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Knowshon Moreno is now the Broncos' longest rookie holdout since Cory Gillard.
Cory Gillard? That's the point.
Moreno, a running back from the University of Georgia selected by the Broncos with the No. 12 overall pick in the April draft, will enter the fifth day of his contract holdout today.
That's the longest delay by a Broncos rookie since 1997 when Gillard, a fourth-round safety from Ball State, held out for eight days.
Gillard wound up signing a three-year, $723,000 contract on the eve of the Broncos' first preseason game — then got cut a few weeks later. The holdout only appeared more ill-advised after the Broncos went on to win their first NFL title that season.
It's virtually certain Moreno won't suffer the same fate as Gillard, not with the Broncos expected to eventually sign their rookie tailback to a five-year contract that includes a guarantee of $12 million-plus.
But with the Broncos signing their other first-round pick, outside linebacker Robert Ayers, on Monday to a five-year contract that includes a $9.7 million guarantee, Moreno will be the last of the 2009 Broncos to show up.
"Honestly, it is a little setback," said LaMont Jordan, who opened training camp as the Broncos' No. 1 tailback. "If you ask around with the history of the league for any rookie that didn't report to camp on time, it would be a minor setback.
"But the good thing about Know-shon is that when he came in here (during the offseason minicamps), he was in good shape and he seems like he's a fast learner."
Although contract talks are expected to pick up, Moreno continued to work out on the Georgia campus Monday. A deal would have to be finalized in a hurry for Moreno to attend the Broncos' eighth training camp practice this afternoon.
Then again, the Broncos can give Moreno their full attention after cutting their rookie holdout problem in half by reaching a deal with Ayers between practice sessions Monday.
The No. 18 overall pick in the draft, Ayers received a 16 percent increase from the $8.36 million guarantee Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco received in the same slot last year, including a $13 million base (guarantee plus salaries).
Ayers missed the first seven practices but after passing his conditioning test Monday afternoon, he said he would be on the practice field today.
"I felt like I was missing an opportunity to make an impression and earn a spot on my team," Ayers said. "I also don't want my teammates to feel like I was putting myself above the team. The guys in the locker room understand it's the nature of the business."
Ayers said he received mostly congratulations from his teammates Monday but expects some welcome-to-the-NFL antics today.
A defensive end at the University of Tennessee, Ayers will play the pass-rushing outside linebacker position in the Broncos' new 3-4 scheme. To help make the adjustment, Ayers said he worked out hard enough during his holdout to lose 4 or 5 pounds.
"I want to make a name for myself," said Ayers, who will wear No. 56 in honor of former Broncos and Tennessee Vols linebacker Al Wilson. "Getting to the NFL is phase I. The next step is to become a big name in the NFL, and that's what I want to do. I want make my name a household name, and I want to win games and I want to win championships."
At the very least, Ayers should become more familiar than Cory Gillard.
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- Front End Changes
- New Hero
- Hero Texture Updates
- Hero Models Broken Down
- UI Updates
- League Passes
- Back End Changes
- Updated Strings
- Unreleased Announcer Packs
- Unreleased Cosmetic Items
- Axe's Cosmetic Items
- Bounty Hunter's Cosmetic Items
- Dragon Knight's Cosmetic Items
- Lone Druid's Cosmetic Items
- Outworld Destroyer's Cosmetic Items
- Nature's Prophet's Cosmetic Items
- Omniknight's Cosmetic Items
- Phantom Assassin's Cosmetic Items
- Phantom Lancer's Cosmetic Items
- Pudge's Cosmetic Items
- Skeleton King's Cosmetic Items
- Sven's Cosmetic Items
- Ursa's Cosmetic Items
- Windrunner's Cosmetic Items
- Store Ready Cosmetic Items
- Axe's Items
- Bloodseeker's Items
- Bounty Hunter's Items
- Clinkz's Items
- Faceless Void's Items
- Morphling's Items
- Other Changes
- Materials Update
- Particles Update
- Predictions For The Next Hero
As I predicted this week's patch brings us five new heroes (as long as you've a scepter) which means that Meepo has finally arrived into the world of Dota 2. You can view the full changelog here.
Front End Changes
New Hero
Five heroes in one
patch, a new record for Valve.
Meepo, the Geomancer.
"If you ask me, life is all about who you know and what you can find. When you live up in the Riftshadow Ruins, just finding food can be tough. So you need to cut corners, you need to scrounge, you need to know your strengths. Some of the beasts up there can kill you, so you need a way to trap the weak and duck the strong. On the upside, the ruins have history, and history is worth a lot to some people. There used to be a palace there, where they had all these dark rituals. Bad stuff. If you survived the ceremony, they would shatter a crystal and split your soul into pieces. They made great art though! Sculptures and such. Let me tell you: sometimes you stumble onto some of those old carvings. Take a pack full of those to town and sell them, then get yourself food for a few weeks. If luck is really on your side, you might find a Riftshadow crystal. Get it appraised and start asking around. Someone always knows some crazy fool looking for this kind of thing. If all else fails, sell it to a Magus the next time one's in town. They love that stuff. Still, whatever you do, be careful handling those crystals. You do not want one to go off on you. It really hurts."
Model Viewer Shots
In Game Shots
Hero Texture Updates
We've another set of minor texture updates in this patch.
Enchantress` Updates
Enchantress` textures have once again been revisited after last week's update. The new updated textures give more detail and colour which a lot of the community thought she was lacking in her new texture set.
Comparison Slider
New Textures
Old Textures
Pudge's Updates
Pudge also had some minor texture updates.
Comparison Slider
New Textures
Old Textures
Hero Models Broken Down
We've an update to one of the existing broken down models and a new arrival.
Crystal Maiden's Model
Crystal Maiden's break down has been adjusted with her cape and headdress now being separated.
New Part:
Crystal Maiden's Headdress
New Base Model:
Meepo's Model
Meepo's Model has arrived already broken down and ready for cosmetic items.
Default Parts:
Meepo's Hood
Meepo's Backpack
Meepo's Shoulderpads
Meepo's Bracers
Meepo's Tail
Base Model:
UI Updates
This week's patch brings us a new notification system as well as updates to the hero display and broadcaster selector UIs.
In Game UI
This patch brings another new UI feature, killstreak notifications that are displayed on killstreak events such as first blood and killing sprees.
The first blood notifcation has blood smeared across it:
Examples of the other killstreak notifcations:
Hero Display UI
The finished version of the new hero display UI is now in place and ready for the arrival for Meepo, it's made specifically for heroes with multiple primary units eg: Meepo and Lone Druid.
You can see an explanation of the new UI's functionality below:
Broadcaster UI
The broadcaster selector UI has been updated with a new look:
Dashboard UI
The live games list on the watch tab has been updated with a filter, the filter is done based on what hero you specify and the games will be listed in an order of average skill, highest to lowest:
League Passes
This week's patch has brought a couple of new Dota TV League Passes, one for the RaidCall Dota 2 tournament and another for Starladder's Season 3 tournament.
Back End Changes
Updated Strings
The strings for the tutorial system have been updated, suggesting that the tutorial system made be being currently worked on again:
// Last Hit / Deny Training
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_LastHit" "Last Hit / Deny Practice"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_LastHit" "Try to get as many last hits and denies as possible in the time limit. Your score is a combination of last hits, denies, and how much damage you take."
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_RoundOne" "Round One - Sniper"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_RoundOne" "Sniper has a ranged attack with no projectile, so the hit occurs very quickly. However, he has low base damage, so timing is important."
"DOTA_TutorialTask_Sniper" "Last hit as Sniper."
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_RoundTwo" "Round Two - Anti-Mage"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_RoundTwo" "Anti-Mage has a very quick attack animation and fast attack rate - melee heroes are generally easier to last hit with."
"DOTA_TutorialTask_Antimage" "Last hit as Anti-Mage."
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_RoundThree" "Round Three - Mirana"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_RoundThree" "Mirana has a good attack animation and projectile speed but lower damage, making her of moderate difficulty."
"DOTA_TutorialTask_Mirana" "Last hit as Mirana."
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_RoundFour" "Round Four - Crystal Maiden"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_RoundFour" "Crystal Maiden's attack animation has a wind-up time and a slow moving projectile, making it difficult to predict when the hit will occur, making her difficult to last hit with."
"DOTA_TutorialTask_CrystalMaiden" "Last hit as Crystal Maiden."
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_RoundFive" "Round Five - Shadow Fiend"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_RoundFive" "Shadow Fiend is great at farming creeps rapidly with his good attack animation, high damage, and ability Shadowraze - see how quickly you can farm this lane."
"DOTA_TutorialTask_ShadowFiend" "Farm as fast as you can!"
We've some new strings for a item training on support icons:
// Item Training - Support
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_SupportItems" "Support Item Training"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_SupportItems" "Learn in-depth mechanics of Support items!"
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_SupportItems_RingOfBasilius" "Ring of Basilius"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_SupportItems_RingOfBasilius" "Ring of Basilius is a powerful early game item for junglers and support heroes. It gives a flat 0.6 mana regeneration, as well as 2 armor to all heroes and creeps in the radius, as well as providing the carrier with extra armor and damage."
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_SupportItems_RingOfBasilius2" "Ring of Basilius"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_SupportItems_RingOfBasilius2" "The item is toggable. When turned off, the aura won't give your friendly creeps the bonus armor. Turn it on when you want to make summoned units more powerful or push a lane. The ring's aura will still affect allied heroes."
"DOTA_TutorialTask_SupportItems_RingOfBasilius2" "Toggle Ring of Basilius!"
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_SupportItems_Headdress" "Headdress"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_SupportItems_Headdress" "Headdress is useful early on to help you, your creeps and your lane mates to regenerate health. The aura radius is only 500, so stay near an ally if they need some health."
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_SupportItems_Buckler" "Buckler"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_SupportItems_Buckler" "Buckler is a useful defensive item. It passively grants some armor and stats, while it's active ability will give friendly units around you +2 bonus armor. This can be helpful when attacking or defending towers, or in teamfights."
"DOTA_TutorialTask_SupportItems_Buckler" "Give your friendly heroes the armor bonus!"
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_SupportItems_Urn" "Urn of Shadows"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_SupportItems_Urn" "Urn of Shadows is a dynamic item that can be used in many ways. Passively, it grants some strength and mana regeneration, but the Soul Release ability is more important. Whenever an enemy hero dies around an Urn carrier, that Urn will gain 2 Soul Release charges."
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_SupportItems_Urn2" "Soul Release - Heal"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_SupportItems_Urn2" "When Soul Release is used, it drains a charge from Urn of Shadows. If it is used on an ally, it will heal them for 400 HP over the course of 8 seconds. If the unit takes tower damage or damage from a player-controlled unit, the heal is lost, so be careful to use the heal only in situations when this won't happen."
"DOTA_TutorialTask_SupportItems_Urn2" "Heal your injured ally!"
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_SupportItems_Urn3" "Soul Release - Damage Over Time"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_SupportItems_Urn3" "If Soul Release is used on an enemy hero, it will deal 150 damage over the course of 8 seconds. Unlike the heal, this effect can't be removed except by purge effects. The low amount of damage is useful to finish off running enemies that have low health, due to the long range of Soul Release."
"DOTA_TutorialTask_SupportItems_Urn3" "Finish off the enemy hero!"
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_SupportItems_TranquilBoots" "Tranquil Boots"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_SupportItems_TranquilBoots" "Tranquil Boots are the most defensive type of boots. The Heal ability will restore 170 HP over 10 seconds, as long as you don't take tower or player-controlled damage. Tranquil Boots also add a bit of passive regeneration and armor, as well as having higher than average movement speed for boots."
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_SupportItems_TranquilBoots2" "Tranquil Boots - Break"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_SupportItems_TranquilBoots2" "Tranquil Boots do have a downside - their Break ability. If a player takes 4 instances of player-controlled damage in the course of 10 seconds, the Tranquil Boots will temporarily become Boots of Speed, meaning that they lose all their passive stats and the Heal ability. Once the player hasn't taken 4 instances of damage in the last 10 seconds, the Tranquil Boots will reform."
"DOTA_TutorialTask_SupportItems_TranquilBoots2" "Use the Heal ability!"
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_SupportItems_Medallion" "Medallion of Courage"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_SupportItems_Medallion" "Medallion of Courage is a double-edged sword of an item. Passively, it gives you some armor and mana regeneration. However, the Valor ability makes this item what it is. When used on an enemy, both the item holder and the target enemy lose 6 armor (which is the same amount gained passively). Medallion of Courage gives you an armor advantage over your enemies, but it's up to you how to use it!"
"DOTA_TutorialTask_SupportItems_Medallion" "Use Valor on Roshan!"
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_SupportItems_Drum" "Drum of Endurance"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_SupportItems_Drum" "Drum of Endurance is an item that provides a lot of different benefits. Passively, it gives nice stats, and Swiftness Aura, which grants a small movement and attack speed bonus to surrounding units."
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_SupportItems_Drum2" "Drum of Endurance"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_SupportItems_Drum2" "The active ability Endurance adds another small movement and attack speed bonus to surrounding units, effectively doubling the speed from Swiftness Aura. This is very helpful for moments when you need just a bit more speed to catch or run. It only has 4 charges, so use wisely."
"DOTA_TutorialTask_SupportItems_Drum2" "Catch the flying courier!"
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_SupportItems_Vlads" "Vladmir's Offering"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_SupportItems_Vlads" "Vladmir's Offering provides a wide number of bonuses to surrounding teammates, such as armor, regeneration, and bonus damage. It also gives friendly melee units lifesteal on their attacks."
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_SupportItem_Vlads2" "Vladmir's Offering"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_SupportItem_Vlads2" "The lifesteal aura is useful for melee carries that have other Unique Attack Effects, as other Lifesteal items won't work for them. A support with Vladmir's can provide this benefit to his melee carry."
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_SupportItems_Mekansm" "Mekansm"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_SupportItems_Mekansm" "Mekansm is a powerful midgame item. Passively, it gives some nice armor and stats, as well as giving passive regneration to yourself and surrounding friendly units. The most powerful part of the item is the active Restore, which heals 250 HP and grants bonus armor for a limited time."
"DOTA_TutorialTask_SupportItems_Mekansm" "Heal your allies!"
"DOTA_TutorialTitle_SupportItems_Pipe" "Pipe of Insight"
"DOTA_TutorialBody_SupportItems_Pipe" "Pipe of Insight is the go-to item when it comes to preventing magical damage. Building from a Hood of Defiance, it passively increases spell resistance as well as providing a lot of HP regeneration. The Barrier active ability gives a protective field on all nearby units, preventing 400 magic damage from being dealt to them."
"DOTA_TutorialTask_SupportItem_Pipe" "Prevent the magic damage!"
New tooltip strings for unreleased heroes (Medusa, Troll Warlord and Magnataur):
"DOTA_Tooltip_modifier_medusa_mana_shield" "Mana Shield"
"DOTA_Tooltip_modifier_medusa_mana_shield_Description" "Some of the damage taken by Medusa is dealt to her mana pool."
"DOTA_Tooltip_modifier_medusa_stone_gaze" "Stone Gaze"
"DOTA_Tooltip_modifier_medusa_stone_gaze_Description" "Speed reduced by 100%%; slowing regaining speed over time."
"DOTA_Tooltip_modifier_troll_warlord_whirling_axes_slow" "Whirling Axes Slow"
"DOTA_Tooltip_modifier_troll_warlord_whirling_axes_slow_Description" "Slowed by %dMODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGE%%%."
"DOTA_Tooltip_modifier_troll_warlord_fervor" "Fervor"
"DOTA_Tooltip_modifier_troll_warlord_fervor_Description" "Attack speed increased by %dMODIFIER_PROPERTY_ATTACKSPEED_BONUS_CONSTANT_SECONDARY%."
"DOTA_Tooltip_modifier_troll_warlord_battle_trance" "Battle Trance"
"DOTA_Tooltip_modifier_troll_warlord_battle_trance_Description" "Attack speed increased by %dMODIFIER_PROPERTY_ATTACKSPEED_BONUS_CONSTANT_SECONDARY%."
"DOTA_Tooltip_modifier_magnataur_empower" "Empower"
"DOTA_Tooltip_modifier_magnataur_empower_Description" "Base damage increased by %dMODIFIER_PROPERTY_BASEDAMAGEOUTGOING_PERCENTAGE%%%, gaining %dMODIFIER_PROPERTY_TOOLTIP%%% cleave damage on hit."
"DOTA_Tooltip_modifier_magnataur_skewer_slow" "Skewered"
"DOTA_Tooltip_modifier_magnataur_skewer_slow_Description" "Slowed by %dMODIFIER_PROPERTY_MOVESPEED_BONUS_PERCENTAGE%%%."
We've a few new cosmetic item sets:
"DOTA_Set_Axe_Oryx" "Armor of the Oryx"
"DOTA_Set_Axe_Heavy_Steel" "Heavy Steel Armor"
"DOTA_Set_Faceless_Clas" "The Dials of Claszureme"
"DOTA_Set_Clinkz_Vandal" "Demonic Vandal's Garb"
Unreleased Announcer Packs
The Axe announcer pack and mega kills pack now have artwork, subtitles and response rules which means the new Axe announcer should be arriving soon.
Unreleased Cosmetic Items
The cosmetic items keep on coming, after last weeks addition of around 250 new cosmetic item references we have another batch of new item references.
Axe's Cosmetic Items
superior's axe – http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=88957121
Bounty Hunter's Cosmetic Items
Darksteel Set – http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=79159646
Dragon Knight's Cosmetic Items
Armor of the Drake Set – http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=92669302
Lone Druid's Cosmetic Items
tribe_hunter_sicle – http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=95650545
Outworld Destroyer's Cosmetic Items
diadem_dark_destroyer – http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=94646969
Nature's Prophet's Cosmetic Items
shoulder_sprout – http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=95953760
Omniknight's Cosmetic Items
head_hood_hierophant – http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=83630999
Brother Omni Set – http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=87285732
Phantom Assassin's Cosmetic Items
the_evildoer – http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=96477664
Phantom Lancer's Cosmetic Items
feathered_naginata – http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=94015235
sun_forged_spear – http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=89761058
Pudge's Cosmetic Items
slaughterhouse_chains – http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=96345815
Skeleton King's Cosmetic Items
khan_cape – http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=95491453
Sven's Cosmetic Items
mask_of_madness – http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=94491062
Ursa's Cosmetic Items
skulltar_claws – http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=91420602
Windrunner's Cosmetic Items
zarukina_protector_hair – http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=88360186
Sparrowhawk Set – http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=96693370
Store Ready Cosmetic Items
There are a number of unreleased cosmetic items that I now suspect will be making their way into the store shortly (which includes a few new bundles/sets).
Axe's Items
Axe has two new item sets/bundles and a number of other items that are store ready.
Heavy Steel Armor
The Items
Armor of the Oryx
The Items
Other Items
"While the edge has cracked and chipped on the lives of hundreds, it has never failed to finish the job."
Bloodseeker's Items
Bounty Hunter's Items
Qaldin Assassin's Glaive
Poniard of the Crimson Cut-throat
Clinkz's Items
Clinkz also has an item set ready.
Demonic Vandal's Garb
The Items
Faceless Void's Items
Faceless Void has a new item set.
The Dials of Claszureme
The Items
Morphling's Items
Morphling has a number of new items that are store ready but none of these are classed as sets or bundles yet.
Falling Comet
Shifting Forms
Frost Shard
Other Changes
There's a new Anvil model that has been added to the files.
Materials Update
No updates to the unreleased heroes materials in this patch.
Particles Update
This week's patch gives us two new sets of particles for the unreleased heroes, Centaur Warchief and Magnataur.
Centaur Warchief's Particles
Magnataur's Particles
Predictions For The Next Hero
At this moment in time I'm expecting Magnus the Magnataur to make an appearance as the next hero in Dota 2.


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^^ I disagree, Mizugaki was #10 on my BW list and now moves up a few spots with that win.. Thats his third straight and loses that happened to Jorge and Torres in early 2009 can't be thrown at him.
Only guy to finish him was Faber and Faber is the #1 contender at BW and has been for awhile now..NO shame losing to him or Bowles. Mizugaki is one tough SOB who doesn't get finished or give anyone an easy fight.. Still a gatekeeper but establishing himself as solid contender at 135 again.


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Intelligence & Iraq
To the Editor:
Norman Podhoretz writes as though the best argument advanced by critics of the Bush administration is that the President knowingly uttered false statements in making the case for war ["Who Is Lying About Iraq?," December 2005]. That is not so. What critics have pointed out is that many of the public claims of administration officials in the run-up to the invasion were based on information that most U.S. intelligence experts believed to be unreliable. Mr. Podhoretz's parade of pre-war quotes from Democrats unequivocally establishes that Saddam Hussein was widely believed to be a threat, but they shed no light on the charge that the administration mischaracterized that threat by the negligent or willful misconstruing of intelligence.
Critics maintain that the administration trumpeted fearsome-sounding allegations while systematically disregarding more prudent and accurate analyses; that officials broke with past procedures by analyzing intelligence directly, and were credulous of defectors and prisoners whom intelligence professionals viewed with skepticism; and that specific claims regarding Iraq's nuclear program and the connection between Iraq and al Qaeda were based on intelligence known to be of dubious accuracy.
All of this goes unmentioned by Mr. Podhoretz. Instead, he breezily declares that "[t]o lie means to say something one knows to be false." But my dictionary also defines a lie as "something meant to deceive or give a wrong impression." In defining deceit down, Mr. Podhoretz is, at best, engaging in revisionist English.
He points out that the President never uttered the phrase "imminent threat." This overlooks the fact that the President called Iraq a threat of "unique urgency." Donald Rumsfeld (unmentioned in Mr. Podhoretz's essay) said that he "would not be so sure" that the threat from Iraq was not imminent. He also claimed that "we know where [the WMD] are." At any rate, the administration acted as though the threat were imminent, declining to allow weapons inspectors to complete their work.
Despite Mr. Podhoretz's obsession with Joseph Wilson, the fact remains that the CIA was dubious of the claim that Saddam sought uranium from Niger even before Wilson made his trip there. Throughout 2002, Bush's adviser Stephen Hadley ignored CIA warnings that the Niger yellowcake story was false. In the end, by sourcing the report to British intelligence, the administration managed to sneak a scary-sounding assertion into the State of the Union address without taking any responsibility for its accuracy.
Mr. Podhoretz makes much of the fact that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has said that his indictment of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby for his role in the Joseph Wilson/Valerie Plame affair "is not about the war." But the indictment does give some insight into the Bush administration's treatment of inconvenient and stubborn facts. When confronted with the public discrediting of a claim it had made in the run-up to war, the administration knew not to insist on its accuracy. Instead, it sought to discredit Wilson, the messenger.
Mr. Podhoretz is capable of much better than "Who Is Lying About Iraq?" I hope he will soon cease laboring to paper over the mistakes the U.S. has made in the past, and work to convince Americans that a secure and democratic Iraq can be a model for the Middle East and a landmark for U.S. foreign policy.
Matthew Foley
Christiansted, Virginia
To the Editor:
Norman Podhoretz's article merely continues the deceit about Iraq. Contrary to what he suggests, the real question is not whether intelligence indicated the existence of WMD in Iraq but whether the WMD threat was so extreme that immediate war was the only realistic policy. The questions "Why war?" and "Why then?" have been ignored by Mr. Podhoretz and other apologists for the Bush administration.
No doubt war was needed to depose Saddam, but not to stop his WMD threat. It is true that (as Mr. Podhoretz notes) President Clinton and other Democrats believed that Saddam probably had WMD, and that in 1998, Democratic Senators urged Clinton to take "necessary actions"—including, "if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspected Iraqi [WMD] sites"—but that is not the same as deploying a half-million ground troops.
Moreover, by March 2003, Saddam had been forced to readmit the UN weapons inspectors he had ejected in 1998, and the same Democrats were urging President Bush to delay the invasion so that the inspectors would have time to finish their work. To be sure, the inspectors were facing resistance and evasions from Saddam, but progress was being made, and they were beginning to cast doubt on the accuracy of the "estimates" and assertions on which the Bush policy was based.
But Bush could not wait to achieve his true objective of regime change by force of arms. So, to garner the support of the American people for his war of choice, he and his administration exaggerated the threat to U.S. security and offered straw-man arguments—and therein lay the lie.
Take the portions of the 2003 State of the Union address that Mr. Podhoretz himself quotes. Contrary to the President's rhetoric, no one was suggesting that the U.S. trust "in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein." No one was insisting that we wait until "terrorists and tyrants"—note the subtle alliterative linking of al Qaeda and Saddam—"announced their intentions." No one was suggesting that the U.S. allow Saddam's WMD threat to "fully and suddenly emerge" before taking action. But actions short of a ground invasion were available, from expanding the no-fly zone to gradually more coercive inspections to air and missile strikes on suspected WMD sites or even on the al-Qaeda training camp that purportedly proved Saddam's alliance with Osama bin Laden.
President Bush would have none of this. He wanted a ground invasion to depose Saddam. So he and his minions pumped up the evidence of WMD to suggest that an attack by the al Qaeda-Saddam alliance was so imminent that immediate invasion was necessary to protect America's security. That was the deception, and that was how President Bush, in more ways than one, misled us into war.
Michael Starr
New York City
To the Editor:
In building his case that the Bush administration was forthright in leading America into war in Iraq, Norman Podhoretz does what the Bush administration has been accused of doing, namely, obfuscating in order to push an agenda. I will cite but two examples.
Mr. Podhoretz states that even Hans Blix "lent further credibility to the case [that Saddam Hussein was harboring WMD] in a report he issued only a few months before the invasion." A long quote from Blix about the "discovery of a number of chemical rocket warheads" that possibly represented "the tip of a submerged iceberg" is then offered, but Mr. Podhoretz, in an uncharacteristic effort to save words, shortens the quote with an ellipsis. See, though, how the missing text changes the meaning: "The investigation of these rockets is still proceeding. Iraq states that they were overlooked from 1991 from a batch of some 2,000 that were stored there during the Gulf war. This could be the case."
To substantiate Bush's argument for a connection between Saddam and al Qaeda, Mr. Podhoretz mentions the "independent British investigation conducted by Lord Butler, which pointed to 'meetings . . . between senior Iraqi representatives and senior al-Qaeda operatives.'" Again, crucial phrases are left out. The immediately preceding sentence in the Butler Report is this: "Although Saddam's attitude to al Qaeda has not always been consistent, he has generally rejected suggestions of cooperation." Elsewhere, Butler stated: "We have no intelligence of current cooperation between Iraq and al Qaeda and do not believe that al Qaeda plans to conduct terrorist attacks under Iraqi direction."
Paragraph after paragraph, Mr. Podhoretz shades meanings to suit his thesis. The fantasy is complete when he states with confidence that the war is "proving itself more and more every day to be a victory of American arms and a vindication of American ideals." This ignores the increasing violence in Iraq, reports of prisoner abuses by the U.S. military, the negative view of too many Iraqis toward their American "liberators," and other blights that have occurred or come to light since our President declared "victory."
Lee Reich
New Paltz, New York
To the Editor:
I daresay I have read almost everything Norman Podhoretz has written over the last 40 years, such is my respect for what he has to say—though I do not always agree with him—on a wide range of subjects. I applaud him for his summary account of why he believes it is a lie to say that President Bush told a series of lies to justify going to war in Iraq.
My difference here with Mr. Podhoretz is in my judgment that the real or most troubling issue is not whether the President lied. (I may be mistaken, but I know of no Democrat or Republican in Congress who has accused him of outright lying or of fabricating pre-war intelligence.) The serious question is whether George W. Bush shared with Congress all of the intelligence he was given prior to his decision to invade.
Is it true, for example, that (as Hendrik Hertzberg has claimed) such information as the administration did impart to Congress "had been scrubbed of the doubts and refutations of intelligence professionals"? It may well be that what the President chose not to tell Congress (and the American people) does not rise to the level of lying. But did he refrain from telling the full truth when to do so might have made a difference in the debate leading up to the vote on the war?
Perhaps if the President had been more straightforward about the pre-war intelligence, and about the failures in prosecuting the war since the fall of Saddam Hussein, he might not now be having to dissuade the majority of Americans of their belief (as indicated by polls) that he "deliberately misled people to make the case for war with Iraq."
John H. Bunzel
Hoover Institution
Stanford, California
To the Editor:
Norman Podhoretz marshals a powerful set of quotations to prove that "it is as close to certainty as we can get that Bush believed in the truth of what he was saying about WMD in Iraq." But there is one big piece of evidence he does not address. For several months, almost up to the day of the invasion, a substantial group of UN weapons inspectors had found no evidence of WMD. According to Hans Blix:
While inspectors identified and supervised the destruction of missiles that somewhat exceeded the permitted range, they did not find any of the WMD which were unaccounted for, nor did they get credible explanations for their absence. The Iraqis grumbled but behaved tolerably well. They did not even make any serious resistance to inspections of two presidential sites—in their eyes probably the most sacrosanct spots in Iraq.
Donald Rumsfeld famously dismissed the failure to find WMD by declaring that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." But surely the absence of evidence would suggest to anyone at least the possibility and, after a time, maybe even the probability, that there was nothing to be found. Bush was undoubtedly well informed about the inspectors' actions. He no doubt also knew that his own CIA had no useful leads to give to them.
Blix wanted more time to search further. A majority of the members of the UN Security Council wanted to give it to him. But we would not wait. This strongly suggests that Bush's primary motivation was something other than the threat of WMD. That, together with evidence of the "stovepiping" of intelligence, makes one doubt that he and those around him were being entirely ingenuous with the public.
John M. Levy
Blacksburg, Virginia
To the Editor:
Norman Podhoretz points out many important facts and rationales in support of the invasion of Iraq, but he fails to point out the dissenting facts and opinions that were available to administration officials. They got Iraq wrong, and did so for the reason that has been repeatedly pointed out by a range of observers, from former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill to the victims of Hurricane Katrina: this administration does not do its homework, does not systematically analyze the available information, and consequently makes poorly informed decisions. In short, the Bush administration is incompetent.
Charlie Mills
Seattle, Washington
To the Editor:
For Norman Podhoretz to criticize the Democrats who are trying to discredit the Bush team and to redefine their own pre-war positions is fair. My problem with his article lies in the disconnect between the due diligence he attributes to the Bush team's gathering of pre-war intelligence and its actual execution of the war. Why was that due diligence not apparent in the deployment of larger numbers of American troops, in providing them with the right equipment, in postwar contingency plans, and so on?
If the Bush team had prepared adequately, there would be less reason to write articles defending its conduct of the war. Mr. Podhoretz's consistent, uncritical support for an administration whose record begs for honest appraisal is disheartening.
Beston Jack Abrams
Trenton, New Jersey
To the Editor:
The basic theme of Norman Podhoretz's article is that President Bush did not deliberately mislead the American people about Iraq. Mr. Podhoretz does not attempt to prove that Bush did not, in fact, mislead the American people, however innocently. One is left wondering if Bush would have gone ahead had he anticipated more than 2,000 soldiers killed and a protracted insurgency.
Mr. Podhoretz closes by assuring us that the war is being won. I pray that he is right.
Donald Feldstein
Teaneck, New Jersey
To the Editor:
Norman Podhoretz makes a strong argument condemning Democrats who have flip-flopped on the war in Iraq, but he seems to have forgotten that the Bush administration was fixated on Iraq from the beginning of its first term. The President raised the issue of revenge in comments about Saddam's attempt to assassinate his father after the first Gulf war. The administration also tried to persuade us that terrorists were operating inside Iraq prior to the war. There was even talk of an Iraq-9/11 connection. Bush himself may not have lied, but his administration should have been more cautious and in less of a hurry to send others into war.
Michael Parker
Washington, D.C.
To the Editor:
Thank you for the wonderful addition to Norman Podhoretz's previous "World War IV" articles. I find that one of the common, unchallenged arguments from the Left is the accusation that Iraq was not an "imminent threat." I like to remind war critics that the Department of Defense under President Clinton believed that Iraq's WMD were a growing threat, so much so that in January 2001, outgoing Secretary of Defense William Cohen left a report for President Bush stating: "Iraq retains the expertise, once a decision is made, to resume chemical-agent production within a few weeks or months, depending on the type of agent."
Heather Ruehl
Chicago, Illinois
To the Editor:
Norman Podhoretz's article might have included some salient remarks made by former President Bill Clinton in a 2003 interview with Larry King. They are particularly troublesome for Democrats seeking to accuse the Bush administration of lying about Iraq's WMD. As Clinton said, "It is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted-for stocks of biological and chemical weapons. We might have destroyed them in '98. We tried to, but we sure as heck didn't know it because we never got to go back in there."
Gary Hall
Los Angeles, California
To the Editor:
I do not have the words to say how cheered I was by Norman Podhoretz's recent article, a fantastic summary of who said what about the Iraqi threat prior to the U.S. invasion. Not only does it debunk the allegations of lying by the Bush administration, it shows how biased and hypocritical the Bush critics really are.
Politics is one thing, national security another. I cannot for the life of me understand how a person holding national office or having a national voice in the media could distort the evidence on such an important issue. Thank God we have a few cool and thoughtful observers who can state things objectively.
The only thing I would have added to Mr. Podhoretz's article was an explanation of the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, signed into law by President Clinton. It clearly stated that Saddam was a threat to the United States. How anyone could have voted for that legislation and now backtrack on armed intervention is an enigma wrapped in a mystery.
Richard Jones
Gainesville, Forida
To the Editor:
Let us assume for the sake of argument that Bush did lie; that he knew there were no WMD in Iraq. He would also have known that, sooner or later, this fact would be discovered. Can anyone suppose he would have thought that the media and the Democrats would give him a pass? To ask the question is to answer it.
Thomas Letchfield Palo Alto, California To the Editor: Several decades ago, Richard Rovere wrote a seminal book on the Army-McCarthy hearings in which he addressed the concept of the "Big Lie," showing how a falsehood repeated again and again could by fatigue alone come to be accepted as the truth.
Norman Podhoretz has now exposed such lies, but in my opinion he might as well be Socrates trying to reason with the Athenian mob. Gone now is adherence to Senator Arthur Vandenberg's admonition that politics should stop at the water's edge. Today, everything is for the moment. Failed politicians make speeches overseas and in Iraq itself denouncing their own country. As Senator Joseph Lieberman recently warned, the war in Iraq may be won on the battlefield but, as with Vietnam, lost in Washington.
Frederic Wile
New York City
To the Editor:
The article by Norman Podhoretz is one of the most cogent I have read in a long time. What passes for the "loyal opposition" in the U.S. has long since dropped any pretense of reasoned political discourse. We now are treated to a diet of shrill, strident, and outrageous sound bites, predictably packaged by a press corps lacking even the façade of independence.
J. Paul Giuliani
Montpelier, Vermont
To the Editor:
The extensive documentation Norman Podhoretz has assembled should put to rest forever any notion that the President deliberately lied about the state of Iraq's WMD program in the run-up to the war. But of course it will not.
Bush's opponents intend to de-legitimize the war—and his presidency—by any means necessary. In that ongoing campaign, mere facts do not matter. And so we have a relentless series of manufactured "scandals"—the Abu Ghraib orgy, the Cindy Sheehan carnival, the Joseph Wilson/ Valerie Plame charade, the Scooter Libby indictment—each exploited for weeks until it has run out of steam or collapses of its own accord and it is time for the next. But the hardy, indestructible perennial is the "Bush lied" refrain. It was there from the beginning, and returns, it seems, whenever there is a momentary pause in the media hype.
Robert L. Marshall
Newton, Massachusetts
To the Editor:
Thank you for Norman Podhoretz's refreshing article on the calculated amnesia among certain American politicians as to why the U.S. is in Iraq. Many of us outside the U.S. fully subscribe to his analysis. Prior to the invasion, no Western nation disputed the intelligence on which the war was based, which only shows how far a dictator can get before rightly getting trapped in his own cruel fantasies.
What I find worrisome is that freedom of the press in the U.S. has become a euphemism for a press acting like a political party, publishing only news that agrees with its agenda. It seems that balanced, carefully examined, independent news is nowhere to be found. Only the scoop matters, and only if it matches the prevailing sentiment. Lost in all this is the fact that America's foreign policy, while hard-nosed and pragmatic, is essentially enlightened and noble.
Anthony Steyning
Malaga, Spain
To the Editor:
Thank you for Norman Podhoretz's article. As a career military-intelligence officer with two deployments to Iraq, I can say that the most frustrating thing I have experienced in almost 20 years of service has been the cloud of lies surrounding the war, and the apparent willingness of so many people to believe them, despite all contrary evidence.
I do not mind deploying—leaving behind my wife and small children—or whatever small risks I incur, because, measured against the good we are accomplishing, my inconvenience is a small thing. But it is discouraging to come home and find so many people who are so passionately wrong about why we went to Iraq in the first place. Mr. Podhoretz's article is a great source of encouragement and a ready supply of ammunition for debate.
Major Steven A. Givler
U.S. Air Force
Carmel, California
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Matthew Foley accuses me of "defining deceit down." But this, of course, is precisely what he himself, and most of my other critics—in a textbook example of projection—are trying to do. Thus, confronted with the overwhelming evidence that President Bush was convinced that Saddam Hussein possessed an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and that he therefore did not lie in telling us so, they immediately seek refuge in softer but no less dishonest formulations of the same accusation. Mainly, the fallback formulations boil down to saying that while Bush and his people may not, in the strictest sense, have lied, they still created a false impression by deliberately misconstruing and/or misrepresenting the intelligence they received (and Lee Reich says much the same thing against my own reading of the evidence).
Now I must confess that I could hardly believe my eyes when I first read Mr. Foley's statement that the information on which the Bush administration based its claims about WMD was judged by "most U.S. intelligence experts" to be "unreliable." (I had a similar reaction upon learning that John H. Bunzel knows of "no Democrat . . . in Congress" who has accused Bush "of outright lying or of fabricating pre-war intelligence.") Quoting Mr. Foley's statement now, I again rub my eyes in disbelief. For, to repeat what I wrote in my article, the plain and incontrovertible fact is that all fifteen agencies involved in gathering intelligence for the United States, after considering the few reservations and qualifications expressed by this or that member, reached a consensus—and with "high confidence" no less—that Iraq was "continuing, and in some areas expanding its chemical, biological, nuclear, and missile programs contrary to UN resolutions." Furthermore, the intelligence agencies of Britain, Germany, Russia, China, Israel, and France all concurred in this conclusion. Nor was it challenged by the equivocations of Hans Blix.
Pause, then, for a minute and think what the critics are proposing: that the President of the United States, instead of making a decision by going with the best information he had, should have paralyzed himself by giving greater weight to the doubts of a few dissenters than to the combined judgment of all the intelligence agencies for which these dissenters worked. This is so preposterous an idea that in a saner political climate no rational person would dream of advancing it.
In addition to defining deceit down, the critics resort to the tactic of changing the subject. Defeated on the question of "who is lying about Iraq?," they immediately retreat to a host of different ones, like "why war?" and "why then?" Yes, some of them acknowledge, Bill Clinton and most other Democrats had warned in ominous terms of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, and had contemplated military force against him, but (as the blogger James Lileks once mockingly paraphrased the kind of argument made here by Michael Starr) at least Clinton never did anything about it.
In line with this attitude, the critics also believe that toppling Saddam Hussein was not a good thing—though nary a one of them is either honest or courageous enough to put it so clearly. Nor do they believe that we are winning—or that we can win—the struggle to make Iraq (in Mr. Foley's words) "secure and democratic, . . . a model for the Middle East, and a landmark for U.S. foreign policy."
Yet thanks to the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Iraq is well on its way to becoming just that. Within an amazingly short time, three elections have been held, a constitution has been written, and a government has been formed; great strides have been made in rebuilding the economy and the infrastructure; giant steps have been taken in creating such institutional foundations of a democratic society as a free press; and with every passing day the Iraqis are becoming more and more capable of assuming responsibility for their own security.
Having extensively documented all this in a follow-up article entitled "The Panic Over Iraq" (January), I trust that I need not go over the same ground again here. And so I will conclude by expressing my gratitude for the thoughtful and generous comments of Heather Ruehl, Gary Hall, Richard James, Thomas Letchfield, Frederic Wile, J. Paul Giuliani, Robert L. Marshall, Anthony Steyning, and Steven A. Givler.


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Fun game no doubt. The music was entertaining and the idea was simple and creative. I however take some pride in saying that I glitched the game, somehow I achieved the impossible by going through a wall. Then proceeded to get stuck. What I have seen has been interesting.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
LOL. Stick around for a while when you're in a room with a conversation going on, and you'll be rewarded with a couple funny lines. Ex. *Jenny at Lily* "If James wasn't staring at us I'd kiss you better*; *James at the end of the game* Why is our skyscraper full of puzzles? *Lily at James* I dunno, I just took the elevator here. Why didn't you? (She might not say that if she's the murderer)
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Yeah there is a glitch
like the other person said you get stuck, that happend to me. But good job on this game :D
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Great piece of work
I have to say this was rather creative and made the game fun with the fact that the bottom part of your body is invisible and you can defy the laws of physics as well!!
The graphics were very simple yet nice at the same time as well to me. The way that you die causes a slight blood spot for a moment as you are recreated and enter the same room is nice too. Like how there is not a lot of dialogue which is good. It is even better that you can skip the dialogue without listening to those people too.
The audio choices were quite nice here. The songs were fitting and added a bit more drama to the story.
The gameplay was great but the only real thing that ever annoyed me in some levels was the inability to duck and dodge spikes. Also kind of sad but interesting how those trapezoid pieces prevent you from walking in a certain direction however you can fall through them.
Overall, an interesting game and story!!
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Overall a Great Game
For the most part this is an amazing game. Another great entry in the growing sub-genera of gravity platformers. This really reminds me of "And Yet It Moves" and "VVVVVV," but is distinct enough in gameplay and style to stand on it's down. The weird gravity mechanics are a little tricky to wrap my head around at first, but once I did I was having a ball. Gameplay wise it's nearly flawless, and probably one of the best examples of it's genera in flash. The only trouble I had was the story. The film noir style detective story seemed interesting at first, but it doesn't tie into gameplay at all. Sure there might be some metaphorical connection, like how a case is full of twists and turns, and only when you figure out how all the clues fit together can you progress, (IE puzzle=mystery), but even then removing the story would have changed nothing gameplay wise. Clues are given throughout the game, dropping hints in between level cutscenes, so an easy fix would have been to let the player choose who they thought the murderer was based on the clues given. Still, even with the disconnected story the game is a blast to play and is one of the best platformers to come out this year.
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By Army Sgt. 1st Class Jon SoucySpecial to American Forces Press Service
ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 23, 2009 For many chaplains, providing spiritual and mental support for soldiers is a calling. But for one Minnesota Army National Guard chaplain, that's just part of the equation.
The real calling is that of being a soldier.
"I've often said in sermons to soldiers that I believe serving in the military is a call, and that it's a call to be a peacekeeper or a peacemaker," said Chaplain (Lt. Col.) John Morris, chaplain of the 34th Infantry Division, which is currently deployed to Basra, Iraq.
"These phrases that we use like selfless service, which is a common phrase in the Army, it's a vocational, religious connotation whether a person has a spiritual background or not," Morris said. "We're calling them to self-sacrifice on behalf of other people."
As he makes his rounds among the division's units, Morris said he often talks to the soldiers about sacrifice.
"Soldiering here, at this time, is a call to serve the Iraqis as well as serve the defense of our nation," he said. "And to be willing to be that person in the middle to enable peace and enable conditions to happen in that a new country can be born, I often present that to soldiers and they are often visibly moved and often encouraged by that."
Spiritual support is important throughout a deployment, but it is especially needed when a soldier is wounded or killed in action.
"From the time a soldier is wounded and goes up to one of our medical facilities, we'll do everything to get one of our chaplains up there if there is enough time," Morris said. "A lot of times the soldier will be evacuated so quickly to a higher level care that it will be a chaplain at that end, but there will be a hospital chaplain somewhere along the line."
In such a case, the chaplains often work with more than just the wounded soldier.
"That chaplain will minister to that soldier, but then will also stay and minister to the staff after that soldier passes on to the next level of medical care that is available," Morris said. "We'll follow up with that battalion chaplain or brigade chaplain and work with the chaplain to circulate through the unit and follow up with the soldiers who are affected and the commanders.
"A lot of times people forget that the commanders are tremendously affected by the injuries or deaths of their soldiers."
If there is a death within the unit, the chaplains have additional roles.
"We'll do a memorial service, which is a very distinct ritual to provide support to those who are remaining and rebuild their fighting resolve," Morris said. "We'll also … help put together a DVD of the memorial service for the families at home because we've found that to be tremendously comforting. So, this ministry goes to both sides of the world to those in the fight and those at home."
With chaplains busy talking with soldiers, they often don't leave time for themselves.
"Caregivers are notorious for not seeking care for themselves, and chaplains are no different," Morris said.
To alleviate that, there are a number of resources among the 34th Infantry chaplains. One of those is the family life chaplain, who works to provide training and serves as a debriefer among the division's chaplains and assistants.
"He is providing direct pastoral care to chaplains and the assistants, and he's tangled with some pretty tough issues that are the result of chaplains having repeatedly dealt with death and having repeatedly deployed," said Morris, adding that the family life chaplain has "earned his pay twice over" by taking on those duties.
One of Morris' primary duties is ensuring that the division's chaplains have someone to turn to for the support they need.
"I'll meet with the command chaplains and establish a relationship with them and try to provide pastoral support to the level they want to be, and then, as I travel through their battalions, I'll do the same thing," he said. "They realize I'm not there to force anything upon them. I'm there to make sure they are successful and have the care they need."
Morris encourages each chaplain to seek out each other for support. He encourages them "to establish some kind of working relationship with another chaplain on the battlefield or another military chaplain that they can talk to confidentially, so that they have got somebody that can put some support or encouragement behind them as they are giving everyday throughout the day."
Support also comes from sources outside the military.
"Each chaplain is endorsed by a denomination, and their endorser provides another level of pastoral care by reaching out and making sure the chaplains know they are supported," Morris said. "For example, I'm a United Methodist and my endorser calls my wife to see how she is doing, regularly sends her notes of encouragement and does the same for me."
As a result, these chaplains are able to support soldiers in the field.
"I find this generation of younger people that we have today, they want a mission bigger than themselves," Morris said. "They want to be about doing something that makes the world safer and better and soldiering does that, particularly in the place that we are."
(Army Sgt. 1st Class Jon Soucy serves with the National Guard Bureau public affairs office.)


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SAN ANTONIO - A pedestrian was struck and killed Tuesday night in the northbound lanes of the I-35 access road near Fischer Road.
Sgt. Steven Markgraf with SAPD said the pedestrian was apparently walking in the middle of the access road when the person was hit by the tractor portion of an 18-wheeler.
Markgraf said the truck driver knew he hit something, but wasn't sure what it was until he stopped the rig and got out to check. By that time, the victim had been run over multiple times by other vehicles.
The victim was so severely injured it was unknown if the victim was a male or female. Markgraf said a purse was found near the victim and it was being searched in an attempt to identify the person.
No charges are expected for the truck driver and Markgraf said it's possible the other drivers didn't realize what they ran over because it is so dark in the area.
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He must be in his office now. The light's burning."
"I wish you wouldn't, Clare. He'd hate it if he knew."
She moved on and Clare slowly followed her. The Rossiter girl's flow of talk had suddenly stopped. She was thoughtful and impulsively suspicious.
"Look here, Elizabeth, I believe you care for him yourself."
"I? What is the matter with you to-night, Clare?"
"I'm just thinking. Your voice was so queer."
They walked on in silence. The flow of Clare's confidences had ceased, and her eyes were calculating and a trifle hard.
"There's a good bit of talk about him," she jerked out finally. "I suppose you've heard it."
"What sort of talk?"
"Oh, gossip. You'll hear it. Everybody's talking about it. It's doing him a lot of harm."
"I don't believe it," Elizabeth flared. "This town hasn't anything else to do, and so it talks. It makes me sick."
She did not attempt to analyze the twisted motives that made Clare belittle what she professed to
Dick Livingstone is a doctor in a small town who works hard and loves Elizabeth Wheeler. He came to their town 10 years before, but from where? What in his past was so awful that he blocked it out? And when he reaches his breaking point what will he find?
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81-year-old Fairfield resident, Joyce Dalton, died at 9:15 a.m. Sunday, November 10 at her home. She worked at the Fairfield Garment Factory, and was a member of the Fairfield Northside Baptist Church.
Surviving are two sons, Steve of Geff and Bob of Fairfield; three daughters, Lisa Smith of Mt. Erie, and Denise McGuire and Kristi Thomason both of Fairfield; one brother, Vern Bond of Mt. Vernon, IL; 11 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
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How To Make Satay
Follow our quick, slick guide to making your own chicken Satay - do it the VideoJug way and you can't go wrong. Satay is an informal dish in Malaysia and is often bought and eaten on the streets. It is especially good served with a peanut dipping sauce.
Preparation Time : 5 minutes
Cooking Time : 10 minutes
2 medium chicken thighs
1 tsp ground white pepper
1 tsp garlic powder
1 Tbsp ground turmeric
1 Tbsp aniseed powder
1 Tbsp ground cumin
1 Tbsp paprika powder
1 Tbsp ground coriander
2 Tbsp vegetable oil
1 medium lime
6 6 inch wooden skewers
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1 tablespoon
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* Into a bowl put a teaspoon of ground white pepper, a teaspoon of garlic powder, a tablespoon of aniseed powder, a tablespoon of ground cumin, a tablespoon of ground coriander, a tablespoon of paprika, and a tablespoon of ground turmeric. Stir thoroughly to create a dry satay mix.
* Transfer 2 tablespoons of the mix into another bowl, one tablespoon for each of our two chicken thighs.
* Add 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Stir to create a paste.
The Chicken
* Remove the bones by running a sharp knife down either side. The top end will come away easily.
* Then cut around the bottom of the bone and remove the gristle.
* Trim and scrape off any excess fat.
* Tear the skin away as this will burn.
* Carefully cut from the middle into one side of the thigh and fold it open.
* Cut into the other side the same way to open it out. This will create a flat, evenly sized piece of chicken
* Slice into pieces of about 5 centimetres.
* Repeat with the second thigh.
* Run the knife alongside the bone and cut it out along with the gristle. Feel with your fingers to make sure all the bones are removed and then tear away the skin. Cut into both sides and open out.
* Slice into strips ready to be marinated.
* Place the chicken strips into the bowl with the marinade. Mix well. The consistency of the marinade should evenly coat the chicken, lift the strips up to make sure this is the case. As it is a strong sauce the chicken is ready to cook immediately.
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TIP : Soak the skewers in cold water for a few seconds, this will prevent them from burning when cooking.
* Take a skewer and thread on a chicken piece. Try to ensure that the skewer doesn't show through either side. Push it down but leave room at the bottom for holding. Thread on a second, and then a third piece. Satay literally means 'Triple Stacked' so aim to thread 3 pieces on each skewer if you can.
* Repeat with the next skewer, and then the next until you have run out of meat. You should have enough chicken to fill at least three skewers.
* This can be a messy procedure so wash you hands well when finished.
* Place the skewers onto a grill or griddle pan that has been preheated to a high temperature and leave to cook. Occasionally press them down but not too hard though as this may squeeze the flavours out. If the meat sticks gently prise it loose.
* After about 4 minutes, when the chicken is a golden brown, turn it, and leave the other side to brown for a further 4 to 5 minutes. To check the chicken is cooked through, cut into it. It should be white inside
* When done transfer the satay to a serving plate.
TIP : Roll a lime back and forth under your hand. This will squeeze the insides making it juicier
* Cut a wedge from the lime and place it alongside the satay.
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Allen Nave, 78, of Eugene, Oregon, passed away Saturday April 5, 2014, of complications from a recent stroke.
A native of Dexter, Oregon, he was born October 7, 1935, to the late James Daniel and Laura Emma Stalcup Nave, former residents of Johnson County. Allen was a grandson of the late Daniel C. and Tishia Robinson Nave and Stacy C. & Alice Arney Stalcup.
He graduated from the Lowell High School class of 1953 and attended the University of Oregon. He retired as a Clerk from the Southern Pacific Railroad after 39 years of service. He was a member and deacon of the Riviera Baptist Church in Eugene.
He loved to travel and had visited all 50 states. Allen was an avid fan of University of Oregon "Ducks." His last football game was in September 2013 when Tennessee played the University of Oregon.
Survivors include his wife: Shirley Gullickson Hamper Nave; His Sons: Mark Hamper, Lakewood, Washington, and Greg Hamper and his wife, Dawn, Kelso, Washington; Two Brothers: Floyd Nave and wife Tonya, Tigard, Oregon, and Gary Nave and wife, Jody, Hubbard, Oregon; 3 grandchildren; a great grandson to be born soon; several nieces & nephews. Also surviving are several cousins in Johnson and Carter Counties.
Funeral Services will be conducted at 12 Noon, Saturday, April 12, 2014, in the Riviera Baptist Church, Eugene, Oregon.
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The family requests that remembrances be made to the Riviera Baptist Church, PO Box 40248, Eugene, OR 97404 in lieu of flowers.
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September 4, 2013 - The body of an adult man was located Wednesday afternoon near a creek in heavy brush about 200 to 300 yards south of Spring Street in Meadville.
According to Crawford County Coroner Scott Schell, what are basically skeletal remains were found by a couple of fisherman and the person may have been dead for five or six months.
Schell says there are no indications of foul play at this time and investigators are trying to verify a possible identification.
The coroner also says he was told Meadville and State Police have no missing person cases right now.
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