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Barye is one of the great sculptors of the Romantic generation. He was responsible for the renewal of the undeniably popular genre of animal sculpture.
His eye for the animal kingdom reflects the taste of Romantic artists for movement, violence, the spectacular and the exotic. The Menagerie of the Natural History Museum, which he often visited with Delacroix, provided them with living models. They also dissected animal corpses to gain a better understanding of their anatomy.
The appearance of art bronze manufacturers circa 1830 facilitated mass production at affordable prices of animals of all sizes as ornaments for middle-class interiors. This work lies at the heart of the creative process for one of these bronzes. Wax was added to a plaster model to provide volume and a mould was made from this work to cast the final bronze. The dark patina of Eagle holding a heron camouflages the joins in the plaster and gives the illusion of bronze.
The collector Jacques Zoubaloff, who donated many of Barye's pieces held at the Petit Palais, preferred to buy works which revealed the creative process rather than completed bronzes. These are rare works which provide an insight into Barye's technique and often bear his fingerprints.

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Augusta commissioners are still deadlocked on electing a mayor pro-tem. Until that position is filled, the city attorney says committee meetings cannot take place. News 12 is on your side to explain how the delay is holding up some of the city's business.
"I am the eternal optimist," Mayor Deke Copenhaver said.
They're divided and deadlocked, but Mayor Copenhaver still believes the Augusta commission will elect a mayor pro-tem at their next meeting.
"People shouldn't be too concerned at this point. I would just caution patience to the community. We'll get it done," Copenhaver said.
Until then, much of the city's business is at a standstill. Monday, commissioners were scheduled to discuss nearly 40 agenda items during their bi-weekly committee meetings including a plan to reallocate nearly $1 million in SPLOST money. Those meetings were cancelled because the city attorney ruled there are no active committees with no mayor pro-tem to appoint them.
"All the issues that were to go before the committees yesterday, now will go before the entire commission and the business of the city will get done and that is a primary focus of mine," Copenhaver said.
Commissioner Marion Williams says there's a simple solution, allow him to appoint committees because he most recently served as mayor pro-tem.
"The attorney is giving misleading information. If I remain where I am, I should have the right to act as mayor pro-tem," Marion Williams said. "If they want to play this childish game, I will continue to play it will them all day long."
Mayor Copenhaver says he's been told that if a decision is not made soon, taxpayers have the right to issue a writ of mandamus, legally and immediately forcing the commission to elect a mayor pro-tem.
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DoSomething.org, DKMS and Be The Match® asked college students to "Give a Spit" about cancer by hosting bone marrow donor registry drives on their campuses to let students know their spit could save a life. To kick off the campaign, Florida State University's FSU Marching Chiefs, Marrow Nation and Kidz1st Fund held their launch event on October 12 & 13, 2011.
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The Blame Debate
Posted 15 March 2007 - 01:40 AM
Posted 15 March 2007 - 10:49 PM
Posted 17 March 2007 - 04:19 AM
Well, for me, there are many different causes of World War 1 was the Austrians. Since the Serbs wanted freedom and I guess that's what made them want to murder Franz Ferdinand. That's my point of view, since it was the Austrians who declared war on the Serbs first. And I highly don't agree to the Treaty of Versailles, where they blamed Germany for the whole war. And it was that certain Treaty that was one of the main causes of World War 2.
That's my point of view, but there are many others too, of course.
Posted 17 March 2007 - 11:22 AM
That's a really good comment, and I'm sure it would be useful as a quote in an essay!!!
However, you need to distinguish between importance and sequence.
The FIRST event in the causation sequence is not necessarily the most important.
So - e.g. - OK, so the Austrians were the first to attack the Serbs - but what had the Serbs been doing to lead to a situation where the Autrians felt they had to attack Serbia.
And - countries fight all the time - what had been happening which led to a situation where, when two countries had a spat, the whole world set to a four-year slaughter of humanity?
Quite frankly, I think it would be possible to portray the Austrans as the only ones who went to war validly!!! I mean - compare what the USA did when Al Quaeda wrecked the two towers ... they attacked Afghanistan and Iraq. How would we feel if somebody assassinated the Queen, or the Prime Minister ... the Autrian heir to the throne had been assassinated.
There's lots to talk about in a debate like this!!
Posted 18 March 2007 - 09:28 PM
Today scholarly work on the origins of the war is inclined to be the reworking of earlier writings or if they offer new thinking or fresh research, to centre on single areas of study. The studies on the origins of the war make the task of covering the origins apparently endless.
During my research I read the telegrams that were sent between Tsar Nicholas II and his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm during the July crisis of 1914, they make interesting reading: You can read the telegrams online:
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Posted 19 March 2007 - 08:26 PM
No Serb did it. The assassination was done by a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian, and lived in Sarajevo, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Austria blaming you for the assassination is akin to a New Yorker assassinating Bush, and America attacking us because the killer spoke English. Strikes me that Austria needs to to look to itself about the assassination - why were some Austrian citizens so angry that they had been driven to such a measure? Why were the security arrangements so pathetic?
And as for the Ulitmatum, you have agreed to 9 out of the 10 demands, even though all ten are clearly outrageous (Serbian schools to teach that the A-H Empire is great/ Serb newspapers not to criticise Austria etc.) You have only questioned demand 6 (Austrian police to come in and judge Serbs aacused of terrorism) because it takes away your sovereignty - it is part of your constitution that Serbs have the right to be tried by a jury of their peers (the British constitution has the same rule).
All this is quite clearly a ruse by Austria to do what they have always wanted to, and which the Austrian army has proposed (???) 20 times in the last (???) decade - to invade and destroy Serbia. Ask the Austrians outright - telling the truth, before God and befre man, can they look you in the eye and deny that the demands of the ultimatum were set deliberately outrageous so that Serbia would refuse them and then they would be able to invade?
And has Germany given the Austrians a 'blank cheque' to do whatever they want to you and Germany will support them whatever?
You are the victim here, not the culprit.
Posted 22 March 2007 - 01:48 AM
Posted 22 March 2007 - 08:26 AM
Britain owns a fifth of the land mass of the world.
Much of it has been acquired by a simple process of beg, borrow and steal in the last years.
Britain sits there with this pompous 'isolationist' 'we-want-peace' hat, when really - in reality - they are the most aggressive, militaristic, imperialistic nation in the History of the world.
Look how aggressive they got when Kaiser Wilhelm ventured to suggest that maybe they weren't 100% right in the Boer War (the war when the British invented concentration camps and systematically starved and diseased the Boer civilin population into submission, by the way).
AND they are racists - did you knowhat Hitler's racist ideas were all based on the ideas of an Englishman named Chamberlain.
AND they have created the present situation! It was Britain, in 1905, who put France up to contest Algericas, and pioneered the Triple Entente as an anti-German force ... France was wanting to back down.
AND they are militaristicly anti-German - think of the Daily Mail and all those novels that imagine a German invasion and The 39 Steps and all that kind of thing. The British population are jingoistic and bellicose in the extreme.
Just because they entered the war last doesn;t mean that they didn't create the tensions which caused the war - remembe what they are: Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism and Alliances. If you look, ou will see that Britain virtualy invented ALL of them at the end of the 19th century.
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Posted 13 April 2007 - 01:21 PM
Serbia has been causing trouble for years - the Black Hand have been assassinating Austrian officials for years, and the Serb Prime Minister has openly declared that, having destroyed Turkey, Austria was next on his list. Serbians didn't actually assassinate FF, but the Black Hand supplied the weapons and there were Black Hand observers watching to see what happened!
Secondly, does anybody undertand what has happened? FF has been assassinated. In Britain the murder of Prince Charles would cause a huge national outcry, but Austria-Hungary is a monarchy - Emperor Franz Josef is the absolute ruler - the government - and FF was his heir. The assassination of FF wasn't just the murder of a prominent public person, it was a direct strike at the government - an act of war.
Thirdly, whatever anybody says about your ultimatum and how harsh it was and how unreasonable you are being to contemplate war when all Serbia is refusing is point 6, ignoring the Serb propaganda machine, the TRUTH of the matter is that - after this act of war in which the Black Hand (which Serbia protects) were fully complicit, you didn;t just go to war, but issued a considered ultimatum AND NOW SERBIA HAS REJECTED THAT ULTIMATUM. You have a cast-iron justification to declare war on Serbia.
Fourthly, what pushes the world to war is NOT your declararion of war on Serbia, but Russia's mobilisation against you AND Germany, whch forces Germany to deploy the Schlieffen Plan. Russia doesn't NEED to mobilise. Russia could see the justification in your cause. And if Russia didn;t mobilise, all that would happen would be that there wuld be a little war for a few days, and then there would be a peace treaty an the world could go back to what it was.
And finally - while you won't want to slag off your ally Germany - I would point out that it was Germany that pushed the Austro-Serbian War into a WORLD war when they pre-emptly attacked France through Belgium.
The world war was nothing to do with you, and the key proving fact, surely, is that most of the fighting took place on the Western Front.
Posted 14 April 2007 - 08:16 PM
Posted 15 April 2007 - 09:46 PM
Ask Germany if they have had a Naval 'War Cabinet' meeting when the words: 'war the sooner the better' were spoken (yes 1912)
Ask France if a number of their Cabinbet ministers have not openly said that they want revenge for Alsace Lorraine.
And ask Russia if there is any strategic reason why they have to mobilise, or is this just because they let Serbia down in 1908 when Austria annexed Bosia.
Hmmm, the Black Hand tried to assassinate Emperor Franz Josef and Potiorek, governor of Bosnia, but I donlt know the names of anybody they actually assassinated.
You need to read this - http://www.spartacus...WWblackhand.htm - it gives clear details how Serbia was deeply involved in the assassinated of FF.
Posted 17 April 2007 - 02:07 AM
thanks so much for your time.
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Escaped inmate captured in Houma
The correctional officer assigned with watching him could lose job, sheriff says.
Published: Saturday, June 29, 2013 at 2:20 p.m.
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A Terrebonne Parish jail inmate who escaped from custody Friday was captured a day later, according to Sheriff Jerry Larpenter.
Jakahari Williams, 18, fled Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center Friday afternoon when the correctional officer assigned to watch him removed Williams' handcuffs so he could go to the bathroom, police have said.
Williams was caught Saturday morning in the backyard of 395 Alma St., not far from Bayou Gardens Boulevard, Larpenter said.
Tips from the public led police to that address, which is occupied by friends of Williams, Larpenter said.
The correctional officer violated policy by removing the handcuffs, said Larpenter, who declined to release his name. An internal investigation will be held Monday to determine whether disciplinary action or termination will result.
Williams was arrested Wednesday on assault, drug and gun charges stemming from allegations that he repeatedly hit his girlfriend and pulled a gun on another man.
He was taken to the hospital Friday morning after suffering what appeared to be a seizure, police said.
Williams fled from the hospital that afternoon wearing a hospital gown and boxer shorts, police said. The hospital gown was found discarded near Industrial and Glenn avenues.
He was arrested without incident and charged with simple escape, police records show. If convicted of that crime, he faces two to five years behind bars.
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Local fire officials and experts will offer homeowners insight into the risks of wildfire at the next installment of a speaker series hosted by the Forest Health Task Force.
Lake Dillon Fire-Rescue chief Jeff Berino, U.S. Forest Service wildfire expert Ross Wilmore and others will discuss how the drought and the changing conditions in the forest will impact wildfire danger this year.
The event is set for 7 p.m. April 24 at the Frisco Community and Senior Center.
"It's intended to give homeowners, property owners and visitors a greater understanding of wildfire behavior and wildfire risk," Forest Health Task Force member Howard Hallman said. "Knowledge is always good."
The series will continue monthly through August with topics to include preparing essential infrastructure and services, potential implications of a catastrophic wildfire and real-life homeowner wildfire experiences.


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What's the scoop this week? Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are back together. Did you know Donnie Osmond tried giving Michael Jackson advice? And Katy Perry admitted she thought about suicide after her split with Russell Brand. All that and more in this week's chat.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's basketball team rallied from a late 14-point deficit to force overtime, but Incarnate Word delivered the key shots in the extra session to post a 69-65 overtime victory over the Islanders in an exhibition contest on Saturday night at the American Bank Center.
Chris Hawkins-Mast scored a career-best 23 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead the Islanders in a losing effort, while Terence Jones added 14 points and Myron Dempsey scored 10 in his debut. Dionelle Rucker (17 points, 10 rebounds) and Ian Markolf (14, 10) had double-doubles in the win for UIW.
With the teams knotted up heading to overtime, Incarnate Word won the tip and an Markolf layup gave them a 61-59 lead. Hawkins-Mast countered with a layup at the other end to tie the score again, but a triple from Jordan Roddy pushed the Cardinals' lead to 64-61. Hawkins-Mast responded with a layup on a second-chance point to trim it to a one-point deficit, but Markolf delivered a putback dunk to make it 66-63 with 1:37 to play in OT.
The score stayed that way with the Islanders holding possession with under a minute left, but a Hameed Ali jumper fell short and the Islanders had to send UIW to the line with 17.8 seconds to play. Darrell Southworth hit 1-of-2 to make it a two-possession game, and a Jones three-ball from the corner went askew to put UIW back at the line. After Lindale Brown hit 1-of-2, a Johnathan Jordan spinner brought the game to 68-65 with 4.2 seconds left, but the Islanders couldn't swipe the inbounds pass and Brown scored 1-of-2 at the line to close it out.
At the start of the game, Texas A&M – Corpus Christi came out red-hot to build a 6-0 lead at the 19:32 mark. An administrative technical assessed to UIW resulted in two made free throws by Jones before the opening tip. A layup by Hawkins-Mast made it 4-0, then Nate Maxey hit a pair of shots from the stripe for a 6-0 lead. But the Cardinals rallied, slowly chipping away at the deficit before a Southworth three made it a 16-14 UIW lead.
The teams went back-and-forth over the next several possessions before the Islanders scored six straight. A Hawkins-Mast triple gave A&M – Corpus Christi the lead, then Jordan converted a three-point play on the fast break for a 22-18 advantage. Incarnate Word answered with a 9-0 run though, to take a 27-22 lead at the under-8 timeout.
After UIW pushed it to 32-26, the Islanders ran off a 7-0 run for a one-point lead, with a triple from Jordan Pope-Didier the highlight of the rally. But the Cardinals countered with a 5-0 run to pull back ahead by four. They pushed the lead to seven before Hawkins-Mast threw down a fast-break dunk just before the half to make it 40-35 in favor of the visitors.
Out of the locker room, the Cardinals came out red hot, pushing the lead to 53-39, as the Islanders started with cold shooting on their end of the floor. A&M – Corpus Christi staged a rally at that point, scoring four straight points to trim it to 53-43. After a UIW bucket, the Islanders ran off six in a row, the last two on layups by Terence Jones, to make the deficit just six.
After a free throw made it a seven-point lead, Hameed Ali made it 56-52 by draining a three from the right corner. Time after time the Islanders were able to draw charges on the defensive end, and a Jason Smith free throw trimmed it to just three. The teams then traded baskets to result in a 58-55 UIW lead, and the Cardinals added a free throw. But another offensive foul gave the Islanders possession, and a Hawkins-Mast layin trimmed the deficit to just two.
UIW got to the line, but missed the front end of a one-and-one to give the Islanders the ball down two with 1:05 to play. Jones fought loose at the top of the key, drove around the defense and rolled in a layup to tie the game with 47 seconds to go. After a Markolf jumper fell short, Jordan pushed the ball upcourt and got a timeout to give A&M – Corpus Christi an opportunity for the last shot. Myron Dempsey tipped a rebound in, but it was just after the buzzer to send the teams to overtime.
Texas A&M – Corpus Christi won the battle of the boards, 44-43, but the Cardinals shot 43.1 percent in the game to the Islanders' 37.1 percent. Texas A&M – Corpus Christi was just 3-for-17 from beyond the arc in the contest. The Islanders drew nine charges in the game and posted 14 fast-break points in embodying the hustle that head coach Willis Wilson has preached.
The Islanders will open the regular season on Friday, Nov. 11, when they travel to Stillwater, Okla., to take on Oklahoma State. Tip-off is slated for 7 p.m. and the game can be heard on the home of Islanders Basketball, NewsRadio 1360 KKTX.


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A suspect in the death of an internationally known dog show handler and judge is being held on $1 million bond after making his first court appearance in the case.
Darrell L. Broxton, 50, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 69-year-old Peter Belmont Jr.
Belmont was found dead at his Kansas City, Kan., home last December.
The Kansas City Star reported Belmont was known internationally on the dog show circuit for his breeding of Afghan hounds under the kennel name of Elmo. He also taught art for years in Kansas City, Kan., schools.
Broxton, who was paroled in May after serving time on burglary charges, was arrested Friday. He was not required to plea during Monday's court appearance.


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Classloading errors in WebLogic Server
By Luz Mestre-Oracle on Oct 07, 2013
The root cause of a classloading issue is very simple. Either the required library is not being loaded by an application deployed in WLS or there is an incorrect invocation in an application deployed in WLS.
However, these errors can be very difficult to troubleshoot because they usually depend on customizations like:
1. OS Libraries.
2. Customized WebLogic Server classpath.
3. Application classpath.
4. Application Upgrade/Upgrade of an Oracle Product.
5. The issue occurs randomly.
There are several classloading issues you might be hitting, e.g: ClassCastException, NoClassDefFoundError, ClassNotFoundException, NoSuchMethodError.
The first document you need to check is "Understanding WebLogic Server Application Classloading"
The above document will help you to understand where you need to place your libraries and the configuration required depending on your needs.
How to Debug?
1. Add -verbose:class to JAVA_OPTIONS, this debug applies to any supported JVM.
2. Use wls-cat. This tool might provide suggestions to fix the issue experience.
By analyzing the logs you will see the specific jar and location where where are the classes being loaded from.
Logs are "very" verbose, but those contain the details on what is really going on.
Some common solutions...
1. Add a missed library (or version of a library) to the weblogic or Application classpath
2. Use prefer-web-inf-classes in weblogic.xml, e.g:
3. Use FilteringClassLoader:


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- A foodie tour of Seattle
In Vancouver, British Columbia, big weekend crowds are a reminder of how places with short summers pack so much into the season.
Some of the biggest crowds on a recent trip were at the Richmond Night Market. Located near Vancouver International Airport, the immigrant-rich town of Richmond has two of these huge summer-long festivals, which draw a total of 15,000 guests to sample from almost 100 stalls, with an estimated 500 exotic foods.
It's where fusion meets more fusion, a must-see event for any foodie.
Try the "Not Yo Nachos," a wasabi, seaweed, teriyaki and cheese plate, all poured over nachos. Reminded me of some sort of Mexican poutine.
OK, too extreme? Why not the grilled fish around the corner, basted in olive oil and butter. Or the grilled corn or the honey garlic prawns? The melding of smoke from the barbecue grills could almost knock you over. For the adventurous, there's barbecued squid and Sichuan spicy fish jerky.
The first night market, modeled after similar markets in Asia, started in Vancouver in the mid-'90s. Now they are a summer tradition, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a better food value. Think food trucks times 100, at about half the prices.
The Richmond Market runs Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 14. To get there, take the Canada Line Skytrain route to Bridgeport Station.
You can take a free shuttle to the other market, the International Summer Night Market, also located along the Fraser River. It's open through Sept. 8.


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On the First Monday of Christmas, Expect a Rush of Online Shoppers
Monday Dec. 3 is expected to be the day that Britons will push aside their concerns over the struggling economy and below inflation pay rises to go online and spend, spend, spend.
Visa Europe and U.K. department store retailer John Lewis estimate a total of £320 million ($509 million) or £222,222 a minute, will be spent on Visa cards as shoppers attempt to make a dent in their Christmas gift shopping lists.
"On Mega Monday, people across the U.K. will go online and use their Visa cards to make 6.8 million transactions, the most in a single day in U.K. history," said Dr. Steve Perry, commercial director at Visa Europe. "That's 21% more than in 2011, signaling that consumers are becoming increasingly accustomed to the advantages of shopping online for everyday purchases and special items, especially in the lead-up to Christmas," Dr. Perry said.
U.K. retailers who've experienced a tough few years will welcome the likely surge in sales, particularly as online shopping is making up an increasing part of high street stores' business.
"JohnLewis.com is growing at a rate of 40% this year, and now accounts for about a quarter of our trade," said Peter Ruis, buying and brand director at John Lewis. "We are now seeing twice as many 'click & collect' orders as a year ago, as customers opt for the convenience of free next day delivery to their local shop.
"The current online sales boost is prompted by Christmas shoppers seeking to tick off the must-have gifts on their list early," Mr. Ruis said.
John Lewis isn't alone in increasing its online presence.
Argos, part of Home Retail Group announced in October that it would be shutting a number of underperforming stores to concentrate on its website.
Home and clothing store Marks and Spencer recent advertising campaign has focused on ordering online for next day delivery; fashion retailer Next has also opted to promote its next day delivery capabilities through online shopping in the increasingly long run-up to Christmas.
Indeed, according to the Visa Europe/John Lewis report, consumers can't wait to spend their December pay packet on the first Monday of that month. They reckon people will rush home from work to start shopping from the comfort of their homes, making that evening the busiest period for online purchases.
In terms of shoppers physically dragging themselves to the high street? Well, that won't come until the last minute. The report adds that the weekend before Christmas–which this year will be Saturday Dec. 22 and Sunday Dec. 23–will be the time for retailers to expect a rush of customers through their doors.


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Irving v. Lipstadt
Defense Documents
David Irving, Hitler and Holocaust Denial: Electronic Edition, by Richard J. EvansTable of Contents
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1. In his reply to the defence, David Irving concedes that he has neglected the Himmler note in question. On his decision to omit any discussion of the note, Irving writes:
It is admitted that the plaintiff did not draw attention to this minute, but it is denied that this is relevant...The Defendants have failed to inform us of the minute's 'obvious significance', which escapes the Plaintiff...Himmler's jotted agenda for his meetings with Hitler are crowded with names, pet or otherwise, and in the absence of collateral evidence it is imprudent in the extreme to spin fanciful theories around them.21
2. Indeed, the minute does seem significant. It is not a fanciful theory to suggest that the note gives a strong indication that Hitler was updated by Himmler on the mass murder of Jews in the East, or that the two men decided on the next steps in the 'final solution'. There is no doubt that at this time important decisions by the Nazi leaders were being taken. During a conference between 20 and 22 September 1942, in view of the extreme shortage of labour, Hitler apparently agreed to the proposal of Sauckel, the official responsible for the work-force in the war economy, to continue to employ skilled Jewish workers in the General Governement.22 As a consequence, Himmler ordered on 9 October 1942 that Jewish workers employed in the war economy in the General Government were to be gathered in a few concentration camp factories: 'However, the Jews there too will disappear one day, in correspondence with the wish of the Führer.23
3. Some historians have not used the note. However, both the defence and Irving are in fact wrong in claiming that Irving has not used the note by Himmler in his work. Irving, who knows well what he has written and what not, once more twists the truth. In the 1991 edition of Hitler's War, Irving uses the minute to support his claim that in his meetings with Hitler, Himmler did not enlighten Hitler about the true fate of the Jews in the East. This is part of Irving's argument that it was not Hitler, but other leading Nazis, like Himmler and Goebbels, who were behind the extermination of the Jews. Hitler, he argues, was left in the dark by his officials:
Himmler meanwhile continued to pull the wool over Hitler's eyes. On September 17 (recte: September 22) he calmly jotted in his notes for that day's Führer conference: "1. Jewish emigration - how is to be handled in future? 2. Settlement of Lublin," and noted next to these points: "Conditions in Generalgouvernement," and "Globus" (Globocnik's nickname).25
4. Irving's claim lacks all factual foundation. First, there is no indication at all that Himmler took down the notes of the meeting 'calmly' or kept Hitler in the dark about the mass annihilation of the Jews. Second, the fact that the mass murder of the Jews is not mentioned openly in Himmler's notes, which Irving seems to take as proof for Himmler's having mislead Hitler, should come as no surprise. As stated above, the Nazis generally used camouflage terms like 'evacuation', 'resettlement', 'wandered off', 'disappeared', when noting down details of the extermination of the Jews. There was a great difference between what the Nazi officials wrote down on paper, and what they actually discussed verbally. For instance, as has already been pointed out in this Report, while the participants at the Wannsee conference on 20 January 1942 openly talked about 'killing, elimination, and annihilation',26 the minutes drawn up by Adolf Eichmann refers only to the 'evacuation of the Jews to the East' and the 'final solution of the European Jewish Question'.27 Irving is well aware of this, and his interpretation is a blatant misrepresentation of the Himmler minute, quite apart from the gratuitous addition of his characterisation of Himmler as having 'calmly' taken down the notes. ? It is clear, therefore, that if anyone has spun fanciful theories around this document, it is Irving himself.
21. Pleadings, IV, p. 28.
22. P. Longerich, Politik der Vernichtung (Munich, Zurich, 1998), p. 510
23. There is no mention o fthe note, for instance, in R. Hilberg'ss The Destruction of the European Jews (New York, 1983); P. Longerich (ed.), Die Ermordung der europäischen Juden (Munich, 1989); or L. Dawidowizc, The War against the Jews 1933-1945 (London, 1977).
25. Irving, Hitler's War (London, 1991), 467.
26. Eichmann trial, 24.7.1961; cited in G. Fleming, Hitler and the Final Solution (London, 1984), p. 92.
27. P. Longerich (ed.), Die Ermordung der europäischen Juden (Munich, Zurich, 1989), pp. 85-87.
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STOCKTON - An 18-year-old man was struck with a wrench Friday afternoon while trying to fend off a mob that attacked his girlfriend in a Stockton park, authorities said.
The man and his girlfriend were at Kentfield Park near Kentfield Road and Coventry Drive about 2:35 p.m. when the woman was attacked by a number of men and women, police said.
When the man tried to help his girlfriend, someone struck him with the wrench.
There was no description of the assailants and police did not provide any information on the victims' injuries.
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Spilled asphalt from the tanker that overturned on U.S. 127 early Monday will be a challenge to clean up, according to the Ingham County Sheriff's Office.
While crews were able to pull the tanker off the highway Monday afternoon, work on the mess it left behind is expected to last into Tuesday.
The tanker, driven by a 60-year-old Macomb man, had come from Toledo and was carrying more than 10,000 gallons of liquid asphalt to the Montcalm County Road Commission.
The rig was moving north when the driver crossed the median and crashed.
"The truck ruptured," Ingham County Sheriff Gene Wriggelsworth said. "The asphalt has run down the median and as you can see hit a culvert and has now spilled over in this swampy area off to the west."
Wrigglesworth says the product is common on the roadway, but not something we want to see in the water supply. So crews attacked the truck from the back and side, cutting holes so they could pump out any remaining asphalt before tipping the tanker upright.
The sheriff's office estimates nearly 9,000 of the 10,000 gallons of asphalt has spilled and that is the primary reason 127 closures will be lengthy. Crews will need to dig out any soil the asphalt has touched and tear out the median to prevent contamination.
"People will just have to be patient as we clean this up," Sergeant Robert Ott, with the Ingham County Sheriff's Office said. "We want the highway to be closed down for the safety of the workers."
The sheriff's office says an environmental cleanup crew will be on scene throughout the night. That crew will also be checking all waterways to ensure the county drain system is safe.


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Druid City Brewing Company launching at local bars
Published: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 5:08 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 5:08 p.m.
Locally brewed beer has started flowing from taps at several Tuscaloosa bars and restaurants.
Druid City Brewing Company, owned by Tuscaloosa residents Bo Hicks and Elliot Roberts, will host launch parties this week at Egans tonight, Wilahgens on Thursday and The Alcove on Friday. All three events will start at 6 p.m. and an additional launch party is also in the works.
During the events, the brewery, which is located on 14th Street, will feature a special, seasonal beer. The Egans event will feature a bourbon vanilla imperial porter, which is a dark beer aged over vanilla and oak. Thursday's party will showcase a Belgian-style saison, which is fruity and tart with approximately 8.5 percent alcohol. The Alcove event will feature their Snow's Bend Harvest Ale, made with butternut squash from Snow's Bend Farm in Coker.
Druid City first went on sell during Iron Bowl weekend at The Alcove and Egans, where the Alabama Shakes drew a capacity crowd on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
"We literally sold out at the Alcove in 43 minutes last Friday," Robert said. "It was a little harder to track at Egans because there was such a big crowd."
"I told someone the other day, 'The best sound in the world is I'll have another Druid City.'"
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Given new requirements by the U.S. Forest Service, 15 bicycle rental companies that drop off customers to trails along Vail Pass will need a permit by Nov. 1 to continue the service.
"If a commercial business uses the national forest, whether they drop off on the national forest or they drop them off in order to access the national forest, they need a permit because its a commercial venture," said Peech Keller, deputy district ranger and forest environmental coordinator for the Forest Service.
The letter came as bad news for local bike rental shop owners and managers who say the new requirement could devastate their businesses.
"Getting that letter is a little scary because that's a huge portion of our summer business," said Robyn Luetkens, manager of Pioneer Sports in Frisco. "If that were to go away, it would hurt us tremendously in the summertime."
How local businesses will apply for these permits and how the Forest Service will issue them, remains to be seen but the commercial recreation community has a long list of worries.
"It will be a blow to the entire county's economy if permits are restricted to one entity or a limited number of businesses," said Kevin Kahle, owner of Rebel Sports in Frisco. "That would certainly hurt a lot of people. This is a way a lot of places make it through the summer months."
During peak summer months, the 15 businesses dropping off bikers along Vail Pass are concerned about over-crowding and safety.
"I know the locals are sometimes upset about the crowds on the bike path," Kahle said. "During Christmas time ski slopes are crowded. We're a tourist community and those activities pump a lot of money into the economy."
Easements along the Interstate 70 corridor have grayed the definition of authority on the recreation paths along Vail Pass.
A few years ago as the popularity of bike tours, snowmobiling and ATV drop-offs increased, a question came up of whether the Forest Service could regulate such activities within the I-70 easement.
"Last year the Forest Service reached the conclusion that not only do we have the legal authority to require permits, we have the legal duty to regulate that area," said Rich Doaks, recreation staff officer for the White River National Forest.
The Forest Service says the new permit requirement adheres to a fairness issue.
"We already have some commercial businesses that have the permits to operate on Vail Pass, we can't just regulate a handful of business - that isn't fair," Doaks said. "We need to regulate everyone equally and they all have to pay their fair share."
What the permit process will look like is yet to be seen, local bike shop owners have been told by USFS officials it will take approximately two months to reach a decision, according to Kahle.
"We are moving forward and we've taken this issue step by step. We have a lot of questions to answer before we can decide on how the permitting process will work: The safety issue, the fairness issue and the impact on the bike path and how important this is to the public and community recreation," Doaks said.
All of the parties involved are playing the waiting game.
"We're waiting to see what we have to do next," Luetkens said. "Whatever the permit costs, whatever steps we have to take to get it we will because we need this for our business."
The bike business along Vail Pass is special, Kahle said.
"It's a great thing that four generations can do together," he said. "It's one of the few things you can really do as a big family like that."


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You almost get two openers with the NICU, and then the Curtain which in those days typically meant that a good time was ahead. Then the Halley's is out-of-the-gate spectacular. Concise focused exploratory jamming that goes a lot of places in just under 15 minutes. The kind of ambient, textured but dancey grooves the band was laying down these days was the perfect canvas for Trey at the time. He was full of fresh ideas, hitting all the notes. A great segue into Roses are Free (the first since Nov '98) that dissolved into an out of left field N20 bustout is prime first set material. The Reba might be the best of the year, too. So laid back. And atypical at moments, especially in the early goings around 8:45. Again, Trey with the notes, with Page doing his best Brent Mydland impression underneath.
Set two doesn't reach as many high points, with the laid back vibe maybe getting pushed a bit too far at times, though the 20 minutes Wolfman's is certainly worth checking out if you're feeling patient.
Definitely hear the Halley's and Reba!


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i have recently posted this question
Streaming on Philips Flat-TV and fastforward troubleshttp://www.ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=15505
i have tryed the standard philips.conf and also the linked PhilipsPFLxxx4 1.0.conf
My problem is i can´t start any .ts files .
I allways get the message "video not found or not readable"
i have tryed to change the order of transcoding engines but nothing works.
i can stream .avi (xvid,divx) and some .mpg files but no .ts works
Can anyone help me?


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Amphibious air pump allows amazing pond aeration applications! The Little Giant PondWorks Pond Air Pump takes an innovative approach for versatile submerged or external use. This energy-efficient air pump runs on just five watts to deliver 0.18 CFM of air. Use fully submerged in your pond to ensure proper gas exchange during summer. Tuck inside your biological filter to enhance oxygen levels crucial for efficient bacterial processing of toxic ammonia and nitrate. When used externally and supplied with an airstone, the Little Giant PondWorks Pond Air Pump can also be used to maintain an ice-free opening during freezing winters.* Flow regulator allows convenient control of air bubble production. The Little Giant PondWorks Pond Air Pump measures 5-1/4" x 4" x 3" high and includes 17 feet of airline tubing. 30 ft cord. For ponds and water gardens up to 500 gallons.
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AUSTIN (January 3, 2013)--Tea party favorite Ted Cruz was sworn in Thursday as the first Hispanic to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.
The Cuban-American, who's the state's former solicitor general, is more fiercely conservative than the woman he is replacing, fellow Republican U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Dallas.
A Houston attorney and former Ivy League debating champion, Cruz was virtually unknown when he announced his candidacy for Hutchison's seat, but he used strong grassroots support to upset Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in a July runoff election for the GOP senatorial nomination.
Cruz then trounced Democrat and former state Rep. Paul Sadler in November's general election.
He pledged that his first bill would seek to repeal "every syllable of every word" of the Obama administration's health care reform law.
Cruz said he will keep that promise, even though he knows Senate Democrats and President Barack Obama will ensure his bill won't become law.
He could be poised to become a rising star among Capitol Hill conservatives, especially given the retirement of tea party leader U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina.
Three Central Texas Congressman were also sworn into office Thursday.
Freshman Republican Roger Williams was among the new members of the U.S. House taking the oath of office.
He was elected in November to represent a new district that includes part of Bell County and Bosque, Coryell, Hill, and Lampasas Counties.
U.S. Rep. Bill Flores, R-Bryan, was sworn in to a second term Thursday.
His district includes McLennan, Limestone, Freestone, Falls and Milam Counties and part of Leon County.
"It is an honor to be able to represent the citizens of the 17th Congressional District of Texas in the 113th Congress," Flores said. "I look forward to working with my fellow colleagues as we set forth an agenda that includes pro-growth tax reforms; 'Main Street' job solutions; reduced size, cost and intrusiveness of the federal government; entitlement program reforms; and an 'all-of-the-above' strategy for unlocking American energy production,' he said.
U.S. Rep. John Carter, R-Round Rock, whose district includes Bell… was sworn in to a sixth term Thursday.
He will chair the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee.
"I am resolved to build a consensus for bipartisan solutions that can become law in a divided government," he said, "and I look forward to working with members of the committee from both parties to achieve this goal."


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Sweet Meteorites
Sweet Meteorites Scientists have discovered sugars in a meteorite,
adding to the list of complex organic molecules that have been
found inside space rocks.
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December 20, 2001: Â A NASA scientist has discovered sugar and several related organic compounds in two meteorites -- providing the first evidence that another fundamental building block of life on Earth might have come from outer space.
Dr. George Cooper and co-workers from the NASA Ames Research Center found the sugary compounds in two carbon-rich (or "carbonaceous") meteorites. Previously, researchers had found inside meteorites other organic, carbon-based compounds that play major roles in life on Earth, such as amino acids and carboxylic acids, but no sugars.
Above: Pass the sugar? The carbonaceous Murchison meteorite,
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"Finding these compounds greatly adds to our understanding of what organic materials could have been present on Earth before life began," Cooper said. "Sugar chemistry appears to be involved in life as far back as our records go." Recent research using ratios of carbon isotopes have pushed the origin of life on Earth to as far back as 3.8 billion years, he said. (An isotope is one of two or more atoms whose nuclei have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons.)
Scientists have long believed meteorites and comets played a role in the origin of life. Raining down on Earth during the heavy bombardment period some 3.8 billion to 4.5 billion years ago, they brought with them the materials that may have been critical for life, such as oxygen, sulfur, hydrogen and nitrogen. Sugars and the closely related compounds discovered by Cooper, collectively called "polyols," are critical to all known life forms. They act as components of the nucleic acids RNA and DNA, constituents of cell membranes and cellular energy sources.
Above: Did comets and asteroids deliver the building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago? New research lends credence to the idea. [more information]
"This discovery shows that it's highly likely organic synthesis critical to life has gone on throughout the universe," said Kenneth A. Souza, acting director of astrobiology and space research at Ames. "Then, on Earth, since the other critical elements were in place, life could blossom."
Cooper identified a small sugar called "dihydroxyacetone" and several sugar-like substances, known as sugar acids and sugar alcohols, in his study of the Murchison and Murray meteorites. All these are important for life today. He also found one sugar alcohol, glycerol (also known as glycerin), that is used by all contemporary cells to build cell walls. In addition, Cooper discovered preliminary evidence of other compounds that may contain larger sugars critical in cellular metabolism, such as glucose.
There still are many unknowns about the chemistry that existed before the origin of life on Earth, according to Cooper. "What we found could just be interesting space chemistry, and polyols could be just relatives of the compounds that actually gave rise to early life." More research on the meteorites is essential to determine the significance of these findings, he concluded.
Right : Â Sugars have also been found
in interstellar molecular clouds. Pictured is Jan M. Hollis of
the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. Credit:
The Murchison meteorite, found in Australia in 1969, is a famous example of a carbonaceous meteorite that contains numerous amino acids and a variety of other organic compounds that are thought to have played a role in the origin of life. The Murray meteorite, which fell to Earth in 1950, is similar to Murchison in its organic content.
These discoveries add an important new piece to the puzzle of the origins of life on Earth, and supports the notion that seeds of life might be spread far and wide around the cosmos.
Was Johnny Appleseed a Comet? --(Science@NASA) A new experiment suggests that comet impacts could have sowed the seeds of life on Earth billions of years ago.
Sugar in Space -- (Science@NASA) Scientists have discovered glycolaldehyde, a molecular cousin to table sugar, in an interstellar molecular cloud.
Right: The chemical structure of glucose and other naturally occurring sugars. Glucose is the primary "fuel" molecule used for generating energy in cellular respiration. Sugars like these are larger than the ones Cooper et al found in the Murchison and Murray meteorites. There is, however, preliminary evidence that these larger sugars might be present as well.
Scientists Discover Sugar in Space -- a National Radio Astronomy Observatory press release
Meteorites: One Lump or Two? -- The research paper, "Carbonaceous Meteorites as a Source of Sugar-related Organic Compounds for the Early Earth," appears in the Dec. 20th issue of Nature.
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Definition of nymph in English:
1A mythological spirit of nature imagined as a beautiful maiden inhabiting rivers, woods, or other locations.
Example sentences
- Nijinsky's was about a mythological creature who encounters nymphs in a wood on a summer afternoon.
- Zeus freed Odysseus from the nymph Calypso, who held him prisoner on her island, by sending Mercury with an order to Calypso herself.
- Enter Paris, a shepherd in a rather creative marriage with the mountain nymph Oenone.
sprite, sylph, spirit
1.1chiefly literary A beautiful young woman.
girl, belle, nymphet, sylph, ingénue;
young woman, young lady;
Scottish lass
literary maid, maiden, damsel
2An immature form of an insect that does not change greatly as it grows, e.g., a dragonfly, mayfly, or locust. Compare with larva.
Example sentences
- The bulk of the diet of trout is made up of small invertebrates, particularly mayfly nymphs and caddis fly larvae.
- The afternoon of pond-dipping will be divided between two of Oakwell's ponds and visitors can expect to see anything from sticklebacks and frogs to diving beetles and dragonfly nymphs.
- As a grasshopper nymph grows, the pads become longer and venation becomes evident.
2.1An artificial fly made to resemble the aquatic nymph of an insect, used in fishing.
Example sentences
- To be a successful all-round grayling angler you need a selection of dry flies, nymphs and wet flies.
- A selection of nymphs and dry flies such as beaded pheasant tail, damsel and dragon fly nymphs all will all work.
- When fishing in Swedish Lapland I have used some awesome looking stone fly nymphs which the grayling eat with relish.
3A mainly brown butterfly that frequents woods and forest glades.
- Several genera in the subfamily Satyrinae, family Nymphalidae. See also wood nymph.
Example sentences
- The Malabar Tree Nymph (Idea malabarica) is a large butterfly found in peninsular India that belongs to the danaid group of the family Nymphalidae.
- When you visit the Butterfly Wing, one of the most remarkable butterflies you will see is the giant wood nymph, Idea leuconoe.
- The Ceylon tree nymph is a beautiful silvery white butterfly (2) and is the largest member of the Danaidae family in Sri Lanka.
- Example sentences
- Treatments began on 28 July, later than in the 1996 experiment because nymphal hatching was delayed (probably a result of an exceptionally cold spring).
- In September, uninfected survivors (both males and females) were all adults while collaborative females typically retained a nymphal phenotype.
- In insects, the general view is that juvenile hormone maintains larval and nymphal characteristics in developing insects and suppresses metamorphosis into adults.
- Example sentences
- Indeed, if anything, Pera takes too much of Humbert's version for granted -- particularly Lolita's 'nymphean evil.'
- Her husband is accused of child-molesting, her brother is a lush who has got the maid pregnant, one of her daughters is 'wrong in the head', while the other is scampering through puberty towards nymphean alcoholism.
- Example sentences
- I was having an interesting conversation with a girl but nobody had warned me that the her nymph-like looks were complemented by the Irish surname O'Maniac.
- On this album, Nona's nymph-like voice is accompanied by a small number of instruments, usually a guitar.
- She'd been a tiny, exquisite, nymph-like child, and when I saw her she was a large, composed woman.
Late Middle English: from Old French nimphe, from Latin nympha, from Greek numphē 'nymph, bride'; related to Latin nubere 'be the wife of'.
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There were 56 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday. At that time, there were 1,451 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
Assault with a deadly weapon: Police are searching for someone who shot at a man about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday near California Street and East Weber Avenue. The victim was not injured. The gunman was described as a black man 20 to 30 years old, 6 feet 5 inches tall with shoulder-length dreadlocks, a white T-shirt and dark jeans.
Robbery arrest: A woman was walking home about 4 a.m. Wednesday when she was robbed by a man who forcefully took her belongings near Aurora and East Washington streets. Police arrested 39-year-old Grant Lavender on suspicion of robbery and for three outstanding warrants.
Auto theft arrest: Police spotted an occupied stolen vehicle about 4:45 a.m. Wednesday near Hickok Drive and Pawnee Way. Officers conducted a traffic stop and arrested the occupants, 40-year-old Stoeut Moeun and 36-year-old Surith Torn, on suspicion of auto theft.
The California Highway Patrol responded to 14 noninjury accidents and three injury accidents in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday. CHP officers also recovered five stolen vehicles.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 113 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday, including 11 vehicle accidents, 79 medical calls and one structure fire.
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Andy Borowitz has the tongue-in-cheek story HERE:
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I totally agree with Bellis39. The Afghanistan War has been a failure. Many (both Civilian and Military) have said that there is no 'military' solution to this situation, yet we continue to listen to the Generals and the results are tragic.
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See the vote totals ! I am a proud vet, but the Legion keeps praising the government's running of the war. Are the leaders of the Legion getting Liberal? They say to celebrate the decision that Obama has made, where clearly we are all againt how the war has been run and now how we are pulling out, lets get it done right and stop playing political WAR !!! The leaders of the Legion need to stop praising everything done including rewarding Gen Petreus with a high legion award when he is the one failing first in Iraq and now Afghan ! They are saying they representing the vets?
I think we need to be 100% certain we have done everything we can to ensure things are done right before we pull out. I know people are pressuring the government to pull out. However, if we pull out before there is stability we just might see another 9/11 or worse.
Reading through comments it's refreshing at how well informed and thought provoking our veterans are! Dumping the billions of dollars in there for ten years has taught us only at this point, that history only repeats itself and we apparently learn nothing and are willing to continue having our troops suffer the ultimate consequence for a cause with no end in sight. It is put much more eloquently in the book I just read and I highly recommend it to all out there who may not have read it yet. It's close up, personal and in your face for those who want to know what it's presently like there. The book: GREETINGS FROM AFGHANISTAN - SEND MORE AMMO - DISPATCHES FROM TALIBAN COUNTRY. By Capt. Benjamin Tupper [2010]. It is well written, concise and to the point. It is gut wrenching and mind bending. I pray for my son recently deployed there and all his comrades for their survival and safe return home. How many sleepless nights will I have?? God Bless you all!
Here is the long and short of what is going on in the Middle East.
Iraq was invaded because Sadam was a bad person! He was shipping in all the things he needed to create WMDs. The UN found shipping labels that proved that they were actually shipped, and about 25% of those precursors are missing.
Afghanistan was a hot bed for both the Taliban and Al Qaeda, they needed to be eradicated and neutralized.
In both countries the fight against terror rages on. It is not as easy as destroying a opposing army and moving on. We are fighting a war terror. Counter Insurgency is the focus of the troops in the Middle East which means that we as the forces on the ground need to teach the Afghans and the Iraqi's another way of life, we need to show them there is a better way.
Politics are an ugly business, I would have thought that we learned during Vietnam but we have not! We still have politicians that believe they know more about fighting war than the actual military leaders that do the
I agree 100% Bush and Chaney and the big money Military/Industrial complex of greedy corporations failed to complete the "victory" in Afghanistan in 2002, they 'FAILED" to eliminate Bin Laden when they had the chance and chose to open a "Second Unnecessary Front" in Iraq. Yes Saddam was a "Brutal Dictator" but the U.S. Propped him up as long as he was fighting Iran?? We could have gone in after Gulf 1 and with the help of all the Shia's from Basrah and the entire U.N. could have taken all of Baghdad and the rest of Iraq with relative ease. But Bush Senior on the advice of the chicken hearted in his cabinet and chairman of the Joint Chief's he stopped because they were "Afraid" of the "body bags" that would be coming back!!! This country has NEVER been the same since the "FAILURE" in Vietnam. We have spent Trillions in Afghanistan and Pakistan and WE are deeply in debt and have not made any real progress in our "Security"!
Afghanistan and Pakistan are basically Rural Tribal
Areas and considering their Mentality a Respect for
Central Authority with Representation is Completely Alien
to their way of Life. We must understand Russia withdrew
many years ago realizing the futility of their efforts.
We have No Business staying more than 100 days as the former President Bush declared in our Kuwaiti Assist. We
Must keep our engagements focused on a Short Stay with a
Well defined Purpose and then leave the Country. We also
must consider to cease with the Billions of USD's of Aid
as little can be shown as what our USD's has really accomplished.
The war in Afghanistan just an ongoing saga.The Afghanistan "military" is still not prepared to take over
after a 10 year presence of the US military? My guess is they will never be ready. The government is corrupt and will fold like a deck of cards without our military presence. The rules of engagement with the enemy are sheer nonsense and are soldiers suffer and die because of it. If the Aghans were so intent on getting rid of the Taliban their army would have been ready years ago!
I still remember how we "declared victory" and then left Vietnam. How many thousands (millions?) died as a result of that strategy? Why do we not learn from history?
Simply stating that the war is subsiding, and then choosing to blindly believe what we tell ourselves, strikes me as the epitome of hubris.
I don't want to be there any longer than necessary, and I think we should leave. But to pat ourselves on the back for a job well done seems foolish.
Certainly our enemies throughout the world know that they just need to outlast us. We're not interested in victory. Or, as I heard one commenter say this morning, our enemies tap their bare wrists and say, "You may have the watches, but we have the time..."
I don't believe we have the political will to take the fight to the bad guys, I believe we are way to politically connected to the money-men( the house of Saud comes to mind) who finance these "Warriows of God" that hide in the shadows and take no personnel risks in the fight against America. The so called goverment of Afghanistan is one of the most corrupt in the entire world and has been for the last 400 years! When our presence there requires huge bribes, looking the other way when the enemy arrives to bribe the same official, we are in a worst no-win situation than Viet-Nam!!
I know this will be unpopular with some, If I were in charge, the troops would be out, lock,stock and barrel in six weeks! Then I'd load up the airborne spray assets and spray every poppie field until I was satisified they were gone. ( carpet bombing comes to mind as well)
Cut & Run before the job is done will only result in a repeat of 9/11 in spades and this country will have no one to blame but ourselves.
Our enemies view things from a long-term point of view and have no intension of standing down until victorious, while this country continues to demonstrate nothing more than a sound-byte attention span and no will to win any extended conflict since WWII.
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I wonder how the patients he treated would have felt to hear that.
Take a look at Thomas Capone's oped "Medicare D Change N.J. Can Ill Afford" at NorthJersey.com. It does a good job at putting the potential consequences of proposed Medicare drug benefit changes into perspective.
Last week, we directed your attention to a settlement Google made with the Department of Justice, in which Google forfeited the money they'd made accepting ads from online Canadian pharmacies.
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I saw this story on Rx Response on Miami's Examiner.com. It talks about how Rx Respoonse was one of the important "lessons learned" from Hurricane Katrina. It's worth a look.
Just over 30 years ago was the first time that a medical journal mentioned the disease we now know as HIV/AIDS. Just three years later, researcher Marty St.
Since launching The Catalyst earlier this year, we've covered a number of economic, health and policy issues that, regardless of outcome, stand to impact millions worldwide. In our first post, we made the point that none of us have all the answers, which makes it especially critical that we hear from a range of experts, thought leaders and Catalyst readers to get to the bottom of key issues.
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Google had agreed to forfeit $500 million generated by on-line advertising and prescription drug sales by Canadian on-line pharmacies. Critically, the DOJ settlement found that the sales of these questionable imported medicines put patients and consumers at risk and violated the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and the Controlled Substances Act.
If you've not already done so, I highly recommend you take a look at the new PhRMA video highlighting one woman's efforts to live with and overcome arthritis. Melinda Winner's story is inspirational, as is her fight against arthritis and zest for living her life to the fullest. What's important to remember is that the challenges she faces daily - and how she copes with the disease - are not unique. Ms. Winner's story is just one of the many stories of patients and their families finding ways to live with disease.
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Cross Creek high school is the newest school in Richmond County. Sure they've been around for over a decade, but they lack football tradition. And for the past couple of years, they've lacked discipline. That's changing this fall.
Before you have success on the field, you have to have the right mindset, and everyone around the team readily admits that hasn't been the case. They've had players basically quit on them during games and it's the number one point of emphasis. So far, they see a different attitude and it's a positive one for a change.
"The way the discipline is going to play out this year is the fact it's going to keep us in the ballgames more." said coach Travis Nixon "That alone is a different mindset as far as how we call plays and how the kids perform."
"We're going to win more games then last year definitely." said senior Allen Gay "Last year we had a couple of struggles you know, the team wasn't together, getting in a lot of arguments and we had trouble. I think this year we're a whole team and we're going to come out and do our thing this year and be better then last year."
On the field, the Razorbacks are working on finishing off ballgames, something they've struggled with. They'll have a lot of juniors start on defense and on offense pay attention to the name Shayne Coleman. The big wide receiver has plenty of skills and if they can get him the ball, touchdowns may be in their future.


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The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury Introduction
In A Nutshell
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner may just be the greatest Southern novel ever written. It may also be the most searing discussion of race in a modernist novel. It may also be the greatest family drama ever composed. Heck, it may just be the Great American Novel. We don't mean to toot Faulkner's horn here, but lots of folks have been saying things a lot like these ever since The Sound and the Fury burst onto the scene in 1929. It was Faulkner's first critically-acclaimed novel, and it immediately launched the young author from Mississippi into the literary limelight. That's a fancy way of saying that The Sound and the Fury made Faulkner famous – fast.
Of course, the funny part of this story is that Faulkner didn't gain a wide readership until 1931, when he published Sanctuary. It's a potboiler of a novel, one with lots of alcohol and sex and violence. Once Sanctuary made it big, folks started realizing that Faulkner's other work was actually technically (and emotionally) brilliant. His work was so brilliant, in fact, that the good folks at the Nobel Foundation awarded him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949.
The Sound and the Fury wasn't a flash in the pan, either. Seventy years later, it's being read and taught on a regular basis. Even Oprah loves it.
The novel traces the decaying values of the Southern society in which it's based, while also tracking the desperation and hopelessness of individuals (the three brothers of the Compson family) as they each try, in their own way, to mourn the loss of their sister, Caddy. Caddy's sexuality, her early pregnancy, and her quick and unhappy marriage are the obscured heart of this novel: everything else happens after (and as a response to) the actions of Caddy.
Ironically, Caddy is the one Compson who's not given a section of the novel in which to explore her own story. Instead, Faulkner allows the center of the novel to exist as a gaping hole, one which various narrators attempt to fill with their own memories of the past.
In a very famous essay on Faulkner called "On The Sound and the Fury: Time in the Work of Faulkner," Jean-Paul Sartre argued that this negotiation of the past makes Faulkner's novel a brilliant example of modern technique and existential philosophy. Here's what he has to say:
The past takes on a sort of super-reality; its contours are hard and clear, unchangeable. The present, nameless and fleeting, is helpless before it. It is full of gaps, and, through these gaps, things of the past, fixed, motionless and silent as judges or glances, come to invade it. Faulkner's monologues remind one of aeroplane trips full of air-pockets. At each pocket, the hero's consciousness "sinks back into the past" and rises only to sink back again. The present is not; it becomes. Everything was. In Sartoris, the past was called "the stories" because it was a matter of family memories that had been constructed, because Faulkner had not yet found his technique.
In The Sound and the Fury he is more individual and more undecided. But it is so strong an obsession that he is sometimes apt to disguise the present, and the present moves along in the shadow, like an underground river, and reappears only when it itself is past.
OK, so we've got to admit that Sartre's a whole lot smarter than we are. And he's a pretty good writer, too. We won't try to outdo him: we'll just point out that, for Sartre, the sort of playing with time that Faulkner employs in The Sound and the Fury becomes a hallmark of a new literary form. It's also a fine example of modernist aesthetics, which foreground the difficulty of understanding a character (or a person) completely. See, for the modernists, language itself is a tricky medium. It never completely conveys what you want it to convey. It's sort of like when you try to explain something to one of your friends: you're sure that you've told the whole story clearly, but they look at you like you're crazy. As another famous modernist once wrote, you're left thinking, "That is not what I meant at all. That is not it, at all." (That's T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by the way.)
If you've ever felt that way, congratulations. You're beginning to understand the modernists. See, modernists decided to play with the difficulty of language – to make the reader HAVE to experience how difficult language can be. We know, we know, it can be super-frustrating. But it's also sort of cool. And for Faulkner, playing with language allows him to explore the psychological depth of his characters and the deep emotional resonance of the South in his characters' lives.
Why Should I Care?
So, you're talking to a friend. You've just had this amazing thought (or plan or idea. You pick). Amazing things have been happening in your head. You're totally excited about telling your best pal all about your brilliant thought/plan/idea. And he seems totally into it, too. He's listening and nodding and even seems sort of interested. All of sudden, his eyes glaze over…and that's when you realize that he has no idea whatsoever what you're talking about. You could have spent the last three minutes talking to your dog. You'd get about the same reaction.
Ever feel like there's nobody out there who understands you? Your friends are cool, sure, but they just don't get it. And your family? You'd try to talk to them, but…it's complicated. Well, exactly. Complicated is pretty much what this novel is all about. People just aren't that easy to understand. Even when you meet them as characters in a novel. Sure, you crack the cover of The Sound and the Fury and all of a sudden you've got front row seats watching the life of the Compson family, but that doesn't mean that they're any easier to understand than the people in your own life.
See, language – talking – words – they're all tricky things to handle. Everyone understands things differently. You say, "I'm sorry." Your sister hears, "I hate you." It's rough, we know. And we've got to warn you, William Faulkner doesn't play nice. He doesn't make things easy to understand all the time. He doesn't promise happy endings. He does, however, keep it pretty real. The Sound and the Fury re-creates thoughts and language in all their glorious, frustrating, incredibly haunting potential. Even when you can't say what you want to say, you can still say some pretty breath-taking things. At least, that's Faulkner's style. Sit back and enjoy the ride.


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