of one of those items. you Can buy as many of the items as the shopkeeper has to offer for the price of just one. |
View all ending sequencesNote: This procedure requires editing a game file; creating a backup copy of the file before proceeding is recommended. With a text editor, edit the "baldur.ini" file in the game directory. Add the following lines under the existing entries in the "[Movies]" section to unlock all FMV sequences in the "Play Movie" option. |
Bronze PantaloonsEnter Abzigal's lair and find the Sentinel in one room. You will find a wizard in there. Near the wizard are three statues. Use the Stone To Flesh scroll on them, then get them to do the quest. |
Powerful sorcererActivate cheat mode, then enter the CLUAConsole:AddSpell("spwi<101-926>") while your sorcerer is highlighted. Use this cheat with the numbers 101-130, 201-230, 301-330, 401-430, 501-530, 601-630, 701-730, 801-830, and 901-930. Some of the numbers will say that the spell does not exist, but continue until you get that message two or three times in a row. Not only are the spells entered into your spell list regardless of intelligence or level, but your party also earns the experience points as though you had copied from a scroll as a wizard. |
Cheat CodesNote: This procedure requires editing a game file; creating a backup copy of the file before proceeding is recommended. With a text editor, edit the "baldur.ini" file in the game folder. Add the line "Debug Mode=1" under the "[Program Options]" heading. Begin game play and press [Ctrl] + [Space] to display the console window. Type one of the following case-sensitive codes, press [Enter], then press [Ctrl] + [Space] to close the console window and activate the corresponding cheat: |
View development teamEnter Watcher's Keep and get to the spirit maze. While in the maze, immediately pause game play and display the area map. The development team will appear in place of the map. |
Unlimited liquor hintIf you like going to the taverns and purchasing drinks to find information for your journal, you can remove your intoxication by saving and reloading your game, even after the bartender refuses to give you any more drinks. |


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According to Carolyn Weston, longtime Boston Flower & Garden Show Director, there will be no Preview Party for this year's Show. Dates: March 13-17, 2013 Location: Seaport World Trade Center, Boston Theme: Seeds of Change Check our website for more information regarding this horticultural event and others in the Greater Boston Area. Many of them have free admission. Enjoy! ~ Hilda |
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Der Spiegel pointed out the obvious: "A certain role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the transition process [to 'democracy'] in Egypt seems acceptable to the Obama White House." It was early February 2011, the moment when the uprising that would oust Hosni Mubarak was bubbling over in Tahrir Square. The prominent German newsmagazine figured, who better to ask about the Muslim Brotherhood than the American political establishment's resident foreign-policy genius, John McCain?
So, the reporter asked him, does Obama's tolerance of the Muslim Brotherhood "concern you"?
Senator Maverick shot back without hesitation: "It concerns me so much that I am unalterably opposed to it. I think it would be a mistake of historic proportions."
Senator McCain elaborated that he was "deeply, deeply concerned that this whole movement [toward democracy] could be hijacked by radical Islamic extremists." And what, he was specifically asked, "is your assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood"? McCain pulled no punches:
I think they are a radical group that, first of all, supports sharia law; that in itself is anti-democratic — at least as far as women are concerned. They have been involved with other terrorist organizations and I believe that they should be specifically excluded from any tra nsition government.
Senator Straight Talk reasoned that since ElBaradei appeared to be on the same page as the Brotherhood, and was being hailed as a potential Mubarak successor despite having "no following nor political influence in Egypt," we should assume that he must be in cahoots with the Brotherhood. It did not matter that ElBaradei was a renowned international figure and an important leftist ally of President Obama's. So pernicious was the threat posed by the Brotherhood that, in McCain's considered opinion, you just had to assume the worst.
The Spiegel interview was classic McCain; the senator is never at a loss for bloviation. His professed anxiety, only a year ago, over the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as his blithe willingness to assume that ElBaradei must be an Islamist coconspirator, are worth remembering today. For the sage has suddenly decided that the Brothers — unapologetic Islamic supremacists who say outright that they are on a "grand jihad" to destroy America and the West — are a pretty swell lot, after all. Instead, McCain reserves his signature "shoot first, think later" ire for the target he has always preferred: conservatives.
The Arizonan took to the Senate floor this week to lambaste five conservative members of the House who, unlike McCain, are actually serious about addressing threats the Brotherhood poses to American interests. McCain's bipartisan "Islamic democracy" promoters seem content to keep burning through taxpayer trillions until the Brotherhood is finally running every government in the Middle East. To the contrary, the House conservatives — Michele Bachmann (Minn.), Louie Gohmert (Texas), Trent Franks (Ariz.), Tom Rooney (Fla.), and Lynn Westmorland (Ga.) — have concluded that the Brotherhood needs to be regarded as the serious anti-American business that it is.
Toward that end, the quintet is justifiably concerned that the Brotherhood's sharia agenda — the one to which McCain used to be "unalterably opposed" — is being abetted not just by some Nobel-toting Egyptian progressive, but by officials in highly sensitive positions inside the United States government.


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Editor's Note: Chris Hastings is the James Beard Award-winning chef of the acclaimed Hot and Hot Fish Club in Birmingham, Alabama.
The first time I heard a prominent chef bemoan the phrase "farm-to-table," I was in New York meeting with a group of chefs to discuss topics in and around our industry.
I cocked my head in that direction as if to say, "Did I just hear what I think I did?"
Another chef quickly chimed in that he was also "so tired of the farm-to-table movement," like it was no longer a legitimate or important way of thinking.
Seriously? That moment was neither the time nor place to have a debate so I chose, uncharacteristically, to make a note and keep my mouth shut - until now. Since that time, chefs from around the world have gone on to echo those sentiments in an array of publications. Their declarations have run the gamut from stating that the philosophy is small-minded and naive, and that this "save the world" hogwash is no place for a chef. They seem to believe that a chef's only responsibility is to cook great food, and that anything else is a distraction.
One chef suggested that if you obsess about relationships with farmers, purveyors or producers, you do not have time to cook at all. I want to believe something was lost in translation because he could not have really meant that - it's just ridiculous.
In defense of the chefs' viewpoints, I will agree that the term is overused, abused and does not, in and of itself, make you a better cook or restaurant. I am also not of the mindset that every little thing you serve must come from within 200 miles of your restaurant - or whatever your particular philosophy dictates. Most restaurants do reach outside their self-imposed limits every now and again.
However, I grow concerned when some of the most influential voices of our time discourage the farm-to-table philosophy to the next generation of young thinkers, chefs, restaurateurs and, most importantly, leaders.
As is too often the case in our society, we are quick to discard oddities and excess in an effort to reach for the newest shiny object. We show little regard for the value of that we have just abandoned.
My defense rests in what I know, what I have seen and what has changed our country's eating habits profoundly over the last 20-plus years.
When a young, passionate chef decides to plant his or her flag in a backwater town, a small market or even a medium-sized market, they are always met with challenges relative to supply. They not only have to find it, they have to afford it. These folks have to live in the reality of the place where they've decided to open their restaurant.
So, what must they do to achieve their goals? Whether it's the dream of becoming as good as any restaurant in the world or just a great restaurant that serves their particular community, they have to start the same: Make a few phone calls.
Chefs need to make it their mission to find the best, whether it's farmers, foragers, fishermen, a pig man, the local couple raising a few chickens and eggs or heirloom seed banks that are propagating vegetables, grains and fruit. They end up building a network of, arguably, the most disproportionately passionate people on the planet - the local purveyors. This network is key to getting the most bang for their buck.
Now, if developing these relationships affords them a better food supply, they express it in a way that resonates with their community and they introduce that community to those amazing people via their menu, they might still be open in year three.
Next thing you know, the local chefs and the newest, most important heroes in the food community - the purveyors - are now getting phone calls from folks wanting to start farmers markets, create edible schoolyards, organize food festivals, contribute to local charities, improve school cafeteria programs, discuss community development ideas through the prism of food and create a better, safer, more sustainable food supply. Shining a spotlight on these producers and their impact has the potential to educate the community and elevate its standards for food culture.
Solely focusing chefs' responsibilities on preparing delicious food while not taking a leadership position on this and other issues is certainly a personal choice. Not everyone is going to agree with me, but please, before you throw out the baby with the bath water, recognize the important effects and benefits that the local food and farming movements have had on countless communities and how it has positively changed them forever.
At Hot and Hot Fish Club, we can, and do, use suppliers from any and all sources around the world, as I see fit.
We also choose to plant a seed that one day will grow and provide great shade for generations to come.
Leadership, I hope, will be our legacy.
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This diner's chosen sole responsibility is to eat fantastic food, with great drink, which necessitates a chef and mixologist who can provide that wherever "that' comes from. If you want to eat and drink yours with orverriding flavors of food politics, agendas or such notions, and you are certainly invited to avoid our table. Those who get caught in up with such things dine out for reasons other than mine. To each their own table.
you should definitely look into the politics of where you buy your products. are the suppliers money or consumer driven – re: is the food they provide laden with bromide pesticides, flouridated and chlorinated water, diet sugars and salts, antibodies, instectides, perservatives, etc., etc., . .. I got sick once from a farmer's market outing because I made the mistake of taste testing the strawberries to find the one that tasted right – i have not bought strawberries there since. What do those little seeds on the surface of strawberries really contain when sprayed and grown in chemical laden pesticides, insecticides, and perservatives, etc.?
little things like that can make a VERY big difference in the lives of some.
just one more thing to avoid.
As a chef in Tucson Arizona I had no actual ability to do farm to table in a meaningful way, nobody wants to subsist on beef, pork, chicken and pecans. That said we did get all of our beef, pork chicken and pecans locally, and a lot of produce from New Mexico. Be as local as you can while serving the food your guests crave.
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We were late to the farm to table movement that's taken place in Austin over the past few years. We didn't want to have to raise our prices to reflect the price difference between conventional goods and the deluxe meats and produce that a handful of local chefs were using. Then we decided to go all in. We ran a pop up where we sourced some high dollar groceries from local purveyors, raised the prices accordingly and had our biggest night ever. This weekend we're producing another pop up event where we shelled out major money for a truckload of boutique meat and produce. We've got our fingers crossed that it will turn out favorably. Details http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/2/4/Scrumptious-Chef-Restaurant-Pop-Up-8-Meet-Our-Purveyors-Part-3-Edens-Cove-Farm
What a beautifully written article! I am a retired chef and admittedly not part of the current "cognoscenti", but to my mind, there is no better way to cook that "farm to fork". Getting to know farmers was one of the most enjoyable part of my job and I always had time, if I didn't I made time, to get to know them. Thanks for taking a positive stance on this issue and for expressing yourself so eloquently.,
So true. Chefs are such an important part of the equation and able to bring much-needed awareness to local products. Logistical challenges aside, everyone will appreciate the extra effort and hopefully pay for it.
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Friend of Korrektiv (if only because we consider ourselves friends with her) Professor Jessica Hooten Wilson is teaching in Prague, or has recently. Flannery O'Connor! Walker Percy! For the latter, see also here.
'…My Victim, Which I Slay for You…'
'Assemble yourselves, make haste, come together from every side to my victim, which I slay for you, a great victim upon the mountains of Israel: to eat flesh, and drink blood.'
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Beef Wellington the Third
All manner of things went well for the sendoff last night of Aust(ral)ian bro-in-lo back to Upsidedownland ("What do you call someone from Down Under who has a suntan from Down Under?" "Aussie Ozburned").
In what was a third go around on this sumptious recipe, my sister-in-law Lady Wellington outdid herself – and thanks to the help of my other sister-in-law Lady Duxelles with just the right balance of moist and dry, these two and a third (not pictured – it still had another ten minutes in the oven) were just about as good as could exceed expectations.
Accompanying this beef's rich pageant, my brother-in-law, the Duke of Hollandaise, added his pedigree to the work of my wife, Mistress Broccoli. And it was all was washed down with a tarry fruity cabernet sauvignon brought to the table by yours truly, the Earl of Carnivor – along with another in honor of my other other sister-in-law Lady Middlesister – who could not be present for the occasion. Brother in law Sir Mashalot also couldn't be there, although his presence was evoked in spud-acular fashion.
After a reading and buttering of the royal rolls, all and sundry set to for a repast that present generations will be savoring long into the future…
Walker Pecy alert
"Funny, bourbon does for me not what Proust's madeleine did for him, but rather what I suspect bourbon actually did for Walker Percy…and Norman Mailer, William Faulkner, Janis Joplin, Ulysses S. Grant and every other bourbon drinker right on back to that seminal moment, lost in the mists of time, when some nameless Scotch-Irish frontiersman far out in the untracked wilderness of Kan-Tuck-Kee discovered that Indian corn worked as well for distilling as barley: it gets me drunk."
— Aaron Walton, getting perhaps just a touch reductive in the comments section of this piece on the "real" American character of bourbon whiskey over at The New Yorker. Which reminds me, I've got a bit on Percy and bourbon sitting unfinished on the old hard drive, back from the time Potter and Jobe and I crashed the opening ceremonies at the Walker Percy Center for Writing & Publishing…
Thanksgivings Past
Webb Thanksgiving Day Turkey Dinner: A Family RecipeIngredients:
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Bake at 350 degrees for four hours or until done. Baste every 30 minutes.
HumpfordTo add to the grief, Humpford's grandfather (Humpford the First) died of a heart attack later that year, a few days after a dismal Thanksgiving, and only in his mid-sixties.
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What Have You Done for Me Lately? (by Lickona)
Advent Meditation: Thanksgiving Edition (Guest Post by CNB)Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. –James 5:7-8
A Platter of Live Turkey at Dinner! (by Holland Potter, age 8)Lucy and Charlie were looking out the window on Thanksgiving. They were waiting for their aunt, uncle, grandma, and grandpa to show up at their house. They were going to have a Thanksgiving dinner together.
When the grandparents got there, they all sat down at the table to prepare the Thanksgiving dinner. When they opened the platter to get the turkey, the turkey was alive!
The turkey ran around the kitchen and pooped in the pudding. Then it sat in the pumpkin pie and while it sat in the pumpkin pie it peed! Then it got up and barfed on the floor! Lucy got up, carefully to avoid the barf, and grabbed a knife and slashed the turkey right in the head! The turkey flopped right over and then its head fell off.
They went to the store and got another turkey, and that turkey didn't cause any trouble.
Edible Too
So, this happened…
Doe and nubby buck fawn. At about 7:30 this a.m. Opening day.
(Extra special heaps of thanks to Bro-in-Lo Canisius for field dressing (two in less than 15 minutes) and helping (OK, mostly by himself) lugging deer out of bottom valley!)
And so, a poem is in order, no?
The Last Hunt
The new snow's whiteness
Blanks the prayerful bend of the bare-branched trees
Giving them a cold but muscular look.
We cannot see the deer for all the snow.
It was bully-blowing all night, yet meekly lacking,
Clinging to embraced bareness. No warmth
For the trees, and no warmth for us either.
And something gets in behind the grey skies
As if to blow down on us all the souls
Ever risen from the dead. Something old which
Comes back every winter, a habit of wind,
Late day, a shadow's vows. But soon we see,
In the clean snow, something else. A gunshot
Reports through the valley.
Then, as we walk
Up valley, we suddenly come to a sign
Which our father and uncles may have known,
Learned first through cold tears and piss-cold pants –
Another sign snow cannot hide – and red scarves
Of blood leave tracks which better prepare us
For our own last dash across an open field.