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Today's primaries are end of a rocky road for Cornyn
AP photo One of the people in this photo is the Republican Senate nominee from Alaska. And no, he wasn't John Cornyn's first choice. With Republicans poised to make major gains in the 2010 midterm elections, National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman John Cornyn has plenty of reason to smile. But as the primary season ends […] [Read More]
Hutchison, Cornyn seek to repeal school funding provision that targets Texas
Accusing Texas Democrats of playing politics with the future of Texas schoiol children, the state's two Republican senators, Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn, played a little politics themselves by introducing legislation today that has no realistic chance of being adopted by the Congress. Hutchison and Cornyn co-sponsored a measure to repeal a House provision […] [Read More]
Rich Galen: Demonizing Boehner is a losing tactic
Texas on the Potomac frequently publishes guest opinions from across the political spectrum. Today, we offer a piece from Washington web columnist Rich Galen. To subscribe to Rich's "Mullings" cybercolumn, click here. • • • The national Democrats, and their principal ally in the popular press, have signaled their plan for holding back the electoral […] [Read More]
The ten most important Senate races of 2010
AP photo President Obama joins Sen. Patty Murray at Grand Central Bakery in Seattle, where they talked with local business owners. Texas Sen. John Cornyn is trying to lower expectations. Amid alarming declarations from the national political punditocracy that the GOP is within striking distance of picking of the ten seats needed to win control […] [Read More]
Texas Republicans prefer Newt Gingrich for president; Ron Paul lags far behind
AP photo Newt Gingrich speaks today in Iowa. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the favorite presidential contender of Texas Republicans, fueled by strong support among GOP men. A new Public Policy Polling survey of Texas Republicans found that the Georgia Republican is the first choice of 23 percent of party loyalists, followed by Fox […] [Read More]
Joe Barton, Democratic poster child (continued)
Well, Labor Day's come and gone, and the fall campaign season is definitely on. Meredith McDermott/Hearst Newspapers Rep. Joe Barton Today, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine kicked off his party's general election rhetorical offensive with a speech at the University of Pennsylvania (your blogger-in-chief's alma mater). And a prominent Texas congressman was on his […] [Read More]
Rich Galen: Polls are horrible for Democrats — but elections will be even worse
Texas on the Potomac frequently publishes guest opinions from across the political spectrum. Today, we offer a piece from one of our favorite Washington web columnists, Rich Galen. To subscribe to Rich's "Mullings" cybercolumn, click here. • • • Many of America's major news outlets and polling firms published their biennial Labor Day polls telling […] [Read More]
Iowa candidate copies 'Big Bad John' Cornyn ad
If imitation is the best form of flattery, then Texas Sen. John Cornyn should be very, very flattered. An Iowa Republican has imitated — well, really, ripped off — Cornyn's classic cowboy video from his 2008 re-election campaign. Yep. Remember the "Big John" ads with the tall Texan sitting tall in the saddle, wearing the […] [Read More]
Analysis: Democrats flailing, Tea Party sailing
John McCain's weekend jab at Obama's latest $250 billion business tax cut and infrastructure proposal, already DOA, as "flailing" hit way too close for comfort. Obama is everywhere, all the time, and at the same time nowhere, from the Iraq War to Afghanistan to Middle East peace to a late conversion to tax cuts and […] [Read More]
The ten most vulnerable incumbents of 2010
The Pundit Elite has plenty of catchy phrases to sum up the 2010 election season: anti-Washington, anti-incumbent, anti-establishment, anti-Obama, anti-Democratic, even anti-elite. Some of these snippets of conventional wisdom are bound to be true. They can't all be true, however: if it's an anti-incumbent year, for example, both parties should be in equal jeopardy. And […] [Read More]
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Well...I am not a Judeo-Christian, so they can take that and leap off some precipice.
In the bible, traditional marriage consisted of one man and many wives plus concubines. The "good old days?"
Use them up, leave them desolate. Typical, but how many high-end places can downtown support?
Amazing that in demonizing those who have personal needs to remain anonymous, this writer also infers that anonymous people are not honest in their discourse. It is a very right-wing notion to claim that because commenters cannot be stalked their opinions don't matter or are a lie. The writer shows his own ulterior motives upon automatically assuming others have hidden motives.
I am entirely in favor of such a move. Facts be told, I would never attend another empty ritual of "graduation", but for those who find meaning in it they may actually gain much community spirit from doing their own rituals in place of any designed by a power-hungry government entity like this one. Diplomas will be mailed instead.
Well, duh! I went homeless back in 1992. Lived in my car all year and received mail at two different addresses, neither of which were my permanent address. When I returned to my polling place, they had removed me from their rolls. I asked what I should do, to which they replied, "you should have stated some church as your address and registered there." I never lived or received mail at any church, and had not stayed any place long enough to register in those locales, but even though I had never lived in another country, I was denied voting in it.
Hardly. Repubs want you to pay to learn to fish for extinct species. They also want you to pay to learn how to make them profit while you suffer in poverty.
Let me get this straight...so now 70, 80 and 90 y/o folks now need to renew their defunct driver's licenses to vote? Some have never had one. Also the poor who cannot afford to own a vehicle and have moved from place numerous times and can't even find their own toothbrush now have to dig into their stored belongings to find their IDs and birth certificates?
I really doubt that liquidating all assets would amount to $313,136. This action puts 4+ people out of a job and leaves an empty cash flow for everyone to whom they paid daily expenses.
Dems don't usually hold stubbornly to doctrines of authority, dogmas and creeds like Republicans. The insistence of Republicans on black & white thinking prevents them from changing, even with presentation of obvious evidence to the contrary on their positions.
A day late and a dollar short. Does no one any good now, so I wonder how political it is.
News Flash! Studies have shown that abstinence-only sex education fails at preventing pregnancy and disease. Areas teaching it have been found to have the highest rates of unplanned pregnancy and disease in the country.
Planned Parenthood is not a religious issue. If people have any objection to it, let them not support it personally, but for them to impose their own restrictions on it by way of government smacks of coercion. As an individual, the Mayor has every right to support what he wishes, but if he thinks he seeks to coerce by allowing religion into the mix, there is a concept called "Separation of Church & State" which secularists will defend to the very end.
I discovered it there over the winter 2012. It seems they could not obtain the materials I wanted, so I just went online to buy it instead.
The woman in charge was constantly on the phone and did not seem terribly interested in serving me. I never just buy whatever is thrust upon me by retailers...I go there looking for something in particular.
I'm 49 yrs old. My parents were dirt farmers who had no significant savings. Their entire net worth didn't exceed $48,000 at their death. I was told I must work to pay my own school, so I have worked the last 30 years, and have never been able to afford enough school with which to gain a better job.
If the government cannot ascertain which jobs need filling and ascertain colleges will provide the necessary classes to obtain those jobs, money is spent without promise that there will be any return. As long as there were plenty of jobs to go around, the loans were easily paid back, even if the recipients never got any good from their investment. Now they expect more return from their loan dollars because there are fewer jobs to choose from, but they are finding that the classes offered do not assure that they will be able to obtain the necessary knowledge to land the jobs available. There is a great deal of waste in the entire system.
All through school, recess was the only opportunity to learn any social skills for me. The rest of the day, everything is so structured that there is no participation by students, only subservience. Into and through the Jr. High and High School experience, I was forbidden from participation in extracurricular activities, so there was no social growth there either, to learn what normal people do outside school and church.
Yes...after attending fully 3/4 of one semester at an institute, I realized the "education" was low-quality and lacking of benefit whereby to obtain a job. At the "placement" office, I said point blank "tell me a specific job name I will be qualified for if I graduate from this program." It was 2007. They could give me none and began to offer excuses..."oh, it's a bad economy right now." I now owe $18,000 with no job leads in sight...I doubt I ever will be able to repay Sallie Mae.
Politicians are not here to serve religion, but the whole of a population.
I agree with Heartwell's positions more often than not. Who does Tormala serve?
Gee, that was quick. Wish citizens could get potholes filled that quick. Shows where the money is and where their priorities lie.

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4 FM quick reads on HVAC
1. Geothermal Systems Offer Efficient Heating and Cooling
I'm Ed Sullivan, editor of Building Operating Management magazine. Today's topic is geothermal heat pump systems.
Geothermal systems have garnered new attention because of the growing interest in green design. Geothermal systems work by transferring heat to and from the ground or ground water. In cold weather, the liquid in the pipes draws heat from the subsurface; in warm weather, heat from the building is transferred into the ground.
In the most common design, closed loops of pipes are placed into the ground. In vertical systems, wells are dug 300 or more feet deep for the pipes. In horizontal systems, the pipes are laid in trenches 6 to 10 feet underground and are usually used for smaller buildings.
The environmental benefit is simple: Geothermal systems provide heating and cooling without the use of fossil fuels. What's more, they use technology that is simple, reliable and efficient, with operating costs up to 60 percent less than conventional systems. But they are significantly more expensive to install. Paybacks range from 5 to 12 years. The systems may qualify for tax deductions under the federal Energy Policy Act of 2005. Geothermal systems are good candidates for those tax benefits.
Investments in Maintenance Will Extend HVAC System Life
I'm Ed Sullivan, editor of Building Operating Management magazine. Today's topic is the role of maintenance investments in extending the life of HVAC systems.
Facility executives are well aware of the impact that new HVAC equipment can have on the organization's bottom line. From variable frequency drives to variable air volume systems, from chillers to boilers, investments in HVAC efficiency can produce significant energy savings.
But achieving those savings over the life of HVAC systems requires that the units be kept in good operating condition. And that takes money.
Whether it's a pump or a control, performance falls off as equipment ages. Preventive maintenance is the way to stay ahead of the curve. Waiting until something goes wrong will often increase energy costs and decrease occupant comfort and reliability. In the worst case, a wait-and-see attitude can dramatically reduce equipment life.
It's not only the operating budget that should include funds for effective maintenance. The initial design should be based on maintainability. For example, it's important that there be sufficient space around equipment to enable staff to perform needed maintenance. That may cost a little extra, but saving money on maintenance is a classic case of being penny-wise but pound-foolish.
Low-Temperature Air Distribution Can Reduce Costs
Typical HVAC systems distribute air cooled to 55 degrees. If lower temperature air is used – for example, 48 degrees – both construction and operating costs can be reduced. The reason is that less air has to be moved if the temperature of that air is lower. That allows smaller ductwork and fans to be installed during construction. And operating costs are lower because less fan power is required to move the air and because the economizer mode can be used for more hours.
With low temperature air distribution, it's important to ensure that the colder air does not reach occupants directly. It's also essential to prevent condensation by using continuous external insulation with a vapor barrier even at spots where insulation isn't typically used, such as the return bends of hot water reheat coils.
The use of a thermal storage system is one way to produce the colder chilled water required for low temperature air distribution
Thermal Storage Can Minimize Demand Charges
I'm Ed Sullivan, editor of Building Operating Management magazine. Today's topic is using thermal storage to minimize demand charges.
Facility electric bills have two basic components. One is consumption – the amount of energy used. The other is a demand charge, which is based on a facility's peak demand. The demand charge may reflect the highest peak demand in an entire year.
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Life-cycle cost optimization can be used to help determine how much of the load the thermal storage system should be designed for.
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Local group continues tradition
The dramatic events of the last days of Christ's life are performed with remarkable skill and sensitivity by the Companions of Jesus of New Mexico volunteer theater troupe in their rendition of the Passion Play.
The Passion Play's tradition in Belen was started by Joe Brown and his wife, Pat, who had originally produced the play in Michigan.
They started it here after moving to the little town named after Bethlehem, reaching out to the Valencia County community to form a small group of volunteer actors that included Therese Hidalgo, who has acted and directed the play for the past 14 years.
"We're his seedlings, and I wanted to keep it going, and grow it into something bigger and long-standing," Hidalgo said. "Our mission is to take the message that Jesus came and suffered for us. He was our lamb, he was sacrificed so that we would enter the gates of Heaven."
The Prince of Peace taught humanity to love one another and treat others as you would like to be treated, she said.
Hidalgo is inspired by the Pietá, the statue by Michelangelo of Mary holding Jesus in her arms.
"Seeing the statue made the pain real for me," she said, because she too is a mother.
"If you think about it, the pain she felt is the pain that most mothers feel raising their children, male or female, as they go through their tribulations," Hidalgo said. "It's the whole role of a mother — you wish you could protect them from things, from life, from some of their own decisions, and it hurts you deeply, in a very visceral way when you can't, but you're there for them."
Hidalgo and her husband, Miguel, work together to produce the play, and many of the cast and crew are families as well.
"It's become a tradition, especially here," said Hidalgo. "We go to other communities ― large and small ― to reach out. It's part of an ancient tradition, where traveling troupes will do performances or plays to depict the last week of Jesus' life and resurrection. They're called mystery plays."
The Companions of Jesus Christ of New Mexico have been performing the Passion Play throughout central New Mexico from Cuba and Las Vegas to Socorro.
Hidalgo enjoys directing with co-director Jack Fink, who also works with the Mansion Players. Fink has 50 years of experience in theater, and is cast as Peter in this season's performance.
The actors are emotionally and spiritually vested in their roles. Some have come to the play for theatrical experience, many others come as a Lenten practice and all have come for the religious meditation.
It isn't an ordinary play, and the actors bring the heart and soul of their religious traditions to the stage, charging the production with a mystical quality.
Audience members are deeply affected, and many are moved to tears.
One young girl was so moved by the credible performance of Jesus by actor Ed Curtis that she spoke out to him as Jesus, said Robert Gallegos, who plays high priest, Azariah.
"She really got into it … so we arranged for her to talk to Ed after the performance," Gallegos said. "It made her feel good. It made the whole cast feel good. You realize it touches people out there, and that's one of the main things we're trying to do."
Gallegos, one of the oldest members at 76, has been with the production for five years.
Playing the role of Jesus is a hard role to live up to, and is very humbling for the actors, said Curtis.
"I've done the role on and off for 13 years, and it's made a real big impact on my life," he said. "It's a very demanding role, but it's worth the reward in the end, especially when after the play little children come up to you and give you little bouquets of flowers."
He and Charles Kent alternate between the role of Jesus and Saint John.
Kent is in his fifth year of playing Jesus.
"It really speaks to me," Kent said. "It's very emotional. You realize your trials just aren't that bad when you compare it to stuff like this."
The play opens with the song, "Behold the Lamb," sung as a prayer in the angelic voice of Kathy Fresquez-Chavez.
Musical accompaniment to the play is provided by singers from the First United Methodist Choir, its director, Laura Armstrong, and vocalist Cindy Jones.
The Companions of Jesus of New Mexico theater troupe is always looking for new members to join the cast and crew, and hope to add people with technical skills, as well as cast members.
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Folk-pop duo at house concerts
The folk-pop duo Ash Bloom performs on Friday Nov. 30 as part of a series of home concerts put on by the Guelph chapter of Woodland Christian High School.
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Insects have many uses. For some, such as indigenous tribes in Africa, Asia and Australasia, they are a tasty, high-protein snack. Police and detectives in Britain use insects for a very different reason. In murder enquiries, they can be used to work out the time of death. Follow the tell-tale maggots below!
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The Kentucky State Police, Post 15, Columbia, which provides coverage for Washington, Marion, Taylor, Casey, Russell, Green, Metcalfe, Monroe, Clinton, Cumberland and Adair counties will be conducting periodic traffic safety checkpoints at locations approved by the Kentucky State Police Policy and Procedures Manual. These checkpoints will be conducted in an effort to enforce the traffic laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
During the month of July 2014, there were 24 traffic accidents investigated by the State Police working in the Post 15 area in the 11 counties of Adair, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Green, Marion, Metcalfe, Monroe, Russell, Taylor and Washington.
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Brenda A. Bryant, age 62 of Greensburg KY was killed on 07/03/14 in Green Co KY.
Robert Ryan Salinas, age 29 of Columbia KY was killed on 07/10/14 in Adair Co KY.
Kenneth Bell, age 54 of Louisville KY was killed on 07/13/14 in Russell Co KY.
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Originally posted by Whitebeards
Yeah, my server is "high" or "full" most the time too. But I think most of the population is either doing WvWvW or end level stuff. For leveling 30-50 past few days most zones I have been in have been dead. Been very hard to find a group for things that require it.
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Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter
Can you PLEASE use your EYES for once and stop being blinded by your stubborness?
Maybe you could also stop turning my own words in my mouth only so you can prove your point better while you are at it?
As you can see by yourself I didn't say that Ascended Items doesn't have better stats (which you of course ignored and said that I meant "they aren't better" so you can prove your point).
I said that it is POWER vs FLEXIBILITY.
Even you posted a picture you still claim that they have the same amount of attributes.
Are you blind or can't you count?
The ring you posted has 5 stats, the exotic with a jewel boosts 6 stats.
ALL 5 stats in the ascended are STATIC
In the Exotics case you have 3 Static attributes while the other 3 can be influenced by you.
While you have higher power, precision and magic find in your ascended, I can have toughness, condition damage and vitality ADDITIONALLY through a jewel.
So while you are higher than me on power, precision and magic find, I can still be more powerful than you in toughness, condition damage and vitality.
Awesome how one sighted and blind you are right?
Now recheck the picture you posted and If you can't understand something or can't read or see properly then ASK first in the future.
Originally posted by Raekon
And by the way both posted items only boost 3 stats, one has 5 lines and the other has 6 lines.
Flexibility over power right?
Lets not talk about infusions that add +stats just yet.
Or maybe I can use 1 of these and 1 of these:
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Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter
First of all a correction on my previous post: The Ascended had 3 stats, not 5. The 2 just boosted 2 out of the 3 main stats.
The ascended rings STILL have only 3 (Yakkingtons) to 4 (Vassars) different stats, with exotic you can STILL boost 6 stats.
So even if 5 to 6 lines are there, you still effectively only boost 2 out of 3 to 4 stats.
With exotics you either boost 3 stats in overall OR you boost 6 different stats which makes you stronger to the stats the ascended doesn't have, while you remain weaker by a very low percentage to the stats both gears have.
Through the Karka event we got a EXOTIC ring like the Solaria and Lunaria ones you posted here with EXACT the same amount of attributes and from what I can tell so far with the SAME stats (at least the whites cause I'm at work and can't check the other ones for now).
It was already confirmed that the Infusion slot will give defensive abilities against Agony.
That alone indicates that they won't be regular stats that are boosting your gear like the upgrade jewels are doing with exotics but rather buffs that strengthen you against Agony effect of certain enemies.
So all in all you have with the defensive abilities against agony enemies that will be probably useless against "normal" enemies.
Why you still don't wanna accept this FACT is really beyond me.
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Insfusion upgrades also have stat upgrades. And the stats on the exotic pieces that dropped during the event are lower than the ascended pieces.
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Originally posted by jpnz
Either that, or they're not anwering simply because they haven't made up their minds yet. They might be waiting to see how this all plays out. They want to see how many people get into grinding FotM vs how many honestly quit over it. Maybe that's why they sent out a survey, too.
I think its pretty clear that they either don't know which way to take the game, or there's some serious internal disagreement about it.
(edit: oops, I thought I was answering the most recent post on page 27.. forgot the forum keeps sending me back to the first page of every thread, lately. Why does it do that, btw? It's kind of annoying..)
When I want a single-player story, I'll play a single-player game. When I play an MMO, I want a massively multiplayer world.
Of course this is the first batch of them.
And what matters is the total points you can get, not how many different pieces they come from.
If one piece gives more of X than I need less X elsewhere to get the same total.
More, weapons and armors will have higher base defense and higer base damage.
And again, nothing prevents new rings to be added that have all the combinations you can obtain with jewels.
Not that your stats distribution makes any sense.
Currently playing: GW2
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Originally posted by Raekon
Raekon, I think you're one of the better posters on this site. However, your credibility goes out the window when you try to defend the exotics and pretend they're comparable in power to the ascended items. Clearly they're not.
You have to pick your battles wisely, mate.
Originally posted by Tredvolt
Thanks for the compliment dear Tredvolt.
However, as you can see the Exotics even with lower stats, are not worthless.
IF you go for the exact same amount of 2 stats like in the screenshot, then of course the Ascended has slightly better stats.
IF you check the stats the way I put them through the jewel, you will see that I'm right that even the exotics are in dissadvantage when it comes to one vs one comparison, they have the flexibility the ascended doesn't have.
So IF you use this flexibility, you will have a even lower percentage on the attributes since you are losing the boost from the gem in the exotics.
For that though you can boost 2 to 3 attributes, the ascended doesn't provide you with and get slightly higher stats through the jewel bonus of the exotics.
It's really not that hard to see that.
Just replace the 3 attributes the gem is giving to the exotics with other attributes in the comparison screenie.
Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter
According to the rings screenie comparison:
Ascended Ring in overall: +68 Power, +68 Precision, +10% Magic Find
Exotic Ring in overal (opal included): +63 Power, +63 Precision, +7% Magic Find
Now take the Opals extra stats out by adding a other type of opal and you have the following as example:
Exotic Ring in overall (changed opal): +48 Power, +48 Precision, +3% Magic Find, + 15 Toughness, +15 Vitality, +4% Condition Damage.
Yeah my distribution doesn't make sense to you because it's valid to what I say right?
Saying that nothing prevents new rings to be added that have all the combinations doesn't mean that it will indeed be like that. You are assuming what you think it COULD happen, there is still no proof for that, nor a official statement.
I wouldn't had thought that you would join the "the end of the world is near" doomsayers and I'm honestly dissappointed to see that a veteran like you is taking this direction.
Would it be THAT hard to enjoy the game for what it is now and wait and see how it turns after a official statement or real proof comes our way?
Originally posted by Raekon
Your stats don't make sense because you don't pick items with the intent of having each piece of gear with the highest number of stats. (Well you do in this case because you want to show that exotics are the superior/credible choice).
You pick items to raise certain stats so it makes sense for your build.
So if you want X magic find, which items get you closer to get that X amount?
The Ascended.
If you want X amount of power, which items get you closer to that X amount?
The ascended.
You want a rounded stat distribution?
Get ascended items with different primary stats.
By the way no jewel gives +4% condition damage. They give +25 condition damage.
You might as well get the magic find from the ascended ring and remove other items that give + magic find to stack other stats.
By having an ascended ring that gives 10% magic find you are freeing up a jewel that would be required to achieve that magic find percentage.
I'm sorry but exotics are only the superior choice while ascended items aren't available for that specific slot.
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Yes, you're also describing the textbook difinition of the phenoma that has gripped a portion of the mindless MMO player base known as "chasing the carrot" AKA "gear grind treadmill." Which is exactly what this company marketed GW2 to be devoid of, and why most most loyal GW players bought the game and are therefore voicing their displeasure over. Simply put, you dont mind being lead aournd a gear grind treadmill like a hamster as long as you are rewarded with +1. Others put more value in to how they spend their time while playing an MMORPG.
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I stopped the other day. I think I lasted more than the majority.
I could not find any except those in LA spamming for LFG for FOTM. The game has become a lobby based game for most of the population.
Edit: I play on Tarnished Coast.
I still see people in every back of beyond area like Lornar's Pass and Timberline Falls.
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(Also participating was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Mr. Bryan Whitman.)
Whitman: I have about two minutes, but I see that the general is there, and we are short on time today, so let's go ahead and get started. And I'm sure a few folks will join us.
General, thank you again for joining us this morning. I will reintroduce you here to folks that I think know you from your last time. But this is Major General Ray Odierno. He is the 4th Infantry division commander, and he joins us today from Tikrit. He will discuss Task Force Ironhorse operations and ways in which they are contributing greatly to the security environment in Iraq. He has exactly 25 minutes before he does have another commitment.
So, General, thank you for taking the time, and let me turn it over to you right now.
Odierno: Okay, well thank you very much. And I want to say good morning to all the ladies and gentlemen of the Washington press corps and our audience listening back in Central Texas. I appreciate the opportunity to have a chance to talk with you today. And before I answer your questions, I'd like to say a few things about ongoing operations here in Iraq.
First, I want to tell you how proud I am and honored I am to lead these great soldiers of this task force. Our troops continue to do a terrific job under difficult, sometimes dangerous conditions, working to provide a safe and secure environment for the people of Iraq.
America can be very proud of her sons and daughters who are sacrificing so much to establish a free society for citizens who have been brutally oppressed for over 30 years. We've accomplished a tremendous amount in the past 30 days. Every day brings more progress towards setting the conditions for self-determination for the Iraqi people.
But our significant achievements have not come without a cost, and we honor our brave heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice to liberate the Iraqi people, and are deeply saddened by their passing. We also wish our best wishes back to those soldiers who are recovering back in the United States with injuries that they've gotten since they've been in combat here in Iraq. They will never be forgotten, and our thoughts and prayers are with their families and all their loved ones.
The 27,000 soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division in Task Force Ironhorse remain committed and focused on the mission as we continue to stabilize and repair the infrastructure of our area of responsibility in northeastern and central Iraq.
I'll quickly just go over our AOR again. It starts just north of Baghdad, stretches to the oil fields north of Kirkuk from the Iranian border west to Lake Tharthar and includes the cities of Baiji, Tikrit, Samarra, Baqubah, Balad and Kirkuk.
Although attacks against us have significantly decreased over the past month, our soldiers are involved in almost daily contact with noncompliant forces, former regime members and common criminals. To defeat these attacks and continue to improve the security and stability within our area, the task force is conducting search and attack missions, presence patrols and a series of aggressive operations to disarm, defeat and destroy hostile forces, as well as to capture former regime members. These efforts have been highly successful, producing a stabilizing effect throughout the region, and resulted in the capture of several senior leaders of the former Iraqi military, Fedayeen, Ba'ath Party and some huge, large weapons caches.
In the past 30 days, we've conducted two major assaults against noncompliant forces, Operation Sidewinder and Ivy Serpent. Ivy Serpent, the fourth in a series of these operations, concluded last week, resulting in 52 mid-level Ba'athists loyalists captured. In one raid alone, the 4th Infantry Division seized over 100,000 U.S. dollars and 38 million dinars suspected of being used to finance attacks on coalition soldiers, over 250 AK-47s, over 1,000 RPG rounds, 3,000 mortar rounds, 2,700 pounds of C-4 explosives and 2,500 blasting caps.
The second phase of Ivy Serpent, which is ongoing, is stability and support operations throughout the area. This includes projects to repair banks, police stations, schools, health clinics, hospitals, water treatment plants, courthouses and telecommunications sites. The task force has been working tirelessly to reestablish basic municipal services and systems to improve the quality of life for Iraqi citizens and to provide for the long-term stability of Iraq. We have completed 354 projects and an additional 592 are in progress.
These projects are spread throughout various areas of civil services, including transportation, commerce, education, public works, health and human services, justice, communications and utilities. For instance, we have rebuilt 11 schools, and 35 more are currently under renovation. Twenty-seven hospitals and 174 health clinics have been repaired and are open, and five water treatment plants in major cities are undergoing repairs right now.
We are working together jointly with Iraqis and coalition forces in conducting patrols and improving the infrastructure. The task force has almost $7 million approved funding for these improvement projects. Early this month, we facilitated the first interim provincial government selection process for the Diyala Province, which encompasses Baqubah, Jalula, out all the way to the Iran-Iraq border. Previously controlled by the government in Baghdad, this is the first time in Diyala's history the people of the province had a voice in choosing their leadership.
Public security continues to be one of our top priorities, Every day, more trained and equipped local police join our soldiers in patrolling their cities. Our first class of Iraqi border police graduated this month, and recruiting has begun for the new Iraqi army. The Iraqi Civil Defense Corps is being established, and we will have two battalions stood up in the task force area of operations. These battalions will be ethnically representative of the areas from which they come, and offers Iraqis the opportunity to provide service to their country and assist in the establishment of a new Iraq that is free from the oppression of the former regime.
I'd like to take a final moment to address the issue of our deployment timeline. As we said prior to our deployment, we are committed to completing the mission the president has given us, and we are proud to see this task through to completion. Undoing 35 years of repression and tyranny will not be quick or easy, but it is the right thing to do. In support of this long-term effort, I believe the division will be here about a year. If conditions are met that allow our forces to return sooner, it might not be that long. But all of our soldiers and family members are planning on being here for a year, and we all understand the commitment that we must have in order to accomplish the mission.
The road ahead will be challenging, but our soldiers are professionals. They will persevere and complete this continuing mission with the same motivation and dedication they have displayed from the beginning of this operation.
Soldiering is a profession unlike any other. We call upon our soldiers to make great sacrifices. It means doing jobs that others can't and won't do, and going to places others fear to go. Soldiers put themselves in danger to help people they don't even know. Our soldiers will not let up the relentless pressure on the enemy and are focused on the mission at hand. However, we can't do it alone, and I'm extremely proud of the unwavering support we have received from all of the families and friends of Task Force Ironhorse. They are true heroes whose continuing support allow us to maintain this focus. I'd like to personally thank our families for all the sacrifices they endure during deployments, and all they have done and their continuous support of all our soldiers and leaders since we've been deployed. And I know we will count on their continuous support.
That concludes my remarks, and I'd answer any questions at this time.
Q: General, Eric Schmitt with the New York Times. What's been the effect of your region in the last few days since the deaths of the two Hussein sons? What impact has it seen in your area?
Odierno: I will just comment that I believe most of the operations are really decentralized, so I've seen, actually, no impact. It's been about the same. We've seen no increase or no decrease; we've seen about the same amount of activity. And I think that has to do with it -- it was not organized up to the top, but is a very decentralized organized effort.
But we've had some great successes. What we continue to see is Iraqis coming forward to us with information, and that has been going on now in significant numbers for the last two to three weeks, and that's what we've really seen the difference.
Q: Yes, General, this is Vince Crawley with the Army Times newspapers. You said you've had a decrease in attacks over the past month. Could you characterize that, you know, a 10, 20, 50 percent decrease? And what do you attribute that to? Is it temporary?
Odierno: I think we've had an overall decrease. When we count the number of attacks, whether it be small arms, RPGs, IEDs, mortar attacks, it's been cut about 50 percent from June to July. What I would comment on, though, is some of them have become more sophisticated, so some of the attacks we have received have been more sophisticated, specifically IEDs, which they continue to get a little bit more sophisticated with. They have not been coordinated in any way. They still continue to be uncoordinated, but they have become a bit more sophisticated. But the attacks have been reduced in half. I think that's due to the pressure that we've put on them. And in fact, I believe we've taken out some of the mid-level leaders that helped to organize them locally.
Q: General, Nick Childs from the BBC. You say you've seen no impact as a result of the Mosul operation. And I guess also your force protection levels are pretty high. But could you say whether you have taken any precautions or changed your posture alert status in any way to guard against at least the possibility that there might be an increase in retaliation attacks at some point?
Odierno: We always keep a very high state of alert. And we have not increased our security, but our security is extremely high on a constant basis, and our soldiers are used to operating in that environment. What I would say is -- to comment on that -- I think there will be more of a long-term effect. It's very important that this operation occurred and that we have shown them that no one of the old regime's going to survive. And I think it's going to have a long- term effect. It will take a little bit of time. Might take months, might take weeks, might take three months, four months, but it's going to have an effect overall on the overall outcome. But I have seen no immediate impact based on the specific attacks.
And we are ready for any attacks. I believe -- we expect potentially an increase in some asymmetric threats. For example, one thing we've talked about the last few days is maybe an increase in car bombing, suicide bombers, et cetera. We've had that discussion with all our soldiers and commanders. That's how I see it occurring.
What we've found is they are going after softer targets because they know they are unsuccessful against military targets. So they are going after softer targets and they're becoming more and more what we call asymmetric threats or what we consider to be more of a terrorist- type activity, with the increased number of IEDs we see. And so the next step, in my mind, would be something like car bombs or suicide bombers, and we have had some discussion and prepared for that.
Q: General, this is Will Dunham with Reuters. Could you go back and describe as best you can the nature of the resistance you're facing, in terms of who is leading it, what kind of command structure do you see? And could you go back and describe further any other areas of increasing organization or sophistication? And also, could you describe for us what you meant by the softer targets, give specific examples?
Odierno: Sure. What I would say -- how they're organized is very locally. It is not -- we see no organization in the attacks themselves. But we do believe there's somewhat of an organization at a very local level where there's a guy who has money, there's somebody who's responsible for caching weapons, and there's a guy who pays individuals to do attacks on American soldiers. But we think that's at a very local level. We don't think it's tied together at a national level.
And then, the only other -- the sophistication we've seen, again, is that they've become a little more ingenious with their use of these IEDs, these individual explosive devices. They tend to be more remote now, remote controlled. They're a bit bigger than they were when they started. I don't think -- my -- the theory potentially is I think they have a couple experts that they spread around the country. But I do not think it's any organized effort. I think it's just some specific experts in an area that are doing these IEDs. We have not had a number of IEDs that, for example, we've seen in other places in Iraq up in this area, which is somewhat surprising, being the center of the Sunni triangle here. But we have not seen it up here.
Soft targets I'm discussing is they're doing a lot more Iraqi-on- Iraqi attacks. For example, we have civil military centers that are downtown. They like to shoot RPGs at those civil military centers. They like to shoot RPGs at some -- for example, we helped to renovate a governor's building downtown. They like to shoot some RPGs at those buildings. They want to -- they look for white-skinned vehicles to attack. But we tend to see more of the civilian targets now, and we've also seen them do some Iraqi-on-Iraqi attacks, maybe because they're cooperating with the United States. And we see this more as a desperation move. And I think in a way, it's backfiring, because we've found when they do this, it's causing more Iraqis to come in and give us information. And I'm not sure that's a good way for them to go about doing business. So, that's what I mean by soft targets.
Q: General, this is James Cullum from the Talk Radio News Service. I have two questions. To your knowledge, what is the average range of an IED remote device? In other words, how far away does an attacker need to be to push the button, so to speak?
Also, are you still seeing sabotages by guerrilla groups on electrical lines or similar systems? And to what degree are these hindering your programs to put Iraq back on its feet?
Odierno: What we found is our analysis of the remote controlled IEDs, it's somewhere between 300 and 500 meters. So we try to adapt to that based on that. So it's about 300 to 500 meters is what we've seen. Now, also we've seen them use long wires which is a bit longer. That would be maybe a thousand to 2,000 meters away when they actually connect them, it's not remotely detonated. But remotely detonated is somewhere between 300 and 500 meters from the target.
What was your second question?
Q: My second question was on sabotages on electrical lines or similar systems, and to what degree are these hindering your programs? Are you still seeing guerrilla groups blowing up power lines, messing with water systems, and how are these hindering your progress?
Odierno: There's two -- in areas we have the Kirkuk oil fields and we have the Baiji refinery, which is the major input of oil and refining of oil in northern Iraq, in my zone. We have not had anything occur on any of the -- on the oil lines for about 30 days now. About 30 days ago we had AK-47 shots into one of the oil lines, that was repaired right away. We have not seen anything since then.
What we've seen on power lines, we have not seen any sabotage; what we have seen is some looting. What they do is they take the power lines to sell the copper. But we have taken measures to stop that, and we have made some great progress in the last two or three weeks.
About two weeks ago -- about three weeks ago, when we had -- when the power lines were taken down in another area outside of my area, it did affect the amount of power that was being given to everyone. That has since been fixed, and now we're starting to increase the power, and that has to do with the oil getting to the refinery, the power plants working. And there's also a major power plant at Baiji along with the refinery. And we've had uninterrupted power now for about two weeks, and we continue to improve that. So I see that we're making some progress.
We've also made agreements with the local individuals, specifically some of the sheiks and local Iraqis, to help us protect the wire lines, and that has helped significantly, and I think that has had something to do with the sabotage going down, along with our patrolling that we do along these power lines.
Q: General, Thelma LaBrecht with Associated Press Broadcast. I wanted to follow up on two previous questions, one from Eric Schmitt about the impact of the photos. You had said you expect to see Iraqis coming forward with more information and that's where you really expect to see the difference. Have you seen that yet as a result of the photos, or are you just anticipating that? And I have a second question.
Odierno: Okay. We have seen it. Let me give you an example. Over the last 24 hours, we have had people come in and we've actually gone to five separate cache sites. We've detained, killed or wounded over 60 Iraqi subversives. And let me give you a specific example.
Last night we had an Iraqi walk in to one of my brigade headquarters and say, "I know where there's a cache of weapons." He gave us the grid. He said, "There's a house, and then 200 meters from that house, there is a container buried under the ground." So we sent our patrol out there. We thought we'd have some individuals there. There were no individuals, but we went into the house, we went 200 meters, we used mine detectors, we dug up, and we found a container. Inside this container was the following: 10 AK-47s, 34 RPG launchers, 150 RPG rounds, 80,000 feet of det cord, 45,000 sticks of dynamite, 11 IEDs, 33 SA-7 launchers, and 28 submachine guns.
In addition, we had an informant come in -- that happened near Samarra, the town of Samarra, east and south of Samarra, where we've had a couple IED attacks. And we believe now this might have been where they were getting some of that equipment to build IEDs.
Let me give you a second example. Second example is that we had somebody come into Tikrit, the 1st Brigade, and give us -- informant give us a tip to conduct a raid on a house south of Tikrit, which we conducted last night. Based on the informant south of Tikrit, we detained 13 individuals. Somewhere between five and 10 of those -- we're still sorting through it -- are believed to be Saddam Hussein's personal security detachment. And we're still working through that.
Those are the kind of tips that we're getting. So they are increasing. They are coming in. And it's because they feel confident we will action on it. The one thing that came of that, they know we will action on intel that we get specifically, and the best example was with Uday and Qusay, the way we acted on those. They understand that we will act if they provide us the information.
I'll take your second question now, or if you have something else.
Q: The second was another follow-up. You mentioned that you had seen the resistance cut in half. I wondered why, why you think that is.
Odierno: I think it's because they haven't been very successful. We've detained an awful lot of people. We've probably, over the last 30 days, we've detained over 1,000 individuals in my AO. And so, I think we've taken a lot of the middle managers. So, they had to cut down the number of attacks. They also realized that some of the things they were doing were ineffective. So, what they have now done is gone to very specific attacks, and they've cut the level down on them because of, I believe, we were cutting into the number of people that were available to make those attacks.
However -- the one "however" I will make is they are becoming a bit more sophisticated, even though there's a lesser number, as I talked about before. But I think that's why. And I think we'll continue to see the level go down. What we have to do is then try to reduce the sophistication before it gets more than it is now.
Q: Thanks. This is Steve Trimble with Aerospace Daily. I have an equipment question. Some of the Marines that came back had some concerns about the performance of the Javelin anti-tank weapon. And I was wondering if you know of or have seen any Army assessment on the performance of that weapon?
Odierno: I have not seen an Army assessment, but I will give you my assessment. All of my infantry battalions have the Javelin, and it has been very successful for us. So, we have seen something very different than what the Marines said.
Now, I will caveat that by saying we had some major combat in the middle of April for about eight days that we used the Javelins, and they were successful. We probably didn't have -- we didn't use them, probably, the number of times the Marines had used them. But we had had them and been training on them for a while, and we found them to be pretty effective.
So, we have to work our way through that, because the Marines have said that. So, we're going to have to work with them and find out why they had problems with it, and maybe there were some conditions that made it that way. But we're going to have to have that discussion, because we have not had the same problems.
Q: General, this is Alex Belida from Voice of America. Being located where you were can you bring us up to date you involvement has had in tracking down tips or hunting -- taking up action in the hunt for Saddam Hussein, specifically. I noticed you made a reference to some incident involving his personal security detachment.
Odierno: We -- first off, we concentrate on two things. We concentrate on the mid-level Ba'athists, because we believe that's who's operating in our area of operation. But clearly, we work with all the other organizations that are here working this issue and trying to hunt down any of the top 55 or higher black list individuals. And we are involved in collecting intelligence. The most valuable intelligence that's here is HUMINT. So, we are very much involved in developing HUMINT information to track down HVT Number One, as we call him, and any other HVT. And I think we have very aggressively done this, and I believe because of it, they are moving around very quickly, they are very unsettled, and they're not living a very good life right now, because we are constantly on their trail -- not only us, but a lot of other people who are working this issue.
Whitman: We want to be respectful of your time. I think we have time for one more.
Q: General, Mack Kelley from the Associated Press. Could you elaborate anymore, please, on the capture of the men believed to be part of Saddam's security detail? Does that mean you're closing in on him? How close were these people to Saddam? Were they possibly with him during some of the time that he's been in hiding after the fall of Baghdad?
Odierno: Well, we picked them up this morning, so we're still working through the intelligence with them, and we're really interrogating them now. So I don't have any specific answers to your questions in terms of have they been with him recently.
What we do know is we continue to police-up individuals that have a relationship with him. We've made a series of raids over the last three weeks that have picked up several individuals, to include, as you know, one of the high HVTs that were involved in -- his personal bodyguard and really his security adviser that was picked up in this area. And so we have -- we've also had some -- we've also talked to one of his ex-wives that was in the area, one of his wives -- I don't know if they call them ex-wives; one of his wives in the area. And so we have talked to several people in this area. And so I believe that we continue to tighten the noose, and I believe that we continue to gain more and more information about where he might be.
Whitman: General, on behalf of everybody here, we want to thank you again for taking the time this morning. And we wish you the best, and hope that you will join us again very soon.
Odierno: Thank you very much.
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The captain has repeatedly rejected a contract extension and will be a free agent next summer, so is under pressure to make a decision on his future.
"It is possible Milan are chasing Riccardo, but they have never asked me for him. Clearly I've been in the market for years and know how things work," commented Fiorentina director of sport Corvino.
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The twins have a clue. (ITV)
Marcus may still be having trouble staying straight on "Coronation Street." Dot winds up in a dangerous situation on "EastEnders." Adam pushes Victoria to the edge of her tether on "Emmerdale." Sienna gets closer to Darren on "Hollyoaks." Kyle is set up on "Home and Away." And Kyle goes missing on "Neighbours."
Coronation Street:
Spoiler alert: Thanks to a few hints from the twins, Dev gets on Karl's case about what really happened to Sunita. Karl doesn't handle that well. Steve and Lloyd do their best to stop Karl from losing it with Dev while Sally and Sophie worry that Dev could be getting obsessive.
Tina has a hard time coping with letting go. This leads to further friction with Gary and Izzy but there are even more problems in store for the new child. Meanwhile, Rob refuses to back down to his sister.
Spoiler alert: Ian races to get the restaurant up and running in time, but the opening itself could prove to be just as much trouble. Janine rears her head to cause problems and she's not the only one. While she and Michael continue to fight, Alice gets close to the edge.
When Carly is acting off, Masood fills AJ in. Meanwhile, Jay has to make a difficult choice as he attempts to keep Dexter in the dark. And Ava is wondering whether she should be choosing Dexter or Sam.
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Home and Away:
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Marilyn makes it clear to John that she still doesn't want to be his friend. Meanwhile, Maddy is making friends with Holly while Natalia is telling Zac that he should steer clear of her. And Dex makes up with April after he says something to her that he shouldn't have.
Spoiler alert: In spite of Paul's attempts to set him up, Mason walks away from his trap scot-free. But that doesn't prevent him from having a rough time with Kate. She's jealous of how close he is getting to Imogen. She winds up seeking some solace with Kyle after Georgia pushes him away.
Lou contemplates leaving town for awhile to see his long lost daughter. Meanwhile, Joshua decides to leave his coach. Amber mistakenly thinks that he's leaving her too. And Callum doesn't want to hear any of Rani's apologies.
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|Steward of Gondor, Prince of Ithilien
|T.A. 3019 - Fo.A. 82
|Fo.A. 82, aged 120 years
|Denethor II and Finduilas of Dol Amroth
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- "[Faramir] is bold, more bold than many deem; for in these days men are slow to believe that a captain can be wise and learned in the scrolls of lore and song, as he is, and yet a man of hardihood and swift judgement in the field. But such is Faramir. Less reckless and eager than Boromir, but not less resolute."
- ― Gandalf[1]
Faramir was the last Ruling Steward of Gondor and the first Prince of Ithilien.
The second of Denethor's two sons, Faramir was briefly the Ruling Steward after his father's death. Upon the arrival of the true king, King Aragorn Elessar, he laid down his office, but Elessar renewed the hereditary appointment of Steward as the advisor to the King. Faramir was also appointed Prince of Ithilien.
In Ithilien
Faramir acted as a Gondorian ranger in Ithilien, harassing Haradrim and keeping evil things from entering the land from Minas Morgul. During one such raid he found Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee amd Gollum observing an attack by his rangers on a column of Haradrim. The former two were captured as spies by the rangers though Gollum eluded them. Frodo was questioned by Faramir concerning their errand. Frodo recounted the journies of the Fellowship and its members but referred to the purpose of the travels and only cryptically. During the questioning he denied knowledge of Gollum but revealed that he travelled with both Aragorn, the Heir of Isildur, and Boromir. Faramir informed Frodo of Boromir's death, implying Frodo's involvement in it, though Frodo had not known of Boromir's death until that very moment.
Unsure of how to deal with his captives, Faramir led Frodo and Sam, blindfolded, to Henneth Annûn. There he questioned them further in private, learning that the errand the hobbits were on was linked to the 'Isildur's bane' that had sent Boromir to Rivendell in the first place. Eager to earn their trust Faramir delivered his famous oath, saying that he "...would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs". In an unfourtunate slip up however Samwise revealed the nature of 'Isildur's bane' and so Faramir was tested, just as Boromir had been, by the lure of The Ring. Where Boromir failed Faramir succeeded, leading Samwise to remark that Faramir had "shown [his] quality".
During the night, Faramir's watch spotted Gollum fishing in the Forbidden Pool. Faramir called Frodo to him who confessed to the part of Gollum in their errand, begging Faramir not to slay him. Gollum was caught and questioned and then surrendered to Frodo. The following morning Faramir released Frodo and Sam (with Gollum), but warned them strongly against taking the pass of Cirith Ungol.
In Pelennor/Minas Tirith
Faramir returned to Osgiliath after his encounter with the hobbits, supervising the defence there. However he retreated over the Pelennor Fields to report to Denethor and was almost caught by the Nazgûl on their Fell Beasts, but was saved by Gandalf. Faramir reached Minas Tirith, telling Denethor and Gandalf of what befell in Ithilien, but soon departed to supervise the defences at his father's bidding. In this venture the host of the Witch-king came upon Osgiliath and Faramir was struck down by the Black Breath. Only a sorty by Imrahil and his knights saved the wounded (including Faramir) from that onset.
Faramir remained out of action for the rest of the War of the Ring. During the Battle of Pelennor Fields Denethor planned to burn his stricken son alongside him and Faramir was once again saved by Gandalf, though Denethor completed his suicide. After this he was taken to the Houses of Healing and healed by Aragorn after the battle. Faramir spent the rest of the war recovering in the Houses of Healing where he met Éowyn, also grievously wounded. The two fell in love and were married after the war.
After the War of the Ring
After the destruction of the Ring and the Battle of the Morannon Faramir, as Steward, led the ceremony in the crowning of Aragorn as King of Gondor and Arnor. Aragorn reinstated the original role of the Stewards before the failing of the Kings of Gondor and made Faramir the Prince of Ithilien. As Prince of Ithilien, Faramir was one of the two Chief Commanders of King Elessar and his duty was to guard and maintain the eastern borders of Gondor. He also defeated the remaining enemies and cleansed the Morgul Vale.
Faramir and Éowyn settled down in Emyn Arnen, a range of hills in Ithilien in sight of Minas Tirith, and Faramir became the Lord of Emyn Arnen. He and Eowyn had at least one son named Elboron, who followed his father as Steward and Prince of Ithilien when this died in the year 82 of the Fourth Age. Faramir lived to be 120 years old, due to the large percentage of pure Dúnedain ancestry he possessed as a member of the Gondorian nobility.
Faramir was, in the words of Tolkien, "modest, fair-minded and scrupulously just, and very merciful".[2] His appearance toward the end of The Two Towers apparently was as much of a surprise to Tolkien as it is to his readers. "I am sure I did not invent him," he wrote. "I did not even want him, though I like him".[3]
Faramir in many ways speaks for Tolkien, who was a soldier in World War I, when he says, for example, "I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness... I love only that which they defend".[4] Much later, Tolkien would write, "As far as any character is 'like me', it is Faramir".[5]
Portrayal in Adaptations
A major player in the second half of The Lord of the Rings, Faramir has found his portrayal both diminished, expanded, and carefully destroyed (at least, according to some purists).
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