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Critical Links Deploys edgeBOX in One of the World's Largest "Digital School" Modernization Programs
Critical Links, a global provider of unified voice, data and IT solutions for SMBs, announced today that its edgeBOX(TM) solution is being deployed by Portugal Telecom for the Portuguese Ministry of Education's initiative to execute one of the world's largest "Digital School" modernization efforts. The edgeBOX will support the "Schools Local Area Networks Initiative" in 1,220 Portuguese schools.
The Portugal Telecom led consortia won the Portuguese Ministry of Education bid for the first phase of the ambitious Government program to roll out Ethernet and Wi-Fi local area networks, network services and network management to all high schools in Portugal. The program will subsequently provide Portuguese schools with a number of communications and IT services including e-learning, school/class management, scheduling, training and certification.
Portugal Telecom is a global telecommunications operator and the Portuguese market leader. The company's activity covers every segment of the telecommunications sector: fixed, mobile, multimedia, data and corporate solutions. Portugal Telecom Group is listed on the Lisbon and New York Stock Exchanges. It serves about 35 million domestic and international clients.
"The edgeBOX solution was selected by Portugal Telecom in a highly competitive bid," stated Joao Carreira, CEO, Critical Links. "Schools worldwide are increasingly requiring a sophisticated IT and Telecom infrastructure to provide an enriching learning environment without the usual costs associated with supporting such an infrastructure. The edgeBOX precisely addresses this requirement — delivering the functionality at the lowest price point. In addition, the edgeBOX delivers high scalability, and flexibility, protecting the investment for years to come. The edgeBOX also offers education specific edgePACKs — value-added applications for a learning environment that are integrated with other functions. Altogether, we strongly believe that the edgeBOX offers unparalleled value to the education vertical. We are excited by this opportunity to demonstrate that."
As a single box solution, edgeBOX features advanced networking technologies normally only found in much larger and more expensive systems, including an IP-PBX, VoIP gateway, WiFi access point, 3G broadband support and the latest security systems. Services such as DHCP, NAT and DNS enable seamless integration with any type of network and simplify administration tasks. WiFi support also enables instant deployment of integrated network hot-spots and of LANs at "Greenfield" sites. Remote management is achieved through a single web-based, user-friendly interface, which controls all the features of edgeBOX and can be accessed on-site or remotely by a dedicated team in a central location. The edgeBOX is available on a range of scalable platforms.
About Critical Links
Critical Links is a global provider of converged voice, data and IT solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs) that dramatically simplify and cost-reduce by consolidating over a single scalable and fault-tolerant platform.
Critical Links' flagship product, the edgeBOX(TM), is an award-winning multi-function gateway appliance that includes VoIP/IP-PBX, VPNs, security, NAC, QoS and a WiFi access point as well as a fax server, web server, e-mail server, print server and data storage. It is available on a range of hardware platforms that support up to 300 users, with different form factors and a host of broadband interfaces such as BRI/PRI(T1/E1), FX0/FXS, Ethernet, etc. Critical Links typically serves SMBs through a global network of VARs, System Integrators, OEMs and Service Providers. For more information: www.critical-links.com/PR or email@example.com.
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Former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh said he's disappointed with a federal judge's ruling that Dr. Cyril H. Wecht's defense team cannot argue that the government's public corruption case against the forensic pathologist and former Allegheny County coroner is politically motivated.
"That should be part of the consideration in this case, as I testified before the (U.S.) House Judiciary Committee at their request," Thornburgh, who represents Wecht, said today. "So we're disappointed. That's all I can say."
Thornburgh, also a former two-term Pennsylvania governor, appeared in October before the judiciary panel and accused U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan, a fellow Republican, of abusing federal law to target Wecht, a Democrat. Buchanan has denied the allegation.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab refused to suppress evidence in the case and ruled Wecht's attorneys can't use the allegation of political motivation.
Asked if the ruling was a blow to Wecht's defense, Thornburgh said: "We think it robs the case of some of the context that's necessary to fully understand why these charges were brought, but the judge has made a decision. Obviously we'll have to abide by it."
Jury selection in Wecht's trial is scheduled to begin Jan. 28.
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The White House press corps, taking a break from its usual stenography duties, actually roused itself to ask truth-impaired spokesman Scott McClellan some tough questions about Dick Cheney. Unfortunately, while it was good to see a few reporters rise from their bended knees, they were asking the wrong questions about the wrong issue.
What got the press corps all hot and bothered was the fact that Cheney and his aides kept details about the vice president shooting a man secret for the better part of 24 hours, and then slipped the story to a local paper in the city nearest the Texas dude ranch where the incident took place.
Most of Monday's 41-minute-long White House press briefing was taken up with questions about the gun-slinger-in-chief's penchant for secrecy and the bloody details of the shot Cheney's hunting buddy took to the face. But what was especially clear was that the members of the press corps do not like to get scooped on the story of a vice presidential shooting sprees by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
McClellan was peppered with pointed questions and sharp asides from the likes of NBC reporter David Gregory, who grumbled about the fact that: "the vice president of the United States shoots a man, and he feels that it's appropriate for a ranch owner who witnessed this to the local Corpus Christi newspaper, not the White House press corps at large or notify the public in a national way."
When Gregory accused McClellan of "ducking and weaving," rather than responding frankly to the questions he is paid by the taxpayers of the United States to answer, the press secretary suggested the NBC reporter was grandstanding.
An angry Gregory retorted, "Don't accuse me of trying to pose to the cameras. Don't be a jerk to me personally when I'm asking you a serious question.''
McClellan told Gregory not to yell. The reporter then pointed to the press secretary's lectern and shouted, "If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that's wrong.''
The pair sputtered back and forth until, finally, McClellan said, "I'm sorry you're getting all riled up about," to which Gregory replied: "I am riled up, because you're not answering the question."
More power to Gregory, and to several other members of the usually somnambulant White House press corps, for trying to get McClellan to answer a few questions about the misdeeds of the most powerful vice president in American history.
The only frustrating thing is that Gregory and his compatriots were all excited about the secretive handling of details regarding a hunting accident that – while troubling – can hardly be described as the most serious matter of concern with regard to Cheney.
To be sure, a trigger-happy vice president makes for good feature stories – not to mention good comedy. But where were the demands for answers, where was the cries for accountability, where were the shows of righteous indignation last week, when it was revealed by the National Journal that Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, had told a federal grand jury he was "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" to disclose classified information to journalists as part of a plot to defend the Bush administration's manipulation of prewar intelligence to make the "case" for going to war with Iraq.
In the scheme of things, the many unanswered questions about whether the vice president of the United States engaged in a conspiracy to deceive Congress and the American people about reasons for entering a war that has now killed more than 2,200 Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians would seem to be a bigger deal than the same vice president's involvement in a hunting accident.
True, it would be foolish to assume that Scott McClellan would be any more forthcoming about the administration's manipulation of pre-war intelligence -- and evidence of Cheney's involvement in efforts to attack those who exposed that manipulation – than he has been about the manipulation of information regarding the vice president's gunplay.
But if the press corps is going to rise from its slumber when it comes to Dick Cheney's secrecy and chicanery, would it make sense to get excited about the Constitutional crisis – as opposed to the veep's itchy trigger finger?
John Nichols' book, The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Most Powerful Vice President in American History (The New Press) is available nationwide at independent bookstores and at www.amazon.com. Publisher's Weekly describes it as "a Fahrenheit 9/11 for Cheney" and Esquire magazine says it "reveals the inner Cheney. The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney includes an interview with Joseph Wilson and details the inner workings of the vice president's office at the time of the Plame-Wilson leak.
Sure, it's been fun joking about the fact that Dick Cheney obtained five -- count them, five -- deferments to avoid serving in the military during the Vietnam War. Sure, its been amusing to recount his limp claim that the man who served as George Bush I's Secretary of Defense had "other priorities" than taking up arms in defense of his country. Sure, it was a laugh when the chief cheerleader for the war in Iraq mocked John Kerry for having actually carried a weapon in a time of war.
But it is time to stop laughing at Dick Cheney's expense.
Now that the vice president has accidentally shot and wounded a companion on a quail hunt at the elite Texas ranch where rich men play with guns -- spraying his 78-year-old victim, er, friend, in the face and chest with shotgun pellets and sending the man to the intensive care unit of a Corpus Christi hospital -- it has become clear that Cheney was doing the country a service when he avoided service.
Despite the best efforts of Cheney's apologists to have it otherwise, the man the vice president misstook for a quail, millionaire attorney Harry Whittington, was in plain sight, wearing a bright orange vest at the time the vice president blasted him.
U.S. troops had enough problems in Vietnam without letting a trigger-happy incompetent like Dick Cheney start shooting things up from behind the lines.
Those deferments were well and wisely issued.
Americans ought be listening to Russ Feingold in these defining days for the Republic, because what the Democratic senator from Wisconsin is saying goes to the heart of the question of whether a nation founded in revolt against monarchy will be ruled by laws or by the crude whims of an intemperate sovereign and his out-of-control administration.
Feingold has been fighting for weeks to get the Congress to address the issue of President Bush's illegal approval of warrantless wiretapping of Americans. A small but growing group in Congress, including some prominent Republicans -- most recently, U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., the chair of the House Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence, who this week called for a "complete review" of the National Security Agency domestic spying program -- have begun echoing Feingold's demand that the Constitutional crisis created by the president's wrongdoing be taken seriously.
But too many major media outlets continue to treat the eavesdropping scandal as little more than a political game. They chart the progress of the critics and then measure the extent to which the administration's spin has limited the damage to the president's approval ratings.
Frustrated by the game playing, Feingold went to the floor of the Senate last Tuesday in an effort to break through the spin and speak the blunt truths of the moment.
"Last week the President of the United States gave his State of the Union address, where he spoke of America's leadership in the world, and called on all of us to 'lead this world toward freedom.' Again and again, he invoked the principle of freedom, and how it can transform nations, and empower people around the world," Feingold told the chamber. "But, almost in the same breath, the President openly acknowledged that he has ordered the government to spy on Americans, on American soil, without the warrants required by law. The President issued a call to spread freedom throughout the world, and then he admitted that he has deprived Americans of one of their most basic freedoms under the Fourth Amendment -- to be free from unjustified government intrusion."
The Wisconsinite who emerged as the Capitol's most diligent defender of the Constitution when he cast the sole vote in the Senate against the Patriot Act in 2001 delivered a blistering indictment not just of the president but of those who are treating the debate over the administration's assault on basic liberties as just another fight between political partisans.
"The President was blunt. He said that he had authorized the NSA's domestic spying program, and he made a number of misleading arguments to defend himself. His words got rousing applause from Republicans, and I think even some Democrats," Feingold continued. "The President was blunt, so I will be blunt: This program is breaking the law, and this President is breaking the law. Not only that, he is misleading the American people in his efforts to justify this program."
Noting that many Republican members of the House and Senate cheered the president's defense of his illegal acts, Feingold asked, "How is that worthy of applause? Since when do we celebrate our commander in chief for violating our most basic freedoms, and misleading the American people in the process? When did we start to stand up and cheer for breaking the law? In that moment at the State of the Union, I felt ashamed."
It is time, Feingold explained, for his colleagues to recognize its shame and begin to act honorably.
"Congress," the senator said, "has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions."
Feingold is right. But it is not only Congress that must act. The American people need to get into this fight.
The defense of the Constitution against executive lawbreaking is not merely the work of elected legislators.
It must be the work of patriots. Feingold is leading the defense of basic liberties, but we all have a place in this struggle to preserve both the Bill of Rights and an American experiment that is now gravely threatened. Only an outcry from the people will assure that Congress -- and America -- does not lose its way.
Twenty-two members of the House have now signed on as co-sponors of the call by Representative John Conyers, D-Michigan, to establish a select committee of the Congress to investigate whether the Bush administration's actions before and after the invasion of Iraq violated Constitutional requirements, statutes and standards in a manner that would merit impeachment of the president or vice president.
Conyers introduced the resolution last December, and only a handful of members agreed to cosponsor the measure before Congress went on its long holiday break: California's Lois Capps, Maxine Waters and Lynn Woolsey, New Jersey's Donald Payne, New York's Charles Rangel and Texan Sheila Jackson-Lee. The list of cosponsors swelled after the long holiday break, when ten members from around the country -- California's Barbara Lee and Pete Stark, Hawaii's Neil Abercrombie, Illinois' Jan Schakowsky, Minnesota's Jim Oberstar, Missouri's William Lacy Clay, New York's Jerry Nadler and Major Owens, Washington's Jim McDermott and Wisconsin's Tammy Baldwin -- came back to Washington convinced that the American people are a good deal more interested than most DC insiders recognize in reasserting checks and balances on an administration that has spun out of control.
In the past week, six additional members have signed on: California's Mike Honda and Sam Farr, Georgia's John Lewis and Cynthia McKinney, and New York's Carolyn Maloney and Maurice Hinchey.
There's a reason why this measure is beginning to draw broader support.
In addition to seeking a review of whether the administration began planning to go to war before obtaining authorization from Congress, along with investigations of the White House's manipulation of pre-war intelligence and encouragement and countenancing of torture, the Conyers resolution proposes to examine steps taken by the administration to retaliate against critics.
It is that final concern that could prove to be the most immediate threat to a member of the administration -- now that National Journal is reporting that Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, has told a federal grand jury that he was "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" to disclose classified information to journalists as part of a scheme to defend the Bush administration's manipulation of prewar intelligence in order to make the "case" for going to war with Iraq.
No one who has followed the workings of this White House has ever doubted that Cheney -- the administration's most over-the-top proponent of the war -- would turn out to be the ripest target for impeachment. But the leap from Scooter Libby's charges, if they are confirmed, to actual articles of impeachment is not a long one.
An essential step in that process has already been taken. One of the cosponsors of the Conyers resolution, Maurice Hinchey, is calling for an aggressive Congressional inquiry into the issue, arguing that, "[The] revelation in National Journal that Vice President Cheney and other White House superiors authorized Scooter Libby to disclose classified information to the news media in order to defend the Administration's use of pre-war intelligence on Iraq is alarming. That the vice president would put his own political gain before the safety and security of the American people by approving the release of classified information to the press warrants a full congressional investigation, including testimony from the vice president himself."
Hinchey has been dogged in demanding that Cheney come clean about his role in the scandal that has arisen with regard to the administration's leaking of classified information in an attempt to discredit Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who had raised damning questions with regard to the administration's pre-war claims about the threat posed by Iraq.
In a statement released after the latest revelations about Cheney, Hinchey said, "While many of us in Congress had long suspected that Vice President Cheney played a central role in the leaking of Valerie Wilson's name to the press, today's news report confirms that there is merit to that belief. The leaking of Valerie Wilson's identity as a covert CIA agent is a very serious crime that jeopardized national security and everyone who was involved must be held accountable and brought to justice. No one, including, Vice President Cheney, should be shielded from prosecution."
Hinchey, who actually believes in a system of checks and balances where the legislative branch embraces its responsibility to hold the executive branch to account, argues that Cheney -- who began his career as a White House aide in the administration of former President Richard Nixon -- can no longer be allowed to stonewall this investigation.
"On November 3, 2005, I, along with Congressmen Conyers and Waxman, sent a letter to Vice President Cheney asking that he come to Congress to testify about his involvement in the CIA leak case. The vice president disregarded that letter and never responded. Congress and the American people deserve more than silence from the vice president about such a serious matter. Now is the time for the Vice President Cheney to step forward and answer questions, under oath, as to what his involvement was in the CIA leak case and whether he ever authorized the disclosure of classified information to the press in order to justify going to war in Iraq," says Hinchey.
"I also renew the call I made in September with 40 House members for Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to closely examine the motive behind the White House's disclosure of Valerie Wilson's name, which I believe was to discredit her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who was refuting the White House's claim that Iraq had sought uranium from Niger. The National Journal article reports that Libby testified to the grand jury in the CIA leak case that he worked closely with Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove to determine what information the White House should leak to the press in order to gain support for the war in Iraq. It is clear that Libby, Hadley, and Rove worked together to twist, manipulate, and selectively release the intelligence on Iraq in order to gain public approval for the war. All those who leaked classified information and deliberately misled the American people and Congress into thinking Iraq had weapons of mass destruction must be brought to justice so the world can see that the United States holds those accountable who break the law."
John Nichols' book, The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Most Powerful Vice President in American History (The New Press) is available nationwide at independent bookstores and at www.amazon.com. Publisher's Weekly describes it as "a Fahrenheit 9/11 for Cheney" and Esquire magazine says it "reveals the inner Cheney. The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney includes an interview with Joseph Wilson and details the inner workings of the vice president's office at the time of the Plame-Wilson leak.
Few figures have contributed more to the debate about corporate globalization than Jose Bove, the French farmer whose dismantling of a McDonald's restaurant that was under construction near his sheep farm was something of a "shot-heard-round-the-world" in the struggle against the homogenization of food, culture and lifestyles.
While his assault on the local manifestation of the restaurant chain that has come to symbolize the one-size-fits-all character of globalization was a blunt act, Bove is known in France and abroad as a thoughtful theorist and strategist whose critique of the World Trade Organization's pro-corporate agenda has done much to alert activists around the world to the threats posed to workers, farmers, communities and democracy by WTO moves that allow multinational firms to disregard the laws and traditions of countries in which they operate.
But Bove, who has been a frequent visitor to the United States since he played an important part in the 1999 anti-WTO demonstrations in Seattle, is no longer welcome in George W. Bush's America.
When he arrived Wednesday at New York's JFK Airport on a trip that was supposed to take him to Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations for events sponsored by Cornell's Global Labor Institute, Bove was stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents who told him he was suddenly "ineligible" to enter the U.S.Before the night was done, Bove was hustled onto an Air France flight that returned him to his homeland.
Why can't Bove, one of the most influential political activists on the planet, speak in the U.S.?
According to Bove, the agents told him he was being denied entry because of his past prosecutions for "moral crimes."
The French activist's "crimes" may have been motivated by a deep sense of morality. But they were, more precisely, political acts, usually involving nonviolent civil disobedience or symbolic gestures meant to raise the awareness of the French regarding globalization -- most notably the 1999 dismantling of the restaurant McDonald's was developing in Millau, a community in southern France that is not far from the cooperative farm where Bove has lived and worked for decades.
And Bove's political views are not in synch with those of a president who used his recent State of the Union address to talk up his commitment to globalization with a corporate face.
Bove does not for a second believe that the U.S. officials who blocked his entry were concerned about morality, or particular "crimes." Rather, he suggested to reporters on Wednesday evening, the militantly pro-free trade Bush administration has found a new avenue to constrain the debate about its policies.
"I think this administration is crazy," Bove explained. "They don't want any discussion that can affect all the things going on with globalization. They don't want people coming from outside to discuss it."
Coming at a time when the Bush administration faces scrutiny for warrantless wiretapping and other assaults on basic liberties, when new evidence of domestic spying on dissidents surfaceson a regular basis, and when we just witnessed the removal of anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan from the Capitol before the president delivered his State of the Union address, that's hardly an unreasonable claim.
Certainly, it is a matter that merits a Congressional inquiry -- not just into this incident but into the whole question of whether customs and border operations have, like so many other functions of the federal government, been abused for political purposes by an administration that is far more committed to advancing the agenda of its corporate contributors that it is to respecting the rule of law.
Just as they did following the memorial service for Senator Paul Wellstone in 2002, Republican operatives and their acolytes in the media are now claiming that there was something inappropriate about the manner in which those who knew Coretta Scott King best mourned her passing. So great is the determination of the spin doctors for a White House that seeks to protect George Bush from even the mildest expressions of dissent that commentators rushed Tuesday to television studios even before the service for Mrs. King was done to denounce former President Jimmy Carter, the Rev. Joseph Lowery and Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin for expressing sentiments not usually heard by this protected president.
But don't think that anything untoward actually took place in the Atlanta suburb where thousands gathered to celebrate the life, the work and the politics of Mrs. King. The service provided the president with a healthy -- if all too rare -- dose of reality. Bush's policies are not popular, particularly with the African-American community, and the president needed a gentle reminder of the fact. Indeed, the president was far more graceful in the receipt of the dissenting messages that were uttered at the service for Mrs. King than were those who rushed to condemn his critics.
What got the Republican spin machine humming Wednesday?
The see no evil, hear no evil, acknowledge no evil crowd was furious that several speakers used their brief portions of the six-hour remembrance service for the widow of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to pointedly echo the anti-war, anti-poverty and anti-racist themes that were so central to Mrs. King's life and work. The event featured no direct attacks on President Bush, who seated himself prominently on the stage of the vast New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in an Atlanta suburb. Instead, there were the sort of knowing, sometimes serious, sometimes lighthearted, prods that often are heard at memorial services of this kind.
Atlanta Mayor Franklin, whose address followed that of the president, made reference to Mrs. King criticism of "the senselessness of war" and recalled, correctly, that the late civil rights activist's voice was heard "from the tin-top roofs of Soweto to the bomb shelters of Baghdad."
That did not sit well with those who believe the president's precious ears must be protected from the sound of any and all dissents with regard to the quagmire that is Iraq.
Even more unsettling to the critics were the words of the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference who worked for decades with the Kings. Of Mrs. King, Lowery recalled, "She extended Martin's message against poverty, racism and war. She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar. We know now that there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew, and we know, that there are weapons of misdirection right down here." As the crowd cheered, Lowery boomed: "Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor."
Ultimately, however, it was not Lowery but Carter who took the hardest hits for daring to dissent. Noting the slow and inept response to Hurricane Katrina, Carter pointed out that, "We only have to recall the color of the faces of those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi who are most devastated by Katrina to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans."
For this comment, and for recalling the historical fact that the Kings were victims of "secret government wiretapping and surveillance" -- a sore point for a president who is under fire for ordering warrantless wiretaps -- Carter was denounced as "shameless" by the New York Post and ridiculed by Republican commentators.
To his credit, Bush seemed to take the criticism is stride, even shaking hands with and embracing Lowery, Carter and other speakers. And that may be the most important point that can be made about this rare moment in which the president heard actual dissent -- as opposed to the manufactured applause that usually accompanies his stage-managed public appearances. As someone who covered Bush long before he took office in 2001, I have always believed him to be a more gracious and thoughtful man than his presidency has made him out to be. Bush and his presidency suffer from having been placed in the bubble to which his neoconservative handlers have consigned him. Indeed, despite the ranting and raving of the spin doctors who would have us believe that it was wrong to honor Mrs. King by echoing the dissents she made during her lifetime, both President Bush and the American discourse surely benefitted from a real moment in these surreal times.
It is no secret that Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman is President Bush's favorite Democrat. With his see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, admit-no-evil defense of the administration's frequent betrayals of public trust before the U.S. invaded Iraq, with his refusal to recognize that the occupation of that country has degenerated into disaster, and with his regular repetition of neoconservative spin on every foreign-policy concern that arises, the man Democrats nominated for vice president in 2000 is a more loyal ally of the president than are many Republicans.
But Lieberman's lapdog act is not playing well in his home state, where grassroots Democrats are furious about the fact that their senator is propping up a failed Republican president. "I think it is one thing to be an independent thinker. It's another thing to be a Democratic senator who is acting as a lobbyist for King George and his Chancellor Cheney," Dorothy Brindamour of Manchester told a meeting of Democrats that gathered last month to take the senator to task.
Since the start of the year, Democratic town committees in two communities have officially chastised Lieberman for providing bipartisan cover for Bush's policies. Town committees are the backbone of Democratic political activism in Connecticut, and these rebukes of Lieberman -- an embarrassing development in a year when he is seeking reelection -- are making 2006 a more contentious year than anyone had expected for the veteran pol.
In January, Democrats in Manchester overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution that declared: "We, the Manchester Democratic Town Committee, do not believe that Sen. Joseph Lieberman is acting in the best interest of the American public or the Democratic Party by supporting President Bush in the handling of the Iraq conflict."
The resolution, which questioned whether Lieberman "fully appreciates the human cost of war" and expressed concern that the Iraq war has "served to galvanize the Arab world against the United States," was blunt in its demand.
"We respectfully ask Sen. Lieberman to reconsider his unconditional support of President Bush," the committee announced.
The censure of Lieberman by Manchester Democrats has now been echoed by the Windsor Democratic Town Committee, which on February 2 voted 34-2 for a resolution expressing frustration with Lieberman's support of the Bush administration in general and his support of the war in particular.
"My goal is to seek a pattern -- a groundswell -- of Democratic town committee motions in Connecticut that will really get the senator's attention," explained Len Swade, a committee member in Windsor, who sponsored the resolution there.
Lieberman does seem to be paying attention. His aides have been trying to promote him as a progressive in communications to town committee members that note the senator's support for abortion rights and environmental protection. And Lieberman has volunteered to discuss the issue of the war with his critics on key town committees.
None of this means that Lieberman is preparing to change his position. But it does suggest that he is feeling the heat in an election year when he might yet face an anti-war foe in his Democratic primary or a general election challenge from Lowell Weicker, a former Connecticut senator and governor, who has entertained the prospect of challenging Lieberman as an anti-war independent.
Newly-selected House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, is getting some remarkably good press, considering his remarkably sordid political pedigree.
ABC News referred to the grizzled veteran of Capitol Hill, who was elected to the House when George Bush the Dad was president and Democrat Tom Foley was the Speaker of the House, as a "fresh face." The network's report on the House Republican Caucus vote to select a replacement for the indicted Tom DeLay was headlined: "New Leader, Ohio Rep. John Boehner, Campaigned as a Reformer."
The Los Angeles Times announced, with no apparent sense of irony, that: "By choosing Boehner to fill DeLay's shoes in the House, the party hopes to move past scandals."
Newsday just went for it, declaring above its report on Boehner's election: "A promise of reform wins vote."
As they say in the newsroom: Don't believe everything you read in the headlines.
Boehner is an old-fashioned shakedown artist whose promise of "change" amounts to little more than a pledge that he won't get caught like DeLay did. The Ohioan may be smoother than the Texan, but only a fool, or a Washington pundit looking to cozy up to the new boss, would mistake a better haircut and the absence of the stench of bug spray as evidence of ethics.
The best take on Boehner's elevation to the top of the Congressional food chain comes not from the Washington press corps but from one of the city's more watchdogs: Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook.
Referring to Boehner victory over the presumed favorite, Majority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Missoui, in the House leadership contest as "a selection of Tweedle Dum over Tweedle Dee," Claybrook explained that, "The rejection of Representative Blunt shows that rank-and-file Republicans are aware the corruption scandal that has shaken Washington could put their majority status at risk. But the elevation of Representative Boehner, himself a product and proponent of the systemic problem of cronyism and influence-peddling that afflicts our nation's capital, is not a sign that business as usual will end."
Claybrook invites Americans to consider these facts about the man who, because of Speaker Dennis Hastert's obvious limitations, will now be the most powerful player in the House of Representatives:
* Boehner recently characterized Hastert's plan to ban privately funded travel as "childish" and dismissed the need for a ban on gifts from lobbyists to members of Congress. "If some members' vote can be bought for a $20 lunch, they don't need to be here," he said. Later, Boehner backed away from his characterization of the travel ban as "childish," but not the sentiment underlying his remark.
* Boehner's political action committee collected nearly $300,000 from private student lending companies and for-profit academic institutions from 2003-2004. Boehner has used his chairmanship of the Education and the Workforce Committee to promote their pet causes - legislation that would make it more difficult to cut the fees on government student loans, which would cut into the private lenders market share, and legislation that would provide millions in subsidies to for-profit colleges and trade schools. (For more details on this, see a report in the Washington Post of January 28, 2006.)
* Boehner has taken more than $157,000 in free trips, placing him seventh among 638 current and former members of Congress, including senators, in the value of privately funded travel accepted between 2000 and 2005, according to American Radioworks. These included a $4,869 trip to Scotland in 2000 and a $9,050 trip to Rome in 2001, both of which were sponsored by the Ripon Educational Fund, a nonprofit group largely run by business lobbyists. Family members traveled with him for free on both trips.
* An exceptional number - at least 24 - former Boehner staff members have passed through the revolving door from government service to find work in the private sector as lobbyists or corporate public affairs specialists. (For more details on this, see a report in The Hill newspaper of February 1, 2006.)
* Boehner preceded indicted former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as the head of the "K Street Operation," the Republicans' efforts to coordinate policy and fundraising with well-heeled lobbyists, which since has been dubbed the "K Street Project." But the Ohioan lost the job to DeLay in 1998 after he was voted out as head of the Republican Conference. (For more details on this, see a report in the Baltimore Sun of December 21, 1998.)
* Boehner caught a large amount of flack for handing out checks to his colleagues from tobacco company PACs on the floor of Congress in 1995. Although not illegal, it certainly showed poor judgment but was consistent with his role at the time as the party's chief liaison with K Street. (For more details on this, see a report in the New York Times of May 10, 1996.)
The indictment of Boehner that Claybrook has advanced explains why principled Republicans in both the conservative and moderate camps backed a third candidate for the Majority Leader post, Arizona Representative John Shadegg, who promised to "clean up" the House. Shadegg described his race against Boehner and Blunt as "a choice between real reform and the status quo."
With Boehner's election, the status quo has prevailed. And as Claybrook notes with her usual bluntness -- and accuracy -- that is an ugly result not just for House Republicans but for America.
"Elevating a leader of the current broken system to be majority leader is an affront to voters and a stain on the Republican Party," Claybrook argues. "If the past is any guide, Boehner will now use this key position to undercut ethics and lobbying reforms in the House of Representatives."
President Bush may have tried to claim a little bit of the legacy of Coretta Scott King with a warm and generous reference to her passing at the opening of his State of the Union address this week, but it should be remembered that Mrs. King was a foe of this president and a frequent critic of his abuses of power.
On the eve of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Mrs. King celebrated the anniversary of birth of her late husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., by recalling that the slain civil rights leader had been outspoken in his opposition to unnecessary and unwise wars.
"We commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. as a great champion of peace who warned us that war was a poor chisel for carving out a peaceful tomorrow. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. Martin said, 'True peace is not just the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice,'" Mrs. King told a crowd that had gathered at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church. She continued, "May his challenge and his example guide and inspire us to seek peaceful alternatives to a war with Iraq and military conflict in the Middle East."
Mrs. King continued to speak out against the Bush administration's policy of preemptive warmaking during the last years of her life, and she always made it clear that she disagreed passionately with this president.
When Bush showed up to lay a wreath at Rev. King's grave in January, 2004, Mrs. King was polite but pointed in her remarks. Before greeting Bush, she told another event at Ebenezer Baptist that she sided with opponents of the war, and she lamented the fact that, "Those people are not in charge of making the policies of their nations."
"If they were," she added, "I think we would have more peace and more justice."
There will be many celebrations of Coretta Scott King's brave and inspiring life, as well as her rich legacy of activism.
But none will be so appropriate as those that recall her absolute opposition to this president's illegal and immoral warmaking.
Minutes before the President of the United States would tell the Congress how much he appreciates "responsible criticism and counsel," the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq was dragged from a gallery overlooking the House chamber where Bush would speak, handcuffed and arrested for the "crime" of wearing a T-shirt that read: "2245 Dead. How many more?"
Cindy Sheehan, who had been invited to attend George Bush's State of the Union address by Representative Lynn Woolsey, the California Democrat who co-chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, did not put the "dangerous" shirt on for the event. The woman whose protest last summer outside the President's ranchette in Crawford, Texas, drew international attention to the antiwar movement, had been wearing it at events earlier in the day.
Indeed, as Sheehan, who had passed through Capitol security monitors without incident, noted, "I knew that I couldn't disrupt the address because Lynn had given me the ticket and I didn't want to be disruptive out of respect for her."
No one has suggested that Sheehan was in any way disruptive.
So why was she arrested?
Because, as Sheehan recounts, she was identified as a dissident.
Before the arrest, media reports buzzed about official concern regarding Sheehan's presence. And, as she was being dragged from a room where the President would shortly extol the virtues of freedom and liberty, police explicitly told Sheehan that she was being removed "because you were protesting."
Capitol Police and other security officials, whose rough treatment of Sheehan was witnessed by dozens of people who attended the State of the Union event, said she was arrested for "unlawful conduct." Conveniently, she was held until after the President finished speaking.
Is there really a law against wearing a political T-shirt to the State of the Union address?
The Capitol Police, who on Wednesday dropped the charges against Sheehan, have acknowledged in an official statement that: "While officers acted in a manner consistent with the rules of decorum enforced by the department in the House Gallery for years, neither Mrs. Sheehan's manner of dress or initial conduct warranted law enforcement intervention."
What they have not acknowledged, and what is truly troubling, is the evidence that Sheehan was singled out for rough justice.
Beverly Young, the wife of Representative C.W. Bill Young, a Florida Republican who chairs the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee, showed for the State of the Union address up sporting a T-shirt that read, "Support the Troops--Defending Our Freedom." When Capitol Police asked her to leave the gallery because she was wearing clothing that featured a political message, Mrs. Young says, she argued loudly with officers and called one of them "an idiot."
But Mrs. Young was not handcuffed. She was not dragged from the Capitol. She was not arrested. She was not jailed.
Sheehan, who caused no ruckus, was arrested not because she engaged in "unlawful conduct." Rather, by every evidence, she was arrested because of what her T-shirt said--and, by extension, because of what she believes.
That makes this a most serious matter. Representative Pete Stark, the California Democrat who is one of the senior members of the House, is right when he says that Sheehan's arrest by officers he refers to as "the President's Gestapo," tells us a lot more about the George Bush and the sorry state of our basic liberties in the midst of the President's open-ended "war on terror" than anything that was said in the State of the Union address. "It shows he still has a thin skin," Stark says of the President who claims to welcome dissent.
It also shows that the father of the Constitution, James Madison, was right when he warned that, in times of war, the greatest danger to America would not be foreign foes but Presidents and their minions, who would abuse the powers of the executive branch with the purpose of "subduing the force of the people."
This one incident involving one T-shirt is a minor matter. But seen in the context of the mounting evidence of constraints on legitimate protest, warrantless wiretaps and the abuses of the Patriot Act, it reminds us of the the truth of Madison's warning that: "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."


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Those not obsessed with Western New York minutiae (Carrey, from nearby southern Ontario, is clearly an aficionado, riffing off the call letters WKBW) or lacking an incurable sweet tooth may find the proceedings hard going, if not quite a form of divine punishment. Passed over for the lead anchor slot, Bruce gripes about his mediocre life, irritating his long-suffering, nursery-school-teacher girlfriend (Jennifer Aniston, reduced to a whine). Following a mysterious pager message, he enters an abandoned warehouse (marked "Omni Presents"), where his Maker (Morgan Freeman, suitably dignified) makes his home; the blinding white, infinite tundra of a loft suggesting both the abstract abode of Laurence Fishburne's Matrix-magi Morpheus and an Apple advertisement. Bruce takes over for the vacationing deity, but despite an initial surge of jolly, somewhat cruel chaos (as when he forces the new anchor to unreel paragraphs of gibberish on camera), things soon turn soggy. By the film's bland end, only one enigma remains, insoluble as a koan: Why does Freeman wear a Yankees cap?
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People named Brucemade antisocial, the argument goes, by the fact that not enough movie characters share their namehave another reason to come out of their shell: The Pixar-goes-piscine Finding Nemo features a ferocious Great White, named after the mechanical shark used in Jaws. (This Bruce also quotes from The Shining and Monty Python.) But whereas Bruce Almighty has one conceit, rotely fulfilled, Nemo is stuffed to the gills with surprises: Bruce, for all his terrifying teeth, is part of a 12-step program to abandon his carnivorous ways, and his terrifying relapse has him slamming into a submarine's innards for the catch of the day. It's an ocean of eye candy that tastes fresh even in this ADD-addled era of SpongeBob SquarePants.
The sturdy story, in which single-dad clownfish Marlin (Albert Brooks) and his son Nemo (Alexander Gould) are separated by a deep-sea-diving dentist who nets the latter for his office fishtank, is a well-crafted line on which to hang scores of lovely sequences: Surfaces shimmer with meticulous underwater light schemes, schools of fish so large (as the Yellow Submarine joke goes) they should be called universities scatter and coalesce as if ruled by a single mind, a jungle of jellyfish glows with weird menace and unearthly beauty. Twice unearthlyfree of the land, and free of nature's hand. Anthropomorphized facial features notwithstanding, Finding Nemo's totalizing, computer-generated aesthetic (moments reminded me of Winged Migration) stirs up maker's mark questions that are at least a league deeper than anything proposed in Bruce Almighty's armchair religion.
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PS3 Defiance Patch Expected Sometime Today
Posted on April 29, 2013 AT 12:37pm
The first major Defiance patch—which hit Xbox 360 and PC April 15—should be available for PS3 players sometime today, according to executive producer Nathan Richardsson.
Posting on the Defiance community blogs over the weekend, Richardsson said the PS3′s big patch is "enroute and in final internal testing" and "should come live Monday if all goes well. The patch boasts all the same improvements to server and connection issues as its PC and Xbox 360 counterparts.
It's worth noting, however, that Richardsson admits that this patch does not completely repair the game, and that the Xbox 360 version still has "lingering issues."
Richardsson also mentioned that other issues, such as disappearing items, load out issues, and balancing are on Trion Worlds' docket to address.
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- 1 ounce Amaro Nardini
- 1/4 ounce Aperol
- 1/4 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
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- 2 1/2 ounces Prosecco, or other sparkling wine
- 2 Castelvetrano olives, for garnish
- In a cocktail shaker, combine the Amaro Nardini, Aperol, lemon juice, and olive brine. Add ice, and shake vigorously for five seconds. Strain into a coupe or flute; then add the prosecco. Garnish with two olives.
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Alex Kennedy: NBA could grant Lakers a hardship exception (like the Pacers received). However, they'd still have to waive someone as players get healthy. Twitter @AlexKennedyNBA
Adrian Wojnarowski: As feared, MRI has revealed a torn Achilles' tendon for Lakers guard Xavier Henry, a league source tells Yahoo. He'll miss rest of season. Twitter @WojYahooNBA
Alex Kennedy: Like @David 'Dubi' Pick, I heard Lakers weren't rushing to make a move after their FA workout. Now, with Xavier Henry out for year, that may change. Twitter @AlexKennedyNBA
Mike Bresnahan: Lakers are in contact with NBA officials about roster possibilities now that three players are almost surely done for or the season. Twitter @Mike_Bresnahan
Eric Pincus: Xavier Henry doesn't really make enough for the Lakers to get a viable disabled player exception-$550k range - a little more than rookie min Twitter @EricPincus
Bill Oram: Presuming Xavier Henry's Achilles is ruptured as Lakers believe, would likely be Lakers third season-ending injury. It's November. Twitter @billoram
Mark Medina: Byron Scott said Xavier Henry had injury in 3-on-3-on-3 drill. Scott said, "he heard a pop." Common in Achilles' injury Twitter @MarkG_Medina
Mark Medina: Xavier Henry is getting an MRI. Lakers believe he has a ruptured left Achilles Twitter @MarkG_Medina
Mike Bresnahan: Xavier Henry might have torn his left Achilles' tendon. Happened at practice today. MRI exam going on now. Twitter @Mike_Bresnahan
Jeremy Lin: Everyone please say a prayer for @Xavier Henry ... get healthy soon bro. Joshua 1:9 Twitter @JLin7
Kevin Ding: Included in column today: Quincy Miller set to work out for Lakers this week and possibly replace Xavier Henry on roster. Twitter @KevinDing
Henry, 23, is averaging only 2.1 points in the regular season after scoring eight in the meaningless fourth quarter of the Lakers' 136-115 loss Sunday to Golden State. " 'X' is just trying to get back to who he is," Scott said. "It's really just trying to find out if he's going to be the player that he was last year before the injuries or if he'll be a different type of player. Which means he'll have to adjust his game. "We're hoping that something happens where he can all of a sudden have the explosiveness that he had, that I saw last year." Los Angeles Times
A full offseason to recover proved not enough for Lakers forward Xavier Henry to heal from a surgically repaired right knee. So Henry will travel to New York City and Germany for additional treatment, ensuring that will stay sidelined for the Lakers' four remaining preseason games. The Lakers estimate Henry will return Oct. 24, four days before the Lakers' season opener against the Houston Rockets at Staples Center. Henry will see Dr. Keith Pyne in New York City for a second opinion. Henry will then see Dr. Jens Hartmann in Dusseldorf, Germany sometime next week and undergo Regenokine treatment, a non-invasive procedure that Kobe Bryant has undergone numerous times in recent seasons. The treatment will entail blood being removed from Henry's knee and spun in a centrifuge. Doctors will then create a serum and inject it back into his knee to fight off proteins and molecules that cause inflammation. Los Angeles Daily News
Mike Trudell: Neither Lin (ankle) or Nash (hamstring/nerves/back) practiced today. Clarkson (calf), Henry (back) and Kelly (hamstring) were limited. Twitter @LakersReporter
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Chateau Cos d'Estournel 2008
Bordeaux Red Blends from St. Estephe, Bordeaux, France
Critical Acclaim
Wine Enthusiast - "This big, smoky wine has great richness and a big, concentrated structure. The feel is dark, solid, based on spice, new wood and ripe black plums touched with red berries, the tannins sheltering beneath. "
James Suckling - "A delicate and pretty Cos. Aromas of blackberries, cherries and spices follow through to a full body, with fine tannins and a chocolate, berry and light coffee character. Long and caressing. Give it a a few years of bottle age before opening."
The Wine Advocate - "Closed but promising, this is a classic Cos revealing lots of tannin along with damp earth, black currant, sweet black cherry, graphite, licorice and truffle characteristics. This medium to full-bodied, structured, firm, broodingly backward, impenetrable effort demands 5-6 years of bottle age; it should drink well for 20-25 years. 92+"
International Wine Cellar - "Good deep ruby-red. Complex aromas and flavors of currant, raspberry, smoke, musky dried herbs, sexy oak tones and minerals. Rich, broad and lush; big, rich and sweet but with an edge of acidity giving lift and grip to the middle palate. At once sexy and serious wine, finishing with broad, horizontal tannins and excellent length. "
Wine Spectator - "Quite juicy, with a mouthwatering edge to the damson plum, mulled cherry and red currant fruit. Modest acidity, fine-grained tannins and flashy spice and iron notes drive the finish. There's excellent integration and harmony for the vintage. Drink now through 2019."
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Château Cos d'Estournel is a Grand Cru vineyard located in St. Estephe. Its oriental facade is adorned with three pagoda turrets, all cast in a soft golden sandstone. Château Cos d'Estournel today covers 170 acres separated from Château Lafite, along the southern edge, by the stream between St. Estephe and Pauillac. The gravelly soil, over a flint, limestone and silicate subsoil low in nitrogen, has eroded over centuries to form steep ridges which perfectly drain the vineyards. The vineyards are planted 60 percent in Cabernet Sauvignon vines, 2 percent of Cabernet Franc, and 38 percent in Merlot. Naturally, the percentage of Cabernet or Merlot in the composition of each vintage depends on the climate which favors one grape variety or the other. View all Chateau Cos d'Estournel Wines
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St.-Estèphe is the northernmost of the 4 communes hugging the Dordogne river in the Northern Haut-Médoc area of Bordeaux. While the appellation has no premier crus (first growths) of its own, it's southernmost chateau, Cos d'Estournel, is a highly acclaimed second growth, geographically separated from the famed Lafite-Rothschild in Pauillac by only a stream. Many believe Cos d'Estournel consistently produces wine of a first growth level.
Notable FactsWine from St-Estèphe typically matures more slowly than its southern counterparts. The soil is heavy and rich with clay, leading to wines with firm, muscular tannins and high acidity. Dark and opaque in color, the wines can be a bit austere in their youth, though most get softer as they age. Cabernet Sauvignon is the primary grape in most of the region's blends, although Merlot is important in helping to soften the wines. In volume, St-Estèphe creates the most wines of the top four Haut-Médoc communes. There are quite a few Cru Bourgeois properties, which are more approachable when young and, even better, lower in price. To get a feel for St-Estèphe, look for Cru Bourgeois like Chateau Haut-Beauséjour.
About France - Other regionsWhen it comes to wine, France is a classic. Classic blends, grapes and styles began in the country and they still remain. Think about it - people ask for a Burgundian style Pinot Noir, they refer to wines as Bordeaux or Rhone blends - Champagne even had to pass a law to stop international wineries from putting their region on the label of all sparkling wine.
The top regions of France are: Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Loire, Rhone. And these regions are so diverse! It makes sense that wine regions throughout the world try to emulate their style. Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah are no longer French varieties, but international varieties. They may not be the leader of cutting edge technology or value-priced wines, but there is no doubt that they are still producing wines of great quality and diversity.
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When it comes to barbecue, Chicago isn't usually the first city to come to mind. "Chicago Style" barbecue is a questionable mix of techniques often involving a combination of dry rub, sauce, and usually some slow roasting or even boiling of ribs.
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Pork Chops with Apple Compote
- Total Time:
- 2 hr 35 min
- Prep:
- 15 min
- Inactive:
- 2 hr
- Cook:
- 20 min
- Yield:
- 4 servings, 2 chops each
- Level:
- Easy
- Healthy
- Total Time:
- 2 hr 35 min
- Prep:
- 15 min
- Inactive:
- 2 hr
- Cook:
- 20 min
- Yield:
- 4 servings, 2 chops each
- Level:
- Easy
- 8 (1/2-inch) thick pork loin chops
- 2 tablespoons Irvine Spices Smokey Rotisserie seasoning
- 2 tablespoons Irvine Spices Roasted Garlic Pepper
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 Granny Smith apples, peeled and cored, thinly sliced and tossed with juice from 1 lemon
- 1 lemon, zest grated and reserved for garnish
Rinse pork chops to remove any residue and pat dry with paper towels. Combine the Smokey Rotisserie seasoning, the Roasted Garlic Pepper, and the salt to make a rub. Rub the seasoning into all surfaces of the pork chops and allow to sit covered for 2 hours. (The seasoning will actually begin to "cure" the meat.)
Melt butter and oil over medium heat in a large saute pan. Saute the chops for 3 to 5 minutes each side, remove to a platter and keep warm.
To the same pan, add the apples and saute until tender. Puree the apples and pan juices in a blender (or you can use an immersion blender if the pot is deep enough).
Spoon pureed apple over chops and garnish with lemon zest.
Copyright 2007, Robert Irvine, All Rights Reserved.
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Chapter 8
The morning sun shone bright and warm over the coastal city Golau, but Aeron Pryce only felt anxiety and gloom bubbling inside him as he rode in the back of an Army transport truck's troop bay. He stared at the floor, his hands bound together with thick, shiny handcuffs that clinked whenever the truck jostled over a bump in the brick roads. The truck motored its way through Golau's main boulevard, giving Aeron a rear view of the apartments, business centers, and taverns in the capital. Everything seemed so peaceful and secure here, but that was deceptive: the Talwydd Ascendancy had plunged full-time into war, both against the rebellion and the corrupted natural monsters, from banshees to lobstoids and many other races.
The truck inclined gently as it drove up the long, golden bridge that connected Golau's harbors to the hovering island where the city hall sat. The bridge was a modern marvel on many levels, Aeron recalled from his history book at the Academy. It had the distinction of being not only the largest bridge in all of Talwydd, but the most beautiful as well. The bridge's function was not marred at all by its curvy, natural elegance, flowing and bending at graceful angles like vines on a trellis. What was more, the bridge was a fail-safe against anyone who dared invade the city hall by ground. At the command of the Talwydd High Command members, the enchanted bridge could instantly become intangible. Everyone and everything on the bridge would plunge right into the deep Golau harbor, never to threaten the High Command again.
At last the truck leveled out again, and now it rolled slowly across the front grounds of the city hall on the island. As soon as the truck came to a halt, the truck's driver and passenger disembarked and escorted Aeron out of the vehicle's troop bay.
"Whoa," Aeron muttered in awe as he was led up the wide stone steps leading to the city hall's huge front doors. He had seen the city hall many times before, but never this close up. From here, Aeron could admire the flawless, majestic beauty of the complex's many pillars, arches, and vaults. The gold-tiled dome roofs glinted in the sunlight, dazzling Aeron's eyes when he looked directly at them.
"This way," the escorts told Aeron briskly as they led him through the double doors, which had just opened, and into the city hall's vast main hall. Here, hundreds of official mages walked the halls and up and down the many staircases leading to higher and lower levels. The floor had a black and blue checkered design, the colors of the Ascendancy itself. Sunlight poured through tall, narrow windows in the sturdy walls, and there wasn't even a need for light bulbs during this time of day. According to what Kenna had told Aeron, this building reflected the older days of Talwydd when there were no factories or zeppelins, just beauty and stone.
Aeron wasn't here for the sights, though. The justice branch of the Ascendancy was here in the city hall, and it only accepted the lawsuits and court martials of mages. Countless mundane courts were scattered in Golau and other cities, but Mage Force members who had to answer to justice were taken to the city hall, the heart of mage supremacy.
"He's here," one of Aeron's escorts announced when he led the wind mage through a door in the justice branch and into a spacious court room. The place was two stories high and filled with Mage Force officers, all of whom turned to see the newcomer.
"Very good," praised the general who was seated at a high podium. "He may take his seat. You two may go."
One of Aeron's escorts tapped the handcuffs with his fingers, unclasping the metal cuffs with a touch of magecrafting. Rubbing his sore wrists, Aeron walked slowly toward his appointed seat, trying to hide the trembling that threatened to wrack his body. Even though he wore the same black and sky blue uniform as everyone else in here, he felt very small.
"Private Aeron Pryce, you were called here today to answer to a charge of disobedience," the old man at the podium began once Aeron took his seat. "I am General Bythell, one of the four generals of the Mage Force and I have been placed in charge of this court martial. Your regiment commander, Colonel Brian McMillan, is present, as is your platoon leader, Commander Gwendolyn Anderson."
Aeron checked the crowds: indeed, frail old Colonel McMillan sat with the other officers, as did Commander Anderson. The latter had her long, silvery hair tied in a simple, practical bun on the back of her head, and her eyes were dispassionate and cold. That certainly fit her magecrafting, Aeron thought.
"Private Pryce," General Bythell began, leaning forward at his podium, "the Talwydd Ascendancy is at war and we need every man and woman out there defending our people. This rebellion's strength and cunning is unprecedented, and the wild monsters are preying on us like a wolf on a wounded sheep! For this reason and more, your insubordination to your commanding officer is a disgrace and a folly that we cannot afford. What can you say in your defense?"
Taking a deep breath, Aeron hesitated before answering. By what he had heard, Mage Force court martials tended to be short and pretty one-sided. After all, the Ascendancy and the rule of mages was enforced by strict discipline and control, and any tiny leak in that control had the potential to escalate into disaster, maybe even throwing Talwydd into chaos. With this in mind, Aeron answered, "General, I am humbled by my ineptitude and ashamed of my contempt for the chain of command." That's right, keep sucking up to them. "What I can say in my defense is this: at the battle for Ryth Gawaid, the later stages of the conflict devolved into complete chaos. It was kill or be killed, and my fellow mage, Private Kenna Reece, was in mortal danger." He inclined his head and raised his voice slightly. "For this reason, I defied Commander Anderson's orders to save Private Reece from certain death at rebel hands."
Murmurs bubbled up in the uniformed crowds, but Aeron couldn't make out the words, especially over the thundering blood in his ears. It sounded much worse when he said all this aloud. He had defied the order and control that the Ascendancy depended utterly on, and it was to save just one life. How many People's Army soldiers had died back in Ryth Gawaid because Aeron hadn't been there covering their retreat?
"You defied the order to save one mage's life?" General Bythell repeated testily. "How many Army lives did you forsake for hers?"
Aeron winced as the general voiced the questions in his head, but he stuck to his story. "General, Private Reece's type of magecrafting is remarkably rare and valuable to the Mage Force and the Ascendancy. Her death would have been a major blow to both my platoon and Third Regiment. I would not have dared defy an order to save the life of a more ordinary mage." Aeron didn't like how cold that sounded, but he had to give some ground in order to gain some.
"It is true, Private Pryce, that Private Reece's abilities are a serious asset to Third Regiment," Colonel McMillan spoke up. "Perhaps her talents would be better used in a secret infiltration force rather than a rank-and-file mage. Such an arrangement could prevent rash action like Private Pryce's."
"That is true," Commander Anderson chimed in, then turned her cold gaze to Aeron. "Private, I am aware that you and Kenna Reece are well-acquainted with each other. Did you defy my order to save her life based on a personal interest?"
Aeron stiffened. "No, Commander, I did not. Personal desires and agendas always come second to my orders and the needs of the Mage Force." Still, he couldn't help blushing a little. He thought of Kenna in a Mage Force hospital with her injured leg in bandages, and he couldn't help getting a protective feeling toward her. She's my friend. I'll sooner die than see her seriously hurt.
"That is good to hear," Anderson nodded slightly, "but the Mage Force maintains that the needs of the many comes before the needs of the few. If you were to notify the family members of the soldiers you allowed to die because you weren't there protecting them like I ordered, would that change your perspective on things?"
Guilt clenched Aeron's gut and he felt sweat bead in his hair. "P-perhaps it would, Commander," he swallowed. A lot of wives had become widows that day...
"I do not believe that informing the family members of the deceased is a proper punishment for Private Pryce's disobedience," General Bythell cut in. "A sentence in military prison is usually the punishment for what Private Pryce has done."
No! I don't wanna go to prison! Aeron thought frantically. He felt himself grow warm under his uniform's collar and the room's walls seemed to bear down on him.
"However," Bythell continued, "in these dire times we cannot afford to keep mages off the front lines for long, and Private Pryce's motives are not entirely in poor judgment. Private Kenna Reece's talents are indeed rare, and Private Pryce's actions show a level of devotion to his fellow mages that is to be commended, regrettably at the cost of his complete obedience to his orders. I nominate the following punishment: transferring Private Aeron Pryce to the Sneachta Mountains for hard labor mining iron ores with the other criminal workers there. Perhaps working in a place that forbids magecrafting will teach him some humility."
"I second this motion," Colonel McMillan offered. "It is a most sensible sentence."
"I, too, support this motion," Anderson put in. "I can have Private Pryce on a zeppelin to the mountains within three days' time at the most."
General Bythell nodded once. "It is decided. Private Aeron Pryce, you are sentenced to hard labor at the mines at the Sneachta Mountains until further notice. Justice has been served."
Aeron felt relieved at avoiding time in a military prison, but working at a mountain mine with criminals didn't sound very fun, either. I guess I brought this on myself. "Understood, General."
"Very well. This session is adjourned."
"Private Pryce, I need to see you," Commander Anderson told Aeron back in the city hall's many hallways. The two guards escorting him paused, saluting the platoon commander.
Aeron hesitated, then snapped a salute. "Yes, sir. What do you need from me?"
"Just follow me," Anderson told him briskly, striding through the bustling, sunlit halls toward a small, empty meeting room. As soon as they both slipped inside and Aeron shut the door, Commander Anderson sighed and folded her arms. "Private Pryce, I believe that the sentence given to you was fair and appropriate. However..."
Crap, I'm getting demoted? Aeron thought in a panic, then remembered that there were no ranks below Private in the Mage Force. Wow, I'm scatter-brained today.
"It may seem to you that I am cold and indifferent toward you," Anderson admitted, "but there are very good reasons the Ascendancy strictly forbids disobedience or disorder."
"Yes, ma'am. To prevent a small problem from getting bigger and toppling our control over Talwydd," Aeron responded dutifully.
"Mmmmm." Anderson pursed her lips. "That is true. Before you leave for the Sneachta Mountains mines, you should know that personal matters motivate everyone, including me. I don't want to single you out as a miscreant, Private. I'm only acting on my convictions, and I have past experience with the consequences of lacking discipline and control of one's life."
Unsure what to expect, Aeron stayed quiet.
"I have two older brothers, Private. Actually, I had two brothers. When they were teenagers, they got mixed up in gangs and illegal activities because our parents were often away. They encouraged me to join them, but I always refused."
Commander Anderson's personal life? And I've joked with a few people that she didn't have one, Aeron thought.
Anderson continued, "I was ashamed of my brothers' behavior and disgusted by them. But one day they were caught, and both executed for their long list of crimes. Then I realized how badly I missed them, and what irresponsibility had done to my family. I joined the Mage Force to distance myself from the lives they had led, convincing myself that discipline is the cure for all evil and suffering." Her normally cold eyes had almost a parental look in them. "That's why, Private, I urge you to remember your oath to the Ascendancy and what we fight for: order, justice, progress. Maybe my personal view is skewed a little. All the same, I do not want you to resent me, Private. I'm only raising you to be a good mage the best way I know how."
"I, uh..." Aeron fought for his words. "Thank you, sir, for the pep talk. I don't resent you, sir." Still, the Mage Force's discipline had nearly cost him Kenna's life. Only his impulses had saved her. Death didn't play fair, Aeron knew. He had to bend the rules a little! Didn't everyone bend the rules at some point or another?
Anderson nodded her approval. "I don't normally open up like that, Private, but you put Private Reece's life before your own, and I decided that you deserved a little insight. But do not repeat anything I told you to anyone else. Is that understood?"
With a quick salute, Aeron said sharply, "Sir, yes sir!" For a moment, he wondered if he had become Anderson's personal favorite, then quickly dismissed the idea. She's just giving a life lesson. Ugh. I bet I'll have more than enough time to think it over while I'm working at those mines. What an adventure the Mage Force is turning out to be!
It was late afternoon in Golau and the reddish sun was sinking low on the horizon, giving the capital city a sleepy, almost dream-like appearance. In her spacious office in the Golau Military Academy, Catrina Pryce yawned and shuffled a stack of papers on her mahogany desk, relieved that her duties for the day as the academy's headmistress were finally over. Hundreds more papers, maps, and official forms were scattered on her desk, both in tidy stacks and messy piles here and there. Three expensive fountain pens sat in their cases and a few framed photographs took up the rest of the desk, all of them featuring the same few people: herself, her brother Ewan, her brother's wife Moyra, and their sons Aeron and Fergus.
Aeron had graduated this academy only a month ago, and already a new class of mages was being trained. The normal three-month gap between classes had been shortened due to the developing war against the rebellion and corrupted wild monsters, and Catrina secretly feared that the Talwydd High Command would instate martial law and begin conscription for the People's Army. Increased taxes and curfews would soon follow, and an already disgruntled population of non-mage citizens might be pushed into rioting or joining the rebellion in droves.
Please, supreme mages, handle these dire times with care, Catrina prayed, standing up from her leather-padded chair and stretching her cramped muscles. The eight mages who headed the Talwydd High Command would go to any length to maintain order, most of all Supreme Magus Aodhagan, the most powerful and influential of those eight mages. It was commonly accepted that the Talwydd Ascendancy was an oligarchy that had traits of a brutal police state, but the supreme mages might push it even further.
Maybe I just need a vacation, Catrina thought to herself as she tossed her long red hair and made her way to the office's door, her high heels clicking on her office's tile floor. Maybe to the crystal islands of the south coast...
Just before the headmistress opened her door, the door's latch clicked and the heavy wooden door swung inwards, revealing a squat but beaming man with balding brown hair and an expensive tweed coat. "Catrina!" he cried, extending a hand. "I was hoping to meet you before you left. I would have come earlier, but the traffic here..."
"Is the most awful thing you've ever experienced," Catrina finished for her old friend, familiar with her friend's distaste for Golau's heavy car and zeppelin traffic. She backed up a few steps, giving room for her rotund friend to come in. "So, Alan... to what do I owe the pleasure?"
Alan Murphy was a wind mage like Aeron, but the two of them didn't have much else in common. Alan indulged in fine foods and his archaeological and zoology studies, causing him to become rather wide, especially for his petite height. Never one for physical activity, Alan had mastered the use of his wind magecrafting to move himself through difficult situations, which happened only rarely. Despite any physical shortcomings, he had one of the most curious and studious minds Catrina had ever seen.
"Something very exciting, dire, and extraordinarily important," Alan Murphy said eagerly, rubbing his pudgy hands. "Yes, I know I say that a lot, but this is different, very different, Catrina! I trust that you will hear me out?"
Catrina nodded and sat on the edge of her desk, folding her arms. "What have you got for me, old friend?"
"The zoology club I'm in, the one you quit recently, has determined that the source of corruption of Talwydd's wildlife is a single entity," Alan bubbled, indifferent to the struggles or suffering of the common people. To him, only the scientific curiosity mattered. "The entity is believed to be somewhere in the northern region, maybe in the mountains. A team is being put together to look into it. Can I count you in?"
Catrina laughed. "Whoa whoa, Alan. That's asking an awful lot of me. I mean, I have an academy to run..."
Alan's face fell slightly. "Yes... yes, I know, Catrina. But I know that this mage academy, and many others, has staff rotation for work-related stress and other duties. You were one of the better members of the zoology club. It would be such a shame to go on the expedition without you!"
At that, Catrina hesitated. On one hand, she had given up exploration to devote herself to helping raise capable new mages for the Mage Force. On the other hand... she did miss the old expedition days, and she hated to let Alan down. Maybe I've been a little stressed recently, and my last vacation was years ago, Catrina bargained with herself, weighing the options. Then a grin crossed her face and she hopped off her desk. "All right, you've roped me in. So what exactly are we getting ourselves into?"
"I am glad to hear that," Alan smiled. "I'll have a few papers ready for you at the club headquarters. We can take a zeppelin there tonight, or maybe tomorrow, depending on the awful traffic around here. I assume that you'll have staff rotation forms ready to cover your headmistress post here?" He talked a mile a minute, gesturing with his hands.
Catrina laughed as she opened the door, ushering her friend into the hallway. "Yes, I'll have it all covered, Alan. Although I might also send a letter to my nephew so he knows where I've gone."
"Oh, right. Aeron Pryce, the wind mage," Alan recalled as he and his friend walked the halls of the academy. "Is he doing well in the Mage Force?"
Deciding not to mention the news of Aeron's recent court martial that took place two days ago, Catrina answered, "Yes, quite well. He's settling right into Third Regiment. I suppose that time will tell what sort of mage he turns out to be."


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Murphy on Bataleon now, be on the lookout for more ridiculous tricks like this
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Zack had one last year, and there was that gay ass Pat Millberry one a couple weeks ago but that doesnt really count
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