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Where I reside, we've had complete political uproar over midwifery care, and midwives working in my area were essentially suspended (jurisdiction dictates they work within our medical system, and therefore have to answer to hospitals not work independently). Here, we aren't progressive in advocating for midwifery care, and it looks like it's really not going to take off again any time soon.
So my question is... is midwifery care vs. obstetrical care worth the travel?
I'd love to hear of others experiences.
"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
Absolutely, yes. When I was pregnant with my third, I used a birth center that was an hour from our house to avoid having to go to the hospital. The midwife gives better prenatal care, much better birth care and the postpartum care is definitely more comprehensive.
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In my opinion, it is totally worth traveling to get the care you want for you and your baby. The -only- midwife who serves my area, that is not connected to a hospital, and who attends homebirths is 4 hours away (with stops), and I have to cross state lines. I'm about to be in my 3rd trimester, and I spend a FULL day traveling to make my appointments (with DH and my 4yo DD).
I had DD at the hospital in my town. There are two nurse midwives attached to this hospital, but they rotate, AND they are just as medicalized as the OBs. The hospital in my town even has birthing tubs, but they will not let you birth in them. Certain docs will let you use them for early labor, but you can't guarantee that you'll get one of those docs when you go into labor. With DD I received oxygen, pitocin, an epidural, vacuum extractor, a partial episiotomy, nurses screaming at me that "your baby is pushing harder than you are! What are you doing?!," and an anesthesiologist that leered and grinned through curtains at my partially naked body while I was forced to push on my back with my legs up in the air.
When I became pregnant with this baby, I searched for a solid week to find anyone who do a homebirth in my area. I emailed, called, and followed leads that finally led me to the one midwife who will travel here for my birth. Luckily, when I spoke with her over the phone I had an instant connection as well. She's great. I am SO glad, and SO relieved that I don't have to be resigned to a birth anywhere NEAR approximating the one I had with DD. The 8 hour round trips on my appointment days are sometimes hard, especially as I progress further along in my pregnancy, but 100% worth it to me.
SAHM married to DH since 09/11. Mama to DD (01/08)and DS (06/12)
Had I delivered anywhere in any of the hospitals near me, I would have been a c-section for "Failure to progress". My hospital midwives though were wonderful and didn't fly that way.
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I took a bunch of these darn stupid pics while playing with my camera. I have to live with them, so I'm making you suffer through them too!
From Eagle Plains it's less than an hour to the Arctic Circle pull out. I got to spend the first ten minutes or so here alone, which was pretty cool, before a van load of fellow travellers turned up. They asked me to move my bike, which was parked in front of the sign, so that they could take pics of themselves. I was mortified!
Just had to get this pic out of the way. Dunno where it comes from or why it's here, but it's on the Dempster somewhere...
The money shot
View from the pull out
Fellow travellers
Looking south from the pullout
I know, I know...but I think my bike is beautiful!
Kari was a few minutes behind me
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Location: Thunder Bay Ontario Canada
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Great report and pictures. 2 of us did almost the same trip in 2005. Didn't know about Adventure Rider or digital cameras then!
Your pictures are sure bringing back lots of good memories
Don't be shy about posting lots of them.
Thanks again for the report.
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Location: Canton OH/San Diego CA
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Ben, the most endearing thing about your bike is that license plate. I'll never forget the first one of I saw. It was on the back of a Ford pick-up on the ferry across the McKenzie in '99 and it was so dirty you could barley make out the numbers on it, but the shape was unmistakeable. Unique, none other like it in the world. Keep the pictures coming, I'm in suspense as to what the border weather was like when the two of you crossed. Get 'er on up the road Buddy!!!
'06 ST 1300 79,673 miles (gone but never forgotten)
'09 Gold Wing 109,927 miles (sold)
'10 Gold Wing 118,442 traded in
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Location: S'Toon , SK
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Ben: top notch
Ben your dempster pics so far bring back my memory of a great trip. keep it coming
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Dempster assault 2008 - 28 hours and a zillion mosquitoes http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=351420
Eat my shorts
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Eat my shorts
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Hey, I'm going to be in Nunavut later this month - they have the same shape plate but with something different written on it. I'll snap a pic and post it up...
And I got your PM, too (at least one of us checks theirs!) - I'll take care of that next week.
Cheers Mac -keep checking in! More coming later today, I hope (but my boss is upset because every time he walks in I'm on ADV) Note to self - get a life....
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looking at the pictures have actually calmed me down... thanks TS thumbs up for you
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After the Arctic Circle pullout, it was time to head north toward the NWT border. At Eagle Plains Rick and co had told us that the road became worse across the border, and I'd written in my journal that that sacred me. Not that it had been bad so far, just rough in places, but I'm not a very experienced off road rider (or rider at all, in fact), and one of the things I hate most is gravel. We were told there'd be plenty of it, laid on thick just for us!
Before we went too far, though, we came across the truck that had flipped while we were having breakfast.
You can see how recently it happened - the lights are still on.
Not sure how this happened, it being a flat, straight stretch of road. My guess that he was pouring a coffee, changing the 8-track cassette, or maybe dozed off - but once he'd caught one wheel over the soft shoulder of the road it would have just sucked him on in to the ditch. The guy was ok, by the way - shaken but not broken. He'd been wearing a seatbelt and that likely saved his life.
The trailer was full of fresh fruit and veg, and the doors were bent to the extent that you could get in there easily enough. The cheap-ass KLR owner in me saw a free lunch and I asked the guy who was dealing with the wreck what the scoop was on my grabbing something to eat out of the trailer. He said, "That's illegal". I thought to myself that I hadn't asked whether it was legal or not....
For those of you that have never driven a rig, one of the most elemental things when driving one is to keep the rubber side down. Hmm, a slight oversight on the part of this particular driver...
Ok, although it didn't directly have any influence on this particular trip, when I saw 'Long Way Round' and those guys were in Russia on the Road Of Bones I felt 'the calling' - that is adventure. Anyone can ride to Inuvik, but dealing with what those guys did was pure motorbike porn in my book. Before they'd got that far and were still in Mongolia I was struck but the sheer scale and beauty of the landscapethey were riding through, and ever since then Mongolia has been my dream ride - you can even look and see that it says that in my profile (would I lie to you?!) But up here, you know...I don't think what you ride through on the Dempster is that much different. In many ways I feel that I might as well have done Mongolia already, in terms of scenery at least. The ride from the pull out to the border crossing was, I think, some of the most spectacular things I'm ever likely to see, (mirrors excluded, of course!!!).
Check this out:
And my favourite because it gives a good sense of scale. Thanks to Hecktoglider for posing for this one
Coming up, I'm about to put the good luck bracelet that Rick gave me to the test when I have my first 'oops' of the trip. But I'm likely going to be posting less frequently, for a few days anyway. Today is my last day at work here and I'll be spending the weekend traveling home. Once I'm back in Yellowknife I'll do what I can, but it's going to be a busy week. I'd like to as much as I can before I go to Ellesmere Island just to get rid of a few more of these pics - I think I took about 800 over the entire trip!
(And you're going to have to suffer through every one of them....)
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getting out my maps to see where you're going
keep in coming, love to visit these areas.....is this a motel trip or camping trip........Bruce
OK, reviewed the entire trip log......got the atlas out to follow the trip.....have rarely spent this much time on a RR.......fantastic.....my wife and i got as far as Atlin on an XL600 twenty years ago.....love to come back .... sure wish I could carry my .45 in Canada! thx and look forward to the rest....Bruce
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This a camping trip - I only spent two nights in motels on the entire trip, but I do have friends all over the country and I made good use of their generosity when I could!
I went to Atlin on this trip...keep watching...and about that .45 - you can carry it. Just don't get busted. Or use it. (What would you use it on? Bears?)
Thanks for the compliments!
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I like the bit about the flipped produce truck!
Nice report!
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So we left Mr. Upside Down Truck and headed for the NWT border. Good to be home again and all that crap, but the road really did get noticeably worse. Not bad compared with what was to come, but there was enough of a difference that it threw me, and I almost copied Mr. Upside down. I was coming through a little S-curve - and these aren't exactly the world's sharpest corners we're talking about, but I suddenly lost all my confidence and did the two worst things I could have done. I became fixated on the deeper gravel on the side of the road where I specifically didn't want to head, and I slowed down. The result?
Yeah, well.
I was only going about 50 km/h, maybe 60 at the most and I pretty much just ended up sliding off the soft shoulder and landing on my left hand side. I wasn't hurt, but I was glad that I hadn't had more of a head of steam up because if I'd gone sailing over the edge I'd have landed about 30ft below in the river. And that wouldn't have been good.
I shut the bike off, unplugged my electric vest and climbed off, beginning to unload the thing, before I remembered that this was going to be on ADV and promptly took the photo above.
Standing the bike upright was easy enough but I couldn't walk it up onto the road 'cos the rear tire just kept spinning, so all I could do was wait.
And take photos.
It was sunny, and pretty, so all I could do was take pics and explore while I waited for someone to come along and give me a hand.
I wasn't hurt, and neither was the bike other than one broken mirror, so I figured that this is where the bracelet I'd been given worked its magic. Thank you magic fairies!
I was there a couple of hours all told, I think. Eventually a Highways pickup came along and we got the bike back onto the road in about 30 seconds flat. I loaded up and jumped on the bike, fired it up and was just adjusting my one remaining mirror when Hecktoglider came back looking for me, proving that our system worked. Thanks again, Heckto - I know you were a long way ahead of me when you realized something was wrong.
Heckto leading the way again
There are two ferry crossings on the Dempster hwy, one crosses the Peel river and the other the mighty Mackenzie.
We stopped for gas in Fort Macpherson and these kids...
...started asking us about our bikes. They were all over Kari's black bike and asking how much it cost, how far he could get on a tank of gas, how fast it went etc. Kari answered their questions and by that time we were ready to be off again. Just as we were about to leave they pointed to my bike and started asking the same questions. I told them it was the same bike...then Kari rode off and I said to them, "You know, I couldn't say anything infront of him, but my bike is faster 'cos it's red".
The gravel realy did get deeper the further we went, but for some reason my face plant had only helped and I now felt more confident than I ever had. I was able to pick a better line and pick up speed. The views were...big...not as spectacular as they had been in the Yukon, but you could see the curvature of the earth now, the distances were so huge. Crazy. I really got into my ride, and then had a sudden urge to hear Dire Straits' 'Love Over Gold' album so I pulled over and put my iPod on.
At last...
It was 10:15pm when we rolled into Inuvik and once again I was simply shattered. The lady in this pic was repainting the sign and she told us that the campground was the other end of town, so off we went. Driving through town I immediately liked it - it is just a mini version of Yellowknife and I felt right at home.
We found the campground, paid for a night and grabbed the best spot, which happened to be available. Mission accomplished - we had ridden the Dempster.
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I get goosebumps reading this, and looking at the pics. I think the produce truck driver said(to the rescuers) it was the glare on his windsheild, from the midnight sun.....It was'nt midnight, but anyways thats what impaired his vision, and the soft shoulder pulled him over.
I was about 40 km ahead of you when I turned back. I waited a long time at a nice spot to get a photo of the bike approaching, and you never appeared. I got to enjoy that section of road again!
I am glad you took so many photos. I took way less. I distinctly remember seeing the curve of the earth at the top end of Canada, just before we descended into the Beaufort Delta and the Peel River crossing. This ride has been one of the best I have ever done. The way back was really spectacular too. I am glad we had the good weather and were able to kick back in Inuvik for 3 days and really enjoy the time there.
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Here's our campsite in Inuvik
I didn't get much sleep that first night 'cos it was cold, and the drunks were hootin' and hollerin' all night.
Our plan at that stage was to spend one full day there and rest, then head back south. We had both heard horror stories about what happens to the Dempster when it rains lots, and didn't want to get caught up in that shit.
Some pics from in and around the town
During the day heckto went to the library to use the net, and checked up on the weather forecast. He said it was just peachy and suggested that we stay another day and rest while we knew we had a window. Very good call, as we both needed it, and that's what we did.
That evening I met my friend Eli for a bit to eat.
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So how does this relate to Josh Hamilton and the Reds? Let's see if I can unpack my thoughts for all of you.
Of course, by taking part in this forum, I am every bit as much part of the vast sports culture machinery as the next person -- probably more so even. Sports are a huge part of my existence, as I think they are for most people who contribute to RedsZone. However, the way sports operate in our country does give me pause to think once in awhile -- and my thoughts aren't all positive. It's as if sports create this impenetrable ether for us to bask in without thinking about what's really going on in the world.
The past few weeks have been particularly poignant in this regard. Don Imus's misdeeds have actually created some ire among a few of my friends because they obligate sports talk and coverage to actually deal with something other than the safe, bounded universe they are familiar with when they turn on ESPN -- the one that gets them away from the chaos and uncertainty of media coverage dominated by a certain war and photos of Seung Cho. One of the many sad aspects of Virginia Tech is that it often takes tragedies like this to make us realize that there are a lot of other heroic professions, attitudes, and just ways of "dwelling" in the world that never get the constant attention we reserve for athletes. Having traveled a bit and lived in other places, I really think there is something specific and bizarre about the way America treats athletic prowess, and it starts (I think) with the alignment between sports and the education system, something that many other countries see as strange--and something I don't have time to treat in depth here.
So how does this relate to Josh Hamilton? Well, arbitrarily at best. Let me try to explain. Watching him play over the past few weeks, as he fills up my fantasy team with statistics while all of these upsetting things swirl around in other windows on my desktop, has been strangely therapeutic. Just a click away, one tab over on my Firefox browser, there is a human interest story that is uplifting, inspiring and safe. A story about an individual conquering odds much larger than those it takes to hit a 95 mph fastball. And read that story I have. Many, many, many times.
Is this healthy? I'm not sure. I'm not even sure that it isn't evidence for my own complicity with an increasingly screwed-up, a-political form of citizenship in this country.
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THE Leek Group of Staffordshire Wildlife Trust enjoyed a busy and successful day at Leek Show.
Our children's colouring corner proved very popular with children and parents alike who could sit and watch.
Our special Roaches raffle raised £125 on the day which will go towards the Roaches Footpath Appeal.
Work has already begun on this and will continue in phases over the next three years.
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Bakewell Market Report Monday, August 18 2014
Our thanks go to Cotswold Outdoor of Bakewell, Picture Book, Stanley Street, Leek, and The Three Horseshoes Inn, Blackshaw Moor, Leek, for donating the prizes. The lucky winner was Mr & Mrs Steve Gower.
Much interest was shown in our displays and our membership stall.
Further fund-raising was held at the Sainsbury's marquee as we start our year as their Local Charity of the Year.
We are looking forward to attending both the Manifold Show and the Ipstones Agricultural Show over the summer which are also very enjoyable opportunities to meet members old and new.
Monthly reserve work parties continue on both Swineholes and Rod Wood, as does the twice monthly mid-week work-parties, where dry-stone walling, bracken "bashing" and path maintenance are current routines. Anyone wishing to take part in these sessions should contact the secretary of the Leek Group on the number 01538 300264 for further details.
Members of the group are busy surveying ponds in the Staffordshire Moorlands area, which is providing a valuable insight to this under-recorded habitat.


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text: [[quoteright:200:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/julius_caesar.jpg]]->''Alea iacta est! [[labelnote:translation]][[YouAreTheTranslatedForeignWord The die has been cast!]][[/labelnote]]''->-- '''Caesar''', [[PointOfNoReturn Crossing the Rubicon]]The most famous Roman in history. Brilliant general, orator, politician and writer. Had nothing to do with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_salad the salad]] or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarean_section the surgical procedure]].Gaius was born in the month [[UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}} his successor]] would rename after him, July (then called ''Quintilis''), in the year 100 BC, to a minor aristocratic family that nonetheless traced its line back to the foundation of Rome, as well as the goddess Venus and the hero [[Literature/TheAeneid Aeneas]]. Caesar's father died when he was 16 and Caesar thus became head of the household and, within a year, the teenaged Flamen Dialis[[note]]High Priest of Jupiter, who lived under a series of religious injunctions, most famously being forbidden to ride a horse, touch iron, touch a corpse, spend the night outside the City, or become Consul; in compensation he got a unique hat and a seat in the Senate [[/note]], for which he had to break off his engagement to a plebian girl and marry Cornelia, the daughter of four-time consul Lucius Cinna. His family connections made Caesar a target of the dictator Sulla, who forced him to spend much of his inheritance in elaborate ceremonies, as well as removing his priesthood at the pleas of his mother Aurelia and others, and had toyed with having Caesar killed when he refused to divorce his wife Cinilla after one of Sulla's proscriptions stripped her of her noble status.Abandoning the post of Flamen Dialis caused him to lose his position in the Senate, but enabled him to join the Military, which he did. However one of Sulla's restrictions, possibly ordered as a joke, only allowed him to ride a donkey into battle. Despite these setbacks, he went on to win glory for himself by winning the Civic Crown in a siege, which entitled him to automatic entry into the Senate (ironically, one of Sulla's reforms- in fact, Caesar couldn't have joined the army either if Sulla hadn't stripped him of his priesthood)[[note]]The Crown was a reward for saving the life of a fellow citizen, ''vis a vis'' killing an enemy on the spot. Or at least it was in theory, but in practice it was awarded for more trivial deeds as well; for example, in his ''Attic Nights'' Aulus Gellius quotes Cato the Elder criticizing Roman commander Marcus Fulvius Nobilior for awarding Civic Crowns to the soldiers for industry in building a rampart or in digging a well. Suetonius does not specify what Caesar was given the Civic Crown for.[[/note]]. He also, during this time, was sent on a mission to Bithynia to secure the help of King Nicomedes, but his lengthy stay at court sprouted (probably false) rumours in Rome that the two were having a homosexual relationship, rumours that were to dog Caesar throughout his career.Caesar returned shortly before Sulla's death, during which time the dictator rescinded his order only allowing Caesar to ride a donkey, and gave him a present of a warhorse with toes instead of normal hooves. He was to ride this horse and its descendants into battle for the rest of his career. Despite these positive gains, his fortune was depleted, and he had to survive on a fairly low budget, and moved to a modest house in a plebian district. Henceforth he would have several problems with moneylenders, taking many big loans and having trouble repaying them. He took up legal advocacy (like most aspiring politicians of the time) and became famous for his oratory and ruthlessness in the courts. Shortly after he sought to improve his oratory further and sought out Cicero's teacher Appollonius in Rhodes. On the way, he was captured by pirates, and infamously acted high-handedly with his captors, demanding they ask for a higher ransom and promising to hunt them down and kill them all once he was freed. The pirates thought he was joking ([[DisproportionateRetribution they were wrong]]).After his return to Rome, he was elected military tribune[[note]]Despite the name, this wasn't a military equivalent to the Tribunes who protected the rights of the Roman people; by law, Roman soldiers had no rights to protect in the first place. "Military tribune" was a regular military rank that was, very roughly, equivalent to the rank of colonel in a modern army. It was the usual first step in a political career; Romans tended not to trust politicians who hadn't served a term in the army.[[/note]], and quaestor in 69 BC. That year, his first wife died. He served his quaestorship in Hispania, where he reportedly wept at a statue of AlexanderTheGreat, realizing his achievements at the same age were rather less impressive. He married Sulla's granddaughter Pompeia later on and worked to undermine the regime the dead dictator set up, possibly being involved in two aborted coups. (Ironically, he was following in Sulla's footsteps in this regard, as the late dictator had done exactly the same to the previous Roman regime.)His real climb to power began in 63 BC. After arranging and presiding over a show trial of an elderly senator, probably just to show that he could (the defence had to fake an invasion to prevent the death penalty being passed, and Caesar seemingly chose to let the matter drop[[note]] The Senator, for the record, was guilty as hell- the crime being stoning a reformist to death; the issue was that ''dozens'' of other Senators were involved as well, and Caesar seemed only concerned with making an impression and picking on the most vulnerable of the bunch[[/note]]), he got himself elected Pontifex Maximus - chief priest of Rome - a huge gamble that would have ruined him if he failed, as he poured all his money into his campaign, whereas while in office he could not be prosecuted for his debts. As he told his mother before going to the polls, he would return as Pontifex Maximus or not at all.By this point he had become a major player in the Popularist faction, which included many figures who publicly supported the plight of the poor but privately just wanted to advance their own careers, and was probably involved in the Catiline conspiracy, though he avoided prosecution. He ruthlessly divorced Pompeia after a sex scandal at his house; she was not involved, but he said that "The Chief Priest's wife must be above suspicion," which is usually taken to mean he didn't want this to hinder his career. ([[ValuesDissonance At the time, this was normal Roman behavior]].)Soon after, he became governor of Spain, where he - completely without sanction from Rome - began attacking Roman allies and annexing their land, expanding the Republic throughout modern Spain. Again, he was partly motivated by the need to pay off his debtors, sending them loot to ease off his pressure.At this point, he allied with arch-rivals Crassus and UsefulNotes/{{Pompey}}, forming the First Triumvirate with himself as Consul, or head of state for a year, really a three-man dictatorship. Pompey, a military leader, was without doubt the most powerful in the Triumvirate, followed by the famously wealthy Crassus. At the time, Caesar was the least powerful - a forty-year old politician whose only achievement was winning a few elections. Caesar shared the Consulship with Bibulus, whose ineffective attempts to oppose the Triumvirs' agenda led to their term being jokingly called the Year of Julius and Caesar (Romans referred to a year by the Consuls' names). After establishing their authority and passing agrarian reform laws at least allegedly designed to help the poor, Caesar again went on military campaign as governor of Cis-and Transalpine Gaul and Illyria, conquering most of Gaul (France) and entering Germania across several years of campaigning, with a failed attempt to grab Britannia. While there his daughter Julia - Pompey's (very) young wife - died of illness.Crassus had died on the campaign against the Parthians, and the Optimate (or Conservative) faction, allied with Pompey, ordered Caesar to disband his army and declared his governorship over, at the same time refusing to allow him to stand for a second consulship. They then declared him an enemy of the state. He marched on Rome, using as an excuse the mistreatment of the tribunes of the people who had presented his case to the Senate. He crossed the Rubicon, the border of Italy where Roman armies are supposed to disband (uttering the page quote), and took the city unchallenged; though he had only one legion, his enemies did not trust the newly-recruited troops raised in their defence and fled. This started the Roman Civil War, and after gathering the rest of his forces from Hispania, Caesar eventually fought and defeated Pompey at Pharsalus in 48 BC, despite being vastly outnumbered.Caesar became dictator (a Consul with emergency powers) in Rome and chased Pompey to Egypt, where to Caesar's horror the Egyptians had had him murdered and presented Caesar with his head. In response he allied with Princess Cleopatra and overthrew the Pharaoh, her younger brother, putting her on the throne as a Roman ally. They were lovers until his death and she claimed him as the father of her son Caesarion. Caesar began defeating his remaining enemies, including the Optimate leader Cato who committed suicide - to which Caesar remarked that he would have let him live. As this was [[TheStoic Cato]], however, that's probably why he killed himself in the first place, and given how little the two liked each other, it's plausible Caesar was mocking him.In his absence, the Senate bestowed unto Caesar a series of honours, partly because he was so merciful - unlike Sulla, almost none of his enemies were proscribed, indeed most were pardoned (his behavior in Gaul was...less so, being extremely brutal to tribes who put up too much resistance). He began a series of reforms to alleviate the plight of the poor, overhauled the Roman calendar, and built many famous buildings. He also revived an old project of Gaius Gracchus, the rebuilding of Carthage, together with Corinth, both destroyed and famously salted a century before.Caesar was assassinated in spectacular fashion in 44 BC by a group of rebellious senators, including his young friend Brutus, being stabbed [[TwentyThree 23]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill times]] [[BloodOnTheDebateFloor in the senate]]; though all told the senate brandished a total of 27 wounds. The line ''EtTuBrute'' is from Shakespeare, and he never said it, though he does appear to have expressed shock once he saw Brutus was one of his killers (Also, historically what ever he mumbled was likely in Greek). The exact site of Caesar's death, in a touch of historical irony, was right under the statue of his old friend and rival Pompey. This was followed by decades of civil war, mainly between his general Marc Antony and his appointed heir, [[UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}} Octavian]]. The latter won, and TheRepublic became TheEmpire.Caesar is a controversial figure and historians to this day are divided about him. The Republic he overthrew was extremely corrupt and increasingly ineffective, while he provided strong, stable and popular leadership. He was merciful to his (Roman) enemies and widely respected for his many talents. When he died he was either about to take personal power as the dictator, or possibly ensure reform efforts after denying the crown several times [[note]] though, in context, it's possible that he didn't ''plan'' on denying it, as the Roman citizens booed when he tried to take it and cheered whenever he turned it down[[/note]]; it is one of the great [[WhatIf What Ifs]] of history as to what he would have done. The impact and importance of his legacy in Western civilization are indisputably immense: for the next two thousand years after his death, rulers would invoke and wear his name as a title and honorific.Yet, despite this, he was a man driven mainly by personal ambition (though he was far from the only Roman like this; on the contrary, it was basically the Roman way, at least if you were an aristocrat), and was perfectly capable of ruthlessness to get what he wanted. His campaigns were extremely brutal, possibly claiming as many as a million lives in total, with much rampant looting and slave trading. He is usually regarded by his critics as the man principally responsible for the death of democracy in Rome, though his admirers feel that Roman democracy was by that point in name only, and that Caesar did more for the common man of Rome than anyone else who could plausibly have taken power would have. He was also known to be very vain about his personal appearance, was notoriously promiscuous before, during and after his marriages, and could and would go to extreme lengths to get revenge.The debate, then, is largely about whether his personal failings - and boy were there many - outweigh his many accomplishments, and whether or not his quest for greatness ultimately saved Rome from a corrupt aristocracy....or doomed it to centuries of tyranny. It is noteworthy that there is no evidence of him planning to become a dictator prior to the civil war or of attempting to institutionalise despotism (that was more Augustus's thing). He named Octavian (later known as Augustus) as his heir, but he didn't specifically entitle him to inherit the dictatorship. It seems more probable that he thought that his dictatorship was a personal special position and Octavian was the heir to his property and name (along with, of course, the prestige of name) only.Recommended reading: ''Caesar: The Life of a Colossus'' by Adrian Goldsworthy.----!! Works by Gaius Julius Caesar with their own pages:* ''Literature/CommentariesOnTheGallicWar''----!!Gaius Julius Caesar provides examples of the following:* TheAce: He was a great politician, orator, lawyer, general, warrior, writer, historian and ruler.* AffablyEvil: He was very cultured (he was an aristocrat after all), could be very merciful, and generally tried to make friends out of enemies.* AmbitionIsEvil: For his detractors, Caesar is one of the classic examples.* AntagonistInMourning: Towards Pompey.* AristocratsAreEvil: Inverted and played straight. The Roman aristocracy was corrupt, self-serving and totally amoral. Caesar was their enemy - he was also exactly like them, and of their number.* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He earned his despotic dictatorship the hard way.* BadAss: He was a very brave soldier, and unlike most Roman generals [[FrontlineGeneral fought on the front lines with his men]] (also unlike them, he lived the same lifestyle, avoiding any privileges afforded by his class), thus earning their respect. He was also, apparently, a very good swordsman, though he did not boast of that much.** Apparently when the first assassin stabbed at him he just grabbed the guy's arm asked him what the hell he was doing, and the assassin had to call for help. He also tried to stab back at them with only his stylus. After all the stabbings he didn't even go down till he saw Brutus. And the autopsy showed that only one wound was fatal.** Caesar got into the Senate unusually young ''specifically'' through being a badass: at the age of 21 he won the 'Civic Crown' - Rome's second highest military decoration, awarded to those who saved another citizen's life in battle and which was sufficiently high an honour to automatically grant him a seat.* BadassBoast: ''Veni, vidi, vici'' "I came, I saw, I conquered". His report to the Senate on the Pontus war and a post-humous TakeThat against Pompey, who got a bit tangled in the previous war there.* BadassCape: If you were a barbarian and you saw Caesar come down his horse and put on his red cape, ''you run''.* BadassPreacher: Twice. He was appointed Flamen Dialis before Sulla stripped him of his title, which freed him from some highly restrictive rules, thus opening the door to the army and politics, making this ForWantOfANail. He was later elected Pontifex Maximus at a very young age (before holding the consulship), probably through heavy bribery. However, Roman priests had a very different role from modern preachers, as did the state religion.* BaldOfAwesome / BaldOfEvil: And he didn't like it, which is why most people don't know about it. He wasn't totally bald, but his crown was pretty bare. Towards the end of his life, he was awarded the privilege of wearing a laurel wreath whenever he felt like it, which he used to hide the baldness.** {{Irony}}: Caesar probably comes from ''caesariatus'', "hairy".* BigBad: To his enemies at least, though he ''did'' end up dictator for life, remember.** BigGood: To a large part of the Roman Army and to the people of Rome, even ''while he was dictator''. Rome's Jewish population, in particular, considered him their protector.* BiTheWay: Allegedly had an affair with King Nicomedes of Bithynia, though if the number of mistresses he had is any indication, he seems to have preferred women.** Suetonius has his legionnaires mocking him during his triumph.-->Caesar may have conquered the Gauls, but Nicomedes conquered Caesar.** The common consensus is that this was actually just MaliciousSlander, a nasty DepravedBisexual rumor spread by his enemies to hurt his political career. It didn't work, though: when taunted with being Nicomedes's "woman", Caesar calmly pointed out that many women had proven themselves capable leaders over the centuries.** Although Suetonius did write that he "sent his toy boy named Rufio, the son of one of his freedman", and mentioned that the elder Curio referred to him in his speech as "every woman's husband, and every man's wife". * BloodOnTheDebateFloor* BreadAndCircuses: A generous perpetuator of the free bread policy during his rule and also an important planned part of his triumphal parade. He was responsible for the direct implementation of such circuses during his term as ''aedile''.* {{The Casanova}}: Big time. He was not the only guy doing it at the time, but he was one of the [[ReallyGetsAround most prolific]]. He especially seemed to like married gals, which was unfortunate because women were treated much more harshly than men when it came to adultery.** They were usually fine though. [[{{Cuckold}} Half the reason he chose married women was to humiliate his enemies]], so their husbands preferred to keep it quiet rather than seek punishment.** His troops (with that kind of affectionate insult soldiers like) nicknamed him "Whoremonger". When he had his triumph after conquering Gallia, they were shouting: "Men of Rome, keep close to your consorts, here's a bald adulterer! Gold in Gaul you spent in dalliance, which you borrowed here in Rome."** His political enemies also accused him of being the 'passive' partner in homosexual liaisons - a damning slur for a patrician Roman and one he denied under oath (ironically after his death, Mark Antony made similar allegations about Octavian - with the deceased Caesar as the 'active' partner.) This was quite commonplace at the time and slung at nearly everyone. While homosexuality and bisexuality were common among patrician Romans, they were also hypocritical about it and being the 'passive' partner was considered unmanly.* CivilWar: He started one in 49 BC when he crossed the Rubicon. From his point of view, his enemies forced his hand as they passed legislation that would make him go into [[TheExile exile]] or face jail if he returned to Rome as a normal citizen.* ColorCodedPatrician* CompellingVoice: One of the great orators of his day, perhaps second only to Cicero.* CruelMercy:** When Cato committed suicide rather than surrender to him, Caesar remarked that he would have let him live. Given that Cato was TheStoic and made sure ''everyone'' was aware of it, ''especially'' Caesar, this probably counts as a mixture of this and DeadpanSnarker- letting him live is something Cato would have found humiliating, and though Caesar might have spared him anyway, the two ''really'' hated each other and he probably would have gotten a good night's sleep knowing that he'd got that over him.*** Some historians have noted that Cato's sacrifice becomes a StupidSacrifice in hindsight. Once Caesar died, Cato would have been in an immensely strong position.** Standard Roman policy towards rebellious towns was basically omnicidal. Caesar once got so sick to death with one town that he settled for chopping the right hands off every single adult man in the town so they would never rise up again. Everybody was amazed at the man's leniency! ''He chopped the right hand off every single adult male in the town.'' But... As slow agonizing death via crucifixion was a popular option, yes, he '''was''' being lenient.** Part of his history had him captured and ransomed by pirates. He immediately came back with an army and had them all crucified (and took back his ransom), but before he did so, he had the pirate's throats cut as a MercyKill to spare them the unpleasant death via crucifixion.* DeadpanSnarker* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans** Note that nothing in his recorded life prior to the Civil War indicates that he was planning to take over the republic, and why he chose to start the war was because it was that or complete political demise. Also once he was dictator he wasn't a particularly tyrannous one, certainly not even close to what Sulla was. His laws are famous for favoring the lower classes at the expense of the higher ones, the ''popularis'' that he was.** Suetonius claims that, when he was aedile, Caesar had plotted with Marcus Crassus, Publius Sulla and Lucius Autronius to storm the Senate, kill the Senators and seize power (with Caesar as second-in-command). Crassus apparently chickened out and they did not go through with the plot.* DefeatMeansFriendship: He generally pardoned and promoted his defeated political enemies. This eventually led to his death, as Brutus and Cassius were among them.* TheEmperor: An example of an UnbuiltTrope. Although he amassed an impressive amount of personal power, and was frequently accused of trying to claim kingship (an absolute no-no in Roman eyes), Caesar, always hamstrung by republican institutions, never managed to become the absolute ruler of Rome. (Incidentally, "Caesar", and variations to include "Kaiser", "Tzar", and "Czar", would later become a title for Emperors in various countries in Europe, or informally in the US for a person [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._executive_branch_czars appointed to coordinate a particular national policy.]] Yes, in some languages, he's the TropeNamer.)** It could be argued that he is the Trope Namer in English too. Emperor is derived from the Roman "Imperator", which meant a general in the army. Just like the name Caesar, it was an official title of every emperor.* TheEngineer: One of his feats include the quick construction of a bridge on the river Rhine for his campaign in Germany. He relied more on siege and attrition warfare than on field battles and direct assaults. See also [[TheSiege the Battle of Alesia]] mentioned above.* EtTuBrute: The TropeNamer via Shakespeare, see FamousLastWords below for details on the actual phrase.* EvenEvilHasStandards: Reportedly wept when he saw the head of his old ally/enemy Pompey in Egypt, and thought their treatment of the body barbarous. Then again, Caesar was more outraged that a barbarian Egyptian would ''dare'' kill a Roman citizen than from any good feelings he had about Pompey. Anyway, Pompey was his son-in-law, and Pompey's death was quite a waste in a potential ally to say the least, which was Caesar's usual MO with DefeatMeansFriendship. Especially since he actually counted Pompey as one of his best friends. Of course, he later had the 13-year old Pharaoh killed, and had done much worse in his time, so the trope is probably inverted.* EverybodyDidIt: Killed by a swarm of assassins, each wielding a knife.* EvilEmpire: Expanding the Roman borders aggressively, even into allied nations. Although it wasn't exactly TheEmpire until after his death.* FaceDeathWithDignity: According to Suetonius, while he was being murdered, he drew his robe "to his feet with his left hand, in order to fall more decently, with the lower part of his body also covered." According to Plutarch, he pulled his toga over his head.* FamousLastWords: "Και σύ, τέκνον;" (Kai su, teknon?), "You, too, my son?" to Brutus in Greek.** And popularly from Shakespeare, we get ''Et tu, Brute?'' ("You too, Brutus?") -- the Bard depicting Caesar's lapse into Greek (the language of educated Romans) by having him lapse into Latin ([[LimitedReferencePools the language of educated Elizabethans]]). Oh and Shakespeare at most barely knew Greek.** The "You too" line is now thought not to be a question the way Shakespeare spun it, but more along the lines of "May the same thing happen to you."** BeamMeUpScotty: According to Suetonius and Plutarch, Caesar expired silently, though Suetonius mentions the tradition of "Kai su, teknon" said to Brutus. But both have Caesar saying stuff ''just before'' he gets stabbed, or at the ''very start'' of the act.*** Suetonius says Caesar exclaimed [[CaptainObvious "Why, this is violence!"]] after an assassin manhandled him and pulled down his toga, but before the others started stabbing him. (Violence was absolutely forbidden, to the point of being unthinkable, on the floor of the Senate.)*** Plutarch says Caesar [[DyingMomentOfAwesome seized the arm of the first assassin to stab him and shouted "Damn you, Casca, what are you doing?"]]* AFatherToHisMen: Most accounts of the man have his soldiers willing to go ''beyond the already impressive bounds of Roman loyalty for him'', so much a man of the people was he.* FrontlineGeneral: Very much his style in battle, reinforcing his men's loyalty in the process.* GambitPileup: Rome was a viper's nest of rival ambitions. He was far from the only character plotting to overthrow the Republic, or increase personal power or glory, to say nothing of the men trying to stop people like him. Schemers include Crassus, Cicero, Pompey, Catilina, Clodius, Cato and many others, and Caesar allied with, fought against, and allied with again pretty much very one of these characters.* GlorySeeker* AGodAmI: He claimed descent from Venus and was nearly deified during his lifetime; rumour said that he did not really die but AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. [[UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}} His successor Octavian]] established a full-fledged cult of the "Divine Julius".* GreyAndGrayMorality: While Caesar was seen as an enemy of the Republic by his political opponents, those opponents were the ones who opposed his entirely rational and beneficial initiatives out of principle of opposing Caesar. While neither side could exactly claim the moral high ground by today's standards, Caesar was the one who at least pretended to be rational. It's also important to remember that modern Western values, while descendants of the Roman culture, are very different from the Roman Republic's ethics.--> ''"And [[DoomedMoralVictor what did it matter that Brutus killed a tyrant?]] Tyranny still lived in every heart, and Rome existed only in Brutus."''-->-- '''UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre'''* GroinAttack: According to Plutarch, Brutus stabbed him there.* ICouldaBeenAContender: Apparently he sank into something of a depression on seeing a statue of UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat in Spain and reflecting that by the time Alexander was his age, he had conquered the known world. Of course, this was before Caesar's great triumphs in Gaul.* IGaveMyWord: To some pirates who kidnapped him and failed to ask for a high enough ransom. His promise was he would seem them crucified, and he did. A somewhat [[DarkerAndEdgier darker version]] of this trope.* ImpoverishedPatrician: He started out his career with an impressive lineage... and not much else. However, he managed to build up a great personal fortune over his lifetime, making this a SubvertedTrope.* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: In classical Latin, his name is properly pronounced Guy-oos Yoo-li-oos Kai-sar, making him the TropeNamer for the royal titles of [[ImperialGermany Kaiser]] and [[TsaristRussia Tsar]], by extension.* JustTheFirstCitizen: Though he probably would have preferred to be king.* KavorkaMan: His sexual conquests were rather extensive. His legionaries are even reputed to have sung a charming little ditty during his return to Rome after the campaign in Gaul:-->''To Rome we bring the conquering hero\\Roman maiders lock your doors!\\For all the gold the Senate gave him,\\Went to pay for Gallic whores!''* KillEmAll: He boasted of having killed five million Gauls and enslaved three million. It was an exaggeration: he probably [[MoralEventHorizon only killed one million and enslaved two million.]]* LawOfInverseFertility: His Roman wives never gave him a masculine child while Cleoptra quickly procured one, although an illegitimate heir according to Roman custom.* ManOfWealthAndTaste: In the beginning of his career, he wasn't wealthy, but he was a man of taste and borrowed stupendous amounts of money to give this image. Later on he reinforced this image by actually being wealthy, and he was famous for inventing new trends and was very careful about his appearance (he was very sensitive about his balding). He wasn't evil ''per se'' but certainly fits the trope.* MayDecemberRomance: With Cleopatra. He was old enough to be her father. Also with his third wife, Calpurnia, who was 25 years younger than him.* MilitaryMaverick: His war against the Gauls was technically illegal; he was only tasked with the defense of his province, Cisalpine Gaul but once the Helvetii posed a threat to the province he went on conquering sprees against ''all'' the neighbouring tribes for reassurance. His victory surely resulted in the ultimate defense but he lacked a direct mandate from the Senate. His term as Praetor in Hispania displayed a similar behavior. It was customary for a Roman governor to embark in such adventures as they were entitled to the booty and profits, often from [[MadeASlave enslaving the vanquished]].* MommasBoy: His mother Aurelia played a big part in his life, and definitely encouraged his political ambitions. As she was from an influential family she also provided many contacts. She was a strong willed, no-nonsense kind of women, and he loved her very much.* MoralMyopia: His reputation of being merciful to his enemies did not extend to non-Roman citizens. While he didn't go out of his way to brutalise foreigners, he had zero compunctions about doing so either. His total kill count is somewhere in the region of a million Gauls and he enslaved perhaps twice that much, mostly for personal glory and to pay off his debts, and even attacked Roman allies to this end. In addition, his own career came above all else and he divorcing his wives or changing allegiances in the pursuit of advancement, or sleeping with another guy's wife just to get an edge over him without regard for the reputation of either man or woman.* NamesTheSame and DeadGuyJunior:** Gaius shares his name with his father and grandfather, who are now obscure figures. His daughter was named Julia. Roman naming was uncreative, to put it mildly.** Octavian inherited (or appropriated) his full name, becoming Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus.* {{Narcissist}}: Caesar was very vain about his personal appearance, motivated largely by a quest for personal fame and ambition, willing to RapePillageAndBurn other nations- Roman allies included- to pay off his debts and achieve military and political glory, and ultimately set himself up as dictator for life with possible monarchical ambitions. He was also a serial womaniser and adulterer with little regard for the damage his philandering caused, and sometimes went out of his way to cause it in order to embarrass or blackmail a political opponent. While much of this behaviour wasn't exactly new in Roman society, Caesar did take it further than most.** TheFightingNarcissist* NiceHat: Early in his career Caesar won the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic_crown Civic Crown (''corona civica'')]] for saving the life of a fellow soldier in battle.** Late in his career, he was awarded the privilege of wearing a laurel wreath whenever he wanted to. See the Bald of Awesome/Evil example.* NobleFugitive: During Sulla's purge of the Marians. He was eventually spared.* NonIndicativeName: The family name Caesar (probably) derives from the Latin word for 'hairy' as a nickname for a hirsute ancestor. Julius Caesar himself suffered from premature balding, something his political opponents had much fun with.* OneOfUs: He wrote fan fiction about Hercules and Oedipus in his youth.* ThePenIsMightier: One ancient source claimed that he stabbed one of his assassins with his stylus before dying.** Caesar was also a very good writer, the terse and no-nonsense style (i.e. even the barely literate can appreciate his writing) he used managed to disguise ''one hell of a lot'' of self-serving propaganda. His ''Commentaries on the Gallic War'' managed to win over most most of Roman commoners despite the fact that he was not even in Rome proper most of time.* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: There's some indirect evidence he may have been genuinely close to his first wife Cornelia. He refused to divorce her even at the cost of losing his wealth and being declared an enemy of the state, and he gave a public oration praising her at her funeral.* PhotographicMemory: Allegedly, he could remember the face, the name and sometimes a few facts from the personal life of ''every soldier in his army''.* PowerTrio: Caesar benefited greatly from the First Triumvirate when he was a still a rising star. His friend Crassus provided a generous financial backing, Pompey political protection and legitimacy, while Caesar's charisma among the people allowed for a smooth rule. The three prominent men dominated Roman politics completely for seven years until Crassus' death in 53 BC.* PropagandaMachine: Most of his writings are biased, self-serving, and designed to paint his actions in the best possible light, making him a one-man example of this trope. This makes him exactly like every other Roman politician, bar none. It helps that he was one of the great Roman authors, writing in a deceptively simple Latin intended to get his message across to the widest audience. His contemporary Cicero was at least as bad about it.** Actually, compared to most of the Roman politicians he comes across like Walter Cronkite. They made wild accusations, and he manages to sound unbiased and factual because he's at least somewhat in line with reality.** However biased the attitude in his writings was, he couldn't lie a lot because the senate would hear the story from other sources as well, such as tribunes and legati serving in his army and visitors from Rome.* ThePurge: ** Mostly averted and a rarity in Roman politics, especially when compared with contemporaries such as Sulla. He pardoned many of his enemies and this turned out to be his undoing as many of his would-be assassins were men he spared.** After Caesar's demise, the Second Triumvirate, made up of his supporters and heirs (Antony, Octavian, Lepidus) [[GenreSavvy did not repeat the mistake]] and launched a massive purge of their enemies.* RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Crassus's Blue, but the Blue to Pompey's red.* SchoolStudyMedia: If you take Latin, you WILL read Caesar. There's no avoiding it. Repeat after me, "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres..."* SignatureLine: See top of the page for two. And of course his FamousLastWords.* SleazyPolitician: Caesar sometimes seems to resemble a modern politician in his concern with vote-buying, etc. Par for the course in the late Republic, of course. And let's not forget his extensive womanising.* TakeOverTheWorld: Or the world as he knew it, anyway. At the time of his death he was plotting conquest in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, purely out of personal ambition.** Note that the previous war had been a very unpopular and controversial civil war, and winning foreign wars, he hoped, would've brought him unquestionable glory. One could probably say that he saw wars purely as a means for getting personal glory in the eyes the people and the senate and didn't so much wage war for its own sake or to personally rule vast amounts of territory.** Well, there was a potential threat from the native tribes of Ilyricum (East Europe) which he had probably meant to address even before his Gallic campaign, and the previous campaign against Parthia (in the East) ended in a humiliating defeat for the Romans, the death of the commander (Crassus) and the loss of the legions' standards. Making them pay would have been a very popular move. Plus, he was probably bored.* TakeAThirdOption: Caesar was infamous for defying conventional wisdom (both military and political) time and time again. One noteworthy example was when Cato the Younger attempted to prevent Caesar's application for consul along with delaying his triumph by filibustering the senate's business until the deadline for application had passed, figuring that Caesar would never pass up the triumph and would be forced to wait for the next year's consular elections. Caesar gave Cato and the conservatives the proverbial middle finger by skipping the triumph and going straight for the elections.* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: He was stabbed 23 times. However, according to Suetonius, only one of his wounds was fatal.* ThirdPersonPerson: In his accounts about the Gallic Wars and the Civil War, he referred to himself in third person, following a classical tradition of all autobiographical works before the Middle Ages. In modern depictions, this is often turned into a confusing VerbalTic PlayedForLaughs.* {{Ubermensch}}: Probably one of the main inspirations.* UnreliableNarrator: His first-hand account on the Gaul war, ''De Bello Gallico'', understandably glosses over his least brilliant moments such as the unreliable Gaul allied cavalry, the first Briton campaign, his punitive expedition to Germany, Gergovia etc, sometimes applying the LeeroyJenkins, strategic victory / TacticalWithdrawal perspective. The trend is continued in the follow-up books about the civil war but it's believed those weren't actually written by Caesar.* WarForFunAndProfit: Mainly profit and personal glory.* WarriorPoet: Caesar was a vigorous writer, especially during his campaigns. Ironically enough, it is from the ''Commentarii de Bello Gallico''--an eight-book account of the Gallic Wars written during Caesar's nine-year campaign to conquer the Gauls--that we derive much of our knowledge of ancient European tribes, customs, and religions. Had Caesar not warred against them, such things would likely be lost to history.** During the civil war Caesar wrote a treatise on Latin, called ''De Analogia'', in addition to poetry.* WeUsedToBeFriends: Caesar and Pompey were very close associates during the First Triumvirate. They fell apart when Caesar's daughter and Pompey's wife died and the Senate persuaded Pompey to go against him.* WhosLaughingNow: What happened when Caesar carried out his death threat against the pirates who kidnapped him.----!!Caesar in fiction* Creator/WilliamShakespeare's play ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'' is about Caesar's assassination and its aftermath. Caesar is the title character, but not the protagonist; he appears in only three scenes.** In the 1953 film adaptation in the play, he's played by Louis Calhern.* Karl Urban played Caesar in a recurring role on ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' and a one-off episode of ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys''. Having been Xena's one time ally, and lover, his betrayal (and crucifixion) of her led to Xena's warlord days, the time of her life which she spent the series atoning for.** Notably, Xena was the leader of the pirates who ransomed him (see above).* Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw's play, ''Caesar and Cleopatra'' depicts Caesar's time in Egypt and his relationship with Cleopatra. In the 1945 film adaptation, he's played by Creator/ClaudeRains.* He's played by John Gavin in Creator/StanleyKubrick's ''Film/{{Spartacus}}''.* He's played by Rex Harrison in the 1963 film ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}''.* He's played by Klaus Maria Brandauer in ''Druids''.* The first season of the {{Creator/HBO}} miniseries ''Series/{{Rome}}'' is about Caesar's rise and fall. He's portrayed by Creator/CiaranHinds.* In ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'', Caesar is the main antagonist (always portrayed as an AntiVillain, due to being based on his image in the school-taught Commentaries).* Appears very often in ComicBook/{{Alix}}, as the main character works for him.* He's a central character in Colleen [=McCullough=]'s ''Literature/MastersOfRome'' series.* Creator/ConnIggulden's ''Emperor'' series details a VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory version of Julius' life and conquests, from childhood all the way to death. Despite the obvious implications of AdaptationDecay, he actually [[ShownTheirWork averts this]] with some very detailed research notes in the appendices of each book and explaining his decisions to eliminate, change, or [[CompositeCharacter combine]] certain figures for the sake of a good story.* He appears in Steven Saylor's ''Literature/RomaSubRosa'' series.* He appears in John Maddox Roberts' ''SPQR'' series.* He's mentioned in ''Literature/IClaudius'', although he has been dead for about 20 years when the story begins.* Played by Creator/TimothyDalton in the ''Series/{{Cleopatra}}'' mini-series.* The last missions of the Roman campaign in ''Series/EmpireEarth: Art of Conquest'' were about his rise to power.* He plays a major role in ''Series/TheSalvationWar'', as the leader of "New Rome" in human-liberated Hell.* He appears in ''Series/{{Imperium}}'' and ''Series/{{Lustrum}}'', Robert Harris's novels about Cicero.* In the Susan Howatch novel ''The Rich Are Different'', the story of Julius Caesar is retold in a 1920's Wall Street setting.* Edward "Caesar" Sallow from ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' modeled his band of tribes after the Roman Legions after reading the Commentarii and fancied himself as great a man as Gaius Julius Caesar was.* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'', the Scrolls of Romulus chronicle Brutus' plan to assassinate Caesar, with the equipment and knowledge provided to carry out the assassination provided by [[spoiler: a Piece of Eden hidden in a [[{{Precursors}} First Civilization]] bunker underneath Rome.]]* Caesar is the Ultimate Persona of Akihiko Sanada in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' and serves as his used Persona in ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''* Also Caesar is a ''very'' important character in Ben Kane's series ''Literature/TheForgottenLegion''.* The aftermath of his assassination is the backdrop for the ''HistoryBites'' episode "[[WhoShotJFK Who Killed JFC?]]"* Caesar is a regular character in ''[[Series/{{Spartacus}} Spartacus: War of the Damned]]'', where he fights in the army of Marcus Crassus against Spartacus' slave uprising. He's introduced as a low-ranking politician with a famous name, as well as a cunning soldier, favors AnythingThatMoves, and a rival both of Crassus' son, Tiberius and the rebel Gannicus. [[DoomedByCanon Which was unfortunate for them.]] * In the cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' Julius Caesar is a fat and lazy ruler who almost left Rome in complete shambles. Oh and he also sounded like Louie Anderson.* In ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', Takako Suzuki cosplays as, and answers to, "Caesar," making references to Caesar's life and Roman history, like her three teammates in Turtle Team do with their respective historical figures.* ''Tabletop/YuGiOh'' features the Monarchs, a series of powerful cards based on the Emperors of Rome. The most powerful, Caius, appears to be derived from Gaius himself.----


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For most of 2012, Trayvon Martin was the story that seemed to most represent where America was in terms of race relations.
Martin, a 17-year-old African-American male, was slain last February after an encounter with an armed 40-year-old neighborhood watch member in a Florida community who decided to confront Martin after deeming him a suspicious character. For most of the first part of the year, it was a sensational case in the media with underlying racial dynamics that allowed different groups of Americans to make up their own minds on exactly what happened.
For me and thousands of other African-Americans who saw Martin's senseless death as an extreme case of racial profiling, it was disheartening to see so many white Americans view the case as justifiable homicide even in the face of contradictory facts.
These were people who largely accepted Zimmerman's claim of self-defense, even though he had been expressly warned by a police dispatcher not to follow Martin and to leave the matter to authorities. After the shooting, Zimmerman insisted the unarmed Martin attacked him first, forcing him to fire the fatal shot
Martin, of course, wasn't around to dispute that version of the story.
After writing several columns about the Martin case early this year, I figured Zimmerman's upcoming trial on second-degree murder charges would be as high-profile as the O.J. Simpson murder trial. But as the year progressed, I felt the national furor over Martin's killing ebb as the presidential election campaign took precedence over any other headlines.
Recent events will likely keep the Martin case on the front-burner for 2013. The latest development was the release of a new photo last week that shows Zimmerman on the night of the shooting with a bloody nose and other face lacerations, which could be used to confirm his version of the story of a furious struggle with Martin.
That the photo was just released after months of speculation about the severity of Zimmerman's wounds strikes some as curious.
It's a bombshell piece of evidence that could have cleared up a lot of the original misconceptions if released earlier. Why it wasn't - and why it's suddenly a color photo that was originally depicted in black and white - raises troubling questions for defense attorneys who plan to use it as a major part of their strategy.
Zimmerman has never been a squeaky clean suspect/victim in this case. He's been officially reprimanded for misleading a judge about his financial situation while out on bail and was known to authorities as an overeager vigilante who made multiple calls about suspicious black males in his neighborhood, most of which were never confirmed.
But many white readers insisted this was just another trumped up case of racial discrimination against an innocent citizen who reacted just as many Americans would in the face of a menacing black youth.
Last month, another shooting of an unarmed black male named Jordan Davis emerged from Florida with striking similarities to Martin's case. David, also 17, was shot by 40-year-old Michael Dunn after an argument about playing loud music at a gas station. At some point, Dunn - a white male - fired into the car containing several black teenagers and killed Davis before leaving the scene.
Later when he turned himself in, Dunn claimed self-defense.
Davis' death was just as senseless as Martin's and the attempt to cite Florida's Stand Your Ground law was another troubling application of wrongheaded legislation that seems to be target black males for street justice from paranoid white citizens with guns.
It's not just Florida. In some ways, the Milwaukee shooting death of 13-year-old Darius Simmons by a white neighbor who accused him of theft was yet another manifestation.
These racially motivated shootings that white assailants attempt to cloak in allegations of self-defense against scary black males could become a new benchmark for where we stand. That some black males also use gun violence to kill each other is a separate dilemma. Studies show most black males involved in homicide know each other.
When fear of unknown black males by whites is rooted in a fear and hatred that precedes gunfire, that's another problem altogether.
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That is not true at all.
IE6 was introduced in 2001, and at that time, it was an excellent browser. Microsoft introduced XmlHttpRequest, and gave birth to modern AJAX technologies (yes, Microsoft basically invented AJAX).
Take any other browser from 2001 and no modern 2009 website will work in it. IE6? Not always 100%, but it can cope with most of them.
Let's face it: IE6 from 2001 was so good people are still using it in 2009. That is not true of any other browser.
IE7, launched in 2006, was innovative as well - great UI, especially. With IE7Pro and Roboform is it a solid browsing and user experience.
IE8 has excellent core, microformats, indepedent threads for tabs (Microsoft introduced it before Google Chrome).
So, why some people hate Microsoft browsers? First, there is ActiveX. Great technology which makes it possible to run basically any code on your machine, which had also serious security implications (non IT-educated users clicking on "Allow" all the time, letting code that can do anything in). Second, there was a big gap between IE6 and IE7 launches, which made room for other browsers (namely: Firefox).
Firefox was slow, did not have ActiveX, UI was written in extremely slow XUL, did not even have proper name (remember Phoenix and Firebird?), but behaved similarly like IE6, and it was not from Microsoft. So people installed it. If you remember Firefox 1.0, it basically copied IE6 looks, tabs were an afterthought (stolen from Opera anyway), and poorly implemented. Still, there were no ActiveX controls, so people could not click on "Allow" and they (falsely) believed Firefox to be safer.
Now, IE8 is the best choice without any doubt. But latest Safari 4 looks promissing as well though.
You know I wonder if you have ever lifted a finger at trying to make standards compliant HTML/CSS. The point of having standards is that browser developers have a common set of rules that everyone can follow so dev's can use the same code and get the same output. There is NO bigger offender of proprietary junk, or just not following the rules than IE.
Active X is a bad idea almost all around. Its a security nightmare, and you are locking your applications to only windows users.
To go back to standards compliance, IE8 beta fails the acid3 test HARD, a tad better than IE7, but still fail. Some of MS .NET stuff doesn't even work right in IE... so I think you need to go back and rethink your argument there.
The reason why a lot of people still use IE is because of bad web devs/managers who think its ok to use bad web coding practices. MS did a good thing with Silverlight as far as concept and mostly in implantation. I have not had a chance to really dig into it yet.
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The Supreme Court today reserved its order on Swiss pharma giant Novartis AG's plea for getting its blood cancer drug Glivec patented in India.
The Supreme Court today reserved its order on Swiss pharma giant Novartis AG's plea for getting its blood cancer drug Glivec patented in India.
A bench of justices Aftab Alam and Ranajan Prakash Desai reserved its verdict after marathon arguments which went on for months.
Novartis approached the apex court challenging the order of Chennai-based Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB), which rejected its appeal against patent department's decision on Glivec.
The Comptroller General of Patent and Design had denied patent to Glivec on several grounds including its alleged failure to meet stipulations under sections 3(d) and 3(b) of the Indian Patent Law.
Section 3(d) restricts patents for already known drugs unless the new claims are superior in terms of efficacy.
Section 3(b) restricts patents for products that are against public interest and do not demonstrate enhanced efficacy over existing products.
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On July 03, 2015, Novartis India closed at Rs 772.00, down Rs 6.45, or 0.83 percent. The 52-week high of the share was Rs 869.60 and the 52-week low was Rs 539.95.
The company's trailing 12-month (TTM) EPS was at Rs 24.75 per share as per the quarter ended March 2015. The stock's price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio was 31.19. The latest book value of the company is Rs 313.51 per share. At current value, the price-to-book value of the company is 2.46.
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