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The conversations across Canada, the NHL, even across the world, were focused on an 18-year-old phenom who already was a household name.
It was 2006, the Olympics in Turin, Italy, quickly were approaching and Sidney Crosby was an NHL rookie. A certainty to one day represent Canada in the Olympics, provided NHL players continued to participate, was he ready as a teenager to play for the defending gold medalists in the world's finest best-on-best tournament?
Not yet, Wayne Gretzky determined. Not now, decided The Great One, then the executive director for the Canadian men's Olympic hockey team.
Crosby wasn't surprised.
Sidney Crosby, Canada: "I didn't even think I was going to be in the conversation. It was my first year in the NHL and I was just excited to be in the NHL. I wanted to have a good year and start well. I think when my name was mentioned and sort of tossed around, that was just a bonus. You get your hopes up a little because it's being talked about, but as soon as I found out I didn't make the team I just changed to being a fan and hoped they'd win."
Crosby's hopes quickly were dashed. Canada lost three times in the tournament, by 2-0 scores to Switzerland, Finland and finally Russia, which delivered the decisive blow to Canada's chance of defending its gold medal from 2002.
In retrospect, Crosby could have helped Canada in that tournament. At the very least his presence couldn't have hurt.
Four years later, Crosby's absence from the 2006 Turin Olympics became a footnote in Canada's Olympic history. He etched his mark in Canadian lore, into the annals of international hockey history, when he scored in overtime of the gold-medal game of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics against the United States on Feb. 28, 2010.
Here is the story of how Canada got to the top of the medal stand and what it has meant since, told by the characters who participated in this real-life drama contained within a 13-day tournament played at Rogers Arena, which aptly was renamed Canada Hockey Place for the duration of the tournament by Olympic organizers:
Steve Yzerman, named to replace Gretzky as executive director of the 2010 team, announced the Canadian Olympic roster on Dec. 30, 2009; the pressure immediately rose and didn't stop, but Canada felt it had the tools for success:
Crosby: "I think for any Olympic athlete you feel that pressure. People have competed their whole lives to have that moment. In some cases it is 30 seconds or a minute, but in hockey we at least had more than one shift. I think everyone felt the pressure going into it though, being in Canada and being a hockey player. We knew the expectations were high and we wanted to find a way to win."
Martin Brodeur, Canada: "Teams that I've been on that won, they've always had one thing in common: Tremendous leaders. When I played in '02 it was Steve Yzerman and Mario Lemieux on the ice. In Vancouver it was younger guys like Sid and [Jonathan] Toews leading the way. It is amazing; you could almost see it coming before it happens when you have the right chemistry of players. I think we definitely had that."
One player, though, wasn't so sure if he would be able to play. Anaheim Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf was nursing an ankle injury heading into the tournament.
Ryan Getzlaf, Canada: "Getting there and going to the Olympics was such a huge thing in my career and where I wanted to be. Unfortunately, or fortunately I guess maybe, I didn't have a lot of time to think about all the stuff that was going on. I was going through an ankle injury."
Getzlaf missed a game against the Calgary Flames shortly before the Olympic tournament began but he was able to play and score four points against the Edmonton Oilers in the Ducks' final game before the Olympics. However, just like Jack O'Callahan in the movie "Miracle," Getzlaf still had to prove he was ready. Canada brought Jeff Carter to Vancouver for insurance purposes.
Getzlaf: "I had to get up at six in the morning on the first day and basically convince the coaches and GMs that I could play. I was up early that morning, jumping on my ankle and doing all these tests to show that I could play. I had a high-ankle sprain and I only played one game in Edmonton before I went. My mind was only on one thing and that was proving that my ankle was OK and I could play in that tournament."
USA vs. CANADA, PART I
The Canadians and Americans were in the same group but the United States entered the preliminary-round game against Canada on Feb. 21 with a one-point lead in the standings thanks to a pair of regulation wins against Switzerland and Norway. Canada lost a point in a surprising shootout win against the Swiss.
Patrick Kane, United States: "I remember lining up against [Chicago Blackhawks teammate] Duncan Keith and we kind of just looked at each other and started laughing, and then I remember me and [Chicago teammate] Johnny [Toews] being so competitive at the end of the first period of the first game. We were chirping at each other about something. It's different, but I think once you get on opposite sides of each other it's almost like you're not even teammates."
No, now they were rivals and only one of them could leave the rink happy. It was Kane.
The United States collected a 5-3 win, with Ryan Miller making 42 saves. The Americans jumped to a 2-1 lead after the first period and sustained it at 3-2 entering the final 20 minutes. Jamie Langenbrunner scored 7:09 into the third to give the Americans a 4-2 lead. Crosby would slice the lead in half with 3:09 left in regulation but Ryan Kesler set off a celebration with an empty-net goal.
Ron Wilson, United States coach: "I guess the game against Canada gave us a feeling that we really had a chance because so many people were saying they were the best team there and you need to play the best team to measure yourself up. Obviously Ryan Miller was spectacular in the game but we got off to a really good start and I think we surprised the Canadians with our speed and offensive ability and then rode that to a win. I think that really solidified our confidence. We were still flying under the radar. By beating Canada we won our group and we knew we were getting a bye and Canada would have a much harder road to hoe in order to meet us in the final if we were to get there."
Ryan Kesler, United States: "We kept getting better as the tournament went on and that game was a big building block for our team. I thought we gained a lot of confidence from that game and it brought us together. It was almost like a solidifying point just because it was Canada, it was in their hometown and we're their rivals and they were the host country. When you get a chance to beat the host country in their barn that really brings a team together."
Getzlaf: "Obviously when we lost to the Americans it was hard. It was a setback. We weren't expecting them to have the team that they did. I think part of the problem was everyone was focused on Russia and the fact that we had to beat Russia. I think when the rosters were announced and the Americans had a young team, I think everybody kind of put them to the side. Then you had Ryan Miller play the way he did and it kind of set us back, but I've been in a lot of those types of tournaments and I've found that it is never a bad thing to lose in the round robin if you lose a game and use that to get your mind right and figure out what needs to be done to win."
The win against Canada gave the United States a bye into the quarterfinals. The shootout win against the Swiss and the loss to the Americans left millions of Canadians in a state of anxiety. This tournament was not progressing as expected.
Crosby: "We knew that everyone was watching closely but it was one game and the U.S. is a good hockey team. They played well and we didn't expect it to be easy. Every country wants the same thing we do and everyone has high expectations. I don't think we ever felt panicked or anything like that. I think everyone was focused on getting better each game, and if anything I think that game helped us realize what we needed to improve on. I felt like, as the tournament went on, we just got better and that's what you need to do at an event like that."
Getzlaf: "We didn't get a lot of that sense of panic. When you're at the Olympics they do a pretty good job of keeping you isolated so you're not listening to all the crap that is going on outside."
The loss to the U.S. meant Canada had to play an extra game but it wasn't a problem. In fact it was almost a blessing. The Canadians made a switch in net, replacing perhaps the greatest goaltender who ever lived, Brodeur, with Roberto Luongo from the hometown Vancouver Canucks; he made 21 saves in an 8-2 win against Germany.
Brodeur: "It was tough. When I play I expect a better performance from myself. I didn't play well that one game against the Americans. I knew coming into it, especially with it being in Vancouver with Luongo there, that I didn't have much chance to have any mishaps and I did. That cost me my job."
Canada faced its traditional rival Russia in the quarterfinals, but the Canadians crushed them 7-3 while the Americans defeated the Swiss 2-0. In the semifinals it was the United States' turn for a laugher as they rolled past Finland 6-1 to advance to the final, while the Canadians had to sweat out the final moments of a 3-2 victory against upstart Slovakia.
The gold-medal game was set, Canada vs. the United States, a rematch from the preliminary round (and the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics final). The Americans were confident.
Kesler: "Just waking up in the [Olympic] village, knowing that we could take home gold, we beat those guys once and we have a chance to do something special [was big]. We already have a medal so just let it all hang out, nothing left to save it for. I remember it still to this day being the best game I have played in, the talent, the speed, the energy in the building. It was pretty incredible."
Ryan Callahan, United States: "Everybody in the room felt like we could win. There wasn't a lack of confidence or lack of expectation. We beat them previously and we felt we could do it again."
Toews: "It was probably the most nervous before a game that I've ever been. I didn't sleep the night before the whole night. I felt like even being under all that pressure the whole tournament it never really got to me but then you get to that point and you realize you can't lose this game. There is no option."
Getzlaf: "I'm not a nervous person. I don't get nervous, I just get excited. In the moment I didn't think a lot about it. That tournament is set up so that you get into a routine where you play then you get a day off and you play again. That morning it really did feel like another game day. You get into your preparation mode like you always do. Until you step on the ice for warm-up you don't feel the excitement. But when we went out there it just hits you. You realize the situation and it just became more real."
Kane: "I think that's probably the biggest rivalry as far as being an American hockey player. You always look forward to that game against Canada and I know we don't play them in the [2014 Sochi] Olympics, but hopefully [we'll] get a shot at them in the medal round. It's an unbelievable rivalry. It's something, as an American player, you grow up kind of hating Canadians I guess. Especially like any time you get those two teams together it's going to be an epic battle and it's going to be a great game."
Toews: "You just want to go out there and be a fiend. You want to run guys over and do everything that way but that's not always going to be the right way to play. You have to channel that emotion the right way and just try to stay calm in a way. It was an amazing game that you just had to keep it in your mind the entire time that you were going to find a way to win no matter what."
Canada struck first on a goal by Toews 12:50 into the first period. Bobby Ryan went to the penalty box 3:12 later for a tripping minor but the Americans killed it off and the teams entered the first intermission with Canada ahead 1-0.
Toews: "I just remember having a feeling. I didn't score all tournament and I was like, 'Well, I guess this is it.' I had a pretty good feeling I was going to get a bounce. Sure enough Mike Richards spun off a guy and threw one on net. It went off Miller's pad and there I was with a wide-open net. I just had to put it home. That was the bounce I was looking for. I had to keep telling myself through the tournament that I was going to get a good bounce at the right time and I got one."
Wilson: "I think we were still fairly confident. Our goal was just to continue to push the pace and to force them into making mistakes. We had a really fast group of forwards and if our defense could get in the way and move pucks quickly we thought we'd be able to wear the Canadian defense down. I had said to the team before the game that I honestly thought this is going to be a tight game, it could be overtime, it could go right down to the wire like the '96 final in Montreal when we won the World Cup. I said, 'We might be trailing with a couple of minutes to go and someone would tie and we'd eventually win the game, so just be patient.' That's what my message was after the first period. It was a close game, a very fast game, intense, and our skill would win out in the end. That's what I truly believed."
Callahan: "There is still positive energy in [the dressing room]. I know you're down one after one and it's not what you want but everybody was positive, ready to go, and we were excited to be in that game."
After each team failed to convert on a power-play opportunity, Corey Perry gave Canada a 2-0 lead with a goal 7:13 into the second period. Now the Americans were on edge.
Wilson: "At that point you're down 2-0 and it doesn't look good, but you're basically a shot away from it being 3-0 and probably lights out. We just had to crash the net. It was different because when we had played Canada the first time Marty [Brodeur] was in goal and we had gotten to him quickly. This was a little different with Roberto Luongo playing in his home building. We had to continue to be patient, put pucks at the net."
Getzlaf: "During the game it was a weird thing. When we got up 2-0 I felt like we were playing really well and we were doing all the things we wanted to do. I thought there was no way we could be beat. We were playing too well in our system and everyone was doing the right things."
Toews: "We went up 2-0 and we felt like we were in a pretty good spot, but they got a goal and we were protecting a one-goal lead for I don't know how long. It felt like a long length of time."
Kesler, another player competing in his home NHL rink, scored for the Americans with 7:16 remaining in the second period to make it a one-goal game.
Wilson: "At that point we thought we would eventually tie the game, we just didn't know it would take until the last minute of play. But we were patient enough and kept pushing it. I noticed at that point in time, when we got within a goal, our best players, like Patrick Kane and guys like that, really stepped it up. You saw how good of players these guys are."
Getzlaf: "It is that same old story, once you get that lead you tend to start doing different things than what got you to where you are. We ran into a hot goalie too. I mean, Miller was outstanding that whole tournament, but in the final we had chances to go up 3- or 4-0 and he held them in. When you let a team like that stick around they're bound to get a bounce here or there. They worked to get them."
Miller turned aside Eric Staal's breakaway late in the second period. The Canadians had two deflected shots ring off the post early in the third. Crosby had a breakaway chance with 3:15 remaining in the game thwarted by Kane's magnificent backcheck.
Wilson: "I still remember Patrick Kane catching Sidney Crosby on the breakaway. It was late in the third and he skated like he was shot out of a cannon. I don't think, at that point, very many people really believed Patrick Kane could do something like that, but he did. That's one of the moments that made me a big Patrick Kane fan."
Crosby: "There's so many times where we could have added to that lead and just couldn't. Miller held them in it."
Mike Babcock, Canada coach: "We won three faceoffs in a row and we were up a goal and got it out every time and still managed to give up a backdoor 6-on-5 goal to Zach Parise.
Kane sent the puck to the net. It hit off of the skate of American forward Jamie Langenbrunner and went right to Parise, who put it in the net for the game-tying goal with 24.4 seconds left, setting off a wild celebration by the Americans.
Parise: "I just remember for the last little while they were sitting back so we were able to get in the zone; but they kept chipping it out, chipping it out. I think we called a timeout and we finally got the puck back in. It went behind the net. I remember Kaner doing, it was kind of like a spin-around, throwing it on the net. It hit off Jamie's skate. Somehow Jamie and I found ourselves behind all their players and it hit off Jamie's skate and I think that kind of threw their players off a little bit. Then I got the best goal a forward can get, just a wide-open net. And the puck ended up on my stick and the feeling was incredible. It was by far the most favorite goal that I've ever scored."
Toews (who was on the ice): "I was just like, 'You've got to be kidding me.' That was probably the toughest feeling I've ever felt. It felt like it had slipped away. They were thinking it was theirs now. We had to go back in the locker room. We were just seconds away from winning a gold medal. It is still tough to believe how it went down. It was one of those things where every little thing went wrong in a matter of seconds."
Kane: "It was unbelievable. Everyone was so excited that it almost felt like we won right then and there."
Wilson felt the same thing. And it worried him.
Wilson: We obviously had all the momentum and in hindsight the way we scored, we kind of blew a lot of energy because our guys were so excited. It was like tying the game was almost winning the gold medal for us with the jumping up and down."
Crosby: "That intermission was almost a blessing in disguise."
Steve Yzerman, Canada executive director: "I think we were fortunate that it happened so close to the end of the third period that they could go into the room and gather their wits and go back out."
One of the first things Wilson did once he got back in the dressing room was send a member of the American staff to find out the overtime procedures. This was the Americans' first foray into overtime in the tournament and Wilson needed clarification on the rules.
Wilson: "We actually thought it would be 5-on-5 for 20 minutes and then go to a shootout; we didn't realize it was going to be 4-on-4 for 20 minutes. It didn't make sense for us if we're going to have a 20-minute overtime that it would be 4-on-4 and not 5-on-5. And they made us change ends too.
"We hadn't been in overtime. Up until that point I don't think we even played 30 seconds of 4-on-4. We had to go over how we're going to play it so we were caught off guard a little bit. I knew that now it was going to 4-on-4 that Canada probably had a little bit of an advantage there, but we'd still push the pace as best we could. We had the momentum and I wanted to push the pace.
"I was more confident had we gone to a shootout because of the guys playing in the NHL that year we had three top shootout guys in Patrick Kane, Joe Pavelski and Zach Parise. And the best goalie in the shootout in the NHL was Ryan Miller."
The players had to gather their wits and refocus. Surprisingly, Canada didn't have any problem.
Patrice Bergeron, Canada: "The momentum shifted to their advantage, but you could tell the experience in the room and the leaders that we had in between the third and overtime, the guys were just poised and relaxed. And really all that was said is, 'We just need one goal for history.'"
Bobby Ryan, United States: "It was one of those things, your emotions the entire game, you just try to keep in check and not let the lows get too low. When we scored, 40 seconds later, whatever it was, we were in the locker room trying to not get too high. I think you just try to find the balance between everything. I think it took some years off everybody's life, that's for sure."
Eric Staal, Canada: "I just remember it happening very quickly. Obviously the game was almost over and they tied it up and we had to regroup between periods. But our focus remained the same and we felt like if we continued with the way we were going to play we were going to end up on top."
Kesler: "Yeah, we thought we were going to win."
Callahan: "You could feel it in the room, the excitement."
Toews: "There wasn't any time for the U.S. to use that goal and build on it with their next shifts. It gave us time to go in the room and regroup to be able to go back out there and play the right way in overtime."
Crosby: "In the first couple minutes guys weren't happy, but then guys just sort of turned the page. I remember Mike Babcock coming in and telling us, 'Look, everyone has got a chance to make this even more special now with the situation we're in.'"
Babcock: "I thought our regroup between periods was very good. And our plan, we knew it was going to be over fast."
The Americans had an early chance as Pavelski, the speedy forward from the San Jose Sharks, got loose on a breakaway after a rare Scott Niedermayer turnover. Luongo made the save.
Luongo: "It happened pretty quickly. You don't really expect it there, but when he [Pavelski] intercepted the puck I saw right away he was going for the shot so I was able to challenge quite a bit. I knew he didn't have time to look at the net and was going to just fire away so I just tried to get as big as I could and luckily it hit my elbow and stayed in front of me."
Wilson: "Luongo made a great save. Shortly after that Phil Kessel hit the crossbar and it went into the netting. We had the best chances up to that point. When Phil hits the crossbar you're within an inch of winning the gold medal and then a couple of minutes later you lost."
Callahan: "You think about it. When it gets to overtime it's a bounce this way and a bounce that way. You know that just from being in overtime in the [Stanley Cup] Playoffs. Obviously there's a little bit more at stake in the gold-medal game, but that's hockey. Unfortunately it doesn't always go your way."
Despite the fact that Crosby and Jarome Iginla hadn't been making much happen in the game, Babcock kept going to them in the overtime. They eventually came through 7:40 into the extra session.
Wilson: "You'd be a fool not to put Sidney Crosby on the ice. How they decided to go with their pairings is irrelevant because any coach would be putting Sidney Crosby out there every other time or every third time and that's what they were doing. I think we went through four [forward] pairings and Canada might have been using three pairings. You're thinking like it's the NHL, that you've got five minutes so you're going to double down on your better players. And the cream is always going to rise to the top when the game is on the line. There is a lot more room out there so Sid is going to be even more dynamic in overtime."
Crosby knifed up the middle, into the Americans' zone, the puck on his stick. Miller was able to push it away, into the left corner. Crosby dug it out and brought it up the left-wing half-wall.
American defenseman Brian Rafalski committed to going to the wall to cut it off, but the puck got caught in the skates of referee Bill McCreary and Crosby was able to chip it back into the corner for Iginla.
Crosby: "I remember I got the puck and I tried to go on a rush and I think Rafalski or [Ryan] Suter stood me up and the puck went in the corner. It was kind of a broken play. Jarome ended up getting the puck and I just remember having a little bit of open ice and yelling for it. He put it right on my stick and I just tried to get it away quick."
As he was falling down, Iginla threaded a pass into the circle for Crosby, who caught it on his forehand and quickly shot it past Miller for the winning goal.
Crosby: "I really didn't see the puck go in. I circled behind the net and then it was just a great feeling. It wasn't the hardest shot but definitely the quicker you get it off the more chance you have of surprising the goalie. I was able to do that."
Miller: "I played that whole tournament pretty aggressive. In my mind I was going to be aggressive with shooters, be in their face. I thought I was going to catch them off guard and he caught me off guard by kicking it right to his stick and shooting. He's a great player. He made a smart decision. I, in hindsight, didn't make the right decision. But I was playing aggressive the whole tournament and I told myself I wasn't going to sit back and let things happen. I was going to make an aggressive move and I got caught and that's the way it goes."
Perry: "A lot of emotion goes through your body at that particular point in time. I remember jumping over the boards, that's about it. I think right after the goal and the celebration I went over and grabbed a big Canadian flag on the 10-foot pole or whatever it is and was skating around the ice with that. This was pretty special to grab it out of the stands, out of the guy's hands who gave it to me and that's one thing I will never forget."
Dan Boyle, Canada: "It's kind of a blur to be honest with you. I'm not even quite sure. I was on the bench. It was far from where the defensemen were sitting at the time. It was kind of at the other end and he just scored and the place just went crazy."
Toews: "I don't think I saw the puck go in. I didn't see him shoot it. I don't know if I was drinking water or something, but first thing I noticed was everyone jumping off the bench and rushing toward the far corner and so I assumed it was over. I assumed we scored. I didn't really know who and how it went in until after the game, so that's my recollection of it. It's not too clear. It's kind of foggy."
Bergeron: "I pretty much remember the whole thing. I couldn't really see Jarome in the corner with the puck but I could see Sid open and close to the faceoff dot. But I can remember more the celebration after and winning and actually having the medal around my neck and that feeling, so it was something very special."
Duncan Keith, Canada: "I remember being the first guy over the bench and just super excited. I wanted to win that gold medal so bad. I hadn't won anything in my whole life basically up until that tournament. I just wanted to be able to say I won something. I remember racing in behind [Drew] Doughty I think into that big pile and just hearing how loud it was in that building was pretty crazy."
Crosby: "I just remember just little snapshots. I don't even remember necessarily scoring. Just right before it, kind of the anticipation. Knowing that there was some space and [being] kind of all alone in front. That's kind of what I remember, that kind of desperation to hopefully get the puck there and put it in. Everything after that is kind of a blur."
The American players tried to console each other. Miller was hunched over as he left the ice. Yes they were about to have a silver medal, but that was the furthest thing from their minds.
David Backes, United States: "It was a roller coaster ride from feeling elated when we scored that goal, when Zach scored with [24.4] seconds left in regulation, to having all that momentum to trying to calm down in between the third period in overtime in locker room. And when that goal scored … we were so close [to] doing something really special."
Dustin Brown, United States: "It's a bit of a shock. It just happened too quickly. There's not really words that describe how you feel at that moment, or even now four years later."
Kane: "I was on the bench and I remember at that time I was thinking, 'How does a goal like that go in to win the gold medal?' But it's funny; a few months later I scored a goal like that to win the Stanley Cup, kind of the same area, same kind of shot through the legs. But it was disappointing. It was definitely frustrating."
Kesler: "When you think you're going to win and then that happens, it's crushing. You really don't know what to think."
Parise: "It was one of those things that it ended so quickly you can't believe it's over. And next thing you know we're getting a silver medal. It was pretty disappointing."
The game was seen by roughly 35 million people worldwide. NHL stars of today were among those watching.
Brendan Gallagher, Montreal Canadiens: "I was playing for the Vancouver Giants [of the Western Hockey League] and because they were using the Pacific Coliseum [for speed skating and figure skating], we went on a two-week road trip to Saskatchewan and Alberta during the Olympics. We were just coming back. We were busing back from Swift Current and we got back to where our bus could pick up the radio in the second period. We got back to our rink with about 10 minutes to go in the third period so we all sat around one TV and watched. When the third period ended a bunch of guys left to rush home and watch overtime but I stayed with a couple of other guys and watched in our dressing room. When [Crosby] scored I just remember being in that big room jumping up and down and cheering like we had scored the goal."
Marc Staal, New York Rangers: "I was sitting in a bar in New York City watching it with three Americans and a whole bunch of American fans in the bar. It was pretty interesting because I had a couple of teammates on Team USA and my brother [Eric Staal] on Team Canada and I was obviously cheering for Team Canada. Everyone was pretty tuned into the game and we were kind of sitting in the back, enjoying the game. The bar went nuts when the U.S. scored and I remember jumping out of my seat when Sidney scored that goal. It was me and another guy, that's about it. It was pretty interesting."
John Tavares, New York Islanders: "I was on Doug Weight's couch. I was living in Dougie's guest house that year, it was my rookie year. We were watching it with his son Danny and Matt Moulson. We were living in the guest house together so we were there. Sid scored and we jumped up, were high-fiving.
"[Weight's] son Danny has dual citizenship so when the Americans scored he'd be American and when the Canadians scored he'd be Canadian. I remember Dougie giving it to him, telling him he had to pick a side. It was a lot of fun, but being Canadian it was a proud moment. It was something pretty special to watch. A gold in hockey on home soil, on home ice like that, and the way the country took it and celebrated it, it was a special moment."
In time the silver medal has come to mean something significant to the American players and coaches, but it still brings about a bitter memory of a tough loss on the world's stage.
Wilson: "The Finns beat the Slovaks for the bronze medal and they went nuts like they won the gold medal. We lose the gold-medal game and you're the losing team so you got to watch the other guys across the way jumping up and down and celebrating. You're left with the what-ifs. But I think, in time, you realize you had a great run. It wasn't luck that we were there; we played really well."
Callahan: "At first you feel like you lost the gold medal, there's no question there. But that silver medal is something to be proud of. Not everybody has an Olympic medal. It's something I'm very proud I have. Obviously I wish it was gold, but at the same time to represent your country and win a silver, it's pretty special."
Brown: "That's probably something I'll look back on maybe later on in life when I'm done with playing, say, 'You know what? A silver medal is pretty awesome.' But at the moment, even to right now when I'm still competitively playing, it's one of those things I still think about today. It's a tough moment."
Parise: "To this day we get reminded of it all the time and you get asked about what it felt like to come that close. So it never really goes away. Two days later you have to go back and start up your NHL season but you never really completely block it out of your mind. You never forget how it felt to lose that game."
Brian Burke, United States general manager: "Winning a silver medal, I know it's a great accomplishment, but it took me about six months to appreciate that. The bitterness you feel when you're sitting on the bench watching your players get a silver medal and on the other side of the ice those guys are getting the gold medal. We're NHL guys where it's the best-of-seven. We beat Canada in the first round of the Olympics. They beat us to the gold medal. Let's play again. Let's play tomorrow. That's what I'm thinking of sitting on the bench. Let's play these guys again tomorrow. And I bet you they would have, too. I bet you Team Canada, if we put it to them, would have said, 'Sure, we'll play you.' But that's not how it works in the Olympics. When it ends for you … it's like a train hitting the wall. It's over. It's, like, 'OK, we're going back to our real jobs tomorrow.'"
The Canadians never tire of talking about it, of reliving the moment, of reveling in their victory.
Babcock: "The memory for me is in the process and then in singing the national anthem together, because that's the moment. People talk about the golden goal. That's not what resonates for me at all. It's the doing it together. It's arm-in-arm singing the national anthem and sharing it with the people in Vancouver and the people in [British Columbia] and the people in western Canada and the people in Canada, and that celebration.
"When given the opportunity to be an Olympian I think it's a special thing. You're bigger than a hockey team. You're part of a Canadian team. To be able to go through the process, to be around such good people, and then, in the end, to deliver and enjoy the process with your friends and your family and Canadians, it's a special thing."
Keith: Just a lot of relief. There was a lot of pressure in that tournament. And looking back I think it was a great experience. And I remember getting the medal and just thinking how heavy it was at first. I couldn't believe how heavy they were."
Toews: "I didn't sleep a whole lot that night. I had a few beers with friends and family and the boys and I was off to Long Island the next morning on a plane with [Brent] Seabrook and Keith and Kane and [Marian] Hossa and [Tomas] Kopecky. We were flying from some small town in Washington all the way to Long Island because we had to play Tuesday night in New York. It was back to reality pretty quick."
Crosby: "I think the cool part about it is dreaming to play for Canada. Growing up as a kid you always kind of put yourself in that position and want to score that big goal. To be able to do it is special."
Crosby did it four years after he was left off the Canadian roster, four years after the Canadians couldn't live up to their billing as defending gold medalists in Turin.
Four years removed from the victory in Vancouver Crosby will be the captain for Canada in Sochi. He insists his life hasn't changed much since scoring the golden goal but his place in history has. Now he and the Canadians have a chance to do it again with the Americans, Swedes, Russians, Finns, Slovaks, Czechs, Swiss, Austrians, Slovenians, Norwegians and Latvians hoping to get in their way.
Crosby: "Like any other athlete you have a good Olympics and then you change your focus and you move on. It's nice to hear about it but now I'm thinking about this one."
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The Investigation
Miscues in Sniper Pursuit, Then Calls and a Big Break
By DAVID JOHNSTON and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Published: October 27, 2002
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 — With a loud crack and a blinding light of the SWAT team's disorienting but harmless "flash bang," the agents rushed the blue Chevrolet Caprice parked in a highway rest stop in rural Maryland. They smashed out several windows and unlocked the doors. Within seconds, the agents pulled the two dazed occupants from the car at gunpoint and placed them under arrest.
The police had feared a bloody end to their 23-day manhunt. But the peaceful arrests of John A. Muhammad, a 41-year-old Army veteran, and his 17-year-old companion, John Lee Malvo, brought an abrupt coda to an investigation full of dead-end leads and missed opportunities, followed by a rapid reversal of fortune.
The two men who the police now say are the snipers, who had communicated by phone and letter with declarations like "Call me God," were discovered asleep at the wheel, literally. Behind the front seat, the police say, detectives found a long white box holding a Bushmaster XM15, a high-powered, deadly accurate weapon capable of firing .223-caliber bullets. By nightfall on Thursday, ballistics evidence tied that rifle to 11 of the area's 13 sniper shootings.
Charles A. Moose, the police chief in Montgomery County, Md., who led the investigation, said in an interview that police work takes persistence, teamwork and community support but almost always depends on chance.
"As police chief, I know you need a lot of luck," Chief Moose said. "I'd like to think it's all skill and moxie and brains. But it's mostly luck."
After the arrests, computer records showed that the police in his county, in Baltimore and in Washington had encountered the suspects' car on at least 10 occasions but did nothing; the car was legally owned, Mr. Muhammad had no criminal record that showed up in the government's database, and everyone was fixated on a white van, not a blue Caprice.
In the end, the investigation turned on a series of cryptic communications between the sniper and the police. "You are dancing with a guy and you know the lights are out and you don't know where the edge of the dance floor is," one senior government official said in an interview earlier this week.
Mr. Muhammad and Mr. Malvo were charged on Friday with six counts of first-degree murder in Maryland, where the authorities said they would seek the death penalty against Mr. Muhammad. Additional murder charges are expected to be filed against Mr. Muhammad and Mr. Malvo in Virginia and in the District of Columbia, where other killings took place.
The two men were also charged on Friday with a murder-robbery in Alabama that helped the authorities solve the sniper shootings here.
The hunt for the sniper became a vast murder mystery in which the police enlisted the support of the capital area's five million citizens and communicated with the killers in coded messages carried by the news media. Law enforcement officials said they did not yet know whether the sniper heard any of their messages. Each of the five police statements to the killer was the product of intensive discussion between Chief Moose and his chief federal partners in the case, Michael R. Bouchard of the Baltimore office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Gary M. Bald of the Baltimore office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The three men described the turning points in their investigation in an interview on Friday. They sat at the same octagonal wooden table in Chief Moose's quiet corner office where they had drafted and debated the unusual messages delivered by Chief Moose to the killers.
"I'll talk to the devil himself to keep another person alive," Chief Moose said.
Every word in his statements was evaluated by experts in serial killings, crisis negotiation and criminal behavior.
Each message carried enormous risks. If the language was too confrontational, it could provoke the sniper to kill again. If the statement was too conciliatory, it could lead the sniper to conclude that the authorities did not take them seriously, with equally deadly results.
"You try to get a little control over the clock, build credibility and trust, and force the sniper to make a mistake," explained an official involved in the investigation.
The Montgomery County Police Department was backed by the largest investigative team ever assembled for a local murder case in the United States. Advanced military spy aircraft patrolled the skies, police barricades stranded drivers on dozens of gridlocked highways, and an army of thousands of law enforcement personnel chased 16,000 leads culled from more than 100,000 phone calls to a telephone tip line.
Each day, President Bush was briefed on developments and worried aloud about what he said was "a ruthless person on the loose." News accounts of coordination lapses brought Congressional pressure on the F.B.I. to take over the case. In the end, almost every expert's best guesses about the suspects, their vehicle and their motives turned out to be wrong.
Even now, the suspects' motives remain unclear. Neither man has cooperated with the authorities. Some officials dismiss the sniper's $10 million demand, made in a letter left at the scene of one of the shootings, as nothing more than a way to rationalize the killing rampage.

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So we did it. We held our first GF cupcake party and it was definitely a success.
The Birthday Girl is a sensitive little soul with a few intolerances too. Polyester, dairy, and fragrances, to name a few (the ones we're sure of for now). Pete and I decided to keep her off wheat for the first year of her life (really, everyone should be wheat-free for the first year…. don't get me started on Arrowroots and the like). She's been sharing her daddy's breads and cereals, and she even gets some of mommy's GF baked goods every now and then.
So, for her first b-day bash (aka in the words of Callum: a Cupcake Party), my plan was to make some GF cupcakes, and some traditional cupcakes. But then I got to thinking, and tasting, and I realized that my oven was a wheat virgin – it had never baked a single grain of wheat, spelt or kamut in its lifetime (brand new a month ago, lucky me). So I decided to keep it that way because we really don't know how wheat baked in the oven can affect the celiac'ers of the world.
I really wanted Livvie's party to be close to perfect (perfection is hard to achieve when you're at the mercy of a one year old and a three year old) so I decided I would start with a recipe from one of my favourite GF bloggers. Better safe than sorry.
Obviously I headed right to Karina's Kitchen – my Gluten-Free Goddess. She has a recipe for GF Vanilla Cupcakes with Mocha Icing. I decided to give these a try since I've had much success with her recipes. I skipped the Mocha Icing and made my own (see below) since I thought the sweet cupcake would be enough for my girl, never mind the chocolate-coffee combo! Here's her recipe and my changes as noted by the *.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 12-cupcake tin with paper or parchment liners. I used some fancy liners since we were celebrating in girlie-girl style.*
In a mixing bowl, whisk the dry ingredients together:
1 cup sorghum flour
1 cup tapioca starch
1 cup organic cane sugar
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon xanthan gum
Add in:
1 cup warm vanilla rice milk or water (I used plain rice milk since that's all I had)*
1 tablespoon Ener-G Egg Replacer whisked with 1/4 cup warm water (or two large happy eggs) I used two large eggs, not sure if they were happy*
3 tablespoons light olive oil ( I used extra-virgin olive oil)*
1 tablespoon vanilla extract*
1/4 teaspoon light tasting vinegar (I used apple cider vinegar)*
Beat with a mixer until the cake batter is smooth- roughly 2-3 minutes.
A reminder (from Karina) on gluten-free vegan batters: Gluten-free vegan batters behave a little different. They are often stiffer at first, then get sticky and stretch as the xanthan gum and egg replacer do their vegan g-free thing.
If the batter climbs the beaters, slow down the speed and slightly lift the beaters to encourage the batter to migrate back down into the bowl. Move your beater around the bowl in figure eights, at a slight angle.
Using an ice cream scoop, plop the batter into the twelve liners. Smooth out the tops with wet fingers.
Bake in the center of a preheated oven until firm and dome shaped. For me this took about 18 minutes at sea level but they may take up to 20 to 22 minutes, depending upon your particular oven and altitude (this took me 20 minutes).*
Cool the pan on a wire rack briefly, then gently pop out the cupcakes and continue cooling on a rack (this avoids steaming the bottoms).
*We found these to be lovely and moist. However, they tasted more like a muffin than a cupcake. When you're eating a cupcake, you know what taste you're after and this just wasn't it.*
Make your icing. Miss Livvie has a dairy intolerance so this recipe worked great for her. It's adapted from Colleen Patrick-Goudreau's frosting recipe.
1 cup of icing sugar
½ tsp of vanilla
2 TBSP of rice milk
3 TBSP of Earth Balance Vegan Butter/ Margarine
I liked these, and so did my testers (thanks Pete and Mom and Callum) but I didn't feel like I could feed them to a house full of wheat-eaters. So my search resumed. And I will leave you hanging here. Come back soon and I will tell you all about the yummy GF chocolate cupcakes that fooled everyone (my Dad had two and my nephew had three…much to the chagrin of his mother).


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Navy's Zack Duncavage
April 9, 2013
Composite Schedule
Patriot League Performance List
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. - It was rivalry weekend in the Patriot League, with Army-Navy and Lehigh-Lafayette both renewing acquaintances in competitive meets.
The Navy men and women each won the Star at home against Army, with the men holding on for a 105-97 victory and the women posting a 107-96 win. The Navy men sweep Army in the indoor and outdoor season for the second year in a row, while the women swept the season series for the fifth straight year against the Black Knights.
The most competitive dual matchup came on the women's side of the Lafayette-Lehigh clash, with the Leopards edging their rival by a 102-101 score at home. Rachel Pena won the hammer throw and shot put and Devin Smith finished first in the 200 and 400-meter dashes to help lead Lafayette to the narrow win. The Lehigh men posted a 119-84 win over their counterparts from Lafayette.
Pena was honored for her role in Lafayette's victory, while Navy's Zack Duncavage and Austin Batiste earned Patriot League weekly awards for their performance in the Star Meet victory. Student-athletes from Bucknell, Holy Cross and Army were also recognized after a busy weekend of competition.
Patriot League Track and Field Weekly Awards
CHRISTIAN LUPICA, BUCKNELL So., Newtown, Pa.
Lupica set three IC4A-qualifying times on a big weekend at the Colonial Relays. He finished second overall, and first among collegiate finishers, with a school-record time of 14.25 in the 110-meter hurdles. Lupica also placed third in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 53.24, and led the Bison to a first-place finish in the 4 X 100 relay by running the anchor leg to help the team finish in 41.53.
STEPHANIE OKPOEBO, HOLY CROSS Jr., Chelmsford, Mass.
Okpoebo had a pair of ECAC-qualifying times at the Duke Invitational over the weekend. She ran an 11.92 to finish fourth in the 100-meter dash, and a 24.19 to take seventh place in the 200-meter dash. Both marks were the best in the Patriot League during the outdoor season, and the 200-meter time set a Holy Cross school record. Okpoebo also ran on the Holy Cross 4 X 100 relay team that just missed an ECAC time with a finish of 48.10.
ZACK DUNCAVAGE, NAVY Jr., League City, Texas
Duncavage continues to shine in the outdoor season, earning his second M-F Athlete Male Field Athlete of the Week honor this season after a strong showing in the Army-Navy Star Meet on Saturday. Duncavage won the discus with an IC4A-qualifying and school record toss of 56.44 meters, and also set IC4A marks while winning the shot put with a toss of 15.93 meters and placing fifth in the hammer throw at 53.03 meters. The discus throw is ranked 11th in the NCAA East Region and clinched the victory for the Mids while breaking his own school record. Duncavage has already won eight individual events this season.
RACHEL PENA, LAFAYETTE Jr., Ridgefield Park, N.J.
Pena played a key role in Lafayette's narrow 102-101 win over rival Lehigh on Saturday by placing first in both the hammer throw and shot put. Pena put up a personal-best mark of 57.52 meters in the hammer throw that set the ECAC-qualifying standard and is the best toss in the Patriot League this season. Her shot put mark of 13.02 meters is an outdoor personal best. Pena is named M-F Athletic Female Field Athlete of the Week for the second time this season.
AUSTIN BATISTE, NAVY Fr., Long Beach, Calif.
Batiste had another outstanding day in a fine freshman season by winning both the 200-meter and 400-meter dashes at the Army-Navy Star Meet on Saturday. He just missed the IC4A-qualifying time with a 21.83 in the 200-meter, then hit the IC4A mark with a time of 48.21 in the 400-meter. Batiste has placed first or second in all six of his 200m and 400m races in the outdoor season. He also ran on a 4 X 100 relay team that finished in an IC4A-qualifying time of 41.49.
MEGAN GEMAR, ARMY Fr., Walnut Creek, Calif.
Gemar hit right on the ECAC-qualifying standard in the pole vault with a leap of 3.72 meters at the Army-Navy Star Meet on Saturday. She won the event with the second-best mark in Army history and best by a Black Knight since 2011.
MARK LEININGER, AMERICAN Sr., Colts Neck, N.J.
Leininger took second place in the 10,000-meter run at the Colonial Relays with an IC4A-qualifying time of 29:30.97.
MITCH SIMMONDS, NAVY Sr., Eagle, Idaho
Simmonds set IC4A-qualifying times in the 400-meter hurdles (53.27) and as part of the 4 X 100 relay team (41.49) at the Army-Navy Star Meet on Saturday.
BRIGID BYRNE, NAVY Sr., Vienna, Va.
Byrne won the 5,000-meter run at the Army-Navy Star Meet with an ECAC-qualifying time of 16:54.22.
LAUREN ALLAM, NAVY Jr., Pasadena, Md.
Allam won the discus at the Army-Navy Star Meet with an ECAC-qualifying mark of 47.31 meters.
RAY HOLMES, BUCKNELL Jr., Campbell, N.Y.
Holmes placed second in the triple jump at the Colonial Relays with a career-best and IC4A-qualifying mark of 15.04 meters.
MACKENZIE ARNDT, HOLY CROSS So., Merrimack, Mass.
Arndt finished in third place in the pole vault at the Duke Invitational with an ECAC-qualifying and school-record tying mark of 3.85 meters.
DEVIN SMITH, LAFAYETTE Fr., Andover, N.J.
Smith took first place in four different events to help Lafayette to a one-point win in a dual meet against rival Lehigh on Saturday, and set the school record with a time of 56.33 in the 400-meter dash.
Patriot League Notebook
Best of the Rest
While Patriot League rivals were squaring off, three other conference teams also had some standout showings at meets over the weekend. Bucknell and American both competed at the Colonial Relays where the Bison men finished second with strong performances from both Christian Lupica and Ray Holmes. American's Mark Leininger had a solid second-place finish in the 10,000-meter run, while on the women's side Bucknell's 4 X 200 relay team set a school record as the Bison placed eighth. Holy Cross went to the Duke Invitational where Stephanie Okpoebo ran the best outdoor time in the Patriot League this season in both the 100 and 200-meter dashes.
Another Busy Weekend Ahead
All Patriot League teams are in action this weekend, and most will be meeting up wtih at least one other League squad. Bucknell hosts the Bison Outdoor Classic, which includes American and Lehigh in the field, while Army welcomes Colgate as part of a Quad Meet at West Point. Lehigh and Lafayette will both compete at the Moravian Open as well. Holy Cross and Navy head their own ways, with the Crusaders at the UMass Invitational and the Mids at the George Mason Invitational.
Patriot Leaguers Rate High in the East
Eleven Patriot Leaguers are rated in the top 25 in the NCAA East Region in an event, with multiple representatives in three different events. American's Mark Leininger (14th), Colgate's Chris Johnson (20th) and American's Mark Allen (24th) all rate high in the men's 10,000-meter run, while Navy's Jay Stell (20th) and Army's Jacob Drozd (25th) have top marks in the javelin. On the women's side, Lafayette' Rachel Pena (16th) and Lehigh's Jimil Ataman (20th) are each among the top 20 nationally in the hammer throw. Additional top marks in the East are owned by Army's Nicholas Snoad (9th, hammer), Navy's Zack Duncavage (11th, discus) and Lehigh's Brooke Astor (11th, heptathlon) and Ryan Paquin (23rd, decathlon). For all of the Patriot League track and field top times, go here
Navy Picked First on Both Sides
Navy has never swept the titles at the Patriot League Outdoor Track and Field Championships, but that's just what poll voters are predicting this season by placing the Mids at the top of both the men and women's rankings on Monday. The Mids edged out Bucknell in the men's rankings, finishing with 92 points and nine first-place votes to 90 points and seven first-place votes for the Bison. Army finished third with 76 points, followed by Lehigh (62), Lafayette (50), American (31), Colgate (29) and Holy Cross (18). Navy's advantage over Bucknell was slightly higher on the women's side, with the Mids accruing 95 points and 11 first-place votes to 89 points and five first-place nods for the Bison. Lehigh came in third place with 72 points, while Army (63), Lafayette (47), Holy Cross (41), Colgate (27) and American (14) rounded out the standings. The men and women's preseason polls were voted on by the Patriot League Outdoor Track and Field head coaches and sports information directors, who were not permitted to vote for their own teams. The 2013 Patriot League Outdoor Track and Field Championships will be held at Lehigh's Goodman Campus Track on May 3-4.
Bucknell, Navy with Rivalry Building
Bucknell and Navy have combined to win all six Patriot League titles since the start of the 2012 season. The Bison swept last year's indoor crowns, while the Bucknell men and Navy women won the 2012 outdoor titles. At this year's Indoor Championships on Feb. 15-17, it was the Navy men and Bucknell women that emerged victorious.
Returning Event Winners
Individual winners that return from last year's Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships include Bucknell's Leonard Joseph (hammer throw), Navy's Mark Vetere (pole vault) and Zachary Duncavage (discus), Lafayette's Nick Hepp (400-meter dash) and Colgate's Chris Johnson (5,000-meter run and 10,000-meter run). Duncavage and Joseph each went on to earn All-America recognition, while Vetere was the Patriot League Rookie of the Year. Returning on the women's side after winning individual titles at last year's championships are Army's Lisa Junta (10,000-meter run), Kaitlyn Love (100-meter hurdles) and Jessica Waggoner (discus), Holy Cross' Stephanie Okpoebo (100-meter and 200-meter dash), Bucknell's Jennifer Zymet (400-meter dash) and Emily Ando (pole vault), Navy's Veronica Ffrench (high jump) and Lafayette's Rachel Pena (hammer throw). Junta was named last year's Patriot League Rookie of the Meet, and took home the Track Athlete of the Meet honor at the Indoor Championships in February.
Wrapping Up the Indoor Season
It was the Navy men and Bucknell women that came with the titles at the 2013 Patriot League Indoor Track and Field Championships on Feb. 15-17 at Army's Gillis Field House. The Mids recorded the highest point total since 2002 on the men's side to hold off the Bison, while the Bucknell women easily outdistanced the field with Navy finishing second. Bucknell led all schools on the men's side at the IC4A Championships with 20 points, led by a victory for Leonard Joseph in the weight throw and second-place finish for Ray Holmes in the triple jump. Holy Cross was the highest-scoring team on the women's side at the ECAC Championships with 19 points, led by top-eight finishes in the 60 and 200-meter dash events by Stephanie Okpoebo a fourth-place showing by Brittany Gorski in the 800-meter run and a third-place finish for Mackenzie Arndt in the pole vault. Army's Lisa Junta, the Patriot League Female Track Athlete of the Meet, continued her run of success by winning the 5,000-meter run. Lafayette's Elise Buffinton was second in the pole vault, while Bucknell's Hana Casalnova (10,000-meter run) and Caroline Tolli (mile) and Lafayette's Rachel Pena (weight throw) each recorded third-place finishes.


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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Three years after discovering her husband with another woman, that mantra still rules Lisa's dating life. The 46-year-old Vermont artist recalls ruefully, "Ed had pulled the wool over my eyes so successfully — I'd thought he was the world's only monogamous guy! — that I'm petrified to be played again. So petrified that if a date goes down the block for cigarettes, the second he gets back I'm ready to accuse him of having a secret assignation with another woman. Not surprisingly, my dates don't hang around too long."
While Lisa's behavior is understandable, it certainly puts a crimp in her goal of finding love again. According to California-based marriage and family therapist Stacy Kaiser, "The most important thing to remember is that not every man is the man who hurt you. Everyone deserves to be treated as his own person."
True. But for a mature, accomplished woman who'd believed she had a good grasp of the way the world operated, being cheated on can elicit the feeling that her sense of judgment is holier than Swiss cheese. Thus, she sees potential betrayal lurking in every corner.
"You become a little more hardened. You're not the same person," explains Sheila, 42. "After someone betrays your trust so brutally, you no longer take things at face value. Your innocence is gone." Today, the New York banker is ensconced in a new relationship — but it was a long, rutted road to her present happiness.
Learn to Trust Again After Infidelity
After crying mountains of tears, throwing truckloads of pillows at the walls (a crucial step — it's important to discharge anger in a way that won't net you a criminal record), and basking in the support of loving friends and family, try to understand why your partner betrayed you. "This doesn't mean liking his motives or agreeing with them," assures Terri Orbuch, PhD, Detroit's "Love Doctor" (www.detroitlovedr.com) and creator of the 3-CD audio set, Relationship CPR: Passion, Trust, and Conflict. Orbuch continues, "Understanding his perspective helps you let go of the emotions connected to the betrayal, emotions that are keeping you from moving on."
An even more difficult task is to look at your possible role in his actions. Danine Manette survived relationships with not one but two cheating men — the latter, her husband. The 40-year-old Californian and author of the book Ultimate Betrayal (www.ultimatebetrayal.com) admits, "I went from the immaturity of young love to marriage with a man who had glaring character flaws — including unfinished business with his ex. But I thought I could change him, so I married him." Four years and one child later, Danine's husband committed adultery with his ex.
Danine left instantly, taking their son. Time and a lot of therapy helped her realize that while her ex-husband Keith bore the brunt of the culpability, she hadn't been 100 percent blameless. "I asked myself how I could have ended up in this situation a second time. Sure, I was older and wanted kids, so I overlooked signs that were obvious. But I also came to realize that feeling unloved as a child led me to not treat Keith with as much love and positive attention as he needed."
Another mistake she'd made was rushing into the marriage so soon after her first breakup. It's wiser to take time to mourn and assess before jumping back out there. Then, once you're ready, meet a lot of people. When you finally start zeroing in on a relationship candidate, listen to Danine's hard-won wisdom: "Look for signs that he's a cheating risk before the first orgasm."


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While much national attention has been focused on recent Arizona legislative chicanery,* your correspondent would like to draw attention to another unwise proposal currently under consideration in Phoenix.
SB 1227, sponsored by Senator Chester Crandell, would prohibit municipal governments from enacting zoning ordinances and/or building codes that require energy efficiency in new construction. To quote, in part, the bill's text:
"A city or town may not adopt as mandatory any, or part of any, building code, ordinance, stipulation or other legal requirement that is related to energy efficiency, energy conservation or green construction in new construction."
At the moment, SB 1227 has been approved by the Government Committee but appears to lack the support needed to pass in the whole Senate.
In opposing the bill, the Grand Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club notes that efficiency measures have the potential to boost local economies – by making Arizonans relatively wealthier through avoided energy costs. Equally important in the context of Arizona's geography and climate: conventional fossil fuel power plants require large quantities of cooling water to operate.
From a sustainability perspective, this latter point is a crucial consideration. Much of Arizona is situated in arid desert – and has been experiencing prolonged drought. Measures to ensure sufficient water resources exist to support new development are critical to the long-term health of said resources. Likewise, ordinances mandating efficient resource use are equally essential to sustaining life in a frequently-unforgiving ecosystem like Arizona.
On another front, Amory Lovins and the Rocky Mountain Institute have demonstrated the economic and environmental benefits that could be captured through more efficient energy use. Namely: a modest decrease in total American electricity use by 2050 – while still sustaining an economy 158% larger than today and relying on renewable energy sources to power up to 80% of electricity generated.
Senator Crandell is apparently fearful of an eventuality where local governments adopt international energy codes that drive up home construction costs and limit builders' individual choices. Of course, the entire purpose and effect of zoning ordinances is to place reasonable limits on development and to intelligently direct future growth. At least in theory.
Energy efficiency and conservation are cheap and bring attendant economic benefits in the form of forsaken energy costs from reduced usage. In addition, given the local availability of outstanding solar insolation, Arizona would be well-counseled to mandate that all new residential and commercial development contain some quantum of distributed solar energy generation. Short-term, upfront costs for home builders cannot be the only consideration – Arizona's place in the world demands that our elected officials take the long view on resource use.
(*Which events are beyond the purview of this space. Nonetheless, legally-speaking the now-vetoed, so-called Arizona "religious rights" bill was misguided and quite likely unconstitutional – a retrograde act reminiscent of the pre-Civil Rights Act of 1964 era in American history. It is difficult to not feel guilty critiquing another piece of legislation when this was one signature away from state law.)


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A Contemporary Literary Odyssey
by Becket Knottingham
"We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. What we lack is a liberal Utopia, a program which seems neither a mere defense of things as they are nor a diluted kind of socialism..."-- Fredirich Hayek
Truth is the most fundamental form of private property. To deny that words harbor intrinsic meaning, as has become fashionable upon the postmodern campus, is to deny students their right to own the private property which provides the cornerstone of classical liberalism-- the Western Heritage as embodied in the context of The Great Books. Concerning the truth Fredirich Hayek stated in The Road to Serfdom that, "The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda which we must now consider are, however, of an even more profound kind. They are destructive of all morals because they undermine one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and the respect for truth." And without morality, as Locke professed and Jefferson agreed, freedom cannot exist.
Russel Kirk stated that "men of imagination, rather than party leaders, determine the ultimate course of things," and in that spirit, I, along with two colleagues, launched BeaconWay Press and The Jolly Roger on the WWW just over two years ago. Today, with over 15,000 subscribers on the monthly mailing list, The Jolly Roger has become one of the world's largest literary journals. Built with "Oak planks of reason, riveted with rhyme, designed to voyage across all of time," The Jolly Roger (www.jollyroger.com) is dedicated to pirating the profound and communicating the ideals of classical liberalism via contemporary poetry and prose written in the context of the Western Canon.
It is not enough to merely defend the classics, for as Jefferson pointed out, the living own the world, not the dead. While the contemporary author must harbor veneration for all the Greats who have walked before him, he must also have the courage to set out on his own and strive to perform today's truth in the living language. In the closing paragraphs of Ideas Have Consequences, Richard Weaver also calls upon the contemporary writer to boldly venture forth into the postmodern fog:
Yet it is the duty of those who can foresee the end of a saturnalia to make their counsel known. Nothing is more certain than that we are all in this together. Practically, no one can stand aside from a sweep as deep and broad as the decline of a civilization. If the thinkers of our time cannot catch the imagination of the world to the point of effecting some profound transformation, they must succumb with it. There will be little joy in the hour when they can say, 'I told you so.'While charts, graphs, and statistics will do little in the way of awakening my generation's moral imagination, contemporary shots fried from the Western Canon will. And thus my "program," my "intellectual adventure," and my "deed of courage" is calling on my peers to enjoy a contemporary literary renaissance.
Both economics and literature concern themselves with value, and the marketplace of ideas and the marketplace of material goods exist in a symbiotic equilibrium. If peoples' sensibilities, hopes, and dreams are degraded by a crass culture, their standard of living will be degraded, as no matter how hard they work, they will not be able to purchase decency, loyalty, honesty, respect, and justice. Thus a free marketplace requires a moral literature to resound throughout society's soul. Regarding a purely materialistic interpretation of the free market, Richard Weaver said, "Let it be added that there is a close correlation between the growth of materialism and the expulsion of languages from curricula, which is a further demonstration that where things are exalted, words will be depressed." And where words are depressed, so is meaning, for promises shall not endure and marriages will not last if the very words by which we define our social contracts and souls are devalued.
These days many educational experts blame the free-market system for the vapidness and crassness of contemporary culture, but I believe that it is both wrong and dangerous to imply that the individual is incapable of choosing a noble popular culture. I contend that the source of the decline of values can be attributed to the reality that many of the traditional institutions which once emphasized the concepts of truth, individual responsibility, and freedom have stopped performing their vital task. The dependency of contemporary educational institutions on government bureaucracies has rendered them independent of those they were designed to serve-- the people. And although the free-market continues to operate with great success in the Western world, the free marketplace of ideas in the modern academy has suffered from regulation by tenured postmodern and socialist prejudices. I do not believe that the solution to cultural decline resides in government programs nor in government censorship-- rather I believe that the solution is a popular literary renaissance. I believe in what Edmund Burke deemed, "the wisdom of the species." I share the fundamental optimism that resides at the foundation of all free societies-- that when presented with all the options, people are capable of independently choosing that which is best. I believe that the best way to inspire people to read is to reward them with the truth in exchange for their efforts, to echo the profundities they sense in their souls, and to crystallize their heart-felt sentiments with words. I believe that the members of this generation must make the revitalization of the rational soul a deed of courage. We must boldly venture forth into uncharted literary territory, risk the disapproval of the postmodern editorial experts, pirate the profound which has been buried 'neath nihilism, and pen the truth.
As it is futile to criticize nihilism, so too is it futile to battle the postmodern fog, for one ends up lashing out at that which has no form to absorb the criticism. Instead, the noble way to counter the mist is to erect a beacon. Satire, poetry, prose, plot, and character are some of the literary devices by which we may draw the sword of the imagination. The Jolly Roger is armed with the Western Canon, and she's prepared to deliver broadsides of the truth so as to defend the ideals of classical liberalism.
My generation stands at a critical juncture, where popular postmodern philosophies have gutted much of the univeristies' traditional core curriculum, leaving many campuses bereft of works to deconstruct. While communistic regimes have fallen all about the world, and socialism has been discredited by the success of free-market economies, the rich context of the Western Heritage, from which classical liberalism's ideals spring and endure, is being allowed to dissipate. Locke and Jefferson both contended that individual rights require individual responsibility, and as their hard-earned wisdom is preserved within the printed word, so it follows that students hoping to participate in a free society must become readers and lovers of literature. It is up to my generation to resurrect classical liberalism's reflective heritage, to not only defend and teach the Great Books, but to embark on an intellectual adventure of our own, and aspire to pen new works in the context of the classics.
New contemporary works written in the context of the Great Books will play a fundamental role in reforming society and saving our institutions from being subject to further decadence. I believe that no medium is superior to that of the printed word in nurturing the rational part of the human soul. With the liberal politicization of institutions of higher learning, and the steadily declining standards of popular culture, the rich context of Western Culture, from which Great Literature in the past has sprung, is in a state of decay. I believe that a New Literature, written by independent thinkers committed to artistically expressing contemporary truths felt deep in their souls, will provide an intellectual and spiritual beacon. Guided by this beacon, the rising generation can unite and build a fleet of frigates that are committed to returning poetry to the people.
Thomas Jefferson, while reflecting that great literature provides an unparalleled means of providing a moral education, stated, "A little attention to the nature of the human mind evinces that the entertainments of fiction are useful as well as pleasant. A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics and divinity that ever were written." And indeed, nowhere else but in the United States' founding documents does one find words glorifying democracy so eloquently as those found in Herman Melville's Moby Dick:
But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture. Thou shalt see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike; that democratic dignity which, on all hands, radiates without end from God; Himself! The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!
The printed word, and thus literature, reside at the root of culture. A decadent literature will be reflected in a decadent culture. In the same way that many postmodernists claim character is of no significance in a President, so too is character impossible to discern in their contemporary neon novels. By the written word we establish justice, by the written word we define character and moral behavior, and by the printed word we acquaint ourselves with God. Thus to say that words are meaningless, and to enforce this point of view upon college campuses, is to deny the celebration of the Great God absolute. And being that God is, "the centre and circumference of all democracy," as Herman Melville wrote, to deny God is to deny freedom.
No longer is Shakespeare required reading for English majors at many of America's leading universities, including Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, and Stanford. As tuition sky-rockets, and the student takes out more and more college loans to fund the deconstruction and socialization of the campus, the institution which provides morality's primary classroom, the family, is allowed to dissipate. In Ideas Have Consequences, Richard Weaver calls for a literary renaissance to fill the cultural void that has been generated by the aimless drift of rudderless educational institutions, "Here, then, is a call for a fresh appreciation of language-- perhaps, indeed, a respect for words as things. Here is an opening for education to do something more than make its customary appeal for 'spiritual revival,' which is itself an encouragement to diffuseness and aimlessness. If the world is to remain cosmos, we shall have to make some practical application of the law that in the beginning was the word." And now, as I have briefly outlined the multiple events which call out for us to embark on an intellectual adventure that will resurrect the word and strengthen traditional values by which the ideal of freedom is perpetually born, I shall elaborate on my own personal plans to do so.
This fall I plan to embark on a literary odyssey, during which I will complete a novel entitled Misty's Light. The novel details the adventures of a young man who has set out searching for meaning in the contemporary postmodern fog, where many of classical liberalism's ideals have become obscured. The novel takes place just before Christmas, as Becket Knottingham sets out on his way home to Nantucket from Cape Fear, North Carolina on a windsurfer. Along the way he visits friends also coming of age in a value-neutral world, where the traditional family is decaying, college curriculums are being gutted, popular culture is becoming ever more vulgarized, and the divorce rate is rising along with taxes. Becket "roughs it" along the way, camping out in the North East winter, and reflecting on the hopes and dreams of all those who first greeted America's shores seeking political, economic, and religious freedom. While out on the city streets Becket witnesses the dangers of contemporary society firsthand, all the while contemplating the historical significance of cities like D.C. and New York, and their decline. By documenting the living feelings of my peers, I hope to offer them a mirror where they might look to reflect upon the state of the contemporary soul.Ideas have consequences, and as the ideas upon which our free society is founded are rooted in the written word, every generation must pen a living literature of its own, so as to capture the contemporary imagination and ensure the continuity of Burke's community of eternal souls. The WWW is a profound salute to the United State's first constitutional amendment, and I'm keeping busy rising to the occasion, representing the cheerful free-thinkers of this prematurely-labeled "slacker" generation-x.
I believe that words mean things, and that there is a difference between thought and feeling, and that when the two meet, in minds like Shakespeare's, beautiful literature results. I consider myself a modern conservative because I believe that the Western intellectual heritage, embodied in the written words of the Western Canon, is worth preserving for our children. For the printed word deepens the rational part of man's soul, and it is only within the context of this deeper realm that the concept of freedom can exist in harmony with moral responsibility.
I do not share the pessimism found in the corporate conglomerate publishing houses that the common citizen is not capable of quality literature, but rather I feel that those in the elite editorial circles have lost touch with the deeper needs of present-day culture. Their politicized, watered-down literature does little to fill the contemporary spiritual void. They are incapable of providing the common man with a literature that means something to him, which is why they write for themselves. Russel Kirk, in the introduction of The Permanent Things, stated "Another cause of literary decadence has been the centralization of writing and publishing, which has tended to reduce diversity and discussion in the realm of letters, has put powerful influence into the hands of a very small circles of writers, reviewers and publishers, has ignored the literary interests of the great part of this population, and has forced those outlanders to conform their tastes to the notions prevalent in the literary capital. In these United States, the hegemony of New York literary circles and publishing firms is nearly absolute. T.S. Eliot said once that the worst form of expatriation for an American writer is residence in New York City. Yet it is New York's book reviews in major newspapers and magazines that determine the fate of nearly every new book published in this country. A major reason why the writings of nihilists and people possessed by the diabolic imagination sell well is that the New York book-review media consistently puff up such books and authors, apparently on principle, in part, a principle politically perverse."
There are subterranean fields in our souls that lie far deeper than what is portrayed on MTV, there are vistas of the common man's intellect that are far higher than what is alluded to in Rolling Stone, and there is a reality of our souls that is far vaster than what has been captured by Hollywood. There is the printed word, and the postmodernist does not respect it. In popular culture the postmodernists have overlaid the subtle in the human soul with the vulgar, and eroded the romantic nobility of rational, enduring love with the crass. In the University they have buried the Greats of the Western Canon beneath layers of bureaucracy and nihilism. They have confiscated the treasures that since the beginning of civilization have given the young scholar something to live for, and hidden them, replacing the gold's gleam with their dull bureaucracy. Greatness must be absent from the postmodern institutions, for the works of the feminists and multi-culturalists are dwarfed in such a context, and their lack of significance is exposed.
Life, like literature, is a piece of art. In life we define character by our actions, and in literature we define character with words. But even in life thoughts precede our actions. Thoughts are anchored in words, and thus private words become our deeds, and so it is that the art of life and the art of literature are not so dissimilar. And a moral framework is necessary for Greatness in both.
My intellectual adventure will consist of lighting a light in the postmodern fog so that the straight and narrow might be navigated, communicating the traditional values of classical liberalism, and inspiring this generation to redeem the time and redeem the dream. When this summer is long past, I hope that Misty's Light will continue to offer consolation and inspiration. Towards the end of the novel, when Becket nears Nantucket, he comes to realize that the things that one seeks one finds within one's will, and thus by relentlessly following the ideal of freedom, we can hope to remain free.
Mountain peaks amidst October's glory,
I pause at the pinnacle, touch the point,
I tread lightly, leave with but a story,
with the fleeting view these words I annoint.
A field of rasberries, fourth of July,
For a moment I lose her amongst the rows,
Serene green 'neath the Carolina sky,
Silent, windless still, in my heart it grows.
Surging Hatteras surf in December,
Standing beyond the breakers on my board,
I often voyage here to remember,
The tranquil sublimity of the Lord.
These are the places I pause, stand in awe,
Of man's freedom under Natural Law.
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- noun - an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members
- noun - an association of states or organizations or individuals for common action
- noun - an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles)
- verb - unite to form a league
- An association of states, organizations, or individuals for common action; an alliance.
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- To come together in or as if in a league.
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- A square league.
- verb - to come together for a common purpose
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