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Family asks that woman accused of overdosing toddler be allowed at funeral
Family members of a Tooele woman charged in the death of her 2-year-old son are asking a judge to allow the woman to attend the child's funeral.
Jill Goff, 32, is suspected of inadvertently feeding her toddler an overdose of methadone. She is charged in 3rd District Court with second-degree felony child abuse homicide, and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
Goff is being held in the Tooele County jail without bail, and her first court appearance is on Monday. But family members pleaded in letters filed with the court Wednesday for Judge Robert Adkins to allow the woman to be released from the jail to attend her child's funeral on Saturday.
"She loved that little guy with all her heart," husband Cody Goff wrote to the judge. "I'm telling you, as the father to that child, she absolutely never meant any harm to that beautiful young person or any of her kids."
Jill Goff called 911 on Friday evening when the family discovered that the toddler, Aiden Goff, was not breathing. Emergency responders tried to save the toddler, but he died at the home at 485 Oak St., said Tooele police Capt. Paul Wimmer.
A funeral service is planned for the child on Saturday in Grantsville, according to the family letters.
"We are all devastated by this accident," wrote Margaret Goff, Aiden's grandmother. "Jill loves her kids and has always tried to be there with all the problems. I know she did not intentionally do anything to hurt the kids. I can't even imagine the pain she is feeling right now."
Court records do not indicate whether Adkins made any decision about the family's request.
Several hours after Aiden died, the boy's 8-year-old brother and 5-year-old sister turned up at the emergency room having also ingested methadone, police say. Both survived.
The 8-year-old told his aunt, and the 5-year-old told a detective, that their mother fixed a pink drink for Aiden, according to a probable cause statement. He did not like the drink so Goff had the 5-year-old taste it, and she said it was "gross," the statement adds. Jill Goff then had the 8-year-old taste it, and he said it tasted like medicine, according to the statement.
Investigators suspect the drink was Goff's colored, liquid methadone that was kept in a Gatorade bottle, Wimmer said.
"We think she may have inadvertently served it," Wimmer said Monday.
Goff told investigators that after the taste tests, she realized that she had poured the methadone and not Gatorade into the cup, according to the probable cause statement. Goff said she tried to get Aiden to throw up, then went to bed and took a nap with him, the statement adds.
"When asked, she said she didn't call [emergency responders] or poison control because she was scared," according to the statement.
Goff has no prior criminal history in Utah, according to a search of state records.
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Easy ways to give your bathroom a mini makeover
When it comes to redecorating, one of our favorite places to start is the bathroom, since it's just about the easiest room in any home to give a makeover. All it takes for a fresh new look is to make a few simple switches, such as replacing your bath mat, shower curtain, or bowl of potpourri. While these are no-brainer ways to decorate your bathroom, here are a couple more under-the-radar options you may not have considered trying:
Switch out your bath towel wrap and towels
While you may not think of your bath towel wrap as decor, it makes sense to look at it that way. After all, while you might spend only a few minutes wearing your trusty wrap after your daily shower, it spends the majority of its time hanging in your bathroom. If you're using a plain bath towel wrap in a solid color, try swapping it out for one with a fun pattern or print. While you're at it, swap out the rest of your solid colored towels for a quick and easy style upgrade.
Install a corner medicine cabinet
Few bathrooms stray from the tried and true template of having a medicine cabinet above the sink. An easy way to add visual interest to your bathroom is by installing a medicine cabinet in an unexpected location: at a corner of your bathroom. If the thought of moving your sink and the work that comes with it is already giving you a headache, not to worry – you don't even have to do any rearranging. You can install a corner medicine cabinet and add a three-tier corner shelving unit beneath it. You can go the practical route and use the corner shelves to keep bath products and small towels handy, or you can use it for decorative purposes and add small decor items such as pillar candles or potted flowers.
What are your favorite quick and easy ways to decorate a bathroom?
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Top 100 Twitter Feeds For Law Students
Online Best Colleges.com lists the Twitter feeds of Stanford Law School and Professor Lawrence Lessig among the top 100 Twitter feeds for law students:
Twitter is a growing phenomenon among everyone from stay-at-home moms to the US President. Lawyers and other law professionals haven't missed out on this trend either, and you can find numerous Twitter feeds that are full of insights into the work of these working professionals in all areas of the field. Here are 100 Twitter feeds we've pulled together from law librarians, lawyers, students and much more to keep you in the loop.
stanfordlaw: This California-based school offers loads of news items in their feed that are relevant to law students.
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Vulcan admits failure in not adding more amenities before South Lake Union growth
It's not too late to add amenities to South Lake Union, especially well designed green spaces. [Read More]
What will be our legacy?
"Past generations made investments and sacrifices to add Denny Park 120 years ago and Seattle Center 50 years ago. What will be our legacy?" [Read More]
Will Seattle City Council Vote to Ignore Neighborhood Planning in SLU?
Tomorrow the Seattle City Council will be voting on the UW Phase III Text Amendment which will set a precedence to up-zone several blocks in South Lake Union. While LUOA and many SLU residents (who actually know about this issue) still hope for a reasonable compromise, it is unlikely that Seattle has learned from past development mistakes. Back in December 2007, the SeattlePI.com wrote that the Cosmopolitan owners were "… prevented, through lack of information and invitation, from having our voices … [Read More]
City to Present Vision for South Lake Union Tonight
Tonight from 6:30 to 8:00 PM – Seattle Unity Church (200 8th Avenue North), please attend! [Read More]
Kids in SLU: Which way to the neighborhood school?
As I was reviewing the different city-funded affordable housing projects in SLU, I noted with interest that at least three of them are specifically targeted to serve families. Not surprisingly though, school district maps categorize SLU as a "low density" neighborhood with regard to potential students. I was buoyed, however, to read a study done for the school district by DeJong Inc. in 2008 that projects a 2012 population increase for five to nineteen-year-olds of more than 100% in the heart of … [Read More]
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The word "breakthrough" gets bandied about with alarming regularity. Anyone who performs science or covers it should know better than to use that phrase.Comments: 2
GridWise Alliance heralds successes but calls for change
The GridWise Alliance seeks to assess the benefits of grid modernization and inject urgency into the process by which modernization gets done.
CenterPoint Energy and PECO describe their approaches to grid optimization
While the mainstream media continues to focus on concerns about data privacy, leading utilities are focusing on using the new data smart meters are providing to increase reliability, lower operational costs, and much more. Here's what CenterPoint Energy and PECO are doing with the new data.
Readers challenge our coverage, and each other
Changing utility customer behavior runs up against "What's in it for me?" Is the military wise to seek energy self-sufficiency, to save lives and money? And whither storage in California? Our readers have their say.
IEEE outreach might expand your thinking
The power industry has struggled to attract new talent because the pipeline of engineering students has dwindled and the industry itself has a reputation for stodginess. Given the convergence of IT, telecom, power and their transformative effects on society, however, it should be a hip field. So one man is going fishing where the fish are.Comments: 7
Opening salvo in Boulder's municipalization effort?
Boulder is exploring the formation of a municipal utility. Xcel is trying to scare its citizens and has asked for regulatory support to cut off Boulder from energy efficiency and solar incentives. Battle lines are being drawn.Comments: 3
Xcel: we've proven value, deserve cost recovery
Colorado regulators have established a handful of hurdles to full cost recovery by Xcel Energy for SmartGridCity. Xcel argues that it has cleared those hurdles and deserves to collect another $16.6 million, on top of $27.9 million already recovered, for a project involving triple cost overruns. Hearings have been set.Comments: 1
Few consumer negatives around smart grid, which remains fuzzy
A handful of consumer perception studies appear to show that smart meters and smart grid remain largely amorphous subjects in the public's mind, which is both good news and bad news. Will utilities react with complacency or urgency?Comments: 5
ARPA-E's Majumdar charts progress
Public-private research efforts toward clean energy and grid modernization are moving ahead, according to researchers at ARPA-E. Arun Majumdar, director of ARPA-E, will present at the EnergyBiz Leadership Forum will be held March 19-21 in Washington, D.C.Comments: 1
IEEE PES pursues objectives to attract and retain talent
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In Captivate 5 Essential Training, author James Lockman demonstrates the core features of Captivate 5, the popular tool for authoring e-learning content such as interactive presentations, click-through simulations, and customized assessments. He shows how to import and sync PowerPoint presentations, add interactivity, and incorporate audio, video, and voiceovers. The course also includes tutorials on assessment reporting and integrating with SCORM-compliant learning management systems. Exercise files accompany the course.
In this lesson, we are going to see how we can use Captivate to build an image slideshow from images that we've got collected in a folder. You don't need to have any documents open, and in fact if you want to see this Welcome screen, then you need to have all of your documents closed anyway. You can create a new image slideshow right here from the Welcome screen, or you can do it from the File menu. Under File, choose New Project > Image Slideshow. We want to create a project with slides, and we need to tell it how big we want the slides to be.
Captivate will take the images that we are going to import and make them fit onto the stage that we define right now. We can leave this at 640 x 480 for these purposes; however, if you like to choose a different size, you can do that as well based on the needs of your project. If the size you need isn't in this list, of course you can customize the list and create a new size that you can save, or you can simply type in pixel dimensions here. Well let's stick with 640 x 480 for this project. Click OK to continue.
Now, we need to load in all of the images for the slideshow. I have a folder called Slideshow that's in your Images folder, in the Project folder, in the Chapter 04 exercise files. Open that and select all of these images. You can do this by holding down your Shift key, clicking on the top, and then clicking on the bottom. Once you have them all selected, click Open. You will get no indication that Captivate is working. But rest assured, it is working. Now, we're taking a look at the Import functionality that we see inside of Captivate.
Captivate is telling us about the image here. This is the first image in the list. It's 1800 x 1200, but remember our stage is 640 x 480. Right now, this doesn't fit at all. So what we'd like to do is to adjust it to fit the stage. Thankfully, Captivate provides us with a tool to help us to do that automatically. If you leave Fit to Stage selected, then your images will automatically be adjusted to fit onto that 640 x 480 stage. Alternatively, you could crop the image. So if you select Crop, then you'll see your 640 x 480 crop area right there, and you can move it around to pick a particular portion of your image.
I'm going to go back to Fit to Stage, however. What we can do is to scroll through the images and apply different settings to each one. Let's go to the next image now. You can make adjustments at this point to the images using these adjustment tools here. I would like this image to be partially transparent. Select the Alpha slider and slide it back to 70%. You don't get immediate feedback with Captivate, so sometimes it's best to simply type the number. We'll go to the next one.
This one I'd like to desaturate and make it look grayscale. I could do that by clicking the Gray Scale button here, or I could pull the Saturation down. Let's use the Gray Scale button. Go to the next. This one I will crop and then slide this in the lower left-hand corner to get a closer view of those olives. That one we'll leave alone, and that one we'll leave alone. This is our last image in the stack, and it's very tall.
When it gets placed onto the stage, it's going to end up being shrunk, and there will be quite a bit of area to either side of it. I am using this image to illustrate that not all images are appropriate for our slideshows, and so you've got to think about your original source. In this case, because it's so tall and thin, if I've got a background that I put in later, that background is going to be visible on the left and right of the slide. We're going to leave it in the project, however, and we'll just continue. So now I have set up all of my images, and I can click OK. Of course, if you want to make an adjustment or no adjustments and then apply to all, you could click here as well.
Captivate will now import all of the images as separate slides. If I scroll down through the Filmstrip, you can see all of my slides there, and there is that last one that's very tall. Something you'll notice here first is that we have a 3-second duration for all of the slides in the slideshow. If you look over on the right under the General settings, you're going to see that what we are looking at is the default behavior for our Captivate projects. You can adjust this default behavior by using the Preferences, or you can adjust the specific behavior for these slides here.
Let's select all of the slides. Select the first one, hold down your Shift key, select the last one. We now have all of the slides selected, and I'd like to change the duration to 5 seconds. I can drag, or I can type in a number there. And I'd also like to change our Transition to Fade. What will happen is that the images will fade from one to the other like we expect when we see a slideshow. By default, Captivate puts in No Transition, and it can be quite abrupt.
You have other transitions that you can choose as well, and you can make them different on each slide. Let's preview what our slideshow looks like now. Under Preview, choose Project. You can see it going through the different slides. If I were to publish this as a SWF, I could post it on a web site, and it would become a rolling slideshow. Additionally, you could go back and edit the slides and add captions or any other types of content that you'd want to put in after the fact. That's enough for this. We'll go back to our editing, and we will save this file.
We'll save it as "Chapter 4 slideshow" and put it in your Project folder, in the Chapter 04 folder. Creating slideshows with Captivate is easy. All you need is a folder full of images, and you're good to go. Many of us use slideshows to help sell our products and services. So if you're using slideshows today from other sources, try a Captivate slideshow. It's easy and effective.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014
In the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut, Dorchester District 2 schools decided to take action and upgrade security on many of the districts schools.
In the spring of last year each school received a security review, when officials walked through schools to see what security measures could be improved from extra lighting in parking lots to fencing around school grounds.
Now the district office is preparing to make security enhancements to the main entrances of six elementary schools, five middle schools and two high schools.
The security plan was discussed at a Board Safety Committee meeting Thursday, Feb. 6, when Director of Facilities Rick Rogers showed renovation plans to committee members.
Rogers said after all the plans have been approved by the Office of School Facilities they will go up for bid.
Were trying to get most of these plans done this summer, he said. But were kind of at the mercy of the review process. I have a feeling theyre going to be coming in at various stages, being reviewed by different people.
The plans involve adding extra sets of doors to some school entrances, as well as adding places for visitors to check into the main office before being granted access into the rest of the building. For some schools, plans involve revamping the front office area to accommodate a new secure entrance.
Rogers said the project is budgeted at $1.5 million.
Security enhancements will be done to the following schools:
Beach Hill Elementary
Fort Dorchester Elementary
Knightsville Elementary
Oakbrook Elementary
Summerville Elementary
Windsor Hill Elementary
Austin Middle
Dubose Middle
Gregg Middle
Oakbrook Middle
Rollings Middle School of the Arts
Dorchester High
Summerville High
In addition to the security enhancements Rogers said the district wants to make a new standard for schools regarding classroom doors. Right now throughout the district different schools have different lock setups.
The new standard calls for the door to the classroom always being locked it can only be unlocked from inside the classroom or with a key.
Rogers said establishing the new standard would apply to any future school constructions or renovations.
The reason we are trying to get to this one standard is so that throughout the district, eventually, all the classrooms function the same way, he said. In any crisis or emergency, if the door was the closed the teacher would know it is locked.
There would be no doubts whatsoever. You would not have to go to the door to make sure the door was locked and put yourself at risk because someone could see you through the window.
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By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USANational Guard Bureau
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2004 Possibly the largest rotation of military forces in United States history is about to take place, as thousands of troops prepare to relieve units that have been in Iraq and Afghanistan for as long as a year, the director of operations for the Joint Staff said here today.
Air Force Lt. Gen. Norton Schwartz said the rotation will involve all varieties of active duty and reserve combat and support forces. He said the goal of the rotation will be to satisfy the needs of ground commanders for the right kinds of forces -- especially civil affairs, military police and intelligence units.
"Clearly, before May 1, (2003), when we were still involved in major combat operations, you had forces configured for that purpose," he said. "As we have moved into a stability and support operations phase -- that is, to provide a secure and stable environment from which the promise of the Iraqi people can actually be manifested -- what we've done is sort of optimized the forces for that mission."
Schwartz said units heading for the theater will be "a little less heavy" than they were before the war, and "a little more mobile, more 'infantry-centric.'"
Meanwhile, Schwartz said, a few units will have to remain in the theater a bit longer before returning home. He said the Defense Department recently approved the extension of selected Army units past their 12-month rotation period.
Schwartz said the extension probably will be no longer than 60 days, and that the number of troops affected would be a relatively small. He said about 1,600 troops from 12 units would have to be extended past the one-year mark.
"That's 12 units out of 1,250," Schwartz explained. "That's a relatively small percentage, but that's not insignificant to the individual troops that are obviously involved in this."
Schwartz said the Pentagon did everything possible to avoid having units going beyond a 12-month deployment, from shortening the training time for successor units to reducing reception staging and onward movement and integration.
"We even tried to leave equipment in theater, which would also reduce transit time for equipment on aircraft," he said.
Mission was another reason for the delay of some troops returning home. Certain missions simply could not allow for gaps.
"We came to the conclusion reluctantly, but appropriately, that we had to ask just a touch more from our people," Schwartz said, adding gratitude for the affected service members' work and for their understanding that a significant effort was made to avoid extending their deployment.
Troops about to relieve their comrades have a clear mission to "complete the deal," Schwartz said. "And so they're going with the same sense of commitment and recognition -- that this is to deliver on the promise that the president has articulated," he added.
The general said young soldiers deploying for the first time understand that this is what service is: both routine and challenging. "And clearly this is a more challenging period," he said. "And all of us get tested during periods like this; that is something to look forward to. What young soldiers should know is that they are going to serve a very important cause, they are going to be well- led, and that their work is worthy."
Schwartz said thus far the increasing number of Iraqi security forces being trained by the United States has not affected the rotation of troops to Iraq. But he added that "over time, and not a very long time, the Iraqi forces will be assuming more and more of the obligation associated with the stability mission."
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The problem isn't in the language itself. While I may not like CoffeScript personally, I celebrate the diversity, like pretty much everyone else. The issue is with people like yourself, who post things on the web as if everyone knew how CoffeeScript works. Sure, it compiles down to JavaScript. We get that. But we're not going to learn your language, and it looks funny.
I don't have to tell you things are bad, everybody knows things are bad. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is "please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms".
So, I want you to get up now.
Did you know that some companies are in fact turning their back on Coffee, just because people don't really know the language? The problem Discourse encountered was simply that they weren't getting as many contributions as they expected simply because their JavaScript was obfuscated behind Coffee, reason enough for them to flip the switch and move away from CoffeeScript. The problem is clear: people who know Coffee should know JavaScript if they want to write decent code. The opposite doesn't really hold true, the rest of the universe has no reason to learn Coffee, and those of us who don't buy into its perceived value are left out in the cold.
I'm not even getting into the which one's better? debate. I don't really like the syntax but then again, I don't care that some people do, either. Besides, others have typed pretty long articles on the subject. After all, the first non-procedural language I came upon was Visual Basic, which has the sameish "human-readable" syntax style that we find in CoffeeScript, with gems such as
one isnt two reminding me that once upon a time I, too, relinquished code quality in favor of blindly telling my compiler
On Error Resume Next, an obscure construct in VB where it acted as if every single line was wrapped in a
catch block. Oh, the joy of blindly and naively debugging code back then.
The problem with the child-like syntax is that it hides too much, making the code nearly impossible to read for un-caffeinated fellows such as myself. Not that we want to. This isn't the case of all languages that compile to web-ready languages (HTML, JS, CSS).
Jade, for example, produces clean HTML that simply uses CSS selectors, in a syntax something very similar to what you might know as the Zen Coding. When you compare Jade with the exceedingly verbose nature of HTML, or XML, the benefits start becoming glaringly obvious.
Here's some Jade
li(ng-repeat='foo in bar')
div {{name}}
span Description
span {{desc}}
span Price
span {{price}}
The HTML took me quite a bit longer to type by hand

The pros to Jade start piling up when we take into account things like inheritance, mixins, JavaScript, and, well, the fact that you won't be forgetting to close tags anymore.
In the case of Coffee, though, it's as if it was the other way around. What the hell is happening in the JavaScript that gets compiled? I've no idea. To me, it's a black box. I don't like black boxes. They're black, and cube shaped. And that's about all I know about black boxes, they don't tell me anything about what's going on under the covers. Writing JavaScript code directly means we have full control over what we are doing, and that has precious value. One last thing. How are you going to incorporate ES6 when it comes around? To my knowledge, it'll break CoffeeScript as you know it. That kind of sucks. It means you'll either be stuck in a language that can't exploit all of the latest features in JavaScript, or you'll have to change tons of code in order to be back at square one. Me? I'd rather not be boxed into feature lockdown by the same language that's pretending to help me write better code.
My suggestion to you isn't even to stop using CoffeeScript, but to be more thoughtful of those who don't know anything about your pretty language. Always compile your code down to JavaScript before posting a question to StackOverflow, or replying to a blog post. You might even learn things about JavaScript itself, too.
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Southern Agrarians
The Southern Agrarians (also known as the Twelve Southerners, the Vanderbilt Agrarians, the Nashville Agrarians, the Tennessee Agrarians, or the Fugitive Agrarians) were a group of twelve American writers, poets, essayists, and novelists, all with roots in the Southern United States, who joined together to write a pro-Southern agrarian manifesto, a collection of essays published in 1930 titled I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition.[1] They were major contributors to the revival of Southern literature in the 1920s and 1930s now known as the Southern Renaissance.
The Southern Agrarians were based at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and its unofficial leader was John Crowe Ransom.
The Southern Agrarians included:
- Donald Davidson, poet, essayist, reviewer and historian
- John Gould Fletcher, poet and historian
- Henry Blue Kline
- Lyle H. Lanier
- Andrew Nelson Lytle, poet, novelist and essayist
- Herman Clarence Nixon
- Frank Lawrence Owsley, historian
- John Crowe Ransom, poet, professor, essayist
- Allen Tate, poet
- John Donald Wade, biographer and essayist
- Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist, essayist and critic, later first poet laureate of the United States
- Stark Young, novelist, drama and literary critic, playwright
Background and general ideas of the Southern Agrarians[edit]
The Agrarians evolved from a philosophical discussion group known as the "Fugitives" or "Fugitive Poets". Many of the Southern Agrarians and Fugitive poets were connected to Vanderbilt University, either as students or as faculty members. Davidson, Lytle, Ransom, Tate, and Warren all attended the university; Davidson and Ransom later joined the faculty, along with Wade and Owsley. They were moved to respond by their studies of poetic modernism and by H. L. Mencken's scathing critique of Southern culture. They were offended not so much by Mencken's widely publicized essay "The Sahara of the Bozart", with which they tended to agree, but by his subsequent bitter attacks on aspects of Southern culture that they valued, such as its agrarianism, conservatism, and religiosity.[2] They sought to confront the widespread and rapidly increasing effects of modernity, urbanism, and industrialism on American (but especially Southern) culture and tradition. The informal leader of the Fugitives and the Agrarians was John Crowe Ransom, but in a 1945 essay he announced that he no longer believed in either the possibility or the desirability of an Agrarian restoration, which he declared a "fantasy".[3] The most eloquent exponent of the Agrarian philosophy eventually proved to be Ransom's student Richard M. Weaver, a friend of Donald Davidson.[citation needed] Unlike the others, Weaver taught at a Northern institution, the University of Chicago. Other writers associated with the Agrarians include Caroline Gordon, Brainard Cheney and Herbert Agar.
The Southern Agrarians bemoaned the increasing loss of Southern identity and culture to industrialization. They believed that the traditional agrarian roots of the United States, which dated back to the nation's founding in the 18th century (with many of America's most important Founding Fathers being farmers), were important to its nature. Their manifesto was a critique of the rapid industrialization and urbanization during the first few decades of the 20th century in the southern United States and elsewhere. It posited an alternative based on a return to the more traditionally rural and local/regional culture, and agrarian American values. The group opposed the rapid and destabilizing changes in the U.S. that were leading it to become more urban, national/international, and industrial. Because the book was published at the opening (1930) of what would eventually become the Great Depression, some viewed it as particularly prescient. The book's stance was anti-communist.
Seward Collins, editor of The American Review, praised Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler for thwarting a communist revolution in Germany. He published some essays by Agrarians in 1933. In 1936, Allen Tate published a critique of fascism in The New Republic to distance the Agrarians from Collins.
Robert Penn Warren emerged as the most accomplished of the Agrarians. He became a major American poet and novelist, winning the Pulitzer Prize for his 1946 All the King's Men.
Under attack as reactionary[edit]
I'll Take My Stand was attacked at the time, and since, as a reactionary and romanticized defense of the Old South and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. It ignored slavery and denounced "progress", for example, and some critics considered it to be moved by nostalgia.[4][5][6]
In the 1930s, the Agrarians were challenged by the modernizing social scientists (the "Chapel Hill Sociologists") based at the University of North Carolina (in Chapel Hill), and led by Howard W. Odum, on issues of urbanism, social progress, and the very nature and definition of the South. The sociologists produced Rupert Vance's The Human Geography of the South (1932), and Odum's Southern Regions of the United States (1936), as well as numerous articles in the journal Social Forces. The sociologists argued that the problems in the South stemmed from traditionalism which ought to and could be cured by modernization, the opposite of the Agrarian viewpoint.[7]
At a reunion of the Fugitive Poets in 1956, Warren confessed that for about a decade — from just before World War II to some years after — he had shut Agrarianism from his mind as irrelevant to the cataclysmic social and political events then playing out in the world. Now, however, he believed that, rather than being irrelevant, his old Agrarian enthusiasms were tied into the major problems of the age. In the modern world, the individual had been marginalized, stripped of any sense of responsibility, or of past or place. "In this context," writes Paul V. Murphy, "the Agrarian image of a better antebellum South came to represent for Warren a potential source of spiritual revitalization. The past recalled, not as a mythical 'golden age' but 'imaginatively conceived and historically conceived in the strictest readings of the researchers', could be a 'rebuke to the present'."[8]
It was Warren's concern with democracy, regionalism, personal liberty and individual responsibility that led him to support the civil rights movement, which he depicted in his nonfiction works Segregation (1956) and Who Speaks for the Negro? (1965) as a struggle for identity and individualism. As Hugh Ruppersburg, among others, has argued, Warren's support for the civil rights movement paradoxically stemmed from Agrarianism, which by the 1950s meant for him something very different from the Agrarianism of I'll Take My Stand.[9] As Warren's political and social views evolved, his notion of Agrarianism evolved with them. He came to support more progressive ideas and racial integration,[10] and was a close friend of the eminent African-American author Ralph Ellison.[11] While Donald Davidson took a leading role in the attempt to preserve the system of segregation, Warren took his stand against it. As Paul V. Murphy writes, "Loyalty to the southern past and the ambiguous lessons of Agrarianism led both men in very different directions."[8]
In recent decades some traditionalistic conservatives such as Allan C. Carlson, Joseph Scotchie, and Eugene Genovese have praised the Agrarian themes in light of what they see as the failures of highly urbanized and industrialized modern societies.[12]
Today, the Southern Agrarians are lauded regularly in the conservative media such as the Southern Partisan. Some of their social, economic, and political ideas have been refined and updated by writers such as Allan C. Carlson and Wendell Berry. The Intercollegiate Studies Institute has published books which further explore the ideas of the Agrarians.
Statement of Principles[edit]
A key quote from the "Introduction: A Statement of Principles" to their 1930 book I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition:
All the articles bear in the same sense upon the book's title-subject: all tend to support a Southern way of life against what may be called the American or prevailing way; and all as much as agree that the best terms in which to represent the distinction are contained in the phrase, Agrarian versus Industrial. ...Opposed to the industrial society is the agrarian, which does not stand in particular need of definition. An agrarian society is hardly one that has no use at all for industries, for professional vocations, for scholars and artists, and for the life of cities. Technically, perhaps, an agrarian society is one in which agriculture is the leading vocation, whether for wealth, for pleasure, or for prestige – a form of labor that is pursued with intelligence and leisure, and that becomes the model to which the other forms approach as well as they may. But an agrarian regime will be secured readily enough where the superfluous industries are not allowed to rise against it. The theory of agrarianism is that the culture of the soil is the best and most sensitive of vocations, and that therefore it should have the economic preference and enlist the maximum number of workers."[13]
See also[edit]
- ^ Davidson et al. 2006.
- ^ Shapiro, Edward S. (1972). "The Southern Agrarians, H. L. Mencken, and the Quest for Southern Identity", American Studies 13: 75-92.
- ^ Ransom, John Crowe (1945). "Art and the Human Economy", Kenyon Review 7: 686.
- ^ Rubin, Louis (1962), "Introduction", I'll take my stand: the South and the agrarian tradition, p. xxiii
- ^ Johnson, Bethany L, ed. (2001), The Southern Agrarian and the New Deal: Essays after "I'll Take My Stand", p. 3.
- ^ Simpson, Lewis P (2003), "1", The Fable of the Southern Writer.
- ^ Holladay, Robert 'Bob' (Dec 2005), "The Gods That Failed: Agrarianism, Regionalism, and the Nashville-Chapel Hill Highway", Tennessee Historical Quarterly 64 (4): 284–307.
- ^ a b Murphy, Paul V. (2001). The Rebuke of History: Introduction, University of North Carolina Press.
- ^ Ruppenburg, Hugh (1990). Robert Penn Warren and the American Imagination, University of Georgia Press.
- ^ Smith, Sandy (2008). "Voices from the Past"
- ^ Ealy, Steven D. (2006). "'A Friendship That Has Meant So Much': Robert Penn Warren and Ralph W. Ellison", The South Carolina Review Vol. 38, No. 2: 162-172.
- ^ Young, Thomas Daniel (2010), Waking Their Neighbors Up: The Nashville Agrarians Rediscovered, U. of Georgia Press.
- ^ Davidson et al. 1930.
- Davidson, Donald; Fletcher, John Gould; Kline, Henry Blue; Lanier, Lyle H; Lytle, Andrew Nelson; Nixon, Herman Clarence; Ransom, John Crowe; Tate, Allen; Wade, John Donald; Warren, Robert Penn; Young, Stark (2006), I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (75th anniversary ed.), Louisiana State Univ. Press, ISBN 0-8071-3208-X
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- ———; Fletcher, John Gould; Kline, Henry Blue; Lanier, Lyle H; Lytle, Andrew Nelson; Nixon, Herman Clarence; Ransom, John Crowe; Tate, Allen; Wade, John Donald; Warren, Robert Penn; Young, Stark (1930), "Introduction: a statement of principles", I'll Take My Stand
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Further readings[edit]
- Bingham, Emily; Underwood, Thomas A, eds. (2001), The Southern Agrarians and the New Deal: Essays After I'll Take My Stand.
- Carlson, Allan (2004), The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement Toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-Century America.
- Langdale, John (2012), Superfluous Southerners: Cultural Conservatism and the South, 1920–1990.
- Morton, Clay (2007), "Southern Orality and 'Typographic America': I'll Take My Stand Reconsidered", Themes of Conflict in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature of the American South.
- Murphy, Paul V (2001), The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought.
- Scotchie, Joseph, "Agrarian Valhalla: The Vanderbilt 12 and Beyond", Southern Events.


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TAMPA, FL—The Department of Defense corrosion office unveiled a new video Tuesday (Jan. 31) that aims to give contracting officers and the public an up-close-and-personal look at the challenges of maintaining material integrity in a corrosive environment.
Part of that message is that every environment is, more or less, a corrosive environment.
Corrosion Comprehension: Operating in a Corrosive Environment, which premiered at SSPC 2012, lays out the case for fighting corrosion with a 25-minute video tour of the damage wrought by corrosive environments on military bases from Hawaii to Florida.
Narrated by actor LeVar Burton, the presentation features academic and military experts and operations professionals showing and discussing the uphill battle of corrosion prevention and control.
"Our nation's infrastructure is under constant and unrelenting attack" from corrosion, says Burton.
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Noting that corrosion has been implicated in major airplane, pipeline and bridge accidents, Burton adds: "The Department of Defense knows that if corrosion is ignored, many other tragedies may occur."
5-Part Series
Corrosive Environment is the fourth in the five-part Corrosion Comprehension video series, produced by DOD's Office of Corrosion Policy and Oversight. The previous videos were subtitled Combatting the Pervasive Menace, Portraying Polymers and Specifically Ceramics. The fifth video—Policies, Processes and Projects—is now being written.
With stops at bases in Hawaii, Texas, Florida and California, Corrosive Environment tours "some of the most corrosive places in the world" and spells out the damage that that environment inflicts on military vehicles, ships and aircraft. Inspections alone can take days, officials note.
For example, Vandenberg Air Force Base, in San Luis Obispo, CA, has the most corrosive environment of any land-based launch facility in the world, exacerbated by chemicals in the sand, officials there say.
At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, one launch can unleash 70 tons of corrosive hydrochloric acid, exacerbating the area's already-aggressive marine environment.
And ships at sea face four to six times the corrosive damage of any material on land, experts say.
Raising Awareness
The video notes some mitigation measures being used to slow corrosion's march: for example, rinsing down military aircraft after each flight and moving facilities inland one-quarter mile. But the video is less about solutions than about simply bringing the problem home.
The message, says executive producer Dan Dunmire, who heads DOD's corrosion office, is this: "You live in a corrosion environment, whether you think so or not. It's an awareness thing."
The primary audience is DOD's acquisition workforce, which includes contracting officers and their representatives, procurement specialists, program managers, industrial specialists and financial administrators.
Though not the primary goal, greater public awareness would help, too, Dunmire says. To that end, he hopes to shop the video to cable TV channels for broadcast.
For now, viewers can tune in to www.corrdefense.org to watch it. (Look under "Corrosion Videos and Podcasts" under the Director's Corner on the home page.)
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The video also subtly bolsters DOD's case for spending tens of millions of dollars to fight corrosion.
"We'll never be able to stop corrosion, but we can find ways to slow it down," Burton says. "In this case, you have to spend money to save money."
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CHARLESTON— Logan County Commission member Willie Akers has been hospitalized after a fall at the Charleston Civic Center on Wednesday.
Akers, a former WVU standout and coach at Logan High School for whom the gym is named, is in Charleston Area Medical Center.
Akers, who turns 76 in July, stumbled on the basketball floor at the Civic Center and was taken to CAMC General Division.
His son Chad told the Charleston Daily Mail Wednesday afternoon that his father is in critical condition after fracturing his C6 cervical vertebrae and breaking his nose.
"He's on a ventilator right now, and a cut on his forehead, and the ventilator is helping him breathe," Chad said. "We're just waiting for the neurosurgeon to see what they'll do about the cervical fracture."
Chad said his father was sedated, yet coherent and is "agitated because he can't talk."
The older Akers guided the Logan High School boys basketball team to four Class AAA state championships and a 402-116 record during his tenure from 1962-83.
Prior to his coaching career, Akers was a two-time All-State selection at Mullens High School, helping his team to win the Class AAA title in 1955. He went on to WVU where he played on three teams that combined for a 81-12 record and was a co-captain his senior season.
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Former Colchester United boss John Ward looks set to become the new manager of Bristol Rovers.
Ward, who is understood to have turned down the director of football position at Plymouth Argyle, is expected to be named as manager later today.
The Pirates have called a press conference after sacking Mark McGhee at the weekend.
The move would see Ward reunited with his old club – he managed Rovers from 1993 to 1996. Ward's managerial career has also taken him to clubs including York City and Carlisle United.
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Prior to this, Lincoln-born Ward enjoyed a 12-year playing career. He started out playing for his hometown club, appearing for City's reserve and 'A' sides and with top Lincoln Sunday side Adelaide Park.
He signed professional terms at Sincil Bank in March 1971, and remained with the club until 1979.
In total he secured 90 League goals for the Imps in 241 appearances, with his overall League and cup tally being 99 goals from 263 games, putting him fifth in the all-time Club goalscoring chart.
Ward enjoyed a loan spell at Workington before penning a deal with Watford. In 1981 he headed to Grimsby Town, where he remained for one season.
The following year Ward hung up his football boots, and was assistant manager to Graham Taylor at Watford. He then followed Taylor to Aston Villa in 1987.
Ward remained at Villa for a further year-and-a-half after Taylor became England manager in 1990, first under Jozef Venglos and then Ron Atkinson.
Ward then took the helm at York City, managing the club from 1991 to 1993. His next move was to Bristol Rovers, where he remained for three years.
According to the Bristol Rovers website: "John Ward began a three-year tenure in the hot seat in March 1993, too late to save the club from another relegation.
"He gradually built a promotion challenging side and led Rovers to Wembley in the play-off Final against Huddersfield in 1994/95, where the Yorkshire side ran out 2-1 winners. One year later, Rovers finished in 10th position and Ward's contract was not renewed."
Ward then moved to Bristol City, where he won promotion to the First Division. In 1998 he became assistant manager to Colin Lee at Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Ward had a brief spell as caretaker manager after Lee's departure, before reverting to assistant under Dave Jones. He helped the club win promotion to the Premier League in 2003, but left the club at the end of the season.
Ward was appointed as Cheltenham Town chief in 2003, and he remained with the club until 2007. During this time he led them to promotion into League One.
In October 2007 Ward penned a four-year deal with Carlisle United. But after just 13 months in charge he and the club parted ways by mutual consent, following a run of nine defeats in their last 10 League One games.
Ward's next career move would see him become manager of Colchester United. He took charge after being assistant manager under Aidy Boothroyd.
In September this year, with the U's 22nd in the table and yet to win in nine league and cup games of the season, 61-year-old Ward was sacked.
Club chairman Robbie Cowling said while the club had changed for the better in many areas under Ward, the board had decided to act "to stop the negativity of the on-field results impacting on the other areas of the club that have also been drastically improved".


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WASHINGTON — Finally. After a year of artful camouflage and concealment, Republicans let us glimpse the rift between establishment pragmatists and tea party ideologues. There may be hope for the republic after all.Forty Republican senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, joined Democrats in voting for compromise legislation providing a two-month extension of unemployment benefits and the payroll tax cut. The bill passed by 89-10, the kind of margin usually reserved for ceremonial resolutions in favor of motherhood. Senators clearly were confident that House approval would quickly follow.
But it didn't, because House Speaker John Boehner couldn't get his tea party freshmen to go along. The result was a kind of intramural sniping among Republicans that we haven't seen in years.
"It angers me that House Republicans would rather continue playing politics than find solutions," said Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts. The stalemate "is harming the Republican Party," said Sen. John McCain of Arizona. "Are Republicans getting killed now in public opinion? There's no question," said Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, who urged House Republicans to just "get it over with."
But Boehner hung tough, not out of principle but because he had no palatable choice. He didn't dare bring the Senate bill to the floor for a vote, fearing that non-tea party members of the GOP caucus might defect. So he did nothing for four long days -- and let the Republican Party be portrayed as so out-to-lunch that it would blithely raise taxes on 160 million Americans. The week before Christmas. As we roll into an election year.
The thing is, this portrayal is quite accurate, at least as it pertains to the tea party faction. More sensible Republicans have been so eager to take advantage of the tea party's energy and emotion that they have essentially allowed the inmates to run the asylum. You will recall that it was the GOP, led by the tea party types, that threatened to send the Treasury into default last summer rather than approve a routine and necessary increase in the debt ceiling.
In the current imbroglio, nothing resembling a principle was involved. Boehner said that House Republicans wanted to extend the payroll tax cut for an entire year, rather than just two months. But even if you accept his claim at face value, it ignores the fact that the two-month deal was approved by the Senate for one reason only: to allow time for negotiation of a one-year extension.
In other words, the measure that House Republicans were so reluctant to pass, or even vote on, was crafted as a step toward the specific outcome that House Republicans claimed was their goal.
Boehner's calls for compromise were absurd. The Senate bill was itself a bipartisan compromise, reached after tough bargaining and many concessions. Democrats abandoned their proposal for an income tax surcharge on those earning more than $1 million a year. President Obama accepted a rider forcing him to make a decision on the controversial Keystone pipeline project before the November election. Republicans had already won the negotiation -- until zealots in the House threatened to scuttle the whole thing.
McConnell maintained a steely silence until Thursday, then built a ladder for Boehner to climb down. He proposed that the House promptly enact a "short-term" extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance while at the same time working on a one-year measure. Within hours, the House caved.
This glimpse of honest debate among Republicans won't last long, I predict. They'll try their best to resume the practice of absolute anti-Obama unity, which has worked quite well for them. But no one can erase what voters have seen this week, and it wasn't pretty.
There are only two possible reasons for House Republicans to behave the way they did. Maybe they are so blinded by ideology that they no longer care about the impact their actions might have on struggling American families. Or maybe their only guiding principle is that anything Obama supports, they oppose.
The week's events offer a lesson for Obama, too. One reason for all the Republican angst was that public opinion has become more sensitive to issues of economic justice. This may be partly due to the Occupy protests. But I'm convinced that Obama's fiery barnstorming in favor of his American Jobs Act has played a big role. People are hearing his message.
The president has been on the offensive. It's no coincidence that for the first time in quite a while, Republicans are backing up.
Eugene Robinson is an associate editor and columnist for The Washington Post. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com. For archived columns, go to www.gwinnettdailypost.com/eugenerobinson.
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kevin 3 years, 7 months ago
Another funny and wasted story from Robinson. When will he be removed from the GDP? Funny how the liberal media have not mentioned one single time about the slow FEMA response to the flooding in Pa. in todays paper. Remember Katrina anyone? Bush failed according to the media. Well, it is time for us to advertise Obama's failures with this flood, if you can even compare the two catastrophes. It took most Katrina people 10-12 months to get a loan or anything fro FEMA. One would have thought that Obama would have learned a lesson but liberals never do. The article goes on to say it is the private insurrance companies' problem as well. I hate to say it, but flood insurance is a Federal run program and just another that is still broken. SO come on Obama, take your hits on this flood. You didn't do anything to help speed up the slow response to this crises. Merry Christmas Obama, while those folks are out of their homes. Don't chock on any turkey bones.
M 3 years, 7 months ago
Obama vacations in Hawaii while those out of work, no home, no car...all rely on family to help them thru the Christmas holiday season! And Robinson proves once again, he has no clue what's going on in the country! Just another liberal with their hand out!


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"I don't know why he has been talking about me. He certainly can't be well-known and he wants to get publicity.
"Let him carry on talking. My job is to play football and to try to do so in the best way possible.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas - AUSTIN —Texas horse race fans know of the Louisiana Derby, the Florida Derby and certainly the Kentucky Derby.
Now there will be a Texas Derby for thoroughbreds and quarter horses under a newly enacted state law designed to boost racing attendance and showcase Texas-bred horses.
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Tourism dollars and a boost for local horse breeding will result from the legislation, Hilderbran said. Gov. Rick Perry signed the measure in June.
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"It's a step in the right direction," said David Hooper, executive director of the Texas Thoroughbred Association. But Hooper said more work is needed in the next legislative session to establish funding for the races, which are slated to begin in 2015 or afterward.
"At least we have time to do that spadework," Hooper said.
Reps. Rodney Anderson, R-Grand Prairie, and John Kuempel, R-Seguin, cowrote the bill. Anderson said expanding gambling to allow slot machines at tracks was not going to pass in this year's legislative session, so the Texas Derby was a way to help the horse racing business.
A high-stakes race could lure breeders and related horse businesses back to Texas from Oklahoma, Louisiana and New Mexico, Anderson said.
"That's the trick: to make sure the stakes are high enough," he said.
Hilderbran envisions a $5 million purse, or prize money, which would make the Texas Derby a huge race nationally. The legislation doesn't guarantee that money, but says the funds could be raised through the sale of naming rights for the race and through entry fees. That likely won't raise enough cash, horse industry officials say.
With so many state budget cuts this year in basic areas like education and health services, it wasn't feasible to place state money in a horse race purse fund, Anderson said.
"It was just not the session to try and do that," he said, adding that legislators may be able to do more next session.
Hooper said the most immediate concern of Texas horse associations and tracks is keeping their industry viable. There are already several prominent racing events in Texas for which funding and sponsorships have dwindled, he said.
A Texas Racing Commission report in January noted that horse and dog track attendance declined 12 percent in the five years leading up to 2010. Money wagered dropped more than 23 percent in that period, as did the amount paid in purses.
"Our problem is we're trying to stay afloat," said Hooper, who suggested the Texas Derby follow-up work could be part of renewed efforts in the next legislative session to pass a slot machine measure for tracks, as other states have done.
Rob Werstler, race director for the Texas Quarter Horse Association, agreed. He said horse and racing organizations remain perplexed over the Legislature's rejection of slots this year when the state needed money, and the groups want to try again in the 2013 Legislature. He said derby funding could be linked to that effort.
"At the end of the day, it lacks a funding mechanism," he said. "Having something like this in place for the future could really be something special."
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I notice its David & David are you guys brothers? If not how did two guys with same name get into business together?
Nope. Dave Caplan & I go way back. We met for the first time when we were about 17 and started a web development business. Ever since then we've been messing around with various web ideas, but about 2 yrs ago I approached Dave with the idea of making physical products… 3 dimensional products sold in a 2D world (the web) pose a certain problem and we love solving problems.
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I was at TDA today to meet up with this guy named David to view my personnel file for my termination status at the DLR (if you haven't heard, yes I got terminated), but that's another story.
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Sources of Nazism
To the Editor:
George L. Mosse's review ["The Splendid Failure," Aug. '62] of Walter Laqueur's work on Young Germany 1900—1960. . . seems to unduly generalize responsibility of the German youth movement for Nazism. There were, indeed, intrinsic connections. . . . When your reviewer subsequently speaks of inherent susceptibility of the German youth movement to Nazism I should agree with him. But that is not the same as the cause and effect relationship initially postulated by him. Also, as Mr. Mosse himself relates, the movement was a multitude of unrelated, often contradictory, groups, activities, and ideologies. . . .
Anti-Semitic tendencies were as frequent, or infrequent, as the local climate would permit. Nor would I want to burden German teachers as a class, as Mr. Mosse does, with "reactionary" tendencies. . . . This modus operandi smacks of nothing short of McCarthyism. Of course, German teachers believed, unquestionably, in God, King, and Fatherland. But they may be termed reactionary on that account only if we concede religiousness to people simply because they send their children to Sunday school and attend (in their finery) Easter (or, for that matter, high holiday) services. All this is all too often a matter of convention rather than conviction. While perfectly willing to concede the road from Hegel to Hitler (and Heidegger), we still have to reckon with Hesse and Hauptmann (and Rilke and so many others). The answer isn't as simple as Mr. Mosse suggests. Moreover, don't we exaggerate our importance if we focus on anti-Semitic attitudes and actions as such, however brutal they may have been? Isn't such action, and such attitude, significant at least for purpose of analysis and evaluation, solely as evidence of a general constitution, moral, intellectual or whatever it may be? If so, it is the latter with which we have to be concerned, even though our action or reaction may rightly and forcefully address itself to the manifestation.
Gerhard Mayer
Highland Park, Illinois
Mr. Mosse writes:
Nowhere in the review do I postulate a direct cause and effect relationship between the Youth Movement and National Socialism. What I do say is that the Movement's responsibility for the "German catastrophe" cannot be minimized; then I proceed to point out the intrinsic connections which Mr. Mayer admits existed. The multitude of groups which did exist is beside the point, for all of them shared a basic world view which made their members susceptible to totalitarian ideologies, whatever else they may have quarreled about among themselves.
The charge of McCarthyism seems to be based upon a false distinction: whether teachers held conservative views by convention or conviction. The point is that most of them did hold such ideas for whatever reason. For example, because of their belief in King, God, and Fatherland, teachers formed the majority of members of the super-patriotic All German association; and Germany's current Jewish periodicals are almost obsessively concerned with the question of why teachers and schools were in the forefront of the anti-Semites. The outlook of most teachers was "reactionary," for it opposed modernity and praised the romantic and feudal ideal of the Volk. There existed non-nationalist teachers, of course, but they were a minority and are not to be found among the majority leadership of the non-leftist Youth Movement.
Anti-Semitism is indeed evidence for a general attitude toward life, for it is always combined with other conservative and irrational ideas. I not only deplore it personally but also as a symptom of a world view with which it has always been associated. It is as simple as all that, and no argument based on "complexity" must be used as an excuse for the part which anti-Semitism, the teaching profession, and even the Youth Movement played in the fatal course of modern German history.


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It's hard reading Eagles stories the day after a disappointing loss — and, for the most part, I've just been skimming — but this is a story I read all the way through. Using the popular "traded emails" format, we learn that, indeed, the Eagles were not any easier to watch in Iraq than in Philadelphia. Or Arizona, for that matter.
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Adam Fontenot, a Blackjack dealer from Hollywood Casino gives his best casino tips that will help even the most amateur gamers. From using cell phones at the Blackjack tables to why the word, "gambling" is considered taboo, Fontenot not only advises players of Blackjack etiquette, he explains why the rules are in place. Following the tips is a list of Blackjack terms every player should know.
Basic Blackjack Etiquette
· The difference between gambling and gaming, is the word "gambling" indicates a bad habit to the dealer. Fontenot said gambling coincides with addiction. Dealers and other casino employees are trained on an annual basis to spot players who show signs of addiction. He likens the casino to other forms of entertainment, such as movies, shows, comedy clubs and bars. Casinos provide entertainment, and try to prevent encouraging addiction.
· Every Blackjack table has a "shoe," which is basically the deck or deck of cards. It is considered rude to join a game when the shoe is half full. Players will be offended if a new player tries to infiltrate a game that is already in progress. Many have their own superstitions and a half full shoe is one of them. Fontenot said new players will want to wait until the shoe is finished and the dealer is starting a new shuffle before joining the game. He said some players believe new players will have a negative effect on the cards.
· Phone conversations are not allowed at Blackjack tables. Not only does it disrupt the game, but casinos frown because phone calls could indicate cheating. The most well-intentioned players could be seen as counting cards, especially if they are discussing general numbers that have nothing to do with the game while on the phone. Fontenot said electronic devices are definitely not allowed at the tables. Dealers will ask players who are using electronic devices to leave the tables or sit out hands until they are finished with their calls. It's not necessarily cheating, Fontenot explained. Phones simply have no place at the tables.
· After the cards are dealt, players need to refrain from touching their bets. Many players will try to recount their winnings, Fontenot said. Dealers will let players know they are not allowed to touch their bets while the game is in play. Some will even try to add to their present bets, and that is also against Blackjack etiquette. It is actually a violation of gaming laws, Fontenot said.
· The same goes for the cards. Instead of fingering their cards, players should give a hand signal to indicate what they would like to do with their cards, such as a split. To hit, players simply need to point to their cards. In standing, players hold their hands parallel to the table, and wave their hands back and forth. For a double, players need to place their bets directly next to their original bets. They are advised to refrain from placing the double bet on top of their original bet. For the split, players hold up their fingers. For example, with two fours, players hold up two fingers to split, and one to double. These are the signals for face up games. In face down games, a stand means the players push their cards underneath their bets. In a hit, they would move their hands in a scrape motion across the table. Casinos don't allow players to verbalize their moves during hands. Dealers are only looking for signals, which can vary from game to game.
· Hand signals are mainly for surveillance purposes, Fontenot said. While some players may tell the dealer their next move, they should also give a hand signal, he said. One of the reasons hand signals are recorded on camera is because some players may want a hit and then bust, and claim they didn't want the hit. The only way to verify the claim is to check the cameras.
· In the case a player loans another player chips for a wager, the receiving player should not try to pay the player back during a hand. In other words, the receiving player cannot add to any player's wager. Fontenot said there is nothing wrong with paying another player back, but it must be that player's decision to add to the wager, not the receiving player's decision. This eliminates confusion for the players and the dealer, Fontenot said. A single bet needs to be for a single person.
Dealer advises players to use the basic strategy
Fontenot was also asked how dealers play as opposed to regular players. As for himself, Fontenot said he sticks with the basic strategy. He has tried other strategies, and lost. With the basic strategy, Fontenot is able to play a lot longer – he said he played six hours in one sitting. If Fontenot is up during a game and he strays from the basic strategy, he finds himself in a risky position.
The basic strategy follows a chart that outlines the player's cards and the dealer's cards. The chart shows the correlations between both sets of cards, and tells the player which moves to make, according to the correlations. For example, if the player holds a five and three, the total is eight, and the chart tells the player to hit. If the player receives a three, the total is 11. The chart instructs the player to double, however, the double applies to the player's first two cards, the five and the three. The player must hit in this case. Basic strategy charts are available at casinos, and Blackjack tables. These charts make it easier to play blackjack.
Terms to know in Blackjack
· Hit – The player taps a finger on the table, indicating to the dealer the player needs another card.
· Stay or stand – The player swipes his hand across the table. The dealer will leave the player's hand alone.
· Double down – Adds to the original wager after the player considers the total of the cards. Double down is a risk.
· Split – The player forms two fingers in a V shape. This is only if the player is holding two cards of the same numeric value. The dealer will separate the cards for the player, and lay an extra card on each hand.
· Surrender – This isn't a rule on all tables. To surrender is to basically forfeit the hand following a check by the dealer for Blackjack. After surrendering, the player receives half of the original wager, and the player's hand is out of play.
· Bust – Players that bust have a hand that totals over 21.
· Bust card – If the dealer's upcard is at six or less, it is a bust card. The dealer is required to reach 17 in his total number of cards. The dealer's card that is face down could be a 10, meaning the dealer has a total of 16, and must take a third card. The dealer's hand is likely to become a bust. The bust card can also apply to players.


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